2500 NE Sandy Blvd Ste f, Portland, OR 97232
Caroline Davis
Caroline Davis’ solo performances are chosen spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. She explores sonic textures offered by interactive technologies, sharing sounds from the saxophone that she considers to be distinctive and quirky. She makes use of Pure Data patches developed by the open source community surrounding the Organelle (the technobear, shreeswifty, critterandguitari, tony j morton, nobuyasu sakonda, soxsa, varicela, nicky-system, samesimilar, and chrisk). The music during this performance will pull from Caroline’s recent solo album, Fallows, created during a time of rest on land in Ucross Wyoming. bell hooks was a constant source of inspiration during this time, through the following ideas: love as a practice of freedom, radical openness, maintenance of commitment, using community as a means of escape, belief in one’s capacity to transform, what it means to listen, and eliminating elimination.
Website: https://www.carolinedavis.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinedavismusic/
YAWA
YAWA IS A SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER FROM MEMPHIS,TN AND CURRENTLY RESIDES
IN PORTLAND, OR. IN HER ONE-WOMAN PERFORMANCE, SHE BUILDS VOCAL AND
INSTRUMENTAL LOOPS FROM SYNTH, DRUM MACHINE, AND KALIMBA CREATING
ATMOSPHERIC TEXTURES. YAWA SURPRISES AND TANTALIZES AUDIENCES WITH MIND
BENDING IDEAS WHILE SKIPPING MUSICALLY FROM SOUL-SHAKING GOSPEL TO SMOOTH
JAZZ. HER MUSIC IS BOLDLY MYSTICAL AND SOUL-FIRED, AND HER RAW LIVE
PERFORMANCES INVOKE ELEMENTS OF BOTH THEATRICAL AND MAGICAL SURPRISE.
“REVOLUTION” LIVE PERFORMANCE
“PLANT IT” MUSIC VIDEO
SPOTIFY
BANDCAMP
INSTAGRAM
YOUTUBE
MIKE GAMBLE
Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose work draws on extended performance techniques, improvisation, and emerging technologies. Approaching music as a vehicle for multi-layered expression, he moves fluidly between melody and abstraction, precision and risk.
A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Gamble developed a formidable technical command of guitar and acoustic instruments before expanding his practice to include MIDI systems, audio-reactive software, and interactive technologies. For over two decades, he has been a vital presence in the creative jazz, experimental rock, and improvised music scenes across North America and Europe. He has performed and toured extensively at festivals including Saalfelden Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, NYC Winter Jazzfest, and SXSW, and has collaborated with artists such as Shahzad Ismaily, Bobby Previte, Todd Sickafoose, Nels Cline, Wayne Horvitz, Matt Chamberlain, Laura Veirs, Dana Reason, Lori Goldston, and Gabriel Kahane’s Oregon Symphony Open Music Orchestra.
Gamble has recorded on more than 50 albums spanning a wide range of genres. His critically acclaimed guitar trio The Inbetweens, with bassist Noah Jarrett and drummer Conor Elmes, has released five albums. After earning an MA in Interdisciplinary Art from Oregon State University, he further expanded his work to include immersive live sound and video performance, and co-founded They Gamble, an experimental new-media collaboration with filmmaker Devin Jane Febbroriello. He also performs regularly in Portland with his groups 2uo, Neighbors, TWANS and GAMSIM that feature Machado Mijiga, Garrett Baxter, Noah SImpson, Mike Lockwood, and Andrew Jones
Mike Gamble is the Artistic Director of Portland’s long-standing experimental music organization, the Creative Music Guild. He also serves as a Contemporary Music Industry instructor at Oregon State University and teaches guitar at Reed College.
Quotes
“He has a brain that seems to work faster than other human brains — maybe more like a hummingbird or a spider. Music comes flying out. You just sit and listen to what he thinks of next.”
— Todd Sickafoose
“Mike Gamble is dangerous in the best way.”
— Nels Cline
“Mr. Gamble knows his way around a drone, but he also brings shifting harmony and texture to his one-man sketches, some of which — like ‘I’m on Your Side,’ with its abstracted trip-hop beat — come across as thoughtfully developed compositions.”
— Nate Chinen, The New York Times
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