Sun 10.16

1905 

830 N Shaver St

4pm Jack Radsliff’s Jam Session

7pm & 9pm

Miles Okazaki/ Dan Weiss Duo (NY)

Tix:

https://the1905.org/#when

Mon 10.17 7pm

Blue Butler Studios

2400 SE Holgate Blvd

EXPERIMENTAL DISCUSSION

Building Community

w/ Honest Jams

& Roman Norfleet and The Be Present Art Group


Tues10.18 8pm

No Fun 

1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd

Noah Simpson/ Domo Branch/ Mike Gamble 

Space Jammerz 


Wed 10.19  7pm

Speck’s  

8216 N Denver Ave

Max Kutner (NYC)

Casual Decay

Lorin Benedict (SF)


Thursday 10.20 8pm

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St

and/Or you

meroitic

Lorin Benedict / Machado Mijiga

Tix https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/7752137/creative-music-guilds-improvisation-summit-of-portlandandor-you-ensemblemeroiticmachado-mijiga-lorin-benedict-21-portland-holocene?partner_id=240&_ga=2.56514984.2032038115.1664563093-1764435091.1662618028


Friday 10.21 8pm

Leaven Community

5431 NE 20th Ave

David Torn / John Niekrasz / Mike Gamble  

Alexis Mahler / Lindsay Dreyer 

Mike Lockwood’s Safe Travels 

Late night 

1905

830 N Shaver St

11:30 pm

Carpe Diem w/ Machado Mijiga/ Garrett Baxter/Matt Sazima and Special Guest Lorin Benedict 


Saturday 10.22 

Old Church 

1422 SW 11th Ave

David Torn + Corzi și Arcuri “Tall Tales (direct translations from the lost tongue)”

(NYC)

viola

Michelle Alany

Isabel Damman

Chibia

Alexis mahler

Cello

Harlan Silverman

Guitar

Mike Gamble 

Alex Callenberger

Ryan Miller

TIX:

https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/7464239/toccmgdavid-torn-corzi-%C8%99i-arcuri-tall-tales-direct-translations-from-the-lost-tongue-portland-the-old-church-concert-hall-

Late night  11:30pm

1905

830 N Shaver St

GOOSH w/ Machado Mijiga / Milo Fultz / Dario Lapoma special guest Lorin Benedict

https://the1905.org/#when

Sunday 10.23 8pm

Fixin to

8218 N Lombard St  

Round Robin Hosted by Machado Mijiga

w/  Haley Heynderickx

Denzel Mendoza

Alexander Thomas

Matthew Holmes

Logan Strosahl

David Berry

Lorin Benedict

TICKETS:

https://www.thefixinto.com/event-details/haley-heyndereckx-denzel-mendoza-alexander-thomas-matthew-holmes-logan-strosahl-david-berry-lorin-benedict


Monday 10.24 8pm

TurnTurnTurn   

8 NE Killingsworth St

Halfbird

Maxx Katz 

Touch System


Tues 10.25 8pm

NO FUN 

1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd

Matt Mayhall’s Sift

Logan Strosahl’s New Normal


WED 10.26 8pm

XHURCH

4550 NE 20th Ave,

Aesthetic.Stalemate

Vern / Vo

Crystal Quartez


Sat  10.29 – 8pm

Discordance

Hosted by Caspar Sonnet 

Leaven Community

5431 NE 20th Ave

Gabie Strong 

Ian Wellman / Caspar Sonnet

Leather Jester

Cody Bryant

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

Doors: 8pm

$15

 Holocene

 PLEASE NOTE: For the safety of our customers, we will be requiring proof of full COVID vaccination to enter the venue, until further notice. More details at holocene.org/vaccine

Andrew Jones is a multifarious bassist, composer and songwriter who has recorded with folk and pop songwriters and modern jazz instrumentalists, performed with live hiphop and electronic bands and accompanied visiting experimentalists and theater productions via the Improvisation Summit of Portland and Time Based Art Festivals. Outside of town, Jones has had recurring work with artists from New York and Los Angeles- most recently a fourteen-month international touring stint with acclaimed songwriter/composer Julia Holter. However, among his closest musical compatriots he’s known mostly for his sometimes elusive solo-turned duo project The Crenshaw, whose full-length album features Jones singing poetic and sometimes tongue-in-cheek lyrics atop off kilter beats, warped synth samples and his own upright bass ostinatos. For his forthcoming record, Andrew is renaming that project ‘and/or you.’ Portland’s Creative Music Guild has invited him to assemble an expanded ensemble to bring his singular brand of dense and mysterious art pop to life for the 2022 Improvisation Summit of Portland, which will  feature a rogue’s gallery of musicians:: Mike Lockwood (Drums), Max Kutner (NYC) (Guitar), Lily Breshears (Harp), Maxx Katz (Flute), Noah Bernstein (Alto Saxophone), Patrick McCulley (Tenor/other Saxophones).

meroitic is a sound & movement based project of black interdisciplinary artist & composer jamondria harris. Their work uses words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source,narratology/folklore, & ontologies of liberation over& through sex, gender & embodiment.

Classically-trained, jazz-weathered, and eclectically inclined, Machado Mijiga left the proverbial creative “box” at a very early age, with access to many instruments and a diverse musical background brought about by an intercultural heritage.Mijiga is a musical polymath; composer, producer, bandleader, educator, gear fanatic, and audio engineer, to name a few.

Lorin Benedict is an improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially) who works in the areas of jazz and related music. He co-leads several small groups dedicated to playing highly structured music in a manifestly loose and playful way. 

Visual art by Francis Wong: Francis Wong is a Chinese-American, multimedia alchemist based in Southeast Louisiana outside of New Orleans. His primary mediums include mixed media painting, photo/video, music and puppetry.

September 23rd, 2022 — 8pm
$15-$30, sliding scale
Leaven Community
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211
September 21st, 2022 — 8pm
$10-$20, sliding scale
KEX HOTEL (BASEMENT)
100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

Discordance is proud to present Chris Cogburn’s festival NO IDEA. This event will feature noise legend Jeph Jerman and film “The Finger’d Removed” directed by Patrick Danse (director’s cut). The bill will also include local latent Caspar Sonnet and Doug Theriault. Thank you for your interest and we hope to see you all there!

Venue: Leaven Community 

Doors: 7:30

Cover: $10 

Further details about Jeph (FCA excerpt)  

Jeph Jerman is a musician who began his musical career drumming and playing in bar bands. In the 1980s, he became aware of other sonic possibilities for his drum kit and started learning to improvise and record his own music. During this time Jerman was a frequent collaborator with other musicians who were also exploring improvisational techniques. In the mid-1980s, Jerman founded a cassette label for the distribution of music by himself and friends. The label released over 50 cassettes, several LPs, and a short-lived magazine.

After relocating from Colorado to Seattle, Jerman continued playing with local groups of improvisers and began giving solo performances where he improvised with mostly natural found objects, a practice he continues today. He founded the first animist orchestra dedicated to making larger scale works using natural object play. In 1999, Jerman moved to Cottonwood, AZ. He continues to investigate sound and recording in many forms including field recordings, the building of crude sound making devices, and the effects of age and other damage to analog tape. Jerman’s 2014 Grants to Artists award funded recording and touring with Tim Barnes. Jerman continues to collaborate with Dave Knott in a band collectively known as The Yes, Well, and with Tim Barnes, with whom collaborated on an FCA-supported record released in 2015 (Erstwhile Records.) Other CDs and works are available on Anomalous Records, Semperflorens, and Trait Media Works.

Chris Cogburn (bio)

Percussionist who works mainly in the field of improvised music. Current practices focus on the threshold between acoustic and electronic sounds, their differing timbral qualities, and their sites of resonance. The tension between just intonation and the unfettered resonances of objects is a burgeoning concern informing his most recent work.

Cogburn has performed around the world including: Anahuacalli Museum (Mexico City), James Turrell’s Roden Crater (Arizona, USA), Ausland (Berlin), Cinemateket (Oslo). His current music projects include: Resonance with Iván Naranjo (MX); Anáhuac with Ignaz Schick (DE) and Juan García (MX); A Spirale with Italian musicians Mario Gabola and Maurizio Argenziano; and Fear of the Object, an audio-visual improvisation ensemble with the Norwegian video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen and a rotating cast of guest artists including Ingar Zach (NO), Juan García (MX), Aimée Theriot (MX/NL) and Judith Hamann (AU). Chris has released recordings on several labels including: Astral Spirits, Another Timbre, INSUB, Simple Geometry and Balance Point Acoustics.

Since 2003, Cogburn has organized the annual No Idea Festival. Based in Austin, Texas, No Idea events have also been held in San Antonio, Houston, Marfa, Fort Worth, Dallas, New Orleans, Mexico City and Merida, Yucatán and have featured artists from around the world.

September 7th, 2022 — 8pm
$10-$20, sliding scale
Kex (Basement)
100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
August 3rd, 2022 — 8pm
$10-$20, sliding scale
Kex (Basement)
100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
July 20th, 2022 — 8pm
$10-$20, sliding scale
Kex