Doors at 7pm, music at 7:30pm.

The Extradition Series welcomes Ashland-based performer/composer Tessa Brinckman, who will present her new solo work Box | Grown Men Sing and join members of the Extradition Ensemble for a group performance of Eva-Maria Houben’s Haiku for Seven.

> Brinckman’s Box | Grown Men Sing (2019) is a 35-minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, seen through the lens of solitary confinement, its connections to colonization and climate change, and our yearnings beyond dehumanization. Performed by the composer on bass flute and waterphone with fixed audio and video, the piece incorporates interview recordings with three survivors of solitary within the US prison-industrial complex. What did they hear, smell, taste, dream, remember, resist? What did they love?

> Houben’s Haiku for Seven (2003–2019) brings together seven of the composer’s solo “Haiku” scores for different instruments, creating a simultaneous, interlocking realization. The piece will be performed by Tessa Brinckman (flutes), Loren Chasse (percussion), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Jacob Mitas (viola), and Collin Oldham (cello).

New Zealand flutist Tessa Brinckman has been described by critics as a “flutist of chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), an “excellent…flutist” (Willamette Week), and a “highlight of Portland” (New Music Box) who “play(s) her instrument with great beauty and eloquence” (Music Matters New Zealand). She enjoys a versatile career, having worked in many classical music ensembles and concert series in the United States, South Africa, France, and New Zealand. Her orchestral, chamber, and solo music performances include the Oregon Symphony, New Haven International Arts, Festival of New American Music, Britt Festival of Music & Arts, Ashland Independent Film, Oregon Bach, Oregon Shakespeare, Ernest Bloch, Bumbershoot, Oregon Fringe, and Astoria Music Festivals. 

Event page
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Rx Fest, a three day, multi-venue festival in the form of a large-scale benefit for organizations vital to our community, is on the eve of its second year February 14th, 15th and 16th 2020 all centrally located in downtown Portland at Star Theater, Dante’s, Kelly’s Olympian and Valentines. The second annual event benefits Outside In, Q Center, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and p:ear.

Not only is Rx Fest a means to raise money for those organizations but also another opportunity to provide a platform for community outreach and engagement where representatives from each nonprofit can speak directly to the public about their respective missions and services.

General admission weekend and individual day wristbands on-sale now! 

The Creative Music Guild Stage at Valentine’s

6pm: Francisco Botello
Francisco Botello is a sound artist and composer born and raised in Chula Vista, California. Growing up a dual citizen on the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, his work reflects on the nature of place and belonging. Gathering and composing with field recordings, he explores questions of identity, ancestry, geography, change and loss. 
franciscobotello.com

7pm: Ayelen Secches & Eddie Bond
Ayelen Secches (Buenos Aires) – Piano
Eddie Bond (Starship Infinity & Aan) – Guitar 
VIDEO

8pm: Deltoid
Made almost entirely of field recordings, [Terminal Terrestre] acts as a memory book for a recent 3-month stay in Ecuador. Some sounds have been presented unprocessed, others manipulated beyond any possible recognition of the original source. None sit still for long. The recordings were taken from many different sources: political rallies in the streets of Cuenca, cats fighting on the roofs of Montañita, church bells in Saraguro, and the nocturnal drone of organic industry in Yasuni National Park. soundsetal.com
soundsetal.com/projects/deltoid-terminal-terrestre/

9pm: Xapchyk
XAPCHYK (pronounced Har- chuk) is David Morgan & Jerry Soga, two Portland, Oregon improvisors challenging each other in an open conversation of multi-instrumental sound collage.
https://xapchyk.bandcamp.com

10pm: Jack Radsliff’s Flux
Jack Radsliff is a guitarist/composer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently residing in Eugene, OR.
https://jackradsliffmusic.bandcamp.com/track/breathe

11pm: TEVLIN
Bernie Diveley – drums, David Owen Tevlin – guitar
David Tevlin is a multidisciplinary and multidimensional artist living  in Portland Oregon. Playing live and engineering records since 2004, currently David has been busy as one half of the brutal prog rock band TEVLIN , working hard on the band’s second LP.
VIDEO

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The Extradition Series 2020 Winter Concert presents four pieces by legends of experimental music and art.

> Keith Rowe, “Pollock #82” (1981-82): A graphic score series created from intensively magnified drip and splatter patterns from Jackson Pollock paintings. Tonight’s ensemble realization will feature performances by Matt Carlson (piano), Loren Chasse (zither, percussion), Alissa DeRubeis (modular synthesizer), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Matt Hannafin (psaltery, percussion), Branic Howard (electronics, objects), Catherine Lee (oboe), Collin Oldham (cello), and Caspar Sonnet (lap steel dobro).

> Philip Corner, “Small Pieces of a Fluxus Reality” (2018): A recent work by the legendary Fluxus composer, merging abstract minimal graphics and equally abstract text, to be performed by Loren Chasse (zither, percussion), Lee Elderton (reeds), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (psaltery, percussion), Maxx Katz (flute), and Caspar Sonnet (concertina).

> Annea Lockwood, “Jitterbug” (2007): A piece in which two performers interpret the patterns and color shifts of a series of creek rocks from the Montana Rockies, against a backdrop of insect sounds recorded in the small lakes and backwaters of Montana’s Flathead Valley. “Jitterbug” was commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2006 for the dance eyeSpace, and will be performed at Extradition by Lee Elderton (tenor & soprano sax), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Branic Howard (multi-channel media), and Collin Oldham (cello).

> Walter De Maria, “Cricket Music” (1964): An early musical work by the legendary minimalist artist, “Cricket Music” sets a constant but subtlely shifting 6/8 drum pattern against a field recording of crickets sounds. The piece will be performed by John Niekrasz (drum kit) with pre-recorded fixed media.

Saturday, January 18
Leaven Community
5431 NE 20th Ave, PDX
Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm
$10-$20 sliding scale, at door