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

Event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/875780489539857/

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

AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was old enough to get into 18+ venues. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded or performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis.

Friendly critics have quoted: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs” (Brad Cohan, Noisey.Vice). “A wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique,” (Lars Gotrich, NPR).  She was featured as one of Guitar World‘s “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know”.

Ava Mendoza with Andrew Jones (bass) and Grant Pierce (drums)
and the Mike Gamble / Andrew Jones / Mike Lockwood trio

AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was old enough to get into 18+ venues. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded or performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis.

Friendly critics have quoted: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs” (Brad Cohan, Noisey.Vice). “A wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique,” (Lars Gotrich, NPR).  She was featured as one of Guitar World‘s “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know”.

The Old Church and Creative Music Guild present:

Travis Laplante
Wallsmith/Cunningham/Sielaff/Wyland

Travis Laplante (Battle Trance, Subtle Degrees, Little Women), will be returning to Portland to perform a piece for solo tenor saxophone at The Old Church. 

A quartet made up of Joe Cunningham and Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes) on saxophones, Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever) on bass clarinet, Luke Wyland (AU/Methods Body) on organ/grand piano will be performing a long form piece that was first performed two years ago at the Creative Music Guild’s ISP festival, to open up the evening.

Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with the JACK Quartet, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, So Percussion, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Yarn/Wire, and Matt Mitchell, among others. He has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. As a qigong student of master Robert Peng, Laplante has undergone traditional intensive training. His focus in recent years, under the tutelage of Laura Stelmok, has been on Taoist alchemical medicine and the cultivation of the heart. Laplante is passionate about the intersection of music and medicine. He and his wife are the founders of Sword Hands, a qigong and acupuncture healing practice based in Brooklyn, New York and Putney, Vermont.
http://travislaplante.com/

Tuesday, November 5th
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland

$12 advanced
$15 at the door
All Ages (bar w/ ID)

Come Join the Creative Music Guild // Beacon Sound as we celebrate the intersection of ecology, sound, culture, and imagery featuring:

Shahzad Ismaily- bass / synth
Mike Gamble– gtr, projections
Dana Reason– amazon insect sample keyboard, sound design
Paris Myers– live drawing
Lisa Schonberg- Drums, Cymbals, Organelle sound design

Following this presentation there will be an interview and QandA with XRAY.FM // Portland Mercury ‘s esteemed writer Robert Ham

This event is free // Donations will be accepted

PLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE HELD AT BEACON SOUND’S BRAND NEW LOCATION:
207 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214