ISP Performer Archive of Events
Danielle Ross
Danielle Ross is a choreographer and performer. She co-curates the series Pure Surface, is on the board of the Creative Music Guild, is a founding member of the dance publication FRONT and dances for Linda Austin. Her next work, Apparatus, will be performed at Disjecta July 14-16.
Lisa Schonberg
Lisa Schonberg is a drummer, composer, writer, and natural historian. She integrates her interests through creative documentation of soundscapes, insects, and habitat. Lisa performs in the band Explode into Colors and composes for her percussion ensemble Secret Drum Band. She is the author of The DIY Guide to Drums, The Hylaeus Project: The Endangered Native Bees of Hawaii. and a regular contributor to Tom Tom Magazine. Her past bands include STLS and Kickball, and she has performed or otherwise collaborated with DUBAIS, Thao With The Get Down Stay Down, Mirah, Tara Jane Oneil, Tuneyards, Erase Errata, The Need, Cloud Eye Control, Gabriel Salomon and Peter Broderick. She has performed at MOMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, High Desert Test Sites, The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, & the TBA Festival.
Heather Treadway (Explode into Colors, Secret Drum Band) is a Portland based fashion designer and costumer and musician.
Alissa DeRubeis
Alissa DeRubeis is originally from Philadelphia. Alissa relocated to Portland, OR in December 2014 to work with 4MS Company. Alissa teamed up with S1 to become a co-founder of the S1 Synth Library, a non-profit Synth Library dedicated to providing low-cost education and access to local, national, and international artists. Alissa really loves resonance, carefully crafted soundscapes, and sharing her knowledge, especially with female and non-binary identified individuals. You can find her teaching intro classes every month to any and everyone.
Ralph Carney
Ralph Carney
“… Life in Akron Ohio in the 60’s was typical midwestern, you know, regular barber, crewcut, army men, a bunch of friends on the block, we pretended we were Zorro, Batman, Vikings, etc. The usual dramas of friendship and betrayal. Kennedy, frisbee, superballs, etc. I was into wind up record players and derbies and old magazines. I felt the ghosts and now I know about past life stuff. Older brother and sister, dad who worked on polyester research, mom who smoked Carletons and had a creative imagination. I drew cartoons and stuff. 7th grade was the worst; but I grew my hair out a bit. Art class was my favorite. In love with lots of girls, only they didn’t know. 8th grade — ZOING!! Puberty hits and obsession with being a musician, started on a 5 string banjo. Bluegrass, country blues, Beatles (still). Banjo, violin (fiddle), harmonica. Then at 15 I took up saxophone, JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ. Mostly Blue Note, Rahsaan, Coltrane. Self taught. Worked in a cool mall record store. Graduated high school, joined “Tin Huey” older guys from different high school. Into Iggy and German rock, Faust, Can, etc. Played 3 nites a week in a basement. Also worked with Alan Myers of “Devo” playing out jazz. 1 year of college in Kent Ohio, went to see a lot of music. Jazz gigs in Cle. Sun Ra. Weather Report. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Yuseff Lateif.” – Ralph Carney
Tim DuRoche
Tim DuRoche is a Portland-based jazz drummer, cultural writer, radio host, and artist-civic ecologist. My work over the last 25 years (live performance, community engagement and conversation, curating, public art and journalism/creative nonfiction) has been part of an evolving fascination with the improvisational weft and warp that occurs between art, entertainment, history, culture, and the public realm.
Andre St. James
Bassist Andre St. James is a cornerstone of the rich, thriving Pacific Northwest jazz scene and works regularly with his own quintet, the Andre St. James/Roger Woods Nonet, Mel Brown Septet. One of the best-known and most respected figures of Portland’s jazz scene, St. James currently teaches at Reed College and Bravo Youth Orchestra(Teaching Artist) and was a faculty member of the Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz from 1989 to 2004.Western Oregon State College 2008 to 2012.
Over the last three decades, St. James has worked with an astonishing who’s who of modern jazz including giants like Sonny Rollins, the Harold Land-Blue Mitchell Quintet, Andrew Hill trio and large bands, Bobby Hutcherson, Charlie Rouse, Joe Pass, Kai Winding ,Herb Ellis James Moody, Nancy King, and George Cables Houston person, Mike Wofford Julie Silvano, Andrea Wolper. St. James’ strong sense of lyricism, buoyancy and surging momentum, as well as a deep respect for both tradition and innovation, have taken him to both ends of the jazz spectrum-from bop and beyond. He has enjoyed freewheeling, open-ended avant-garde, like Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Eugene Chadbourne, Michael White, India Cooke, Kash Killion, Mal Waldron, and Sun Ra, Geo Sams, Pharoah Sanders, Alan Shorter, Roscoe Mitchell, Vinnie Golia, Reed Wallsmith, Tim DuRoche Thollem McDonas Noah Bernstein, John Gross Burton Greene, Dana Reason Billy Hart, Juini Booth Mark Levine, Ezra Weiss, Farnell Newton Gordon Lee Renato Caranto David Ornette Cherry, to name a handful.
High energy ecstatic improvisation by a one off collaboration designed specifically for the Improv Summit featuring NW legend Fred Chalenor (Tone Dogs, Caveman Shoestore, Pigpen) on electric bass, Dewey Mahood (Galaxy Research, Plankton Wat, Eternal Tapestry) on electric guitar, Ben Kates (Thicket, Halfbird) on alto sax, TJ Thompson (Galaxy Research, The Social Stomach, Electro Kraken) on drums.
Dolphin Midwives is the solo project of Portland-based composer/sound artist Sage Elaine Fisher. Her ecstatic noise harp ritual experiments balance harp, electronics, voice, microtonal zither and non-traditional percussion to conjure non-linear and esoteric in-between spaces. At ISP 2017, she’ll explore polyrhythms, bird cycles and overtone spaces with special guests Paul Michael Schaefer (Institute for Creative Dying; Dead Death) on hammered dulcimer and Andy Rayborn (Paper Gates; Kulululu) on bass clarinet.
Paul Michael Schaefer
Portland-based guitarist/composer Paul Michael Schaefer (Institute For Creative Dying; Dead Death; Yardsss) incorporates bowed guitar, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer, experimental percussion, and electronics to create transportive audio-environments.
Andy Rayborn
Bass clarinetist Andy Rayborn performs solo as Paper Gates, and has played or recorded clarinets and saxophones with a growing number of Portland bands in all genres.
Reed Wallsmith (alto sax/composition, Blue Cranes), Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet, Golden Retriever), Joe Cunningham (tenor sax, Blue Cranes) and Luke Wyland (keyboards, AU) perform a set built around improvisation-meditations orchestrated for quartet.
Jonah Parzen-Johnson
Jonah Parzen-Johnson is a saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. He writes music for solo saxophone and analog synthesizer. Imagine the raw energy of an Appalachian Folk choir, tempered by a lofi, minimal aesthetic. His carefully assembled analog synthesizer breathes with his saxophone, building independent melodic layers to support his sound, or soaring above his extended technique driven saxophone playing. All performed live, without any looping or recorded samples. A Chicago native, Jonah’s circular breathing, multi-phonics and inclusively experimental style owe a debt to the Chicago saxophone legacy, but his devotion to a quirky almost vocal approach places him in new territory for the solo saxophone. He has meticulously constructed a world of warm memories remembered in a cold present, as he melds the evocative nature of folk music with the chilling power of experimentalism. Along with playing solo, Jonah is a co-leader of Brooklyn Afrobeat outfit, Zongo Junction.
Andrea Kleine & Linda Austin with Fabian Rucker & Mike Gamble: “DUETS” Choreography and Microbrutes occupy space
Andrea Kleine
Andrea Kleine is a writer, choreographer, and performance artist. She is a five-time MacDowell Colony fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her recent performance works include SCREENING ROOM, OR, THE RETURN OF ANDREA KLEINE (AS REVEALED THROUGH A RE-ENACTMENT OF A 1977 TELEVISION PROGRAM ABOUT A ‘LONG AND BAFFLING’ FILM BY YVONNE RAINER) (2014), commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, and MY DINNER WITH ANDREA: THE PIECE FORMERLY KNOWN AS TORTURE PLAYLIST (2017), commissioned by New York Live Arts.
Kleine has been described as an “enigmatic and eccentric” (The New York Times), “brainy, allusive Downtown artist” (The Village Voice), whose work is “wry, poignant” (The New York Times) and “something like genius” (ArtVoice). Her critical writing has been published in PAJ: a journal of performance and art, Los Angeles Review of Books, Bomb, and on her blog, The Dancers Will Win. Her debut novel, CALF, was named one of Publishers’ Weekly Best Books of 2015. Her second novel, EDEN, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018. She lives in New York City.
Linda Austin
Linda Austin in Hummingbird| photo: Jeff Forbes
Linda Austin, director of Performance Works NW in Portland, Oregon, deploys movement, sound, objects, text, and visuals to create non-linear, poetic works laced with an eccentric wit. Austin has presented at venues and festivals such as Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, On the Boards’ NW New Works, and PICA’s TBA Festival. She is the recipient of the 2017 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Merce Cunningham Award and RACC’s 2014 Fellowship in Performing Arts, along with fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Begun in the late 90s as a one shot concert at the Knitting Factory, Bobby Previte’s Voodoo Orchestra instead ended up performing every week for the better part of two years at the famous club, culminating in gigs at the Vancouver Festival, The Saalfelden Festival, and at the Kozerthaus in Vienna, Austria. At a time when no charts for Bitches Brew existed, Previte’s band, which pre-dated most of the tribute bands of Miles Davis’ electric period which followed, used charts he painstakingly transcribed from the landmark recording. Considering Davis one of his greatest and most lasting influences, Previte was fortunate to be able to write the liner notes for the SONY reissue of Miles’ ‘In Concert,’ and was even more fortunate to be present during the recent remix of the entire Bitches Brew sessions. Previte has traveled all over the world to perform this music with local musicians from Sydney, Australia to Florence, Italy, as well as more regularly with his new community in upstate New York.
One of the greatest works of the twentieth century, Bitches Brew, released in 1970, changed the entire landscape of not only Jazz, but Rock, Funk, Soul, and Pop as well. Hailed as a masterpiece upon release, it has proven even more influential in the fullness of time. The Voodoo Orchestra starts where Bitches Brew left off, and begins anew.
VOODOO ORCHESTRA
Bobby Previte- direction, drums, cymbals
WOODWINDS
Jonathan Sielaff- bass clarinet, electronics
Noah Bernstein- Soprano, electronics
Faubian Rucker- Alto, baritone saxophone
STRINGS
Andrew Jones- electric bass
Andre St. James- acoustic bass
Mike Gamble- guitar
Wayne Horvitz- rhodes
Luke Wyland- keyboards, electronics
RHYTHM
Chris Johnedis- drums, cymbals
Darian Anthony patrick- percussion
DANCE // AUX
Caroline Chaparro- dance
Matt Carlson- Modular Synths
Ava Mendoza’s eclectic guitar playing that draws on elements of classical, blues, Jazz, metal and noise had earned her recognition as the fret board and stompbox wizard in the Oakland noise and free-improvisational music scenes. Since then, Mendoza has relocated to Brooklyn, New York where she plays in her trio Unnatural Ways and has extensively toured the USA and Europe. Mendoza brings an everlasting fluxus moods and energies to her performances. Mendoza does not hesitate to jump from blues finger picking to abrasive metal and walls of noise all with seamless transitions to make the wide variety of sounds very cohesive and personal which a listener can identify as an authentic expression of a musician that does not believe in the boundaries of classification and genres.
http://avamendozamusic.com/
Andrew Jones is a Phoenix-born musician living in Portland, OR where he writes, arranges and plays in a wide variety of musical contexts primarily on electric and double bass. He’s played, toured and/or recorded with LA drummer and performance artist Corey Fogel, Tokyo-based pianist Jacob Koller, jazz vocalist Dennis Rowland, downtempo electronica artist Coppe and Brooklyn Art-rockers Barbez. Since moving to the NW he’ continued to work in ridiculously disparate settings such as “modern jazzers” Ian Christiansen Quartet, Blake Lyman trio, Andrew Durkin’s Protohuman, Cameron Morgan Trio and Scott Cutshall’s Phraseology- experimental rock bands like AU, U-Sco and Pinkish as well as more “mainstream PDX” acts like Portland Cello Project and Boy and Bean. He also writes, sings and plays double bass and electronics alongside drummer Chris Johnedis in his own project called The Crenshaw.
www.soundcloud.com/thecrenshaw
Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose work with electronic modes of composition are integrated endlessly into his setup. Gamble has spent the last 15 years immersed in the creative jazz, experimental rock and improvised music scene primarily in NYC, with close ties to New Orleans, Burlington, Boston, San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest. He has had the pleasure of recording over 20 albums and touring the states, Canada, and Europe with his critically-acclaimed guitar trio The Inbetweens, Counter Record’s Cougar, and alongside doom-metal originators Earth. His more recent collaborators have been prestigious drummer Bobby Previte, bassist Todd Sickafoose, guitar virtuoso Nels Cline, and PNW cellist Lori Goldston. Since relocating to Portland Mike has been running a monthly Audio/Visual series featuring local and touring artists, encouraging them to play rare solo, duo, and trio sets with his own audio-reactive projection setup. Among working on soundtracks, web-series, and branded content for small businesses, Gamble currently holds a position as an Audio Production instructor at Oregon State University.
http://mikegamble.tumblr.com/
