Playing this Saturday in Tucson!

 

I will be playing in duet with guitarist/composer/visual artist Nathan Smith! The show happens here:

Golden Saguaro

Saturday April 27th

7:30 PM

609 East 6th St.

Tucson AZ 85705

Sliding scale up to $10, NOTAFLOF 

Our act, Zenzizenzo will be appearing with Tatsuya Nakatani and Miguel Urbina. A stacked show, come for the entire damn thing.

A couple of short Musique Concrete pieces from last weekend.

 

Getting weird with sounds out in the Mojave Desert during the weekend of Wonder Valley Experimental Music Festival! Short vignettes with found object and everyday material. 

https://archive.org/details/mojavemetal

https://archive.org/details/track-11-20240406-113843

 

Diaspora Focii Collective/Feral Luggage/Amanda Chaudhary - Wonder Valley...

Diaspora Focii; The Palms Restaurant, Twentynine Palms CA 4/6/2024

 

When Mika Pontecorvo contacted me in January of this year, requesting that I head over to Twentynine Palms to jam with Diaspora Focii at the Wonder Valley Experimental Music Festival, I emphatically replied in the affirmative. Booked my motel room that day in fact. Despite the knowledge that sets at these types of events are generally truncated, I figured that it would be worth making this kind of "Fool's Errand", in order to reconnect with my musical compadres and to possibly make new connections. Let's face it: I am that kind of fool. Having reached out to the festival organizers (lead by Deborah), part of my mission was to help out with set up/logistics/tear down for the day's events. It seemed that if I had a task to do, my time spent there would be of more use. Hopefully my presence as a kind of dorky stage hand was of some help to participants. It's still gratifying to feel as though one is part of some kind of community. 

As for Diaspora Focii's set, it was performed by a slimmed down version of the original group conceived by Mika. Only Eli Pontecorvo and myself from the band were able to get over to the Palms Restaurant. Amanda Chaudhary graciously agreed to fill in as the third tip of our now trio configuration. Mika emailed us a video link, with sound samples and brief instructions as to what type of approach we should take for the performance. Amanda sampled some of those sounds and sent them out from her keyboard. Eli and I keyed our rhythm section uni-brain interactions from those sounds. It's wonderful to realize that, even after a four year break, we are still very much in sync as players and as humans. Love that dude so much. As stated, we didn't get to play for that long, but every moment of our end of night set (played to the desert and about ten heads) was a blessing to me. Such a lovely time seeing some old pals and becoming acquainted with a lot of Noise and Experimental players from the Los Angeles area. Y'all a bunch of freaks, and I loves ya! 

Below: Diaspora Focii in flight, photos by and courtesy of Suraj Patra, thanks Suraj!

Above: Eli Pontecorvo, Mark Pino, Amanda Chaudhary. A lovely reunion!

Playing with Diaspora Focii this Saturday in Twentynine Palms!

 

This Saturday I will be playing within some form of Mika Pontecorvo's Diaspora Focii at The Palms Restaurant in Twentynine Palms CA! The set will be part of the Wonder Valley Experimental XVI music festival. 

Saturday, April 6th 2024, 5 PM to 12 AM, Free Admission

The Palms Restaurant 

83131 Amboy Rd, Twentynine Palms CA 92277

I will also be some kind of staff member for this event as well as a photographer. Involved in a d.i.y. way, the best way. Hopefully some heads will turn out for his event. I'm looking forward to seeing some dear friends. 

 

Failure Cock live at NorCal Noisefest up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/failure-cock-10-2-16

This is already up at Bandcamp. I guess that NorCal Noisefest is not going to happen until someone new takes the reigns. Hopefully that will happen. 

More Barney Cauldron music posted at Archive.org

 

https://archive.org/details/04-a-history-of-secret-societies_202403

Recordings made on a very stormy night in Spring of 2008. This document has been previously uploaded to Bandcamp. 

Collage by me, copyright 2024 Mark Pino.

More music up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/du-u-think-eyem-secksy

Another Barney Cauldron track that was up on Soundcloud years ago. Recorded at a time when this group was convening weekly for jams. Pretty hopped up, I'd say. I hope those dudes are doing well with whatever it is that they're doing. 

More live music up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/m-kat-ensemble-studio-grand-oakland-9-4-17

MKAT Ensemble performing one of my graphic scores, The Sandbar Music. It was inspired by walking around a beach in Maine. Is Studio Grand in Oakland still a thing? Hopefully so. 

New ebolabuddha track up at Archive.org!

 

This track was placed on a benefit compilation CD for KFJC several years ago. I feel like it's a hot example of some  the craziness that ebolabuddha could cook up. Oh, and dig that logo!

https://archive.org/details/49-ebolabuddah-track-for-comp

More music up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/bridge-of-crows-live-at-the-makeout-room

Bridge of Crows, one of Mika Pontecorvo's groups, recorded live at the lovely Makeout Room in the Mission, SF! The recording is a bit blown out, ah well.

Instagon #862; Golden Saguaro, Tucson AZ 1/17/2024

 

Having spent many minutes over the last several hours mentally processing my first live performance experience since Spring 2020, I figured it's time to write about that experience before it fades away from memory completely. Not that it was forgettable to me, because it wasn't. It's just become probably way too complicated within my perception of it to make much sense to anyone "out in the world" (plus, those "out in the world" are too busy and involved with their things for my thing to matter much, which is fine), and it will also be supplanted by other experiences as the days move on.  As regards my perceptions of Instagon #862 and more specifically my role in it, they're a jumble of emotions, objective observations, questions, realizations, and probably many more unnamed as yet mental tics. Don't want it to sound as if I didn't have a wonderful fun time at the very bitchin Golden Saguaro, because I certainly did have a great time on Landmark (for me) evening of January 17th, 2024. That being said, it was, again, an experience filled with many emotions, after years of waiting to be involved within activities that had been denied to me. 

As for the actual playing within Instagon #862, I can say that it was a blast to play a really nice drum kit, belonging to Dactyls drummer Asa. Sharing a stage with Lob, woodwinds player Chad Bush (awesome flute solos!) and guitarist Leland Vandermulen had me highly excited, and my playing probably reflected that. I was really inspired to include a small gong and China cymbal as integral pieces of the kit, along with drums and suspended cymbals. These were struck with mallets, sticks, brushes, and knitting needles. It's my hope that there was some kind of musical value within that playing for the other participants, on stage and off of it as well. Admission must be made that at times I had no idea what I was doing at all. After such a long break, it seems as though certain confidences will have to be rebuilt somehow. It'll be interesting to see if and how that transpires. 

Again, January 17th, 2024 was and will remain a very special date for me. Many thanks to Lob Instagon for asking me to participate, and also to the good people at Golden Saguaro for opening their space to us. 

Below: Lob tuning his pedals, so happy to see that again, I can't even tell you

Above: very nice drums 

Below: Lob and I, prepping for another Instagon set! 

Playing with Instagon this Wednesday in Tucson!

 

A very interesting turn of events. Lob Instagon moved to Arizona a few months before I did, in 2021. He's based in Miami, about an hour away from Tucson. Lob will be bringing Instagon here on Wednesday, 1/17. I will play drums for the set! 

Details: 

Instagon

Dactyls

Cultural Detox Syndicate

Golden Saguaro 609 East 6thSt. Tucscon 85705

I have no idea who will be at this show, and will probably only know Lob. That said, I'm looking forward to actually playing in public again. It will be fun.

New Infinite Plastic Internal music up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/february-23-mastered-1-7-24-6.18-pm/february+23+mastered+-+1+7+24%2C+6.18+PM.mp3

Recent musical work done "out in the world". I had intended to put these three Infinite Plastic Internal tracks up at Bandcamp, but that platform is getting more and more annoying to me. So, a kind of rough version of it at Archive.org will have to suffice. I'm happy with the writing that I did for these three pieces, along with their recitations. Ruminations about loss, that's what's up with them. 

Many thanks to Fuzzy, a very talented Tucson-based musician, who opened his home studio to me for the realization of these tracks. It's cool to know you, dude.

More music up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/cosmists-kosmischer-eissturm

While going through files the other day, I came upon this early Cosmists piece. It, and a lot of other ones, are up at Bandcamp but I won't be reloading much, if any, more of them to Archive.org. Just put this one up there because it's a cool glimpse into an enthusiastic time in my, and I think also Andrew's, musical life.