an intimate evening of folk minimalism
Chuck Johnson - Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician residing in Oakland, CA. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on American Primitive fingerstyle guitar, experimental electronics, and minimalist composition. Recordings of his work have been published by Strange Attractors Audio House, Communion, Amish, Merge, Umbrella, Phaserprone,Squealer and Three Lobed.
Johnson has performed with Eugene Chadbourne, Frank Gratkowsi, Peter Kowald, Miya Masaoka, and Pauline Oliveros, among others. He has performed at the Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, NC), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Siren Fest (New York), BENT (New York), the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento), Music for People and Thingamajigs (San Francisco), and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Johnson’s credits as a film composer include scores for several feature-length films, such as Brett Ingram’s award-winning Monster Road and Cynthia Hill’s Guestworker. In 2009 he received an MFA in Electronic Music and Intermedia Art from Mills College.
Johnson views his current work – both electronic and acoustic – as folk minimalism. In addition to solo performance, Johnson collaborates with Danishta Rivero in the electroacoustic duo Blood Wedding, and he lectures in Computer Music and Music Technology at University of the Pacific.
http://adhoc.fm/post/chuck-johnson-deer-and-snake/
https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/blood-moon-boulder
Gage Gilmore - intersecting rhythms that push minimalism into maximum overdrive, and the naturally occurring distortions of so many simple parts crashing into each other add just as much to the more compositional aspects of the piece. Balance is an essential theme here, and the human sway of his hands trying to keep a tab on so many rigid working parts adds an element of imperfect spontaneity to the music's structure.
http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/12/02/gage-gilmore-maximizes-minimalism-with-five-in-three-parts-demo
Moses Nesh - blues hillbilly folk hero
https://mosesnesh.bandcamp.com/
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