JOSHUA MANCHESTER'S PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
(In reverse chronological order)
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THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5,6,7
knoxville TN
with Steve Lacy, Sonia Yoon, Philip Von Zweck and Anthony Elms. 3 duos playing interlocking melodies and meters.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 2 2009 7:30 PM
Brian Labycz, Ben Billington, Joshua Manchester
electronics with drum duo
unfathomable beats
myopic bookstore wicker park
1564 N. milwaukee ave.
top floor
THURSDAY JANUARY 1 2009 6:00-9:00PM
1550 n. Milwaukee Ave. 3rd Floor
also catch medium 24 hours from 9A 1/1/9 to 9A 1/2/9
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3 10:00 PM
2020 N. Oakley Ave.
773.489.5471
Lunabile
Mike Forbes, sax; Brennan Connors, sax; Andrew Scott Young, bass; Joshua Manchester, drums.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 2 11:00 PM
sqwarehouse
2734 N. Milwaukee Ave.
There will be some live music and a whole lot of poetry.
The poets will be saying some poetry.
so come see the poets say their poetry
it will be poet-a-rific
plenty of poets here
poet
poetry
poets
check out some pictures of our past shows(thanks to Karina)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/logansqwarehouse
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28 2008 9:00 PM
Green Bicycle Organization
1626 N California apt 2 (top buzzer)
these are the other acts:
http://www.myspace.com/instinctcontrol
http://www.myspace.com/thewilfordbrimleys
MONDAY NOVEMBER 24 10:00 PM
Skylark Restaurant
2149 S Halsted St
Chicago, IL 60608
(312) 948-5275
with Bill Mckay and Todd Hill
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22 10:00 PM
Hotti Biscotti
3545 W. Fullerton Ave
Lunabile
Mike Forbes, sax; Brennan Connors, sax; Andrew Scott Young, bass; Joshua Manchester, drums.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21 12:00 PM
recording session at bell air
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18 11:00 PM
Hotti biscotti
3545 W. Fullerton Ave
With Wilson Shook, sax; and Kagan Arik, Tuvan toshpulur, Tuvan temir xomus, Turkmen dutar, and Mongolian morinhuur; joshua manchester, kagel drum.
Following a set by Jim Baker, Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt
MONDAY NOVEMBER 17 10:00 PM
4432 N. Kedzie Ave.
Wilson Shook, sax; Guillermo Gregorio, clarinet; Joshua Manchester, kagel drum; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Aaron Zarzutzki, no-output turntable; Daniel Fandino, electronics;
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 7:00 PM
Viaduct Theatre, part of Exquisite City exhibition
TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 11:00 PM
Lunabile at Hotti Biscotti
3545 W. Fullerton Ave.
Lunabile is Brennan Connors, sax; Mike Forbes, sax; Andrew Scott Young, bass; and Joshua Manchester, drums.
Following a set by Jim Baker, Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 10:00 PM
Lunabile at Jurassic Park
2744 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Lunabile is Brennan Connors, sax; Mike Forbes, sax; Andrew Scott Young, bass; and Joshua Manchester, drums.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 3 7:00 PM.
Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60618
www.elasticrevolution.com
$10 suggested donation
The World Listening Project is introduced.
Chicago Phonography
LISTEN
Josh Abrams (upright bass) & Tom Abbs (upright bass) duo
Karl E. H. Seigfried (upright bass) & Boo Cook (illustration) duo
Tareab
Craig Taborn -- piano
Josh Abrams -- upright bass
Mike Reed -- drums)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 7:00 PM
WNUR 89.3 FM
1877 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
www.wnur.org
performers at WNUR:
Renée Baker -- violin
Taalib-Din Ziyad -- vocals
Jon Godston -- soprano saxophone
Saalik Ziyad -- vocals
Shirazette Tinnin -- drums
Fred Jackson -- saxophone
Joshua Manchester -- drums
Dan Godston -- trumpet
Ritwik Banerji -- saxophone
Alex Wing -- upright bass
performers at Mills College:
Christopher M. Skebo -- trumpet
Karl A. D. Evangelista -- electric guitar
David Harrison Horton -- poetry
Jason Hoopes -- upright bass
Akiko Hatakeyama -- flute
Tomás Diaz -- electric guitar
Curtis McKinney -- upright bass
Chris Brown -- live computer processing of the instruments
Alex Vittum -- drum set
Jordan Glenn -- percussion
performers in Richmond, VA:
Thompson / D’Earth Band
John D'Earth -- trumpet
Adam Larrabee -- guitar
Amal Milner -- guitar
Pete Sparr -- bass
Devonne Harris -- drums
This event features live audio connections between WNUR and Mills College (Oakland, CA) and Richmond, Virginia. The connection with Mills College begins at 9 p.m. Central Time Zone / 7 p.m. Pacific Time Zone. Tonight’s performance will be broadcast live, on WNURat 89.3 FM, and streaming live at www.wnur.org. $5 suggested donation, to be an audience member at WNUR.
MONDAY AUGUST 11th 6PM-9PM
Chicago Cultural Center Presents:
This is Not a Test: The Chicago Sound Experience
Curated by Margaret Noble
artists retell and reproduce the Chicago experience through place, time and culture in audio recordings. Abstract sound, field recordings, text based/spoken word, and radio pieces alike will be included.
These works will be presented at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Millenium Park
This is a free event for the public.
List of composers and audio descriptions: AudioPicnic8.11.08 Programv2
Based on field recordings of chicago, audio documents will try to fully utilize the functionality of the speaker array overhead, and it should be quite the trippy experience. I'll have a contribution playing, and if the russian version of last.fm I found is correct, also included are Meri von Kleinsmid, Francisco Lopez, Gintas K, Peter Cusack, Margaret Noble, noise.inc, Noleian Reusse, Thomas Park, Krispen Hartung, elsa justel, Joshua Manchester, Peter Joseph, Rory Shackles, Martin Bedard, Jen-Kuang Chang и David Schmüdde.
This week featuring:
This is Not a Test: The Chicago Sound Experience. Listen to a selection of local, national and international sound artist recordings on the Great Lawn's state-of-the-art sound system. These field recordings, experimental works and abstract compositions will investigate time, place and space in the city of Chicago and beyond.
About The Jay Pritzker Pavilion:
Frank Gehry, winner of the National Medal of Art, applied his signature style to this revolutionary outdoor concert venue. The Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people.
This state-of-the- art sound system, the first of its kind in the country, was designed to mimic the acoustics of an indoor concert hall by distributing enhanced sound equally over both the fixed seats and the lawn.
Park location: Great Lawn
Lounge on the Great Lawn and soak up sounds from the Jay Pritzker Pavilion's one-of-a-kind sound system. Bring a picnic, games, friends, and family to play, chat, stretch, eat and drink. Electronic music artists, local record label heads, music historians, expert DJs, record store impresarios, and a few surprise guests provide the sonic backdrop."
A link explaining the Audio Picnic: Newcity Chicago
Thomas Park has graciously offered to archive the sound program on his net label:
http://www.archive.org/details/treetrunk
SUNDAY AUGUST 3rd 10PM-2AM
chicago phonographers appearance on member philip von zweck's radio show something else WLUW Loyola radio 88.7 Out of town? Stream the show here.
The performers will be: Eric Leonardson, Robert Pleshar, Patrick Scott, Todd Carter, Aaron Zarzutzki, and Chris Hammes (and me.)
FRIDAY AUGUST 1st 11:00 PM
heaven gallery, with a new quartet made up of andrew scott young, bass; mike forbes, tenor sax; and brennan connors, soprano sax and flute. FREE JAZZ!
We'll be following up a set by a group led by jason stein, bass clarinet.
MONDAY JULY 14th 7:30
with Fred Lonberg-Holm
Monday July 14th
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
http://myopicbookstore.com/music.html
free
7:30P
Fred Lonberg Holm, cello and
Joshua Manchester, percussion.
These musicians will be performing together for the first time, which is a theme of the Myopic Series. Manchester will be playing a heavily modified snare drum he's dedicated to extended-technique composer Mauricio Kagel, and together they will be improvising freely.
Myopic Books is in Chicago's wicker park neighborhood just south of the big intersection on Milwaukee.
Chicago based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm has played and studied music in a variety of situations from the Juilliard School to the gutter. A former student of Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, his primary projects are his Valentine Trio and The Lightbox Orchestra. He is also a member of a number of ongoing collective projects (The Boxhead Ensemble, The Friction Brothers with Michaels Zerang and Colligan, The Flatlands Collective, Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens) as well as participating in numerous one off "ad-hoc" or
in frequently convening ensembles. He also currently plays in groups led by Joe McPhee (Survival Unit III), Peter Brotzmann (Chicago 10tet), and Ken Vandermark (Vandermark 5, Frame 4tet, Territory Ensemble). Improvisors he has worked with include Jim Baker, John Butcher, Wilbert DeJoode, Axel Doerner, Mats Gustafsson, Charlotte Hug, Glenn Kotche, Peter Kowald, Nicole Mitchell, Torsten Muller, Jim O'Rourke, Jeff Parker, David Stakenas, Ben Vida, and Michael Zerang, He has contributed cello sounds to numerous recording projects by rock groups including Califone, Freakwater, God-is-my-co-pilot, L'altra, Smog, Super Chunk, US Maple, Wilco and many others.
773.862.4882
myopic@myopicbookstore.com
SATURDAY JUNE 21st 10:30 PM
Hotti Biscotti
3545 w. fullerton ave
chicago, Illinois
US
Cost:N/A
following some movies With bassist Andrew Scott Young and preceding
MONDAY JUNE 16th 9:00 PM
Chicago Phonography
432 N Kedzie Ave
Chicago IL 60625
with the line up including Michael Hartman, Eric Leonardson, Chad Clark, Robert Pleshar, myself, plus "friends"
Patrick Scott and Philip Von Zweck
We'll be improvising with each other using our field recordings made within Chicago.
1st set
A screening of Tampico, a documentary directed by Suree Towfighnia. Tampico performs music. Tampico and Suree, in conversation.
2nd set : Chicago Phonography
Joshua Manchester field recordings
Robert Pleshar field recordings
Michael Hartman field recordings
Eric Leonardson field recordings
Chad Clark field recordings
$6 suggested donation, $4 for students
MONDAY MAY 26th 8:30
with Aaron Zarzutzki and Cliff Ingram
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Contact:
773.862.4882
myopic@myopicbookstore.com
MONDAY APRIL 28th 8:30
with Aaron Zarzutzki and Kevin Davis
Free
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Contact:
773.862.4882
myopic@myopicbookstore.com
SUNDAY APRIL 27th 7:30
Concert for peace: For the last two years, the Benedictine monks at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle have been working to help build peace in the Middle East by supporting the creation of the Beit Benedict Peace Academy on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. "God of Justice" benefit concert for peace in the Holy Land will be held at 7:30 p.m. at St. Procopius Abbey, 5601 College Road, Lisle. Cost is $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Call 630-829-9253 to order tickets.
I'll be performing section percussion on Bloch's Schelomo with percussionist Daniel Heffner. Also, Beethovens 5th will be performed.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 2008 9PM
WHO CARES HOW LONG YOU SINK
"@ Empty Bottle - we hit first at 9pm
so far the group is: Scott Tuma, Leroy Bach, Emmett Kelly, Tim Daisy, Charles Rumbach, Keefe Jackson, Nick Broste, Matthew Lux, Ben Boye, Joshua Manchester, Bill MacKay, Tyler Beach, Brad Loving - and still growing I think.." Jason Ajemian, bass and compositions
SATURDAY APRIL 5, 2008 7:30PM
"Maja Cerar, violin; Tomie Hahn, sensor-suited dancing conductor
Give your mouse a night off and enjoy the Chicago-area debut of the groundbreaking Princeton Laptop Orchestra (better known as PLOrk), cofounded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook. Using customized laptop computers and individual sound systems, this 20-member ensemble can sound like a full symphony orchestra, a jazz combo, or an electronica band. This exciting program will include works with solo acoustic violin, a piece with a dancing conductor covered with electronic touch pads, and two world premieres. Far from being preprogrammed, PLOrk musicians independently control dynamics, rhythm, and sound to create a true ensemble effect."
The good news is that you can either show up and hear music the way it ought to be, or tune in to a live webcast on the venue website: http://www.pickstaiger.org/
Just navigate to this page less than ten minutes before the concert (7:30) and a link will appear opening the feed in Real Player software. Apparently four cameras replete with boom stands will capture the action, so it should be great.
I'll be on the last piece, in which 10 percussionists are brought in to play wooden instruments with PLOrk.
PLOrk - The Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Ticket Price: $12/7/5
MAP: http://www.pickstaiger.org/venues/index.shtml
SUNDAY MARCH 16, 2008 8:00PM
In concert with saxophonist Jack Wright and percussionist Fabrizio Spera at
Gallery 1412. File under free improv
1412 18th Ave (18th Ave and Union St)
Seattle, WA 98122
A collectively owned musical arts venue.
All shows no cover-- donations accepted, all ages, and begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
info@gallery1412.org
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/
JACK WRIGHT. After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing, by the late 1970s Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away.
Today Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006), making new musical and human connections, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker, Axel Dorner, Michel Doneda, Andrea Neumann, Denman Maroney, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label), performed in over 20 countries, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US), as well as his own website.
FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2008 10:00
Who Cares How Long You Sink?
Large ensemble led by Jason Ajemian
1550 North Milwaukee 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622
SATURDAY JANUARY 12, 2008 8:00
Seattle Improvised Music Festival Fundraiser
One minute Performances by
Jesse Canterbury, clarinet
Tim Root, voice
Joel Pickard, dobro
Alia Swersky, dance
Bob Gallup, electronics
Richard Johnson, home made double reed instrument
Gust Burns, piano
Clifford Dunn, flute
Geoffrey Weeg, mbira
Chris DeLaurenti, vibrating bedpan
Wil Shook, saxophone mouthpiece and tin can
Joshua Manchester, kagel drum
Mark Collins, flute
Robert Kirkpatrick, siren
Stuart Dempster, trombone
Wesley Borden, guitar
Dave Knott, audience
Chris Phillips, guitar
Marc Smason, trombone
Maeg O’Donoghue-Williams, vocals
Greg Campbell, percussion
Jim Knodle, trumpet
Simon Henneman, guitar
Chris Stover, trombone
SATURDAY JANUARY 5, 2008 8:00
with wally shoup and ed petry
SATURDAY DECEMBER 29, 2008
Christoff gallery, seattle
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2008
Christoff gallery, seattle
TUESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2007 10:30
hotti biscotti
3545 w. fullerton ave, chicago, Illinois
Cost : donation
free improvisation following Jim Baker, brian sandstrom, mars williams, and steve hunt. I’lll be playing with killer trombonist Jeb Bishop and mega-bassist Jason Roebke!! !!! See you there!
SUNDAY OCTOBER 7, 2007 8PM
chicago cultural center
downtown
Chicago, Illinois 60601
US
Cost:Free
Description:Musicircus of Chicago, run by the Chicago Composer's forum. Me and about a jillion other musicians will simultaneously drown each other out. Hate the MCA!


FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 2007 9:00 PM
ENEMY - 1550 N Milwaukee, 3rd Fl, chicago, Illinois 60601
Cost : 5
GREAT show with Aaron Zarzutzki, I guess it’ll be our record release show for Chicago. Annnnnnnd following us will be killer german extended-technique trumpeter birgit ulher and chicago legend eric leonardsen on his invention the springboard.
I'll be playing a set with Chicago sound artist Aaron Zarzutzki at Enemy. We'll be opening for Birgit Ulher and Eric Leonardson on Friday, October 5th at 9:00 PM.
Our music will be celebrating a live studio recording made on August 11, 2007 and released on Shark Bite Tapes. This recording is a snare drum duo which it has been serendipitously discovered is the ideal module for background music, hence is called "Furniture Songs". Although this is certainly not music Erik Satie envisioned when he championed furniture music, it can be listened to not only for its own merit as two musicians fully engaged in communicating with extended techniques, but also as a foil for revealing the unique sound sculpture enclosed by space to be found in its broadcast environment. My favorite activity to perform while listening is tidying up the apartment. Every sweep of the broom, turn of the faucet, retort of the closet door, and hum of the microwave take their place amongst the lilting scrapes and buzzes of the recording, and this results in an increased awareness of the musical qualities of accustomed sounds to the listener. The simultaneities and interruptions between real and recorded spaces affirm a deep sense of pulse, the stochastic rhythms of the physical world.
AARON ZARZUTZKI utilizes the manipulation of standing waves to produce his art spontaneously. Sometimes using nothing more than the voltage of a battery to excite a speaker cone, he will often make his music from the vibration caused by the motion of sound, rather than the sound itself.
JOSHUA MANCHESTER believes in the power of music to express the inexpressible, and places great trust in a spirit of experimentalism and continual discovery to fulfill his vision of bettering the human mind. While having a strong background in traditional music, many diverse musical influences have shaped his experience. Performing with artists, dancers, jazz improvisers, field recordists, noise rock bands, symphony orchestras, funeral marching bands, Javanese gamelans, and animals has taught this percussionist that music can be much more than striking resonant objects to a beat.
BIRGIT ULHER studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music - for example the abstract painting in its materiality or the Fluxus-movement with its affinity to music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation, co-founding a musicians collective, dance-projects and solo-performances, played often in occasional / once-only groupings with many of the European and American improvisers. Music Performances in Europe and USA, together with UNSK (Birgit Ulher / Martin Küchen / Lise-Lott Norelius / Raymond Strid), Jürgen Morgenstern, Martin Klapper (CD-Momentaufnahmen), the Trio PUT (with Ulrich Phillipp und Roger Turner) (CD-Umlaut), Nordzucker (mit Lars Scherzberg und Michael Maierhof), Tim Hodgkinson, Dorothea Schürch, Ernst Thoma, Rhodri Davies, Söres Zsolt, Robyn Schulkowsky, Sven-Ake Johansson, John Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Lou Mallozzi, Gino Robair, Martin Blume, Albert Markos and Ute Wassermann.
ERIC LEONARDSON is a composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor, and improviser. His work in the field of experimental music and sound began in Chicago, where in the mid-80s he helped found the Experimental Sound Studio and direct one of Chicago’s first internationally broadcast radio art programs. He has created sound design and music for films, video, theater, and dance, notably for South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and since 1995, for Plasticene, one of Chicago’s foremost experimental theater companies. Leonardson’s music is distinguished by the unique sounds of his self-built instrument, the “springboard”. Leonardson's music has been described as "...ritualistic music, electronically synthesized industrial vibrations miraculously created with ordinary household objects...."..Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader. Leonardson also performs with experimental, creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and the world at large, and teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Enemy is located at 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622.
MUSIC SAMPLES:
joshuamanchester.com
beardtongue - http://www.myspace.com/beardtongue
aaron zarzutzki - http://www.myspace.com/aaronzarzutzki
shark bite tapes - http://www.myspace.com/sharkbitetapes
enemy - http://www.myspace.com/enemychicago
birgit ulher - http://www.myspace.com/birgitulher
Eric Leonardson - http://ericleonardson.org/
THURSDAY OCTOBER 04 2007 08:00 PM
sonic inertia percussion group fundraiser
SIPG will be holding a Benefit Music Concert on Thursday, October 4 at 7:30 pm, followed by a reception. Suggested Donation $15.
This event is being held to raise funds for SIPG's 2007-2008 season. We appreciate your support.
Location:
Chapel Hall
First Presbyterian Church in Evanston
1427 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, IL
The artists featured at this event will include:
Artistic Director Matthew Coley
Ensemble Members Bjorn Berkhout, Todd Nickow, Mary Drews, Annie Stevens, Josh Manchester and others
The program will include a variety of selections including solo to chamber works and J.S. Bach to improvisation.
Description:performance with sonic inertia percussion group
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 9:00PM
state theater
687 central
st. petersburg, Florida
Only a Mother...
Jimmy Carl Black & Eugene Chadbourne join Zappa repertoire band Bogus Pomp in a celebration of Motherly Mayhem. The State Theater is located at 687 Central in downtown St. Petersburg. Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.com, search for Bogus Pomp.
presented by the Emit Series
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 8:00 PM
Transitions Art Galllery 4215 E. Columbus drive, tampa Florida
tampa, Florida 33605

Cost:$6
also with blast aposable scum waterdigger insect joy and microwave windows
SEPTEMBER 6-9 4-10PM
The Happening Festival
curated by Sharon Gal


Venice, Florida gazebo in a downtown park. With Jijimuge, aaron zarzutzki, Kristin Calvarese, and 3P1 L3P T1C F1T.
Amp'Theater in downtown Tampa performing with The uhhh. . and Chiari Network. Also on the bill are w/ Curious Hair, Hahahelp!, Le Fantome, Luciano Guidini, Skin Job, T Func, then and than, Lazerblades, emBard, Andros Rex, and Rat Bastard. 8PM
SEE MY NEW RELEASE ON SHARK BITE TAPES WITH AARON ZARZUTZKI NAMED FURNITURE MUSIC.
SATURDAY AUGUST 11
with aaron zarzutzki at
Transitions Gallery 2412 East columbus drive, tampa Florida 33605 8PM
noise
Performance under a bridge with S.P.I.N., Kristin Calvarese, and some Cephias Treat artists.
Noise
with aaron zarzutzki and jijimuge
July, 20 2007 at Stardust Video and Coffee
1842 E Winter Park Rd, orlando, Florida 32803
67 E. Cermak Road
Chicago, Illinois 60616
phone number: 1.312.791.9050.
Parking is available at parking meters surrounding the block
or in the muffler shop lot on the NE corner of Michigan and Cermak, when the shop is closed.
Via Google Map, see their map.
Darts and Arrows
Bill Mackay, guitar
Lili Wosko, cello
Dominic Johnson, violin
Todd Hill, bass
Joshua Manchester, drums
Hotti Biscotti
Cellist Kevin Davis
Our set will start at 11PM, and will follow a set at 8:30 by Jim Baker, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt.
http://holiday.chicagoreader.com/music/jazz/
3545 W. Fullerton : Tue 7/17, 8:30 PM, Baker Hunt Sandstrom Trio; 11 PM, Joshua Manchester Group. 773-292-6877.
WEDNESDAY JULY 11
Recording with Otolathe at Echolab Studios
THURSDAY JUNE 28-30
Gigs at a church
FRIDAY JUNE 22
Recording session at Springs Theater with John Stephan, guitar
SATURDAY JUNE 9
Kagel drum performance with Gainesville's Jijimuge and Chicago's Aaron Zarzutzki for Tampa Noise Fest.
solo drumset performance for Tampa Noise Festival, Transitions Gallery
SUNDAY MAY 6 AND TUESDAY MAY 8
Performances with ICE International Contemporary Ensemble for the Columbia College Film Scoring class.
MONDAY APRIL 30
concert
WEDNESDAY APRIL 18
Performance for David Karave's art performance installation. Ybor Cigar theater, Tampa Fl
SATURDAY APRIL 14
Noise jam under a bridge in St. Petersburg Fl with The Uhhhh, Jijimuge, Aaron Zarzutzki, and Microwave Windows.
SUNDAY MARCH 29
Darts & Arrows
Bill MacKay, guitar
Lili Wosko, cello
Martha Stahl, voice
Joshua Manchester, drums
67 E. Cermak Road
Chicago, Illinois 60616
phone number: 1.312.791.9050.
Parking is available at parking meters surrounding the block
or in the muffler shop lot on the NE corner of Michigan and Cermak, when the shop is closed.
Via Google Map, see their map.
SUNDAY MARCH 11
Radio Appearance
Something Else 88.7 WLUW
Sun and Haw
Cliff Ingram, guitar
Joshua Manhcester, drums
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16 7:00-10:00
The performances at the February installment of Music + Art, organized by Joshua Manchester, will serve to remind that giving the performers some choice in the composition process is a good thing, and may more effectively highlight any goals composers sought to undertake when composing in the first place. Free improvisation is a good starting point, and since there are those who scoff at the idea of improvisation as inward and limiting (and even John Cage said he used chance to free himself from his likes and dislikes) it is hoped that this concert will point out that successes of many prominent abstract classical pieces in the last century were credited largely by the brute naturalist intelligence, the appeal and zest of a fine performer.
The Sets:
7:30-8:10 = Ben Boye, piano
8:20-9:00 = Cliff Ingram and Joshua Manchester
9:10-9:50 = group led by Kevin Davis and Guillermo Gregorio
Details: Zhou Brothers Center: 1029 W. 35th Street. Ample, free parking. Free admission (donations appreciated)
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=1029%20W.%2035th%20St.Chicago%2C%20IL%2060609&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
1029 W. 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60609
General info. 773-523-0200
Building Mgnt: o@zhoub.com
The musicians include :
Cliff Ingram, guitar
The guitar-drums duo of Ingram and Manchester marks a decided endeavor to explore musical understatement, a project that, by considering its relationship with "silence," respects some of the more restrained acoustic qualities of its instrumentation. The resulting compositional vehicles therefore take on a kind of "slow motion slight of hand," in which exposition and obfuscation are readily available elements to be shuffled. This invitation into process, however, is rendered more enticing by means of the duo's constant exploration of fresh, cinematic coloration.
Cliff produced some harmonic frameworks on which to base improvisations.
http://www.joshuamanchester.com/Ingram.htm
Guillermo Gregorio, reeds
"Given that he was born into a musical household in the musical capital of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the early 1940s, it came as little surprise to anyone that the cerebral and artistically inclined Guillermo Gregorio was drawn to jazz as a teenager. While he initially played Chicago-style jazz, exposure as a young man to the groundbreaking modern jazz of musicians like Ornette Coleman as well as 20th century classical music and early musique concrete inspired Gregorio to begin his career-long exploration of the boundaries of sound. His education in the visual culture of modernist design and architecture also had a profound effect on his work. During the '60s, influenced by the work of social critics, philosophers, writers, and visual artists, Gregorio turned away from public performance and began to experiment in his home studio, where he pursued improvisation, overdubbing, and assorted tape collages." -Jesse Ashlock
"Gregorio also took part in the activities of the Fluxus-like performance-group Movimiento Música Mús, the Experimental Group of Buenos Aires and the Group of Contemporary Music of La Plata, with results ranging from multi-media spectacles to experimental concerts and a modern repertoire. In the mid 1980s Gregorio left Buenos Aires and went firstly to Europe and then to the USA, where he is still living and working. In Chicago in 2001 he founded the Madi Ensemble, which is concerned with the bases of various Argentinean avant-garde styles. He also teaches at the Purdue University and was awarded a grant in a promotional program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's." -Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Ben Boye, Piano
Kevin Davis, Cello
Kevin is an established improviser on a national level. Currently his new album, "The Tempest Is Over" is receiving airplay all over the country
http://www.deadceo.com/releases.html. A current Chicago resident, he has played with a comprehensive cast of prominent musicians in ensembles such as Locksmith Isadore and the Rempis/Davis Duo.
Joshua Manchester, percussion.
Josh believes in the power of music to express the inexpressible, and places great trust in a spirit of experimentalism and continual discovery to fulfill his vision of bettering the human mind. Joshua Manchester is an innovative performer and instructor in the field of percussion. In addition to being a regular member of the MAVerick ensemble, he performs with Civic Performers Innovative Music, Sonic Inertia and Accessible Contemporary Music as well as a regular participant in Chicago Composer’s Forum projects. Joshua has recently collaborated with percussionists of the International Contemporary Ensemble on a concert of works by Augusta Reed Thomas and Ryan Ingebritsen, premiered works with the Cube Ensemble, undertaken national tours as an improviser, and provides classical percussion in numerous orchestras in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa. In addition to his position as adjunct percussion instructor at St. Xavier University, Joshua teaches a private studio at the Sherwood Music Conservatory.
While having a strong background in traditional music, many diverse musical influences have shaped his experience. He often collaborates and performs with new music composers, including Mei-Fang Lin and William Jason Raynovich, and has also studied composition with Herbert Brun and Susan Parenti. Working with artists such as Steve Lacy by providing music for art installations has proven immensely rewarding. After spending two years performing with a Javanese gamelan and studying the Indian Tabla, lately Joshua has begun studies with the berimbeau.
Joshua holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Luther College and a Master of Music in Percussion Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois. Joshua has studied with renowned percussionists John Herndon, Thomas Siwe, William Moersch, Michael Geary, and Andre Beasley.
You can learn more about Joshua from his website. http://www.joshuamanchester.com
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2 9:00 PM
Darts & Arrows
Bill MacKay, guitar
Lili Wosko, cello
Martha Stahl, voice
Joshua Manchester, drums
The Music Garage: 345 N Loomis, 312-997-1972.
We play one improvisational set. No cover.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 30
Show with Noise artists Cornucopia and Chuck Gnoider
San Juan, Puerto Rico
See this webpage for recordings
THURSDAY DECEMBER 28
Rumba in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
152 Calle San Sebastian, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tel: 787 725 4407
TUESDAY DECEMBER 5
St. Xavier University Concert Band
Erik Janners, director
Section Percussion
SUNDAY DECEMBER 3
Classical Music at Heaven Gallery
With Jennifer Swanson flute, and others.
This is classical, not modern works at all.
"Duet for Vibraphone and Flute" by Murray Houliff and I will also play a Minuet from "Two Divertimentos for Solo violin" by Stamitz.
1550 North Milwaukee 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19
5020 S. Cornell
Chicago IL
773-324-5520
1-3
With Dan Godston and Cliff Ingram
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17
Civic Performer's Innovative Music, performing a chamber work by Amos Gillespie
Fine
Arts Building, 410 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605
7:30 PM
room 833
$7 suggested donation
featuring Arizonan composer Bruce Raiprich
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5
Works by David Lang, accompanying films of Bill Morrison
with Steve Parker, Trombone.
164 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Tel: 312.846.2600
5PM
Located on State Street between Randolph and Lake streets, the Film Center is
approximately one block from all CTA "L" and subway lines, as well
as several major bus routes.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4
8 PM: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W. Chicago Ave.
Lang: eng. horn, bass clarinet, vla, vc, dbl bs, bari sax, two perc, two pno
Mobberley: fl, cl, sax, vln, vc, pno, perc (?)
Mobberley: fl, cl, vla, vc, perc, pno (?)
Leone: fl, cl, vln, vla, vc, pno (?)
Eicker: fl, sop. sax, perc., pno (?)
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2
Beverley Arts Center
Preissing: Piano Trio
Edwards: Cello and tape
Mobberley: Trombone and tape
Mobberley: fl, cl, sax, vln, vc, pno, perc (?)
Mobberley: fl, cl, vla, vc, perc, pno (?)
Leone: fl, cl, vln, vla, vc, pno (?)
Eicker: fl, sop. sax, perc., pno (?)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 29
In partnership with the MAVerick Ensemble and Chicago Composer's Forum, I will perform
Ryan Ingebritsen, "Part of You Pours Out Of Me In These Lines" Multiple Percussion
Museum of
Contemporary Art
(With Shannon Budd on Flute and live electronics)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 27
7-11 PM 1029 West 35th Street
Zhou Brothers Arts Center
I don't really know what this performance will entail yet. More info later. It's a costume thing!!!!
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25
An interdisciplinary festival using advanced technology to join artists from many diverse places together. "In Chicago Calling, Chicago-based artists will showcase collaborative works via teleconferencing or the internet, and performances and viewings of these collarborations will occur at Elasstic and other venues throughout Chicago. These works will be prepared, improvised, or a combination of both. For instance, a Chicago-based poet might collaborate with a Japanese videographer, a Chicago-based jazz ensemble might improvise with a London-based dance troupe, and so on. The first Chicago Calling collaboration will begin at 12 AM Wednesday, October 25 and the events will continue for 24 hours. The 25th was chosen because it is Pablo Picasso's birthday.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 17
Run by Jason Ajemian
Atmospheric heterophony in a large-ensemble format.
Empty Bottle 11:00PM
With Frank Rosaly, Kevin Davis, Jeb Bishop, Jennifer Swanson, Cliff Ingram, Ben Boye, Bill Epperson, Jason Adasiewicz, Paul Giallorenzo, Keefe Jackson, and others.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 15
Steve Lacy Art Project- Academy Records, Defeat! Thus the Magpie, Rider of Leviathian, Herald of Saturn - the 9 choirs.
773-324-5520 contact Allison Peters
Watch as 9 drummers simultaneously try to hammer the groove from Can's "Oh Yeah" (Tago Mago) into the walls of the Hyde Park Arts Center for 40 minutes.

That's clockwise from front Mark Diffendorffer, Matt, Eric Leonardson, Andy, Devin Davis, Joshua Manchester, Liz Payne, Anthony Elms, and Chip.
December 2008 update: from a facebook album - later on the drummers reappeared for the art opening. Anthony Elms, Atha Clarke, and yers. Photo Phillip VonZweck
SATURDAY OCTOBER 14
Switching Station Artist Lofts Performance
Part of Chicago Artists Month
5-6 PM intersection of Homan and Madison. 15 South Homan.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13
Electronic Music Midwest Symposium
"Still" for Marimba
Lewis University, Romeoville MAP
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29 9:00
Daniel Menche and Olivia Block
Daniel
Menche (record release) * Olivia Block
9 PM at Elastic - 2830 N. Milwaukee
2nd fl. - 773·772·3616
I'll be playing bass drum for Olivia's
new composition.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29 7:30
Erik Janner's Faculty Percussion Recital
I will perform on Marimba Spiritual by Miki.
3700 West 103rd Street, Chicago, IL 60655 (773) 298-3000
7:30 PM
SEPTEMBER 23-24
Contemporary Glass Project
of the Sonic Inertia Ensemble run by Matthew Coley
A collection of conceptual works that are rooted in the forms and sounds of glass and water. All of the music will be performed by three percussionists original and live. There will also be movement and electronic media if possible.
Performances are Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3:00 and 7:00 PM. Dance Center Evanston, Studio #4 1934 Dempster St., Evanston Plaza. SW corner of intersection @Dodge. 15$.
SEPTEMBER 10 2 PM
Vittum Theater (1012 N. Noble Street),
The performance will last about 45 minutes and will involve improvising
with dancers. This will be part of the Around the Coyote Festival.
With Daniel Godston, Jayve Montgomery, and Bill Mackay
WEDNESDAY JULY 19
Live performance on WNUR Radio at 12:00 with trumpet Daniel Godston
SUNDAY, JULY 2
1st Evangelical Church
Rockford IL
8:15 and 10:00
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JUNE 24 25
1st Evangelical Church
Rockford IL
7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 9 2006
Sir Edmund Hillary And The Sherpas
University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall West Lounge
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
9:30PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 3 2006
Flotilla - Art Meets Entertainment
Peter Jones Gallery June 3-25 2006 7-11 PM Map
Featuring the works of Alan Emerson Hicks with duet art pieces from Bruce Noel Mortenson, Edward Master, Helena Engel, Joseph Sikora, Kevin Mollier, Jacqueline Moses, Robert Putnam, Jeanette Bezazian, Wade Chandler, Joseph Innocenti & others.
Opening Reception is from 7-11 PM with performances by Hoopafreaks, Right Eye Rita, Emerson the Art Illusionist, Dan Godston and Joshua Manchester.
SATURDAY, MAY 13 2006
Fully staged and sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Submit to the awe-inspiring music of Puccini as he tells the tale of young, starving Bohemians in nineteenth-century Paris. This imaginative mixture of love and loss, tears and laughter, has enchanted audiences for a century. Dont miss it!
FRIDAY, MAY 5 2006
Part of the Version>06 Festival
The McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Illinois Institute of Technology
3201 South State Street
Chicago, IL MAP
SATURDAY, APRIL 29 2006
Section Percussion, For Love Of Country
Coronado Theatre, downtown Rockford, 8 p.m.
Members of Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps
Mozart, Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
Jean Sibelius, Karelia Overture
Ferde Grofé, Grand Canyon Suite
Leos Janácek, Sinfonietta
SUNDAY, APRIL 23 2006 7:00PM

MAVerick
Ensemble
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320
West Chicago Avenue
773-227-5522
From England
to Vietnam
Suggested Donation: $15/$10 Directions:
I will perform Cineshape 1 by Amy Williams for Alto Flute and Percussion. With Shannon Budd, fl.
SUNDAY, APRIL 23 2006 2:00PM

Accessible Contemporary Music by Seth Boustead
Spring Spectacular II at the GREEN MILL!
ACM presents Spring Spectacular
II
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Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:00 PM
Green Mill,
4802 N. Broadway Chicago, IL.
773-878-5552 Admission is $5
The annual Spring Spectacular is our time to relax and have a little fun. Previous
Spectaculars have included magicians, improvisors and performers of every stripe.
This year we have as our special guest Brazilian composer, pianist and vocalist
extraordinaire Clarice Assad and vocal effects improvisor Lord of the Yum-Yum
in addition to our regular program which will be announced shortly. This concert
always sells out so show up early!
GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 14 2006
CPIM Civic Innovative Performers Music
7:30 Ganz
Hall, 7th Floor of Roosevelt University, Auditorium Building
430 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
312-341-3500.
with trombonist Steve Parker
SUNDAY APRIL 9 2006
African Sanctus, performing on Congas. Brooke Thompson, director.
11:00 MAP
SATURDAY APRIL 1 2006
Part of the Musicians' Alliance for Peace Project
Cafe Mestizo at 1646 W. 18th Street. 60608
6-9:30 PM.
I perform first, with a trombonist and last with The Sherpas.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 9:00PM
Marcos Galvao
A performance of Brazilian samba. Marcos has moved here recently and will sing and play guitar with traditional Brazilian drum accompaniment.
With Glacial Ghost, Sadaris, Kestrel
at the intersection of Western
and Fullerton. 2428
N Western
Chicago
TUESDAY, MARCH 28 2006 7:30PM
International Contemporary Ensemble ICE
3700 West 103rd Street, Chicago, IL 60655 (773) 298-3000
Music and the Search for Meaning
ICE with Augusta Read Thomas
St. Xavier University
Chicago, IL
ICE joins renowned composer Augusta Read Thomas in a program featuring her works alongside new pieces by members of the Chicago Composers Forum.
Program
Augusta Read Thomas: Pulsar for solo violin (2003)
Augusta Read Thomas: Rumi Settings for violin and cello (2002)
Augusta Read Thomas: Diagonals for solo clarinet ((2005)
Works by members of the Chicago Composers Forum
David Smooke, Ryan Ingebritsen, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Krystof Wolek
I play on Ingebritsen's piece, "Echoes, Like The Ringing In My Ears" for three percussion and tape.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17 2006
Amos Gillespie's Civic Performers Innovative Music

1029 W. 35th
St.
Chicago, IL 60609
MONDAY, JANUARY 16 2006
Percussion duo with Trombone
Myopic Bookstore
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.
7:30
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27 2005
Open Jam -Cafe Mestizo
Run by Jayve Montgomery, Joel Wanek, and Daniel Godston
NEW LOCATION! 1646 West 18th Street
6:00-8:30 PM
Plus art by: Rene Hugo Arceo (prints)
Adonay Navarro (low relief sculpture and mixed media)
Dolores Mercado (paintings and prints)
Veronica Mercado (photographs)
www.arceoart.us
Phone: 773/610-0429 or 312/942-0095
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 2005
CANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLEDCANCELLED
DUE TO PLUMBING PROBLEMS. (WITH THE CAFE, NOT WITH ME)
Open Jam Cafe Mestizo
Run by Jayve Montgomery, Joel Wanek, and Daniel Godston
NEW LOCATION! 1646 West 18th Street
6:00-8:30 PM
Plus art by: Rene Hugo Arceo (prints)
Adonay Navarro (low relief sculpture and mixed media)
Dolores Mercado (paintings and prints)
Veronica Mercado (photographs)
www.arceoart.us
Phone: 773/610-0429 or 312/942-0095
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 2005
Live Radio Performance on WLUW station 88.7 FM
Part of the "Something Else" 10th Anniversary Celebration!!!!!
"Something Else" Program hosted by Philip Von Zweck.
11PM-2AM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
REad a review: in La Raza
MAVerick Ensemble
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Elbio Barilari, "Canyengue" - Drumset
Ryan Ingebritsen, "Part of You Pours Out Of Me In These Lines" Multiple Percussion
(With Shannon Budd on Flute and live electronics)
2PM AND 7PM
http://www.maverickensemble.com/
SATURDAY-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 1
Out of Town
Don't call, Don't send smoke signals. Write an email to music@joshuamanchester.com and expect delays.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 2005
Rockford Symphony Orchestra
http://www.rockfordsymphony.com/
The Classic Hollywood Sound
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Coronado Theatre, 8 p.m
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 2005
Evanston Symphony Orchestra
http://www.evanstonsymphony.org/
2:30 PM Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1359 N. Sacramento Ave. Chicago IL
2:00 PM
Elbio Barilari, "Canyengue" - Drumset
Ryan Ingebritsen, "Part of You Pours Out Of Me In These Lines" Multiple Percussion
(With Shannon Budd on Flute and live electronics)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Eugene Field Park, 5100 N. Ridgeway, Chicago IL
7:00 PM
Elbio Barilari, "Canyengue" - Drumset
Ryan Ingebritsen, "Part of You Pours Out Of Me In These Lines" Multiple Percussion
(With Shannon Budd on Flute and live electronics)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Hamilton Park, 513 West 72nd Street Chicago IL
7:00 PM
Elbio Barilari, "Canyengue" - Drumset
Ryan Ingebritsen, "Part of You Pours Out Of Me In These Lines" Multiple Percussion
(With Shannon Budd on Flute and live electronics)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 2005
Lucid Artist CoOp Gallery
time TBA:
In a free improvisation quartet with Daniel Godston.
Across from Navy Pier in the Lake Point Tower.
http://www.aviewoncities.com/chicago/lakepointtower.htm
Location:
505 N. Lake Short Drive
> Metro: Chicago/State (red) line
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 2005
The Musicircus of John Cage
Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Chicago, Chicago Ave.
In my contribution, I will be paying homage to Cage with the use of a cactus for my sole performance output. Cage originally wrote for this piece in "Child Of Tree"
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1359 N. Sacramento Ave. Chicago IL
2:00 PM
Fareed Haque, "Airplanes" - Glockenspiel
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Eugene Field Park, 5100 N. Ridgeway, Chicago IL
7:00 PM
Fareed Haque, "Airplanes" - Glockenspiel
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 2005
Fresh Ink - Chicago Parks District
Hamilton Park, 513 West 72nd Street Chicago IL
7:00 PM
Fareed Haque, "Airplanes" - Glockenspiel
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 2005
Sundays at Sherwood
Sherwood Music Conservatory 1312 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago IL
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM SOLO PERCUSSION RECITAL