{"id":3440,"date":"2010-04-04T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2010-05-02T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T02:35:13","slug":"switchboard-music-festival-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/switchboard-music-festival-followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Switchboard Music Festival Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went to the Switchboard Music Festival<\/a> last weekend. Super fun!
\nMy favorites include:<\/p>\n

Strike Gently, Kate Campbell and Regina Schaffer playing solo piano pieces<\/p>\n

Teslim – not entirely my style of music but they can really play!<\/p>\n

Sabbaticus Rex<\/a> – with their animus connections to their musical instruments.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Zoe Keating<\/a> – She’s becoming one of my musical heros. :-)<\/p>\n

Billygoat – They played this awesome psychedelic set with accompanying visuals :-)<\/p>\n

It was just 2 blocks away at Dance Mission Theater which was super-nice. And I got to chat with (a pregnant!) Zoe Keating for a few minutes about music and licensing for a few minutes which was terrific.<\/p>\n

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Here’s snippets from the Switchboard press kit<\/p>\n

Teslim <\/strong>means both \u2018commit\u2019 and \u2018surrender\u2019 in Turkish and features two well known Bay Area
\nmusicians: violinist Kaila Flexer and Gari Hegedus on oud, Turkish saz, Greek lauoto and other
\n(mostly plucked) stringed instruments. This potent duo performs Greek, Turkish and Sephardic
\nmusic. In addition, both Flexer and Hegedus are composers whose original music is based on
\nthese fertile traditions. This unusual duo is at home in classical, early music, and folk music
\nvenues and holds workshops on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n

Sabbaticus Rex<\/strong> is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of
\ntone over time and thought. This process uses haunting and beautiful acoustic instruments and
\nmethods: overtone gongs, shakuhachi (bamboo Zen flutes), Taimu (bass) shakuhachi, and throatsinging.
\nThis is sound, but not music. It is primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs: slowly shifting
\nelemental dialogues between fat flutes and big gongs.<\/p>\n

David Klein and Nick Woolley formed the musical\/visual duo of Billygoat<\/strong>, producing stopanimated
\nfilms and performing their live, original scores. These films have been described as
\n\u201cstop-motion shorts of staggering complexity,\u201d created one tiny movement at a time via tens of
\nthousands of individual photographs of an ever-morphing art piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went to the Switchboard Music Festival last weekend. Super fun! My favorites include: Strike Gently, Kate Campbell and Regina Schaffer playing solo piano pieces Teslim – not entirely my style of music but they can really play! Sabbaticus Rex – with their animus connections to their musical instruments. Zoe Keating – She’s becoming one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}