Have you ever heard music in bird song, the clatter and chatter of a professional Chinese kitchen, the shriek of tearing metal, the laughter of children, the abstract interplay of cascading sine waves, the relentless outward march of evolution, wind chimes, or the gurgles and squirts of an upset stomach? Then this may be your opportunity to share...
Woodstockhausen will be an open, intimate and informal gathering and Bacchanalia of composers, poets, visual artists and friends in the redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains, on Saturday, September 19, 1998, at 8 PM. It's a non-profit thing, and attendance is free. The goal is to provide a venue for obscure music and a deadline for those of us who fail to produce without one! We would love to have more compositions, and to have help organizing the show! If you're interested, read on.
Where will the concert be?
What should I bring to the concert?
How can I get my piece in the concert?
What formats of compositions are accepted?
How can I help organize the show?
What about visual installations?
How do I get on the organizational e-mail list?
Whose silly idea was this, anyway?
It's pretty simple, really. Send e-mail to Doug Cook, with the following information:
As far as the type of music, it's open. You might correctly surmise from the name "Woodstockhausen" that we have a bent towards avant-garde electronic music. We offer no guidelines for content other than "weird is wonderful", "arcane is cool," "taste is relative," and "please, don't burn the place down."
As far as the physical formats are concerned:
We could really use your help! There are a lot of jobs, from
small to large, that we could use help with. Look at the following tentative
list of jobs, decide if one sounds fun, and then
join the organizational e-mail list.
We have a couple of folks doing visual installations at the show, and we're excited about that. We're still working out the details of how to project video into the redwoods, and what the power, space & cost issues of video are. If you've got some cool visuals you want to bring, let us know, and we'll try to figure out how to make it happen...
Send e-mail to <emusic-request@candiru.com> with the word SUBSCRIBE on a line by itself in the message body. This will automatically add you. The list itself (not to be used for subscription/unsubscription!) is <emusic@candiru.com>.
On Wayne Jackson's property in the redwoods in Boulder Creek:
200 Buena Vista Ave
Boulder Creek, CA 95006
NOTE that there is very little parking at this location. PLEASE carpool if possible. We'll try to work out parking details and shuttles closer to the show date. Please also try to arrive early so that the concert itself is not interrupted by the passing and parking of cars.
The esteemed Mr. Jackson writes:
My best advice for finding this location is to use Yahoo's map services which will give you a precise position and let you choose your own shortest route. Otherwise, you may attempt to use the following tortured directions:From San Francisco:
South on 280
-> South on Hwy 85
-> South on Hwy 17 (toward Santa Cruz)
-> Exit Bear Creek Road, left at stop sign
-> Long (~26 miles) winding drive to end of Bear Creek Road
-> Right turn onto Hwy 9, ~2 miles
-> Right turn onto "Two Bar Road", ~0.5 miles
-> Left turn onto Buena Vista Ave --> #200
From Santa Cruz:
North on Hwy 9 (or Graham Hill, if you know what you're doing)
-> Pass through Felton, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek
-> Approx 2 miles from stop sign in Boulder Creek
-> Right turn onto Hwy 9, ~2 miles
-> Right turn onto "Two Bar Road", ~0.5 miles
-> Left turn onto Buena Vista Ave --> #200
This is the harebrainchild of a group of friends who studied electronic & computer music together at UC Davis, notably:
Doug Cook: drummer, clarinetist, bass clarinetist, part-time composer, software engineer at Inktomi and formerly an audio software engineer at Silicon Graphics. (Note how I avoid any superlatives here, since I'm writing this; I get to say really nice things about my cohorts, though).
Wayne Jackson: cooks amazing spicy food (ask about the Habanero Death Paste); the first of us to jump into the Real World by getting married, buying a house, and having a kid (Nainoa Marslander); keeps chickens as pets; once the electronic music studio manager at the UCD Department of Music; now employed at E-Mu systems, making toys for the rest of us.
Mike Pukish: a brilliantly demented mind. One of the most wonderfully weird people we know. His stream of consciousness has some very strange shiny purple fish swimming in it. He wouldn't say this, because he's too humble, but he's very good drummer, a talented composer, and a joy to hang out with. Works these days at Berkeley doing weird things to radio telescopes, or something like that...
Brian Salter wowed us all again when came up with the name Woodstockhausen. He's a very talented composer and sound designer, with many credits to his name. Visit his web site to learn more about him.