Gachapon with dancer Christina Braun

Center for New Music

Gachapon is a quartet of Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster, Tom Bickley, and Dean Santomieri. They will perform with dancer Christina Braun

Gachapon: A quartet featuring Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster, Tom Bickley and Dean Santomieri; playing a variety of instruments including: shakuhachi, lyre, EWI (electronic wind instrument), bowed, amplified saw, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, taishogoto, percussion and voice. Collaborating, for this performance, with dancer Christina Braun. A Gachapon is a Japanese vending machine that dispenses small toys in capsules. Christina Braun’s choreography has been presented by the InternationalButoh Festival Thailand, the West Wave Dance Festival and the Asian ArtMuseum. Christina has been working in collaboration with composers since2002, most extensively with Tom Nunn and David Samas. As SF Butoh Lab, Christina hasproduced Butoh dance symposia, performances and workshops to strengthen aculture of peace with collaborative art practices. Photo of Christina by Tim Walters. Gachapon: Cindy Webster Cindy Webster is a Board Certified Music Therapist/Therapeutic Musician working in the San Francisco east Bay. She also plays the musical saw, Hurdy-gurdy and other things as well. An admirer of avant-garde music, she creates soundscapes using found objects, found sounds and effects. She has appeared in San Francisco, Dublin, Zootown and Grass Valley fringe Festivals; Y2K Loop Festivals in Providence, Santa Cruz and Mexico; Musical Saw Festivals in Austria, New York and California; trees, phone booths, rooftops, film and recordings. Cindy has been described as, “She can do more with her voice and saw than you can do with anything,” Nancy Beckman https://tigergarage.org/nancy-beckman/ Studied Myoan-Ryu shakuhachi honkyoku through Meianji Temple in Kyoto for five years, receiving the name Fukushin and the license (menkyo Kaiden) to teach from the temple. Later, she studied various types of shakuhachi and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. She also graduated from the Music for Healing and Transition Program, where she played shakuhachi and lyre for hospice. As a member of ensembles Gusty Winds May Exist (with Tom Bickley), The Cornelius Cardew Choir and Dream Down Duvet, she improvises and plays experimental music and composes improvisational sound meditations. She lives in Berkeley and teaches the traditional Myoan shakuhachi repertoire. Tom Bickley https://tigergarage.org/ Composer/performer (EWI, electronics) Studied Gregorian chant, other medieval music, and African American sacred music, and recorder. His degrees are in music, liturgy and library and information science. He is certified by Pauline Oliveros to teach the meditative improv techniques of Deep Listening. In addition to his work with new music ensembles Gray Code and Comma, he has performed with Pauline Oliveros, Anne LeBaron, Viv Corringham, Philip Gelb, the Denison Kimball Trio, the Scratch Orchestra and others. He is active in the duo Gusty Winds May Exist, with shakuhachi player Nancy Beckman, co-founded and directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir, and teaches for the Center for Deep Listening @ RPI and the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. Dean Santomieri http://www.deansantomieri.com Guitar, Taishogoto and spoken word artist; composing / improvising for guitars in non-standard tunings. He is active in the San Francisco Bay Area free improvisation music scene and has been associated with the groups, Donkey Boy, Malcolm Mooney and the 10th Planet, The Cornelius Cardew Choir, Ghost in the House, I Franzen, and since 2011, Santomieri-Farhadian Duo. He has also accompanied dancers Christina Braun, Dawn McMahan, Kinji Hayashi and others. CD recordings: Crude Rotation, musique concrète, 3” CD, 2000. The Boy Beneath the Sea, story narration and music, 2001. Facebook, the Opera, for three singers and piano, 2013. Santomieri-Farhadian Duo, RedBlue, guitar and violin, 2015.

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