Tom Djll, John Lilja, Jacob Felix Heule, Gunhild Seim

December shows

I’m very happy to have my long-time collaborators Guro and Håvard in town the next couple weeks for a few shows in SF and LA. We’ll be performing Skeleton in collaboration with the wonderful Greg Pope. ( excerpts from the piece: https://vimeo.com/107832793 )

Wed 11/30, 7-10 PM
Adobe Books (3130 24th St, SF)
free/donation
- Kanoko Nishi-Smith & Wobbly duo
- Sult (Heule / Moe / Skaset)
- Key West
https://www.facebook.com/events/1126598324126791/

Sun 12/4
Sult/Greg Pope “Skeleton” at Panel LA (Los Angeles)
http://panel.la/

Wed 12/7, 8:00 PM
Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Perpetual Motion, Program Seven: Cinema of Confrontation / The End
- Greg Pope + Sult “Skeleton”
- Bruce McClure
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095733750494797/
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/perpetual-motion-program-7/

Fri 12/9 7-10 PM
Adobe Books (3130 24th St, SF)
free/donation
- Neem (gabby fluke-mogul & k. kipperman)
- Voicehandler (Jacob Felix Heule & Danishta Rivero)
- Jordan Glenn solo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1796462767300730/

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Later, my two recurring series:

Tue 12/13 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Ze Bib! (Robert Lopez & Shanna Sordahl)
- Kelley Kipperman, Aurora Josephson and Katerina Kopelevich
- Oa (Matt Davignon & Hugh Behm-Steinberg)
https://www.facebook.com/events/620575308114402/
https://activemusic.wordpress.com/

Sun 12/18 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/347396128956207/

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New sounds: This is an excerpt from a live set by Sult from almost exactly 2 years ago: https://soundcloud.com/sult/live-in-oakland

Jorge Bachmann, Dominic Cramp, Jacob Felix Heule, Angela Roberts

Danishta Rivero - Tom Djll - Jacob Felix Heule

Sult live in Oakland 2014

Fred Frith, Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset, Jacob Felix Heule, John McCowen, Tom Djll

Leila Bordreuil - Danishta Rivero - Jacob Felix Heule

November shows

This Wednesday I’m very much looking forward to Voicehandler reprising the live score to Kerry Laitala’s performance cinema work The City Luminous: Electric Salome. Check out this great documentation of a performance at ATA last year: https://vimeo.com/160186940


Wed, Nov 9. 8:00 PM Gray Area [2665 Mission St. SF]
Perpetual Motion, Program Five: Spectres
Kerry Laitala + Voicehandler / Raha Raissnia + Panagiotis Mavridis / John Davis

In evoking liminal states of consciousness through the use of custom-made screens, elaborate projection arrays and multi-planed, layered imagery, the works on this program explore imagined histories, the nature of memories, literal and metaphoric travel and motion. Kerry Laitala’s THE CITY LUMINOUS: ELECTRIC SALOME (with live soundtrack by Voicehandler) celebrates the groundbreaking light/costume/dance innovations of Loie Fuller (1862–1928) as a progenitor of Performance Cinema itself while imagining the fantastical Panama Pacific International Exhibition presented in San Francisco in 1915.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1629544557284686/
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/perpetual-motion-program-five-spectres/

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Later in November, my two recurring series:

Tue 11/15 8:30 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
    •    LAZARUS WALKS: Tim DeCillis, Alex Cohen, Tom Weeks;
    •    BARBEDWIRE: Phillip Greenlief, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Evelyn Davis;
    •    DANISHTA RIVERO 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1622152261418650/
https://activemusic.wordpress.com/


Sun 11/20 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/127117507759421/

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I’ve been putting a lot of new material up on my Soundcloud page. Long-form free improvisation with Tom Djll, John McCowen, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Jay Korber, Mark Small, and Marshall Trammell. https://soundcloud.com/jacob-felix

Drummers' Secret Handshake: Marshall Trammell, Mark Small, Jay Korber, Jacob Felix Heule

Tom Djll, Jacob Felix Heule, John McCowen

Bill Orcuttt & Jacob Felix Heule at Santo

Little clip of my recent set with Bill Orcuttt at Santo Recording. Thanks to Robert Lopez for the photo.

Getting weird with kitchen utensils.

recent set with:
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto
John McCowen - clarinets, floor tom
Tom Djll - trumpet
Jacob Felix Heule - percussion

Doors That Only Open in Silence

Saturday June 25 at Mare Island

June shows

I have a very diverse string of shows I’m looking forward to playing over the next few weeks. I hope you can join me!


Sunday June 19: Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation improv workshop). Bring your instrument and play.
Temescal Arts Center, Oakland. 7:30pm. Donation requested. https://www.facebook.com/events/887055581406380/

Monday June 20. 9:30 PM. Studio Grand.
Tom Djll - trumpet & electronics
Jacob Felix Heule - percussion
John McCowen - clarinets, floor tom
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto
“KOKUO” is sloppy Japanese for “great treasure”. It is also  a particular ‘inner force’ aikido exercise involving breath and centering, the ideas of which will underlie the set.
w/ DIAL and KEY (Andrew J Palmer - electronics & Sung Kim - handmade instruments)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1022379791179451/

Saturday June 25. 3:30 PM. Re:Sound Sun. Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve, building A-168 [Railroad & Mercado Ct. Mare Island, Vallejo CA, 94592].
I’ll be performing Chris Duncan’s piece 12 Symbols (for twelve cymbals) along with Miles Stegall, Ben Bracken, Ashley Bellouin, Nicole Thomas, Warren Huegel, Christie Yuri Noh, Dennis Remsing, Jason Leggiere, Sean Smith, Dylan Hadley and Chris Duncan.
also:
Daniel Menche (Portland) http://danielmenchemain.blogspot.com/
Mem1 (Rhode Island) http://www.mem1.com/
Zachary James Watkins (Oakland) http://www.zacharyjameswatkins.com/


and two shows in early July that I want to put on your radar:

Friday July 8: Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule / Jooklo Duo / Hummel at SANTO Recording, Oakland. https://www.facebook.com/events/1716550955271517/

Sunday July 10: I’ll be playing pieces by Morton Feldman and Pauline Oliveros at the third night of sfSoundFestival [ NOTATIONS | ORIENTATIONS ] https://www.facebook.com/events/1098925743493540/

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new video: ad hoc improvisation by myself, Jordan Glenn and Chris Christensen last month at Doors That Only Open in Silence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D-_Qwx7MaU

Voicehandler @ the Lab SF, April 8-9

Rolling Stone's 14th best avant album of 2015

Bill Orcutt and Jacob Felix Heule, 'Colonial Donuts'

A set of 13 brief, visceral, blurt-sized improv sets that puts the "primal" in "American primitive." Until 1997, Bill Orcutt made explosive, full-body-orgasm noise-rock in Harry Pussy and, 20 years later, re-emerged as an acoustic, scissor-fingered blues shredder. This duet with Bay Area drum splatterer Jacob Felix Heule splits the difference between the two eras: It's an explosive, high-energy collaboration that's as close to Delta Blues as Lightning Bolt.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-avant-albums-of-2015-20151229/bill-orcutt-and-jacob-felix-huele-colonial-donuts-20151227