Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish) + Fred Frith — live event
Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new set of music at the Lab with the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble (Aaron Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Mark Clifford, Brett Carson, and Jordan Glenn), exploring the concept of worldbuilding as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play. Mezzacappa's previous works for this group have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar. He learned to compose in Henry Cow, developed his song-writing skills in Art Bears, explored his multi- instrumentalism in Skeleton Crew, rocked the house with Massacre and is still doing all of those things, having been in one band or another continuously since 1964! Meanwhile his work has been performed by both Baroque and contemporary music ensembles, along with string quartets, chamber orchestr
Starts: 2025-06-19T20:00:00Z
Ends: 2025-06-19T22:00:00Z
Where: 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States
Price: $17.0