Bonnie Jones ///// electronics, samples
Andrea Neumann ///// modified autoharp, mixing desk

TOUR 2014
January 29 – February 13th

1/29 – the wulf, 1026 s. santa fe ave. #203, Los Angeles
2/2 – Berkeley Arts, 2133 University Ave, Berkeley
2/3 – Songlines Series @Mills College
2/4 – MA Series, Golden Lion Arts, 2733 Riverside Blvd., Sacramento
2/6 – Destroy Vancouver Series, VIVO Media Arts, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
2/7 – Seattle Improvised Music Festival, seattleimprovisedmusic.us/simf/
2/8 – Seattle Improvised Music Festival, seattleimprovisedmusic.us/simf/
2/9 – Little Axe Records, 5012 NE 28th at Alberta St, Portland
2/11- Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Fran

Bonnie Jones and Andrea Neumann’s improvised music is a rich contradiction of textures and timbres with each artist committed to both defining and expanding the definitions of their music through long-term collaboration. The duo have been performing together since 2007.

Andrea typically performs on a custom-made Bernd Bittmann piano with no-input mixer feedback but for this duo tour she will be performing on a modified autoharp. Bonnie plays field recordings/samples and the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. The sounds produced by these instruments are often jarring and abstract but at turns equally melodic and complex. It is this sonic tension and contrast that the duo uses to create unusual musical dialogues and narratives in their work.

Bonnie and Andrea have presented their work in the US, Mexico, and Europe, most recently at the 2nd Festival International Cerro de Arena in 2012 held at UNAM, Tlatelolco, Centro Cultural Univerisitario in Mexico City, MX. The duo released their album green just as I could see on Erstwhile Records in 2012.

BONNIE JONES |  electronics
DAFNE VICENTE-SANDOVAL | amplified bassoon

TOUR DATES: 

MAY 29 /  Red Room, Baltimore MD also featuring films by Lorenzo Gattorna, $6, 8:30pm
MAY 30 /  Back Alley Theater, Washington, DC with Keir Neuringer and more tba, 7pm  doors 8pm show
MAY 31 /  Philly Sound Forum Aux at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, with Alban Bailey and others  $7-10, 8:00pm
JUNE 1 / Silent Barn, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY with Sean Meehan, Andy Lampert, Tristan Shepherd, Leila Bordreuil, doors 8pm/ show 9pm
JUNE 3 / Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St., NYC, w/Ezra J Teboul and more, doors 9:30pm/ show 10:00pm

SOUND SAMPLES
Live recording of concert from No Idea Festival, February 2013 (mp3)
Recording session, February 2013 (mp3)

BIOS
http://baltimoreperformance.com/jones_vicente_sandoval_duo2.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/events/200351186755574/

Friday, April 12, 2013
Crow With No Mouth Series
Studio Z
St. Paul, MN
http://cwnmconcertseries.wordpress.com/next-concert/

BONNIE JONES
BHOB RAINEY

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
CCBC, Essex Campus, Essex MD
6pm

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Friday, April 26, 2013
Trinosophes, Detroit MI
8:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/Trinosophes

Saturday, April 27, 2013
Oberlin College, Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin, OH
4:30pm

ARENA LADRIDOS

Chris Cogburn, Percussion
Bonnie Jones, Electronics, Mic
Bhob Rainey, Soprano Saxophone

In 2010, after years of friendship and musical intersections frequently revolving around Austin’s No Idea Festival, Chris Cogburn brought this trio together for concerts in Texas (Marfa and Austin) and Mexico. The trio brings together musicians who have performed and collaborated extensively in the improvised and experimental music communities of the US and abroad. Collaborating frequently with musicians like Greg Kelley, Andrea Neumann, Axel Doerner, Toshimaru Nakamura, Vic Rawlings, Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui among others. Their music explores structure and gesture at a bare and measured level, negotiating the distinct and precarious relationships between sound, space, performer, and audience. Michael Rosenstein calls their work “a tightrope display of careful listening”.

The trio has released a CD on the UK label Another Timbre, information and links to reviews and samples follow:

Listen:

http://www.anothertimbre.com/
http://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/arena-ladridos

Reviews:

http://www.anothertimbre.com/page81.html

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March 7, 2013
7:00pm
Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

ASIMINACHREMOSBONNIEJONES
An evening of dance, text, and sound performance collaboration featuring
Bonnie Jones (sound/text)
Asimina Chremos (dance)

https://www.facebook.com/events/365982470175940/

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March 28, 2013
7pm, Free
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville Florida
333 North Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL, 32202
http://www.mocajacksonville.org/

Bonnie Jones  (solo)
Tim Albro (solo)
Jones / Albro (duo)

February 1, 2013
Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art
18 Wooster Street, NY, NY
http://swissinstitute.net/events/upcoming.php?Event=217#jump

Performance collaboration with Mae Fatto’s work das Ding! 

It begins, “Heidegger says proudly, “People say Heidegger is a fox.” This is the true story of Heidegger the fox.” -Hannah Arendt

das Ding! is an energetic performance interpreting an exchange between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. The audience-filled reading becomes an unlikely ground for the surrounding activity, where a group simultaneously builds the architecture of Heidegger’s hut, often relying upon viewer interpretation and interference. Consistently starting and stopping, working and negotiating, the performance examines the dialectic of history and document; the often-slippery attempt of one to capture the other.

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February 7-8, 2013
CEAIT Festival
REDCAT, Roy & Edna Disney / Calarts Theater
631 W 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213 237-2800

Bonnie Jones (Baltimore)
Keith Fullerton Whitman (Boston)
Hong Chulki (Seoul)
Choi Joonyong (Seoul)

http://www.redcat.org/event/ceait-festival-2013

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February 9, 2013
Poetry reading @Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.poeticresearch.com/

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February 16 – 25, 2013
No Idea Festival
Austin, TX
(schedule TBA)

http://noideafestival.com/

Artists include: 

Bonnie Jones → electronics → baltimore
Chris Cogburn → percussion, electronics → austin
Bryan Eubanks →  electronics → new york city / berlin
Catherine Lamb →  violin, electronics → nyc / berlin
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval →  bassoon, electronics → paris
Xavier Lopez → laptop → paris
Remi Álvarez → saxophone(s), flute(s) → mexico city
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten → double bass → austin
Milo Tamez → percussion, drumset → chiapas, mexico
Misha Marks → baritone horn, accordion, guitar → mexico city
Bob Hoffnar → pedal steel guitar → austin
Aaron Allen → double bass → austin
Damon Smith → double bass → houston
Sandy Ewen → electric guitar → houston

(subject to change)