This just in from Ferrara Brain Pan of Forms of Things Unknown and Everything But The Gargoyle…

I usually don’t perform live onstage more than twice in a YEAR, and now I am appearing in two separate concerts in one WEEK. Not my FOTU solo project this time, but group collaborations. Read on…

On MONDAY night I will be part of a large ensemble of musicians in a performance of the Terry Riley composition “In C” at the Café du Nord in San Francisco - that’s Monday, November 16, at 8:00 pm. Also appearing that night will be Julianna Barwick and The Lickets. The Café du Nord is located at 2170 Market St. Tickets are $10, either in advance or at the door.

Then on THURSDAY, I’ll be one of twenty-five scheduled participants in the upcoming “DroneShift” concert, organized by Matt Davignon. The DroneShift is an unscored live sound event with a duration of two hours, in which participating musicians will each contribute long sustained tones to the collectively improvised performance at various points during the concert, resulting in an organically shifting sound mass whose emphasis is on texture, harmonics, and gradual change and musical development. The scheduled performers are CJ Borosque, Beau Casey, Amar Chaudhary, Matt Davignon, Adam Fong, Jeff Hobbs, Sebastian Krawczuk, Kadet Kuhne, Brendan Landis, David Leikham, Cheryl Leonard, Melissa Margolis, Lucio Menegon, David Michalak, Suki O’Kane, Ferrara Brain Pan, Rent Romus, Lx Rudis, Edward Schocker, Sarah Stiles, Errol Stewart, Lena Strayhorn, Tim Walters, Bill Wolter and Michael Zelner. The concert will take place at the Luggage Store Gallery on November 19, 2009, between 8:00 and 10:00 pm. The Luggage Store Gallery is located at 1007 Market Street in downtown San Francisco (close to 6th & Market). Admission is $6-$10 sliding scale. Please visit the Luggage Store New Music Series page at for more info.

Hope to see one or two of you at one of these gigs!

Ferrara

“Let the great constellation of flickering ashes be heard…”

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Multi-instrumentalist and mastermind behind Forms of Things Unknown Ferrara Brain Pan collaborated live with Ninah and Das of Big City Orchestra on ubRadio. You can download or stream a recording of it, in two parts.  Part one is here and part two is here.

November looks like a busy month for Ferrara Brain Pan of Forms of Things Unknown and Everything But The Gargoyle, with two radio appearances and one live gig.

To start the month, Ferrara Brain Pan will be joining host Dean Suzuki on his long-running Discreet Music program on KPFA-FM for an hour or so of music and conversation. Ferrara will discuss past musical activities, current recording projects, and upcoming live performances on this first appearance on the program, which airs live on Sunday, November 1, at 10:00 pm Pacific Standard Time (note that November 1 is the day that the clocks are turned back in the Pacific time zone). KPFA Berkeley can be heard in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California at 94.1 on the FM dial, and worldwide on the internet at www.kpfa.org (the program will also be available for listening at the KPFA online program archives for one week from the air date).

Then on November 11, Ferrara joins Das & Ninah for a live musical improvisation on their weekly ubRadio program, which airs each Wednesday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm PST over the internet at http://dfm.nu/ DFM RTV INT. UbRadio programs can be heard anytime at a later date by visiting the ubRadio Salon Archive page.

Ferrara will then be part of a large ensemble of musicians in a performance of the Terry Riley composition In C at the Café du Nord in San Francisco on Monday, November 16, at 8:00 pm. Also appearing that night will be Julianna Barwick and The Lickets. The Café du Nord is located at 2170 Market St. Tickets are $10, either in advance or at the door.