The Third Annual Monday a little less than a Month Before
a Dinner Concert to Benefit the
2011 Outsound New Music Summit

Monday, June 27 2011 at 7:00pm

Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, California (map)

Cuisine by Miles Ake
Chef Miles Ake

2002 Napa Valley Merlot from Harbor Winery last reserve, and more!
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Seating Limited to 50, Please RSVP June 20, 2011
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Performance by Vorticella
Vorticella

The Monday a little less than a Month Before
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From the Chef
The a list of ingredients when put together form a classic Gazpacho. This will function as a prompt or an armature that dishes can be built upon. The root of the word Gazpacho is derived from a Mozarab word caspa, meaning "residue" or "fragments," which refers to the small pieces of bread and vegetables in a Gazpacho soup. throughout the meal the gazpacho as an entity wil go through a series of fractured movements. This fracturing is not a means to disconnect, but rather as a process of extraction, distillation and isolation of distinct parts. The structure of the menu is an anagrammatical game or a rewinding (moving backwards in time to replay a track) while simultaneously moving forward without redundancy in form/texture/taste using to compositional terms (verse, refrain, notes, scale, etc....) to build a lexicon of culinary elements.

Table Presentation
chive . parsley . mint . hazelnut . creme fraiche . bread . olive oil .
vinegar . ginger . garlic . red onion . apple . celery . beet .
cucumber . red pepper . tomato

‘bloody margaret’ . gin and olive gelée . mint tofu
spicy tomato water espuma . lime salt

home-made ricotta . peperonata . thyme . mint breadcrumbs .

panzanella . roasted beets . red onion . orange
vinaigrette . hazelnut .

raw fluke . lemon oil . shiso . celery . apple .

Dessert
three textures of olive oil . carbonated strawberries .
cocoa nibs .

Beverages
Peet’s Coffee, assorted tea, soda, beer
2002 Napa Valley Merlot from Harbor Winery last reserve
Vorticella is a complex sound generating entity
Brenda Hutchinson on Long Tube plying vocal techniques
Krys Bobrowski on French horn, kelp, and glass
Erin Espeland on cello
Karen Stackpole on gongs and percussion.

The quartet utilizes loose structures and free improvisation to create unique soundscapes and to explore sonic canyons whilst engaged in the distinct quest of stirring up flora and fauna.

Scientifically speaking, the Vorticella is a protozoan…a single-cell organism that uses cilia to move around and feed itself. Physically, it sports an inverted, cilia-adorned bell perched upon a stalk containing a contractile fibril called a myoneme. When stimulated, the myoneme shortens, causing the stalk to coil like a spring. Vorticella usually anchor themselves to small particles of material, however, it is not uncommon to see them free swimming. When they undergo fission, they split longitudinally in a process called budding. Once split, one Vorticella keeps the original myoneme and the other swims off to grow its own. The organisms distribute themselves in densely clumped clusters.

Musically speaking, Krys, Brenda, Erin, and Karen are the analogous representation of (a) Vorticella. Each member comprises alternately and simultaneously functions of the single cell. For instance, there exists the inverted bell – the very shape of it suggests the main body and receiving portion of the organism…listening. Then there is the stalk with the myoneme – a perfect representation of reaching out, mobility, and sudden action in response to stimulus. The cilia – the small filaments that sweep food into the gullet of the receiving organism – are representative of the methods used to integrate ideas from the environment and the individuals in the group for the nurturance of the creative whole, be it their instruments, guidelines, approaches. And lastly, there are the vacuoles, those ever changing envelopes that contain the food for digestion and nutrition for the cell. These can be likened to storage of ideas in the minds and hearts of the individual components of the organism, and the digestion likened to the process of converting that raw material into creative energy.

As for the action of Vorticella, the protozoan – budding, keeping a myoneme, growing a new one, free swimming or anchoring to material – with a little imagination, you can see how such behavior forms a distinct parallel to how Vorticella, the group, go about relating to each other musically and how they create the music they share – individual expressions within a group to create a single sound: a complex, yet simple organism.

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