Mouth Travels

Mouth Travels was a showcase of voice music from around the world, and from great local vocal experimenters.
Jen and JouJou produced two Mouth Travels at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco. Read about each of them by clicking at right >	2000
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Guests from Mouth Travels 1
Sat, April 22, 2000

Bob Davis

TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON by Bob Davis
AUCTION by Bob Davis with G. P. Skratz
ELI by Bob Davis
SONG OF THE FANG by G. P. Skratz,
arranged by Bob Davis

Bob is a composer, sound designer, performer and teacher. He has composed music for California Shakespeare Festival, Kronos Quartet, A Traveling Jewish Theatre and SOON 3 Theater, where he was music director 1981- 1991. His solo show BANJO was featured at Solo Mio Festival, High Tides Festivals and in a successful three week run at Climate Theater. Bob was last seen as an actor and musician at Intersection for the Arts in The Crimes and Confessions of Kip Knutzen: A Hockey Way of Knowledge by Deke Weaver. He teaches Sound Design for Theater at San Francisco State University and music at City College of San Francisco and Solano Community College. Two of tonight's selections are collaborations with poet G. P. Skratz. Skratz and Bob have been collaborators since the 1970's. Their most recent performances were at The Lab and Intersection for the Arts.

Arjuna's throat singing group, OHANA

Ohana is Hawaiian for "people who breathe together". Through the breath we sing together exploring a single note to its fullest depth through the ancient vocal technique known as throat singing or overtone singing. Throat singing in a group creates dynamic resonant as well as disonant sounds hauntingly independent of the individual singer as though one voice rises from the many. Beautiful in its traditional forms, it is our belief that overtoning is truly cross-cultural and can be incorporated into virtually any type of music. Our mission is to apply the traditional form in new ways to present a unique style of singing.

Michael Peppe

Composer, writer and artist Michael Peppe has presented his work in scores of theatres, concert halls and galleries around the country since 1979 as well as in two New Music America festivals. His recorded sounds have been heard on albums, video and radio in the U.S. and abroad. Known for his blistering hundred-character comic monologues, frenzied vocal explorations and scathing essays, Peppe is perhaps best known as the discover of Behaviormusik, an idiom of performance based on the concept that all behavior -- audible or inaudible -- is musically composable. His essay "Why is Performance So Boring" has been reprinted seven times, most recently in Serbo-Croatian for the Yugoslavian book Pozdravi Babilona, published by Knjiznica Revolucionarne Teorije. Peppe's 10,000-word performance-text and interview appear in The Guests Go In To Supper, an anthology of seven composers, including John Cage, Laurie Anderson and Yoko Ono. He is also in the book Performance Artists: 1970's - 1980's by Linda Montano published by UC Press.

Tsering Wangmo

Tsering was born and educated in a Tibetan refugee settlement in southern India. Her generation is the first Tibetan generation in exile. In 1982, she joined the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts in Dharmsala, India, which was set up by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1959 to preserve Tibetan culture. In 1989, Tsering graduated from there, came to America and toured nine different cities with Sonam Tashi and Tashi Dhondup. Later in 1991, the three of them founded Chaksam-Pa, a non-profit organization in San Francisco, California, dedicated to preserving traditional performing arts. In 1995, Tsering opened the Tibetan restaurant, Lhasa Moon, the only Tibetan restaurant on the west coast. In 1998, she wrote a Tibetan cook book called Lhasa Moon Cook Book. Tsering has performed throughout the world and locally in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of her performances include Lincoln Center in New York, the Warner Theater, Berkeley Greek Theater and the Marin Civic Center.