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SHANE PERLOWIN & GYAN RILEY



TATSUYA NAKATANI
a totally unique sound which defies category or genre... utilizing the drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects

Monday, May 16, 2011
701 Center for the Contemporary Arts
a collaboration with 701CCA


CHEER-ACCIDENT
smart math rock, utter nonsense, and
a weighty dose of Zappa-esque rhythmic tomfoolery

Friday, November 19, 2010
Hunter-Gatherer


FAUN FABLES
Faun Fables can do whatever they want,
and that's what they do

Thursday, October 28, 2010
701 Center for the Contemporary Arts
a collaboration with 701CCA


THE TIPTONS SAX QUARTET
entrancing beats with luscious tones
and harmony stacks big enough to climb

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
701 Center for the Contemporary Arts
a collaboration with 701CCA


KONK PACK
hardcore improv from England/Germany
Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Columbia Museum of Art
a collaboration with CMFA(USC) and the Columbia Museum of Art


THE TIPTONS SAX QUARTET
all-woman quartet, w/singing & drumming
from Seattle, featuring Amy Denio & Jessica Lurie

Friday, February 5, 2010
Dianne's on Devine
presented in collaboration with 701CCA


LULO
Shane Perlowin & Ryan Oslance (from Ahleuchatistas)
guitar & drums
ambient/noise/drone improv

Friday, January 22, 2010
Hunter-Gatherer


POCKETFUL OF CLAPTONITE
improv trio from Athens, Ga
h'arpeggione, doublebass, and drums

Saturday, November 21, 2009
ifArt Gallery


THREEFIFTY DUO **
classical guitarist/composers from Brooklyn

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Columbia College


CHEER-ACCIDENT
avant-rock from Chicago

October 26, 2009
Hunter Gatherer


ZEVIOUS
polymetric punk-jazz from Brooklyn

August 20, 2009
Doc's Gumbo Grille


SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM
avant-metal from Oakland
and
SHAKING RAY LEVIS
oldtime avant-hillbilly from Chattanooga

April 26, 2009
Sudworks
(formerly 5 Points Pub)


Bob Drake's
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES *

way off-kilter Americana from France and Colorado

October 15, 2008
5 Points Pub


FAUN FABLES
what the next world might sound like
with Grey Egg

August 20, 2008
5 Points Pub

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2 FOOT YARD
inventively straddling the classical and vernacular worlds
without compromise to either side

May 24, 2008
USC School of Music


KONK PACK *
Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn
a heavy rocking swing echoes out of loose noise conglomerations

October 2, 2007
Gambrell Hall, USC


GUTBUCKET
punk/jazz kerzoom music

November 13, 2006
Art Bar


TUNNELS *
led by legendary prog bassist Percy Jones!

September 29, 2006
Gambrell Hall, USC


HAMSTER THEATRE *
balanced on the edges of folk music, avant-garde, world music, early 20th century French composition

September 1, 2006
New Brookland Tavern


GO!
improvisation, pop, experimental noise, and free jazz

August 19, 2006
Dragonfly Studio


AHLEUCHATISTAS
instrumental math rock trio from Asheville

July 16, 2006
Columbia Music Festival Association


FAUN FABLES
a song cycle, in one act

April 29, 2006
Columbia Music Festival Association


bigSphinx
(tomLaw, riCrawford, benvanWyke, patrickBoland, and kevinGreen)

a public performance of English translations of Spanish poems set to Unusual Music, along with a few intervals of unpredictable improvised sounds

June 11, 2005
Gambrell Hall, USC


* a collaboration with the Columbia Music & Film Society (USC)
** a collaboration with the Columbia Guitar Society