(Fans of lots of fx pedals chained together might be interested in my drum machine setup)

Chaos Butterfly and Matt Davignon are bringing their unique forms of immersive improvised electroacoustic music up and down the West Coast. If you like this stuff, please come to one of the shows, enjoy the music and say hello!

Chaos Butterfly
The electroacoustic duo Chaos Butterfly is Jonathan Segel (violin, guitar, electronics) and Dina Emerson (voice, wineglasses, electronics, etc.). Chaos Butterfly has worked with Camper Van Beethoven (Segel) and the Meredith Monk Ensemble (Emerson), in addition to working with operas, orchestras, and the Cirque du Soleil. Their music encompasses song, soundtrack, storytelling, and mayhem, all created and performed in real time. The instrumentation is a seamless combination of electronic and acoustic sources, including violin, voice, laptop computers, guitar, wine glasses, and various toy samplers.
www.magneticmotorworks.com/chaos/

Matt Davignon is an experimental musician living in Oakland, California. Since 1993, he has developed his own unique style of music, which focuses largely on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Since 2004, he has been working almost exclusively with a drum machine, run through a series of effects and samplers. Drawing from what he's learned in his previous work in sound collage, field recordings, found objects and prepared instruments, he creates an organic array of drones, gurgles and frantic passages.
www.ribosomemusic.com

Tour info & samples at www.ribosomemusic.com/Tour2005.html

Friday, December 2
Dunes
1905 NE Martin Luther King
Portland, OR
8:00 pm $3-4 sliding scale

Chaos Butterfly
Matt Davignon
Evolutionary Jass Band
LUC


Saturday, December 3
On the radio
88.7 FM KBVR Corvallis
3:00 PM
Chaos Butterfly
Matt Davignon


Monday, December 5 afternoon
On the radio
88.1 FM KWVA Eugene
3/4 PM


Monday, December 5 evening
Sam Bonds Garage
407 blair blvd
Eugene, OR
8:00 pm $6-10 sliding scale
(541) 343-2635


Wednesday, December 7
Gallery 412
1412 18th Ave.
Seattle, WA
8:00 pm $5-15 sliding
(206) 322-1533

8:30: Noah Mickens with Harauko Nishimura (voice/found objects/dance)
9:30ish: Matt Davignon
10:15 ish: Chaos Butterfly


Thursday, December 15
Trummerflora presents
Other Ideas at Voz Alta
1544 Broaddway @16th (East Village)
San Deigo, CA
8:00 pm - $5 at the door
www.vozalta.org
Matt Davignon
Chaos Butterfly

Friday, December 16
OPEN Books Music Magazine Art
144 Linden Ave
Long Beach, CA
8pm - donation requested
Chaos Butterfly
Matt Davignon