{"id":3067,"date":"2016-05-30T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T22:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.pedrolopes.opalstacked.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2016-05-30T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T22:40:40","slug":"10th-may-active-music-series-presents-pedro-lopes-at-omni-oakland-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"10th May \/\/  Active Music Series Presents: Pedro Lopes at Omni Oakland Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 10th, 2016<br \/>\nActive Music Series at Omni Oakland Commons:<br \/>\nRoom 47 \/\/\u00a0Pedro Lopes \/\/The Norman Conquest<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"videoContainer\"><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3DCrJk32lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Video from the concert.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<br \/>\nRoom 47 is gabby fluke-mogul [violin], Adam Hirsch [saxophone], and John McCowen [clarinet]. we))) three met at mills college in the fall of 2014&#8212; long tones, long breaths, &amp;&amp;&amp; long sighs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FfryJE7najDw&amp;h=tAQGW4Qrl&amp;enc=AZMyvkitDrQaE4ArW44l8sibu-UNDoNqnnHysO1fGrqxzV-JrOYda8zpytUUGRwwdnc&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/<wbr \/>fryJE7najDw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Lopes &#8211; [turntable percussion, cymbals and modified needles]<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nPedro Lopes is a turntablist metamorphosed into a percussionist.When playing live he deconstructs his instrument, the turntables, into a vehicle of a rapid, post-scratch and post-jazz, musical dialog of analog intonation and acoustic overtones. In Pedro&#8217;s music the needles do not merely amplify the vibrations stored in the grooves of the vinyl records. For him, the needles are microscopes that enable us to hear otherwise unheard micro-realities, such as the sound of a fingernail scratching a membrane, a coin revolving as it falls, a brush dragged across a plastic surface. Pedro has been collaborating with artists such as Carlos Z\u00edngaro, Reinhold Friedl, DJ Sniff, Imre Thormann, amongst many others, in a life entangled deeply with his research on interfaces and performance arts. This extra-musical investigations have led him to produce pieces for Transmediale, a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Fylkingen, Ausland, and Goethe Institut.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<wbr \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmusic.pedrolopes.opalstacked.com%2F&amp;h=FAQEqa79N&amp;enc=AZN4uIQhrJVhHiiGz7NxdCPH8-UQfB9FV49PCrVl1CrO-Hvw-mnCYmiBdxer_ioYvYs&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">plopesmusic.org<\/a><br \/>\nMost recent work: <a href=\"http:\/\/deadact.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">deadact.bandcamp.com<\/a><br \/>\nVideo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F101165529&amp;h=WAQE7KOXz&amp;enc=AZOznDYyobiZot0mXK9SVZrxGPlUw6YFDplJfTshfq-SslUzp6wsKJ7l3TD5fQpjFwY&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/<wbr \/>101165529<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Norman Conquest [TNC] is a composer, performer, and improviser of music influenced by the art of sound engineering (and vice versa). Feedback is a constant source of musical, psychological, and philosophical inspiration for TNC.<\/p>\n<p>TNC performs as a sound manipulator and vocalist in Cosa Brava (with Fred Frith &amp; Zeena Parkins) and in Dokuro (with Agnes Szelag). TNC has recorded or worked with- Barn Owl, Elliott Sharp, Gregg Kowalsky, Zachary Watkins, Marielle Jakobsons, Ellen Fullman, Stuart Dempster, Phillip Greenlief, &amp; Blixa Bargeld. TNC&#8217;s recordings can be found on these fine record labels- Tzadik, Intakt, Root Strata, &amp; Important Records.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenormanconquest.net%2F&amp;h=xAQEfUIEx&amp;enc=AZM9mQd-xKYwOXnVYN_En4J1w-n6nXl86DHlKEzavDiP3yKAwXAkyqzK_m1HDJ8ihx0&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">www.thenormanconquest.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Active Music Series<br \/>\nDoors at 7:30 PM<br \/>\nMusic at 8:00 PM<br \/>\n$5-15 sliding scale.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Factivemusic.wordpress.com%2F&amp;h=qAQFA0lGY&amp;enc=AZMkaGtadXIJYJGJ17HI8SEXNYGOf86B71U8lvGoEtyUXynLu2N4eHCzFXwsy5MqnvA&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">activemusic.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omni Commons<br \/>\nBASEMENT<br \/>\n4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10th, 2016 Active Music Series at Omni Oakland Commons: Room 47 \/\/\u00a0Pedro Lopes \/\/The Norman Conquest Video from the concert. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Room 47 is gabby fluke-mogul [violin], Adam Hirsch [saxophone], and John McCowen [clarinet]. we))) three met at mills college in the fall of 2014&#8212; long tones, long breaths, &amp;&amp;&amp; long sighs. https:\/\/youtu.be\/fryJE7najDw Pedro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189,3,190,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}