NowNowNow October 12th on Midosuji

A 6m X 2m space of momentary improvisations.

7 Improvisers on the Biggest Street in Osaka

NowNowNow is an improvised music, sound art and dance event, featuring 5 musicians and 2 dancers. We will be performing from 12 to 4PM. NowNowNow will also include some audience participation in the creation of the pieces we play. And, if you want to add your improvised sounds, words or bodily angles to the mix, contact me and I'll let you know the secret codes.

We will have a goofy 3 meter flag pole set up to mark our site, so please find us, come over and watch us make sounds and movements on the biggest street in Osaka.

It will take place on Midosuji on Oct 12th, from 12 to 4PM as part of the Rucksack Exhibition. Yeah, right on the street, in the area north of Hommachi station, Exit 4--where the big Starbucks in on the corner. The Rucksack website is: http://rucksack-exhibition.blogspot.com/

Members include: 

On Furukawa（古川 遠） http://www.tcn.zaq.ne.jp/hanaarashi/
Chikako Bando（伴戸千雅子） http://www.tcn.zaq.ne.jp/hanaarashi/
Rick Tuazon http://www.projektivity.net/
Takezo Aoki http://www.myspace.com/qujakushow
Charles-Eric Billard http://charlou2006.blogspot.com/
Tadashi Yonago  http://www.chochopin.net/
Jerry Gordon  http://3cmpress.blogspot.com/

Salads in Space

Putting on the Moon Suits

Oxygenologist: Capt. Monkiefeet

HypGnosis

HypGnosis

Smouldering Door and Tabou

Takedao Tunnel Sessions 2008
August 16th, 2008

Charles-Eric Billard (slitars & plinkplunk)
Jerry Gordon (drum, Bb clar, recorder, plinkplonk)
Takezo “Tabou” Aoki (perc, harps, human BB, v)
Jonathan Crewe (drum on track 10)

1. Kaminari 6:59
2. Somnambulance 5:19
3. A Pixi Plays with Lightning 4:01
4. At a Crossroads in DreamLand 4:15
5. Naming Every Stone 7:07
6. Two Broken Sandals 5:59
7. The BoomBooms 6:25
8. Ambitrance 4:17
9. Landfill Chai 7:02
10. Tunnel 6:35

Breathing Through Metal and Wood

CDR

Jerry Gordon
(alto sax, Bb clarinet and hand drums)

1. Very Short Skyscrapers 5:14

Nagai Stadium Solos
2. Stirring Up the Concrete Molecules 6:14
3. Pixi Time 4:32
4. Soliloquy for a Homeless Man 3:07

5. Pixies Dance for Electric Buddhas 5:11

Nagai Stadium Solos (cont.)
6. Narcissus and Echo 9:25
7. Subtle Betrayals 6:04
8. Lonely Woman 3:48

9. Walking in Underwater Shoes 14:47
Gordon (d, recorder); w/ Yoshiki Kato (g, oud);
Naoyo Yakushi (perc); Mitsuru Toshisato (laptop, v, hose); Uta-chan (acc);

June 25, 08 at Tempozan w/ Yangjah
10. A Reed's Song to the Water Grass
on the Intimacy of Terror and Beauty 5:12
11. Boat Motors and Believable Memories 5:48

Concrete Canyon

CDR

Improvised solos by Jerry Gordon for dances by Yangjah

Jerry Gordon (alto sax and Bb clarinet)

Concrete Canyon w/ Yangjah July 6. 08
1. Warming Up the Canyon 6:01
2. Visa for PixiLand 2:42
3. Chasing Eric Dolphy's Bike 2:38
4. Getting Lost on a One Way Street 3:10
5. "There's a Sky Up Above" 5:04
6. Absinthe Blue (pt 1 & 2) 8:12
7. Police Car 1:34
8. Invisible Dancer 5:21
9. Monkiefeet 1:50
10. Wildin' 3:43

June 18. 08 at Tempozan w/ Yangjah
11. 25 Minutes of a Curved Wall's Life 25:10

w/ Yangjah at Hoshigaoka Sewing School, Aug. 2, 2008

This performance was for an opening event of the Swimy Art Exhibition being held at various venues in Osaka. Concrete Canyon, the film Yangjah made of her and my playing in a space between two Osaka office buildings, is in the Swimy exhibition, at a gallery named Beyer.

A CD of the Concrete Canyon recordings is also available, from 3CMPress.

Jerry Gordon and Yangjah at UrBanGuild July 28, 08