Nicholas Chase - World Premieres of Ngoma Lungundu & Songs of the Thirsty Sword

October 14 - SETKAVANI NOVE HUDBY PLUS: International Festival of Contemporary Music Plus - Brno, Czech Republic
October 23 - Music By The Eyeful - Luggage Store, San Francisco, California
October 25 - Maybeck Recital Hall - Berkeley, California
October 31 - DIVA Center, Eugene, Oregon

Nicholas Chase embarks on a debut solo tour premiering Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) and Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko). Chase's interactive visual work with the improvising trio NIRUSU III has been acclaimed by the LA Weekly as "pushing the edge of audio/visual improv", and his interactive audio/visual composition Transmission was featured last Spring with the Illuminated Corridor's NOVA at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. This concert circuit, Chase continues his exploration of dynamic, spontaneously composed visual narratives and music with the premieres of Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) for 4-channel electronics and interactive film/animation/video, and Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I (For Lucky Mosko) for solo piano with 4-channel interactive electronics and video. For more information please visit www.nicholaschase.net.

October 14
SETKAVANI NOVE HUDBY PLUS: International Festival of Contemporary Music Plus
7:30pm
Janacek Academie of Music and Performing Arts
Brno, Czech Republic
Chase will be in residence at the Janaceck Academie of Music and Performing Arts from October 13-17 as part of the Academie's month-long 12th international music festival. Chase gives the World Premiere performances of Ngoma Lungundu and Songs of the Thirsty Sword.
This residency is funded in part through the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

October 23
Music By The Eyeful
8pm
Luggage Store
1007 Market Street at 6th
San Francisco, CA 94103
tickets: $6-10 Sliding Scale
www.myspace.com/musicbytheeyeful
Nicholas Chase, Dylan Bolles and Keith Evans will open the Music By The Eyeful audio/visual performance festival at San Francisco's legendary Luggage Store. This performance will reprise Chase's premiere of the epic Ngoma Lungundu for solo laptop in 4-channel sound with interactive video. The Festival hosts a bevy of cutting-edge aritsts through April, 2009, all at the Luggage Store.

October 25
Nicholas Chase and Gregory Moore: New Works
Private Concert - If you would like to attend RSVP rsvp@nicholaschase.net
Maybeck Recital Hall
1847 Euclid Avenue at Buena Vista
Berkeley, CA
www.handprintseries.com
Nicholas Chase and Gregory Moore present an evening of New Works. Chase reprises Songs of the Thirsty Sword Part I for solo piano and interactive video and electronics

October 31
Nicholas Chase and Spark Applied to Powder - An Evening of Electronic Mu(sic) and Video
8pm
DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway, Eugene
$5-7 suggested donation
www.divacenter.org
Chase and Eugene sound-artist Spark Applied to Powder share an evening of eclectic and unusual non-synth-pop electronic music. Chase reprises Ngoma Lungundu (Voice That Thunders) for multi-channel electronics and interactive video after premiering Ngoma in Europe and San Francisco. Spark Applied to Powder (aka Kevin Spahn) offers his signature analogue-artistry with new sonic expressions and ambient drone works.