The Static Illusion Methodical Madness Music Series, (or S.I.M.M. Music Series), is a musician run bi-monthly music performance series bringing highly professional and truly adventurous music that would not normally be heard or supported by mainstream society. Since 2001 the SIMM Series has been curated by Outsound Presents and local improvisers/composers/sound artists Rent Romus and Bill Noertker. They present a cross section of sound artists and musicians from the experimental improvisation and composition genres. This Sunday's event features T.D. Skatchit & Company,
featuring Tom Nunn and David Michalak on "skatchboxes
" with vocalists
Aurora Josephson, Bob Marsh and Ron Heglin
. Opening the performance is Ross Hammond on guitar electronics and David Boyce on saxophones.
T.D. Skatchit & Company is a duo featuring Tom Nunn & David Michalak playing Skatchboxes. As the story goes, one day while on a visit to his cousin’s workshop, David picked up the combs and began to play the Skatchbox. Thomas sat in amazement at this first performance on his new invention. And so T.D. Skatchit was formed to spread the Skatch throughout the land performing with other traveling minstrels at carnivals & sideshows or wherever people would listen. They continue to explore the sounds of Skatch in combination with other instruments. On their 2nd CD called, Skatch Migration they feature many performers which include the vocalists performing this evening.
First there was the Electric Light then The Talking Machine. Now witness The Skatchbox; a new musical invention by Thomas Skatchit. Built out of cardboard boxes and played with combs, this recession era wonder conjures up sounds previously unknown to man. The mere sweep of the comb across the box creates a new universe of sound reminiscent of wind, the seashore, trees rustling, birds singing, frogs croaking and other magical sounds. "I want to see a Skatchbox in every American home.", says Skatchit.
Sacramento guitarist Ross Hammond has been playing music on large stages and in small corners on the West Coast and beyond for the past decade. He has received the Sacramento News and Review music award for Best Area Jazz Musician in 2008, 2009 and 1999 (with Chili Palmer Project) and received a Critic’s Choice award for Special Achievement in 2007. Hammond currently hosts “Nebraska Mondays,” a weekly improvised music series at Luna’s Cafe in Sacramento.
The SIMM Music Series, the Luggage Store performances and the Outsound and Edgetone New Music Festivals produce some of the most forward thinking and experimental music the Bay Area has to offer. For those wanting to take a walk on the wild side, you simply must make it to some of these incredible performances.
The SIMM Music Series
Alternate Sundays 7:30-10pm
Sunday March 20th, 7:30pm T.D. Skatchit & Company Tom Nunn and David Michalak - skatchboxes
featuring the many voices of skatch with vocalists Aurora Josephson, Bob Marsh and Ron Heglin
8:30pm Ross Hammond - guitar electronics/David Boyce - saxophones duo
Admission $10 general $8 students & seniors
All ages welcome.
