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Exciting Sites of Opposition I from zachary watkins on Vimeo.

AMF












































Arcata @ Mexi-Wow
Seattle @ Gallery 1412 w/ Kaori Suzuki/Jonathan James Carr/ Monktail
Seattle @ BARBQUE
Portland @ Disjecta w/ Daniel Menche, The Tenses



















































picture taken by Yannis Adoniou

































April 6th April In Santa Cruz Festival Premiere of "Treatment No.2 for Harmonic Stirngs" (Guitar Quartet)
April 2nd Mills College Songlines Series " Movable Long Commutes Between Loved Ones, Music for Motors and Resonant Strings"
March 23rd Cal CNMAT "Positively Right On for Ava and John"








Big Up Purple Maze Productions!




Design by A T U R G O R











Berkeley Arts Festival
Friday December 16th
w/ Blood Wedding

















SpiritJazzII by BlackSpirituals








Royal Nonesuch Gallery w/ Matt Ingalls




















Pictures Taken By Peter BKaars








April 27 @ pink canoes @ hemlock tavern w/ chen santa maria
April 22 or 23 Activating the Medium XIV
April 2nd Randy Lee Sutherland Birthday Bash
March 27 @ Life Changing Ministries w/ John Krausbauer-Agnes Szelag
March 14 John Butcher and Gino Robair and Andre Marquetti @ UCSC










The Watchful Ear Review of
"Suite for String Quartet"
















Novembre Magazine
Duane Pitre Interviewed by Zachary James Watkins





Massimo Ricci Review









































movable,
long commutes between loved ones,
music for motors and resonant strings

"Movable" 4-2-10 Seattle Premiere Rehearsal Video from zachary watkins on Vimeo.

Music
For People
and
Thingamajigs




Suite For String Quartet
Live in Berlin 09-07-09
Confront Collectors Series ccs14




"P I N K C A N O E S"
Limited Release Cassette c60
sixtyhurts




el pochote




LA POCHA NOSTRA
Session Abierta
del Taller
Internacional de Performance




La Perrera Performance




"C O U N T R Y W E S T E R N"
Limited Edition SOLD OUT c43
Teosonite




"B L A C K S P I R I T U A L S"
Tape Cassette Release
on
The Tapeworm (UK)
Illustration - SavX
Available Through Touch Shop




Microsores Project Performed my composition "Any Other"
UCLA Hammer Museum
Listen to the first movemement
Microsores




Thingamakids




Remarks on Color/Sound
by
Stephen Ratcliffe
Performend
by
Suki O'Kane
Edward Schocker
Dylan Bolles
Zachary James Watkins





2 new pages:
movable, long commutes between loved ones, music for motors and resonant strings
and
Suite For String Quartet


G O D W A F F L E @ T H E L A B






photo by Lauren Cecil
Foxy Digitalis
Feature
on Duane Pitre
by yours truly



S U I T E F O R S T R I N G Q U A R T E T L I V E I N B E R L I N 2009
Confront



movable,
long commutes between loved ones,
music for motors and resonant strings

Tiffany Lin ~ Movement 2 from the archiver on Vimeo.

F L O S S A L B U M R E L E A S E C O N C E R T
The Chapel
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N
Seattle
8PM








Pink Canoes
live
12-18-09
@
Cafe DuNord
KFJC 50th Anniversary
=====Free====

with:
Pink Mountain
Arrington De Dionyso
T.I.T.S.
Work
Al Qaeda
Seven Lies About Girls


sixtyhurts



J U S T I N T O N A T I O N C O M P I L A T I O N








Music for People and Thingamajigs





Edward Schocker / Zachary James Watkins Duo
Internationales Klankunstfest 09




suite for string quartet
labor sonor


Awarded a Subito Grant
for the project
The Moving Type
in collaboration w/
Tiffany Lin



Pink Canoes play graphic score entitled Metaphysics of Notation by composer
Mark Applebaum
Stanford University Cantour Arts Center
12pm-1pm


suite for string quartet LIVE @ THE LAB

VIDEO EXCERPT


Pink Canoes Live @ THE LAB 25th ANNIVERSARY KICK-OFF PARTY

April 30

pink canoes Live @ The Luggage Store Gallery


Whysp Live @ The Crepe Place




Moments Notice Series w/ Edward Shocker, Suki O'Kane, Dylan Bolles


Solo Performance @ The Dead Cow Gallery


Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge Presents:
pink canoes
white leopard
italic indian


The Hemlock Tavern Presents:
pink canoes
Gerritt Wittmer
Cenk Ergun
Noel Von Harmonson








P I N K C A N O E S PINK CRUZ C A L I F O R N I A C O A S T T O U R ! ! ! ! !
March 6 River Side @ The Pharaoh's Den
March 8 LA @ Echo Curio
W/ Warm Climate & Metal Rouge
March 9 Santa Cruz @ Blue Lagoon



Sound in Space Festival
Bay Area Lock-In
Aliens have nothing on this abduction. Performances and installations from our friends of the north. An all night rec center lock-in event. Come celebrate the last night of the festival into the wee morning hours. Works by Kadet Kuhne, Elise Baldwin, the Pink Canoes, Dave Holton and many others. Someone from the Bay Area will be in the Endurance Shed






I engineered a wonderful album recently released on Red Toucan Records!
Chris Brown/ Frank Gtratkowski/ William Winant Trio (2007)



Tue 11/18 9:00 PM Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland] 21 Grand presents 3rd Tuesday Avant Garde night: Weasel Walter ensemble (personnel tba); simon rose (saxes)/ Jen Baker (trombone)/ Ava Mendoza (guitar)/alex vittum (drums); pink canoes


The Crepe Place 10PM 10$
mt.eerie
whysp (a magical group that margaretha and I have the pleasure of playing with...)


The Stork Club 10PM 5$
Dance Card(OR)/TOFU/Seizure17(Philly)/Pink Canoes


Two Published Scores in South African Art Magazine I T C H !


11th annual music for people and thingamajigs


found print piece no.1 and no.2 added to the nyme online collection of graphic scores


Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge Presents:
visaviva
pink canoes
pykrete
The Warm Climate Big Band (w/ members of VxPxC)
1687 hayes st. san francisco. 94117 8PM-11PM


12:00 PM------------------2pm - g|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S : @ Artsf 110 Capp st black gate press 5-0-0 to buzz in san francisco, California +DOG+------------------VSLS--------------------------ZacharyJamesWatkins aka N****** = Nibbles-------------------------------Mr. Cluck


Microscores Project concert
7.30pm (US central time) in Omaha, Nebraska for the ArtsAHA! Festival.
view the concert online live


Pink Canoes Live at the the knock out


sounds outside
FLOSS featuring Zachary Watkins


henrymillerlibrary
Announcing the 2008 issue of Ping Pong, an international journal of arts and letters.
Ping Pong invites you to join the release party for its 2008 issue at the Henry Miller Library on August 9, 2008.
musical guest zacharyjameswatkins














mission creek music and arts festival
pink canoes
barnwave (w/kevin blechdom and christopher fleeger)
oaxacan
clovis heald


Premeire
For Ava and Noah; Positively Right On
meridian gallery










01SJ A global festival of art on the edge in San Jose, Californiia WE-C


human / nature
14 hour collaborative performance produced by Dylan Bolles
W/ Keith Evans, Michael Meyers, Stephen Ratcliffe, Edward Schocker...and others...

>L I S T E N<










Pink Canoes Live at the Hemlock Tavern
W/ Holly Caust and Moe!


10pm-11pm
Solo performance on KFJC


pink canoes/brown bird split release on Brooklyn label pendu sound


meridian music: composers in performance series
meridian gallery
press release
grauwald










21 grand: Pink Canoes, Liz Allbee/Phillip Greenlief/Tatsuya Nakitani, Darwinsbitch


Premeire of New commission by Cornish College and the Seattle Chamber Players to write a new 5 minute work. This is part of "Breaking Barriers": Presenting a new composition by new music crusader and Cornish composer-in-residence, Frank J. Oteri as well as new works by Cornish alumni composers. I will be sharing this opportunity with Cornish alums, Eyvind Kang and Gretta Harley. Poncho Hall.
more info


ReOrient Festival: I designed sound and composed new works for this years festival. I want to thank all of the amazing musicians and engineers who made my design possible:
Ostad Zoufonoun - Violin
Amir Zoufonoun - Voice / Tombak
Ramin Zoufonoun - Tar
Omeede Zoufonoun - Cello / Producer
Andy Strain - Trombone
Noah Phillips - Prepared Guitar
Fadi Sakr - Donbak
Barry Threw - Engineer
Leif Shackelford - Engineer
reOrient Theatre Festival





FLOSS new record recorded by Aram Shelton at Polymorph Studios in Oakland, CA. This is the second album I am producing for this psychedielic freejazz outfit.
Mixing by Mell Detmer


thepinkcanoes are mixing our second album recorded by Norman Teale


thepinkcanoes first album "why do you think its shaped that way" recorded in 2005 by Norman Teale awaits its release....


Music For People and Thingamajigs Festival. Premeiere of a new piece for 8 tuned strings, interactive electronics, resonant space, an audience and vintage footage. Performed by Emily Packard(violin), Angela Hsu(violin) and myself(electronincs).
10th Annual Thingamaajigs Festival


Movements I and II of my Suite for String Quartet were featured on
Music From Other Minds #117
mfom


sfSound premeire of:
Black Producer, White Producer;
Beat Making in the 90's
Specifically Tha Nine Tre (Summer 07) (3')
Commissioned by sfSound


The Somnubutone (Past Online Radio Show) Original compositions to accompany dreams, hosted by Sarah Margaret Halpern





Third Floor::Designed Obsolescence