Jon Brumit works creatively with social design, structured improvisation and obtuse interventions. By design, his objects and public performance demonstrations often produce unpredictable results - occasionally humorous, often sonorous, and always highly interpretable.

He has presented solo and collaborative works widely in the US and abroad at venues including 21 Grand, Lisa Dent Gallery, Southern Exposure, MOCA Detroit, Novi Sad Contemporary Museum, SFMOMA, YBCA and the 2008 Whitney Biennial as a member of Neighborhood Public Radio.

His projects have been supported by the Creative Work Fund, Oakland Arts Council, CEC ArtsLink, ISEA / Zero One Festival, Meet the Composer and the San Jose Public Arts Commission. Features and reviews of his work have appeared in the NY Times, SF Chronicle, Artforum, and Punk Planet as well as on the AP, the Today Show, Canal Plus and Discovery Channel.

More about his work at www.jonbrumit.com, through direct inquiry, or from recent articles in the New York Times, the Metro Times, or the SF Chronicle.

portals: www.jonbrumit.com , www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org , www.goldrecordstudio.com , www.slivanddulet.com , www.edgetonerecords.com



portfolio, writings, or ....
drum roll please . . . .











and now the calendar - wow!
updated SEPT 1, 2006

so last year

RICHMOND ART CENTER - 'FIELD REPORTS' - sep 5 through nov 13 - - meet me there for a free bike taxi ride

TEMESCAL AMITY WORKS - 'AMITY RADIO' - mid sept through mid nov or so - come by or tune in!!

LANEY FLEA MARKET - Lisa Mezzacappa and I set up a recording studio in my van - sunday october 1 !!!

ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR - oct 6 - return of the stoner fantasy van (from the FESTEVIL!) - @ 25 th st oakland - darkness

ST LOUIS to PHILLY - 'BLOOM TOUR 06' - improvisational / post / free / jazz / !? - will the TSA let me take a 24" vistalite on a plane these days? what about my WHITE LION toothpaste from Japan?

YBCA - (yerba buena center for the arts) - 'VENDETTA RETREAT' - oct 19 through dec 31 - get even for free - THs & SATs

PALAISE IDEAL - sun oct 22 - CHICO - SPLIT LIP WILL LOVINGLY BLUDGEON YOU WITH SONIC FORCE (wayne grim, lucio menegon, )

OLD IRONSIDES - also sun oct 22 - SACTO - SPLIT LIP blah blah AGAIN! (wayne grim, lucio menegon, )

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE - nov 10 - DEBUT OF NPR's 'RADIO CARTOGRAPHY' SERIES - audio tours, state of mind stations, and talking homes in the house! - cwf time - TUNE IN!!

and then ... the first of the mind-melting improv out noise rock free metal trio sessions released through AFTERHOURS (tokyo) ....

....

and then .... >>>
recording and publishing project with lisa mezzacappa at the laney flea market every sunday in april 2007
bizarre statewide curatorial project in nebraska with chris sollars - summer 2007

links to recent press - • sf chronicle article on the big wheel race • associated press coverage of the event, usa today blog blurbage • flikr dealio with byobw tag (incredible photos!), and also featured on blog.flickr.com, boingboing, geek entertainment, sfist, and beyond! also ... punk planet (npr) - sf chronicle (door to door) - portland phoenix (vendetta retreat) - ata webzine (critical essay by sarah lockhart on solo work and npr)

FUN! A REVIEW FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS HERE OF MY RECENT CD RELEASE ...
or control+click and download this little jpeg to read a larger version of it !

________________________________________________________________________________________

+++++++
!@!(*&*&Y*&#&&#&&#
-----$$$$$$***************@@@%&*(()#(*
^@½ÓÔ�¨ÔÁ½„¨°Ø78‡€€Á´€´€°·‡€´°·‡¹·‚°‡¹´ˆÎÓÒΈ�¦�Ò


june 6 - FESTEVIL - simultaneous virtual and local noise festival - 21 Grand, OAKLAND
may 4 - bucheon gallery with jake klotz and friends, SF
may 4 - i'll have a piece in the riviera gallery's 3rd anniversary show, BROOKLYN
may 18 - van boven cd release gig at the luggage store, SF
may 20 - van boven and friends at acuna hansen gallery with tao urban, LA

ÓÒ¦˜Ò¾ˆÓ˜Ø•ª•Á∑º•¢º™ª¢Œ∑ÏÆ∏“‘∏ÒÒ¦˜Ò¾ˆÓ˜Ø•ª•Á∑º•¢º™ª¢Œ∑ÏÆ∏
“‘∏1 1 1 1 1 1 COUNT WITH ME 1111 1 1 1 1 1 ANCIENT MATH!! NEW DOOM ANCIENT
CALCULUS ROCK QPS JAZZ GEO -PROG BAND count with me 1 1 1 1 !^@!*(&^(*°‡‰€·‡�‰◊ˆ¨Ø◊ Ò◊
�¨◊¦Òˆ„¨¦ÍÒˆÍÁ˜ÍˆØ¨½Á¨ˆÒˆ˜¨ æ‘“≥‘÷“≤πø¶ˆµ²µ™™¶•·°‡�¹‚∏ª•¶¥µº•ªµ•¶ª¥µº°·¯ÍÅ”ÆÚš’¿“‘¬÷
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;!@#!@#!::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


older shtufff ...

•may events upcoming! ... riviera gallery ... luggage store ... acuna hansen (with tao urban + wayne grim + ??) ... fun times !
•also ... new audio releases out soon and the beginning of a public recording project at laney flea market with lisa mezzacappa and literally anyone else willing or inspired to perform ...

•april 16 - easter sunday - sixth annual byobw - big wheel race down lombard st - sf 4 pm
•march 23 - riviera gallery - williamsburg - opening of 'STRIP CLUB' - with matt blake and enis sefersah
•march 24 through 29 - live performance daily from 3 to 7 pm in riviera gallery
•march 30 - drumming for the (moe!kestra) with moe! staiano and many others - the stone, nyc
•april 2 - thingamajigs - koendori - tokyo
•april 5 - IN-F - tokyo -
•may 4 - luggage store - an alan so / mediate event - 'Surround Sound' - with albert ortega
•june 6 - FESTEVIL - kicks off at 6:06:06 pm - write me if you want to participate - drone / harsh noise / out / speed / death / black / metal / etc! - sonic event in honor of the actual date of the event .... the most evil of all dates 666 - fun!
•august 7 through 13 - ISEA / ZERO ONE - san jose - neighborhood public radio in the Haus

and to recent live sets music.. solo laptop set performing vendetta retreat by me and a performance of the shortened vr score by Wayne Grim, Joe Goldring, Suki O'Kane, Joe Burns, Lee Montgomery, and me
-------<<<<<<<<<<=======+++++++++\///////\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////++++++++=====>>>>>>>>>>>>>>---------------
maybe this stuff should stay here, don't know yet!

ART / PERFORMANCE BIO

Jon Brumit creates hybrid projects fusing community, entrepreneurial, and site-based strategies with improvisation, performance, humor, failure, and sound. Recent solo projects include Vendetta Retreat, a walk-in revenge clinic with accompanying soundtrack composed for the waiting room, and Door To Door, an attempt to co-opt sales strategies for the purpose of generosity, spontaneity, cultural research, and the presentation of conceptual art directly to the minds of an unsuspecting public. Select collaborative projects include Neighborhood Public Radio, Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, Van Boven, Tote Oma, and The New Bobby Sextet. His previous audio CD release was made entirely with garbage during a residency at the San Francisco Dump and BYOBW, his annual race event down SF's historic Lombard Street on plastic children's toys, is now in its sixth year of observance as a free community event with hand-made prizes.

His experiments vary widely - ranging from sculptures to live-art installations to laptop performances - and focus on simultanaeity, raw creativity, alternatives for cultural production or dissemination, abstraction, fear, consumerism, and mobility. His Vendetta Retreat audio CD was originally written both as the waiting room music for his revenge clinic and as a graphic score for three rock bands and an electronics duo. His performances have included competitive events, personalized drum solos over the phone or on his face, psuedo-corporate activities with "personalized tours" of the office, conductions of audience members in the creation of improvisational sound art using things frequently carried, and traffic conduction over a singing bridge to create an abstract rendition of "The Chattanooga Choo Choo".

He has exhibited, performed, and presented his solo and collaborative works internationally at spaces including Southern Exposure, SF MoMA, Novi Sad Contemporary Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sony Metreon, Berlin's Arena, Flux Factory, Detroit Art Space, B92 Rex Center, and Cranbrook Museum of Art. Likewise, his solo and collaborative works have been featured in international press in Artforum, Discovery Channel International, Wired, the SF Chronicle, both NPRs, ABC, NBC, CBS, and WGN Chicago, among others. He has performed in festivals including Thingamajigs, Version>5, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, and EXIT Festival in Serbia.

More about his work at www.jonbrumit.com

I typically rely on found objects and performance sites to inform my creative production. As often as possible I incorporate chance and random happenings into my performances as an integral part of the work. I create experimental acts or works that employ interaction, observation, activism, empiricism, and bestowal. I work within a variety of contexts, each affording its own inherent qualities which I seek to amplify and employ in order to engage or better connect people with their environment and their experience of choice / chance encounters.

My installations, sculptures, and sound works utilize elements of set design, environmental graphics, looping, field recordings, found objects, and performance to create multi-layered interactive encounters. The performances vascillate between musical concerts, experimental marketing, and product demonstrations and are predominately based on social interaction incorporating humor, absurdity, and futility. Regarding public performance, I entertain and engage the general public and freely give of myself, my creativity, and my enthusiasm. Extensive, albeit unconventional, use of ordinary objects helps more easily present concepts and ideas to a wary and oversaturated public. In doing so, a direct and unmediated experience is achieved which is quite refreshing and different than that obtainable within a gallery context, or that which is currently available on any mass media outlet.



ALTERNATE BIO

Jon Brumit, a Chattanooga, Tennessee native, relocated to the Bay Area after completing graduate studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he recieved his second degree in painting.  His mother is an artist, the director of Hamilton County 9-1-1, and mother of three, his father a collector and entrepreneur after retiring from 22 years in US Military Service.  Jon grew up playing and listening to death metal and punk rock, running from police for skateboarding, playing in various bands and touring and recording on the east coast.

His earliest activities included building humane rabbit traps, racing wagons, single-handedly assembling his first new bike at age eight, driving a tractor, shooting at birds, and mowing grass.  In the in the third grade he completed a life-size model of a Buck Rogers Flight Craft cockpit, and in the seventh grade he was awarded a second place science fair ribbon for his experimentation with types of music found to be most conducive for plant growth.  His earliest dreams of adulthood were to be a race car driver and an inventor.  His first art class was as a senior at his second of three different high schools, where he learned to make chains from construction paper.  During his second art class he created videos with a Pixl Vision camera and conducted recreational cough syrup experiments on himself.

He is the creator of such events and projects as Mobile Backyard- a conversation-starter consisting of a fastidiously maintained lawn in the bed of his truck, Bring Your Own Big Wheel- a race down historic Lombard Street, and a recording project at The San Francisco Dump using entirely found and salvaged objects and instruments culminating in a night of performance and CD.  He is also the creator of objects or products such as the Meat Hat and theTypewriter Piano.

©2003-2007 JON BRUMIT - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - CONTACT FOR TERMS OF USE


-----
ancient history, so last year, so paint-splattered macy's jeans ....

JANUARY 5 - 10TH ... 'GHOSTTOWN' - sam gould invited all of us
NPR folks to BROADCAST DURING the RED 76 GHOST TOWN PROJECT!
PORTLAND, OR

JAN 13 (FRIDAY) ...POET'S THEATER JAMBOREE
CCA - TIMKIN (TIMKEN?) 7:30 PM
California College of the Arts, Timkin Lecture Hall
I WILL PERFORM WITH THE TYPEWRITER PIANO
BRING A PO-EMM OR SHORT WRITTEN WORK OF SOME SORT TO BE PLAYED!
COME LISTEN TO THE BEAUTIFUL AGONIZING SOUNDS FROM WITHIN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

JAN 20 (FRIDAY!) ...'SPLIT LIP' - 8 PM
MAMA BUZZ
SPLIT LIP FEATURES SUKI O'KANE, LUCIO MENEGON, WAYNE GRIM, & ME!
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST JOE RUT!
OAKLAND, CA

blah blah recording in the studio! blah blah construction again! blah blah listening to the same 3 cassettes over and over blah blah my house warms back up blah blah existential crisis number 41,289 and 1/3rd about whether or not to settle down and focus up in the studio as they say blah blah i realize again i shouldn't blah blah hugs and

MARCH - VAN BOVEN CD RELEASE!
THE RETURN OF THE NEVER GONE DUO WITH WAYNE GRIM

MARCH 23 - OPENING OF MY ALTERNATIVE STRIP CLUB
BASED ON A COLLABORATIVE SCULPTURE BY MATT BLAKE AND ENIS SEFERSAH ON DISPLAY IN THE GALLERY,
THE STRIP CLUB WILL FEATURE PRIVATE VIEWINGS WITH LIVE MUSIC, OPPORTUNITIES TO SPONSOR A FACET OF A GREAT WORK OF ART, AND MORE!
RIVIERA GALLERY - BROOKLYN, NY

APRIL 2 - PACIFIC EXCHANGE CONCERT SERIES
SPONSORED BY THE DEEP LISTENING INSTITUTE
TOKYO, JAPAN

JULY - NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC RADIO MEETS FSK RADIO MEETS THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES OF HAMBURG!

AUGUST - ISEA 2006 - SAN JOSE - NPR HAS BEEN AWARDED A COMMUNITY DOMAIN COMMISSION! TUNE IN!

---
•THURSDAY NOV 3 - IMPROV LOTTO AT THE LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY, 8 PM
•TUESDAY NOV 8 - DEBUT OF 'JEMIS KRISP' (RELIGIOUS CANDY BAR) at ATA, Artists' Television Access, 6 PM
•SUNDAY NOV 20 - 'SPLIT LIP' (2 DRUMS (SUKI & ME) + 2 GUITs(WAYNE & LUCIO)) AT OLD IRONSIDES IN SACRAMENTO, 8 PM
•WEDNESDAY NOV 30 - LIVE PERFORMANCE AT THE PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, 7:30 PM
•FRIDAY DEC 9 - 'SPLIT LIP' AT THE STARRY PLOUGH IN BERKELEY
•HOLIDAY AUCTIONS / BENEFITS / !? AT LANGTON, ATA, RICHMOND ART CENTER, AND WORKS/SJ?? ART!!

•JAN 12 2006 - - - VENDETTA RETREAT CD RELEASE EVENT 8 - 10 PM, LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY, SF, MORE SONIC LOVE THAN YOU CAN HANDLE - - - A RELEASE EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!!

•JAN / FEB 2006 - "Soundwave>Series Season 2: Surround Sound" - the LIGHT ROCK becomes interactive! - Luggage Store
---
•Sept 10th - noon - I'll be the "MC" for Shane Montgomery's Yellow Car Parade - 49th and Telegraph - Oakland
•September 10 - 8pm - Illuminated Corridor - Downtown Oakland, with Lucio Menegon & Cinepimps
•Sept 23 & 24th - BLACK MARKET AUCTION, Independent School of Art - Hayes Valley Market
•Nov - solo exhibit - "VENDETTA RETREAT" (walk-in revenge clinic - version 2) at the SMALLEST gallery in SF -
•Nov / Dec - 2005 - "VENDETTA RETREAT" CD release - Edgetone Records (EDT4031)
•Fall 2005 - NW and SW tour - CD release - Vendetta Retreat soundtrack
•Late 2005 - Van Boven's "IED" CD release on Edgetone Records (EDT4029)

---
•July / August - solo exhibit of "VENDETTA RETREAT" - walk-in revenge clinic - Space 538 - Portland, Maine
•June / July - Eastern and Western European tour with Neighborhood Public Radio - see KUDA.ORG
•April - Thingamajigs Festival - debut of two newly-made instruments - with Wayne Grim - Oakland Metro
•July - Audience Conduction - during the NPR / Summer University broadcast at the Novi Sad Contemporary Museum
•July - EXIT Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. Barcelona Stage - 2005
•Summer / Fall - CORNJAM / COMPUTERMUSIC tour -
•Sliv & Dulet's "Sculpture Party at your House" performances commenced mid 2005

©1997 - 2006 JON BRUMIT - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - CONTACT FOR TERMS OF USE