Joe Straub, Lucas Rodenbush aka DJ EBE, Sheila Bosco, Areni Agbabian, Eddie Gale, Wadada Leo Smith, Thomas Merácz
Current Ensembles/Projects
zBug; an industrial jazz unit based in San Francisco, CA that presents structured improvisational music sets based on the performance venue and compositional themes
along with featuring prominent video artists and musical guests on selected concert engagements.
They have also been associated with Wadada Leo Smith, Kidd Jordan, Eddie Gale, and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio.
Album Releases:
2010 - zBug Live at The Wild Beast Pavilion
2009 - Passings of A Window Sil
2007 - 3, 2, 1 ... Live, 20.09.2007 at 22:00
Bug (Moog) | EBE (DJ); an electronic Moog/DJ duet project featuring David Leikam aka Bug (Moog) and Lucas Rodenbush aka EBE (DJ) since January 2009. They have performed at the SouthBay Electronic Muzik Fest in San Jose, CA and reoccurring engagements performing world broadcasts on KZSU 90.1FM, Stanford University. Their last performance was a five hour live set on KZSU 90.1FM, Stanford University that was well received by their growing global audience including jazz trumpet legend Eddie Gale.
David Leikam and Joe Straub; A duo music project that explores the delicate fabric of structured improvisational landscapes and atmospheric composition. Meeting at the California Institute of the Arts in 2005 while both were studying music composition. In 2010, while Joe was in-residency at Maybeck Studios in Berkeley, CA, they decided to start a collaboration that continues to the present and produced a unique album consisting of structured improvisations in 2010 entitled Discovery of Systems that was realized during the afternoon sessions. They are recording a follow-up album in 2012 as Joe is currently residing back in San Francisco, California after a couple years in Berlin, Germany as well as performing concert engagements.
Album Releases:
2011-dLeikam | jStraub: Discovery of Systems
David Leikam and Eddie Gale;
an acoustic piiano and trumpet structured improvisational duet project of avant-jazz improvisation styles.
Album Releases:
2009-david Leikam . Duets: A State of I
David Leikam and Wadada Leo Smith; an acoustic piiano and trumpet structured improvisational duet project of avant-jazz improvisation styles.
Album Releases:
2009-david Leikam . Duets: A State of I
David Leikam and Areni Agbabian;
an analog synthesizer and acoustic piano/voice structured improvisational duet project that incorporates some Armenian cultural elements.
Album Releases:
2009-david Leikam . Duets: A State of I
2007-david b. leikam : a splic _ ing
David Leikam and Thomas Merácz; a largely electronic beats and analog synthesizers based duet project of avant-jazz/industrial/techno music styles.
Album Releases:
2009-david Leikam . Duets: A State of I
2007-david b. leikam : a splic _ ing
2002-Meeting Thomas & Others Along The Way... (1996-2001)
Pe-eL: David Leikam and Lorin Edwin Parker; an improvisational electronic music duet project based in the styles and fashions of the 19th century but NOT to be confused with the Steampunk genre!
[2003-present] Menschine; an industrial jazz unit that ended suddenly due to creative differences within but may return in the near future, 2012 with the debut recordings; Site Description and Excavation Procedures to be released, TBD.