The Lost Shapes
The Lost Shapes
ABOUT THE LOST SHAPES
The Lost Shapes are a collective of seasoned Bay Area musicians interested in playing new, fresh compositions that push the envelope of modern music. The members draw from the jazz avant-garde as well as other traditions to paint with sound. The result is a creative, stimulating, and energetic soundscape.
ABOUT SAFA SHOKRAI
Safa Shokrai is inspired by visual art, architecture, and movement. They inform the color and tone of his work. He strives to create a performance experience in which the audience steps into a film, a world that has been fabricated and imagined, realized with sound and sight.
ABOUT MARK CLIFFORD
Mark Clifford is a vibraphonist, percussionist, pianist, educator, composer, and producer based in Oakland, CA. A much sought after performer and improviser, Clifford is equally involved in classical music, new music, jazz, and free improvisation. He is involved in multiple projects in the Bay Area and
around the US. In demand as a recording musician, he can be heard playing drums, piano, keyboard, and percussion on over 20 records to date and his performance experience spans worldwide.
ABOUT JASON LEVIS
The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His broad artistic scope includes jazz, contemporary improvisation, modern classical composition, and dub. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Levis has led and been a collaborator in numerous ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin, Germany and holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley.
ABOUT MAX MILLER-LORAN
Max Miller-Loran (Max Daniel) has been playing music for years. Now he's writing music. He hopes you'll listen to his music, and maybe enjoy it.
ABOUT BETH SCHENCK
Beth splits her time between performing, composing and teaching. As a saxophonist, Beth feels equally at home when playing jazz, improvised music and new chamber works. Beth’s music is deeply influenced by poetry and the natural world around her.