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Jonathan Segel
Alternative / Experimental / Electronica

"I am holding a newt."

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
United States

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Last Login:  7/6/2008
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   Jonathan Segel: General Info
Member Since5/17/2005
Band Websitemagneticmotorworks.com
Band Membersarms, legs. hands. head. other parts.
Influenceswater, air. sound.
Sounds Likethings you hear.
Record LabelMagnetic
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jun 22 2008 3:00P
Red Hill Books San Francisco, California
Jun 24 2008 8:00P
Pt. Arena Theater Point Arena, California
Jun 26 2008 8:00P
House of Blues Los Angeles, California
Jun 28 2008 8:00P
The Fillmore San Francisco, California
Jun 29 2008 7:00P
The Bottom of the HIll San Francisco, California
Jul 3 2008 8:00P
Luggage Store Gallery San Francisco, California
Jul 14 2008 10:00P
The Ivy Room Albany, California
Sep 10 2008 8:00P
Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff, Arizona
Sep 12 2008 8:00P
Pioneertown Palace Pioneertown, California

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   About Jonathan Segel
cds are available at CDBABY!

information available at MAGNETIC!

320kbps Mp3s now at Amie Street

iLike Jonathan Segel

Born in Marseilles, France, grew up in Davis, California (with a year's side trip to Tucson, AZ.), went to college at UCSC in Santa Cruz, CA, studying with Gordon Mumma and Peter Elsea. In Santa Cruz he hooked up with Camper Van Beethoven, apparently for life. He moved up to San Francisco in 1989, moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to work for Dane Davis at Danetracks, a film sound post production facility, then back to Oakland in 2001, where received a Master's Degree in Music Composition at Mills College, studying with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and Joelle Leandre.

While in Santa Cruz, he played with Camper Van Beethoven, Eugene Chadbourne and various other semi-musical projects, while in SF with Sideways, Virginia Dare, Granfaloon Bus, Dieselhed and his own bands Hieronymus Firebrain which dissolved and reformed as Jack and Jill, which later led to various records of rock music under his own name. While in Los Angeles, besides doing shows with Eugene Chadbourne, he played with Clyde Wrenn (as Clyde Wrenn and the Container), with Mike Marrt's Beaumont, occaisonal shows with Mark Goodman's group, Magnet, and spent a great deal of time touring the globe with Mark Linkous' group, Sparklehorse.

Upon return to the Bay Area, Jonathan has been playing rock shows with his own eponymous band, as well as a reformed and revitalized Camper Van Beethoven. An all-new Camper Van Beethoven cd, "New Roman Times", came out in the fall of 2004, followed by much touring in the United States and Europe, which continues to this day.

In addition to this, a self-ostracization from Los Angeles and the film and music industries led Jonathan back to the world of improvisation and electronic music, and he has been performing improvised music for instruments and computer around the world for the past few years, including shows in the SF Bay Area, New York, Europe and Japan.

2003 saw the CD release of several improv collaborations with notable artists such as Fred Frith and Joelle Leandre, and with Shoko Hikage, and the first of many electronic music CDs. In 2004, after various shows as both a rock and an improvising duo with Dina Emerson, Chaos Butterfly formed and started recording and touring as well. So far several CDs of their strange brand of electronic/improv music have been produced worldwide, as well as performances in the US and Europe with many collaborators.

He has also been composing music for the Nesting Dolls Dance Company since 1992, and has composed music for Curt Haworth's Dance Company, and Maxine Moerman Dance Theater.

In 2005, the duo of Chaos Butterfly began composing and performing with the Deborah Slater Dance Theater, including the month-long run of the show "Hotel of Memories" in San Francisco in May of 2006, and Jonathan continues to work with the company providing music.

On July 7 2007 the Theatre of Yugenpresented an entire cycle of Noh plays, Jonathan played with Suki O'Kane and Allen Whitman on the music for several of the plays, and composed the music for the center play, "Dark/Silent"

Late 2007, after much Camper Van Beethoven touring with Built to Spill, Jonathan released his latest rock cd, "Honey", and is occasionally playing shows with that band.

A reprinted history and interview can be found on this blogspot by Art Into Dust


you are free to upload or download LIVE recordings of this artist at www.ARCHIVE.org's live music archive!!!

here's a new show from Sept 14 2007, opening for Built to Spill at the Henry Fonda Theatre in LA


get some other magnetic cds at CDBABY!

To find on iTunes:

Jonathan Segel: Honey

Jonathan Segel: Summerleaf

Jonathan Segel: Underwater Tigers

Jonathan Segel: Edgy Not Antsy

Jonathan Segel: non-linear accelerator

Jonathan Segel: Scissors and Paper

Jonathan Segel/Jack & Jill: Fancy Birdhouse

Jonathan Segel/Jack and Jill: Chill and Shrill

Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: Here

Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: There

Chaos Butterfly + Biggi Vinkeloe: Live at Studio Fabriken

Chaos Butterfly: threelivingthings

Chaos Butterfly: radio

Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre and Jonathan Segel: Tempted to Smile

Shoko Hikage and Jonathan Segel: Gen


or on Emusic:

Jonathan Segel: Scissors and Paper

Jonathan Segel/Jack and Jill: Chill and Shrill

Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: Here

Chaos Butterfly + Biggi Vinkeloe: Live at Studio Fabriken

Chaos Butterfly: threelivingthings


Note: i also take any donations to help fund recording:


here's some new free music.


currently many other jes and chaos butterfly videos are available at the

JES

YouTube

channel

also:

Magsatellite's Video Studio

Here's our new flash radio for Magnetic. listen away. these ones are free!


here's some iSound player of Jack and Jill's Chill and Shrill cd:


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common name misspellings include: Jonathan Segal, Jonathan Siegel, Johnathan Segel, Jonathon etc. i mean Willem Shaxepeere's name wasn't solidified til years later either....


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No More Twist!





Jul 5 2008 9:53 PM

hullo there!
Thanks for adding us!
kelly





Jul 1 2008 12:35 PM

Stayed in town an extra night to catch your show at Bottom of the Hill. Very glad I did. Your music is divine. I bought "Honey" after the show and listened to it in the car all the way home to Nevada.

--Kelly

PS: If you're keeping count, I wound up with #62 of 400. (The artwork for this CD is gorgeous.
)
Sanna





Jun 30 2008 2:18 PM

i thought you might say that.
Sanna





Jun 30 2008 1:54 PM

your eyebrows make you look distinguished, like a wise old fox, or maybe some kind of bat.
or iron man.
Erina





Jun 29 2008 7:44 PM

i CAN'T get over that show last night... ABSOLUTELY amazing... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
kelly





Jun 29 2008 2:14 AM

Hey Jonathan, you're right! Your eyebrows make you look like a serial killer! Great show tonight at the Fillmore. Come back to Tahoe soon so I don't have to drive so damn far to see you again.

Love,
--Kelly
Diana G Turner





Jun 19 2008 2:28 PM

Hi, just popped in to say I'll be seeing you all in September.
Did you finally get hold of Luis and the Artichoke project and coerce them to appear at Pi-Town. I would love to see them.
Cheers
Di
Sue Iconolodge





Jun 19 2008 1:44 PM

Hi J:
I FINALLY FINALLY will get to go to one of the (more recent) CVB shows. Cool the Catheads are opening! Seeya at the Fillmore.
Best,
Sue
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May 21 2008 8:40 AM

Dropping by to show some love and enjoy your world! Thanks for listening!
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May 18 2008 8:35 PM

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May 13 2008 9:56 AM

The 'Art into Dust' interview kills me, all your blogs do and it's strange because I remember seeing you during these various stages of yer career. The music bis sucks ! Is all I really hear from about everyone involved in it. It kills me that such talented people get little or no recognition over and over again. God these sound like our shows, shifting time slots and unknown pay, it's very frustrating.
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May 10 2008 3:45 PM

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May 7 2008 12:47 PM

I've been looking for Immy's other band, but couldn't remember what they were called - thanks.
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Apr 25 2008 10:05 PM

it's true. he is.

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Apr 24 2008 7:38 PM

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