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2007-08-01 august 2007 new music series |
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Thursday, Aug 23 2007 8:00 PM
8pm Modular Set
9pm Lumper/Splitter
Modular Set:
Sonic explorers by nature and rooted in improvisation, these multi-instrumentalists take the torch from pioneers such as This Heat, Sun Ra, Can, Nels Cline and Eric Dolphy to present the ears with a new scroll of cryptic messages. Modular Set combines it's heavy use of pedals and electronic loops with live drums, guitars, keys, unpredictable seizures of musical insight and other leaps of raw human expression. Acting much like a metal detector, the band will circle a beach for days or weeks until they find a pattern or melodic phrase that signals the beginning of their next excavation.
Lumper/Splitter is the mind meld of two 'obsessive soundhounds,' Joe Rut and Lucio Menegon. Combining their extensive experimental and improvisational experience, the Oakland, CA based duo create sonic tapestries using effects manipulation, looping, amplified objects, homemade instruments, found sound, and even some honest guitar playing - it's true! We can prove that! Check out the June 2007 Issue of Guitar Player Magazine (pg 37). Yeah, it's only a pic and caption, but at least one of us is playing a guitar.
Thursday, Aug 30 2007 8:00 PM
8:10: Ayako Kataoka & Travis Johns - field recordings & electronics
8:45: Gilles Aubrey from Berlin presents "Berlin Backyards" for field recordings, electronics & improvisation
9:30: Ben Owen (NYC)
Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist & computer musician based in
Berlin since 2002. In his sound work he uses field recordings, improvisation and generative techniques to create environmental compositions at the border of space representation and musical abstraction. His work has been released on Creative Sources, Cronica Electronica, Schraum, Conspiracy, Sound Implant and broadcasted on Frameworks (resonance.fm, London), giant Ear)) (NYC), Sound of Space (Paulo Raposo, Lisbon) and Radio Inkorrekt (Berlin). "A good example of how sounds can be intense
and physical without the use of an overwhelming volume." (A. Chessex) http://www.soundimplant.com/gilaubry/BERLIN_BACKYARDS.html
Ayako Kataoka & Travis Johns: Paraphrasing Travis' description, they'll both playing laptops in somewhat of a nifty syncronicity/field-recording/live processing-dealy. The premise is that they're both recording 30 minutes of audio at the same time, Ayako in Tokyo, Travis in Oakland - the rest is pretty straight forward - tapes to the interfaces, interfaces to Max/MSP.
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