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NEW MUSIC SERIES, EVERY THURSDAY, 8-10PM $6-10 sliding scale, no one refused for lack of funds Thursday, JulY 5 2007 Guest curated by David Lim! "imagine a hovercraft.. now imagine that hovercraft blasting through hyperspace at warp 666 and arriving at an interstellar spacecraft dance party!.. this could describe the sound created by Mincemeat or Tenspeed, a one man band from philadelphia. A true mad scientist, he uses every crayola color variety of guitar pedal to summon a dazzling array of actual wandwrought compositions (no guesswork knob noodling or hiding behind laptops here, folks). A live show can inspire a wide spectrum of mental pictures including, but not limited to: doomsday avalanche, baby robot's first steps, kegger-in-a-wind-tunnel and a synchronized swim in the primordial ooze." Cars Will Burn Cars Will Burn! is made of components that exploit the idea that electronic devices are never silent. First, we wire audio components (tape deck, samplers, and mixers) into themselves creating a feedback system, which produces a pure tone. By running this tone through components while adjusting frequency controls and overloading volume meters the pure tone is broken down into a vocabulary of clicks, washes, bursts, and swells. By running aforementioned components through multiple audio samplers, a library of sounds is built up to be drawn upon as a counterpoint against the real-time audio manipulation of the component's feedback chain. A dynamic reactionary visual system accompanies the live audio feedback stream. This visual system is manifested into four sub-systems of visual stimulants, which have the ability to exist as isolated sensations or to overlap into more complex expressions. Dave Smolen Smolen began playing music at age 10 on the trumpet for 2 years, then later switched to drums at 12. He went on to play rock music for 8 years. His interest in live processing of drums began with the use of analogue phaser and ring modulator effects. After continual practice with this minimal setup, he gradually created one that consisted of ring modulators, reverb units, equalized distortion, multi-modulation/oscillation effects, an open circuit board of a digital chorus pedal, and additionally 2 loop pedals. The electronic configuration encapsulates the original acoustic sounds produced by snare drum, firebell/assorted bells and electric sounds including feedback, removed/broken inputs,flipped effect switches and circuit bending; with new pitches, increased or decreased intensity and a newly shaped sound foundation. Each sound is either left live or looped, where they are reset at various tempos and/or enveloped in an overall reprocessed pitch. Chen Santa Maria (description coming soon) |