Electrogals

Electrogals Mix It Up at the Chapel

2012-02-23T11:23:00.001-08:00

Nonsequitur presents Electrogals performing original electronic music on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 8:00 PM as part of the ongoing Wayward Music Series in the historic Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N (at 50th St.), 4th floor. $5 - $15 sliding scale donation (cash or check only) at the door. Info: gscchapel@gmail.com, 206-789-1939.

Electrogals is a collective of women working in electronic music in various ways. This edition includes Christi Denton (Portland), Briana Marela (Olympia), and Heather Perkins (Portland) performing original recent works in a variety of electronic media.

Electrogals Festival Day 5: Evening Concert!

2011-10-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

TONIGHT - 8pm at Disjecta - is the first of our two evening concerts, and what a line-up! Heather Perkins, Briana Marela, Sylvia Hackathorn, Ayako Katoaka, Cheetah Finesse, Bonnie Miksch, Marisa Anderson and Tender Forever! Tickets are going fast, so get yours now. (Photo of Tender Forever by Sarah Cass)

Electrogals Festival Day 4: Skirts in the Studio: A History of Women Pioneers of Electronic Music

2011-10-13T15:32:00.000-07:00

It's day 4 and we're not slowing down! In addition to 6 hours of installations (12-6), tonight at 7 pm, Bonnie Miksch will lecture about the history of women in electronic music. This lecture will trace the history of women contributors to the field of electronic music within the larger frame of twentieth-century technological developments and explorations in Europe and the United States. (photo of Daphne Oram)

Electrogals Festival Day 3: How to be a be a Rock Star in 90 Minutes or Less!

2011-10-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

It's day three and there's still plenty to do! Installations (including the listening room) open at noon and run until 6. And then, at 7pm, we've got a workshop called "How to be a Rock Star in 90 Minutes or Less: Writing Music on the iPad" taught by Electrogals co-producer Christi Denton. The Portland Mac Store has generously lent Electrogals 20 iPads for this hands on workshop, and participants will have some time to write and perform their own pieces in front of the rest of the workshop!

10/17/2011 addendum: The applications on the iPads during the workshop included:

GarageBand
Oblique Strategies (no longer available on in the Apple Store)
Monle
Bjork: Biophilia
Air
Audio Palette
Balls
Bebot
Bloom HD
Euphonics - Layered Synth
Igendyn
Instant Beat Player (no longer available on in the Apple Store)
Korg IMS-20
Sounddrop
SoundScope Video Theremin (no longer available on in the Apple Store)
SoundScope Space for iPad
Spoke Groove Machine
Trope

Tools:

Midi Motion Machine
Cleartune Chromatic Tuner
TyroTuner
GuitarChords
Metronome

Instruments

PocketGuitar
Pocket Shaker
Iorgel
Drum Kit
Dulcimer

Electrogals Festival Day 2: Installations, Composer-In-Residence, Natasha Kmeto, Ableton, and the Listening Room!

2011-10-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

Today is day 2 of our festival and we're going strong! The entire festival takes place at Disjecta, and tickets are here.

The gallery will open at noon so that folks can check out the very very cool installations. We have pieces by Perri Lynch and Stephanie Loveless, and a listening room where you can listen to sound-art pieces submitted to us by amazing composers from all over the world. The listening stations are housed in vintage hair dryers (and look so cool!) In addition, (electrogals founder) Heather Perkins will be Composer-In-Residence from 3-6pm, and working on her song "Ernest Borgnine" as part of her 365.52.12 Project. The gallery will continue to be open the rest of the week (minus Heather): Installations can be viewed Tuesday - Thursday 12-6, and Friday and Saturday 12-5 (and it's free).
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Electrogals Festival Day 1: Stephanie Rearick, a Concert, and Timebanking!

2011-10-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

Today is the opening day of our week-long festival, and we have some amazing stuff lined up for you throughout the week! The entire festival takes place at Disjecta, and tickets are here.

Our opening event is tonight at 7pm, when Stephanie Rearick presents a lecture on timebanking followed by a mini-concert.

Dragging our Economy into the 21st Century - it's Women's Work!
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Meet Pamela Z - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-09T09:54:00.000-07:00

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan.
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Meet Tender Forever - performing Fri., October 14 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-08T16:00:00.000-07:00

"Tender Forever comes along in tough times. Nobody can ignore the dark places we've watched the world go in the past few years. But as divisions grows in the world, so does our ability to connect. Ours is a world exploding with communication and Tender Forever sits neatly in the center of that explosion. Lots of flights and some missed phone calls, friends here, lovers there. Missed connections and connections made. Melanie Valera's Franco-American pop project spans nationalities and leaps forward towards a world where we can close the gaps between countries, ideologies and ultimately hearts. Move closer.
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Meet Composer/Filmmaker Ayako Kataoka: film on October 14th at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-08T12:41:00.000-07:00

Ayako Kataoka is a transdisciplinary artist originally from Tokyo. Her works examine spatial and conceptual relationships between sound, visual, structured objects, and dance movements. Read more »

Meet Filmmaker Kavita Bali: film on October 15th at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

Kavita Bali is a visual poet, contemporary fine artist and filmmaker whose first book of poetry, ‘Dancing, Creative Souls’ was just released. Kavita recently shared her paintings in her Solo Art Exhibition ‘Emotional Expressionism’ in May at Village Studios & Gallery in Greenville, SC where she is a resident artist.

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Meet Filmmaker Ilima Considine: films on October 14th and 15th at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

Ilima Considine is is a trans-disciplinary artist known for fronting the electro-sex project The Sexbots and for her quirky and provocative music videos. She first appeared in the experimental pop band Childhood Friends. Read more »

Electrogals on the Radio!

2011-10-05T13:46:00.000-07:00

We've been on KBOO twice in the past week!
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Meet Installation Artist Perri Lynch for Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired

2011-10-05T11:01:00.000-07:00

Perri Lynch is a Seattle-based artist. Her work examines the relationship between human perception and sense of place. Issues of navigation, intuition, and physical proximity are key components of these investigations. Through combined techniques in sound, light, sculpture, and image, Perri explores many attributes of a place simultaneously.

Meet Christi Denton - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-04T22:06:00.000-07:00

Christi Denton is a composer/sound artist who is based in Portland except when she isn’t. She graduated from Mills College in 2000 with a degree in Music Composition and obtained a graduate certificate from the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis in France in 2004.
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Meet Heather Perkins - performing Fri., October 14 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired! (oh, and she founded Electrogals)

2011-10-04T16:55:00.000-07:00

Heather Perkins is the founder of Electrogals, and is also Sound Designer, Composer and Mad Scientist at WaterDog Studio and Land-O-Newts! Records, where she makes music and sound for love, and for a living. With a healthy balance of digital fortitude and a home-spun DIY aesthetic, she believes in music as a part of everyday life. Her "365.52.12 Project," a year-long practice of daily music making - taking place now on www.landonewts.com - reflects this.
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Meet Natasha Kmeto - giving a lecture on Abelton Live and performing Mon., October 11 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-03T23:07:00.000-07:00

Kmeto was born and raised in California, playing and touring with bands of all genres since the age of 15. She completed the Keyboard Performance program at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood and soon thereafter relocated to Portland in 2007. The move helped rekindle Natasha’s creativity and passion for music which got lost in the bustle and industry of LA.
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Meet Stephanie Rearick - giving a lecture on timebanking and performing Mon., October 10 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

Stephanie Rearick is a musician, activist and co-owner of Mother Fool's Coffeehouse in Madison Wisconsin. She founded and directs the Dane County TimeBank and from there has spun off into broader work on fixing our economy from the ground up.
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Meet La Pump - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-02T11:25:00.000-07:00

La Pump is a pop-electronic project from Portland, Oregon created in 2010. The project was born out of a life-long love for dance floor classics, a hankering for strong melodies, and a natural tendency towards cryptic metaphors.
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Meet Marisa Anderson - performing Fri., October 14 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-10-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

Marisa Anderson is a composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist living in Portland Oregon. She works solo and with others. The Golden Hour, her second solo record was released in January 2011 on Mississippi Records.
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Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired: Meet Installation Artist Stephanie Loveless

2011-09-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

Stephanie Loveless is a Montreal-born artist who works with sound, video, film and voice. She makes soft-speakers out of paper cups, performance prescriptions for audience-identified ailments, and performance pieces that attempt to channel the voices of plants, animals and musical divas.
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Meet Lovers - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-09-29T23:06:00.000-07:00

Lovers – Dark Light

Loud and proud, Portland, OR based Lovers is a band of emotional intensity and complexity. Their new album Dark Light begins with singer Carolyn Berk’s confession, “every time the music starts, I can feel my aching, shaking heart,” and from there, Lovers embark on a spiritual journey of inspired three-part harmonies, deep introspection, and next-wave humor.
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Meet Portable Morla - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-09-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

"Portable Morla produces digital torch songs to light data-rich landscapes, think of them as imaginary soundtracks for romantic indie flicks involving real-life nerds, its vignettes innocent and honest and devoid of the twee market-capturing antics that make us think of butcher knifes and bike chains.
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Meet Momilani Ramstrum - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-09-26T07:34:00.000-07:00

Momilani Ramstrum searched for a way to control the computer while doing vocal improvisation. She investigated existing real time computer control devices and concluded there were no acceptable choices. So she embarked on a journey to design and create a low cost wireless MIDI glove with embedded magnetic sensors.
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Meet Silk & Olive - performing Sat., October 15 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-09-25T09:37:00.000-07:00

"Writing music is one of the most beautifully narcissistic ways of addressing the little scenarios of our existence," muses Andy Fish, aka Silk & Olive. Haunting and nostalgic, S&O’s melodic narrative tends to be stylistically sad or seductive, lyrically dwelling in the shadowy spaces of discordance, truth and eros. Read more »

Meet Sylvia Hackathorn - performing Fri., October 14 at Electrogals 2011: Gals Gone Wired!

2011-09-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

Sylvia Hackathorn is a long time Portland folk, rock and theater composer/performer. She has created and performed extensively; beginning with her journey to Ireland in the early 1970s to learn from Irish musician Micho Russell, through the days of the punk music scene around Portland. Read more »