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[ironflame] ROBERT X. PATRIOT / EZH - Split-7" OUT NOW! => LISTEN!

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:17:00 +0000

After the ultra-limited luxurious hand-made collectors edition of the GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA EP 'Vom Nachteil geboren zu sein“, IRONFLAME is now proud to present the second volume in their RE-DOKUMENT SERIES:

=== ROBERT X. PATRIOT / EZH

=== (DELUXE COLLECTORS EDITION PACK:

7"Single in gold, silver or green vinyl, hand-numbered & strictly limited to 111 copies each.

special 6mm-spine colour cardboard jacket with metallic printer's colors

incl. Poster, 2 postcards, 2 buttons, 3 stickers & Insert)

comes in crystal clear original japanese protective vinyl sleeve with re-sealable flap

=== IRONFLAME [IF//RE002/S]

[A] ROBERT X. PATRIOT: a collaborator of The Electric Hellfire Club, Boyd Rice and Warcom, ROBERT X. PATRIOT made quite a name for himself in the mid nineties by appearing on such cult samplers as 'How Terrorists Kill', 'Men and Mice' and 'Psychick Wolves ov Midgard'. Not to mention his own infamous and much sought-after 'Dogs Leg Rising' album, a rather tongue-in-cheek „tribute“ to the World-Serpent-Family, as such titles as 'Freya Aswynn's Basement', 'Hitler in Khakis', 'Ou est Klaus Nomi', or 'Vichy Toast Sunrise' clearly suggest.

But the best kept secret about ROBERT X. PATRIOT probably is his long-burning passion for the synth pop of the early 80s: think Ultravox, Duran Duran and all the heroes of the Electronic New Wave movement. A genre he will be associated with forever after the release of this single… Then not only is 'Gold, Silver, Green' clearly destined to become an all-time hit, it is also and without exaggeration or self-indulgence a true HYMN which will soon find its place on every playlist of every party, every webradio and every podcast of the ever-growing Minimal-Synth- / Electronic-New-Wave scene!

LISTEN to 'Gold Silver Green': http://sn.im/25h4xh

[A] EZH: known in the Hamburger underground of the late eighties as the editor of bad taste / nonPC / music fanzine “I.d.A.f.”, EZH has been active since the early nineties as a DJ for Electro, New Wave and Post-Industrial and made quite a stir in 2000 with his 9:30mins long technoid monster 'Slumber' (only available as a DJ-Promo at the time). Ironflame now releases a brand new single-edit of this track, remixed by none other than Berlin Italo-/Electro-/NewWave-eminence DJ Hanoben (cultheroes.com).

And by the way: the careful liner-notes reader will be surprised to discover which celebrity deserves credit for the lyrics and vocals of this dark techno/industrial hybrid :)

LISTEN to 'Slumber': http://sn.im/25h5cx

Direct purchase via <order@ironflame.de> as well as from selected shops and mailorders

Wholesale requests welcome!

P.S.:

still available - few remaining copies of past releases:

- v/a: 'Statement 1961' - 2LP+7"EP+CD+Book

http://sn.im/1c5ebn

- à;GRUMH...: 'Unclean/Discipline (A tribute to Throbbing Gristle/Psychick TV)' - 7"EP+inserts

http://sn.im/1c5epz

- Gerechtigkeits Liga: 'Vom Nachteil geboren zu sein' - 7"EP+inserts

http://sn.im/1c5ebn

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HzCollective + Holy Smokes copresent: GREG DAVIS & BEN VIDA w/ Myceum & Jackfruit Experiment, 9/12

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Event link for more details

Facebook Event page

:-:-: HOLY SMOKES AND HZ COLLECTIVE PRESENT :-:-:

The Tea Bazaar will specially open it's doors on Sunday the Twelfth, for a visit by a couple of the experimental music's finest, as they manipulate analog synths to pleasing effect. With special guests Myceum and Jackfruit Experiment.

Tickets available at http://www.holysmokesbooking.com/.
...

:-: GREG DAVIS & BEN VIDA :-:
Greg Davis is a musician from Vermont who creates lush, textured soundscapes using a wide range of acoustic and analog instruments, as well as samples from field recordings.

Chicagoan Ben Vida is perhaps better known for his work with the bands Town & Country, Joan of Arc, and has written and recorded for years under the name 'Bird Show'.

:-: MYCEUM :-:
Gorgeous ambient sound sculptures by Mr. Scott Ritchie.

:-: JACKFRUIT EXPERIMENT :-:
Members of The Grapefruit Experiment, Dzian!, Pinko Communoids, etc. offer up this variation on the theme (which is creating fascinating sounds in astounding ways).

Show Review: HzCollective members at Strange Matter

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:53:00 +0000

Kenny Yates, Wendy Hsu, and Carey Sargent played as Grapefruit Experiment (GFX) at Strange Matter on August 25, 2010, along with a number of other really fun bands. RVA magazine did a review of the show. Here's a highlight:

"For The Grapefruit Experiment, though, this was the desired effect, and it mingled well with the deliberately arrhythmic percussion and oscillating bursts of treated noise. It wasn't a conventionally musical set by any means, but nonetheless The Grapefruit Experiment gave a fascinating performance."

Read the entire article: http://rvamag.com/articles/full/8891/show-review-purple-rhinestone-eagle-the-catnip-dreams-etc

The Friction Brothers, KAMAMA, and Benjamin O’Brien

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:23:00 +0000

Hz Collective presents The Friction Brothers, KAMAMA, and Benjamin O’Brien

Saturday, June 26, 2010
8pm
$5
The Bridge PAI
209 Monitcello Rd.
Charlottesville, VA

The Friction Brothers (Michael Colligan, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang) are perhaps the only dry-ice/cello/percussion trio in the visible world. Begun in 2005 to perform improvised works that explore their love of scraping, rubbing, hitting and freezing various objects to the point of vibration, they have appeared at a number of questionable venues in Chicago. While often sounding like electronic music, they make all their sounds mechanically. To produce these sounds each member has developed an expansive vocabulary of extended techniques. Zerang has raised the back scratcher to an essential component of the modern drummers stick collection. Colligan, warms up metal objects and the super cools them on a block of dry ice making them vibrate in the audible range. Lonberg-Holm’s grind tone remains an unexplainable phenomena by acousticians.

Although the trio is a relatively new group, the members have worked together extensively for over 15 years in a wide variety of settings from the seminal lower case 4tet Pillow to the internationally known free improvised jazz powerhouse Peter Broetzmann’s Chicago 10tet.
Their first CD was released by the Sort Of Records imprint Abstract On Black. They are currently working on a second release due out on the Flying Aspidistra label in June to coincide with their first North American tour.

Fred Lonberg-Holm currently lives in Chicago where he works with a wide variety of musicians in as many situations as possible. Current and ongoing projects include the Valentine Trio (with Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly), the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, Frame Quartet and Vandermark 5, Joe Mcphee’s Survival Unit III (with Michael Zerang), Friction Brothers (Colligan, Lonberg-Holm and Zerang), The Boxhead Ensemble, Horses Ha (Janet Bean and Jim Elkington), Flatlands Collective (w/Jorrit Dykstra), Tony Malaby’s Cello Trio, Vox-Arcana, Sherpa, Keefe Jacksons Fast Citizen’s as well as numeorous one off ad-hoc groups. Improvisors he has worked with include Clare Cooper, Charlotte Hug, Andrea Neumann, Shelly Hirsch, Carrie Shull, Carrie Biolo, Birgitte Uhler, Rachel Wadham, Mary Halvorson, Joelle Leandre, Joanne Powers, Zeena Parkins, Judy Dunaway, Lotte Anker as well as a number of guys. He also leads a revolving cast large ensembles under the name Lightbox Orchestra. He has studied composition with Morton Feldman, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Bunita Marcus and Noah Creshevsky and cello with Orlando Cole and Ardyth Alton.

Michael Zerang was born in Chicago, Illinois and is a first generation American of Assyrian decent. He has been a professional musician, composer, and producer since 1976, focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms. He has collaborated extensively with contemporary theater, dance, and other multidisciplinary forms and has received three Joseph Jefferson Awards for Original Music Composition in Theater, in 1996, 1998, and 2000. He has over sixty titles in his discography and has toured nationally and internationally since 1981 with and ever-widening pool of collaborators. He was the artistic director of the Link’s Hall Performance Series from 1985-1989 where he produced over 300 concerts of jazz, traditional ethnic folk music, electronic music, and other forms of forward thinking music. He continued to produce concerts at Cafe Urbus Orbis from 1994-1996, and at his own space, The Candlestick Maker in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood, from 2001 – 2005. He has taught as a guest artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance technique, sound design, and sound/music as it relates to puppetry; rhythmic analysis for dancers at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Northwestern University, and MoMing Dance and Arts Center; courses in Composer – Choreographer Collaborations at Northwestern University; music to children at The Jane Adams Hull House. He has held workshops in improvisational music and percussion technique and teaches private lessons in rhythmic analysis, music composition, and percussion technique.

Michael Colligan uses dry ice as an instrument. He made the discovery you could make sound with dry ice while working his first job at Baskin Robbins as a scooper. He has also played various homemade and traditional reed instruments. Past and current projects include Math ( Mr. Quintron, Monotrona), The Flying Luttenbachers (Weasel Walter, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kurt Johnson), Pillow ( Liz Payne, Ben Vida, Fred Lonberg-Holm), Corine (Kevin Drumm, Matt Weston), Friction Brothers (Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang), and other fleeting groups. He has improvised with numerous people over the years including Taku Sugimoto, Ken Vandermark, Rhodri Davies, Hamid Drake, Frank Rosaly, John Butcher, Carrie Biolo, Jim O’Rourke, Jeb Bishop, Phill Niblock, Radu Malfatti, Sean Meehan, Sarah Washington, Jeff Parker, and many others. He was a host for the Improvised Music Workshop at Myopic Books in Chicago for many years, and currently resides in that city.
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KAMAMA is Luca Marini (drums/percussion) and Audrey Chen (cello/voice/electronics)
kamama in cherokee means both elephant and butterfly. there is no overlap in meaning other than the supposed resemblance of the long trunk and flapping ears to the proboscis and wings of that insect. this duo loosely embodies elements of this kind of disparate pairing. chen and marini combine the raw energies resultant from and continuously growing out of their respective histories and experiences. since their first encounter early this year in 2010, they have been forming a new language which steadily deepens, evolves, converges and exposes their inherent similarities and striking differences. it is ecstatic music. it is contrary music. and at times, they depart completely from one another as two distinct creatures, but then are drawn back into the fold of an undeniable tenderness and comprehension.
— for sound go to: www.myspace.com/audreychen

AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic.
Now, using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of a homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.

Recently, her primary focus has been her SOLO project but she is also involved in many various collaborations. Among musicians, she has worked with Phil Minton, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ko Ishikawa, Elliott Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, Frederic Blondy, Jerome Noetinger, C. Spencer Yeh, Alessandro Bosetti, Mats Gustafsson, Mazen Kerbaj, Michael Zerang, Tatsuya Nakatani, Le Quan Ninh, Joe Mcphee, Susan Alcorn, Michele Doneda, Paolo Angeli, Gianni Gebbia, plus many more. Some current projects include: duos with Phil Minton, Luca Marini (kamama), Frederic Blondy, Robert van Heumen (abattoir), Katt Hernandez (Isabel), Nate Wooley (heave and shudder), and Id M Theft Able. Trio with Nate Wooley and C. Spencer Yeh. Plus three new quartet projects with Jeff Carey/Morten J. Olsen/Raed Yassin, Miya Masaoka/Hans Grusel/Kenta Nagai and also with Frederic Blondy/Michael Johnsen/Jerome Noetinger.

Chen has performed in Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Canada and the USA. She is currently based in Baltimore, MD USA but primarily maintains an active touring schedule throughout Europe.
www.myspace.com/audreychen

LUCA MARINI (1982) is a German/Italian drummer who mostly grew up in France and is now based in New York (USA). After studying jazz and improvised music at various conservatories and music colleges in Europe and North America he developed his own language and approach to percussion while living in Berlin (D).

He performed and toured in Europe and North America playing improvised music, jazz, rock and electronic music with bands and artists like the GRIPI collective, SONIDO13, INEZEBA, Spyros Manesis trio, Nicolas Masson, Roberto Pianca, Tom Blancarte, Dario Fariello, Matan Gov Ari, Louise D.E. Jensen, Johannes Lauer, Raoul van der Weide, Wanja Slavin, Filippo Giuffré, Gael Navard, Natalio Sued etc…

Current bands include the duo HERBERT ECKARDT with Danish saxophonist Louise D.E. Jensen, the duo BLIN with Dutch guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, KAMAMA with Chinese-American cellist and vocalist Audrey Chen, CAVEX from Brooklyn, The LITTLE from Germany and TATUNE from France.

Other collaborations include works with Matt Meade, Kenny Warren, Tom Blancarte, Xavier Lopez, Vilijam Nybacka, John Stanesco, JMSU, Frans van der Hoeven etc …
www.myspace.com/lucamarini
Benjamin O'Brien

Benjamin O’Brien is a composer and performer. His compositions are
inspired by the polarity of chance and certainty that, although are
inherently antagonistic in principle, can be adeptly manipulated to
form a cohesive musical expression. Specifically, he is interested in
composing works which are finite with respect to the sound sources and
transformation procedures, but indeterminate in their performance of
such operations. Benjamin writes both acoustic and
electro-acoustic/computer music (Max/MSP, SuperCollider), and performs
regularly with Vanessa & Her Many Moons, League of Art Game Composers
(LAG), The Sexy Ultimatum All-Star Society, and Moby & The Dicks. His
compositions have been performed in the US, France, Italy, Scotland,
Portugal, and New Zealand.

Benjamin recently received his Masters of Arts in Music Composition
from Mills College. He studied composition and improvisation with Fred
Frith and Roscoe Mitchell, electro-acoustic/computer music with John
Bischoff and Chris Brown, and tonal and post-tonal theory with David
Bernstein.

Benjamin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University
of Virginia in May 2006, though his musical talents and passion were
present even then. As an undergraduate student, Benjamin explored jazz
guitar and improvisation with John D’Earth and Michael Rosensky, as
well as Post-Tonal orchestration and computer music with Ted Coffey.

In Fall 2010 Benjamin will begin course work at the University of
Florida for a Ph.D in Music Composition.

Free Speech for Richmond's May Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:32:00 +0000

Richmond May Day Organizing Committee has sent you an invitation to sign the petition "Free Speech for Richmond's May Day!" on Change.org.

Click the link below to view the petition.
http://www.change.org/richmond_may_day_organizing_committee/petitions/view/free_speech_for_richmonds_may_day

RVA///HzCollective Presents: Ignaz Schick. Keenan Lawler & Myo

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:41:00 +0000

HzCollective Presents: an evening of experimental and improvised music

Sunday April 18, 2010
Ghost Print Gallery
228 W. Broad St.
8:00pm [SHARP]
$3 donation

::::Ignaz Schick [ http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick ] //// Germany

::::Myo [ http://myosound.com ] //// Baltimore
::::R Keenan Lawler [ http://www.myspace.com/rkeenanlawler ] //// Louisville Kentucky

/////Artiste Biographies!

::::Myo

"Myo is the solo project of Cory O'Brien (b. 1980), a self taught hacker, computer musician and electro-acoustic improviser. Contact mics on polycarbonate sheets and feedback networks programmed in Pd and Max/MSP are the preferred tools. His music has been described by Vital Weekly as "louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound". Other projects and collaborations include Never Work (with Kenneth Yates), Makioki Sisters (with Jeff Surak) and Clouds-Out (with video artist Jesse Hartgraves). He currently lives and works in Washington, DC."

:::::R Keenan Lawler

is a Louisville Kentucky based musician,sound artist, improviser and composer.For nearly thirty years he has been a restless explorer of sound from rock to electro- acoustic improvisation and many points in between. Since the late nineties he is best known for developing a highly idiosyncratic difficult to categorize language on the metal bodied resonator guitar fueled by minimalism,blues,asian and african musics,ancient and modern classical, psychedelia and jazz. Lawler is known for solo performances and recordings and also as a collaborator and perfomer working with a diverse range of like-minded artists among them: Matmos, Rhys Chatham ensembles, Charlambides, Pelt, My Morning Jacket, Tatsuya Nakatani,Paul K and the Weathermen,Connor Bell, Mike Tamburo and the Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge,David Watson, Helena Espvall,Lukas Ligeti, Ut Gret, Ignaz Schick, John Butcher, Christian Kiefer and Jon Mueller. Lawler's music can be found on such labels as Important,Tompkins Square,New American Folk Hero, Music Fellowship, Rebis, Eclipse and Table of the Elements who released the acclaimed,"Music for the Bluegrass States". He performs live regularly and has participated in such festivals as High Zero,Fantastic Voyagers,Time of Rivers,Transmissions,Greetings Fellow Pickers,Terrastock 7 and Table of the Elements Bohrium. His sound art has been presented in PS1 Brooklyn,Henry Art Seattle.and in Louisville via collaboration with artists Thaniel Ion Lee ,Valerie Fuchs and Russell Hulsey.

:::::IGNAZ SCHICK (BERLIN)

In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.

Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called "Berlin Nouvelle Vague" and the blossoming "real time music" scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, ...) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls "rotating surfaces". Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.

Besides his favorite setting - the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Chris Abrahams (AUS), Andrea Belfi (I), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Sven Ake Johansson (S/D), Andrea Neumann (D), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Marcel Türkowsky (D) or Sabine Vogel (D) - he is member and founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex, Snake Figures Arkestra, Phosphor, Blind Snakes, Tree People, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective, N.I.E., ....

He has collaborated with numerous international artists (most notably Don Cherry & Charlemagne Palestine) and toured and performed clubs & festivals all over Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine & the USA. He released many albums on labels like Zarek, Edition Zangi, edition x, Irrah, Potlatch, Bad Alchemy, Charhizma, Staalplaat, Nexsound, Non Visual Objects, Improvised Music From Japan, Absinth or Ambiances Magnetiques and he was part of radio/television broadcasts and productions on Arte, ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeitton, BR2, DLR, DLF, WDR3, DRS2, SR, HR, Radio Copernicus, CBC Canada, (...)

Furthermore he has been curating festivals of experimental music from the early 90s onwards (FAM, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts & T.I.T.O., ...) and has been realizing with increasing intensiry sound installations and conceptual works since 2005.

HzCollective Represents at Center of the Study of the End of Things (CSET)

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:24:00 +0000

When the Snowpocalypse hit central Virginia, our plans for an 8-piece improv ensemble representing the HzCollective fell through at the Center of the Study of the End of Things‘ Symposium Opening. The storm left no drivable conditions for our HzCollective mates – including Kenny Yates, Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts of Pilotone – to join us for the performance from Richmond. Grapefruit Experiment and our friend Erik DeLuca decided to go ahead with the gig as a trio. To echo the apocalyptic theme of the “the end of things,” we carried minimal gear in our backpacks and trekked in the snow maxing out our creative and physical ends. Read more here.

HzCollective is mentioned in an article published in Inform magazine.

April 17th Ignaz Schick, R Keenan Lawler, Myo

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:30:00 +0000

HzCollective presents

Ignaz Schick - turntables (Berlin)

R Keenan Lawler resonator guitar (Louisville)

Myo contact mics, polycarbonate sheets, feedback networks (Washington D.C.)

8 PM

Saturday April 17th

The Bridge

209 Monticello Road

$5 suggested donation

IGNAZ SCHICK & KEENAN LAWLER met for the first time about 10 years ago in Louisville, KY when Keenan set up a show for Perlonex

during their legendary X-Noise tour in 2001. At the time they had a chance to rehearse and record and found that they share the same approach towards drone music which is deeply rooted in noise and electro-acoustic music but also encourages subtle folk elements.

Since the first meeting they had been trying to record & perform which until this tour failed for several times due to logistic problems.

So they will use the chance and record all 10 live concerts and they will go to mix and edit the material directly after the tour in Louisville.

IGNAZ SCHICK (BERLIN)

http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick

http://www.zangimusic.de

http://tito.zangimusic.de

* 1972 in Germany [turntablist, sound artist]

In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.

Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, ...) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.

Besides his favorite setting - the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Chris Abrahams (AUS), Andrea Belfi (I), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Sven Ake Johansson (S/D), Andrea Neumann (D), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Marcel Türkowsky (D) or Sabine Vogel (D) - he is member and founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex, Snake Figures Arkestra, Phosphor, Blind Snakes, Tree People, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective, N.I.E., ....

He has collaborated with numerous international artists (most notably Don Cherry & Charlemagne Palestine) and toured and performed clubs & festivals all over Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine & the USA. He released many albums on labels like Zarek, Edition Zangi, edition x, Irrah, Potlatch, Bad Alchemy, Charhizma, Staalplaat, Nexsound, Non Visual Objects, Improvised Music From Japan, Absinth or Ambiances Magnetiques and he was part of radio/television broadcasts and productions on Arte, ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeitton, BR2, DLR, DLF, WDR3, DRS2, SR, HR, Radio Copernicus, CBC Canada, (...)

Furthermore he has been curating festivals of experimental music from the early 90s onwards (FAM, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts & T.I.T.O., ...) and has been realizing with increasing intensiry sound installations and conceptual works since 2005.

R Keenan Lawler

is a Louisville Kentucky based musician,sound artist, improviser and composer.For nearly thirty years he has been a restless explorer of sound from rock to electro- acoustic improvisation and many points in between. Since the late nineties he is best known for developing a highly idiosyncratic difficult to categorize language on the metal bodied resonator guitar fueled by minimalism,blues,asian and african musics,ancient and modern classical, psychedelia and jazz. Lawler is known for solo performances and recordings and also as a collaborator and perfomer working with a diverse range of like-minded artists among them: Matmos, Rhys Chatham ensembles, Charlambides, Pelt, My Morning Jacket, Tatsuya Nakatani,Paul K and the Weathermen,Connor Bell, Mike Tamburo and the Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge,David Watson, Helena Espvall,Lukas Ligeti, Ut Gret, Ignaz Schick, John Butcher, Christian Kiefer and Jon Mueller. Lawler's music can be found on such labels as Important,Tompkins Square,New American Folk Hero, Music Fellowship, Rebis, Eclipse and Table of the Elements who released the acclaimed,"Music for the Bluegrass States". He performs live regularly and has participated in such festivals as High Zero,Fantastic Voyagers,Time of Rivers,Transmissions,Greetings Fellow Pickers,Terrastock 7 and Table of the Elements Bohrium. His sound art has been presented in PS1 Brooklyn,Henry Art Seattle.and in Louisville via collaboration with artists Thaniel Ion Lee ,Valerie Fuchs and Russell Hulsey.

http://www.myspace.com/keenanlawler

http://www.myspace.com/rkeenanlawler  Cory O'Brien/Myo

Myo is the solo project of Cory O'Brien (b. 1980), a self taught hacker, computer musician and electro-acoustic improviser. Contact mics on polycarbonate sheets and feedback networks programmed in Pd and Max/MSP are the preferred tools. His music has been described by Vital Weekly as "louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound".

Other projects and collaborations include Never Work (with Kenneth Yates), Makioki Sisters (with Jeff Surak) and Clouds-Out (with video artist Jesse Hartgraves).

He currently lives and works in Washington, DC.

http://myosound.com/

myspace.com/myo

April 10th - Gregory Whitehead, Scott Ritchie + Mark Fulton

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:26:00 +0000

Writing on Air: Adventures and Misadventures in Radiospace

this was originally scheduled for March 5th

Saturday, April 10, 2010 8pm

Gregory Whitehead

Scott Ritchie and Mark Fulton

$5 suggested donation

@the Bridge

209 Monticello Rd

Charlottesville, VA

Gregory Whitehead is an internationally renowned radiomaker and audio artist, with credits of well over one hundred radio plays, essays and acoustic adventures. His productions have won numerous major awards, including a Prix Italia for Pressures of the Unspeakable, a Prix Futura BBC Award for Shake, Rattle, Roll and Sony Gold Academy Awards for The Loneliest Road and No Background Music, featuring Sigourney Weaver. The London Daily Telegraph has reviewed his work as “extraordinarily seductive and involving”, while The Loneliest Road was hailed as “a master class of sound”.

Gregory is also a frequent performer in literary cabarets and off off theatre, and a featured guest speaker at conferences and festivals throughout the US and Europe. For his evening at The Bridge, he will present excerpts from a number of his radio essays and plays, and also perform a variety of humorous voice intermezzi and songs that celebrate the paradoxes of writing on air.

Since his work inhabits the fogbound boglands between fact and fiction, come prepared to lose track of all boundaries, as Gregory follows the head of Orpheus as it floats down the river to the Isle of Lesbos; pays a visit to the Jericho Institute, with its drak mission to weaponize the Voice of God; attends a croquet club where the end stakes are adorned with the skulls of vanquished Mohicans; interviews the performance artist
who ate and digested the unabridged Oxford Dictionary of the English Language; and convenes the first ever Bridge Screamscape Colloquium.

—

Local musicians Scott Ritchie and Mark Fulton present old science fiction radio stories while performing a live musical soundtrack. The stories are from the past and about a future that may never be, but their messages resonate with the present.

Holy Smokes and Hz Collective Present: Charlottesville Experimental Showcase, Pt II TODAY

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:49:00 +0000

Upcoming RVA Show Posters: 3/19, 4/24, 5/21

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:13:00 +0000

HzCollective Co-presents: Love4Haiti, 1/23 - a Spectacular Night of Art, Music, and Dance to Benefit for Haitians in Need

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:39:00 +0000

SPREAD THE WORD, EVERYONE!

--------------------------

Peter Traub
Wendy Hsu
love4haiti.event@gmail.com

January 18, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Love 4 Haiti: A spectacular night of art, music, and dance to raise funds for Haitians in need, January 23, 2010

(Charlottesville, VA, USA) - A team of Charlottesville's artists, musicians, and students, with the support of local food and book vendors, are coming together for an art/music benefit event to raise funds for the people of Haiti on Saturday January 23, 2010, at Random Row Books.

Love 4 Haiti will be an evening of music and art offerings from local artisans. A silent auction of art works, gift certificates, and dance lessons will begin at 5pm. A kaleidoscopic program of Charlottesville's performing talent follows, including: Fire in the Belly (bellydance), Dzian! (world surf rock), Jdavyd Williams and the Basement Bhaktis (kirtan), Natty Peeps (roots reggae), Shootin Moon (acoustic), Matt Jones (acoustic), Secretly Y'all (storytelling), and many more. Delicious food options donated by local restaurants will also be available for purchase.

All the proceeds will be donated to organizations behind the earthquake relief efforts including Partners in Health (PIH), International Rescue Committee (IRC), UNICEF, and GHESKIO. This event is co-sponsored by Random Row Books, UVa's Global Development Organization, The Bridge PAI, and HzCollective.

Love 4 Haiti
Saturday January 23, 2010
5pm - midnight
Random Row Books
315 W. Main St (Main St and McIntire Rd)
Admission $5

http://love4haiti.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260281781865

Contact: love4haiti.event@gmail.com
Wendy Hsu [wendy.f.hsu@gmail.com] | Peter Traub [ptraub@gmail.com]

Media from Charlottesville Experimental Music Showcase

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Video by David Eklund

Grapefruit Experiment with Erik DeLuca

Jonathan Zorn

Scott Ritchie

Lands of Wonder, Wilmington, NC

Center for the Study of the End of Things: Call for Performances

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:27:00 +0000

http://endofthings.org/CSET_poster.pdf

On February 5, 2010, a group of painters, sculptors, architects, writers, film makers, photographers, and musicians will hold an exhibition in a vacant building at 1017 West Main Street in Charlottesville, VA. Soon afterward, the building will be demolished.

Our curatorial goal is to assemble a coherent body of work that revolves around themes of obsolescence, weathering, and decay, as well as meditations on growth, rebirth, and the utility of discarded materials.

Drawings, paintings, architectural models, maps, diagrams, photographs, audio or video recordings, writing, sculpture, or other work that relates to the theme will be considered for inclusion.

Submissions will be accepted until January 25, 2010. See our website for the application form and additional details.

http://endofthings.org

Tim Berne to headline RVAJazzfest 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:54:00 +0000

*RVAJazz announces RVAJazzfest 2010*

*Internationally renowned saxophonist Tim Berne headlines*

RICHMOND, VA, DECEMBER 23, 2009—The second annual RVAJazzfest will take
place on February 6, 2010, and will feature saxophonist Tim Berne, who will
be performing with local band Ombak. On the heels of the successful first
RVAJazzfest in February 2009, RVAJazzfest 2010 strives to continue
developing a tradition of pairing extraordinary worldwide talent with local
Richmond-based artists.

Along with Berne & Ombak, the Adam Larrabee Trio with Randall Pharr on bass,
Brian Jones on drums, and Larrabee on guitar will perform their
interpretations of the music from Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach's
*Money Jungle* album. Kicking off the show will be the ever inventive Trio
of Justice, the group formerly known as R2Dtoo made up of Reggie Pace on
trombone, Reggie Chapman on sousaphone, and Devonne Harris on drums.

RVAJazzfest will be held at The Camel at 1621 W. Broad Street in Richmond,
VA. Music will start promptly at 9pm. Attendees are encouraged to arrive
early. Tickets will be $15 at the door, $10 in advance. More information on
purchasing tickets in advance will be available in January on RVANews.com
and RVAJazz.com.

*About TIM BERNE*

Tim Berne was born in Syracuse, New York in 1954, and was subjected to a
perfectly normal childhood. But he didn't decide to take up music until
nearly twenty years later when he was attending Lewis and Clark College in
Oregon, putting most of his energy into intramural basketball. At this
point, while resting a sore ankle in his dormitory, Berne encountered a
saxophonist who was selling his alto, and bought it on impulse. "There was
just something about the sound of the saxophone that got to me," he says.

Musically, up to that point, Berne had always been motivated by all types of
music, but especially by the great Stax artists like Sam and Dave and
Johnnie Taylor, as well as Motown artists like Martha and the Vandellas and
Gladys Knight. This passion for the soulful quality in music would follow
him for the rest of his career, a career that he could not possibly foreseen
at the time. "I hadn't listened to much jazz, but then I heard Julius
Hemphill's album Dogon A.D., and that completely turned me around. It
captured everything I liked in music. It had this Stax/R&B sensibility and
it had this other wildness. It was incredible. That's when I started
playing."

Berne moved to New York in 1974, sought Hemphill out, and entered into a
sort-of apprenticeship with the elder musician. The "lessons" they had
together lasted for hours and covered everything from composition to record
promotion to recording to pasting up handbills to aspects of magic and
spirituality and, sometimes, even playing the saxophone. "From the
beginning," Berne says, "even while I was still learning to play the
saxophone, Julius always encouraged me to write my own music as well. So it
never occurred to me that most people don't play their own music or aren't
bandleaders. I thought that was just part of it. You learn how to play
music, you start a band, and that's it. Julius didn't offer me one system,
but a lot of possibilities, with the emphasis always on ideas and sound."

Berne began issuing his own albums on his own Empire label in 1979. Over
the next five years he would record and distribute five albums under his own
name which included such musicians as Ed Schuller, Olu Dara, Paul Motian,
John Carter, Glenn Ferris and Bill Frisell. Following two recordings for
the Italian Soul Note label, Berne recorded Fulton Street
Maul and Sanctified Dreams for Columbia Records. These recordings coincided
with an increasingly active worldwide touring schedule.

In 1988 Berne began a long relationship with the JMT label with the first of
two recordings with the co-operative Miniature (with Joey Baron and Hank
Roberts). In 1989 Berne's JMT release Fractured Fairy Tales was hailed as a
masterpiece by the New York Times. Berne's JMT legacy climaxed with the
historic Paris Concerts given by his quartet bloodcount, released in three
volumes (Lowlife, Poisoned Minds and Memory Select). These recordings have
received unanimous praise. Since 1994, bloodcount has performed over 250
concerts worldwide.

In 1996 Berne once again founded his own record label, Screwgun, and
released a three CD set of live recordings by bloodcount, Unwound. Since
then, Berne continues to tour Europe extensively and record albums with new
groups under various names like Buffalo Collision, Science Friction, and Big
Satan.

*About OMBAK*

Ombak is an instrumental music quartet based in Richmond, Virginia. Formed
in 2006 by trombonist and composer Bryan Hooten, Ombak's original music
lives at the intersection of jazz, math-rock, noise, and salsa. Guitarist
Trey Pollard, bassist Cameron Ralston and drummer Brian Jones complete an
ensemble able to lock together in relentless precision or explore the outer
reaches of an improvised soundscape.

"An extraordinarily unique group, a swaggering quartet that chomps and
bellows like Albert Mangelsdorff fronting prog-rock...Slushy tailgate,
trombone multiphonics, damaged-blues fretwork and limber percussion stand
well on their own, but Ombak are a collective venture whose parallel roads
all lead to the same end, however upturned it might seem." bagatellen.com

"The playing is all snap, swing and sinew, a shotgun wedding of rock's
visceral rush with the cerebral vocabulary of jazz, with some avant-garde
speaking in tongues thrown in for good measure. The effect is bracing and
immediate." Style Weekly

"Ombak is instrumental music for the 21st century…..the meeting point of
Nirvana, Noise, Tommy Dorsey, dub and mathematics…there's a lot of nice
architecture here…. but there's plenty of party going on." Steven Bernstein

"They are a formidable set of minds and limbs, and when you rally them all
at once they can make quite a glorious noise." RVA News

Visit Ombak on the web at www.ombakmusic.com

*About ADAM LARRABEE TRIO*

Fretted string wiz Adam Larrabee has performed with many jazz greats
including Dave Holland, Jimmy Heath, Larry Goldings, Barry Harris and Hilton
Ruiz, as well as classical mandolin virtuoso Evan Marshall and banjo
phenomenon Béla Fleck. His primary touring jazz unit, The Dave Zoffer/Adam
Larrabee Duo, has been called "reminiscent of the masterful Bill Evans and
Jim Hall duets in its level of musicianship and interplay" by jazz
percussion guru Bob Moses and their album of original "chamber-jazz,"
"Courage in Closeness: Live in Boston," was voted one of the year's top-ten
albums in 2000 by the Tucson Citizen.

During his countless recordings as a sideman, he has recorded pop music with
the likes of Bruce Hornsby on the 1997 album "Spirit Trail." In the
eclectic, award-winning quartet "Andromeda" he plays Eastern European and
tango-influenced chamber-jazz on guitar, banjo and mandolin. In 2003 the
group was chosen to play for the American Repertory Theater's adaptation of
the traditional Chinese opera "Snow in June" featuring the music of
Berklee-based composer Paul Dresser. In the "Enigmatica" classical mandolin
septet he plays the mandocello and arranges works of Bach and Shostakovich
as well as traditional Brazilian "choro" pieces.

"Adam's talents boggle the mind in their range," says jazz trumpet player
Peter Kenagy.

"Fat tone and killer chops … a feel that is truly amazing," says John Heidt
of Vintage Guitar magazine.

Larrabee taught jazz theory, guitar and composition at the New England
Conservatory in Boston for nine years and is currently teaching jazz and
classical guitar at VCU in Richmond, Va. During the summer, he teaches at
the American Guitar and Mandolin Summer School and Eastern Washington
University's Jazz Dialogue Camp, in addition to giving workshops and clinics
and touring extensively throughout the U.S.

*About TRIO OF JUSTICE*

Formerly known as R2Dtoo, Trio of Justice is a new trombone-sousaphone-drum
trio made up of Reggie Pace, Reggie Chapman, and Devonne Harris. Low brass
and percussion — perhaps the two instrument families capable of the loudest
volumes and heaviest weights — are their tools, and their only ones. Their
sound is deep, and they are experts in natural-sounding grooves in the
oddest of meter combinations (that are guided by melody, not contrived
logic) and loose time feels that speed and slow to radical extremes.
Inspired equally by hip-hop, brass band traditions, and avant-garde chaos,
Trio of Justice pulls everything together into a tight package of
imaginative music.

*RVAJazz presents RVAJazzfest*
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9 pm
Tim Berne with Ombak, Adam Larrabee Trio, Trio of Justice
The Camel, 1621 W. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23220. 804-353-4901
$15, $10 in advance, all ages
Advanced sale ticket information will be available at RVANews.com

*About RVAJAZZ*

Created in December 2007 by local musician and student Dean Christesen,
RVAJazz seeks to strengthen Richmond's music community and act as an
umbrella for local jazz, improvised, and experimental music. Through a
comprehensive event calendar and original content including artist
interviews, CD and live reviews, and local news, RVAJazz is a valuable
resource for the Richmond jazz scene and an active participant of the jazz
blogosphere at large. In October 2009, RVAJazz became the jazz section of
the popular news website RVANews.com. Learn more at www.rvajazz.com

###

--
Dean Christesen
Jazz editor
RVANews.com
-----------------------
(c) 703-606-9517
(e) dean@rvanews.com
(tw) @RVAjazz

Noise From The Netherlands!

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:11:00 +0000

HzCollective Presents: an evening of experimental, ambient, field recording manipulations and improvised guitar. [ http://hzcollective.blogspot.com ]

December 22nd, 2009
@ Ghostprint Gallery
228 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
(804)317-1938
8pm SHARP
Bring Donations! No One Left Outside!

Performances Include:

::::WOUTER JASPERS (NL),
::::BRAM STADHOUDERS (NL),
::::BAS VERBEEK (NL)
::::Anduin (RVA/HzCollective/SMTG Records)

::::Wouter Jaspers
[ http://www.wouterjaspers.nl/ ]

Wouter Jaspers is a experimental musician and writer from Tilburg, The Netherlands, who currently lives in Berlin, Germany. With his roots in the metal- and punkscene, Jaspers creates dark repetitive drone music, 60's psychedelics combined with noise and fieldrecordings. He has no specific instrument he plays, but mostly performs with electro-magnetic waves, analog synthesizers and modified electric guitars.

The last couple of years he has been very productive, both in touring as in releasing music. Jaspers travels a lot for his music, which you hear back in his work. In 2007, Jaspers released the cd “Babi Yar, an exploration” as an honor to the victims of the mass murder in Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine in 1941. On his first official full-length album “Exhibition”, released in the spring of 2008, he translated field recordings he made in Ukraine, India, Poland and Germany into new compositions. For this cd he also travelled to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt and used field recordings from the radioactively infected territory around Tsjernobyl.

::::Bram Stadhouders
[ http://www.bramstadhouders.nl/index.htm ]

Bram Stadhouders was born in 1987 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He is interested in atmospheric music through improvisation and composition. He plays guitar, guitarsyntesizer and laptop.

At the moment he is a composition student at the School of Music and Technology in Utrecht. He's active in various projects, and he's very concentrated on creating his own music, through his duo with Onno Govaert, and also his larger band "bram stadhouders korps". He also makes a solo produced album every now and then.

His father being a guitar teacher and his mother a classical piano teacher, he was drowned into music since birth. He got classical guitar lessons from his dad when he became 6 years old. He received 2 classical guitar awards when he was 8 and 9.

As a kid he started playing in a rockband and a jazzband, touring through the Netherlands in the biggest venues and events, being on TV, playing with Noel Redding, the bassplayer of Jimi Hendrix, and winning important Dutch competitions. He also played with great dutch jazz musicians like Harmen Fraanje and Hein van de Geyn.

Bram Stadhouders has gained national recognition in his homecountry Netherlands. In 2008 he was chosen as a "Young VIP”, the most prestigious prize for upcoming improvisers, followed by a tour through Hollands most important stages.

::::Bas Verbeek
[ http://www.basverbeek.com/ ]

"Going to pick up the TDTBMD-guitar, mic and some other stuffs to create some minimal, dark, intense soundscapes in the USA."

Video from NanoHz No. 32: Ben O'Brien

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:11:00 +0000

Ben O'Brien on guitar & Jonathan Zorn on bass

Brandon Walsh on trumpet & Danna Thomas alto sax duet with electronic accompaniment

live concert at the Bridge PAI (CVille VA) on 11.14.09 recorded by deVIDEO

Holy Smokes and Hz Collective Present: Charlottesville Experimental Showcase, 12/16

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Holy Smokes and Hz Collective Present:

Charlottesville Experimental Showcase
@ The Bridge PAI, 209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville

December 16, 2009 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Doors Open: 7:00 - 11pm
$5

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190055579620

Charlottesville trots out it's best and weirdest avant-garde noise-makers in one eclectic all-star lineup.

In no particular order:

--- GREAT DADS ---
Invisible Hand's Adam Smith and Wade Jeffries' Jeff Simmons bring heavy, rhythmic noise, with some possible co-conspirators.

--- MYCEUM ---
Scott Ritchie sculpts dense, beautiful sonic environments.

--- RHYTHM BANDIT ---
Dylan Mulshine manipulates electronics with a definite beat.

--- JONATHAN ZORN ---
The Hz Collective co-founder and Bridge Noise Coordinator makes some noise of his own.

--- DBB PLAYS CUPS ---
David Baker Benson brings his unusual song-craft and constantly evolving live band for another completely unique performance.

--- GRAPEFRUIT EXPERIMENT ---
Bridge Music Coordinators Wendy Hsu and Carey Sargent use the Bridge as their sonic laboratory.

--- MSS. ---
Tyler Magill and Josh Krahn stretch things across different directions, making songs that are both spacey and aggressive, atmospheric and melodic.

--- LANDS OF WONDER ---
(Wilmington, NC)
Representing the world outside of Charlottesville, electonica duo 'Allison and Allister Wonderland' make playful ambient dance music (if that's not paradoxical).

7PM.
8 acts for $5.

Harm Stryker Reunion Show!

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:59:00 +0000

HzCollective Presents: NanoHz No.36

Sunday December 27, 2009
@ Ghostprint Gallery
228 W. Broad St. [next to lift coffee]
Richmond, VA 23220
804-317-1938
$DONATION$
8pm SHARP

This is Harm Stryker's first show since 2006. Harm Stryker, the founders of the now defunct 804noise Richmond Experimental Media Collective you have all forgotten or never heard of, will be reuniting for a special not to be missed event!

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie's (Kranky Records) Mark McGee will be performing under the solo moniker MAKR, and will surely bring the crunk noise lo-fi flavor and dream tones. So don't miss this shit or you'll be fucking sorry.

::::HARM STRYKER [ http://myspace.com/harmstryker ]
::::MAKR [ http://myspace.com/tokillapettybourgeoisie ]

+ SPECIAL GUEST!

NanoHz 35 - Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan, Chris Peck

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:21:00 +0000

Tristan Perich (harpsichord + electronics)

Lesley Flanigan (voice + electronics)

Chris Peck (voice + video + electronics)

HzCollective Presents NanoHz #35

Dec 11th

8 PM

$5 suggested donation

The Bridge PAI

209 Monticello Rd

Charlottesville, VA

New York artists Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan team up this Fall for a series of unique electronic music performances across the United States. Perich's duet "Dual Synthesis" (for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics) and Flanigan's "Amplifications" (for voice and speaker electronics) explore the viscerality of electronic music. Mixing primitive sounds from their own hand-constructed instruments with the harpsichord and voice, each choreographs intersections between acoustic and electric sound.

Chris Peck will join them with his Language Resistance Drills. Language Resistance Drills is a series of participatory experiences for native and non-

native English speakers aimed at “unlearning” language, developing techniques for resisting control, and hearing the spoken word as pure/meaningless sound. The Drills are a set of evolving flexible material for use in performance and installation contexts and take the form of oral instruction, video projection, printed text, and custom software for text and voice manipulation. They have been performed in churches with audiences of 100+, at rowdy bars and clubs, and in intimate living-room salons.

http://www.tristanperich.com/

http://lesleyflanigan.com/

http://www.intermittentmusic.com/Chris_Peck

New and Experimental Music Concert in Charlottesville 12/6

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:19:00 +0000

PRESS RELEASE - Please circulate widely

NEW and EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC CONCERT

Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009
Time: 7pm
Place: McGuffey Art Center, Studio 11
201 Second Street, NW
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Admission: FREE

Featuring Composers and Performers:
Bukky Awosogba
Elliott Burris
ErikDeLuca
Grapefruit Experiment
Erik Larsen
Ben Schildkraut
Sound Lab
Ilon Weeldreyer

About the Concert:
This concert features new works from students studying composition and
electronic music at UVA during the Fall 2009 semester. Please join us
for an exciting program featuring live performances, electronic
sounds, and adventurous new works.

Technosonics on tour!

noreply@blogger.com (wh) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:26:00 +0000

TECHNOSONICS X -- BUILDING

Live Arts, downtown Charlottesville

8pm, Friday, November 14, 2009

directions: 123 E Water St, Charlottesville, VA 22902-5218

The Virginia Center for Computer Music and the Program in Composition and Computer Technologies at U.Va. present an evening of experimental music, sound art and multimedia. A celebration of 10 years of the TECHNOSONICS Festival, the theme of BUILDING finds articulation and resonance in works by a diverse group of national and international composers. From sound collage formed of radio broadcasts collected round the world, to self-organizing music for networked laptopistes, to no-holds-barred musical robotics, to the life in a year of Jefferson's Rotunda. A prismatic take on BUILDING ranges from architectural to ideological space, from human communities to invented technological agents. Featured composers include Iannis Xenakis, Stephen Vitiello, Krzysztof Wolek, EMMI, and Steven Kemper -- as well as composers-in-residence Judith Shatin, Matthew Burtner and Ted Coffey.

Performances: Charlottesville, Live Arts, November 13, 8:00 PM; Richmond, MUSE, November 14, 7:00 PM; D.C., The Mead Theatre, November 15, 7:00 PM.

HzCollective Presents: Norwegian Experimental Sound & Visual

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:35:00 +0000

HzCollective Presents: an evening of experimental audio/visuals as part of an on going push to bring experimental and avant garde arts to Richmond and Charlottesville's progressive arts community.

November 25, 2009
@ Ghostprint Gallery
228 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
(804)317-1938
8pm SHARP
$3 to $5 [suggested donation]

Peformances include:

::::Caustic Castle [rva/hzcollective/804noise]
::::Sten Ove Toft [oslo, norway]
::::Jon Eriksen [new haven, norway]

About us:

Sten Ove Toft is one of the leading artists in the Norwegian noise
scene. Apart from being an active solo artist, Toft has also validated
himself through such significant projects as Ryfylke, Röyskatt,
Waffelpung and others. He's also worked with Lasse Marhaug, Anders
Hana, Stian Westerhus, Serena Maneesh and The Low Frequency In Stereo. Toft has performed over 200 concerts and has participated in over 50 releases, on labels all over the world.

http://www.myspace.com/stenovetoft
http://www.roggbif.com/toft

Swedish noise musician and visual artist Jon Eriksen has since 1999
been playing improvised sets at venues and galleries in Austria,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden, and USA. His music connects as much to harsh noise as to
extreme forms of electronica and electroacoustic music. His music has
been released on labels in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands,
Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the UK.

http://www.myspace.com/joneriksen
http://www.joneriksen.com

Caustic Castle is the solo project of Kenneth Yates b. 1978, an American experimental musician, improviser and organizer from Richmond, Virginia. Experimenting with the no-input mixing technique, Kenneth uses the equalizer controls on the mixing board to tame the frequencies and sculpt the sound while applying various effects, filters and other electronic processing. Since 2000, Kenneth has performed in several experimental projects such as Harm Stryker [2000-2007], a politically and socially charged duo with Kelly Nourse of ConstantMauk; Insects with Tits [2006-present], a no-input duo with Roger H. Smith of Chefkirk with an underlying theme of Vegan action; and Never Work[2007-present]., a duo with Baltimore electro-acoustic artist Cory O'brien of Myo.

Kenneth has also collaborated live with artists such as Wendy Hsu, Carey Sargeant, Kevin Parks, Marty McCavitt, Darius Jones, Bonnie Jones, Stian Skagen, Clifford Schwing, Eric Eaton, Scott Allison, Chuck Bettis, Mark Price, and Jason Talbot.

Noise music, like the other important abstract nouns in the history of culture, is not a term meant to be defined, but a field to be explored. Through that exploration, the nature of noise and experimental music becomes inherently political. With Caustic Castle, sometimes comes an abstract fascination with architecture and its psycho geographical effects on the human psyche, and the role it can play in ones livelihood when actions are stunted by the burdens of capitalism. Inspired by past revolutionary movements such as DaDa, Surrealism, & the Situationiste Internationale, Caustic Castle struggles to find a parallel between art, sound, and social unrest, ultimately subscribing to the idea that it's sometimes better to ask questions, than claim to have all the answers.

http://myspace.com/causticcastle

NanoHz 32 - Benjamin O'Brien

noreply@blogger.com (Hz) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Saturday, Nov. 14th

8 PM

$5 suggested donation

The Bridge PAI

209 Monticello Rd

Charlottesville, VA

Composer/performer Benjamin O’Brien will present his recent work for instrumentalists and interactive electronics with performers Danna Thomas and Brandon Walsh. In addition, he will perform with his computer instruments in improvisatory settings with members of the HzCollective.

Benjamin O’Brien

Benjamin O’Brien composes and performs both acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Specifically, he is interested in composing works which are finite with respect to the sound sources and transformation procedures, but indeterminate in their performance of such operations. Benjamin studied composition and improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, John D’Earth, Michael Rosensky, and Ted Coffey. Benjamin’s compositions have been performed in the US, France, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, and New Zealand.

http://benjamin-obrien.com/