Davu Seru – percussion
Milo Fine – B flat/E flat/alto clarinets
Squid Fist – percussion, voice, electronics
Bryce Beverlin II
Tim Glenn
Casey Deming
KAMAMA
Audrey Chen (Baltimore, MD) – cello, voice, electronics
Luca Marini (New York, NY) – drums, percussion
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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.
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.
For more information, sound clips and video:
here
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Luca Marini is a German/Italian drummer who mostly grew up in France and is now based in New York. 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.
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 and Natalio Sued.
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, and Frans van der Hoeven.
For more information and sound clips:
here
1st
Nathan Hanson [tenor and soprano sax]
Brian Roessler [bass]
Rajhta Ren [piano]
2nd
HeatdeatH – Andrew Broder & Tim Glenn
[guitar, electronics, percussion]
3rd
Burnsville – Chris Smalley & Brett Bullion
[guitar & elctronics]
C. Spencer Yeh
solo violin
C. (Chih-Fu) Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1975, moved to the US in 1980; studied radio/television/film at Northwestern University, and is now based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeh is active both as a solo and ensemble artist, as well as with his primary ‘organized sound’ project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh has focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics.
Justin Meyers Tone Filth Records & Tapes
modular synthesizer
Naomi Joy
solo violin
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Doors @ 9pm
$5
Jon Mueller (Milwaukee, WI)
“As an active drummer and percussionist over the past 25 years, I became increasingly focused on a physical dialog between situation and material, often bypassing standard approaches to percussion and considering the space in which that sound is presented in order to create a larger experience for those listening. My recordings have been featured in a variety of contexts, from cassette tape to MTV, and I’ve performed concerts throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe. I have worked with members of the groups Swans, Wilco, Bon Iver, and Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio, as well as being a longtime member of the group Collections of Colonies of Bees, and more recently, Volcano Choir. I’ve also collaborated with artists such as James Plotkin, Marcus Schmickler, Dan Burke, Asmus Tietchens, Lionel Marchetti, Z’EV, Jason Kahn, Jack Wright, and many others. My complete recording discography can be viewed here. I was artist-in-residence in Nijmegen, Netherlandsas part of the Brombron project, talked about my work at Weslyan University, composed music for film screenings, and held workshops for people about how to think differently about listening.”
Jaron Childs solo alto sax
Makr & Magnetic Ghost guitar & electronics
Andy Larson & Mark McGee
1st set
Milo Fine drum set (bowed cymbals)
Paul Metzger modified banjo and/or guitar, guitar, spontaneous composition generator
2nd set
Milo Fine drum set (bowed cymbals), B flat clarinet
Charles Gillett guitar
Viv Corringham voice
Elaine Evans violin
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Milo and Paul recently released a split 12″
It will be available for purchase at this show
Nero’s Neptune LP #12
Milo Fine “Concerning The Other Condition”
b/w
Paul Metzger “Spontaneous Composition Generator”
Strictly limited edition of 421 vinyl copies
Screen-printed onto wax paper sleeves, 180 gram vinyl
Distributed by Treehouse Records @ treehouserecords@gmail.com
Side Milo:
1) Moosbruger
2) Ulrich
Side Metzger
1) 18:43
’Moosbruger’ was recorded on the occasion of my first public collaboration with Paul Metzger. Before the concert, and for a number of
reasons, my thought was that, when my name was drawn for a solo, I’d be playing drum set. But, as befits the spirit of improvisation (the moment), I grabbed the B flat clarinet, and then, echoing the first time I played piano in public (1971), moved off stage to the prepared piano remains, where the two instruments conjoined. “Ulrich” is a self-contained section of a set-long {drum} solo I played at the Art of This Gallery’s Tuesday Night Improvised Music Series. ‘Moosbruger’ was recorded on March 21, 2009. ‘Ulrich’ was recorded on January 20, 2009.
–Milo Fine
I created the Spontaneous Composition Generator to produce a random series of musical actions. It is a device consisting of 37 altered music box movements mounted in a wooden painter’s box. The alterations include dampening, detuning, replacing, removing, doubling, and reversing the tines. Most of the original melody pins on the cylinders were removed. Rubber bands of various lengths and thicknesses were attached to the winding stems to facilitate a continuously variable tension. One dozen hand-wired piezo pickups are attached to output a stereo signal. The piece on this recording was created November 9, 2009 with a time of 18:43. It was specifically made as a complement to Milo’s contributions to this Nero’s Neptune LP.
–Paul Metzger
ART OF THIS AND 1419 PRESENT:
A ONE-NIGHT EXPLORATION OF SPACE, SOUND AND MOVING IMAGE
MAY 21 @ 1419 WASHINGTON AVENUE
8PM $5-10 DONATION TO ART OF THIS
WET DUB ONE
(A Non-Discussion)
An investigation of presence through a significant activation of space.
The wet dub sound will be created by Aaron Anderson, Eric Carlson, Casey Deming, and John Marks and will be achieved with the manipulation of synthesizers, cassette tape players, drum machines, amplified sound and a multi-channel video.
We invite you to come eliminate your day.
PRRTY FOOD is a multi-media performance art project. Neo-Media SoRealism.
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PARYT FOOD attempts to make sense of the chaos of our modern life. By taking stories from the headlines and heartaches of today and transplanting them to the toilet, PARTY FOOD explores our life on this island of Shit, and attempts to find meaning in the DEEP SEA and DEEP SPACE that surrounds us.
Obchod Na Korze (reminds me of Kafka and Zappa)
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT SUPPORT
THE ART OF THIS OPEN SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
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Davu Seru cello
Naomi Joy violin
Daniel Furuta cello
Elaine Evans violin
Tim Glenn & Jon Davis
Jesse Petersen & Sean Smuda guitars
Edward Schneider (alto saxophone)
Erkki Huovinen (guitar, woodwinds)
Scott Currie (alto/bari saxophone)
Aerosol Pike
Philip Mann (alto & tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, percussion)
Rick Ness (percussion, alto saxophone, multi-toned marching bugle, clarinet)
Ryan Reber (soprano saxophone, amplified cello)
Bill Lang (saxaphone)
Alden Ikeda (percussion)
Brock Thorson (bass)
Casey Deming & Mike Hallenbeck
George Cartwright & Paul Metzger
Shield Your Eyes
& Andrei Kivu Romania
Andrei Kivu is a Romanian cellist, improviser and composer who specializes in contemporary music. He is the founder of the Pro Contemporania Ensemble, the Free Sound International Ensemble and MultiSonicFest (the only festival in Romania devoted to improvisation/experimental/crossover music in Romania). Kivu is also a member of the “Harmonic Presence” foundation. He has had the privilege to study/work/play/record with great artists such as David Hykes, Marc Coppey, Sigfried Palm, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Daniel Kientzy and many others. Kivu was invited several times as a guest professor at NYU and at the “Givat Ram” Music Academy (Jerusalem, Israel) as well as to important festivals such as “Wien Modern”, “Warsaw Autumn” and the “ISCM – World Music Days”. He appears as a soloist on dozens of CDs with a wide international distribution, the most important being the collaboration with the prestigious label “Mode Records” (New York). In 2003 he received the “I.N.M.C. (International Consortium of New Music) award for Outstanding Activities as Performer, Professor and Music Organizer” (NYU, New York, U.S.A.).
Tim Kaiser
Duluth, MN
Tim Kaiser’s work is performance art, sculpture that happens in time, using electronic inventions, text, imagery, sound, actions. Kaiser has become a kind of electronic bard of his region, creating a persona of the artist as a maker of freedom, along with the idea that freedom is something you have to make personally. The history and cultures of this region, lived out through generations of Kaiser’s family, provide both raw and refined material for his mix of dark humor, formal beauty, and hellraising. -mnartists.org
Jozef Van Wissem
Holland
Jozef Van Wissem is a lute player/composer from Holland. Devoted to what he terms, “The Liberation of the Lute”, his compositions for the instrument have involved a dynamic mix of conceptual, minimalist and improvisational strategies. Over the last two decades, he has used cut and paste tactics, created palindromic compositions by playing pieces forwards and then backwards and used field recordings and free improvisation to create a sound world that is at once meditative and surprising, new and arcane. An incessant touring musician, Van Wissem’s hypnotic live shows have taken him all over the world. He has records out on Important Records, BVHaast and his own Incunabulum label and has collaborated with James Blackshaw (as ‘Brethren of the Free Spirit’), Tetuzi Akiyama, Smegma, Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart’s guitarist) and Maurizio Bianchi. Most recently he has begun playing his compositions in a trio with Robbie Lee and Che Chen called, ‘The Heresy of the Free Spirit’.
Che Chen & Robbie Lee
Brooklyn, NY
Che Chen & Robbie Lee are Brooklyn, NY based multi-instrumentalists who have been steadily and intensively developing their unique approach to free improvisation over the last several years. Using a shifting constellation of instruments that has included bass clarinets, baroque recorders, reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, flutes, saxophones, bowed and plucked strings, little drums, bells, tape machines and their voices, Che Chen and Robbie Lee create earthy, slow moving improvisations that are informed as much by the ethnic folk traditions of the world as they are by 20th century composition and improvisation. Their music places precedent in listening, attention and dynamic interaction in the moment. Chen and Lee have released an LP and several cd-r’s on their own Telegraph Harp imprint.
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