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Bob Bellerue
Sep 28, 2013, 1:14:06 PM9/28/13
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hi all
i hope you can come out for this thrilling show i'm producing and
performing in next weekend. see the end of the email for a list of
other events this week which are pretty awesome
as always - if you no longer want to receive these occasional emails,
please just let me know
cheers
Bb
Silent Bomb :: experimental music events at Silent Barn, produced by
the folks who bring you Ende Tymes Fest
Phill Niblock
Katherine Liberovskaya + Al Margolis + Leslie Ross
Marcia Bassett + Barry Weisblat
Bob Bellerue + Philip White + Jeff Donaldson
$7
Oct 6
8pm doors, 9pm music
Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave
J/M Myrtle Broadway
https://www.facebook.com/events/862356473851913/876496802437880/
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist intermedia artist using
music, film, photography, video and computers, and director of
Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's
barricade-hopping. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with
microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in
the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos
which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black
and white abstract images floating through time. He has been a
maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. Since
1968 Phill has put on over 1000 concerts in his loft space, including
Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jim O'Rourke.
More info: http://www.phillniblock.com/
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal and
New York. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has
produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown
at various events and venues around the world. Since 2001 her work
predominantly focuses on collaborations with composers and sound
artists notably in live video+sound performance where her live visuals
seek to create improvisatory "music" for the eyes. Frequent
collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana,
Kristin Norderval, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, David First and o.blaat
(Keiko Uenishi). Recent projects have involved: Shelley Hirsch,
Chantal Dumas, Leslie Ross, Richard Garet and Dorit Chrysler.
Concurrently she curates and organizes the Screen Compositions
evenings at Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and the OptoSonic
Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, since 2006.
More info: http://www.liberovskaya.net/
Al Margolis was an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground
through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, and is co-founder of
experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If,
Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly
spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented
composition.
More info: http://www.ifbwana.com/
Leslie Ross, performer, sound-installation artist, bassoonist and
instrument-maker, has been exploring and experimenting with sound for
over 25 years. In galleries or concert venues or street performances
she has created works for numerous constructed instruments and sound
installations and has been playing and performing with Katherine and
Al since 2010. She continues to build replicas of historical bassoons
in her workshop on the Lower East Side of NYC.
more info: http://www.leslieross.net/
Although legendary for white-hot guitar and vocal brutality, Marcia
Bassett's recent recordings and performances infuse cracked-raga song
structures with dense electronic and synthesiser drones to create
soundscapes where a lurking apocalypse is eclipsed by shimmering,
meditative beauty. As a co-founder of Philadelphia's shambolic
psychonauts un and tectonic drone pioneers Double Leopards, Bassett is
deeply entwined with the American noise underground, and has mapped
regions still only dimly understood by subsequent sonic travelers.
From 2003-2008, Bassett joined Matthew Bower in Hototogisu, where her
mastery of cacophonous eardrum shred achieved monolithic proportions.
During the same period, she explored American underground psychedelic
folk-improv music with Steve Gunn and Pete Nolan in GHQ, and with Tom
Carter in Zaika. Marcia's CDs, LPs and tapes have appeared on
independent labels such as Gift Tapes, Hospital Productions, W.M.O.r,
Utech Records, Gypsy Sphinx, Volcanic Tongue and No Fun records.
Bassett has released numerous solo recordings under the name Zaïmph on
many labels as well as her own Heavy Blossom imprint. In 2012, Bassett
retired Heavy Blossom and started Yew, a label showcasing Zaïmph and
other aesthetically allied projects. In addition to her work with
Zaïmph, Bassett is a frequent collaborator with a wide spectrum of
musicians including Helen Espvall (Espers), Samara Lubelski, Margarida
Garcia, Jenny Graf (Metalux), Taylor Richardson (Infinity Window), and
Barry Weisblat.
more info: http://www.zaimph.org/
Barry Weisblat was born in Brooklyn in 1975 and remains one of the
unsung heroes of deep and investigative Sound. Thought. Beyond a
long-running commitment to participating in the underground's
underground of improvisation and a dynamic sense of musical
conversation, Weisblat has extended his reach and pool of knowledge
beyond rubbing the surface of the black box of sound to designing and
implementing his own systems. Translating light into sound, sound into
action, action into thought, and thought into light, Weisblat's
ceaseless curiosity and simultaneous obsessive desire to participate
and join in dialogue has pushed his output farther out than most
people can see or conceive of. Some collaborations include work with
Michael Bernstein, Margarida Garcia, Andrew Lafkas, Toshio Kajiwara,
Matt Valentine, Theo Angell, Otomo Yoshide, Mattin, Tim Barnes, Greg
Pope, Toshi Nakamura, Sean Meehan, Dion Workman.
more info: http://www.q-o2.be/artist/barry-weisblat/
Jeff Donaldson is an artist who works with audio/visual feedback
systems. Beginning with guitar and video camera feedback in the 1980s,
this interest was then applied to circuitry and interactive
installations at the start of the new millennium.
more info: http://notendo.com/
The music of composer, performer and improviser PHILIP WHITE (b.1981)
is known for its ecstatic intensity and expressive sonic palette.
Working with an array of homemade electronics at the intersection of
noise, jazz and contemporary concert music, White exploits the tension
between rigorous, closed electronic systems and the urgency of human
compulsion. Drawn to the chaotic, autonomous behavior of feedback
based instruments, Philip seeks to discover new ways to engage with,
steer, or even struggle to control them. He considers control of his
systems a parameter on equal footing with pitch, timbre or loudness.
His homemade electronic instruments combine to create a
self-determining and often explosive sound world which he extends to
his compositions for ensemble and work with other artists. Philip has
been an artist in residence at Electronic Music Foundation,
Harvestworks, High Concept Labs and the Rensing Center. He has
lectured at Wesleyan University, University of Chicago, University of
South Carolina and the College of Charleston.
more info: http://prwhite.net/
Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental musician, and creative
technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last 25 years he has been
involved in a wide range of creative activities - homemade percussion
ensembles, Balinese gamelan, dance/performance art sound scores, and
installation art. Bob's work utilizes custom electronics and
programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field recordings,
de-musicalized instruments, and found oscillators. He is in the midst
of long-term collaborations with the choreographer Wanda Z Gala, and
gigs regularly as a solo artist, in KILT (with Raven Chacon and Sandor
Finta), and in collaboration with some of the heavyweights of the
universal experimental music scene (Z'EV, Telecult Powers, Francisco
Meirino, and Circuit Wound among others). Bob's work has been
presented at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura
Contemporanea de Barcelona, Issue Project Room, Diapason Sound
Gallery, Roulette, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, New Genre
Festival, CEAIT Festival, Ende Tymes Festival, Denver Noise Festival,
Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Kunstradio /
ORF (Vienna), Radio Epsilonia (Paris), WFMU, WKCR, WNYC, KXLU, KFJC,
East Village Radio, Stanford University, The New School , UCSD, and
UCLA. His discography includes dozens of releases on Anarchymoon
Recordings, Zelphabet, Banned Productions, P-Tapes, RRR Records,
Static Aktion, EMR, Iatrogenesis, Bastardised, Peyote Tapes, Together
Tapes, Breathmint, Feathering Pines, Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship, 3rd
Sex, and Important Records. He curates and produces noise and
experimental music events on a regular basis, including the Ende Tymes
Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation. He was formerly based
in Los Angeles, where he ran the sub-garde experimental
music/performance space the Il Corral, and curated the Beyond Music
series and festival. Bob lives in Bushwick NY and runs the boutique
noise labels Anarchymoon Recordings and Sleepy Hollow Editions.
more info: http://bobbellerue.net/
PS other events of note this week:
Sept 28 Issue Project Room :: Jason Lescalleet & Graham Lambkin / Seth Cluett
https://www.facebook.com/events/581789775215811/
Sept 29 Issue Project Room FREE EARLY SHOW :: Jonathan Kane’s February
/ Dan Joseph Ensemble / Jason Bartell
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/february-dan-joseph-ensemble-jason-bartell
Sept 29 Silent Barn :: Lea Bertucci (Record Release)//C.Spencer
Yeh+Okkyung Lee//I'd m Theft Able//Thomas Dexter
https://www.facebook.com/events/202750299893165/
Sept 30 Anthology Films Archives :: 70 FOR 70 (+ 1): SEVENTY (ONE)
SIDES OF PHILL NIBLOCK by Katherine Liberovskaya (see below)
Oct 1 St Vitus :: Aaron Dilloway & Richard Pinhas (Heldon) / Matthew
Regula / John Mannion / On A Clear Day
https://www.facebook.com/events/172302642957092/
Oct 3 Issue Project Room :: Ten Years Alive: Oren Ambarchi / Okkyung
Lee & Michelle Boulé
https://www.facebook.com/events/582358398493280/
Oct 4 Silent Barn (upstairs) :: FOSSILS//TJ BORDEN//JOHN MANNION//MALE
NURSE at Worzil's Womphouse
https://www.facebook.com/events/548469108539570/
Oct 5 Issue Project Room :: Bill Orcutt / Jon Mueller
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/bill-orcutt-jon-mueller
PPS:: also happening this week @ Anthology Film Archives
FILMS TO LOOK AT: A TOUR OF PHILL NIBLOCK’S FILM WORK
September 28-30, 2013. An 80th birthday tribute curated by Katherine
Liberovskaya, screenings every night. more info at
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
--
halfnormal.com
i hope you can come out for this thrilling show i'm producing and
performing in next weekend. see the end of the email for a list of
other events this week which are pretty awesome
as always - if you no longer want to receive these occasional emails,
please just let me know
cheers
Bb
Silent Bomb :: experimental music events at Silent Barn, produced by
the folks who bring you Ende Tymes Fest
Phill Niblock
Katherine Liberovskaya + Al Margolis + Leslie Ross
Marcia Bassett + Barry Weisblat
Bob Bellerue + Philip White + Jeff Donaldson
$7
Oct 6
8pm doors, 9pm music
Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave
J/M Myrtle Broadway
https://www.facebook.com/events/862356473851913/876496802437880/
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist intermedia artist using
music, film, photography, video and computers, and director of
Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's
barricade-hopping. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with
microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in
the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos
which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black
and white abstract images floating through time. He has been a
maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. Since
1968 Phill has put on over 1000 concerts in his loft space, including
Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jim O'Rourke.
More info: http://www.phillniblock.com/
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal and
New York. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has
produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown
at various events and venues around the world. Since 2001 her work
predominantly focuses on collaborations with composers and sound
artists notably in live video+sound performance where her live visuals
seek to create improvisatory "music" for the eyes. Frequent
collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana,
Kristin Norderval, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, David First and o.blaat
(Keiko Uenishi). Recent projects have involved: Shelley Hirsch,
Chantal Dumas, Leslie Ross, Richard Garet and Dorit Chrysler.
Concurrently she curates and organizes the Screen Compositions
evenings at Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and the OptoSonic
Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, since 2006.
More info: http://www.liberovskaya.net/
Al Margolis was an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground
through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, and is co-founder of
experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If,
Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly
spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented
composition.
More info: http://www.ifbwana.com/
Leslie Ross, performer, sound-installation artist, bassoonist and
instrument-maker, has been exploring and experimenting with sound for
over 25 years. In galleries or concert venues or street performances
she has created works for numerous constructed instruments and sound
installations and has been playing and performing with Katherine and
Al since 2010. She continues to build replicas of historical bassoons
in her workshop on the Lower East Side of NYC.
more info: http://www.leslieross.net/
Although legendary for white-hot guitar and vocal brutality, Marcia
Bassett's recent recordings and performances infuse cracked-raga song
structures with dense electronic and synthesiser drones to create
soundscapes where a lurking apocalypse is eclipsed by shimmering,
meditative beauty. As a co-founder of Philadelphia's shambolic
psychonauts un and tectonic drone pioneers Double Leopards, Bassett is
deeply entwined with the American noise underground, and has mapped
regions still only dimly understood by subsequent sonic travelers.
From 2003-2008, Bassett joined Matthew Bower in Hototogisu, where her
mastery of cacophonous eardrum shred achieved monolithic proportions.
During the same period, she explored American underground psychedelic
folk-improv music with Steve Gunn and Pete Nolan in GHQ, and with Tom
Carter in Zaika. Marcia's CDs, LPs and tapes have appeared on
independent labels such as Gift Tapes, Hospital Productions, W.M.O.r,
Utech Records, Gypsy Sphinx, Volcanic Tongue and No Fun records.
Bassett has released numerous solo recordings under the name Zaïmph on
many labels as well as her own Heavy Blossom imprint. In 2012, Bassett
retired Heavy Blossom and started Yew, a label showcasing Zaïmph and
other aesthetically allied projects. In addition to her work with
Zaïmph, Bassett is a frequent collaborator with a wide spectrum of
musicians including Helen Espvall (Espers), Samara Lubelski, Margarida
Garcia, Jenny Graf (Metalux), Taylor Richardson (Infinity Window), and
Barry Weisblat.
more info: http://www.zaimph.org/
Barry Weisblat was born in Brooklyn in 1975 and remains one of the
unsung heroes of deep and investigative Sound. Thought. Beyond a
long-running commitment to participating in the underground's
underground of improvisation and a dynamic sense of musical
conversation, Weisblat has extended his reach and pool of knowledge
beyond rubbing the surface of the black box of sound to designing and
implementing his own systems. Translating light into sound, sound into
action, action into thought, and thought into light, Weisblat's
ceaseless curiosity and simultaneous obsessive desire to participate
and join in dialogue has pushed his output farther out than most
people can see or conceive of. Some collaborations include work with
Michael Bernstein, Margarida Garcia, Andrew Lafkas, Toshio Kajiwara,
Matt Valentine, Theo Angell, Otomo Yoshide, Mattin, Tim Barnes, Greg
Pope, Toshi Nakamura, Sean Meehan, Dion Workman.
more info: http://www.q-o2.be/artist/barry-weisblat/
Jeff Donaldson is an artist who works with audio/visual feedback
systems. Beginning with guitar and video camera feedback in the 1980s,
this interest was then applied to circuitry and interactive
installations at the start of the new millennium.
more info: http://notendo.com/
The music of composer, performer and improviser PHILIP WHITE (b.1981)
is known for its ecstatic intensity and expressive sonic palette.
Working with an array of homemade electronics at the intersection of
noise, jazz and contemporary concert music, White exploits the tension
between rigorous, closed electronic systems and the urgency of human
compulsion. Drawn to the chaotic, autonomous behavior of feedback
based instruments, Philip seeks to discover new ways to engage with,
steer, or even struggle to control them. He considers control of his
systems a parameter on equal footing with pitch, timbre or loudness.
His homemade electronic instruments combine to create a
self-determining and often explosive sound world which he extends to
his compositions for ensemble and work with other artists. Philip has
been an artist in residence at Electronic Music Foundation,
Harvestworks, High Concept Labs and the Rensing Center. He has
lectured at Wesleyan University, University of Chicago, University of
South Carolina and the College of Charleston.
more info: http://prwhite.net/
Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental musician, and creative
technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last 25 years he has been
involved in a wide range of creative activities - homemade percussion
ensembles, Balinese gamelan, dance/performance art sound scores, and
installation art. Bob's work utilizes custom electronics and
programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field recordings,
de-musicalized instruments, and found oscillators. He is in the midst
of long-term collaborations with the choreographer Wanda Z Gala, and
gigs regularly as a solo artist, in KILT (with Raven Chacon and Sandor
Finta), and in collaboration with some of the heavyweights of the
universal experimental music scene (Z'EV, Telecult Powers, Francisco
Meirino, and Circuit Wound among others). Bob's work has been
presented at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura
Contemporanea de Barcelona, Issue Project Room, Diapason Sound
Gallery, Roulette, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, New Genre
Festival, CEAIT Festival, Ende Tymes Festival, Denver Noise Festival,
Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Kunstradio /
ORF (Vienna), Radio Epsilonia (Paris), WFMU, WKCR, WNYC, KXLU, KFJC,
East Village Radio, Stanford University, The New School , UCSD, and
UCLA. His discography includes dozens of releases on Anarchymoon
Recordings, Zelphabet, Banned Productions, P-Tapes, RRR Records,
Static Aktion, EMR, Iatrogenesis, Bastardised, Peyote Tapes, Together
Tapes, Breathmint, Feathering Pines, Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship, 3rd
Sex, and Important Records. He curates and produces noise and
experimental music events on a regular basis, including the Ende Tymes
Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation. He was formerly based
in Los Angeles, where he ran the sub-garde experimental
music/performance space the Il Corral, and curated the Beyond Music
series and festival. Bob lives in Bushwick NY and runs the boutique
noise labels Anarchymoon Recordings and Sleepy Hollow Editions.
more info: http://bobbellerue.net/
PS other events of note this week:
Sept 28 Issue Project Room :: Jason Lescalleet & Graham Lambkin / Seth Cluett
https://www.facebook.com/events/581789775215811/
Sept 29 Issue Project Room FREE EARLY SHOW :: Jonathan Kane’s February
/ Dan Joseph Ensemble / Jason Bartell
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/february-dan-joseph-ensemble-jason-bartell
Sept 29 Silent Barn :: Lea Bertucci (Record Release)//C.Spencer
Yeh+Okkyung Lee//I'd m Theft Able//Thomas Dexter
https://www.facebook.com/events/202750299893165/
Sept 30 Anthology Films Archives :: 70 FOR 70 (+ 1): SEVENTY (ONE)
SIDES OF PHILL NIBLOCK by Katherine Liberovskaya (see below)
Oct 1 St Vitus :: Aaron Dilloway & Richard Pinhas (Heldon) / Matthew
Regula / John Mannion / On A Clear Day
https://www.facebook.com/events/172302642957092/
Oct 3 Issue Project Room :: Ten Years Alive: Oren Ambarchi / Okkyung
Lee & Michelle Boulé
https://www.facebook.com/events/582358398493280/
Oct 4 Silent Barn (upstairs) :: FOSSILS//TJ BORDEN//JOHN MANNION//MALE
NURSE at Worzil's Womphouse
https://www.facebook.com/events/548469108539570/
Oct 5 Issue Project Room :: Bill Orcutt / Jon Mueller
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/bill-orcutt-jon-mueller
PPS:: also happening this week @ Anthology Film Archives
FILMS TO LOOK AT: A TOUR OF PHILL NIBLOCK’S FILM WORK
September 28-30, 2013. An 80th birthday tribute curated by Katherine
Liberovskaya, screenings every night. more info at
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
--
halfnormal.com
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