MUSIC NIGHT AT CIVILIAN

[Nicki P.]

MUSIC NIGHT AT CIVILIAN
Friday, July 25, 2008
9pm / $5 donation

Presented by Civilian Art Projects and Planaria Recordings

Featuring:
- ILYA MONOSOV (Planaria / Holy Mountain / Drag City / Language of
Stone)
- DUANE PITRE (Important Records)
- PREE (May from Le Loup)
- SCOTT ALLISON (of Kohoutek)

and DJ sets from ED PORTER and SCOTT BAUER

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ILYA MONOSOV
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Ilya Monosov has spent the last decade working with sound and objects
and creating his unique form of ritualistic music performance. He has
worked in collaboration or had co publications with Preston Swirnoff,
Marc Schulz, Andrew Deutsch, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Curtis, Larry
Polansky, Bob Cobbing, Makoto Kawabata, Radu Malfatti and many others.
His output has been highly varied and has encompassed everything from
gypsy folk music, to minimalist improvisation, to heavy rock in the
wild California group, The Shining Path. He has also been involved in
many performances and multi-media events (including performances and
installations at the first lower case events in LA) and currently has
a piece online in Frogpeak Unbound, as well as artist books in Printed
Matter NYC. He has released records on Planaria Recordings, Holy
Mountain, and Drag City imprint Language of Stone.

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DUANE PITRE
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Duane Pitre (originally from New Orleans) is a Brooklyn-based
composer, improviser, and sound-artist. His primary instrument is
electric guitar(s), which he plays in a nontraditional fashion,
utilizing various objects such as mallets and rotary tools to coax
unusual sounds from the instrument. His current works explore both
chaos and discipline-and the territory that exists between the two. In
summer of 2007 Pitre's album, Organized Pitches Occurring in Time, was
released on Important Records (CD) and Trome Records (vinyl). This
album consists of two versions of his lengthy drone/contemporary-
classical composition Ensemble Drones. Ensemble Drones was performed
live in December 2007 by a 13-piece ensemble in Burlington, VT, and
future performances of the piece are planned for Chicago, Seattle, San
Diego, and New Orleans. Pitre has a number of releases scheduled for
2008, including a track on a compilation of experimental/avant-garde
guitarists, which will also feature work by Keith Rowe (AMM), Tetuzi
Akiyama, Sebastien Roux, and others. He is currently curating-and will
be contributing a track to-a Just Intonation compilation that will be
released on Important Records in late 2008. The compilation will
include work by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman,
Michael Harrison, and Arnold Dreyblatt.

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SCOTT ALLISON
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Scott Allison is a member of DC noise unit Kohoutek, and an
independent sound artist in his own right works with field recordings,
tapes, junk electronics, toy electronics, your mother's keyboard, and
all of it with great taste