319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia
Jeff Carey:
Jeff Carey is an interdisciplinary artist creating radical computer
music. He performs electro-instrumental synthetic noise with custom
software controlled by a joystick and gamer keypad. His instrument also
controls an array of strobe lights making shows totally immersive and
visceral.
He has toured the U.S., Japan and Europe as support for various
musical acts, including Matmos, Hijokaidan, and Torche at venues such as
Bimhaus, Paradiso, Café Oto and National Sawdust plus in numerous
international music festivals NuMusic, Night of the Unexpected and Ende
Times Liberation Festival. He performs regularly in Baltimore’s
experimental, electronic and improvised music scene. Jeff is known as an
innovator with a unique sonic signature. His electronic works Chop Chop and
Machine Gun Etiquette premiered at Nordic festivals and he has over 20
releases. Precursor to Hypercube, an experiential music installation with
bass-activated seating, was recently showcased at the Recombinant Festival
in San Francisco.
David Grollman is a percussionist from NYC who
performs freely improvised music. He performs in art galleries, tiki bars,
and venues of curious ambience made more curious by his mongrel sounds.
David bows, scrapes, blows, slaps, rubs, caresses, abuses, and generally
tests the limits of his instrument. Anything is game. Anything may be a
participant if the musical conversation calls for it. Artist, instrument,
audience, and environment become ambiguous terms, conspiring in a
theatrical exploration of chance dynamics and serendipitous
exchanges.
Andy Haas has performed, recorded and collaborated with many musicians
who were at the center of the creative avant garde music coming out of NYC
by the ’90s, such as John Zorn, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Thurston
Moore, Marc Ribot, and more. Haas was an original member of Toronto’s
Martha & the Muffins, which formed in 1977. He played saxophones for
the band through their 1981 release, This is the Ice Age.
For this mini tour they are performing with special guest Don Fiorino.
Don plays a variety of string instruments, including guitar, glissentar,
lap steel, banjo, lotar and mandolin. His approach to improvisation has
influences of blues, rock, lap steel, psychedelic, jazz, and Indian and
Middle Eastern fusions. Don is also a painter. His improvised music is
similar to how he paints: integrating textures, colors, forms and various
traditions into his own signature. Don has performed widely in New York
City, both above and below ground. He has played and recorded with Andy
Haas (duo), Radio I-Ching, Hanuman Sextet, Dee Pop’s Private World,
Adventures in Bluesland, Ronnie Wheeler’s Blues and Attention
Screen.He also played as a sideman to Carolina Slim (Elijah Staley).
Wall Wymyn:
Wall Wymyn is the Philadelphia-based duo of Kate McGuire and Ellen
Foster. Sometimes harsh and sonically dense while at other times spare and
quiet, they draw on the timbres and harmonic resonances created by their
respective instrumentations to build an improvised sound influenced as much
by early Whitehouse as by Joan La Barbara or the Theatre of Eternal Music.
McGuire works with handmade electronics to create thick clusters of square
waves and voice-responsive sounds, mixing in sung straight tones, staccato
ululations, glottal pops, and rumbling multiphonics. For this project,
Foster, a classically trained violinist, departs from melodic terrain,
playing through delay effects to create layers of slowly-evolving drones,
rhythmic patterns, and dry,scraping textures.
