My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4,The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.
This compilation on The Sound of Live Performance assembles those “sound failures, the misassigned patch, unintended playing outcomes, FX overloads, calibrations and pinnacles of performative exploration” that offer sources for eclectic new material.
Celebrating Art’s Birthday with Christian Pinock and Guillermo Gregorio at…
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622 www.enemysound.com
Albuquerque-based composer Christian Pinock performs original improvised compositions on electric valve trombone. Using a computer-based instrument of his own creation (using MAX/MSP) and a system of sensors attached to the trombone, he creates solo performances that are dynamic and subtle, drawing from diverse styles such as improvised experimental music, contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz, noise, and electronica.
Christian will perform a solo electric trombone set and a trio improvisation withGuillermo Gregorio (clarinet, saxophone) and Eric Leonardson (experimental instruments, electronics).
Guillermo and Eric will open the concert at 7:30 PM with a duo set.
January 1, 2011, from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m on New Year’s Day at Enemy, musicians and sound-makers are invited to celebrate the new year with a mind clearing 12 hour drone.
Medium is open invitation as long as you don’t disturb the drone. If you can, please some food to share.
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd flr.
Chicago. IL 60622
www.enemysound.com
Admission free
My audio submission (the metallic contraction sounds of a gas furnace as it cools) and other collected sounds can be hear here on my Audioboo profile: audioboo.fm/boos/240858-cooling-furnace
In addition to being a co-founder of the Seattle Phonographers’ Union with Steve Barsotti, Chris DeLaurenti is a writer, composer and teacher. He recently founded the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, andon the show Chris mentioned that he is now writing a book on field recording and phonography.
On Sunday, December 19 Chicago’s longest running radio show for experimental, avant-garde music, phonography, and other genres of audio art will make its final broadcast. In less than two weeks Philip von Zweck, the host and producer of Something Else who started the show in 1995, will move on. As he told me, “It’s been 15 years.”
Writing in the past tense now…
Something Else was a non-commercial, volunteer effort that aired weekly on WLUW 88.7 FM. Aside from a 9-month haitus in 2004 (during which time Philip wrangled a string of volunteers to substitute for him while teaching at Brooklyn College), for four hours every Sunday night Philip played recordings and hosted live performances by a countless number of local, national, and international sound-text-radio artists, avant-garde composers, and experimental, improvising musicians.
I hope Philip’s effort will be remembered and appreciated. The historical significance of Something Else lies in the simple fact that there was no other Chicago radio program focused on live performances and recordings by seldom-heard artists and musicians making non-commercial, unpopular, risk-taking, art historical, bravely exploratory, and “bleeding edge” work in the new and marginal field of sound-as-art. While many occasions to hear this type of work on Chicago’s numerous public and college radio stations existed, as a regularly scheduled, weekly show, I think only WHPK’s Radio Dada and WNUR’s Airplay would compare. When WLUW began Internet streaming Philip’s show became internationally accessible.
Jason Soliday (electronics) and I perform on a bill with Ben Miller (Degeneration), Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), and Wyoming (Andrew Young and Riley Walker).
Listen in to “Master Faders” on Free Radio SAIC, a one-hour webcast radio art show created with field recordings, analog reel-to-reel tape loops, contact microphones, digital recording & mixing, and electronic sound synthesis.
When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Thursday, November 18, 2010
Produced and performed by the students of my Spring 2010 Introduction To Sound course. If you miss the live show, check in the Free Radio archives and listen later.
My audio work “Get Your Marks On” has been selected for the Erotics of Sound online showcase in conjunction with the Decadence Now! Visions of Excess exhibition at the Rudolfinum Gallerie, in Prague. The show opened September 29, 2010 and runs until January , 2011. Students will be given prompts to use the piece to create a Decadent performance / ritual response as part of their study.
Galerie Rudolfinum
Alšovo nábřeží 12
110 01 Praha 1
Green Mill Jazz Club
4802 N. Broadway Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
773.878.5552
($10 suggested donation, 21 and over)
Listen to the Scratch Orchestra on Sunday at 10:00pm, on Something Else with Philip von Zweck, WLUW 88.7FM. Copy and load this link into your mp3 player to listen to WLUW’s live stream. Or, visit wluw.org.
My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4, The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.
