8:00 p.m., Saturday March 28I perform at Enemy with Daniel Fishkin, daxophone player extraordinaire. The Green Pasture Happiness will open: Aaron Zarzutzki (no-output turntable), Daniel Fandiño (electronics), and Brian Labycz (electronics).
Enemy7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 with Bryan Day, , sound artist, instrument inventor, and founder of free music label Public Eyesore
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.enemysound.com
Omaha, Nebraska based improviser and concept artist Bryan Day (b. 1979) has been involved in the avant-garde music community for the last 12 years. He started the, then Minneapolis-based, free music label Public Eyesore in 1997 as an outlet for his works using homemade electronic and mechanical sound generating devices, and to this day continues the process of expanding upon these themes. Merging structure and chaos, Day uses an elaborate notation system and cellular automata based computer programs of his own design, along with the expressionist cues of visual art and modern dance for his inspiration. Rather than be known as a musician, he prefers to be known as an impulsive conceptualist, searching for difficult and inconvenient analogs to the contemporary experience using sound.
Bryan Day’s personal web page: www.publiceyesore.com/sistrum.htm
Myspace: www.myspace.com/daybryan
Public Eyesore: www.publiceyesore.com
Evidence is on a short Midwest tour, performing their Losperus project based on thrift store finds.
Here’s an update, including three new performances added to my November schedule…
Eric Glick Rieman, from Berkeley with his prepared Rhodes piano, will be performing with me this Friday, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612, (312) 850-4030. $8 suggested donation.
This show is a double bill with The Young Equestrians from Brooklyn.
(If you know you can attend, please send me a message. Thanks to the
grief that the City of Chicago has given the folks at the AV-Aerie about
a license, they must promise this is a private party.)
Sunday, August 3, 10:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. on Something Else WLUW 88.7 FM Independent Community Radio, with Chicago Phonography / Live stream at http://wluw.streamguys.net/listen.pls
Related links:http://chicagophonography.com/Listen to Chicago Phonographers’ first live performance
Monday, August 4, 7:30 p.m. at Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave., with Jerry Bryerton (percussion) and Christopher Bruce (percussion), free
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/jeromebryertonhttp://www.myspace.com/christopherabruce
Monday, August 11, 9:00 p.m. at ELASTIC Arts Foundation 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Fl., with Carol Genettti (voice), double bill with Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) solo, $7 suggested donation
This concert follows the opening reception (8:00—9:00 p.m., admission free) for Elastic Sound and Vision Gallery’s new exhibition, Unfinished Logan Square, featuring work by visual artist Tracy Kostenbader.
Friday, August 15, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton, with Bay Area composer and instrument inventor Eric Glick Rieman (prepared Rhodes electric piano), double bill with the Young Equestrians from Brooklyn, $8 suggested donation
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/ericglickriemanhttp://www.myspace.com/shaynadulbergerhttp://www.myspace.com/avaerie
Eric Glick Rieman lives in Berkeley, California where he composes music in many genres and improvises on a redesigned Rhodes electric piano, among other instruments. He has studied with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Eliane Radigue, Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, J. D. Parran, Douglas Ewart, Steed Cowart, and John Bischoff. He has organized the Thingamajigs festival. His 2003 CD on Accretions, “DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt” was recorded with Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), Fred Frith (guitar), and Carla Kihlstedt (violin) , and “Lung Tree” (on ReR recordings in 2005) was recorded with Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), and Stuart Dempster (trombone).
Sunday, August 24 7:00 p.m. at ELASTIC Arts Foundation, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd fl., Los Cuatros Demonios opens for Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Los Cuatros Demonios is Tomeka Reid (cello), Carol Genetti (voice), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Eric Leonardson (springboard), Dan Godston (trumpet, percussion), $10 suggested donation
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/electricjunkyardgamelanhttp://www.myspace.com/cellomamahttp://www.carolgenetti.nethttp://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusichttp://www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
1st set
Guillermo Gregorio — clarinets and saxophones
Eric Leonardson — springboard, amplified objects
Dan Godston — trumpet, small instruments
2nd set : Altamira
Ricardo Lagomasima — drums
John Deblase — electric bass
Nick Millevoi — guitar
Brown Rice 4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org8:00 p.m.
$5 suggested donation
Directions: Brown Rice is small storefront located a half block north of the Montrose-Kedzie intersection, a few blocks south of the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown Line. There is a small sign over the entrance that reads “Perfect”. View Map.
RarebitPerformed and recorded with Steve Barsotti at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. From 1994 until 1999 we performed as a duo, and with other local and internationally known artists, including Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), Carol Genetti, Fergus Kelly, Tatsu Aoki, Chris Heenan, Yuko Nexus6, Yasuhiro Otani, Satoru Wono, Claude Wiley, and many more.
Rarebit is the culmination of a four-year project in electroacoustic music by sound artists and instrument inventors Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson. Their self-built instruments produce remarkable sounds that belie their humble origin. Barsotti and Leonardson’s sense of musical form arises from their deep attention to the individual essences of sounds, rather than the conventional grid of harmony and meter. What results is abstract sound composition that possesses a communicative style. Rarebit will draw comparisons to the sound palettes and ethereal soundscapes of such intrepid purveyors of “left field” and exploratory music as Hal Rammel, Hugh Davies, and Bob Rutman. Nine tracks. Running time 72 minutes.
Rarebit can be purchased from Transparency for $15 ($12 plus $3 postage) to meridianavenue@yahoo.com via PayPal.
My presentation for the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium has just been published. eContact!, the electronic journal of electroacoustics, is published by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).
This issue was edited by David Ogburn, Chair of TES 2007.
Please visit the eContact! 10.3 Table of Contents
Direct link to my article:
The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs
Hal Rammel gave me the license to make my own instruments in 1990. Tonight I learned from Hal that a web page is up about the wonderful exhibition of experimental musical instruments he curated, “The Shapes of Sound: Musical Instruments and the Imagination in the Midwest.”
The show was held in late 1997 at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was among the 14 artist-inventors who had their instruments displayed. I also gave a brief performance in the show. Visit the page at www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/shapes_of_sound.shtml
Many photographs from the show are on this page with Hal Rammel’s catalog essay. To learn more about his fascinating writing, visual art, and music, please visit Hal’s homepage, his MySpace page, and YouTube.
More video interviews with students from my 2008 Instrument Construction course at SAIC have been uploaded.
And as mentioned previously…
