STRATEGIC IMPROV LABORATORIES (SIL2K)
presents
Kim Cascone (SF)
Brian Allen (TX)
Vance Galloway
Monday August 13, 2001
at I-Spy 1921 5th Ave.
entrance in the alley (between 4th and 5th and Stewart and Virginia)
Seattle, WA
9:00 pm doors, $6 cover
Strategic Improv Laboratories is proud to bring composer/sound artist Kim
Cascone to I-Spy on August 13. A renowned installation artist and
electronic composer based in San Francisco, Kim Cascone received his formal
training in electronic music at the Berklee School of Music in the early
1970's, and in 1976 studied with Dana McCurdy at the New School in
Manhattan. Since 1980, he has composed and released music under many
monikers, including PGR, Heavenly Music Corporation, and Thessalonians,
among others. In 1983 Cascone was technical assistant to composer Max
Neuhaus on a sound installation project for the Museum of Modern Art in
Paris. In the late 1980's, after gaining experience as an audio technician,
Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks
and Wild at Heart. Cascone left the film industry in 1989 to concentrate on
Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, making it into the U.S.'s
premier ambient label. His performance at SIL2K will feature laptop
investigations of the glitch and other damaged sounds.
Opening the show is Brian Allen, trombonist and composer touring from Lake
Jackson, Texas. He has studied with Roswell Rudd, Dave Liebman and Ellery
Eskelin. He has performed with Rudd, Tony Malaby, Dave Ballou, and Lou
Grassi. His solo performance focus on the experimental side of jazz and new
music. Dave Wayne, of Jazz Weekly, says of Allen's Solo Trombone CD, "Allen
wisely tempers his taste for broad humor with skillful and soulful, even
lyrical, playing. Best of all, Allen is not a one-trick pony: he approaches
this music from every conceivable angle, and always seems to make it work."
This summer, Allen will be touring the northeast and northwest. Included in
his performances are dates at New York's Knitting Factory and Internet Cafe
with Dave Ballou, Michael Formanek, Mark Dresser, Tom Rainey and Dave Treut.
For more information, please see Allen's website at:
http://homestead.juno.com/bka4/brian.html
And closing the show is Seattle composer and programmer Vance Galloway.
Weaving a path between acoustic sound and digital processing, improvisation
and composition, technician and musician Vance Galloway uses the guitar as
his entryway into the world of avant-garde electronica. His extensive use of
custom-designed signal processing and surround sound in tandem with Power
Book effects processors and prepared guitars creates a new context in which
to experience traditional as well as drone-based ambient musics.
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SIL2K (Strategic Improv Labs) is a weekly experimental music and performance
night at I-Spy in Seattle, featuring Seattle's best and newest underground
music, dance, video, film and spoken word. More information about SIL2K and
its members and activities can be found on the web at
http://www.sil2k.org.
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Tim Rhodes
memes@sil2k.org
Eyes, Ears & Memes, SIL2K
Strategic Improv Laboratories 2000
www.sil2k.org
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