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Neil Wiernik
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Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
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[idm] Richard Crow and NAW OCT 11th toronto
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Richard Crow (uk) and NAW (noise factory records) Tuesday October 11th - 9:00pm door @ The PiNG http://www.theambientping.com HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor - Toronto (directly across from the Bathurst subway station) PayWhatYouCan at the door UK based Richard Crow is an interdisciplinary artist who uses sound & noise in a performative way, for its spatial and subjective qualities and above all for its psychological implications for the listener. Past solo and collaborative site-specific installations & performances have consisted of highly conceptualized interventions into base materiality, investigations of alternative systems of organization and research into a certain material decadence (as with the project The Institution of Rot, London 1993-96). The title of tonight's performance is "phantom music - an aural hallucination". http://www.elision.org.au/collaborators/crow.html In the second set NAW (aka Neil Wiernik) will be doing a rare live performance of some of his recent ambient material. NAW has working intercity with Aidan Baker and Nathan McNinch over the past year on a series of collaborative works, using the internet as a their medium. This project draws on the lush guitar work of Aidan Baker, the spare minimalism of Nathan McNinch's piano work and the highly textured sound design work of Neil Wiernik. The project, initiated by NAW, is an exercise in conducting musicians without them being in the same room. Wiernik requested both artists to provide him with material played in a specific manner to be worked with in the studio as his compositional elements. The result is rich, sullen music reminiscent of artists found on Constellation, Kranky and the label NAW calls home - Noise Factory. This new work has only been performed in its entirety once, in Montreal, where reviews compared the material to the music of Godspeed, minus the rock instruments. NAW uses only a laptop, a midi controller and various software applications to manipulate and contort these sounds into cinematic works for your ears. http://www.naw.phoniq.net http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/naw.htm Video projections by SelfService - Jakob Thiesen and Rebecca McLellan http://www.theambientping.com/thiesen/home.html Presented in association with SOUNDplay: http://www.soundtravels.ca/soundplay THE AMBiENT PiNG is a social sound/art event presenting live performances by Toronto's finest ambient, improvisational and experimental music artists plus performers from across the continent, every Tuesday evening at HACiENDA. http://www.theambientping.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org