Here are the listings for upcoming shows at SIL2K, every Monday at
I-Spy. Descriptions of the acts are at the bottom of this message.
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4/2/2001 Monday I-Spy 9:00 $5
Mome Raths & Strategy (Portland)
Nice Nice (Portland)
Greg Sinibaldi Trio
4/9/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
Bill Horist meets Plastiq Phantom
Tiktok and D-Rage - "Fou Reach"
Serena
4/16/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
UNTET featuring Arrington de Dionyso (Olympia)
3and2
Oxygen Ensemble
4/23/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
Manalive vs. MissKick
Holz Für Europa (Switzerland/Germany/Netherlands)
Brent Arnold, Lori Goldston, Serena Tideman cello trio
4/30/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
This Room
Tokyo Sex Whale
SIL2K Ensemble
5/7/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
Office Products (Portland)
Trans-Atlantic IceFloe
Goat Faux
5/14/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
Moonbabies (Sweden)
Clocked OUT (Australia)
Philip Gayle (Houston)
Boris Hauf (Vienna)
5/21/2001 Monday 8:00 PM SIL2K & SFADI present
"Bare Bones" benefit for Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance &
Improvisation
5/28/2001 Monday 9:00 $5
Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Chris Forsyth (San Francisco/Brooklyn)
Euphorbia
SIL2K Ensemble
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http://www.sil2k.org/
I-Spy / Nation
1921 5th Avenue
entrance in the alley (between 4th & 5th, between Stewart & Virginia)
(206) 374-9492
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Monday 4/2/2001
Portland's 'Mome Raths' create dense electronic/acoustic soundscapes
with roots in kraut rock, free improv, exotica, and film music. Sounds,
songs and lineup fluctuate somewhat from performance to performance but
Mome Raths currently involves Joshua Blanchard (bass, vocals,
percussion), Howard Gillam (electronics), Michael Hamilton (organ,
clarinet, homemade
instruments), Collen French (guitar, flute, percussion), and Joel
Cherney (prepared percussion, electronics, horns).
These musicians are also play in other groups/projects, including The
Sensualists, Supersprite and Insect Gallery. Mome Raths are currently
busy recording their first full length as well as regularly touring
throughout the Northwest.
The newly formed Greg Sinibaldi Trio is a talented group, consisting of
Greg Sinibaldi on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Reuben Radding on bass,
and
Bob Rees on drums. The trio's music is largely steeped in the
avant-garde tradition. An innovative mix of improvisation, jazz, and
contemporary classical music, this trio defies classification. The
unique sense and musical intelligence each player bring to their
instruments gives the trio a concise and fresh sound. Pieces may range
from subtly quiet to eruptive,
creating an exhilarating listening experience.
The trio consists of some of Seattle's brightest improvisers. Leader
Greg Sinibaldi is in high demand as an improviser and has worked with
Gunther Schuller, Jimmy Giuffre, Cuong Vu, and Joe Maneri. He also
plays with the Degenerate Art Ensemble, and Street of Crocodiles.
Reuben Radding, a recent transplant to the Northwest from New York, has
worked with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Roy Campbell, Andrea
Parkins, and many others. Bob Reese has worked on important
collaborative projects with the band BeeCraft and the Don Goodwin Group.
Nice Nice is a duo with Mark Shirazi on drums and Jason Buehler on
guitar and electronics. The music is generally textural, loopy, and
kind of
noisy, with an emphasis on rhythm. Influences include Squarepusher,
Steve
Coleman, Derek Bailey, John Zorn's Locus Solus, dub, no wave, etc.
Music is good.
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4/9/2001 Monday
Bill Horist (guitar in hand) just met and jousted with Plastiq Phantom
(armed with only a computer) at the FuseBall this February at
Consolidated Works. Much fire was generated but both artists came away
from the struggle with their super powers intact so we'll call it a
draw. The 2nd match between this climactic duo is scheduled for April 9
at I-Spy. Who will survive? Which one is the hero and which the
villain? You must attend to find out.
James and Travis will explore multiple-channel sound and music with
their octophonic installation piece, "Fou Reach". This piece will take
advantage of I-Spy's vast cavernous space, and will involve speakers
placed
strategically around the room. "Fou Reach" will manipulate the
placement
and motion of sounds in addition to the content of the sound itself.
Travis and James have done quadraphonic work independently but a
collaboration of this sort has thus been unattempted. Results may vary.
Travis plays guitar solo as Tiktok and in Electrochakra. James plays
keyboards in Ota Prota and sub_sonic.
The show will open with the fierce and beautiful solo cello work of
Serena Tideman.
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4/16/2001 Monday
UNTET - In September of 2000, Arrington de Dionyso, Warno Lee, Sonne
McCloud and Gregg Skloff gathered together in Olympia, WA, to interpret
the birth pangs of the universe into sounds audible to the human ear.
Their
research is conducted with the help of contralto, bass, alto, and Bb
clarinets;
and farsifa, vibraphone, upright bass, and found metal percussion. This
quartet, known in the scientific community as UNTET, investigates the
big bang theory by stretching out harmolodics and discord in order to
find the correct vibrations at which the inner ear resonates with the
hum of universal naissance.
The Oxygen Ensemble had its beginnings in 1999 at two separate times and
on two different coasts in the United States. In January 1999, Thomas
Bell went back to his college town of Tallahassee, FL, and put together
a group of
musicians that became known as The Oxygen Ensemble. In Seattle, Peter
Reilly also gathered together a group of musicians known as the
Attention Deficit Disorder ensemble, which began a weekly gig at The
Rainbow, in July 1999 on Monday nights. This ensemble performed free
form jazz excursions. The Oxygen Ensemble ended their east coast venture
and headed west to Seattle and soon after the ADD Ensemble merged into
the Oxygen Ensemble. The Oxygen Ensemble is Peter Reilly (guitar), Dave
Carter (trumpet), Franklin Mazzeo (drums, sampler), Thomas Bell (bass)
and Les (electronics). The ensemble put together a CD "Memorial Day
Highlights" and is finishing work on a second soon to be released CD
"Year of The Dragon"
3+2 presents a new concept in noise: 3 permanent percussionists against
2
other revolving noisemakers, specially chosen for their sonic bravery.
Each
performance features 3 : Eveline Graf, John Hawkley, and Eric Muhs
banging on drums, bedpans, saw blades, bowls, and bells. In April's
performance, +2 is Dennis Rea, guitar & Stuart McLeod, sampler.
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4/23/2001 Monday
Manalive, a one-man electronic band with an appetite for spontaneous
composition, flourishes with melodic improvisation and rhythmic
interaction.
Michael Stegner is the architect of this musical construct involving the
use
of electronic sequencers, samplers, and keyboards - achieving a totally
interchangeable mix of sounds, beats, and melodies. Manalive is a sound
collage that represents the everyday spontaneous actions that determine
individuality. This music calls on a vocabulary of sounds gathered over
the
course of time and communicates with an ingenuous new language.
Misskick has been seen spinning at Pitch Control at Aro.Space, Dialect
at the OK Hotel and Glitch at Aristocrats. Her sets can be also be heard
on Aural Fixations on Groovetech, in cahoots with Elemental, or tag
teaming with Miss Kito or as in this case Manalive.
Holz Für Europa - Woflgang Fuchs (Germany), Hans Koch (Switzerland) and
Peter van Bergen (Holland) all met at a concert of the Cecil Taylor
European
Orchestra having each arrived at free music through different routes;
Koch,
a classically trained clarinetist came to jazz through Coltrane,
Coleman,
Braxton and Butch Morris, van Bergen, a academically trained saxophonist
and Fuchs from Cecil Taylor and his own King Ubu Orchestra. Seven wind
instruments, from contrabass and bassclarinet to b-flat and a-flat
clarinets, from tenor to soprano through sopranino, between silence and
explosive intensity, between tender beauty and uninhibited
expressionism, between ingeniously written passages and free searching
movements within the still relatively unexplored areas of melody,
discordant sounds and noise, subtle, at times brittle sound scapes in
all stages of unrest, fragility and emphasis. Certainly the three
musicians in Holz Für Europa don't play music of rebellion or of open
riot, times are different now. The aesthetic of resistance has been
taken over by the aesthetics of priority of all musical means and
possibilities, in the unfolding as well as in the reduction. Music truly
of the moment.
Brent Arnold, Lori Goldston, Serena Tideman play their first show
together
as a cello trio here at SIL2K. Brent Arnold (THICKNESS, Project W) on
cello, Lori Goldston (Black Cat Orchestra and Nirvana!) cello, Serena
Tideman (Project Nada, THICKNESS) cello.
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4/30/2001 Monday
This Room, featuring Sue Ann Harkey, Bill Horist, Jim Knodle, and
Eveline
Muller-Graf, plays long collective improvisations by four premier
texturalists. Under the string panorama of guitarists Bill and Sue Ann,
Eveline converses with sharp metal objects, while trumpeter Knodle
circles
overhead. Founded in 1998, the group has played shows at the Union
Garage and Mr. Spot's Chai House.
Tokyo Sex Whale rides hard. Featuring Sam Mickens (guitar), Jherek
Bischoff (bass) and Herbie Kritzer (drums) Tokyo Sex Whale improvises
threads running from dark, sticky grooves to violent, penetrating
exorcisms. The group stands nearly twelve inches above most other
improvising groups, and in a relatively short amount of time has
hardened into a formidable unit. From pulsating attack to shuddering
release, Tokyo Sex Whale stretches the listener's musical muscle,
leaving it worn and ragged.
The SIL2K Ensemble will take another shot at Stuart McLeod's
"Interchange"
tonight. But this time with a larger chamber ensemble instead of the
more
intimate quartet.
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5/7/2001 Monday
Office Products are a duo from Portland, Oregon, whose music is a hybrid
of
free-improv, musique concrete, and sometimes freeform synthesizer and
turntablism techniques. They have developed a repartee' within a
high-speed
jazz-collage that is very caffienated and funny. The duo of electronic
drums/sampler/electronics and guitar/efx stretch their instruments to
fit a
wide spectrum of sounds into a bizarrely detailed improv dialogue.
Their
recordings have been released on labels such as Diskono and IllegalArt
alongside artists such as Hrvatski, People Like Us=, Boards of Canada,
Lesser and V/Vm.
Trans-Atlantic IceFloe starts circumnavigating our hemisphere with
glacial
intent and speed. Piloting this mass into the new millennium is Stuart
McLeod, Kevin Goldsmith and Robert Henson. Set all dials to the year
2001.
Bundle up. Stuart McLeod (drums, sampler) curates the weekly
experimental
series SIL2K at I-Spy and plays in the SIL2K Ensemble, Sub_Sonic,
Resonants
and Gamelan Northwest. Kevin Goldsmith performs as Intonarumori and
owns
and operates Unit Circle Records. Robert Henson is a member of the
SIL2K
Ensemble and curates the new music series at Consolidated Works.
Goat Faux is a twisted little trio featuring Bill Horist and Ed Petry on
guitars and Mike Peterson on drums. Not a real goat.
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5/14/2001 Monday
Moonbabies are a Swedish duo comprised of Ola Frick and Carina
Johansson.
They will make their first visit to the USA in April/May of 2001 and
perform
several concerts in support of their debut CD June and Novas, released
by
Duckweed Records of Seattle. Moonbabies will perform a set of
experimental
underwater moods at I-Spy on Monday, May 14. Listeners can expect a
variety
of sonic atmospheres including elements of electronica, traditional
guitar/bass, samples, tape loops, xylophone, and co-ed vocals. Their CD
is
featured at listening stations at all Cellophane Square, Sonic Boom,
Easy
Street, and Music Millennium locations.
See also: www.duckweedrecords.com "...An impressive marriage of
traditional indiepop and modern electronic production" 4 stars - AMG,
All
Music Guide "Our young Swedes break a lot of new ground, using
technology
as an expressive too... It is also the non-tonal palette that lends
itself
ever so effectively to communicating the adventures of Ola Frick and
Carina
Johansson." - INDIEPORT
Clocked OUT (Australia) - The Clocked-Out Duo began performing their
engaging mixture of contemporary music, improvisation, visual kinetics,
sound sculpture and electro-acoustic experiments in 1997. Since then
they
have been presenting concerts and collaborating with creative musicians,
artists, and dancers around the globe. In concerts like "Glimpses" they
create a seamless choreography of lighting and staging, moving without
pause
from one piece to the next and leading the audience through an intricate
web
of unexpected turns. The styles range from pulse-driven mindscapes and
microsonic soundscapes to mindbending acoustical phenomenology, spastic
physical improvisation and intricate vocal-percussion phonetics. The
staggering breadth of their repertoire encompasses the esoteric
complexity
of Brian Ferneyhough while embracing the ironic novelty of Screamin' Jay
Hawkins. The Clocked Out Duo perform "sophisticated, avant-garde music
that
is both intellectually and emotionally stimulating" says the Herald Sun,
Melbourne. Their work represents "a much needed direction for
progressive,
experimental music" says the Laugardavar, Reykjavic. They have performed
throughout Australia and the USA, in Iceland, Spain, and China at a wide
variety of venues including concert halls, night clubs, and
universities.
Their extensive 2000 tour included performances in the Festival
Internacional de Musica i Dansa Improvisades in Barcelona, The Empty
Bottle
in Chicago and New Music 2000 Festival in LA.
Philip Gayle (Houston)- Born November 10, 1969 - guitarist. Played in
funk/rock/folk/blues/punk/country bands on and off for 16 years. Self
taught on guitar, piano, percussion until 1982. Studied percussion from
1982-84. "Schooled" in rock, blues, folk/country, and punk guitar.
Studied
guitar with Jonathan Hall, Ray Wilson, Preston Reed and Erich Avinger
from
1982 through 1990. First began playing experimental solo guitar in
mid-eighties and developed own style of acoustic-improv guitar/vocal at
the
Blue Zone Art Space in Kichijoji, Tokyo, Japan from 1990-1994. Played 3
times a week there for almost 4 years. Played 10 consecutive nights at
Blue
Zone Art Space in Tokyo, Japan 1991. Played 14 consecutive nights at
the
Blue Zone in Tokyo, Japan to coincide with improvised painted poem
exhibition dedicated to Kenneth Patchen, March, 1992
Boris Hauf (Vienna) - Founder of efzeg, co-founder of pull my daisy,
member
of ensemble 68, member of nouvelle cuisine, plays/records with fuckhead.
Has received many international grants and prizes. Co-operations with
lots
of VERY famous people. "...the composed themes are awkward and
burlesque,
the music seems to pose questions that are never quite answered- and
nevertheless the music makes its form of performance intelligible"
--wiener zeitung (January 1998) "...ascetic, abstract soundscapes tempt
with unconventional habitus and doubling lines." "...playfully and
joyfully
the sounds, scrapes of melodies and strains are posed into space. lines
are
drawn, timbres tasted; smart circumspection and economy in the
concept...
cause slim transparent soundscapes. the consistency of the soundscape is
for
the benefit of avoiding expressive extremes."
--concerto (dec. 1998) "...most precisely designed suprisingly tight
sets
of a astoundingly compact texture, comprehensible and adventurous sound
structures." --noe nachrichten, klosterneuburg 09/2000
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5/21/2001 Monday
8:00 PM
SIL2K & SFADI present
"Bare Bones" benefit for Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance &
Improvisation
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5/28/2001 Monday
Ernesto Diaz-Infante received an MFA in music composition from
California
Institute of the Arts, where he studied with and Wadada Leo Smith. He
has
worked in residence at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale
(CIRM), Villa Arson (both in Nice, France), Millay Colony for the Arts,
Centrum, Villa Montalvo, New York Mills Arts Retreat, Ucross Foundation,
and
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. An active performer, improviser, and
composer
of instrumental chamber music, he has had performances and radio
broadcasts
all over the world. He has performed with Jeff Arnal, Dan DeChellis,
David
Dvorin, Bruce Eisenbeil, Chris Forsyth, Morgan Guberman, Pat Harman,
Boris
Hauf, Steev Hise, Bill Horist, Paul Hoskin, Jeff Kaiser, Bob Marsh, Dick
Metcalf, Donald Miller, Kurt Newman, Nmperign, Dan Plonsey, Blaise
Siwula,
Damon Smith, Jack Wright, W.O.O Revelator and 99Hooker. His music is
recorded on Bottomfeeder, InstrumenTales, Pax, Pfmentum, Staalplaat,
Sweet
Stuff Media, and Zzaj.
Euphorbia features members of Little LuAnn and Mutant Data Orchestra.
The
last time Euphorbia played at SIL2K, the music congealed into a little
blob
in the center of the room. As the group played on, the blob grew. It
eventually took the form of a street lamp, the kind that would turn
itself
off with it's own light. Slowly it would heat back up to a steady
bright
glow only to suddenly go dark and start all over again. When Euphorbia
stopped playing, the lamp drifted off the edge of the world, and to this
day
floats through the universe, continuing its eternal cycle. Euphorbia
is:
Ffej (analog synthesizer), Mishka (cello and vocals) and Corey Pfaff
(guitar).
The SIL2K Ensemble will do something odd on this evening.
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