bremsstrahlung recordings presents:
"a day of attention"
11 performances by california based musicians who work in the vein of
"lowercase-sound" with a special multi-artist surround-sound collaborative
effort at the end.
the space will also be displaying photos, paintings, and video from some of
the performers as well as other local visual artists who take a rich,
understated approach to their art. temisan okpaku will be providing
video-art during the nighttime performances as well as debut a new work
during the dinner break.
__________________
date: sunday march 31st, 2002
time: 4pm - midnight
location: rocco [whoose cafe]
6320 santa monica blvd.
hollywood, california
323.462.8500
ticket: $7
due to the length of the event food and drinks will be provided at cost.
please arrive early, eat with us, and settle in for the evening. we
encourage people to bring pillows, blankets and/or whatever else makes them
comfortable.
___________________
background:
"if you run across someone who pays attention to sounds," said john cage in
his recording of indeterminacy III with david tudor on piano "you will find
that it's the quiet ones they find interesting." this showcase is offered
as supporting evidence of that claim. here are a collection of 11
california based artists who each, through their own unique paths have
arranged sounds in such a way that the audience would do well to pay
attention. although the sounds are often soft they are not intended for the
background.
"lowercase" is a term used by steve roden in 1998 to describe his personal
artistic aesthetic. "'lowercase music' bears "...a certain sense of quiet
and humility; it doesn't demand attention, it must be discovered. the work
might imply one thing on the surface but contain other things beneath. it's
the opposite of capital letters-loud things which draw attention to
themselves [morton] feldman is the perfect lowercase music; it seems
serene, but there is much going on beneath the quiet exterior." steve roden
james coleman set up the unmoderated discussion and announcement e-mail list
"lowercase-sound" to discuss "the disparate group of musics, sound art &
listening experiences that emphasize or include some or all of the
characteristics of low volume, silence,soundscape/environmental/ field
recordings, indeterminacy, psycho/acoustic treatments of space, environment
& context & possible relationships of this work to art in other media
i.e. painting, drawing & film & poetry."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lowercase-sound/
this event collects a diverse collection of artists from across california
who utilize a wide range of source material and working methods
[field-recordings, homemade software, sonification of data, extended
techniques with traditional instruments, etc] to pull the listener closer to
the moment at hand. many of artists have tracks on the soon forthcoming
"lowercase-sound 2002" compilation.
for more information please contact
info@lowercasesound.com
www.lowercasesound.com
___________________
schedule
4pm
doors open and people are free to wander and look at the art on the walls
(photos, paintings, etc)
5:00pm
bob sturm
tucker dulin + nick hennies
josh russell
jeffry roden
~7:00pm
~30 minute break-food/drinks
film by temisan okpaku
~7:30pm
civyiu kkliu
f100
quiet american
electric company
~15 minute break
~10:00
steve roden
shuttle358
akira rabelais
improvisational collaboration
~midnight-end
_____________
bios
bob l. sturm (san diego)
bob l. sturm is a computer-music composer and scientist working
in san diego. His recent work utilizes the sonification of scientific
data, such as particle systems and localized ocean movements. He is
interested in the inter-relationships of art and science and will soon be
pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in computer music research.
www.composerscientist.com
_____________
tucker dulin + nick hennes (san diego)
from louisville, ky, nicholas hennies has worked with stuart saunders smith,
herbert brün, and william moersch, and is currently studying with steven
schick at UC, San Diego. hennies has performed around the u.s. and in
england as a percussionist and improviser, premiering new many works by
composers including stuart saunders smith, radu malfatti, gerhard staebler
and st. louis composer, mark saric. in addition to performing and composing,
hennies is the proprietor of edition manifold, a small publishing company
that serves as a source for new experimental music. in the future edition
manifold will also begin to release recordings and books.
(www.editionmanifold.com)
tucker dulin has performed across the US with many musicians including bhob
rainey, benjamin zander, greg kelley, eddie prevost, john butcher, george
lewis, and ray anderson. currently he is working on a doctorate at UCSD in
trombone performance.
_____________
josh russell (san diego)
josh russell gently manipulates pure tones and field recordings of
soft, often unnoticed events to create a performance of delicate,
evolving sound-sculptures which rewards concentrated listening. he
founded the experimental sound label bremsstrahlung recordings which
focuses on publishing "egoless sound."
www.lowercasesound.com
_____________
jeffry roden (los angeles)
jeffry roden creates sounds that have been described as "elegant and precise
melodic permutations that highlight the sharp contemplative focus at the
root of improvisation." doug harvey, writer for the la weekly
also
"one of the hardest things in making soft music is to keep it interesting
and compelling. very beautiful and plaintive material that makes me think
immediately of durutti clumn, nick drake or arthur russell. highly
recommended."
"bart plentenga, programmer, other side of amsterdam radio:
_____________
civyiu kkliu (san diego)
from the series lll-lllllllllll, the first los angeles presentation of sound
work llllll. described as intricate, indifferent, forceful-- it is presented
with images of pieces of ships and water. Its source(s) and technique of
composition are not specified.
works by the artist are available or forthcoming on STAALPLAAT/bake records
(netherlands), banned productions (los angeles), and simballrec records (los
angeles).
As well, ck is a writer, with a book in production; and a photographer, with
works described as "quiet, un-alluding, with the aesthetic drama of abstract
formalism."
For inquiries contact: civyiu_kkliu@ipa.net
______________
f100 (los angeles)
f100 is a collaboration between julie fowells and bernard elsmere that
evolved from fowells' live violin improvisation and elsmere's experimental
work in sculpture and installation. writing and performing as a duet
between processed strings and computer manipulated sound, the duo have
recorded tracks for several compilaiton CDs and performance projects, most
recently the soundtrack for dancer/choreographer julie tolentino's "the
bottom project", performed live in manchester, new york and san francisco.
the piece included "10 states to permanent sleep," a multi-channel sound
installation exploring ideas of memory and hallucination in the space
betwwen waking and sleep.
http://www.juliefowells.com/f100/
_____________
quiet american (san francisco)
quiet american produces trips for the audio tourist. for this project aaron
ximm composes using field recordings exclusively. source sound, collected
while traveling, is fragmented and juxtaposed to emphasize the
telling,lovely or unexpected moments we mostly forget to hear.
http://www.quietamerican.org
_____________
electric company (los angeles)
brad laner has been creating engaging explorative music for over a decade.
first as the songwriter for the influential experimental rock band MEDICINE
and now in solo laptop form as electric company. he has released several
electric company albums on KID606's tigerbeat6 records as well as a 3" CD on
FALLT records.
_____________
steve roden (los angeles)
steve roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. his work includes
painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound. in the sound works;
objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through
electronics to create audio new spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. these
sound works present themselves with an aesthetic roden describes as "lower
case" - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.
roden has performed live improvised soundscapes in arts spaces, galleries,
museums, theatres, and other alternative spaces worldwide. the wire
magazine recently referred to roden's cd 'the radio' as "a particularly
modest form of genius", and included it in it's best of 2000 experimental
cd's.
_____________
shuttle358 (los angeles)
dan abrams (shuttle358) is a student of packaging at los angeles's art
center college of design, a fact that is reflected in the elegant simplicity
and organization of his music. known as the critically acclaimed artist
shuttle 358 on the ny based label 12k, dan abrams has created quite a stir
in the US minimal electronic scene due to his extraordinary releases on the
12k label. shuttle 358 uncovers dance music's archetype; be it techno,
trance, drum 'n' bass or downtempo - and shows them in their most sublime
state.
_____________
akira rabelais (los angeles)
dwelling in los angeles since 1990 akira rabelais has been coding sound and
graphic software, recording his own music, while doing time in west coast
educational institutions under the wing of electroacoustic fathers like tom
eerbe and larry polansky. though the author of a family of software
programs, his most prominent sound tool argeiphontes lyre (AL), a firm
favorite of electronic producers such as scanner and terre thaemlitz, is
used to effect disorienting shifts, mesmerizing merges and knotted splicing
between different samples. he has two releases on the acclaimed german
label rittornell and has performed throughout the us and europe.
www.akirarabelais.com
_____________
temisan okpaku (los angeles)
my work is concerned with boundaries. i regard unity [>] as the essence of
existence and difference [<] as the essence of perception. i create works
as vehicles intended to both stimulate and arrest experience- communication.
it is my intention to explore boundaries as systems in which movement exists
as unity time works flow from intention, designed to focus upon and collapse
boundaries in order to communicate directly.
educated at harvard, georgetown, university of sydney -australia, new school
for social research- ny, center for mediterranean studies -turkey,
university of southern california, and san francisco art institute he has
shown work in worldwide including wash dc, miami, la, new york, paris, and
new delhi.
_____________
thanks for your attention.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org