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New Futures Audio Workshop: improv, electronic and acoustic experiments
Tuesday: 2-18-03: 8pm-12am
136 Taylor, San Francisco
Price >> FREE
**All artists and organizers are donating there time and talent for the good
of the collective group. This is how communitites are built.
Featuring:
-Alan Imberg
-Ernesto Diaz-Infante
-Eugene Rodis (The Luxury Tax)
-Joseph Zitt
-Kiya Babzani
-LX Rudis
-Lance Grabmiller
-Michael Paine
-Moe! Staiano
-Peter Nyboer
-Peter Valsamis
-Scott Hill
-Stephen Ruiz (Zygote)
more info:
http://forum.neuralocity.com
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Select Artists Bios:
LX Rudis:
lx rudis is an artist and worker. he is at present active in both
commercial and underground media in the san francisco bay area. On the 18th
hr'll use 2 turntable emulators and a mixer. He may bring something that
looks like a theremin along.Of the great Roman writers Horace had least
sympathy with him; yet he testifies to the high esteem in which he was held
during the Augustan age. Ovid expresses the grounds of that esteem when he
characterizes him as: "Ingenio maximus, arte rudis."
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Peter Valsamis
Born in Montreal, Peter Valsamis began playing the piano at the age of six,
but soon moved to the drums. Concurrently, he developed a sensitivity to
sound that drew him to record and manipulate sound on tape. Now based in
Oakland, California, Valsamis continues to nurture a wide range of
interests. As a drummer, he has presented his music to concert audiences in
Europe, Asia and North America, performing with Malcolm Goldstein, Steve
Lacy, Cecil Taylor and Don Preston. He has been Artist-in-Residence at the
Banff Centre for the Arts and has recent CD releases with piano virtuoso
Dana Reason and the influential Trance Mission. Valsamis' electroacoustic
compositions include a full length soundtrack for the award winning
experimental film re:Cycle by Ken Doolittle. Valsamis received his M.F.A. in
Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. While at Mills
Peter studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, William Winant, and Leo
Smith and received the prestigious Hellman Scholarship in Performance.
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Stephen Ruiz (Zygote)
Stephen Ruiz (aka Zygote) uses the mechanized process of electronic music
production and combines the expression of complex human feelings to create
sound art. The tools of his output are computers, tape recorders, wires and
other conduits of noise. His sound transcends the inhuman element of
"technologically enhanced" production methods so vital in the world of
electronic music producers, and in it's place submits raw and unfiltered
emotion. While exploring the idea of personal expression through the cold
exterior of machines, he takes the concepts of compositional
indetereminancy, generative music and
evolving cellular automata and humanizes them. The end result is populist
music of emotional depth that illicits response via technology. Having
trained in percussion and guitar, his compositional methods are rooted in
structured narrative that are constantly being mutated under the pressure of
new forms of expression.
Stephen has releases on Under the Radar Records and Alectric Records
(Canada) and is the founding organizer of The "Under the Radar" experimental
music and video events in San Francisco.
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Alan Imberg
Ambient/Experimental guitarist Alan Imberg has strived from the outset of
his career to mix the seemingly opposed musical textures of dark guitar with
ethereal ambient qualities. Evidence of this can be found in the artists he
refers to as early influences (Michael Schenker, early Metallica, Pink
Floyd, Vangelis, and Brian Eno). From 1986 to 1992, he would play in a
series of Heavy Metal bands, concentrating more on "headbanging" and
performing in clubs throughout California.?
March 2000 marked the debut commercial solo offering from Alan Imberg when
Dark Duck Records included his piece "Overview of Water" on the CD
compilation "Ambient Landscapes 2: Passage to Chill". In 2001, Alan followed
this up by establishing his own recording label (Brun's Son's Music) and
releasing his 1st full-length CD titled "A Collection of Thoughts". Both
offerings received critical praise and established Alan Imberg as an
up-and-coming presence in the Ambient and Experimental music community.
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Joseph Zitt
Joseph Zitt's vocal performance combines a background in traditional
synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques.
While he often approaches performance non-verbally, focusing on the vocal
sounds themselves rather than the meanings of words, he also includes moving
and surprising uses of text in work that straddles the line between music
and poetry. In his solo and ensemble performances and workshops, he works to
create music that is both complex and clear, exemplifying the best that each
person can bring to free and structured improvisation.
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Peter Valsamis
Hi, I'll be playing drums.
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Peter Nyboer
Peter Nyboer is an audio and video artist and programmer living in Oakland,
CA.? Recent work has been focused on creating commercially available
applications for audio and video mixing using Cycling74's Max/MSP.? He has
started to focus more on playing live music using his "Girl" loop mixer,
playing in large and small improvisation ensembles in the Bay Area.? With
source material such as answering machines, analog synthesizers,
poorly-played clarinet, and thrift-store records, Peter makes sense of this
sonic diaspora by processing it with similar effects, introducing rhythmic
structure, and finding related tangents among the samples' native sounds.
Peter also performs live video for underground events and small clubs,
often mixing and processing the visual details of the urban environment
that are sometimes ignored by the passerby.
His applications can be found at
http://www.yowstar.com and
http://girl.yowstar.com
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Kiya \"i am a copier\" Babzani
IDM minus 25 years. Iran, birth of a child. Babzani, Kiya the 1st, aka The
Honorable Mr. Dr. Senor Diplomat Kiya the Horrible Esq. - Chief Medical
Examiner. Language please. English, Farsi, Fanglish, represent. Famous?
Nope. In-famous? Definitely Not. Feed me? Please, but the burritos and women
must be mojado.? Harmonica? Been there. Accordion? Done that. Now playing?
Turntable(ism), sounds of the mouth, guitar maybe, DSP? definitely. Also see
reference book #A-32c5 section G - re: beat boxing. Please direct inquiries
to iamacopierltd. aka do not shake the toner. Be thrifty, be efficient and
feel free to add or remove turnips or rum depending on what your definition
of "play" is.
i'll be making mouth sounds through a mic run through a sound processor.
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ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
Lives and works in San Francisco, California USA
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and
improviser is an active member of the vital San Francisco experimental music
scene. Born in Salinas, California, Diaz-Infante's early musical life began
with private piano lessons and in high school jazz, marching and concert
bands, garage rock bands and Mexican conjunto/pop bands. In his teens, he
became immersed in writing poetry, drawing, playing synthesizer and guitar,
and lo-fi 4-track recording of songs. He received his formal musical
education from the University of California Santa Barbara College of
Creative Studies (1992-94) and California Institute of the Arts (1994-96),
where he studied a variety of music, composition, electronic music, film
music, Gamelan, modern dance, and performance art. Diaz-Infante has composed
contemporary chamber music for solo, ensemble and orchestra. He has been
awarded residencies at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale
(CIRM), the Villa Arson (both in Nice, France), The Millay Colony for the
Arts, Centrum, Villa Montalvo, The New York Mills Arts Retreat, The Ucross
Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. He has recorded more than 15
CDs of music, collaborated with numerous musicans, and he has had
performances and radio broadcasts all over the world.
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Lance Grabmiller
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1975. Studied viola, cello, alto saxophone,
tenor saxophone and music composition (in that order) before putting all
formal studies on hold with the discovery of his first four track tape
recorder at the age of 14. Using various tapes, effects, objects,
microphones, amplifiers, razor blades and any instruments that could be
begged or borrowed, he created quite a din in the Midwest, most notably in
his collaborations with Shannon Fields which included such ?bands? as
Alice?s Offspring, Requiem (which included a revolving cast of dozens) and
HSoA (with Martin Nieznanski), the last of which culminated in a gigantic
performance noise nightmare that nearly destroyed the Gizmo in Galesburg, IL
in 1994.
In 1998, after working on ?tape-wrecks? and selling off every instrument he
owned in his bedroom, he ventured to move his music concrete into the
computer realm. It all went downhill from there. He worked as producer with
various elements of the Midwest?s dark-ambient and industrial scenes
(including remixes and collaborations with Paved in Skin and C17H19N03)
until his relocation to San Francisco in 2001. In 2002, Lance?s first CD was
released. Titled 'Anthropology? and assembled by John Bergin of various
tracks completed between 1999 and 2001, hovering between the various
influences of Pierre Henry, Morton Subotnik and the then dying ?Glitch? and
?Drum n Bass? factions of electronic music.
Currently producing and currating events throughout the Bay Area while
trying to straddle the gap between the ?avant-garde? and the ?electronic.?
He has played in improvisational groups with Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent
Romus, Philip Gelb, Joseph Zitt, LX Rudis, Dina Emerson and many more. He
has also opened for such notable electronic acts as Kid606, Sagan, Wobbly,
Uprock and Meg Lee Chin among others. Someday he will teach himself to play
Fugazi covers on his weasing accordion and start that record label he has
always
talked about. He also refuses to teach himself to DJ in order to join the
electronic elite and was last seen burning vinyl to keep warm.
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