Greetings all...a show to take notice of...
9:00 pm Wednesday, October 24th - $6
Takagi Masakatsu, Jon Sheffield, Inkblot & Shedding
at Artswatch, 2337 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY
Takagi Masakatsu is a video maker who creates music. Takagi Masakatsu is a
musician who creates video. or maybe Takagi Masakatsu is a documentary
filmmaker. Which ever one you prefer, Takagi is an artist who is wholly
dedicated to exposing and preserving the human experience at the start of
our burgeoning new century. Bringing new meaning to the phrase "think
globally, act locally," Takagi has travelled the world collecting pieces of
sound and video in which he constructs a fluid and timeless snapshot of our
current human condition. Takagi employs samples of speaking children with
other "real" sounds such as the weather, his own piano playing, and various
recorded sounds throughout his and other people's homes. After collecting
this raw material,Takagi blends it into his laptop arrangements and
manipulations to create a very new type of ambient music. Info at:
http://homepage.mac.com/utono and
http://www.carparkrecords.com
Jon Sheffield "It's Been So Long Since I've Seen the Ocean" (Tomlab,
Germany)
After wracking my brain for weeks now trying to think of what Sheffield's
work reminds me of, it finally came to me this afternoon: it's most like the
music and sounds that the Magnetic Fields put on "Distant Plastic Trees".
That electric-yet-friendly sound, loop-driven but not always predictably so.
Melancholy but optimistic, Sheffield's sounds and rhythms spring from the
acoustic, then shift somewhat, like a spinning top moves laterally across a
floor but doesn't stop its circular motion. This approach is a lot like that
of Max Tundra or labelmates Sack & Blumm, with a giddy and wry charm that's
neither too cute nor too sweet. [RE] Other Music, NYC Info at:
http://www.tomlab.de
Inkblot incorporates highly textural and organic experimental electronic
compositions with playfully bubbly beats. With more emphasis on warm
melodies than most electronic artists these days, Austin's one-man
future-pop deconstructuralist, melts rhythms into vapor and gluing them back
together between bits of found sounds, self-sampled instrumentation on
guitar, synthesizer, or tinkling piano pieces. Think of a combination of to
rococo rot and B. Fleischmann or Mouse on Mars and Steve Reich. A beautiful
edition to any collection and a must for fans of releases on the Morr or
Sonig labels. Info at:
http://www.tomlab.de and
http://www.audiodregs.com
Shedding is Connor Bell of Parlour and Paden. Seeing an opening to break
from a rock and roll format, Shedding currently is investigating laptop
based music generation which is often abstract and always loose enough to
allow some improvisation in the moment. Shedding is limitless an undefined
sound, an outlet of complete freedom. Think pleasant. Info at:
http://www.parlour.net/shedding
ARTSWATCH
2337 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206
502-893-9661
artswatch@hotmail.com
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paden / v. sirin split cd out now!!!
shedding .
http://www.parlour.net/shedding .
parlour .
http://www.parlour.net .
momo and voks . ON THE WAY .
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