The Denver Atonal Festival 0.005
:sound: Monday.Sept.24th
:structure: Tuesday.Sept.25th
doors @ 7pm $10
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quoted 1 line Atonal Info
>>Atonal Info
:sound:24th.monday
Kim Cascone (Raster-Noton/fallt/Mille Plateaux)
j.frede (Ritual Document Release)
Twine (Bip-Hop/Hefty/Komplott)
Terrorstate (Ritual Document Release)
Matt Bonal (Ritual Document Release)
virus (noriv productions)
dj.gundaba
litmixer software demonstration and
Q/A session from Trace Reddell PHD
:structure:25th.tuesday
Crix Madine (obliq records)
Inerex (Ritual Document Release)
Gerald Wenzel (application specific/phthalo)
Inether (backwards records)
David Brady (Ritual Document Release)
Insolar (Ritual Document Release)
dj.jason potratz (phthalo)
special debut performance by iff (metronome beats)
Visuals for both nights by Hermes Plane
Radiovalve will be recording and archiving the festival on line at
http://www.radiovalve.com
@
The Gothic Theater
3263 S.Broadway
http://www.gothictheater.com
tickets availble at the door or
online at
http://www.ticketweb.com
the Denver Post is doing a feature on the Atonal Festival in the Sunday 23rd
edition, you can read it online at
http://www.denverpost.com
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quoted 1 line timelines
>>timelines
monday:24th
doors @ 7pm:
7-8 dj.gundaba
8-8:30 virus
8:35-9 matt bonal
9:05-9:30 terrorstate
9:45-10 Litmixer demo:Prof.Trace Reddell
10:15-11:45 Twine
11:50-12:10 j.frede
12:15-12:40 Kim Cascone
12:40-??dj.gundaba
tuesday:25th
doors @ 7pm:
7-8 dj.jason potratz
8-8:30 insolar
8:35-9 inether
9:05-9:30 david brady
9:45-10 debut performance by iff (metronome beats)
10:15-11:35 gerald wenzel
11:40-12:10 inerex
12:15-1:00 crix madine
12:40-??dj.jason potratz
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>>post Atonal Event
Thursday:27th 5pm-8pm: $5
MCA/OpenLate presents:
Kim Cascone: lecture + performance
j.frede: live audio
twine: live audio
Kim Cascone will be performing, different visuals+audio
than from the Atonal festival, followed by a Lecture.
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quoted 1 line artists presskits
>>artists presskits
:sound: sept.24th
Kim Cascone
Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received
his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in
the early 1970?s, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the
New School in New York City. In the 1980?s, after moving to San Francisco
and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David
Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.
Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a
label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.?s premier
electronic music label. At the height of Silent?s success, he sold the
company in early 1996 to pursue his love of sound design and went to work
for Thomas Dolby?s company Headspace as a sound designer and composer.
After a two stint at Headspace he began working for Staccato Systems as the
Director of Content where he oversaw the design of new sounds for games
using algorithmic synthesis. Since 1980, Kim has released more than 15
albums of electronic music and has worked as a collaborator and producer on
numerous projects including Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Panacea/m2, Merzbow,
Haruomi Hosono among others. Cascone has performed at the International
Computer Music Conference (Ann Arbor), New Forms Series (Leipzig),
Lovebytes Festival (UK), Micro 2 Mutek (Montreal), Transmissions Festival
(North Carolina), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg) and performed new work
on a 6 city European tour last year.
Cascone was one of of the co-founders of the microsound list
(
http://www.microsound.org)
and writes for Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) and Artbyte Magazine.
Type=Performance
Keywords=laptop/glitch/microsound/experimental/live electronic visuals
Visuals=experimental/abstract video created by Kathleen Cascone
?Dust Theories?
small particulate matter that is shed when no longer needed?Cantor?s
dust: a set whose length measure is zero yet is infinite?Duchamp?s dust
as photographed by Man Ray?extraneous code that is covertly used to build
virtual worlds in ?Permutation City? by Greg Egan?dust: an addictive drug
with telepathic effects from a popular science-fiction television
show?debris?residue?sonic dust?sonic residue?the sounds we
mentally toss aside when filtering them out of our environment?the sounds
that result from iterative processing?dust is infinitely nothing.
j.frede
The audio works of j.frede have gone from lo fi noise loops to his current
work in the surround sound field that can involve up to eight speaker setups
creating a 3D audio environment. J.frede has also done a large amount of
work with source materials such as the ?Acoustics series? using the acoustic
sounds of glass, metal, water, electricity as well as the ?AUDIO JOURNAL?
that was conducted on the European tour in 1998 where he used only the
recorded sounds of each city processed, looped, and manipulated creating a
different show for every city. Accomplishments also include touring the
United States twice, Performing in a large array of interesting venues that
include the BOULDER PLANETARIUM, under the COLFAX VIADUCT, on the MS
STUBNITZ a six level ship in Germany, a closed down MASONIC TEMPLE, as well
as a two-hour audio installation at BARNES & NOBLE Bookstore, at the
Telluride International Experimental Cinema Exposition, the Boulder Museum
of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
Currently j.frede is working as a sound developer for Sonic Foundry,
recording a ?Loops for Acid? CD-ROM due for release in January 2002, as well
as recording a full length CD with legendary minimal composer Francisco
Lopez, due out at the end of this year. He is also working on a CD with
David Nerson a piano tuner from Denver Co, this work will consist of
binaural recordings of piano tuning, the recordings will be edited and
arranged by j.frede concentrating on the oscillations and resonance, a 5 cd
series titled ?The fall into sleep? is also scheduled to be released in
2001/2002, this series was recorded as a companion to sleep featuring 7
hours of ambient soundscape work. June 22-24 2001 one of j.frede?s
installations was featured at Assemble a electronic music festival in
Thunder basin, Wyoming, the installment is titled ?Urban Ambience Relocation
Project? that consists of 8 stereo UARP boxes playing field recordings done
in the Denver/Metro area to create a Urban atmosphere in a Rural setting.
Another j.frede installation will be on display at the Museum of
Contemporary Art/Denver titled ?The 12-note Composition for Sine?s? a sound
design installation based on the piano composition method of the same name.
Adapted for sine wave?s to explore the change in the audio properties when
multiple sines are played simultaneously. The installation consists of four
compact disc players, eight speakers, and the composition divided into four
sections. The audio will consist of unobtrusive sine waves that move in and
out of each other, working with a large range of sound including frequencies
that are inaudible to the human ears. Thus, creating an atmosphere that is
thought provoking and interactive, due to its acoustic properties.
www.ritualdocument.com/jfrede
Twine
Twine is Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder. Chad lives in Boulder, CO, USA,
and works as a
sound designer/composer for a video game company. Chad does performances in
Colorado and
surrounding areas. Greg Malcolm is based in Cleveland, OH, USA, works as a
digital audio engineer,
and does performances in that region. Both Greg and Chad collaborate on
studio projects, and they
have a kind of post-modern digital age working relationship. The Twinesound
is a structure meets
noise vs. melody sound, always morphing into something new? glitchy beats
collapse into warm
swarms of static, long atmospheric drones become abstract soundscapes where
cold dark ambience
and stark angular structures meet, a sound most closely associated with
labels such as Raster-Noton,
Mego, Mille Plateaux, Thrill Jockey and A-Musik, for example.
In 2000 Twine won the Cleveland Free Times award for best act in the
electronic genre, and their debut
album :reference: was chosen as the #2 album of the year. Twine was again
nominated for the same
award in 2001. Twine has performed all over the country and recently
internationally as well, performing
with such renown acts as Thomas Brinkmann, Mark America, Oval, While, Faust,
Mouse on Mars,
Janeck Shaefer, Slicker, Richard Devine, Troum, the Boxhead Ensemble,
Marumari, Chicago Underground
Duo and Francisco Lopez, and at everything from outdoor festivals, art
galleries and academic shows to
chill-rooms at rave-type events
Terrorstate
Terrorstate is the ambient exp. project of New Mexico based artist Chris
Aka. Chris Aka
has been playing his brand of drone based noise for over 5 years releasing
several tapes,
cd's, minidisks, and several collaborations all in hand made special
packaging.Pre-Terrorstate
he had several releases under the title Internal Iliac. Together with fellow
Ritual Document
label mates M.Bonal,Inerex, and J.Frede, Terrorstate has played over 40 live
shows with 2 west
coast tours the Telluride Exp Film Festival,Boulder Museum of Contemporary
arts, and the Denver
Atonal Festival to name a few.All of his sound collages are fueled by a
direct sense of purpose
no 2 shows are ever the same all are constructed specifically for the venue
and the audience.
These 15 minute to 2 hour sound pieces have been based around ideas ranging
from Rape,
Vegetarianism,Murder,the Taliban,the Koran,war in yugoslavia,the isreal
palestinian conflict,
Christian television,space travel and so on.
Currently Chris is working on several projects one with M.Bonal under the
name Sons of the Wolf
the premier album will be a collaborative 3cd box set.The experimental 16mm
film Chicago Skylights
by German director Klaus Eisenlohr with soundtrack composed by
Terorstate,J.Frede,M.Bonal,and
Inerex will be out this fall.The B52's tribute double cd on Nihilist Records
has just been released
with a dark "Planet Claire" cover track by Terrorstate.Terrorstate will also
be releasing an online
only album "Reeds" within the next month.Look forward to both a Terrorstate
and Sons of the Wolf
full length cd release before the end of the year
Matt Bonal
Matt Bonal has been creating experimental sound compositions for close to
two years now. The beginnings of which came from collaborations with more
traditional artists, working with them to create complimentary pieces of
electronic soundscape. This led into development of a sound aesthetic and an
every-growing set of ideas upon which the sound is based. An admiration for
technology and logic, sometimes combined with emotive elements that are felt
to be parallel, provides the fuel for much of the work that is created. The
dichotomy that exists in everything is fascination.
Marc Crovella (Semuda) and Matt Bonal worked together as Parapet creating
compositions that ranged from chaotic freeform noise to structured and tone
based. Bonal worked as glacier pursuing a sound closer to the latter,
ultimately deciding to drop the moniker. Current work is comprised of
treated field recordings combined with compositions composed through several
methods of synthesis. He has collaborated with terrorstate as intruder and
worked with j.frede on a joint project. He performed at the Telluride
International Experimental Cinema Exposition, providing ambient sound
between films and at various events throughout the festival. He has also
participated in an experimental audio exhibition by the Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Art. He will be featured in the upcoming mnml series, which he
helped conceptualize, hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
Virus
First started working with recording sound experiments after reading and
hearing the works of the late WS Burroughs, and the recordings of early
dadaists sound experiments of the late twenties. Formed the project, Madison
County Sound Labs in 1983.
1987 ? Started releasing and distributing all MCLS releases along with other
local artists and various compilations under Infekted Produkions label.
1998- roducti roductions starts printing cybernetic renisance, a magazine
for electronic music. Its intent is to report on both low tech noise and
high tech beat music.
Gulf War D day, First started recordings with Dave Clark.
001-Currently performing and recording solo material. Also remastering
previous work with Dave Clark, while working on new on and recording
material.
Trace Reddell PHD
?I'll perform my multimedia work, LITMIXER, which will be featured in
Electronic Book Review's upcoming special issue, music/sound/noise. LITMIXER
is a kind of "groovebook," a literary sampler with 14 banks of spoken word
samples, plus additional banks for "glitch beats" and "ambient beds," as
well as five reverb settings. The LITMIXER allows the user to create
on-the-fly remixes of the "Plato's Pharmacy" set used in the SLS
performance.? Taken from Trace?s bio site, also check out the litmixer at
:structure: sept.25th
Crix Madine
As a new recording solo artist for Obliq Recordings, this Colorado based
musician has something new to offer to the world of instrumental electronic
music. Right out of the gates he is offering up immense syncopated rhythms,
melodious basslines and layered counter-melodies. Crix Madine's music often
revisits the nostalgic world of early nineties electronic listening music
all the while fusing and warping it to his own modern style.
Crix Madine's inspirations for writing tracks tend to originate from his own
visual memories and experiences. He sees his music as a product of his own
environment. Much of his surroundings are mountainous terrain with white
capped peaks, alpine rocky slopes and forest. These elements of nature have
the same type of affect on him in much of the same way that Detroit techno
producers talk of influences of the urban experience and immersion in the
life of the city. In their case, the synthetic musical output parallels the
man-made environment of the city. But in the case of Crix Madine's output,
there is a contradiction existing between natural surroundings and the
making of electronic music. The juxtaposition of nature and synthetic sound
is his inspiration. So the challenge is translating visual physical space
to something more abstract such as musical composition.
When considering his production style he sees himself more as an assembler
and programmer than a musician. For him it is more about mastering the art
of sound construction and audio synthesis. Crix Madine sees it essential to
assemble a palette of basic constructs and elements allowing him to paint
the picture shifting his focus to composition, sound placement and layering.
In the end, there is a hope that some musical value was produced and
successful in provoking the senses of the listener.
Listening to the new works of Crix Madine is like coming out of the curve
from the inertia of electronic music of the past 30 years. He attributes
his musical inspiration to the likes of Daniel Miller, Kirk DeGiorgio,
Richard James, Kraftwerk, Black Dog and composer Phillip Glass.
Crix Madine recently did live performances in NYC and Denver area. The
Artist and Computer 3 (SiN) compilation features a track from Crix Madine
called ?White Plume Mountain?. Upcoming releases include a debut 7? EP on
Obliq Recordings (EP OBQ-EP04) slated for release this fall. Also look for
tracks by Crix Madine on the upcoming Obliq Compilation on K2o Records
(Germany).
Inerex
inerex is the solo-project of carlos archuleta. the sound encompasses
intelligent techno, glitch beats, and mechanical ambient beats. inerex
started off as the project locutus , under that name c.archuleta had 5 cd-r
releases plus 1 cd-r split release with terrorstate.he has also performed
live in an array of venues including the boulder museum of contemporary
art(boulder, co), 7hz(san francisco), insomnia(abq), and also live on radio
1190. this past winter c.archuleta played the 2000 denver atonal festival
and also appeared at the 2000 telluride international experimental film
festival where he performed live along with ritual document release artists
j.frede, terrorstate, and glacier(matt bonal). in march of 2001 he
participated in the ritual document release west coast drone and bass tour.
c.archuleta has done soundtrack work for theatre productions, performance
art pieces, and film; such as the albuquerque american shakespeare project
and play work for the university of new mexico theatre department.
http://ritualdocument.com/inerex
Gerald wenzel
"Until October of 1997, I found myself content making music through the use
of conventional midi hardware and software. However, in October, I found
myself exceeding the data transmission rates of the midi gear I was using.
Therefore I was unable to create a physical representation of my musical
ideas because of technical limitations. With my studio suddenly becoming
useless for documenting my musical ideas, I found myself turning toward more
unconventional means to create music. I disassembled everything in my studio
except for my Power Macintosh. I replaced all of my midi hardware with
computer programming manuals and began programming the sounds and sequences
directly into my computer through the use of various sound synthesis
techniques. The tracks I have submitted for the Flora and Fauna ep are the
results of my programming efforts, my new approach to music."
David Brady
David Brady is an installation artist from Denver, Co. Brady has had
exhibitions for his post-pop art at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Rule Contemporary and Modern, Pirate gallery and the Museum of Contemporary
Art/Denver. The audio work of David Brady is minimal by nature, using a very
small amount of equipment, Brady produces thick, heavy beats and feedback
texture scapes, one of his primary tools is a gameboy equipped with an
adapted game cartridge that acts as a sequencer which contains basic drum
sounds. Brady?s newest installation/audio endeavor is the ?sound chair? on
display at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver currently playing the audio
of j.frede?s ?unprepaired piano?. The chair allows the listener to mix
between two cd players giving the experience an interactive element. Brady?s
audio was also recently featured at the mnml series at MCA/Denver.
inether
Patrick Urn started doing sound in 1998. His first show being at house of
bands in New Mexico. He then moved to Denver, CO and started doing shows
with Ezra Nye at the Chernobyl Tone Gallery under the name of Zahgurim
Therom. After that, he worked with Lucio Duran in a short lived project
called Asphyixia, then he formed In Ether.
Patrick has also done solo shows at parties such as Missile Silo at Barnes &
Noble and is currently working on a solo-set for the MNML festival at the
Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Pat continues his solo work to this day.
He is also working on other projects such as the dream life of the blind (an
extensive project involving a sample montage of live interviews of blind
people and their dreams) and an ambient, idm, glitch redention of "night on
bald mountain " by mussgorsky.
Ezra Nye in 1994 was playing with a group that he formed called My Friend
Maggot (death rock) that was short lived, but then later Ezra played for
another group by the name of Wither Stench, also punk rock. Then in 1998 he
came to Denver to help form Zahgurim Theorem which lasted for about six
months and played shows primarily at Chernobyl Tone Gallery. During this
time, Z.T. played with bands such as Kismet, Slow Color Orgasm, Leathered
Hymen, and J. Frede...
Lucio Duran in 1989 started a studio project with Scott (NOBODY) Hosterman
lasting several years with numerous unreleased audio archives. 1992 was a
member of Xenophile a tribal, live drum act that lasted about a year. Then
about four years later he got involved in a project named Atonal Patterns
which was also a live tribal drum group that lasted for a year...
insolar
insolar is the project of c.archuleta and tony wissing. it is composed from
digital soundscapes and natural soundscapes. the project even encompasses
the soundscapes of rythmic patterns. the primary function of this project is
to expose the ambience and beauty in what some consider a cluster of noise
and sounds. the duo will be releasing their debut cd on ritual document
release with a scheduled release at the 2001 atonal festival.
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quoted 1 line links
>>links
cascone links
http://www.anechoicmedia.com
http://deadtech.net/kim_cascone.htm
http://www.fallt.com/dust/
http://fals.ch/fXz/z1.pl?fz=138
artists links:
http://ritualdocument.com
http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede
http://ritualdocument.com/terrorstate
http://ritualdocument.com/inerex
http://ritualdocument.com/mattbonal
http://www.geraldwenzel.com
http://www.obliq.net
http://www.inether.com
http://www.du.edu/~treddell/litmixer
http://www.du.edu/~treddell
http://www.radiovalve.com
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