This will be the final performance just a week before Eli and I drive West. I'll perform with Grau Garten, one last time until next winter. This will be an all out blast out with Id M Theft ABle, Crank Sturgeon, the return of Birdorgan, as well as others. Gallery is at 119 Chelmsford, Lowell, MA. THe show will get started around 6 I think. For more information go to the 119 Gallery website: http://www.119gallery.org/?page_id=7161
Video of Crank Sturgeon at 119 Gallery New Year's Eve 2008:
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12/18/11
Sun Worship XI at BUOY Gallery; 12/17/2011
Last night concluded the quarterly series I've curated for the past three years. For three years every three months I have accumulated some of the most inspiring performers I've had the honor to know and call friends in New England. For this final installment I brought together some really special people. The night started off with Id M Theftable. Just two days off the plane from a tour of England, tired, disoriented, jet-lagged, he was fantastic. Voices came from him that seemed impossible from such a body as his.
Second was the trio Los Condenados. A firey fury of electronic sounds melded with the vocalizings of Andrea Pensado and the horn playing of Jules Vasylenko. Walter Wright provided controlled electronic chaos via his various circuit boards of noise. Third round was Eric Dahlman and Eric Nugent of the Auddity trio, performing as Eric and Eric or Audd. Next up we had bunq present a film strip about little boy who wanted to be an artist. Then Crank Sturgeon. Next I performed with Dei and Marc Bisson, an homage to my first show in Manchester, at the old M.A.P. gallery. With only three people in the audience we decided to just perform together as one set. That started a lot of things for me in the New England free improvisation community. Greg Kowalski projected on the wall behind us and all that was missing was Steve Norton, our horn player/percussion guru who couldn't make it as he was performing in Somerville at the time. After our set came Skinny Vinny. They are always a crowd pleaser and are able to cross boundries and offer something people can relate to. And unlike many of these performers whom the uninitiated may not be able to discern whether or not they are educated in their line of performance, or whether they are novices or seasoned veterans, Skinny Vinny is easily identifiable as two performers who know their chops. Another demonstration by bunq defining the Winter Solstice and describing some of the traditions around it, as well as sacrificing a stuffed dog and distributing beef jerkey from amongst the synthetic fill. The evening concluded with 2/3 of Mystic Out Bop, Kit and Frank Turek. It was one of the best Sun Worship events I could recall, the Winter Solstice always being my favorite and seeming to involve some excellent performances. I look forward to visiting in the future and setting up the occasional Sun Worship show. And who knows, somebody might carry on the tradition once I'm gone. But I don't think it will be quite the same. Thanks to all who have come to perform or witness this special event. It's really meant more to me than I can put into words. The series has been a way I was able to participate both in the free improvisation community and the local community in Kittery, melding the two, trying to present art to this area that has been inspiring me. And now it is time for another chapter.
3/8/11
Sun Worship 8 at BUOY March 19th
I am very excited for the 8th in the Sun Worship Series. Not only because the line up consists of performers whose work I truly hold in high regard, and that some of these performers have become my friends. But Sun Worship 8 concludes two years of the series. Two years is not so long to be doing something. But in the early days I really had no idea if I could pull something like this off. Now it's two years later. Thank You BUOY!
This Sun Worship takes place of the night of the Super Moon, a full moon while the moon passes above the closest it's been in 18 years. Scientists studying the moon's influence on our planet report an increased incident of earthquakes, unusually high tides, and volcanic activity during a Super Moon occurrence. This will obviously have an affect on the energy on Saturday night which will be intense. Come experience some intense energies at BUOY! If you're unsure about coming out to be at a public occasion, wear a mask or costume. Or stand out under the intensity of the super moon light watch through the window. But please if you can donate a buck or two for out of town performers its much appreciated...
Andrea Pensado has ventured off into solo and occasional collaborative performance since the disbanding of her previous duo QUFUQ DUO. Overheard recently at XFest where she performed with guitarist Dave Ross and Lou Cohen, a comment about the brief description of Andrea's work: laptop. Her performance goes vastly beyond what comes to mind when imagining a performer behind the laptop generating sound. Andrea uses her voice and passion with screams, screeches and subtler sounds to create sound pieces that range from static and gentle vocalizations to harsh high decibel intensity.
Crank Sturgeon for those uninitiated, earned himself a reputation for public nudity and being a nonsensical nut over the 20 years he has been performing. I know him as an extremely approachable fellow that transforms into a half fish half human sound scientist who has assembled some unpredictable experiments to share with his audience. His performances are constantly changing incorporating various props and special effects as well as audience participation.
Steve Norton is an expert player of many horns who has been tooting around Boston for a stack of decades. He partakes in many Boston area groups such as Duck That!, and Metal And Glass Ensemble. He has enlisted floutest Matt Samolis who is credited with founding Metal And Glass Ensemble among many other great honors.
Eric Dahlman is a Boston area horn player who incorporates various other acoustic sound elements to his improvised performance. Horns, some common some strange like the two headed horn, wind up toys, aluminum foil, all thrown into the mix. Performances I have seen of Eric's I would describe as gentle, playful at times. Sometimes angular and generative.
Dave Seidel spent 10 years playing electric guitar in New York's New Music scene, and playing some killer gigs at that. Now he lives in Peterborough and performs primarily on computer using CSound to generate compelling drones of sound that hook one's attention and then pulls the listener through a transformative listening experience. Is it magic? Is it hypnotism?
Joshua DeScherer was granted his PhD for music composition from Buffalo University in 2009. I first heard him perform an unusual piece written for voice and double bass at Frantasia Festival that same year. He's been teaching music in Portland and working on repurposing electronic toys and studying the sound qualities of dismembered vinyl Lp's. I am looking forward to finding out what he might bring to his first Sun Worship event.
Art from the 2011 Art-PM Challenge will be showing in BUOY Gallery at the same time.
This will be the second consecutive Sun Worship event which I will not be performing at. Offset Needle Radius will be back for the following two Sun Worships. June will be the Divisible By 3 Sun Worship 9 on 06/18, comprised of all trios with the live projections of Greg Kowalski. I will be performing with Steve Norton and birdorgan's Marc Bisson.
Sun Worship 10 will be all acoustic in which I will perform a duo with trumpeter Forbes Graham.
Stay tuned and thank the Sun.
This Sun Worship takes place of the night of the Super Moon, a full moon while the moon passes above the closest it's been in 18 years. Scientists studying the moon's influence on our planet report an increased incident of earthquakes, unusually high tides, and volcanic activity during a Super Moon occurrence. This will obviously have an affect on the energy on Saturday night which will be intense. Come experience some intense energies at BUOY! If you're unsure about coming out to be at a public occasion, wear a mask or costume. Or stand out under the intensity of the super moon light watch through the window. But please if you can donate a buck or two for out of town performers its much appreciated...
Andrea Pensado has ventured off into solo and occasional collaborative performance since the disbanding of her previous duo QUFUQ DUO. Overheard recently at XFest where she performed with guitarist Dave Ross and Lou Cohen, a comment about the brief description of Andrea's work: laptop. Her performance goes vastly beyond what comes to mind when imagining a performer behind the laptop generating sound. Andrea uses her voice and passion with screams, screeches and subtler sounds to create sound pieces that range from static and gentle vocalizations to harsh high decibel intensity.
Crank Sturgeon for those uninitiated, earned himself a reputation for public nudity and being a nonsensical nut over the 20 years he has been performing. I know him as an extremely approachable fellow that transforms into a half fish half human sound scientist who has assembled some unpredictable experiments to share with his audience. His performances are constantly changing incorporating various props and special effects as well as audience participation.
Steve Norton is an expert player of many horns who has been tooting around Boston for a stack of decades. He partakes in many Boston area groups such as Duck That!, and Metal And Glass Ensemble. He has enlisted floutest Matt Samolis who is credited with founding Metal And Glass Ensemble among many other great honors.
Eric Dahlman is a Boston area horn player who incorporates various other acoustic sound elements to his improvised performance. Horns, some common some strange like the two headed horn, wind up toys, aluminum foil, all thrown into the mix. Performances I have seen of Eric's I would describe as gentle, playful at times. Sometimes angular and generative.
Dave Seidel spent 10 years playing electric guitar in New York's New Music scene, and playing some killer gigs at that. Now he lives in Peterborough and performs primarily on computer using CSound to generate compelling drones of sound that hook one's attention and then pulls the listener through a transformative listening experience. Is it magic? Is it hypnotism?
Joshua DeScherer was granted his PhD for music composition from Buffalo University in 2009. I first heard him perform an unusual piece written for voice and double bass at Frantasia Festival that same year. He's been teaching music in Portland and working on repurposing electronic toys and studying the sound qualities of dismembered vinyl Lp's. I am looking forward to finding out what he might bring to his first Sun Worship event.
Art from the 2011 Art-PM Challenge will be showing in BUOY Gallery at the same time.
This will be the second consecutive Sun Worship event which I will not be performing at. Offset Needle Radius will be back for the following two Sun Worships. June will be the Divisible By 3 Sun Worship 9 on 06/18, comprised of all trios with the live projections of Greg Kowalski. I will be performing with Steve Norton and birdorgan's Marc Bisson.
Sun Worship 10 will be all acoustic in which I will perform a duo with trumpeter Forbes Graham.
Stay tuned and thank the Sun.
10/8/10
10----------10----------10----------
Our favorite stressed out fish Crank Sturgeon has put together a last minute celebration to mark the coming of the Three Wise Tens, this Sunday October 10th, 2010. Wait, if I'm correct, the date on that very day will be 10/10/10! How could it be! It must surely be a universal convergence. But what does that date really represent? It's been ten years, ten months and ten days since Y2K! 2000, a new era of stuff that, well, is a lot like stuff before but more faster and techier.
Performing their interpretation of the significant convergence of 10's will be
Offset Needle Radius
Pictures by Elizabeth Thompson
Performing their interpretation of the significant convergence of 10's will be
Offset Needle Radius
Galen Richmond
Mystic Out-Bop Review
Id m theft able
Andrea Pensado
Walter Wright & Setheyney (Satan)
Crank Sturgeon
Skinny Vinny
I am sharpening 10 bicycle wheels to be wielded as ancient weapons to defend the Trifecta of 10's from outside subvergence. Come see me spin, scatter, roll and tape these ten beasts of sacrificial offering.This will take place at Apohadion Theatre
107 Hanover St
Portland, ME
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| Crank Sturgen metamorphosizes |
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| Crank's 10 Heartbeats |
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| Andrea Pensado lets out the demons |
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| Offset Needle Radius hones in on some bicycle wheel magic |
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| All the players played |
Pictures by Elizabeth Thompson
Things will(didn't) begin promptly at 8pm so don't fuck around.
3/8/10
Sun Worship IV IS Coming: Sunday March 21st
Thriving on the deadline, the flier is in the works. A great line up once again with diverse sets from New England Phonographers Union, Warewolf, Crank Sturgeon, Marc Bisson, bunq, and of course, Offset Needle Radius.
The New England Phonographers Union
is a fluid congregation of sound artists and field recordists who work with untreated and unprocessed recordings of the rich and varied sounds around them. Through the exploration and documentation of urban and rural public spaces, sound objects and events, the Union captures auditory phenomena otherwise lost, and re-interpret the particularity of individual places as a newly idealized sonic environment. Within a focused listening environment the members present their recordings, both individually and as collaborative improvisations. Performing at Sun Worship IV will be Rick Breault, Mike Bullock, Linda Aubrey Bullock, Ernst karel, and Jed Speare.
Crank Sturgeon
has been freaking out audiences around New England and the world for longer than I can tell you about. His combination performance art/noise creation is always unique and completely unignorable. Utilizing during various performances, nudity, inflatable sculptures, masks and costumes, contact mics, intense square wave generators and high volume. Crank Sturgeon was unable to participate in Sun Worship III having just come off yet another European tour and down with a case of the travel bugs. I'm really excited to bring him back to Kittery this time around.
Loup Garou (Warewolf)
is collaborative group consisting of Walter Wright of Apocalypso Trio on electronics, Setheyny Pen of Ralph Eats Dynamite on toy pianos and objects, Mike Daily of birdorgan on prepared guitar and whatnot, Kit Demos of Mystic Out Bop Review on electronics. The pairing of sound sources can at first seem unlikely or perhaps unsettling. The introduction of melody from the damaged primitive sounds of the toy piano jars some peoples idea of free improv sound. The result is playful and disarming at times, conflicting and challenging other moments. This event will see Mike Daily hurting his drums, accompanied by Walter Wright and Kit Demos on electronicas. Sadly, Setheny and her toy pianos won't be able to make it...
Marc Bisson
is one quarter of birdorgan, utilizing prepared guitar, electronics, synths, wind up toys, and many other objects to create sort of a one man improv band of unique sound that moves easily through varying textures and intensities.
bunq
has been appearing at area free improv sound events for some time, usually accompanying sound performers with his creative stacking and balancing performances. Always with different elements to create teetering towers with, challenging his own sense of balance and the limits of structural gravity resistance, until the inevitable climax of a crash scattering objects across the floor. Each time David's performances are an exercise in tension building, structure rendering, release, and rebuilding.
This is happening at Buoy Gallery at 2 Government St in Kittery just over the bridge from Portsmouth. We'll get things started around 7pm. Donations requested. Please bring $$ or gas cans full of petrol to help offset the cost to performers and the gallery for bringing you this event. It is truly a labor of love and oobe.
The New England Phonographers Union
is a fluid congregation of sound artists and field recordists who work with untreated and unprocessed recordings of the rich and varied sounds around them. Through the exploration and documentation of urban and rural public spaces, sound objects and events, the Union captures auditory phenomena otherwise lost, and re-interpret the particularity of individual places as a newly idealized sonic environment. Within a focused listening environment the members present their recordings, both individually and as collaborative improvisations. Performing at Sun Worship IV will be Rick Breault, Mike Bullock, Linda Aubrey Bullock, Ernst karel, and Jed Speare.
Crank Sturgeon
has been freaking out audiences around New England and the world for longer than I can tell you about. His combination performance art/noise creation is always unique and completely unignorable. Utilizing during various performances, nudity, inflatable sculptures, masks and costumes, contact mics, intense square wave generators and high volume. Crank Sturgeon was unable to participate in Sun Worship III having just come off yet another European tour and down with a case of the travel bugs. I'm really excited to bring him back to Kittery this time around.
Loup Garou (Warewolf)
is collaborative group consisting of Walter Wright of Apocalypso Trio on electronics, Setheyny Pen of Ralph Eats Dynamite on toy pianos and objects, Mike Daily of birdorgan on prepared guitar and whatnot, Kit Demos of Mystic Out Bop Review on electronics. The pairing of sound sources can at first seem unlikely or perhaps unsettling. The introduction of melody from the damaged primitive sounds of the toy piano jars some peoples idea of free improv sound. The result is playful and disarming at times, conflicting and challenging other moments. This event will see Mike Daily hurting his drums, accompanied by Walter Wright and Kit Demos on electronicas. Sadly, Setheny and her toy pianos won't be able to make it...
Marc Bisson
is one quarter of birdorgan, utilizing prepared guitar, electronics, synths, wind up toys, and many other objects to create sort of a one man improv band of unique sound that moves easily through varying textures and intensities.
bunq
has been appearing at area free improv sound events for some time, usually accompanying sound performers with his creative stacking and balancing performances. Always with different elements to create teetering towers with, challenging his own sense of balance and the limits of structural gravity resistance, until the inevitable climax of a crash scattering objects across the floor. Each time David's performances are an exercise in tension building, structure rendering, release, and rebuilding.
This is happening at Buoy Gallery at 2 Government St in Kittery just over the bridge from Portsmouth. We'll get things started around 7pm. Donations requested. Please bring $$ or gas cans full of petrol to help offset the cost to performers and the gallery for bringing you this event. It is truly a labor of love and oobe.
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