Feverishly trying to keep up with springtime work volumes at the bike shop took precedence over creative endevers. That meant that planning for the fifth Sun Worhsip event suffered. So I was even more grateful for the performers who were able to rally with only two weeks notice. Eric Dhalman was able to enlist a friend on guitar and bass to accompany him on horns, whistles, and various light treats. Although Joshua Jefferson was not in the area to join in, Steve Norton and Angela Sawyer were up for a performance and brought their elaborate collection of bird calls, horns, electronics. They performed an extensive and dynamic set moving through various textures and intensities. Birdorgan was complete again with percussionist Mike Daley who incorporated his crutches in the first performance since he crashed his scooter. Lighting up their set was Greg Kowalski from Qfwfq Duo, projecting real time abstract images across the group and wall behind. I brought along the bicycle wheel, electronics, etc., for a performance of Offst Needle Radius that was somewhat eclipsed by bunq's implosion of various objects, crumpled paper, balancing sticks, toys, etc.
In all, the evening was another great night of free improv performance. September will bring Sun Worship VI, will be the first Sun Worship event to take place on a Saturday, and will no doubt be great. So write it on your calender, September 18th: Sun Worship VI!
3/29/10
Sunday April 11th:::Ecco Fatto, Speet Silex from France, Coming To Buoy Gallery
Ecco Fatto is a year old duo comprised of Emmanuel Lalande and Jean-Paul Buisson. Their sound is comprised of improvised material derived from a piano sound board and the inner workings of an electronic piano. Examples of the results sound sparce, dark, dream-like sound/wave patterns, as a soundtrack to the moving waves of color one sees after minutes of being conscious with one's eyes closed. Click on one of the blue bars to hear examples.
Ecco Fatto photo by Elizabeth Thompson
Ecco Fatto photo by Elizabeth Thompson
Frank of Mystic Out Bop Review, photo by Elizabeth Thompson
Skinny Vinny photo by Elizabeth Thompson
Accompanying Ecco Fatto on this visit to the United States, will be Speet Silex, which was a late addition and unfortunately, I have no information to offer other than THIS.
Also on the bill will be Mystic Out Bop Review, a trio of musicians from Maine who have just celebrated a 10-year anniversary. Plus Joshua Jefferson from Skinny Vinny and Duck That! will bring his group Hospice for the 300.
Again, this will be on Sunday, April 11th. Doors are at 7:00PM and I hope to get the show started around 7:30. Donations are requested to offset the costs to performers and the gallery.
Accompanying Ecco Fatto on this visit to the United States, will be Speet Silex, which was a late addition and unfortunately, I have no information to offer other than THIS.
Also on the bill will be Mystic Out Bop Review, a trio of musicians from Maine who have just celebrated a 10-year anniversary. Plus Joshua Jefferson from Skinny Vinny and Duck That! will bring his group Hospice for the 300.
Again, this will be on Sunday, April 11th. Doors are at 7:00PM and I hope to get the show started around 7:30. Donations are requested to offset the costs to performers and the gallery.
3/24/10
Offset Sounds with Marc Bisson Friday Apr. 2nd, 119 Gallery
Prepared guitarist Marc Bisson of birdorgan and I will collaborate for a set at 119 Gallery on Friday April 2nd. The evening will feature a performance by Stutter Inst. from Switzerland. Marc and I have collaborated on three occasions now, most recently at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery as part of Sun Worship IV. Each time we come together, our communication evolves as it twists and turns around our contrasting sound vocabularies. Come listen to the resulting sounds combined.
119 Gallery is at 119 Chelmsford St. in Lowell, Massachusetts. The gallery will open its doors around 7 pm. Donations are requested to offset costs to performers and the gallery.
In addition to performing with Marc Bisson, I will be premiering a new visual time-based art piece at 119 Gallery. The work has just been completed, titled, Spring Trim, and features sculpted hair atop my head. This will be the first public showing of this piece, which will be an ongoing work as the hair grows thus slowly changing over the weeks and months to come.
3/12/10
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.
2/24/10
Review of Offset Needle Radius -vs- nickname: Rebel Album
Cheshire Cat Sez: Who needs form and void when you can float out into the nether regions of the ether? Imagine the track -IONS- from Tool's Aenima stretched across an entire album. See it in it's original context HERE>..
1/4/10
January brings sounds from across the Atlantic Ocean to the Maine Seacoast.
Hey, listen up friends: Coming up are a few rare chances to catch Wouter Jaspers, Bram Stadhouders, and Bas Verbeek all on tour from Tilburg in Noord Brabant, The Netherlands. For a few exclusive dates around the Eastern Seaboard, including three events this week here in Maine. Each performing a unique solo improvised sound set, you might hear collages of motors and vocal sounds, infinite reverb drone, classical guitar, words, swoops, and sighs among other things. Upcomming dates are below.
Sunday night January 3rd in 2010, Marc and Dei opened their house to friends to hear sounds and music from these three distant travelers. They had food and refreshing beverages to share in a pot luck setting. The food was great tasting, healthy, and satisfying, just right for getting ready for some noise. People drove in from an hour away on snow covered roads to be in that basement that night.
Offset Needle Radius combined sounds with Marc Bisson and Dei Xrist of birdorgan. We ripped and crunched and scraped and wiggled guitar strings, looped SK-1,s droaned dropped vocals and other tongue sounds. Then Bas Varbeek sat down on the red cloth, lit the candle, and emitted a deep drone from a black Les Paul, beginning softly and rising to fill our minds. Vocal layers of drone eventually overtook the Les Paul, dominating the thick reverb heavy sound.
Next was Wouter Jaspers who had performed in 2008 at Ello Gallery in Portsmouth,with Staplerfahrer . Sitting at the card table strewn with stomp boxes, mixer, laptop, cables, and piles of other things, Jaspers slowly began to interweave tones and textures; a drifting piece incorporating speech, small electric motor radio frequencies, microcassette sounds.
Closing the evening was Bram Stadhouders. He brought out a beautiful classical nylon stringed guitar. With an internal mic running into an IBook, Verbeek improvised three pieces. Beginning with subtle foley sounds and then incororating classical runs up and down the neck. His playing embraced more of the classical style that has won Verbeek awards at competetions as his set progressed.
These three artists have traveled far to share their sound visions with us here. Please get out and see them at one of the upcomming events around the Eastern Seaboard.
17-12 Zebulon – New York, NY
19-12 Pyramid Atlantic - Washington DC
20-12 Robin's Bookstore - Philadelphia, PA
22-12 Ghost Print Gallery - Richmond, VA
23-12 Bobo Gallery - Asheville, NC
26-12 Ed's - Hickory, NC
27-12 TBA - Charlotte, NC
28-12 Badgerhouse - Raleigh, NC
29-12 Nightlight - Chapel Hill, NC
30-12 Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
03-01 The House of Goings - Manchester, NH
05-01 Daileyville - Lowell, MA
06-01 South Side Grill - Lewiston, ME
07-01 Memorial Library, Main Street - Livermore Falls, ME
08-01 Strange Maine - Portland, ME
09-01 Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St. - Kittery, ME
10-01 Sunday coma series - New York, NY
11-11 Douglas Street Music Collective, New York, NY.
Sunday night January 3rd in 2010, Marc and Dei opened their house to friends to hear sounds and music from these three distant travelers. They had food and refreshing beverages to share in a pot luck setting. The food was great tasting, healthy, and satisfying, just right for getting ready for some noise. People drove in from an hour away on snow covered roads to be in that basement that night.
Offset Needle Radius combined sounds with Marc Bisson and Dei Xrist of birdorgan. We ripped and crunched and scraped and wiggled guitar strings, looped SK-1,s droaned dropped vocals and other tongue sounds. Then Bas Varbeek sat down on the red cloth, lit the candle, and emitted a deep drone from a black Les Paul, beginning softly and rising to fill our minds. Vocal layers of drone eventually overtook the Les Paul, dominating the thick reverb heavy sound.
Next was Wouter Jaspers who had performed in 2008 at Ello Gallery in Portsmouth,with Staplerfahrer . Sitting at the card table strewn with stomp boxes, mixer, laptop, cables, and piles of other things, Jaspers slowly began to interweave tones and textures; a drifting piece incorporating speech, small electric motor radio frequencies, microcassette sounds.
Closing the evening was Bram Stadhouders. He brought out a beautiful classical nylon stringed guitar. With an internal mic running into an IBook, Verbeek improvised three pieces. Beginning with subtle foley sounds and then incororating classical runs up and down the neck. His playing embraced more of the classical style that has won Verbeek awards at competetions as his set progressed.
These three artists have traveled far to share their sound visions with us here. Please get out and see them at one of the upcomming events around the Eastern Seaboard.
17-12 Zebulon – New York, NY
19-12 Pyramid Atlantic - Washington DC
20-12 Robin's Bookstore - Philadelphia, PA
22-12 Ghost Print Gallery - Richmond, VA
23-12 Bobo Gallery - Asheville, NC
26-12 Ed's - Hickory, NC
27-12 TBA - Charlotte, NC
28-12 Badgerhouse - Raleigh, NC
29-12 Nightlight - Chapel Hill, NC
30-12 Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
03-01 The House of Goings - Manchester, NH
05-01 Daileyville - Lowell, MA
06-01 South Side Grill - Lewiston, ME
07-01 Memorial Library, Main Street - Livermore Falls, ME
08-01 Strange Maine - Portland, ME
09-01 Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St. - Kittery, ME
10-01 Sunday coma series - New York, NY
11-11 Douglas Street Music Collective, New York, NY.
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