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Open FauceT presents The Space Lounge at Mobius in Boston Friday 23 April, 1999 Greetings! Open FauceT is proud to host a visit from 'The Space Lounge', at Mobius in Boston this Friday 23rd of April. "What is 'The Space Lounge?'" I hear you ask. Well, it's a place to hang out where your mind can wander (and wonder!) while your senses are charmed. This Friday, we will be guided by a team of eight ambient & looping explorers. The format to the navigation will be a round of small 10-15 minute excursions, followed by longer treks through the underbrush of tone and tenacity. There will be several short intermissions for refreshments and recalibration. You are invited to move around. Performances will be starting at 8:00pm. You may want to make reservations: (617)542-7416 Mobius is located at: 354 Congress St Boston, MA 02210. Directions to Mobius can be found here: http://world.std.com/~mobius/info/mobius_directions.html <http://world.std.com/~mobius/info/mobius_directions.html> Alphabetically, the team describes themselves: Asmodeus Spectre Asmodeus Spectre comes from the brain of Aaron Thall, a musician, composer, listener, observer, electronickid from the boston area. Says Aaron: "I usually don't plan a specific time to sit down and write a song, rather, I run up to the computer when I feel the inspiration. Ii'm always working on several songs at a time. Which song I decide to work on depends on my current mood. Locking myself in my room and saying, 'I'm going to write an awesome song write now' doesn't work... You'll either come out with something insincere or spend an hour worrying about the exact quantization and velocity values of an insignificant note. The inspiration behind the different moods of each song comes from real life. You've got to get out and experience the different emotions of living, then come home and get 'em into the sequencer as quickly as possible. It's an audio form of journal-writing." Dr. T. I like to describe my work with phrases like Video Music and Image Jazz. I am creating video pieces that use imagery and music on an equal level - imagery becomes music, and the combination becomes something more than the sum of the parts. My imagery deliberately straddles the line between the objective and the non-objective. Images from the real world are used and combined with the intent to produce results that are evocative and 'musical', and which relate to the image subjects, but do not present a specific 'message' to the viewer. The 'message', perhaps, is that things are more interesting than they seem. Minor White's phrase "Photographing things for what else they are," has informed my photography for many years, and informs this work as well. Plastic Razor Protector Plastic Razor Protector (PRP) is the semi-cacophonic, electro-sonic, experimental vehicle driven by 2000 Joe Browns (2KJB). In its current portable configuration, PRP consists of 2KJB, a guitar, a chain of pedals, and an amplifier. Audience reactions have ranged from "[It] was really a tickle" to "What the hell is that?" rosS Hamlin rosS Hamlin is a member of the Mobius Artists Group, co-founder/director of Open FauceT productions, and an active mixed-media performer in the area. He graduated from Berklee College of Mucus in 1996. Tonight's piece was recently premiered at Rhode Island School of Design. The Very The sound of one, twelve, three-hundred pianos builds to a climactic or continuous loop only to be interrupted by the first quiet piano again, or gradually undermined by a distorted bass rumbling. Then, sometimes it's just ambient. Like all music, an experiment with silence replacement. The Very lives in Boston. Songs of Silt The music of Songs of Silt began when Nick Carstoiu (keyboards, loops, 12 string guitar and vocals) and Jon Wobesky (trumpet, flugelhorn, bass guitar, melodeon, recorder and percussion) were waiting for the drummer in their former band (Silky) to show up for practice. Nick, formerly with The Freeborn and Twins Love School, has studied classical piano and cello, film scoring with Earle Hagen and his band The Freeborn opened for the Velvet Underground at the Boston Tea Party. Jon, played trumpet with the Jazz Pilots and the Merrimac Valley Philharmonic, bass with Womb to Tomb and Silky and everything with The Wild Shores. Appearing with Songs of Silt tonight are Special Guests, Myriam Hammani (voice) and Susan DeLeo (guitar and voice). Zero Times Infinity Zero Times Infinity use found sound, live sampling, on the fly electronics, and a heap of scrap metal and assorted junk to create their sound and performance experiments - sometimes ambient, sometime noisy, sometimes harmonic, sometimes rhythmic and usually hard to put a finger on. Started in 1995 with a decision to avoid "what was known" by the participants, it has continually developed in front of audiences by taking the creative element to the stage rather than replicating old compositions. ZTI frequently builds on ideas discovered in the previous performance or destroys the old canvas to restart from a fresh one. Every Zero Times Infinity performance is new. Recent performances have experimented with feedback systems and recycling sounds created on stage so that in some form the sound you heard in the beginning still exists in an unrecognizable form in the end after many layers and transformations have taken place. Mobius, Inc. is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council(MCC); the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the MCC; the LEF Foundation; the ArtsLink Partnership; New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA); Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; and generous private support.<