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Sorry about the last minute nature of this but here's a couple of Spin-17 related gig announcements... NOW.. MONDAY, MAY 3 (today) The Moment Of @The Knitting Factory/AlterKnit Theatre 7pm $5 74 Leonard St (212) 219-3006 Motoko Shimizu ++ Ed Chang ++ John Kennedy Voice -- Turntables -- Guitar -- Sax -- Drums -- Found Objects "2 members of Spin-17 with the man behind Cyclops Joint" This won't feature the clenched-tongue, genre-splitting attempted irony of Spin-17, but will be a free-improvised noise sonata celebrating the irreconciliable differences between thud-metal. skronk-jazz and New Age music (yeah, right). AND THEN... SUNDAY, MAY 9 (Mother's Day) Spin-17 with special co-conspirator DONALD MILLER @The Knitting Factory/AlterKnit Theatre (again) 9pm $6 74 Leonard St (212) 219-3006 Featuring: Ed Chang on ** Electronics ** Homemade Objects of Aural Destruction Motoko Shimizu on ** Voice ** Self-Destructing records on Semi-Functional Turntable Donald Miller on ** What looks like a guitar but sounds like a lawnmower being chainsawed in half. This, too will not be a typical Spin-17 show, but more a free-improv impression of a grand piano being drawn and quartered. We think. But then again we've seen DM play some hellbent slide-blues, too. Anyways, come on down, we'd love to see you and find out how you're doing! And here's a recent review of our CD recently published in EMI (Experimental Musical Instruments) Magazine (March): "Under the name Spin-17, Ed Chang (electronics, clarinet, guitar, tapes, turntable) and Motoko Shimizu (voice, turntable, toys, gizmos, guitar) make some of the most inventive, and some of the funnest and funniest sounds you will have heard in quite some time. Lots of emphasis on innate sound quality; less emphasis on harmony, melody or countable rhythm; but with its playfulness and humor, the music does not have the abstract feeling often associated with pure sound exploration." CD available at Downtown Music Gallery and Kim's Music and Video on St Mark's Place. Finally, email me back if you want to get off this "list". %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%