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Hi Everyone, Here's a show I'm participating in down in San Diego this weekend. The Portland weekend was last weekend. I would've posted it, but I was out of town on a business trip. Matt >From: Collective <Collective@TrummerFlora.com> >Reply-To: rubble@TrummerFlora.com >To: trummerflora-collective@TrummerFlora.com >Subject: NWEAMO Fest 2002 >Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:26:37 -0800 > > > >NWEAMO 2002 >4th Annual Portland/San Diego International Electro-Acoustic Music >Festival >Lisle Ellis/Marcos Fernandes/Robert Montoya, Fussible, DJ I Robot, Maxime >De La Rochefoucauld, Joshua Russell, Jeffery Byrd, Joseph Waters, CMAU, >Rodrigo Sigel, Matt Davignon, Javier Alejandro Garavaglia, Yoshiko Ando, >Irving + Orser (see artist profiles below) >Friday & Saturday, October 11 & 12, 8pm >Smith Recital Hall >School of Music and Dance >San Diego State University >5500 Campanile Drive >San Diego, CA 92182 >General: $10/night; $17/both nights >Student/senior: $ 7/night; $12/both nights >Information: http://www.nweamo.org (Please use Internet Explorer) >Box office (Smith Recital Hall): (619) 594-1696 > > >+ + + + + + + + + > > >What: NWEAMO (North-West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) announces >its >fourth annual festival showcasing a broad international spectrum of >composers and sound artists, employing the latest innovations in >electronics, performance and aesthetics. This year for the first time >this >will be two city event - artistically linking two great, but often >overlooked west coast cities. > >Mission of NWEAMO: to forge connections between the classical electronic >avant-garde and artists working at the experimental fringes of >electronica. > >Lineup: 28 composers and sound artists from Great Britain, Germany, >Japan, >Canada, Mexico, Australia, Bulgaria and around the USA > >When: Oct. 11/12, 2002 San Diego - Friday and Saturday night > (Oct. 4/5, 2002 Portland) > >Times: 8 PM, Friday and Saturday nights >Prices: general: $10/night $17/both nights > student/senior: $ 7/ night $12/both nights >Information: www.nweamo.org (Please use Internet Explorer) >(619) 303-1509 > >Ticket purchases: box office (Smith Recital Hall) (619) 594-1696 - >available Sept. 3 > >Highlights: > >Fussible of the Nortec Collective. From Tijuana, Fussible use north >Mexican >Nortenja music as basis for electronica. Hard-edged and highly rhythmic, >beat-oriented experimental dance music. They are gaining international >attention and are performing regularly world-wide. Fussible was formed by >Pepe Mogt and Jorge Ruiz of Tijuana, Mexico. They previously were part of >Artefakto (1991-1996), alongside Roberto Mendoza (who now goes by the name >Panoptica.) They released three albums as Artefakto and can be found on >many compilation labels including Zoth Ommog, Cri Du Chat, and Opcion >Sonica. They collaborated with KMFDM to produce their first Artefakto >album >"Des-construccion." (San Diego only) > >DJ I Robot -performance artist, composer, inventor and MIT professor Chris >Csikszentmihalyi will perform on Friday night with DJ I-Robot "... the >world's first random-access, fully analog robotic DJ system...three >high-speed robotic turntables, an rs-485 network, and a custom C++ based >improvisation and composition system." One of the hottest cross-genre >artists internationally, Chris is creating ground-breaking work that >crosses >and unites all areas of studio and performance arts, popular and >avant-garde, digital and analog - in so doing it raises questions about >aesthetics, the evolution of art, even the integrity of live performance >and >the limits of human cognition. It is also extremely engaging. Chris will >also be offering a master class at SDSU on Friday afternoon >http://web.media.mit.edu/~csik/dj-i-robot/ (San Diego only) > >Lisle Ellis, Marcos Fernandes, Robert Montoya - (San Diego/Tijuana) Ellis >(electronics/bass), Fernandes (electronics/percussion) and Montoya >(sampler) >merge experimental electronica and improvisation to create pulsebeat >soundscapes rich in timbre and texture. Together they draw from a vast >pool >of musical influences, including jazz, world-beat and classical. >http://www.accretions.com/ (San Diego only) > >Maxime De La Rochefoucauld - (Montréal, Québec) creates orchestras of >robotic instrument/sculptures. Through his use of sophisticated mechanical >controls, a wide assortment of acoustically resonant bodies, from African >drums to wine bottles, come alive and play themselves. This is 19th >century >technology wedded with 21st century - a beautiful and surreal combination. >Maxime maintains a web page that does an excellent job of conveying the >flavor of his highly individual art.) >http://homepage.mac.com/automateski/home.html (Portland and San Diego > >Joshua Russell - Recently prominently featured in Wired Magazine, Joshua >Russell is the originator of the term lowercase sound, and a driving force >behind one of the newest genres in electronica. lowercase sound is >concerned >with an exploration of all the quiet, unobtrusive sounds, both mechanical >and natural, that surround us every day and night,- but that we have >inadvertently "learned" to ignore through cultural conditioning. In stark >contrast to the often overpowering loudness of much of electronica, this >music pokes into the nooks and crannies of sound, with subtle, highly >structured compositions that seduce the listener into exploring with their >ears and questioning the way they listen to music and the world that >surrounds it. www.lowercasesound.com (Portland and San Diego) > >Jeffery Byrd - Performance artist will present Raft of Medusa, a >disturbing, >genre-bending work. Jeffery Byrd is a photographer and performance artist >whose work has been widely shown throughout the US. Byrd's elegantly >minimal art explores the metaphoric potential of the human body through >video, movement, original music and otherworldly vocals. His solo >exhibitions have been shown in New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and >Portland. He has performed at the Lincoln Center, DCTV, Greenwich House, >Chicago's N.A.M.E gallery, Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art, Full >Nelson in Los Angeles, and many other venues throughout the US. (San Diego >only) > >Joseph Waters - The artistic director of NWEAMO, Waters, travels widely >presenting his music and spreading the message that the classical music of >the future is here now - flowing across all cultures, genres and borders >and >developing equally in dance clubs, bedrooms and laboratories around the >world. He will be performing on DJ Rig with percussion wiz Joel >Bluestone, >and premiering Heart of Mephisto. http://www.josephwaters.com/ (Portland >and San Diego) > >CMAU - not your typical classical music quartet: Instead of violins they >use >a strange collection of instruments ranging from toy pianos to amplified >dry >ice. Said Fred Frith: "The most seductive and mysterious group improvising >I've heard since I first came across AMM." They are from Oakland, CA. and >have performed in the US, Australia, Canada, France and Finland. (Portland >and San Diego) > >Rodrigo Sigal - from Mexico City, now based in London, Sigal is a member >of >the current generation of international Mexican avant-garde composers >involved in bringing esoteric software synthesis together with live >performance. He will be presenting his new virtuoso work for marimba and >live electronics, performed by the composer and virtuoso percussionist >Robert Essler. Essler has performed with Steve Reich, Pierre Boulez, Evan >Ziporyn, the Detroit Symphony and numerous others and was first prize >winner >in the prestigious Vienna International Music Competition. >http://www.rodrigosigal.com/ (Portland and San Diego) > >Matt Davignon - preferring gritty, mechanical, and analog over pristine >and >digital, Davignon performs with an ensemble of cassette players, using >them >to create evolving soundscapes from layers of carefully edited and >transformed samples. (San Diego only) > >Javier Alejandro Garavaglia - Italian and Argentinian composer based now >in >Essen, Germany. Garavaglia reworks Brukner's Ninth Symphony, fragmenting, >warping and transforming it with live electronics and amplified viola. >(Portland and San Diego) > >Yoshiko Ando - Japanese composer based in New York, Ando combines soprano >saxophone and live electronics. (San Diego only > >multi-media duo Irving + Orser (Portland, OR) blend minimal electronic >sounds with haunting images. Jon Irving is a audio-visual artist working >in >the fields of "post-digital" music and installation art with releases on >the >stasisfield mp3 label. Jon Irving's audio work ranges from synthetic >ambient >soundscapes to imagined architectural audio spaces, digital compositions >using field recordings and found sounds as source material to consciously >using "errors" in the realization of a sound work. In 2001 he joined the >board of directors of the Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Organization. > >Portland-only Artists: > >Twine/Phase4-DJ/VJ duo, newly signed recording artists with Bip-Hop >(France) >from Columbus, Ohio. Twine/Phase4 returns to make their second appearance >at NWEAMO, before zooming off to play at the Tarascon Castle, France. >These are International rising stars >"They are most easily categorized as electronic musicians, sharing the >minimal, atmospheric warmth of Autechre and Plaid, but they mix into this >an >unprecedented dedication to the abstract and experimental. This is evident >in their dark, sparse approach and their use of unusual sound sources, >including a seemingly infinite palette of static. It is from this >foundation >that they catapult themselves into a supremely rarified realm-they make >adventurous, forward-looking music that is supremely listenable." -- David >Morris, Audiogalaxy.com HTTP://TWINESOUND.COM (Portland only) > >KMH- (Tokyo/Berlin) formed in Spring 2001, KMH is 3 multi-media artists >concentrating on improvisational electronics, mostly using laptops. Their >backgrounds range from physics to fine arts. Video (live or recorded) or >other media usually accompanies these performances. KMH also works in >cross-over fields and installations. (Portland Only) > >Tom Reimer - (Vanvouver, BC) filmmaker and musician who combines >techno/house-tinged aural landscapes with video. (Portland Only) > >Mark Cooley - (Missouri) Consistent with NWEAMO's mission, Cooley work is >concerned with breaking down "...distinctions held between electronic and >acoustic music, live and recorded music, traditional and avant garde >music, >music and noise, noise and information." - and also divisions between >visual and musical art - he has been composing for 14 years and is >Professor >of Digital Imaging at southwest Missouri State University. He performs >on >guitar and laptop. http://courses.smsu.edu/mgc868f/mgcwork (Portland Only) > >Michael Theodore - (Boulder, CO) brings his cross-cultural tour-de-force >for >tabla and live electronics (Portland Only) > >The Ether Bunnies - (North Carolina) The Ether Bunnies are a one-of-a-kind >three piece instrumental group: They combine electronica with elements of >bluegrass, folk and rock, creating slowly evolving, textural pieces that >emphasize structure and composition. Performances involve live >instruments: >guitar, slide guitar, xylophone, various drums & percussion, banjo, cheap >keyboards, pedal steel, and clarinet, augmented by live sampling and >looping >(Portland Only) > > >+ + + + + + + + + > > > >http://www.trummerflora.com/ >Trummerflora - Musicians collective dedicated to the performance, >distribution, and promotion of creative music. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com