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Boston Cyberarts Festival
Hope to see any of you Bostonians at this gig. As you may know, I loop not guitars, etc., but effects devices themselves. Ellen Band uses real world sounds like rain, swing sets, trains, and creaking doors. It makes a real nice mix. We'll have a CD released on the Pogus label next year.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, The BCMA, and The Boston Cyberarts Festival present:
David Lee Myers and Ellen Band
Place: Institute of Contemporary Art Theater
955 Boylston Street
Boston
Time: 7:00 PM
Date: Sunday, May 4th
Tickets: $12 general admission: $10 students/seniors/ICA members/Cyberarts Festival passholders. Tickets available in advance at Twisted Village, 12 Eliot Street, Cambridge (617.354.6898)
Performances by Ellen Band and David Lee Myers blend sonic environments and specialized electronic circuitry. Myers generates his signature "Feedback Music" using custom-built devices that "sing their own songs". The resulting sounds represent nothing other than the free circulation of electrons within, prompting one observer to describe them as arising "from the ether". Band carefully builds swirling layers of sonorous, textural, tone/noise clusters by mixing and processing lengthy samples from her field recordings of real-world sounds. Though their individual working styles are very different, their combined effort yields lush sonic densities that continually pulse and morph while complimenting and contrasting each other's sonic expression.
David Lee Myers is a sound and visual artist living in New York City. He has produced music based on feedback principles since 1987, using his unique "feedback machines". As Arcane Device, and more recently under his own name, Myers has had two dozen recordings released by Generator, ReR, Silent, RRRecords, Staalplaat, and many other international labels. Project collaborators have included Asmus Tietchens (Germany), Thomas Dimuzio (USA), and Vidna Obmana (Belgium). All have resulted in recent CD releases. Using his portable feedback apparatus, Myers continues to perform in the U.S. and Europe.
Website:
www.pulsewidth.com
Sound artist and composer, Ellen Band creates works for performance, sound installation, and sound sculpture. Her CD of sound art work, 90% Post Consumer Sound on XI Records, NYC, has received worldwide airplay and numerous reviews in publications such as: WIRE (London, England); and Playboy Magazine. She is currently working on a public art sound installation for The Institute of Contemporary Art/Vita Brevis, Boston that will open in the fall of 2003 in several locations in Boston. She was a featured sound artist this February in WGBH's monthly series, "Greater Boston Arts". Her work has been presented in North America and Europe including: New York City; Cologne, Germany; Toronto, Canada; Chicago; Oakland, CA; Austria; and Dortmund, Germany. In 1997, American Composers Forum awarded her a Composers Commissioning Award. She taught sound art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1994-1997 and 2002) and the Massachusetts College of Art (1994). She was an artist in residence (1996) at Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, Oakland, CA.
Website:
www.ellenband.com
