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Re: NWEAMO Fest 2002
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
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>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
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>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)
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>http://www.trummerflora.com/
>Trummerflora - Musicians collective dedicated to the performance,
>distribution, and promotion of creative music.
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