gig spam: Meet Your Home Stereo (Oakland, CA)

["matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>]

Here's the show I was mentioning at the looping festival last weekend.

MEET YOUR HOME STEREO
Saturday, Oct 18th, 9pm
21 Grand Gallery
449B 23rd St,
Oakland, CA
$6-10


The components of the humble home stereo receive a deft dose of sonic 
manipulation by a crew of experimental musicians: Lx Rudis does the CD 
player, RAJAR radicalizes the radio, Mick Gendreau tweaks the turntable, 
and 
Matt Davignon challenges cassettes.

RAJAR, named after the British radio ratings system, is an ensemble 
featuring Gendreau, Bob Boster (Mr. Meridies), David Kwan, Xopher Davidson 
and Patty Liu, that plays broadcast transmissions like instruments, 
accentuating the musical potential of fading signals and static 
interruptions.

Lx Rudis is an interdisciplinary media artist, active in both commercial 
and 
underground sectors since the early 1980s. Since 1988, Mr. Rudis' work has 
been concentrated in the field of video game sound design. Rudis brings a 
dynamic playful quality to his electronic sonicism.

Mick Gendreau (Crawling with Tarts) creates dense sonic landscapes out of 
high sensitivity accelerometers that map detailed frequencies from 
turntable 
motors, often utilizing hilarious and disturbing corporate marketing 
records.

Matt Davignon, the curator of this event, creates most of his music 
through 
improvisation, often imitating everyday sound phenomena or focusing on 
often-overlooked aural characteristics. For this show he will be using 
cassettes of urban sounds from around the bay area.

This show partly funded by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

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