[Rumori] tonight: detritus.net night in the LSG New Music Series, 02/26/04, 8pm SF, CA

Thu Feb 26 11:28:47 PST 2004

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mundane media & (not)quiet presents
detritus.net night in the LSG New Music Series @
LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY
1007 Market St. @ 6th St
San Francisco, California USA
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Tim Perkis & John Bischoff (solos & duo)
Bob Boster & Lance Grabmiller (solos & duo)

Thursday, Feb 26 2003 8:00 PM
$6-10 sliding scale, no one turned away...

Live electronic music based on real-time processes and the
dynamic between composition and improvisation.

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TIM PERKIS has been working in the medium of live electronic
and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting
installation works and recording in North America,Europe and
Japan. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the
emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction.
In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised
music, having performed on his electronic improvisation
instruments with over 100 artists and groups, including Chris
Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni
Gebbia, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Roscoe Mitchell, Gino
Robair, ROVA saxophone quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith
and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in
include the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub --
pioneering live computer network bands -- and Rotodoti, the
Natto Quartet and Fuzzybunny.

Recordings of his work are available on several labels: Artifact,
Limited Sedition, 482, Lucky Garage, Praemedia and Tzadik (USA);
Sonore and Meniscus (France); Curva Minore and Snowdonia (Italy);
XOR (Netherlands).

CONCERNING THE PIECE TONIGHT:

My contribution to the evening's collaboration is a live performance
of BULGAVE, a special-purpose software musical
instrument/composition, based on synthesized sounds, insect
recordings from japan and a recording of trumpet player Tom Dill
using some of his more astounding extended techniques. My work
in the last few years has moved towards creating more tranquil
environments. I have no doubt the disturbing state of the world
and the full flowering of US aggression has its place in this turning
away from brash, abrasive, and irreverent musical activity -- I think
most of the world, myself included, has had quite enough of brash,
irreverent Americans at the moment. Tranquility is in short supply,
and it's quite natural I think for art to evolve towards serving as
antidote to the prevailing anxiety.

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JOHN BISCHOFF (b. 1949) is an early pioneer of live computer
music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time
synthesis as well as his pioneering work in the development of
Computer Network Music. He has been active in the experimental
music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 year as a
composer, performer, teacher, and grassroots activist. His
performances around the US include NEW MUSIC AMERICA festivals
in 1981 and 1989, Roulette Intermedium (NYC), and the Beyond
Music Festival (Venice, CA). He has performed in Europe at the
Festival d'Automne in Paris, Akademie der Künst in Berlin,
Fylkingen in Stockholm, and most recently T-U-B-E in Munich. He
is a founding member of the League of Automatic Music
Composers, considered the world's first Computer Network
Band. He was also a member of the network band The Hub with
whom he toured and recorded from 1985 to 1996. In 1999 he
received a $25,000 award from the Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts in New York in recognition of his music.
Recordings of his work are available on various labels
including Lovely Music, Frog Peak, and Artifact Recordings, and
he has a new release entitled "Aperture" out on 23Five Inc. He
is a Lecturer in Computer Music and on staff as Studios
Coordinator at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills
College.

I will be adding my own electronic voice to Tim's BULGAVE using
a software instrument I have developed called OVERRIDE. Based on
multi-layered samples of acoustic and electronic sources,
OVERRIDE moves between states of gradual evolution and rapid
excursion. Radical filtering driven by the performer helps
locate free areas to play within BULGAVE's sonic ecology.

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BOB BOSTER is primarily known as a creator of live electronic music,
both in his own name and under that of his pseudonym Mr. Meridies.
Bob has been active in a variety of underground music scenes in
Chapel Hill, Detroit, the SF Bay Area, and Brighton (UK) and has
released material on Friction Media, Illegal Art/Seeland, and other
labels.   Current active projects include RAJAR, Armageddon String
Ensemble, and a collaboration with vocalist Aurora Rising.

For this performance Bob will be exploring a new musical "instrument"
in pursuit of a more flexible and immediate tool for appropriative
collage in real time.  This instrument is based on specialized
DJ CD equipment being radically mis-used...

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LANCE GRABMILLER - A relatively recent Bay Area transplant, Lance moved
here from Kansas City where he swerved from youth training on multiple
instruments and composition to active participation in various noise,
dark-ambient, and industrial projects as a performer and producer.  In
this context Lance has experience in a wide variety of instruments and
non-instruments.  Collaborations from this era have led to ongoing
associations with Shannon Fields and Martin Nieznanski.

An aesthetic resonance with the traditions of musique concrete led
Lance to shift focus on computer-based instruments, culminating
in his first CD, "Anthropology"  which was assembled by John
Bergin and released in 2002.

Since his arrival in the Bay Area, Lance has further expanded his
musical activity to include participation in a wide spectrum of
music including extensive work  in the local improvisational
community, continued explorations in the more extreme edges
of the electronica genre, and most recently, functioning as a
curator and media mogul with the introduction of the label
Praemedia,  whose initial release, Praeface summarizes
a musical vision with a balanced understanding of nearly
all the major cutting edge musics currently extent.

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The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit corporation funded by
the City of San Francisco, grants, and your contributions.
We ask that you contribute $6-10.
All Ages welcome, no one refused for lack of funds.

Notes on attendance:

*  normally indoor bike parking available in gallery
for people able to get bikes up the stairs
*  feel free to bring your (quiet) dinner and beverages
*  contact Bob Boster for pre-show docent session

For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971
email: luggagestore509 at hotmail.com

For detritus.net nights booking or info
email Bob Boster: boster at pobox.com

for more info visit:
http://www.outsound.org/
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/
http://www.bayimproviser.com/luggagestore
http://www.detritus.net/events/luggage_store/