[Squishy] [964][Fri June 25] Field Effects 19: Tape Take Two

[Aaron Ximm]

It's been a while, so I'm quite excited to announce this show! As
always, I need volunteers to help prep, run, and clean up after this
show -- if you are interested in helping out in exchange for free
admission & refreshments for help, let me know.

For anyone who attended the '9 Beet Stretch' event, you might like to
know that the radio piece my wife and I and Jeremiah Moore did about
the experience can be found in two versions on my website -- check
out the 'news/performances' pop-up from my homepage at my site,
www.quietamerican.org: if you scroll down to the previous entry there
are links to my 15-minute original cut, and the final 7-minute version
broadcast by NPR affiliate WNYC's show RadioLab. (The piece was made
using only interviews Bronwyn & Jeremiah collected during the event!)

And as always, if you'd like to be removed from this list, just mail
me back with 'remove' as a subject line. Hope to see ya soon - aaron

----------[ Quiet American presents at 964 Natoma ]--------------------

Field Effects 19: Tape Take Two
Friday, June 25th
Doors 8pm show before 9pm
964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA (USA)

$6-10 requested sliding donation,
 no one turned away for lack of funds.

----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------

The world makes music, remember to listen.

The Field Effects series showcase the use of found sound, found
materials, and field recordings in media art, presented in a uniquely
comfortable environment.

For this show, we will listen to contemporary prepared compositions
(otherwise known as 'tape music') from four American sound artists and
composers. Three of the artists will be on hand to present and discuss
their work in person; Phillip Bimstein will unfortunately not be able
to join us.

Field Effects 19 features work from composers:

  maggi payne

    Maggi Payne is Co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at
    Mills College, teaching recording engineering, composition and
    electronic music. She also freelances as a recording engineer/
    editor and historical remastering engineer.

    For Field Effects 19, Maggi will be presenting two pieces, 'Fluid
    Dynamics' and 'Distant Thunder.' About them, she writes:

    	'In "Fluid Dynamics" and "Distant Thunder," I use location
    	recordings as the basis from which I develop the works. The
    	sources are processed using phase vocoding, convolution,
    	granular synthesis, equalization, and extensive layering, and
    	although a residual attachment to the original sounds remain,
    	their origins are at times rather obscured/abstract. The
    	spatialization is natural. Static sources are convolved against
    	naturally moving sources so that they take on the
    	spatialization characteristics of the moving sources.

	These sounds hold such fascination for me in the intricacies of
	their timbres, the smallest perturbations being so audible in
	the loudest and in the softest sounds. The dynamic potential is
	almost visceral for me. It is as if the listener is inside of
	these entities, exploring every detail from the inside out
	rather than being an outsider looking/listening in.'

    Maggi received honorable mentions in Bourges (3X) and Prix Ars
    Electronica Festivals, two Composer's Grants, and an
    Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the NEA, and video grants from
    the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts
    Fellowships Program. Her works often contain visual elements, most
    typically video.

    She has had performances of her works internationally in a
    breathtaking array of festivals, colloquia, and venues [my words -
    AX]. Her works are available on Starkland, Lovely Music, Music and
    Arts, Centaur, MMC, CRI, Digital Narcis, Frog Peak, Asphodel,
    and/OAR, and Mills College labels.

        http://www.mills.edu/music/mus_maggi.html

  phillip bimstein

    'Phillip Bimstein uses the voices, natural sounds and culture of
    his adopted home in his compositions, and he practices politics
    with music in mind.' - All Things Considered

    Composer Bimstein was born in Chicago and is a graduate of Chicago
    Conservatory of Music, where he majored in theory & composition.
    After further study at UCLA in composition, orchestration and
    conducting, Bimstein took a hiking trip to southern Utah and never
    left. He currently lives in in Springdale, UT, where he also served
    two terms as mayor. As mayor he was an outspoken advocate for
    protection of the environment and he has testified twice before
    Congress in support of Utah's wilderness.

    For Field Effects 19, we will listen to Phillip's 'VOX=Dominum,'
    which features manipulations of recordings of Iranian classical
    music.

    A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for
    the Arts, Meet The Composer and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica,
    Bimstein's music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln
    Center, the Kennedy Center, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Aspen
    Music Festival and London's Royal Opera House. His work has been
    performed by ensembles including Relche, Turtle Island String
    Quartet,Modern Mandolin Quartet, Present Music, Abramyan String
    Quartet, Sierra Winds, Equinox Chamber Players, the California
    E.A.R. Unit, and Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues.

    Bimstein's CD 'Garland Hirschi's Cows' won rave reviews in such
    publications as Stereo Review, Wired, Fanfare, Stereophile, and
    Schwann Opus, which said 'highly entertaining, populist-oriented
    collection of serious modern music. Bimstein's compositions are a
    virtual breath of fresh air.'

	http://www.bimstein.com

  ellen band

    Sound artist and composer Ellen Band creates works for performance,
    sound installation, and sound sculpture.

    Her work has been presented across North America and Europe.

    For Field Effects 19, Ellen will present recent work created in
    collaboration with New York sound artist David Lee Myers, with whom
    she performed during the Boston Cyberarts Festival series, 2003.
    David (who also performes as Arcane Device) specializes in
    'feedback music' produced with specialized circuitry and custom
    electronic systems. The work will be released soon the label Pogus.

    Ellen's work has been heard in San Francisco before; her sound
    installation Acoustic Mirage was part of SoundCulture 96 (and has
    since been featured at The Sound Symposium, St John.s,
    Newfoundland, Canada, and Diapason, NYC), and she was an artist in
    residence at Mills College in 1996.

    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).

    Her most recent work, 'Portal Of Prayer,' was the first completely
    audio-based work commissioned by the Institute Of Contemporary
    Art/Vita Brevis in Boston; the work was installed at Logan
    International Airport, the Boston Public Library, and the Codman
    Square Health Center. The work investigates the sonic properties of
    prayer, the meditative power of the sound of prayer, and how it
    alters the experience of public places.

    Her CD '90% Post Consumer Sound' (XI Records) received worldwide
    airplay and reviews in publications such as the WIRE and Playboy.

	http://www.ellenband.com

  jen boyd

    Los Angeles based artist Jen Boyd spends her free time collecting
    microscopic recordings of trees, plants, and other audible organic
    matter; and creating layered compositions in real-time with the use
    of a portable mixer.

    Boyd captures natural sounds as they unfold. Working with contact
    microphones and a minidisc recorder, Boyd constructs stereo
    soundscapes to give depth to the delicate sounds of hollow trees
    and yucca plants alike.

    About the work she will present at Field Effects 19, Jen writes:

        'My piece will involve field recordings of ants: a journey into
        their environment. Pretty micro and organic sounding with some
        lower thick sounds...'

    Currently study composition at Cal Arts; Jen has studied under
    artists such as Mark Trayle, Leticia Sonomi, Bary Schrador, and
    Michael Fink. While at CalArts Boyd plans to explore the depths of
    natural sound and their presentation as art in the form of live
    performance and sound installations. Jen is currently exploring
    various means of releasing her recorded works of natural sounds, and
    plans to continue to build an archive of phonographies and contact
    recordings.

The Field Effects series showcases artists who are interested in
framing the hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface,
awaiting our attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted. And
beauty in potential, awaiting juxtaposition, collage, repetition and
mutilation.

Seating mostly on futons and our new flock of beanbags, to encourage
comfortable deep listening. You are always welcome to bring pajamas or
a pillow.

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a
donation-based honor system. With luck, someone will bake cookies.

----> Venue Info <----------------------------------------------------

964 Natoma
San Francisco, CA, USA

Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market.
A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van
Ness. Plenty of secure bike parking inside!

----> Additional Info <-----------------------------------------------

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Questions? Write ghede@well.com