[Squishy] [964][Fri Sept 17] Field Effects 20

[Aaron Ximm]

Again, it's been too long ~ so I'm excited to announce this show! As
always, I need volunteers to help prep, run, and clean up after this
show -- if you're interested in helping out (in exchange for free
admission & refreshments!), let me know! I'd be grateful to have you.

And as always, if you'd like to be removed from this list, just mail
me back with 'remove' as a subject line! Best - aaron

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

Field Effects 20
Friday, September 17th
Doors 8pm
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.

Field Effects 20 features work from composers:

  Bernhard Gal

    Bernhard Gal (aka gal) is a composer, artist and musicologist from
    Vienna, Austria who creates electro-acoustic music as well as
    compositions for acoustic instruments. In his inter-media and sound
    art installations Gal combines sound, light, objects, video
    projections and spatial concepts.

    Of his work he has written:

        '[My work] operates between the world's soundscapes and their
        detachment from context. The personal discovery of music within
        nature as well as within the routines of everyday life keeps
        fascinating me. sometimes I return to a certain place only to
        record its sound...'

    Born in Vienna, Austria in 1971, Gal began to nurture his growing
    interest in music and (sound) art around 1986, playing piano and
    guitar, performing in local rock bands and pursuing private
    compositional studies. After studies at Vienna's University of
    Music (Sound Engineering) and the University of Vienna
    (Musicology), and a year-long residency in New York City in
    1997-98, he decided to focus on his compositional and artistic
    activities. Since 1998 Gal works as a freelance composer and
    artist. In 2003 he was a guest composer of the DAAD artist-in-
    residence program in Berlin. Currently Gal lives and works in
    Berlin and Vienna.

    Gal's work has been presented in concerts, sound installations and
    exhibitions throughout Europe, and in Japan, Taiwan and the
    Americas. As a musician, Gal has performed solo and collaborated
    with Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Brian Labycz, Chao-Ming Tung, Kai
    Fagaschinski, Manuel Mota, et al. He has worked with architects,
    choreographers, dancers, painters, performance-, media- and video
    artists, such as Akemi Takeya, Mandy Morrison, P. Michael Schultes,
    G.S. Sedlak and Emre Tuncer. In 1997 Gal began an ongoing
    collaboration with the Japanese architect and installation artist
    Yumi Kori ('audio-architectural installations').

    For his music and art projects Gal received various awards and
    grants, e.g. a Composition Award of Initiative Minderheiten Vienna
    2000, the Karl Hofer-Prize of the University of the Arts Berlin
    2001, an Annual Grant from SKE-Fonds Vienna 2002, a fellowship from
    the DAAD Guest Artist Program Berlin 2003, and the Austrian State
    Scholarship for Composition 2004.

    Bernhard Gal's music has been published by various records labels
    including Durian, Plate Lunch, because tomorrow comes,
    Intransitive, Bremsstrahlung Recordings and Klanggalerie.

        http://www.bernhardgal.com


  Thomas Dimuzio

    Thomas Dimuzio is a composer, musician, mastering engineer and
    label-proprietor based in San Francisco.

    Of the work he will present at Field Effects, Dimuzio writes:

        'Recontextualization could be a possible theme for my set. I
        was also thinking of dropping a mic out the window as a
        supplementary processing source...'

    Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live
    sampling and studio techniques to create consistently compelling
    works, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an
    avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time
    and technology. Effortlessly moving from electro-acoustic and noise
    to glitch, dark ambient, improv and drone, Dimuzio's eclecticism
    bespeaks a career equally informed by profound dedication to his
    craft and collaborations with friends, artists and technologists
    alik e.

    Dimuzio's latest release Slew, available through RiR
    Megacorp/Gench, compiles compilation tracks spanning from 1990 to
    2004.

        http://www.thomasdimuzio.com
        http://www.gench.com


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 <-----------------------------------------------

This message is not for print distribution or advertising.
This is a private event for friends, family and our community.

Questions? Write ghede at well.com

  ghede at well.com
  http://www.quietamerican.org