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to concert schedule (please note: rescheduled after February snow) Thursday, April 8, 2010 @ Vox Populi Gallery: Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, $5-10, 8pm. (map) Corridors (New York) Byron Westbrook - audio and visuals Tandem Electrics (New York) Reed Evan Rosenberg and Richard Kamerman - laptops and electronics Ladies' Room (Philadelphia) Alex Nagle and Joe Lentini - laptops Welcome back with us the audio-visual environments of Byron Westbrook's Corridors project, combining thick drones with abstract and slowly-shifting colored patterns, creating an immersive experience that examines the tensions between sound, visuals, and space. Check out this diagram. Westbrook escapes the tethers of stereo sound by using multiple speakers to layer rich and ever-changing music that won't sound the same at any two points in the room. Alternatingly thrilling and relaxing, this is music to sink into. Tandem Electrics is the duo of Richard Kamerman and Reed Evan Rosenberg, a Laurel and Hardy of abstract sound, combining tiny clicks and crunches with giant slabs of noise, mixing a detailed control of sound with the cathartic thrill of noise. Using laptops both "played" and mic'd and various other electronics and small amplified objects, they keep the audience riveted with a tension that can only come from close and sustained collaboration. Ladies' Room brings an electronic beat-maker and a shredding guitarist-composer together in something that is neither the sum of its parts nor halfway between but rather a totally rippin' power electronics ASSAULT, with only the most detailed and jagged noise-grind. Check the clip below for the (LOUD) evidence. Corridors (Byron Westbrook) (jump to bio) Corridors - "Madame Claude" excerpt Corridors - "viola/organ/electronics" excerpt http://www.byronwestbrook.com/ Tandem Electrics (jump to bio)  Tandem Electrics - "Intaglio" excerpt http://www.myspace.com/tracebeing http://www.myspace.com/reedevanrosenberg Ladies' Room (jump to bio)  Ladies' Room - live 10/17/08 http://www.myspace.com/thetruecsection http://www.myspace.com/restclk Biographies: Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, Diapason Gallery, Issue Project Room, The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery (NY), Les Voûtes (FR), Wien Konzerthaus (Austria), NonEvent (Boston), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), Institute of Intermedia (CZ). He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Sawako, Mountains, Stefan Tcherepnin, Lichens, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, and Alessandro Bosetti among many others. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist, as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre and Jonathan Kane. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at HotelPupik at Sclhoss Schrattenberg. He is also currently the technical coordinator of Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY Richard Kamerman prefers small sounds to large sounds but that doesn't mean they are always performed as quiet sounds. He also likes accidental sounds and collecting his instruments from people's trash on the street. He has no time for cigar breaks. Reed Evan Rosenberg is a musician and multimedia artist based in New York City. Since 2007 he has explored the possibilities of the computer as instrument by crafting volatile digital feedback based programs and playing them in both improvised and composed contexts. Alex Nagle plays guitar and composes for Satanized and formerly Normal Love and also has served in Tweeter, Time is Like a Sword, and his solo project CSection. He also composes music for other performers. Joe Lentini makes electronic music on his own and with Moonmen, French Erection, etc. |
