Monday
February 20, 2012 @ Vox Populi Gallery Vox Populi
Gallery, 319 N. 11th St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia,
PA, $7-10, 8:00pm. (map)
Mario
De Vega (Berlin)
Victor Mazon (Berlin-Bilbao)
Ian M. Fraser/Eric Laska
(Philly)
+Smooth Breeze DJ's
Philly
Sound Forum is pleased to present another night
of cutting and cutting edge electronics, played
on various home-made equipment.
Berlin-based electronic musicians Mario De
Vega and Victor Mazón present
solo sets. Supporting acts include Ian M.
Fraser + Eric Laska, experimenting with
Albert Bregman's Auditory Scene Analysis with
Cocktail Party Effect, and Smooth Breeze DJs,
spinning nothing but the smoothest tracks in
quadraphonic surround sound.
Smooth
Breeze Dj's http://smoothbreeze.tumblr.com/ Bios: Mario de Vega.
Born in Mexico City, lives and works in
Berlin and Mexico City
http://mariodevega.info
Through accidents and its outcomes, actions,
processes and objects that conceptually
connect with acoustic activity, his work
research the value of vulnerability
exploring causes and effects that determine
the construction of realities.
He has performed live and exhibited his work
throughout various platforms in Europe,
Mexico, United States, Canada, Russia, Korea
and Japan, investigating aesthetic and
social realms through a multiplicity of
mediums as site-specific interventions,
photography, performance, design, video,
sculpture, and sound installation.
Victor
Mazón Gardoqui. Born in North
Spain, lives and works in Berlin and Bilbao
http://victormazon.com
Fine Arts Studies at the University of Vasc
Country, UPV-EHU, in the speciallity of
Lithography and Engraving. Since 2009 working
as a Tutor of the Experimentelle Technologien
im Kunstkontext, in the A/V Labor of the Hoch-
schule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
(HGB-Leipzig), with Prof. Dr. David Link. His
works has been performed or shown on Museums,
Galleries and public spaces in different
countries like Germany, Spain, Switzerland,
Russia, Morocco, Italy, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Sweden,
Norway and Austria.
Ian M.
Fraser is a computer musician working
in free improvisation and algorithmic based
composition. His primary focus is generative
structures, pseudo-artificial intelligence,
stochastic processes and networking systems for
audio/visual output. His current projects
include Keroaän, a musical AI programmed
with Reed Evan Rosenberg, a networking comedy
quartet with Rosenberg, Matt Wellins and Michael
Haleta, an improvised duo with Jesse Kudler, as
well as his own solo material. He is the
co-founder of the Philadelphia Sound Forum.
Eric
Laska is a musician and assorted media
artist from New York, currently living and
working in Philadelphia. Examples from recent
work and works-in-progress focus on the
proliferation of sounds from localized material
processes (Chicago Equinix, Pro Remote),
arranging improvised music for extended periods
of time (Extended Improvisation for Gallery
Hours forthcoming), and the composing of
electronic music based on material
considerations such as power consumption
(Vigilance Improvisations). Recent projects for
the Internet include the sound application
Impulse Blasts and the streaming installation
Quartet With Pyramid Scheme, the latter
conceived in collaboration with the respective
members of said quartet- Jordan Topiel Paul,
Richard Kamerman, and Reed Evan Rosenberg. In
addition he is part of the internet surf club
Double Happiness, who are represented in the New
Museum of New York's Younger Than Jesus: Artist
Directory, and an editor/co-founder of the
websites Lateral Addition and funvac.
Ruez is an infrequent recording/production
alias.