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schedule Friday, February 14, 2014 @ Aux at Vox Populi Gallery Aux at Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, $7-10, 8:00pm. (map) A.F.
Jones (electronics/guitar,
Maryland)
Barry Chabala (guitar, New Jersey) +Ethan Tripp +Ian M. Fraser +Jesse Kudler A night of improvised music from near and far, featuring the Philadelphia debut of Steerage, the steely drone duo of Jones and Chabala, along with a trio set of locals and a quintet of everyone. Come and feel the love! Steerage - excerpt:  Barry Chabala (guitarist) (Born, 1961 Passaic, NJ) Guitarist/improviser who’s playing is informed as much by the history of blues, r&b, rock as it is by Cage and Feldman. Over the past several years, Barry has performed and/or recorded extensively the works of Wandelweiser composers Michael Pisaro and Antoine Beuger among others, and has released recordings on several labels, including Erstwhile, Winds Measure, Copy For Your Records, Pisaro’s Gravity Wave, and his own Roeba Records. His latest release is ‘unbalanced in (unbalanced out)’ on the Another Timbre label which features Toshimaru Nakamura, Bonnie Jones, Gabriel Paiuk, Tisha Mukarji & Louisa Martin alongside Barry’s acoustic guitar.  A.F. Jones (Dallas, TX, 1971) is an underwater acoustician and audio engineer. Years of extended exposure to and interaction with the undersea soundscape and the critical, professional analysis of that environment greatly influenced his concepts of music. This career has found translation to growing work as a sound artist and composer. His primary instrumentation are stringed instruments and analog devices, both hand-crafted and found. His most recent contribution to experimental music is Nick Hennies' soon-to-be-released "Work", on Quakebasket Records."
Ian
M. Fraser is a computer musician
working in free improvisation and
algorithmic based composition. His primary
focus is generative structures,
pseudo-artificial intelligence, and
stochastic processes. With Reed Evan
Rosenberg, he works with the continual
development of Keroaän, a musical
Artificial Intelligence designed to perform
without any human intervention what-so-ever.
In live performance they combine live
generative works with real-time
visualizations utilizing high intensity
strobe lights and lasers. Jesse
Kudler improvises on guitar,
electronics, radios, and tapes and makes solo
performance pieces and the occasional sound
installation. 
Ethan
Tripp is an electro-acoustic
improvisor whose work focuses on
exploration of the materials of every-day
sounds and silence. The principal devices
for sound production are simple objects
like radios and speakers, accompanied by
junk like bicycle spokes and bits of
discarded metal. Like Free Improvisation
with no technique, Sound Art with no art,
and playing sounds largely unwelcome in
most areas of music, he seeks to formulate
an experience out of the trash of the
sonic world, the tension of expectation,
and the certainty of unfolding time. |