Sunday, May 15th, 2011 - Loud Objects, Phillip Stearns, Yao Chung-Han, jamie allen’s circuitMusic, TL0741 @Pyramid Atlantic
MLB is a project which brings together a set of contemporary performance artists with an interest in the possibilities of minimal and maximal use of white light and noise aesthetics. Hosted by STEIM (www.steim.org) and organized by Jamie Allen (www.heavyside.net), the project is firstly an ensemble performance project featuring a collection of conceptual noise/white-light performance works together for the first time, live. Further, the project will culminate in a body of research, highlighting and documenting the approaches and motivations of an emerging and radical performance form.
Artists performing will be:
Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta and
Katie Shima create electronic
noise with minimal components:
microchips, a power jack, an audio
jack, and wire. The group solders
custom audio circuits live, creating
audible fluctuations of electricity
with these bare elements. The New
York City-based trio stage their
lush noise constructions with
soldering irons on top of overhead
projectors, slide projectors,
flourescent light towers, and
remodeled guitars.
Loud Objects
Phillip Stearns works with sound,
light, electronics, found objects
and biological systems, working
directly with material to produce
phenomenological experiences.
His work approaches electronics
as complex artificial living systems
- creating new creatures for an
electronic ecosystem. Phil shapes
his hand-made systems into
complex, generative systems. This
is the sound of billions of neurons
firing at once. Darkness is broken
in brilliant eruptions of white light.
Phillip Stearns
Jamie Allen’s circuitMusic project
started as a exercise in radical
improvisation - analog oscillators
were built from bare circuitry and a
breadboard while performing.
Since then the live show has
turned into an noise-synthesis
project where signals from the
home-made performance rig are
offered to the audience as both
audible sound and stroboscopic
white light. Light and noise are
shaped and into drones and pulses
of raw static and electricity.
jamie allen’s circuitMusic
YAO Chung-Han
An active member of the new generation of sound artists in Taiwan, YAO’s works are mostly concerned with sound, while at the same time, searching for the ultimate connections between video, installation, space and various media. Yao’s live sets launch synchronous sound and fluorescent lamp elements via manipulation of a green laser trigger. The tiny noises emmited from the fluorescent lamps are manipulated and re-amplified.
http://www.yaolouk.com
TL0741
Pat Gillis (b. 1965, USA) performs as TL0741, issuing dispatches from a percolating alchemical multiverse of harmony-avoidant electronic sound. A third cd release via HC3 Music will appear this summer/fall, joining BACK TO MINUS (2008) and MAGNETIC INJURIES (2009). www.myspace.com/tl0741
“Gillis knows what he’s doing and Back To Minus is a highly enjoyable demonstration of the development of his sonic ideals, a perfect proportionality between the chaotic activities of contradictory anti-patterns and the intricate mechanisms that – miraculously - preserve an ideal “galactic equilibrium”.
- Massimo Ricci
“TL0741’s splurgy, paintbrush charged-up approach to electronic music is refreshing; he won’t bludgeon the listener with airless noise, even if he risks getting his gumboots sucked into the mud and murk that swirls around the feet of those who dare to flirt with analogue equipment.” Ed Pinsent / THE SOUND PROJECTOR -
Sunday May 15th 2011 7 p.m.
$8.00
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
(map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/