Sunday May 3
Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
INFO: www.dc-soniccircuits.org
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org

Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-man) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born May 4th, 1980 in log cabin in North Georgia. Since 2002 Cymerman has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City’s most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Anthology Film Archives, Washington Square Church, and The Tank, among many others. Described by Time Out New York as “one of downtown’s most inventive and resourceful composer-performers” Cymerman has performed with a broad range of contemporary artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others.

With a foot deeply rooted in the avant-garde tradition of downtown New York and an interest in exploring new methods for clarinet performance, Cymerman has developed a highly personal language of extended clarinet techniques which are often augmented by a customized analog electronics set-up. After several self-released hand-made cdrs, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, “Big Exploitation”, a record that found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide and according to Phillip Buchan of Flagpole Magazine “swings with a desperate-as-your-life abandon that makes it feel astonishingly sincere, a far cry from a postmodern grab bag.” In April 2008 the Tzadik label released his album “In Memory of the Labyrinth System”, a highly personal work featuring a series of compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing which Andy Hamilton of the Wire called “a wholly original and intriguing listen.”

Additionally Cymerman has been active as a writer, contributing articles to Tape-OP, a curator, programming NYC’s The Stone in November of 2007, and a sound engineer, recording for Jessica Pavone, Matthew Welch, Butch Morris, among many others.

http://www.jeremiahcymerman.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeremiahcymerman

Also appearing are Beans Cool (3 wacky fellows on wacky electronics) and Nine Strings+Pilesar collaboration (acoustic bass duo+drums etc).

Thursday April 23
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
INFO: www.dc-soniccircuits.org
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org

MEM1:
Mem1 (Mark + Laura Cetilia) seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and
electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In
their improvisation-based performances, all sounds are derived from
the cello as the sole source material, which is manipulated in real
time. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism, and traditional
structural confines, resulting in organically revealed narrative.
Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mem1 has traveled extensively,
performing at Roulette (NYC), REDCAT / Disney Hall (LA), Levontin 7
(Tel-Aviv), the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco
Electronic Music Festival, Electronic Church (Berlin) and, in Spring
2009, the Borealis Festival (Bergen, Norway). In 2007, they were
awarded an artist residency at Harvestworks in New York for the
creation of a new Surround Sound piece, Sonodendron. Throughout the
next year, they will travel throughout Europe, Norway, and Israel to
take part in residencies at STEIM (NL), Kunstenaarslogies (NL) and USF
Verftet (Norway), and to perform and create a sound installation for
the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel). Their third full-length album, +1,
consists of collaborations between Mem1 and artists such as Steve
Roden, Jan Jelenik, and Frank Bretschneider. It will be released in
early 2009 by Interval Recordings.

http://www.mem1.com/

AREA C:
Erik Carlson is a composer, media artist and architect based in
Providence, RI. His work examines sound as an evocative presence,
often acting as a marker, in the physical and mental spaces we
inhabit. Since 2002 he has been recording and performing under the
name AREA C, whose compositions work with timbre, texture and live
loops, exploring cyclical relationships and the details of their decay
over time. Improvisation plays an important part in both recordings
and live performances, encompassing extended explorations of minimal
rhythm and melody, drawing on remnants of other times and places,
outdated and untested technologies, signals sent out but never
received. In 2009, Carlson received the MacColl-Johnson Fellowship in music
composition and he is currently working on new commissions for the
NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the LEF Foundation. His permanent
sound installation (”Low Rez/Hi Fi,” a collaboration with architect
Meejin Yoon) can be viewed at 1110 Vermont Avenue in Washington DC.
AREA C’s fourth full-length CD, titled “Charmed Birds vs. Sorcery,”
was released in February 2009. The album reveals “an astonishingly
refined and singular approach to guitar-based composition…. Glacial
harmonics drift in and out of each channel, skittering, modulated
notes pulse and surge, sputtering suddenly to luminescent
manifestation before disappearing just as quickly.” Later this year,
the Sedimental label will release AREA C’s series of live
collaborative performances at the Cormack Planetarium in Providence,
RI.

http://www.areacmusic.com/

Fast Forty
Experimental music from the District of Chaos. Altered electronics, found sounds and scrap metal, blended to soothe and stimulate. File under: Intense Ambient.

http://www.myspace.com/fastforty