Sunday December 20
Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP
$8
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
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

WOUTER JASPERS (NL)
Wouter Jaspers (b. 1986) is a experimental musician and writer from Tilburg, The Netherlands, who lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2008 he recorded his second album with Emil Nikolaisen from Serena Maneesh and Woven Hand, toured several times in Europe, Russia, the USA and even got invited to play festivals in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. His musical style consists of repetitive drone music, 60’s psychedelics combined with noise and experimental folk. www.myspace.com/wouterjaspers

BAS VERBEEK (NL)
Former male model, journalist, artist avant la lettre and a comedian all combined in one person: Bas Verbeek (b. 1983). His musical performances are always different, but never boring. As part of the now legendary group The Jim Morrisons he became notorious for his in-your-face stage presence, which consisted of attacking the audience. No more time for being the pretty boy: it’s show time.
http://www.myspace.com/thedaytheblackmandied

BRAM STADHOUDERS (NL)
Bram Stadhouders (b. 1987) is a jazz guitarist and composer from Tilburg, The Netherlands, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Playing the guitar from age 6, he won several classical guitar competitions during his childhood years and got the chance to play with his rock and jazz groups on major Dutch festivals. His own talent, both in playing the guitar as in improvising music was recognised in 2008 when he was elected the most promising improvisation talent of The Netherlands, a very prestigious price for up and coming musicians. His music is very atmospheric, meandering in between free jazz, ambient and classical composed music.
http://www.myspace.com/bramstadhouders

YUTAKA MAKINO
Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Los Angeles. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computational composition and science, involving research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, collective behavior, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works range from sculpture to sound works including computer music compositions and spatial sound installations, which utilize spatial projection processes such as Wave Field Synthesis.

His works have been recognized/performed at numerous festivals and competitions internationally. He has been awarded the Prix Ton Bruynèl 2007 and the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2010. He was in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Visby International Center for Composers, TU Berlin Electronic Music Studio and STEIM.

With the turntablist Takuro Mizuta Lippit alias dj sniff of STEIM, he frequently performs as Audile.

In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.

http://www.yutakamakino.com
http://www.myspace.com/yutakamakino

Saturday November 7
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$8
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
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Come experience improvised music in all its glory and mutant forms with

Maria Chavez
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces.

Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna’s Phonofemme Festival 2009.

Having also performed at such internationally acclaimed venues as STEIM (Amsterdam) and Sonoteca (Lima, Peru), she was awarded a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant by New York’s Roulette Intermedium in 2008. In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as an artist in residence for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon.
http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez

Ben Miller + Violet + Tatsuya Nakatani + Ed Ricart
Solos and pairings and group improvisation.

Tatsuya Nakatani, improvisational percussionist. Born in Kobe Japan 1970, raised in Osaka. He has resided in the USA since 1995 and now bases himself in New York where he is recognized as a key player in the improvised music scene. His elements of percussion instrument are Drum set based Orchestration percussion kit, Bowed Gong, Cymbal, Singing Bowls, Various sticks and Drum set. He stands between the MUSIC categories, genre and cultures, Experimental, Jazz, FreeJazz, Rock. Many voices come from his approach of creation. Besides live performances, he also provides sound, sound design for Television, Film, collaborations with Dancers and artists.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

Ben Miller
http://www.myspace.com/benmillerdegeneration
Violet
http://www.myspace.com/microk7

Michael T. Bullock
Michael T. Bullock is a composer, performer, visual artist, and writer living in Boston, MA, USA. His modes of work include electroacoustic composition, improvisation, drawing, and video. Bullock performs across the US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Steve Roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel. Bullock also performs with the BSC, an octet of Boston-based improvisers; as the trio MAWJA with Kerbaj and Vic Rawlings; and in the sound & light duo rise set twilight.

Jonathan Zorn
Jonathan Zorn is a composer/performer of electro-acoustic music. In his compositions he creates interactive systems for acoustic and electronic instruments that exceed the control of any single participant, creating surprises and new ensemble dynamics for performers to explore and navigate. In performance he uses double bass, voice, modular synthesizer, and computer instruments of his own creation. As a designer of computer instruments, Zorn aims to create instruments that have the kind of flexibility, control, and surprise that one would expect from an acoustic instrument, while also defying and remapping assumed correlations between gesture and sound.

Hat City Intuitive
The Hat City Intuitive (aka HCI) have been experimenting with the purest forms of improvisation, dabbling in free jazz, noise-rock, and just -sounds as sounds for over 18 years.
http://www.myspace.com/hatcitysounds

Tone Ghosting
A solo project of Jeff Bagato (aka DJ Panic), Tone Ghosting features a unique homemade instrument he invented himself: playing vinyl LPs with small hacksaw & electronic FX, magnifying, modifying, & energizing the small scrapes & squeaks to create a complex musical vocabulary.
http://www.panicresearch.com/TG-bio.html