Friday, Oct 1st, 2010 - Ember Schrag, Rosemary Krust, Eloine + Gary Rouzer, Weed Tree @Pyramid Atlantic
Doors: 8pm
Ember Schrag
Ember Schrag is a Nebraskan folk artist. Desert abandonments, child sacrifice myths and strange guardians scorch their way through Schrag’s concise and structured, melodic songs. Schrag self-released eleven projects on cassette and CD-R before her first full-length studio effort, A Cruel, Cruel Woman, came out on Lone Prairie Records in 2009. The album received positive reviews locally and internationally. She cites Leonard Cohen, Sibylle Baier, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Illuminations, and poet-essayist Anne Carson as influences for her recent work. This fall her two-month national tour will include live collaborations with the Chiara String Quartet and NYC improviser Philip Gayle, as well as a string of dates with minimalist punk duo Ron Wax (2-Finger Dave and Ron Albertson, founding member of Liars and Mercy Rule). Schrag lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she started the acclaimed house venue Clawfoot House.
emberschrag.com
myspace.com/emberschragmusic
Bryan Day
Bryan Day is an improviser, composer, instrument builder, and concept artist based in Lincoln, NE. Originally from Minneapolis, he arrived in Nebraska by way of Iowa, where he studied illustration and sculpture. Day focuses on intuitive sound performance using unconventional techniques in prepared environments. His instruments are constructed using practical composite designs, melding everyday objects with finished oak and metal forms. Day's idiosyncratic compositional methods and personal sonic vocabulary evoke a sense of uncomfortable balance.
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles. He has collaborated with many artists including Liz Albee, Takashi Aso, Jim Baker, Federico Barabino, Tore Honore Boe, Dirk Bruinsma, Jorge Castro, Maria Chavez, R.P. Collier, Alan Courtis, George Cremaschi, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, John Dikeman, Jonathan Fretheim, Nancy Garcia, Carol Genetti, Eckhard Gerdes, Greg Goodman, Dereck Higgins, Kommisar Hjuler, Zan Hoffman, Mike Honeycutt, Yoshiaki Kinno, Jay Kreimer, Eric Leonardson, Evan Lipson, Unconditional Loathing, Bob Marsh, Hal McGee, Patrick McGinley, Tatsuya Nakatani, Keith Nicolay, Brian Noring, Terje Paulsen, Dennis Palmer, Hal Rammel, Justin Clifford Rhody, Gary Rouzer, Sabrina Siegel, Matthew St. Germain, Jack Wright, Tsukasa Yagihashi and Toru Yoneyama.
Festival appearances include Heliotrope Festival (Minneapolis, 2010), Megapolis Festival (Baltimore, 2010), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2010), Transistor Festival (Denver, 2009), Quiet Music Festival (Cork, Ireland, 2008), Sonic Circuits Festival (Washington, D.C., 2007), Soundfield Festival (Chicago, 2005), and SubZero Festival (Minneapolis, 2001). Day has over 40 solo and ensemble releases on labels such as Friends and Relatives, Gameboy, Freedom From, Digitalis, Featherspines, Neus-318, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Unread, and Seagull.
In addition to sound art production, Day is studying Butoh and physical theater. Since 1997 he has been running the new music label Public Eyesore and its sister label Eh?.
bryanday.net
Layne Garrett
Layne Garrett works with found objects, found sounds, guitars, and self-built instruments. Recorded output ranges from assemblage-drenched americana to a new cd of improvisations on guitar and prepared guitar; a record of improvised duos (with Scott Allison, Christian Brady, Ryan Jewell, Janel Leppin, Sam Lohman, Anthony Pirog, and Jenny Tucker) is on the way shortly. Solo performances have lately hovered in the heady realm of freely improvised explorations on prepared resonator guitar and homemade light-sensitive electronics. Other recent activities include: organizing a large-scale tape-loop intervention in Rock Creek Park (Washington DC), hosting shows at the Lighthouse in DC, and completing several construction projects, including a version of Glenn Branca's harmonics guitar, a set of hanging car-metal gongs in the shape of a map of the USA, and a large freestanding playable structure about which a collaborator said: "man i would really love to play that big baby for 12 hours straight it is obviously a meditation key."
Weed Tree
Weed Tree is Amanda Huron & Layne Garrett
Rosemary Krust
"If these guys are gazing at anything, it seems it would be out of a grimy attic window down to a desolate beach where a lone skin bather reads ‘The Insulted and Humiliated’, walks in circles from time to time and counts the crashing waves." - Tony Rettman, 200lbu.blogspot
myspace.com/rosemarykrust
Friday Oct 1st 2010 8:30 p.m.
$8.00
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
(map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/