Friday, Aug 19th, 2011 - Eli Keszler, Benjamin Nelson, Ben Miller, Berührung, David Pate @Pyramid Atlantic
Benjamin Nelson
Benjamin Nelson is a Boston based electronic musician. Performed primarily on modular synthesizer, Nelson's music is focused on reduction and detail, using long forms and slow development, gradually revealing inner rhythmic oscillations and shifting overtones. While informed by many classic minimalist traditions, Nelson seeks to overcome the sterile and anti-emotional trapping often associated with such music. Personal as process.
Benjamin Nelson is also a co-curator of the Non-Event concert series. He has performed throughout the US and Europe sharing bills with a wide variety of acts such as Giancarlo Toniutti, C Spencer Yeh, Whitehouse, and others. New recordings are due out this summer on Intransitive Recording's Songs From Under The Floorboards, and Keith Fullerton Whitman's NO label.
www.weakintheknees.net
Ben Miller
Using saxophones as source material, Miller sets up a wall of dense, varying frequencies through feedback and incidental improvisation. A slow-moving sonic interaction between instrument and device occurs by combining tape deck abuse, arcane electronics, malfunctioning analog synthesis and fkt-up drum loops.
In the mid-70’s, Miller played alto sax in the art-punk band Destroy All Monsters (featuring Cary Loren, Niagara, the late Ron Asheton from The Stooges and Michael Davis from The MC5).
Miller is composer and conductor for The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra; NYC’s first full-on saxophone orchestra.
benmiller.info/Others.html
Berührung
Berührung is an unstable experiment that joins Zach Mason, Gary Rouzer, sharp kitchen utensils, ungrounded electronics, contact mics and itchy toys. Will Zach wrap the audience in Slinkys? Will Gary peel carrots? Come and find out as Berührung explores the overlap of academic process and visceral sound.
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David Pate
David Pate was born in1954 and grew up in Clearwater Florida in the 1960's. As a reult of the many musical influences of that era, including Hendrix, Coltrane, Zappa, Sam Rivers and Ian Anderson,Pate's solo saxophone performances display a strange eclectic mix.After recieving an undergrauduate degree in Tampa, Pate moved to New York City in 1979. He persued graduate work at The Manhattan School of Music where he studied saxophone with Joe Allard.A paticipate in "loft" scene in the 80's,Pate performed with Ned Rothenberg, Larry Polansky and in many new music festivals,as well as many solo performances. Upon relocating back to Florida in the 90,s (winters are less stressfull) he became a member of SHIM, an inprovised music ensemble and performed with guest artists Eugene Chadbourne, LaDonna Smith,Davey Williams and others.He is a member of Sam Rivers Rivbea Orcheatra, and Bogus Pomp ,a Zappa tribute band. Both ensembles have toured The US and Europe. He is the director of jazz studies at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a school for the arts in St Petersburg.His spare time is spent bicycling and playing old man basketball.
Friday Aug 19th 2011 8:30 p.m.
$8
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
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http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/