Saturday, Nov 5th, 2011 - Bee Mask, Anduin, Dream Zoo, Pet Bottle Ningen, Blue Sausage Infant, Benoit Maubrey, Sex Complex @Pyramid Atlantic
Bee Mask
Bee Mask is a project of Chris Madak, a native of Cleveland, Ohio now residing in Philadelphia. Over the course of seven years and thirty-plus limited edition releases, Bee Mask has developed an idiosyncratic and compelling sensibility that draws equally on the ecstatically perverse human/machine couplings of 1970s west coast synthesis, the fractured gloss of early sampler concrète, and the iridescent thumbprint of High Minimalism on the throb of Miami trunk bass, exploring the Pandora’s box opened by the collision of the techniques and materials of electroacoustic composition with utopian social and aesthetic movements beyond the reach of modernist orthodoxy. Chris also curates the cassette label Deception Island, which has published work by Telecult Powers, Oneohtrix Point Never, and the members of Emeralds. His most recent release, Elegy for Beach Friday, highlights the early years of Bee Mask and is his second release for the Spectrum Spools imprint of Editions Mego.
soundcloud.com/bee_mask
Anduin
Jonathan Lee is a musician and artist living in Richmond VA. As Anduin, he creates dark, pulsating electronics soaked in layers of synths, samples, and field recordings. His live performances and gallery installations include a variety of self-made sets, sculptures, and props. In the dark, people create their own mythos out of these fragments with the changing lights, movements, and musical soundscapes helping them along the way. He has collaborated with a number of other artists including Jimmy Ghaphery (New Loft), Erik K Skodvin (Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner), Dag Rosenqvist (Jasper TX), Stephen Vitiello, Molly Berg, Stefan Nemeth (Radian, Lokai), Noah Saval, John Twells (Type Records, Xela), Gareth Davis, and his own experimental band Souvenir's Young America. He currently has 5 musical releases under the Anduin moniker, some of which have appeared on Best of Lists for publications like The Wire Magazine (UK), Textura Magazine (CA), and Playground Magazine (ES).
soundcloud.com/anduin
Pet Bottle Ningen
Pet Bottle Ningen is an avant-garde rocketship which journeys through musical worlds
of composition featuring three of New York City's finest young "Downtown" musicians,
saxophonist Nonoko Yoshida, guitarist Dave Scanlon and drummer Dave Miller. A first
meeting improvisation in October of 2009 between Scanlon and longtime associates Yoshida
and Miller at Brooklyn's D.I.Y. space Death By Audio led to months of workshopping ideas,
composing new music, playing shows, and a 3 island tour of Japan during August 2010.
Described by Dither guitarist Josh Lopes as "hyper specific, hyper non-specific music"
PBN's repertoire features a diverse world of sketches, melody, counterpoint, rhythm, noise
and sonic curiosity which are displayed on their debut recording on Tzadik records, available
the summer of 2011.
Dream Zoo
Valerie Kuehne is an electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose cello. Dynamic performer, fearless improviser, songwriter, vocalist, and classically trained connoisseur of Bach and Britten, Valerie can be found playing incessant shows in NYC and beyond, where she devotes formidable heart, intellect, creativity, and time to cross-pollinating sundry genres. Armed with finesse, Valerie is impressively present on stage, rendering poignant punctuations of changeable emotional weather. In any setting, her instrument aches with human implications and fiendish alien fuel.
Dream Zoo pays homage to the lieder and sprechstimme of old while unapologetically dropping it on it's head. You might call it avant-garde storytelling. You might also deem it a warning for those who follow their dreams.
Benoit Maubrey
Benoit Maubrey (born in Washington DC 1952, since 1979 works and lives in Berlin and Brandenburg/Germany) is a sound artist/sculptor and founder and director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes. Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment. He will present the solo performance ELECTRONIC GUY which consists of "playing" his electroacoustic dinner jacket (with tails) along with build-in sampler, microphone, radio, guitar amp and solar cell.
http://www.benoitmaubrey.com
Saturday Nov 5th 2011 7:30 p.m.
$10
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
(map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/