Dear Sonic Circuits Supporter,
I like to introduce you to someone special. This is Vulvax. He is a Fckn Bstrd. He lives in the faraway land known as Holland. He and two other of his countrypersons will undertake the long journey from his native shores to our fine city of Washington DC to perform in this year’s Sonic Circuits Festival. As you can see from the photo his native dress is very colorful. But it also very unique and some customs officials may not appreciate the traditions and dress of people from a faraway land such as Holland. So he is forced to leave his traditional dress at home and faces the daunting task of making a new one. Just for his performance at the Velvet Lounge. Just for you. But he won’t be able to do so without your help. So please save up your trash, be it shoe boxes, tin foil, police warning tape, toilet paper, etc and bring it to Pyramid Atlantic on either September 17 or 19 at 7pm. During these nights we’ll be collecting trash so that these Fckn Bstrds will not be forced to go naked* during their short stay in our fair city.

While trash might not seem to be much of a sacrifice to those of us who are more fortunate than the Fckn Bstrds, perhaps departing with some of your cash in these tough economic times will be more of a sacrifice. This year’s festival is bigger than ever (aren’t they always?) and we need your help financially. So please consider making a donation to Sonic Circuits. With your cash in hand we can take care of last minute equipment purchases (namely a voltage converter, and pa speaker) that we need in order to make this festival a success. You can safely and securely donate via paypal by clicking on the button below. Your generosity is greatly appreciated and your donation is tax deductible. See you at the shows!

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).