September 22-27, 2009 - Washington, DC

The Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music was initiated by the American Composers Forum (ACF) to provide DC's music and art communities with the opportunity to sample experimental and avant-garde electronic music, with an emphasis on improvisation and artistic use of new technologies.

Now heading into its ninth year, the Washington DC chapter of the ACF has expanded the scope of the festival to include electro-acoustic compositions, free jazz, noise rock, electronic drone and experimental folk, as well as live video and film programs, presented year round.

Sonic Circuits seeks to foster the spirit of collaboration through the diversity of participating artists, and its varied programming appeals to arts enthusiasts of all types.

Archive for January, 2009

Sonic Circuits Presents Music for Heartaches

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Sunday Feb 15, 2025
doors: 6:30pm
music: 7:00pm SHARP
$6!

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

Mattin (Barcelona, Spain)
Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing.

Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ”freedom”and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre.

Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship.

Mattin has published more than 50 records on different labels all over the world, alone and in collaboration. Mattin has collaborated with many musicians inlcuding:
Eddie Prevost (Sakada), ” ” [sic] Tim Goldie (Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra), Lucio Capece (NMM), Mark Wastell (Belaska), Rosy Parlane, Radu Malfatti, Taku Unami, Dion Workman, Junko, Billy Bao, Xabier Erkizia, Alberto Lopez, Josetxo Anitua & Inigo Eguillor (Josetxo Grieta), Tim Barnes, Matthew Bower, Oren Ambarchi, Margarida Garcia, Dean Roberts, Klaus Fillip, Bruce Russell, Matt Earle, Campbell Kneale, Werner Dafeldecker, Cremaster, DD Kern, Kouhei Matsunaga, Christof Kurzmann, Matthew Hyland, Joel Stern, Anthony Guerra, Takehiro Nishide, Taku Sugimoto, Yasuo Totsuka, Axel Doerner, Masafumi Ezaki, Tony Conrad, Michel Henritzi and Philip Best.

mattin.org

Moon Pie (DC) - Industrial / Pop / Psychedelic
myspace.com/moonpiemusic

Jeff Carey (Baltimore)
American composer Jeff Carey’s music is a blend of fixed-media composition and electro-instrumentalism — the music of the visceral, ecstatic, and electric moment. His inventions of fluid sound are in an ever changing state: a mobile moves in the wind, changes shape, and is in constant renewal. Listeners are invited to explore an abstract sonic universe and engage in a world inspired by fictional cosmology, code breaking, and mathematical conundrums.
jeffcarey.foundation-one.org

New Year, New Sounds @ Pyramid Atlantic

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Sunday Jan 25, 2026
doors: 6:30pm
music: 7:00pm SHARP
$5!

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

Second Land
Second Land is a collaboration of artists who create improvisational music, using traditional instruments and domestic objects. A live performance by Second Land is generally lighthearted and unabrasive, and at times very layered and impassioned. The group seeks to continue the tradition of experimentation started by luminaries Cage & Stockhausen, but also the likes of Merideth Monk, Steve Riech and Robin Rimbaud. The name “Second Land” implies that work this group undertakes is new territory for the members of the group. Those members include Curt Seiss, Dani Seiss and Luke Hazzard. For the January 25th performance, Second Land will also include guest performers Dylan Kinnett (of Baltimore’s Infinity’s Kitchen) and Lars Wigren (of Polyphasic).

http://www.myspace.com/secondlandmusic
http://www.second-land.com

Cannot Be Stopped
CANNOT BE STOPPED is an experimental approach to drum set performance that comfortably rides the line between basement rock n’ roll and the avant-garde. The project’s sole member, Farley Miller, takes audiences on a primal journey to the 8-bit and leaves them asking “what just happened?”

http://www.myspace.com/cannotbestopped

This Bag is Not a Toy

http://www.musicovermind.org

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