Wednesday July 1
Doors 730pm Music 8pm 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
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Liz Meredith
Liz Meredith is a violist, improviser, and composer originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Her music is improvisatory in nature, and frequently moves towards the outer limits of musical genres, providing a delicate, faint, beautifully ephemeral connection between visual imagery and music performance. She works primarily with strings, found sounds, and electronics for wonderfully anarchic compositions that feel like shattered chamber sonatas splattered with loud samples of the everyday ranging into more source divorced abstract drone compositions. sounds and otherwise can be found at myspace.com/lizmeredith, as well as www.lizmeredith.com

vsls
Vsls is the nom de plume of San Francisco composer and sound artist Travis Johns. Using a combination of processed field recordings, sine wave oscillators and analog electronics, he attempts to weave textural tapestries of gestures, thoughts and experiences into a singular mass of infinite sonic possibilities. Most recently, his work has concerned itself primarily with two notions – namely that of the desolation and excess of human industry, as well as the mysteries and intrigue of subconscious mind, often sounding something like the distant swarming of well oiled mechanical bees woven with fissures of dark tones and noise rips. Sounds, etc. = myspace.com/thoughtcollection001, as well as www.think-tankmedia.net.

Wilson Shook
Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist living in Seattle, Washington.

Wilson’s music emphasizes focus, texture, chance and exploration. It exists in dialogue with its specific and contingent contexts; it is “new music” in that it explores each new moment and seeks to develop a critical awareness of the present. Perhaps better characterized as “present music”, it is less concerned with staking out new musical territory than it is with creating relevant and personal communication that places equal value on intention and sensitivity.

Sonically, Wilson’s music is informed by lower case and minimalist aesthetics, while embracing the full range of his instrument. Always aware of balance and the fundamental importance of space, Wilson is especially interested in incidental or ‘between’ sounds: material that exists on the edges and in the cracks of the conventional sonic palate.

Much of Wilson’s art concerns itself with the actualization of feminist and libertarian ethics. Investigating the interplay between artistic freedom and freedom at large, Wilson views improvisation as a model of interaction that can inform diverse situations and relationships.

Wilson currently performs solo, as well as with the Gust Burns Quartet and in various ad hoc and piece-oriented collaborations.

Previous and continuing collaborators include: Gust Burns, Nate Wooley, Bob Marsh, Gino Robair, Tyler Wilcox, Greg Kelley, Jaimie Branch, Joshua Manchester, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jonathan Zorn, Michael Thieke, Robert Blatt, Jonathan Sielaff, Mark Collins, Tom Yoder, Teri Nelson-Zagar, Dave Knott, and the Seattle Improvisers’ Orchestra.

Wilson is the director of Gallery 1412, an artists’ collective and performance space, and is a member of the Seattle Improvised Music board of directors. http://www.gallery1412.org/wilsonshook.html

Canid
My name is Colin. I’ve lived in the DC area all my life. I want to make music that combine influences from the dawn of music to the digital age. I want to make sounds that are both visceral and otherworldly, appealing and unsettling. I am not a purist. Nothing is ever the same. http://www.myspace.com/canidsounds

Sunday June 21
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
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) has graduated from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, he began generating sounds in 2005. Amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones vs overtones, all come together in a hyper structure of iconoclastic form. Novi_sad’s artistic output displays a high level of technical ability, as well as a sensitivity to the nuances of location. The strength of his soundscapes works in the same elaborateness for the whole creation process, starting from a basis of very strong conceptualism, the intense examination of field recordings over the actual composition work, to the point of performing back the result onto location. Every sound that occurs is treated with a sculptural integrity and his sonic power operates on a level in which the audience participates as transcendental listeners. His approach is similar to the ‘cinema pour l’oreille’ (cinema for the ear) and in turn would like to ‘donner à voir’ (lead to seeing) by means of sound. Being immersed in his sonic environment offers an absolutely visceral experience. His music has been described as ‘transcedent departure from the sense of space’, ‘emotional charge noise texturing’, ‘haunting streams of consciousness on the edge of clinical abduction’, ‘thunderous deep ambient drones’ and ’soundtrack for a dream or a nightmare’.

Some of his projects are primarily focused in architectural acoustics and the relationship between architecture and sound, when his latest project ‘Sirens’ is based on various methods of audio analysis in extremely unique recordings. In this project, he explores the aesthetics of information on sound by using quantitative and numerical data from major stockmarket crashes in history. Novi_sad’s albums found plenty of receptive ears, receiving glowing reviews in music media around the world. His audio works are available from Sedimental [U.S], Touch [U.K], and another one will be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the ‘Mort Aux Vaches’ series. He has performed his work live in cinemas, industrial spaces, theatres, churches, museums, galleries, squats, and in festivals like Ultrahung [Budapest, Hungary], Observatori [Valencia, Spain], Field recordings festival [Berlin, Germany], Full-Pull, [Malmö, Sweden], a.o.

Novi_sad has worked and collaborated with: Francisco López, Richard Chartier, CM von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard, Carsten Stabenow, Helge Sten [Deathprod, Supersilent], Beckie Foon [A Silver Mt Zion, Set fire to flames], Scott Konzelmann [Chop Shop] a.o.

http://novi-sad.net

Soft Pieces is the nome de plume of Zach Mason who mixes ambient power electronics with performance art/body art. Every live event is unique and not to be missed!

http://www.softpieces.com

Acheronian is Tristan Welch from the greater DC Metropolitan area along with other like minded individuals. Virginia. Punk Rock. Relapse. Washington DC. Recovery. Noise. Probation. Kentucky. Fashion. Broken Hearts. Insomnia. Maryland. Drone. Love? Anxiety. Richmond. Hangovers. Withdraw. Distance. Iowa. Weather. Loneliness.

http://www.myspace.com/acheronian