Friday September 25
Doors 7:00pm
Music 7:30pm SHARP
$15
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

Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg duo
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 30 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He performs primarily on the alto saxophone, clarinet , bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi - an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Sync’s Harbinger, Intervals, a double-cd of solo work, Live at Roulette with Evan Parker and Are You Be and The Fell Clutch on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Chamber music releases include Inner Diaspora and Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi.

While happy to operate in all manner of ad hoc situations, Evan Parker has formed a continued to allow him to grow musically (far too many to list here). He has also continued for over 25 years his association with the ‘Blue Note’ musicians, who left South Africa to escape apartheid and settle in London in the late 1960s. In spite of this major group activity, it is as the creator of a new solo saxophone language, extending the techniques and experiments started by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, but taking them away from the rhythmically jazz-related areas and into the realm of abstraction, that Evan Parker is perhaps most recognised. In particular, his use of circular breathing techniques to create extended, complex, overlapping, repetative and beautiful soundscapes is generally seen as the apex of saxophone virtuosity. In November 2001 Evan Parker started his own CD label: psi.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Parker
nedrothenberg.com

David Daniell
David Daniell is a composer and performer working in the intersections of acoustic and electronic instrumentation and of composition and improvisation. As a performer, Daniell utilizes acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitar along with a variety of electronics. He has worked for over a decade as a member of the improvising bluesdrone trio San Agustin, along with many other collaborators through the years, including Loren Connors, Rhys Chatham, Tim Barnes, Ateleia, Jeph Jerman, Thurston Moore, Sean Meehan, Tomas Korber, Greg Davis and Jonathan Kane, and currently works in back Tortoise. Daniell’s compositional work utilizes displaced and abstracted field recordings juxtaposed with manipulated acoustic instruments and sounds of purely electronic origin, with great attention to sonic detail and aural depth-of-field, as captured in two solo albums, 2002’s sem (Antiopic) and 2006’s Coastal (Xeric/Table of the Elements). Recent compositions have incorporated a variety of acoustic instruments in larger ensemble settings. One such work, Sunfish (for twelve to fifteen musicians), was performed at the Fugue State Festival in Chicago (June 2007) andX Avant Festival in Toronto (September 2007).
daviddaniell.com

Bicameral Mind
Bryce Eiman and Shaun Sandor formed Bicameral Mind in 2007 in North Carolina. Bryce brings much experience to this project as his career in tape treatments, electro-acoustics, ambient, and noise music spans over 20 years in a wide variety of projects. Shaun has been performing ambient and electro pieces since 2006 as Promute, using field recordings, homemade junk, home- made gadgets, and simple signal processors. We appropriately borrowed from Jaynes the idea of the left-brain and right-brain working together to form a single output. We will be featuring a piece that consists of feedback mixing through contact mics, light signal processing, acoustic instruments, homemade gadgets, tape treatment, and sampling.
myspace.com/bicamind

Janel & Anthony
Janel and Anthony are an experimental cello and guitar duo living in New York.Their intuitive compositions leave room for improvisation while staying grounded in their cumulative musical backgrounds. Combining their knowledge of rock, classical, surf, jazz, japanese traditional music and free improvisation the duo work together to create something beautiful every performance.
myspace.com/janelandanthony

Plus special guest ODAL!
Odal is Peter Zincken’s oldest moniker, and dates back from the mid eighties. While Peter frequently changed the name of his label over the past year (“Bloedvlag Produkt”, “New Noise” and more recently “Stront”) Odal is a constant. According to Peter himself Odal stands for “Overdikke Avondlul” - which roughly translated boils down to Supersized Evening Dick”. Odal means old-school harsh noise: full blast ahead and frontal nudity.
myspace.com/123odal

Thursday Sept 24
Embassy of Switzerland
2900 Cathedral Ave NW, Washington, DC
Metro: Woodley Park
Parking available on Embassy lot.
7:00pm $10
Bernd Schurer
Martin Neukom
Thomas Peter
Jan Schacher
Marcus Maeder

Marcus Maeder, born 1971 in Zurich, has studied Art at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Lucerne and studies Philosophy at the University in Hagen. He realized his first musical projects mid of the nineties, when the term “Digital Culture” was just beginning to gain usage. The setting was the Kombirama, an artists collective and project space in Zurich. It was during this period that he and Bernd Schurer founded the domizil music label. domizil is a platform for recorded music, an occasional concert venue, a loosely connected group of artists, and, as a label, an interface and instrument for reaching the public. The focus of Marcus Maeders work is on Computer Music and Sound Art, which he regularly tries to integrate into broader contexts, creating networks and building bridges, either in connection with theatre projects and installations or in his capacity as author and curator.

http://www.marcusmaeder.net

Bernd Schurer, born 1970 in Zurich; Studies in Philosophy and Film Science at the University of Zurich. Bachelor of Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Bernd Schurer is an artist who mainly focuses on the work with sound in a variety of contexts. He has realized compositions and audioworks for film, media- and sound installations, as well as for the stage and he has realized one opera score, all of which cover a broad spectrum of distinct aesthethics. His main interest lies in conceiving systems, that are autonomous, interactive or self- contained, trough the use of digital- and computer aided techniques, mostly applying „experimental methods“, as well as a healthy dose of research, „skepticism“ and daydreaming. He often collaborates closely across different media with other artists. His works have been staged internationally and have received some acclaim and rewards.

http://www.domizil.ch/schurer

A doublebass-player, composer and digital artist, Jan Schacher is active in electronic and exploratory music, in jazz, contemporary music, performance and installation art as well as writing music for chamber-ensembles, theatre and film. His main focus is on works combining digital sound and images, abstract graphics and experimental video in the field of electro-acoustic music and in mixed-media projects for the stage and in installations. Jan Schacher has been invited as artist and lecturer to numerous cultural and academic institutions and has presented installations in galleries and performances in clubs and at festivals such as Résonance Festival (Paris), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Transmediale Festival (Berlin), the Holland Festival (Amsterdam) and many other venues throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.

http://www.jasch.ch

Martin Neukom was born in 1956. He studied musicology, mathematics und psychology at the University of Zurich, music theory at the Musikhochschule Zürich and choral conducting at the Kantorenschule Zürich. He works as a teacher of music theory and as a composer. He is engaged in sound synthesis and composition with computers. He was commissioned by the HMT (Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich) to write the book „Signale, Systeme und Klangsynthese - Grundlagen der Computermusik“, which was accepted as his doctoral thesis by the University of Zurich. He is head of the department Computer Music at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST.

http://www.domizil.ch/neukom.html

Thomas Peter (*1971) is a musician and composer. His activities range from composing electro-acoustical music and theatre music, performing improvised music, creating sound installations to realizing and interpreting of live electronic. His main interests lie in the digital form of electronic music, in its adaption as an acoustical content in different spaces and in computer operated sound installations. Thomas Peter studied audiodesign, composition and improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel.

http://www.tpeter.ch