Thursday September 17
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
Andrea Neumann (BERLIN)
Piano, Inside Piano, Composition
Born 1968 in Freiburg, grew up in Hamburg. Piano lessons since 1974. Studied classical piano at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and Jazz Piano with Aki Takase. Has been active primarily as musician and composer in the fields of new music and experimental music since 1994. Has co-organized “Labor Sonor,” a series for experimental music, film and performance in Berlin since 2000.
Her exploration of the piano for new sound possibilities has led her to reduce the instrument to its strings, its resonance board and the cast-iron frame. Playing this unmounted ‘leftover’ of a piano, with the help of electronics to amplify and manipulate the sound, she has developed several of her own playing techniques, sounds, and ways for preparing the instrument. For reasons of weight, a lighter special instrument was crafted in 2000 according to the measurements of the original heavier inside piano (piano builder, Bernd Bittmann, Berlin).
She has engaged in intensive cooperations in the mixed border areas between composition and improvisation, between electronic and hand-made music, with Berliner musicians, such as Annette Krebs, Axel Dörner, Ignaz Schick, Robin Hayward, Ana M. Rodriguez, Burkhard Beins and Sabine Erklentz. Since 2002, her concentration has been focused on compositions which, through various means, exit the frame of performance as a thing based purely on the acoustic event. The following pieces accomplish this exit in various ways. “4 Rooms” (spatially): live-performed concert-installation; “Larry Peacock” (content-wise): the negotiation of gender identity, among other things; “4 Akteure” / 4 Actors (visually): focus on body language and gesture; “Klingende Körper” / Sounding Bodies (visually): miked bodies as musical material.
Concert and festival performances in Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Greece), in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Russia, Australia, and Japan.
In 2008 she was a fellow at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles
In 2008 honorary mention by Prix Ars Electronika for “Videobrücke Berlin -Stockholm, a collaboration with Sabine Ercklentz
Discography:
- petit pale (1999) Duo mit Ignaz Schick (Zarek, Berlin)
- Rotophormen (2000) Duo mit Annette Krebs (Charhizma, Wien)
- ATON (2000) Duo mit Toshimaru Nakamura (rossbien production, Italien)
- Barcelona Series (2001) Trio mit Axel Dörner und Sven-Åke Johansson (Hat Hut, Basel)
- Phosphor (2001) Oktett (Potlach, Frankreich)
- Innenklavier (2002) Solo (A bruit secret, Frankreich)
- Lidingö (2002)Duo mit Burkhard Beins (erstwhile records, New York)
- In case of fire take the stairs Trio mit Sachiko M. und Kaffe Mathews
- (2002) (Improvised Music from Japan, Tokio)
- Berlin Strings (2003) Solo (absinthRecords, Berlin)
- Oberflächenspannung (2003) Duo mit Sabine Ercklentz (Charhizma)
- Xing-Wu (2004) Solo auf einer Compilation (Xing-Wu records, Malaysia)
- Audioscoop (2007) Solo auf einer Compilation (Maastricht, Niederlande)
- Pappelallee5 (2009) Solo (absinthRecords, Berlin)
Bonnie Jones (BALTIMORE, MD)
Electronics, microphones
(b. 1977, Seoul, South Korea), raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. As a composer, she re-purposes digital delay pedals as circuit-bent electronic instruments, directly playing the exposed circuit boards with instrument cables to produce raw and often chaotic electronic sounds. Her sound palette challenges the accepted languages of contemporary music as well as the conventional modes of playing associated with electronic musicians.
Bonnie’s creative process uses various techniques of improvisation to explore the possibilities of new language creation and unique communication systems developed through artistic collaboration. To this end, her compositions often focus on exploiting, challenging, and revealing the specific relationships developed between improvising musicians and artists and their audiences.
Bonnie’s primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet “English”) and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, an interdisciplinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.
She is currently an MFA Candidate at Bard’s Milton Avery School for the Arts.
www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
Select Discography:
- Toshimaru Nakamura/English, “One Day” (Erstwhile, New York, NY, 2008).
- Bonnie Jones, “Vines” (Experimental Music Research, 2006).
- Bonnie Jones/Andy Hayleck, “Duet,” 2006 (self-released).
- Bonnie Jones/Joe Foster, English 2-releases, Copula Recordings, Seoul, Korea 2005.
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