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(gig spam) 7/10 Sensitive Noise at 21 Grand



Saturday, Jul 10 2004 9:00 PM
21 Grand
449B 23rd St.
Oakland
$6-10

Sensitive noise
Solos, duos and quartet with:

Joshua Churchill: Guitar/Field Recordings/Radio/Electronics
Joel Pickard: Pedal Steel Guitar
Chris Cory: Sax/Wind-Controller/Shortwave Radio
Matt Davignon: Turntable/Drum Machine


Joshua G Churchill is an interdisciplinary artist that works with sound in 
the context of performance, recordings, and installations. Much of his 
performance and recording work involves careful transposition and 
recontextualization of familiar (and unfamiliar) sounds. Through subtle 
processing, looping, and layering, the sounds he creates and affects 
constantly transform and fade into one another, losing their original 
voices 
and adopting new ones along the way. "The sounds of guitar become 
raindrops 
and a gurgling stream to the hush of radio static to the squeal of a bus, 
before reemerging once again as strings - all the while traveling slowly 
through space."
http://www.infique.net

Joel Pickard has worked as an improviser and composer and created music 
for 
dance, theatre, video, gallery installation and performance. In addition 
to 
traditional Western instruments his music uses a wide variety of musical 
materials including crickets, ping-pong balls, toy pianos, loose change, 
fireworks and walkee talkees. One of his most recent interests, and the 
subject of his masters thesis for his MA in composition from Mills College 
2004 , has been the pedal steel guitar, an instrument long relegated to 
providing the weeping backdrop to generations of country music ballads. 
Joel 
is currently in the process of recording a cd documenting his explorations 
on this instrument and the development of a musical language that 
incorporates balloons, knitting needles, music boxes, and chopsticks.

Chris Cory has been playing woodwinds since he was 8. After years of 
performing jazz and no-wave, he burnt out on conventional "songs" in about 
1990. He spent the next 10 years paying close attention to sources of 
subtlely-organized white/gray/red noise - detuned AM/Shortwave radio, rock 
tumblers, car engines, etc. He now enjoys manipulating and composing with 
such sounds with a wind controller (midi saxophone device) and various 
sampling units.

Matt Davignon of Oakland, California has been performing and recording 
experimental music for the last 10 years. Primarily self-taught, he has 
developed a unique form of intuitive improvisation focusing on textures, 
arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. He prefers to use fairly 
simple sampling devices to manipulate the sounds of what is already in 
reach, avoiding the tradition of many electronic musicians to seek the 
newest, shiniest tools.

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