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



Damn,wish i could make it, I have a gig in Monterey, rock righteously my
brother.
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: matt davignon [mailto:mattdavignon@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:50 PM
To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: (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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