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SFEMF 2005
SFEMF 2005
Artists:
Blevin Blectum
Chaos Butterfly
gal* in_dog (aka Guillermo Galindo)
Eric Glick Rieman
Matt Heckert
The Hub (San Francisco & Los Angeles)
Victoria Jordanova
George Lewis (New York)
Zeena Parkins (New York
Patrice Scanlon
Morton Subotnick (New York)
Sutekh
Bevin Blectum (Bay Area)
Formerly one half of the Oakland-based digital duo Blectum From Blechdom (RIP) and ex-aka-DJ-D84, Blevin Blectum now goes solo (when she isn't tinkering alongside Lesser and Wobbly with audio/video band SAGAN). Blectum‚s current electronic work takes a more oblique slant on the basic BFB sensation of things-not-quite-right-here -- creaking grooves and anti-grooves created from a variety of tweaked and twisted samples. blevin.lsr1.com/birds/
Chaos Butterfly (Bay Area)
The electroacoustic duo Chaos Butterfly is Jonathan Segel (violin, guitar, electronics) and Dina Emerson (voice, wineglasses, electronics, etc.). Chaos Butterfly has worked with Camper Van Beethoven (Segel) and the Meredith Monk Ensemble (Emerson), in addition to working with operas, orchestras, and the Cirque du Soleil. Their music encompasses song, soundtrack, storytelling, and mayhem, all created and performed in real time. magneticmotorworks.com/chaos/
gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo (Bay Area)
Post-Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo's artistic work spans a wide spectrum of artistic expression including symphonic composition, musical computer interaction, electroacoustic music, opera, film music, instrument building, multimedia installation, and soundscape design. gal*in_dog‚s most recent work has focused on translating contemporary syncretic and hybrid symbolism into sonic rituals that wed contradictory concepts such as primal instincts, animism, and mythology with science and technology. galindog.com
Eric Glick Rieman (Bay Area)
Bay Area composer/improvisor Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised and previously structured music both as a solo artist and collaboratively (typically with Tewari/Glick Rieman and the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble). For the SFEMF, Rieman will feature work for 'prepared and extended Rhodes piano' that involves mallets, bones, screws, brushes, finger puppets, and marbles to create otherworldly textures not typically associated with the instrument. accretions.com/artists/eric.asp
Matt Heckert (Bay Area)
Matt Heckert works with machines, robotics, and sound. In the 1980s, Heckert was one of three artists who developed the legendary Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) and whose work featured prominently in their spectacular machine performances. In 1988 Heckert began his solo career, focusing on mechanical sound sculpture. He has received both a Prix ARS Electronica Honorable Mention and a Prix ARS Electronica Golden Nica for computer music. mattheckert.com
The Hub (Bay Area, Los Angeles)
Started in 1986, the Hub was one of the first ensembles to investigate the unique potentials of computer networks as a medium for musical composition and performance. The band approaches the computer network as a large, interactive musical instrument in which the data-flow architecture links independently programmed automatic music machines. As the machines respond to each other the players input changes as well, producing music that is noisy, surprising, often unpredictable, and definitely more than the sum of its parts. artifact.com/release.php?id=1008
Victoria Jordanova (Bay Area)
Victoria Jordanova is an American composer and harpist born in former Yugoslavia whose work melds experimental techniques and electronics with classical training. For the SFEMF, she will perform new work for an amplified harp, live electronics, and the futuristic fukuoku glove (with five vibrating devices embedded in the fingertips). Jordanova's recent piece, "Secret Life Of Bees" for six electroacoustic harps, premiered at the World Harp Congress in Dublin, Ireland.
home.earthlink.net/~victoriajordanova
George Lewis (New York)
George Lewis is an improvisor-trombonist, composer, and computer/installation artist whose explorations in electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installation, text-sound work, and notated forms have been documented on more than 120 recordings. Lewis has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts, as well as multiple fellowships from the NEA. His forthcoming book, "Power Stronger Than Itself: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians" will be published by the University of Chicago Press. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html
Zeena Parkins (New York)
Zeena Parkins, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, and well-known pioneer of the electric harp, continues to extend the language of the acoustic harp through the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing. Parkins describes her harp as a "sound machine of limitless capacity" and has experimented with household objects and hardware store finds such as alligator clips, rubber erasers, rubber tubing, felt, metal candy lids, hair clips, glass jars, and discarded strings. She has also worked more conventionally with Leslie cabinets, guitar pedals, and digital processing hardware and software. zeenaparkins.com
Patrice Scanlon (Bay Area)
Patrice Scanlon is an electronic musician, dancer, and clarinetist. She received her Bachelor of Music from Stetson University, Florida where she focused on clarinet performance, composition, and digital arts. She later earned an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where she concentrated on experiments with dancers, choreographers, and other musicians. Scanlon‚s musical improvisation aims to generate a fluid and poetic interplay between motion and sound.
Morton Subotnick (New York)
Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. The work that brought Subotnick celebrity was Silver Apples of the Moon [Nonesuch Records,1966-7], marking the first time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically for the disc medium. Subotnick is also pioneering work to offer creative musical tools to young children. Currently, he holds the Mel Powell Chair in Music at the California Institute of the Arts. mortonsubotnick.com
Sutekh (Bay Area)
Since 1997, San Francisco-based Sutekh has released consistently inconsistent electronic music on labels such as Soul Jazz (UK), Force Inc./Mille Plateaux (Germany), Orthlong Musork (USA), and Context (the artist‚s own). Manipulating and abusing computers, samplers, synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and found sounds, Sutekh has created everything from deep, minimal house and techno to dense, dissonant noise collage. context.fm/sutekh.html
