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Fri. March 18 8pm SHARP Gate to Moonbase Alpha (GTMBA) Every 3rd Friday Featured this month: Homage to Ohm Katastatik My Evil Twin The Great Quentini Theatre of the Mind HOMAGE TO OHM For his most ambitious project in his 20+ year, wildly eclectic career, Patrick Stacey has constructed a one of a kind sound control station, painstakingly sampled the pioneers of early electronic music, and created an experimental audio abstraction unique in its history, form, and presentation. A project going into its second year, Patrick started by delving into the roots of his life long passion, electronic based sound, and came across a three disc compilation recently released by Ellipsis Arts entitled "OHM: the early gurus of electronic music". Using computer based digital signal processing technology, Patrick methodically extracted hundreds of sound bites from throughout the collection, loaded them into a performance based application from Ableton software called "Live", and slowly put together a piece that is all at once an improvisation, a tribute, a science, and an art. KATASTATIK >From his web site: "I'm Mandra. I used to play guitar for the now dormant great mutant skywheel. I do play guitar (and the manDrum) for the remarkable telesma, I do a lot of improvised music with people and machines as Katastatik or the manDrum, quite often playing breakbeats and Drum N Bass on my body with a trigger suit and computer program I've created... I've been doing electro-acoustic music since the early '80s, and began integrating orchestral instruments and interactive computer technology in the '90s, all while playing in various bands, writing music for theater pieces, indie films, installation art projects, and having music I'd written played at conferences in exotic locations populated by well meaning but dull people that I feel lucky to have escaped from. I love sound. MY EVIL TWIN What happens to an audio engineer when he likes the noises the board makes better than the recorded music? My Evil Twin (Bernard M. Cox) mixes noise with classical, jazz and other motifs producing swelling crescendos and delicate abstract passages all aimed at creating dark emotive soundscapes. The artist also avoids the use of sequencers in order to yield an organic sound from what looks like a bunch of knob turning. THE GREAT QUENTINI (performance art) There are many lines that can be and have been written about The Great Quentini, the shaman of the pasta strainer, the enlightened one who sees art where others see trash, the only human with whom Barbie wil truly converse, but our favorite description comes from a web page dedicated to Quentini: Born in an obscure corner of Pennsylvania. Abducted by space aliens for cross cloning with Yeti. Twelve year residency at Dr Zorg's secret underground space station. Five year unexplained gap. Thirteen years in Philadelphia recovering from wounds received while fighting Gondar. In the words of an 8-year-old critic: "Don't be afraid Mom, he's just a Sacred Clown." THEATRE OF THE MIND (visuals) Mark Baechtle, aka Theatre of the Mind, has been performing live in a variety of venues for many years. Both his electronic music and psychedelic visuals are original creations which transport both listener and viewer to other worlds. For this event, Mark will provide visual backdrops only, to the performersÕ musical sets. Undoubtedly, he will create live while adding some tried and true eye candy to enhance the sensory experience of each person in the audience. As one of the oldest series at The Rotunda, GTMBA showcases the newest in music and more. Featured is live music (of local, national, and international artists) from such genres as ambient, experimental electronic, free improv, found sounds, field recordings, IDM, tech-ambient, noise, post-rock, psychedelic, dark ambient, hard-to-define sounds and new music styles, and neo classical. In addition to music, video art, oil projections, slides, 16mm films, performance art, interactive presentations (such as those from MIDI jumpsuits or audience participation), visual art, and more can be found at a single GTMBA event. _______________________________________________________ |
