We would like to welcome you to the second season of a series of intimate house concerts hosted by Bill Thompson, Brent Fariss, and Clark Crawford. In this series we will be following a standard format of one installation followed by two live performances. The musicians will perform from the loft above and out of sight of the audience seated below. We have always struggled with the all too common phenomenon of audience members looking at what is being performed at the expense of listening to what is being performed. Through this series we are hoping to refocus our energies back into the act of listening as a primary vehicle of experiencing our surroundings.

9 Beetstretch - Leif Inge

A recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th symphony is to be stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortion. For installation or performance, use either supplied material or augment any full-length digital recording of Beethoven’s 9 th Symphony. As the length of the recordings varies, so will the ratio of the augmentation vary to reach the full 24 hours length. With a partial performance, the performed part must be augmented with the same ratio as would the whole recording.

http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco9/inge/9beetstretch.html

structured improvisation - Price Taggery
video - Eye Against Eye

Price Taggery is Carlos M. Pozo and Steve Striklan from Houston, Texas.
Carlos M. Pozo writes and edits Angbase, a magazine/webzine about
experimental and electronic music. The two met through a promo CDR Striklan
sent to Angbase. This meeting led to "Bleeps Across Texas", a weekly webcast
on the now defunct Earthwire.net online radio station. The ideas and
conversations generated by the records they chose to play led to their
collaboration as Price Taggery. Carlos Pozo uses a mixer, microphones and
cables to trigger sounds which are then modified, transformed, and added to
in real time through Steve Striklan's digital processing. For more info, www.angbase.com

Eye Against Eye is the video manipulation and projection project of
Houston's Brent Bruni Comiskey, who was recently featured at the Austin
Museum of Digital Art and the New Orleans Media Experience. His "epileptic"
works utilize random micro-editing techniques to create subliminal bursts of
mangled street video. This concept is counterpoised with ultra slow motion
macro captures. Eye Against Eye has also been used as live background video
for Gibby Haynes and His Problem. Additional information can be found at
bbcp.nu.

performance - josh russell

coins spinning, transgenic bacteria freezing in a dry-ice methanol bath, rice dropping on keys of toy xylophone, no-input mixer, gas heater, wind chimes, tibetan singing bowl, acoustic guitar, water drops, unchilded active speaker excited by cell-phone signal, helium balloon.’

Josh Russell runs bremsstrahlung recordings, which released the critically acclaimed ‘lowercase 1 & 2’ compilations. He works with very subtle, quiet sounds that draw the listener capturing their attention for a rewarding experience.

Performance is available here.

www.lowercasesound.com

Presented by:

ThomFariCraw:
modern music initiative

Dedicated to the creation and presentation of the highest caliber of modern experimental music

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