We would like to welcome you to a series of intimate house concerts hosted by Bill Thompson (ex-patriot), Brent Fariss, Clark Crawford (very busy father of three), and Brandon Young (the new kid that has graciously allowed us to continue to use the space). 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.

With Hidden Noises - Holland Hopson

"With Hidden Noises" is based on a Marcel Duchamp's sculpture with a similar name. The original sculpture contains an unknown object placed inside by Duchamp's patron and collector Walter Arensberg. The sculpture rattles when shaken, making it an early example of audio art. Hopson's replica of the readymade contains electronic sensors instead of the unknown object. These sensors provide access to a range of sounds relating to Duchamp's work (coffee grinders, pulleys, stoppages, spinning disks, bachelors, junk machines, love gasoline) "With Hidden Noises" exists as both an interactive installation and a performance.

EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR # 19
The Re-election of the President
(invocation of the demon)

The performance of Clark Crawford’s Saeculum Music I has been withdrawn from the loft series. This move was done against his will and could cost us our friendship, but I thought it was necessary. We apologize for the inconvenience. Down with false prophets and fundamentalists for distorting the name of God for their own gain.

Five Settings - Keith Manlove

"[Emotion] selects what is congruous and dyes what is selected with its color, thereby giving qualitative unity to materials externally disparate and dissimilar." - John Dewey, Art as Experience

This thought has occupied my mind lately, and it really resonates with my ideas of form and material. As disparate elements are brought together and unified by my experience, they form a new one for all of us. You can never really know my experience or understand it, but we can certainly experience it together, albeit, in a new and abstracted form; for me, this is integral to the aura of art.

I am very excited about this strange work and its medium. I attempted to push the electronics to the level of performance of the other instruments, something that most electronic music has seemingly lacked.

Trish Benford - Oboe
Brandon Young - Accordion
Keith Manlove - Electronics

Presented by:

ThomFariCraw:
modern music initiative

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

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