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to concert schedule Saturday, October 17, 2009 @ Vox Populi Gallery: Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, $5-10, 8pm. (map) PSF One Year Anniversary Celebration!! Brendan Murray and Richard Garet (Boston/New York) audio-visuals Jim Haynes and Murmer (San Francisco and London) audio-visuals Bee Mask (Philadelphia) electronics, tapes Jesse Kudler and Ian Fraser (Philadelphia) guitar, electronics, tapes, radios + laptop If you caught Brendan last time he was here, you know the visceral and intoxicating effects of his deep, undulating drones. This time he is joined by simpatico collaborator Richard Garet. Jim Haynes is know for his aesthetic explorations of "rust": natural sounds, decay, and dissolution, over an underlying bed of oceanic vastness. He is joined by sound artist Murmer (Patrick McGinley), who rings music out of wind, insects, stones, sticks, environments, machines, and natural sounds. Opening are three Philly faves: Jesse Kudler and Ian Fraser playing a busy and noisy yet surprisingly sensitive and detailed duo; and Bee Mask plying his patented psychoacoustic dronenoisallalia. Brendan Murray (jump to bio)  "Murray's music is positively teeming with life behind its curtain of sustained tones." - Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic Brendan Murray and Richard Garet - "In parallel" excerpt Brendan Murray and Richard Garet - "The Tyranny of Objects" excerpt Hear more here Read an interview with Brendan. http://brendanmurray.com/ Richard Garet (jump to bio)  "There is an enormous mysterious, indescribable and subtle aura on Richard Garet's sound work, an aura that creates a sense of continuous uncertainty and constant undeveloped expectation." -David Velez, Earlabs Richard Garet - "l'avenir" excerpt Brendan Murray and Richard Garet - "In parallel" excerpt Brendan Murray and Richard Garet - "The Tyranny of Objects" excerpt More Richard Garet videos http://www.richardgaret.com http://www.myspace.com/richardgaret Jim Haynes (jump to bio)  Jim Haynes - "Sever" excerpt 1 Jim Haynes - "Sever" excerpt 2 http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes/ Murmer (jump to bio)  Murmer - "In his home" excerpt Murmer - "they were dreaming they were stones" excerpt http://www.murmerings.com http://www.frameworkradio.net http://www.revenantsound.net Bee Mask (jump to bio)  photo: jillian slane Hear Bee Mask here http://www.deception-island.com/ Jesse Kudler (jump to bio)  Jesse Kudler and Ian Fraser - live excerpt http://www.jessekudler.com http://www.myspace.com/jessekudler Ian Fraser (jump to bio)  Jesse Kudler and Ian Fraser - live excerpt http://www.myspace.com/iimff Bios: Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. He has actively recorded and performed with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. He has recorded four full-length CDs, four cdrs and two cassettes for various record labels in the United States and Europe. Murray has also toured extensively throughout the United States as a solo performer and as a member of various improvising ensembles. He is actively involved with long distance collaborations with musicians and sound artists such as Seth Nehil, Richard Garet and Chuck Bettis. He is also a founding member of the group Ouest, with longtime friends and collaborators Jay Sullivan and Howard Stelzer. Other activities include playing drums and guitar in the rock band Paper Summer, composing music for film and occasionally presenting a concert series in the Boston area; “Uppercase Sound”, which features upcoming and established electronic musicians from New England. *** Richard Garet (born in 1972, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a sound and visual artist that currently lives and works in New York, USA. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings' relationship with both artificial and natural environments. Garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. Additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, function, and form. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of these modes are additional ways in which Garet’s work exposes the audience to visual and physical-acoustic sensory perception. Richard Garet has collaborated in the past with artists Andy Graydon, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, Gil Sanson, and André Goncalves through the EA collective. He has also collaborated with Asher, Brendan Murray, Shimpei Takeda, Sawako, Chika Iijima, Bruce Tovsky, Bruce McClure, Adam Kendall, Jeremy Slater, Peter Eudenbach, Wolfgang Von Stürmer, Zimoun, Zach Layton, Aaron Kadoch, and David Velez. His interdisciplinary media work has been showed in the USA and internationally and his sound work has been released by the sound-art labels Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, and White_Line Editions. Sound: My sound work aims to engage the listener principally in a mode of active listening. I also focus on how sound creates architectural space, establishes or rejects social space, and affects the body. For the past years my work has dealt with concerns related to the investigation of aural phenomena, environment, spatial listening, structure, natural and evolving processes, and materiality. The work exists in various ways such as as a stereo or various channel composition, site-specific installation, or performance. For my sonic live presentation with Brendan I'll be utilizing a modular synthesizer, analog gadgets, field recordings, and laptop processing. *** Describing his work through the pithy phrase, "I rust things," Jim Haynes is a California based artist who has developed a poetic vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, sculpture, installation, and sound. Haynes has published recordings through the Helen Scarsdale Agency, Intransitive, Elevator Bath, and 23five Incorporated. He has collaborated with Loren Chasse, irr. app. (ext.), and Steven Stapleton. He is also a contributing writer for The Wire. Haynes is one of the Directors for 23five and is the lone occupant at the Helen Scarsdale Agency. "The strength of sonic art like this often lies in its very ambiguity: What I hear will most likely not be what you hear. And Haynes's own particular strength lies in his tactile sense of sound as object. These sounds are not textures or tints so much as they are actual materials: they seem worked and wrought: scraped, polished; welded, hammered; pounded, dented, broken." - Dusted Magazine *** patrick mcginley (aka murmer) is an american born sound, performance, and radio artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from 1996 until 1998 he lived in paris, where he studied theatre, beginning his sound experiments in the context of those studies. moving to london in 1998, he began a collection of found sounds and found objects that would become the basis of all his work. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, and has performed live soundworks for others. in 2002 he co-founded framework, an organisation that produces a weekly radio show on london's resonance104.4fm. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one's own breath. more recently mcginley has been giving presentations, workshops, and performances based on the exploration of site-specific sound and sound as definition of space, alone and in collaboration with artists such as john grzinich, maksims shentelevs, yannick dauby and hitoshi kojo. in live performance his initial interest in field recording has developed into an attempt to integrate and resonate found sounds, found objects, specific spaces, and moments in time, in order to create a direct and visceral link with an audience and location. *** Bee Mask is an ongoing project of Chris Benedetto Madak, in which handmade electronics, tape, synthesizers, and prepared instruments are used to create inherently indeterminate performance situations in an ornery and futile attempt to free the improvisor as an ethically and ecologically situated subject from the more histrionic trappings of "improvisation." These self-effacing gestures against gesture, the accompanying desire to place environmental factors and the resonant qualities of the materials in use on equal footing with the agency of the performer, and the practice of electroacoustic lutherie as a means toward a utopian collision of the affective and the social evoke a deliberately absurd net of genealogies. Bee Mask is equally a vision of rust belt basement noise as a back corner of soundsystem culture and of an art rock throttled by the myriad gauntlets of historical anti-arts. In addition to his work as Bee Mask, Chris has been active as an artist and curator in Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was a founding director of GalleryTK. Since 2005, he has published editions of contemporary experimental music on his Deception Island imprint. *** Jesse Kudler, born 1979, improvises on cheap consumer devices: a no-name electric guitar, hand-held cassette recorders, radios and transmitters, various small junk, and pedals/electronics. He uses a computer to assemble his recorded music. Kudler's work often operates on the extremes of volume, demonstrating an interest in the subtleties that can arise from intense softness or loudness, and it is marked by special attention to the stereo field. Recent interest has focused on both internal (electronic/radio) and external (microphone/speaker) feedback. Beyond simply exploring non-pitched sounds, Kudler investigates their use in creating improvised structure. Kudler attended public school until Wesleyan University, where he studied music with Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, and a little bit with Anthony Braxton, among others. He eventually became active as an organizer and performer in improvised, experimental, and electronic music, forming a regular duo with fellow student Jonathan Zorn and leading the large electronic improvising ensemble Phil Collins. Kudler has also worked as a recording engineer for various projects. In his various travels, Kudler has performed with Matt Bauder, Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Cogburn, James Coleman, Tim Feeney, Marcos Fernandes, Brent Gutzeit, Horse Sinister, Bonnie Jones, Jason Kahn, Mazen Kerbaj, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Christine Sehnaoui, Mike Shiflet, Jason Soliday, Howard Stelzer, Christian Weber, Matt Weston, Jack Wright, Jason Zeh, and many others. He has toured the United States several times. Jesse Kudler lives in Philadelphia. Current and recent projects include: HZL, an environmental electronics duo with Tim Albro; a duo with Ian Fraser; Tweeter, a treble-intensive noise trio with Alex Nagle and Eli Litwin; Benito Cereno (with Dustin Hurt, Chandan Narayan, Tim Albro, and Ian Fraser); duos with Chris Cogburn and Christian Weber; solo performance and recording; and various ad hoc groupings. NB: His last name rhymes with “muddler.” *** Ian M Fraser (b.1980) is a performer and composer of electronic music. His playing uses a wide palette of digital and analog means to create long-form improvisations involving patience and restraint. Collaborations include the electro-acoustic quintet Benito Cereno with Jesse Kudler, Tim Albro, Dustin Hurt and Chandan Narayan, and Common Senses with Tim Albro. He is also a contributing member to the band Arc in Round. |