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to concert schedule -->Media from this concert Friday, October 17 @ Circle of Hope Broad: Brendan Murray, Mike Shiflet, Trig (Nagle/Lentini) Circle of Hope Broad Street, 1125 S. Broad Street at Washington, Philadelphia PA (map), $5-10, 8pm. Sponsored by Bowerbird. Two geniuses of the drone attack from different angles. Shiflet's shifting, crunching, pulsing laptop and electronics reveal a wealth of tiny details subsumed into a river of flowing sound, evolving majestically. Murray provides pure, deep beauty: a heavy, heady, and physical soup of tones and grit that lulls even as it exhilarates. Paradoxical? That's all the fun! Like Sarah Palin, Trig (Alex Nagle and Joe Lentini) choose life. But not the simple life of moose-hunting, forced teenage motherhood, snow-mobiling championships, secret pregnancies, lies about earmarks, "spiritual warfare," media sequestering, "troopergate," and unalloyed support for oil drilling. No, Nagle and Lentini prefer to get messy and hands-on, mixed up in the guts and innards of that most common yet inscrutable piece of hardware: the computer. Writing custom patches long into the night, tweaking code and parsing syntax: this is the life of *our* Trig. Not that the audience would know, as screamed vocals and visceral noise textures should carry the day. What, you expected gentle mousing and pecked keystrokes? These pushup-enthusiasts will have none of that. 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 - "Hymn One" excerpt Brendan Murray - "Seize" excerpt Hear more here Read an interview with Brendan. http://brendanmurray.com/ Mike Shiflet (jump to bio)  “Most assuredly an exercise in focus and restraint over the long term. Impressive.” - Jason Bivins, Dusted Magazine Mike Shiflet - "Sponic Transmitter" excerpt Mike Shiflet - "Young Ghosts" Hear more here and here and here http://shiflet.gmby.net/ Trig (jump to bio)  Debut of this new noise project from local men-about-town Joe Lentini (French Erection) and Alex Nagle (CSection, Normal Love, Satanized, Tweeter, Jive Nation, etc.). It promises to be loud, heavy, and harsh. 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. ***** Mike Shiflet is a sound artist now living in Columbus, Ohio, after returning from time abroad in rural Hyogo, Japan. His performance technique involves a combination of several analog noise generators with Macintosh computer and software, usually resulting in a mix of rich drones and fluttering, frequency-jumping noises. In addition to recording as a solo artist, he has been involved in a variety of groups ranging from the violin-led improv group Burning Star Core and the laptop duo Scenic Railroads to performance troupe Noumena and cathartic sludge/noise band Sword Heaven. From 1998 until earlier this year, he ran GMBY Records (known as Gameboy before legal threats from Nintendo) and released exactly 100 albums by improv and noise artists from across the globe. ***** Like Sarah Palin, Trig (Alex Nagle and Joe Lentini) choose life. But not the simple life of moose-hunting, forced teenage motherhood, snow-mobiling championships, secret pregnancies, lies about earmarks, "spiritual warfare," media sequestering, "troopergate," and unalloyed support for oil drilling. No, Nagle and Lentini prefer to get messy and hands-on, mixed up in the guts and innards of that most common yet inscrutable piece of hardware: the computer. Writing custom patches long into the night, tweaking code and parsing syntax: this is the life of *our* Trig. Not that the audience would know, as screamed vocals and visceral noise textures should carry the day. What, you expected gentle mousing and pecked keystrokes? These pushup-enthusiasts will have none of that. |