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Re: [microsound] early warning: the once.twice festival of sound baltimore



 what city is this show in??
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:06:05   jason urick wrote:
>upcoming show announcement!!!!
>
>
>the once.twice festival of sound
>
>march 24 + 25
>
>day.one saturday march 24 @ the ottobar   $7
>
>schedule:
>3:30pm - doors open
>:::show begins:::
>4:00pm - ian nagoski/dan conrad
>4:40pm - 0's(chicago)
>5:15pm - diskette
>6:00pm - mora(chicago)
>6:45pm - twine[hefty, komplott](ohio)
>7:45pm - while[chocolate industries]
>
>:::ian nagoski / dan conrad:::
>daniel conrad began work on his chromaccord light
>organ in the early 70s after seeing joseph albers
>theoretical work on the effects of juxtaposed color on
>human perception.  The chromaccord adds time,
>improvisation and inspiration to albers work,
>creating psychedelic retina-tingling sequences of
>afterimages, analogous in many ways to the
>representation of helmholtzs sound-wave theories by
>the early soundfield artists (niblock, young,
>palestine, etc.)  conrad has written about the
>chromaccord in leonardo: journal of art and science.
>
>ian nagoski "really rips with some higher-mind
>electronics, brutal and unsophisticated on one hand,
>beautiful and truly elevating on the other.  listening
>to this is like examining fractal images through a
>microscope - you'll lose your sense of self. - bruce
>russell
>
>:::0's:::
>it's zero's not Oh's just so ya know. 0's are a new
>collaborative force out of chicago involving the
>interaction between live instruments and computer. the
>band includes brent gutzeit of tv pow(who play sunday)
>on pc... dave williams on guitar/sampler, who is known
>around chicago as the editor of the fabulous magazine
>8X10... and lastly rob lomblad on drums, rob is a
>veteran of many fine chicago jangle-pop bands(lanky
>lanky lanky and shambly to name two). their set is
>100% improvised, and can shift from the loud rumble of
>mezbow to the quiet introspectiveness of amm of
>bernhard gunter in seconds.
>
>:::diskette:::
>man about town chris coady's electronic project
>diskette has been steadily picking up steam over the
>last 6 or so months. With frequent gigs in baltimore
>and dc opening for the likes of feotus, oval, cex and
>a short tour with the convocation of..., diskette has
>been winning over audiences with his unique brand of
>jagged beats and cut-ups. similar in vein to autechre,
>richard devine and push button objects.
>
>:::mora:::
>minuscule sounds brought to life! often times
>concentrating on the micro-sound worlds of small
>objects, more's contact mic-ed improvisations take the
>listener places they never would have imagined. also
>from chicago mora is jason soliday and philip von
>zweck, both members of chicago experimentalists
>seafoam. von zweck is also the host of the nationally
>known experimental radio show "something else".
>
>:::twine:::
>after a self releasing a cd and loading the web with
>their mp3's, twine finally received their break when
>chicago label hefty(run by john hughes III) reeled
>them in to do a 12". ohio-ans greg malcolm and chad
>mossholder have since been on a roll, releasing a cd
>of loops for pc's acid program, a full-length on
>komplott of sweden and another hefty ep due soon.
>their sound is a fusion of noise and melody. similar
>to fennesz more melodic work or vert's "koln konzert".
>they also come equipped with an amazing video
>show..... not to be missed. 
>
>:::while:::
>baltimore's best kept secret is electronic musician
>chris moore aka while. with two ep's and one
>full-length out in the last three months on chicago
>label chocolate industries, one would think more
>attention would have been paid. well it has! in
>international press, rave reviews have been rolling in
>from all over, with magazine such as Alternative Press
>and The Wire gushing over while's new releases. this
>is while's first ever baltimore show, and only his
>second ever period!
>
>
>fun right? that's day one::::here's day two!
>
>day.two sunday march 25 @ h. lewis gallery    $6
>
>schedule:
>
>2:00pm - doors open
>2:30pm - matt welsch
>3:00pm - themoonstealingproject
>3:45pm - backbreakerneckbrace
>4:30pm - videos curated by jason urick
>5:15pm - tv pow[boxmedia, staalplaat](chicago}
>6:15pm - andreas berthling[staalplaat,
>microwave]{sweden)
>7:15pm - videos/films curated by dawn bennick
>
>
>:::matt welsch:::
>some of you might recognize matt as the singer of
>local art rock band the aviary. matt's solo set is a
>completely different animal, with guitar and sampler
>welsch creates detailed ambient layers/loops that
>intersect drone wash guitar.
>
>:::themoonstealingproject:::
>chicago transplant jason urick is the sole member of
>themoonstealingproject and is also the organizer of
>this event. his sound is that of slowly evolving
>electronic textures, his primary interest are in
>transforming recognized instrumentation into ambient
>soup.
>
>:::backbreakerneckbrace:::
>michael haleta is a graphic design senior at the
>maryland institute college of art (also studying web-
>and sound-design). michael studied cello and
>composition under multi- instrumentalist eric
>haltmeier (former student of ellery eskelin). when he
>isnt constructing typefaces, michael is either
>composing music for his electronic project
>backbreakerneckbrace or playing guitar in the
>baltimore math-rock band the french mistake.
>
>:::tv pow:::
>tv pow is brent gutzeit, mike hartman and todd carter.
>the three met at college in kalamazoo, mi. before
>reuniting in japan to form tv pow. at the time the
>"band" was using electric koto, drums and 20-string
>steel bass. the trio moved back to chicago in 1997 and
>evolved into a laptop band. the years since returning
>from japan has seen the members; starting two record
>labels(boxmedia and gentle giant), releasing albums as
>a group on staalplaat, and boxmedia , releasing solo
>records and appearing on comps on lucky kitchen,
>kranky, staalplaat and field recordings, as well as
>touring europe once and japan four times.
>
>:::andreas berthling:::
>andreas in a swedish composer working within the area
>or sound phenomenon. his recordings are starkly
>beautiful, very much in the way ryoji ikeda or
>cristoph charles are. this is one of only a few dates
>in andreas' first ever u.s. tour.  
>
>:::videos/film:::
>as well as hosting 11 amazing musical acts over the
>weekend, once.twice will include two video/film
>presentations. the first, curated by the festival's
>organizer jason urick will included videos by echo
>ho(tomlabs, GER), vidok.org(vienna,AUS), to rococo
>rot(mute, GER), doug lussenshop(chicago),
>diskono(scotland), lucky kitchen(spain), a-musik(GER),
>rhiz (vienna, AUS) and more.
>
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