Rhizome.LA Sound Art Event - Jan 28, 2002 (monday)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 7, 2002
Contact: Beverly Tang, Producer - (310) 435-6314, beverly@xxxxxxxxxxx

Los Angeles, CA - Rhizome.LA is pleased to announce the lineup for Monday,
January 28, 2002. The event will consist of musical performances by Kim
Cascone, Steve Roden and Sutekh, and a panel discussion with sound artists
Matt Bonal, Kim Cascone, David Cotner, J.Frede and Steve Roden.

A new genre of music has developed over the past couple of years. Some fans
call it "microsound," "glitch," "lowercase," or "post-digital," but like a
hologram, the genre can change radically as one shifts their perspective.
The boundaries of music have been further blurred due to recent advances in
digital audio technology and as a result new issues have challenged the
mainstream notions of music. The composers participating in this Rhizome.LA
event will help shed some light on these issues by participating in a panel
discussion chaired by Beverly Tang. The bleeding edge of musical aesthetics
will be examined and promises to provide much in the way of cultural
stimulation.

Later in the evening there will be concerts by Steven Roden, Sutekh and Kim
Cascone. Mr. Roden works with small incidental sounds that tend to be
filtered out by most listeners. Roden uses digital technology to bring out
these invisible worlds of sound for us to hear. His work can be likened to
"hearing sound as if you were looking through a microscope." Sutekh, best
known for his work in the California style of electronica, will perform
textural sound experiments constructed with otherworldly mixtures of
synthetic and found sounds. This will prove to be a rare and special treat
for all Sutekh fans. Kim Cascone will complete the evening with a dense
field of synthetic sounds created with custom software developed in
Max/MSP. Cascone's work is titled "Dust Theories" and was recently
performed on a European tour last fall.

Rhizome.LA, an offshoot of Rhizome, is an event series that presents new
media art to the public in Los Angeles. Rhizome.org is an online platform
for the global new media art community. A nonprofit organization based in
New York City, Rhizome's programs support the creation, presentation,
discussion and preservation of contemporary art that engages new
technologies in significant ways. For more information about Rhizome.org,
and to become a member of the Rhizome community, go to http://www.rhizome.org.

About the Artists:

KIM CASCONE
Formally trained in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music and
the New School in New York City. Founded Silent Records in 1986. Worked on
David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart as Assistant Music Editor. Sound
designer and composer for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace. Since 1980, Kim
has released numerous albums of electronic music on Silent, Mille Plateaux,
Anechoic and 12k to name a few. Cascone has performed/lectured at the
Lovebytes Festival (UK), Micro 2 Mutek (Montreal), Transmissions Festival
(North Carolina), Tate Modern (London), Observatori Festival (Spain).
Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list
(http://www.microsound.org) and writes for Computer Music Journal (MIT
Press) and Artbyte Magazine.
Website:  http://www.anechoicmedia.com

STEVE RODEN
Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work
includes painting, drawing, sculpture, films, and sound. The sound works
use found objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings - all
abstracted through electronic amplification and manipulation - to create
new audio spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. The sound works present
themselves with an aesthetic Roden describes as 'lower case' - sound
concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening. A recent
review in the wire described Roden's sound as "a space shot through with
hidden depths and cavities, each one a wormhole leading to a realm as full
of possibilities as silence itself. Recent live performances include the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hayward Gallery in London, the
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Gallery 360 in Tokyo, and the
Transmissions Festival in Chicago. Local exhibitions of visual and site
specific sound works include the UCLA Hammer Museum and the MAK Center for
Art and Architecture. Roden received an MFA from Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena, CA in 1989, and a BFA from Otis Parsons in Los Angeles
in 1986.
Website:  http://www.inbetweennoise.com

SUTEKH
Based in the San Francisco-Bay Area, Seth Horvitz, aka Sutekh, has released
consistently inconsistent electronic music on local and international
labels Force Inc./Mille Plateaux, Source, Background, Plug Research,
Cytrax/Delay, Tektite, and his own Context. Manipulating computers,
samplers, synthesizers, ping pong tables, Scrabble pieces, and found
sounds, he has created everything from minimal house and techno to dense,
dissonant noise collage.

MATT BONAL
Matt Bonal began playing complimentary pieces of soundscapes which led to
the development of his current sound aesthetic. An affinity for technology
and logic, combined with emotive elements, provides the fuel for Bonal's
work. His current work is comprised of treated field recordings combined
with sounds created through several methods of synthesis. He performed at
the TIE Cinema Exposition, providing ambient sound between films and at
various events throughout the festival. He participated in an experimental
audio exhibitions by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum
of Contemporary Art Denver.

DAVID COTNER
David Cotner (Los Angeles, 1970) is a conceptual artist and the inventor of
the literalist system of composition.  His collection of 100 interviews
with electronic music composers and groups, "Sound/Art: A Survey," will be
published by Thumbprint Press in spring 2002.  His Hertz-Lion site
(http://www.hertz-lion.com/), a portal to all things concerning the issue
of experimental music, was voted one of 200 essential websites in the
October 2000 issue of The Wire.  He is currently working on a book
chronicling ritualistic / occult experimental music of the 20th century,
while simultaneously finishing his first novel, "Confessions of a
Troublemaker."

J.FREDE
j.frede is an experimental music composer who also works as a sound
developer for Sonic Foundry. Frede's audio has been featured at a number of
notable locations including Music For a New Mess (7hz/S.F.), the TIE Film
Festival, Datatransfer Festival (Prague), MCA/Denver, and BMOCA.
Originating from New Mexico (USA), Frede has been working in the field of
experimental audio and sound design for over seven years. He has been
working for the last four years in Denver, CO and is now living and
traveling throughout Europe. Frede is currently working with field
recordings of both natural and urban environments, sine waves, and digital
compositions built using acoustic sounds.
Website:  http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede


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