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>hello, i am desperatlly looking for a venue to host a show in San Francisco 
>for the last week of august, i will be touring with Julien Ottavi (sigma 
>editions) from Nantes, France
>and terrorstate from New Mexico. we would like to perform in SF on one of 
>the following dates, august 24/25/26. normally i would see about 7hz/23five 
>setting up the show but they will be away in china performing during that 
>time, so any suggestions/venues would be greatly appreciated. our bios are 
>below,,,
>thanks
>j.frede
>current location:los angeles
>http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede
>po.box 292045 los angeles, ca 90029
>
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>JULIEN OTTAVI
>Sound sculptor
>Voice laptop  Percussions & eletronics
>12, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 44000 Nantes - France
>Tél :  +(33)2 40 69 00 60
>Email : apo33@xxxxxxx
>
>Julien Ottavi is a Nantes based artist/composer. He studied sound and 
>photography at the art school of Nantes and has pursued studies in 
>percussion. He is the founder of Apo33; a non-profit organization based in 
>Nantes which organizes concerts, research projects and audio releases.
>
>Since 1997 Ottavi has developed compositions of the human voice processed 
>and transformed on computers. Ottavi's research has been based on the sound 
>poetry of artists such as Henri Chopin, Bernard Heiseick, Kurt Schwittlers, 
>Jaap Blonk etc. Ottavi also cites as influences the contemporary composers 
>Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi, 
>composers from the tradition of musique concrete; Pierre Henry, Michel 
>Chion, Luc Ferrari and also musicians/composers of 'noise' music such as 
>Merzbow, Zbigniew Karkowski, Bernhard Gunter and Francisco Lopez.
>
>Ottavi's research consists of two parts; the studio production of vocal 
>pieces based on Michel Chion's idea of the "art of fixed sound" in which 
>the voice is considered as a musical object that can be dematerialized and 
>thus removed from its normal role of communicating meaning. The second 
>aspect of Ottavi's research revolves around the live concert. With what 
>Ottavi calls the "voice computer" works with a more spontaneous and 
>improvised quality are created by utilizing real time processing.
>
>Ottavi is also involved in a number of projects involving collective 
>improvisation. He founded the improvised music collective Ocephale, 
>collaborating with Erik M, Urs Leimgruber, Domenico Scianjo, Xavier Charles 
>and Jerome Noetinger on a "new kind of orchestral music." In March 2000 the 
>group performed 'Phasme' in which the musicians were isolated in different 
>rooms as their sounds were mixed together by the French electo-acoustic 
>composer Huges Germain and accompanied by the real time video processing of 
>Videoz'art. Ottavi also performs with [N:Q], whose other members include 
>Jean Chevalier, Christophe Harvard and Keith Rowe. The groups debut CD was 
>released on Fibrr Records in October 2000. Ottavi and Christophe Harvard 
>are frequent collaborators. Contraction in Situ is their duo in which 
>saxophones and voices are combined with sounds produced by objects found in 
>the performance space. In Contraction On/Off they perform as a laptop duo 
>and Formanex is their electro-acoustic quartet (also including Manu Leduc 
>and Anthony Taillard) for the performance of 20th and 21st Century graphic 
>scores by composers such as Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, Christian Wolf, 
>Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.
>
>Currently Ottavi is working on a series of solo works titled 'Nervure 
>Magnetique' (forthcoming on Sigma Editions), 'series du bruit blanc et 
>rose' and 'etudesauxhertz' as well as collaborating with Jerome Joy and 
>Yannick Dauby as Pizmo
>
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>
>j.frede
>Minimal Composer
>laptop field recordings & minimal electronics
>po.box 292045 Los Angeles, CA 90026 USA
>Tél :  (213) 481-8243
>Email : jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>       j.frede is an experimental music composer who also works as a sound 
>developer for Sonic Foundry. The audio work of j.frede ranges from 
>electroacoustic atmospheres to microsound subtleties, ambient soundscapes 
>to music concret, live performances to audio installations. j.frede's work 
>has been presented at such notable locations as the Museum of Contemporary 
>Art/Denver, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fisk Planetarium, 
>and Thunder Basin.
>
>Originating from New Mexico (usa), j.frede has been working in the field of 
>experimental audio and sound design for over seven years. Frede has been 
>working for the last four years in Denver, CO and is now living in Los 
>Angeles. j.frede is currently working with field recordings of both natural 
>and urban environments, sine wave frequencies, and digital compositions 
>built using acoustic sounds. Frede's live performance can vary depending on 
>each event and the acoustic space it is presented in.
>
>Aside from his work in audio, j.frede has also been the curator for a large 
>number of events, featuring artists from the United States and abroad. Some 
>of the larger events include the Denver Atonal Festival, which ran for a 
>total of five years, the audio portion of the Telluride International 
>Experimental Cinema Exposition, several audio exhibitions for the Museum of 
>Contemporary Art/Denver and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. j.frede 
>also founded the Ritual Document Release label, which at this time has 24 
>release's out.
>
>j.frede is currently collaborating with Spanish music concret artist, 
>Francisco Lopez on a cd that will be released later this year. Another 
>collaboration with post digital composer, Kim Cascone will also be released 
>in 2002 as a split 7".
>
>Frede recently collaborated with other Ritual Document artists on the 
>soundtrack for the feature length experimental film "Slowspace" by german 
>filmmaker Klaus Eisnlohr. The film is based on glass architecture and 
>public space. Slowspace will be featured at film festivals throughout 
>Europe and the United States in 2002.
>
>The installation work of j.frede is designed to create subtle listening 
>environments in galleries and performance spaces. Each installation follows 
>a conceptual basis and is achieved using multiple cd players, 1" to 3" 
>speakers, and compositions specific to the installation. The most recent 
>installations have been the Urban Ambience Relocation Project that was 
>featured at the Trust:Assemble festival in "Thunder Basin" Wyoming and the 
>"12note composition for sines" featured at the Visuals Soundings series at 
>the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. Larger scale installations have been 
>planned, such as "50 Voices" which will require 50 speakers, 25 cd players 
>and a walk through hallway.
>
>In January 2002 Frede was one invited to take part in Rhizome.LA panel 
>discussion on microsound, glitch and post digital music. The other artists 
>on the panel included Kim Cascone, Steve Roden, David Cotner, Sutehk, and 
>Matt Bonal. The event received the pick of the week from the LA Weekly.
>
>Frede has performed at a number of notable festivals and venues including 
>The Emerging Artists Performance Festival (bmoca), The [mnml] Series 
>(mca/d), The F.A. Festival (finland), Music For a New Mess (7hz/S.F.), The 
>Denver Atonal Festival, The Telluride International Experimental Cinema 
>Exposition (telluride,CO), Open Late Series (mca/d), Trust:assemble (WY), 
>Visual Soundings Series (mca/d), Datatransfer Festival (prague) Rhizome.LA, 
>Sonique Series (CH), Bip Hop Generation #14 (FR), Link (Italy). Other 
>artists j.frede has performed with include Kim Cascone, Scanner, E.A.R., 
>Scott Arford, R.H.YAU, Scot Jenirik, Janek Schaeffer & Jason Kahn.
>
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>
>TERRORSTATE
>experimental composer
>sampling synthesis & media manipulations
>Email : terrorstate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Terrorstate is the ambient exp. project of New Mexico based artist Chris 
>Aka. Chris Aka has been playing his brand of drone based noise for over 5 
>years releasing several tapes, cd's, minidisks, and several collaborations 
>all in hand made special packaging. Before Terrorstate Chris had several 
>releases under the title Internal Iliac. Together with fellow Ritual 
>Document label mates M.Bonal, Inerex, and J.Frede, Terrorstate has played 
>over 40 live shows with 2 west coast tours the Telluride Exp Film Festival, 
>Boulder Museum of Contemporary arts, and the Denver Atonal Festival to name 
>a few. All of his sound collages are fueled by a direct sense of purpose no 
>2 shows are ever the same all are constructed specifically for the venue 
>and the audience. These 15 minute to 2 hour sound pieces have been based 
>around ideas ranging from Rape, Vegetarianism, Murder, the Taliban, the 
>Koran, war in yugoslavia, the isreal palestinian conflict, Christian 
>television, space travel and so on.
>
>Currently Chris is working on several projects one with M.Bonal under the 
>name Sons of the Wolf the premier album will be a collaborative 3cd box 
>set. The experimental 16mm film Chicago Skylights by German director Klaus 
>Eisenlohr with soundtrack composed by Terorstate, J.Frede, M.Bonal, and 
>Inerex will be out this fall. The B52's tribute double cd on Nihilist 
>Records has just been released with a dark "Planet Claire" cover track by 
>Terrorstate. Look forward to both a Terrorstate and Sons of the Wolf full 
>length cd release before the end of the year on Ritual Document Release.
>




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