Julien Ottavi // j.frede// Terrorstate TOUR

["j.frede" <jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien Ottavi // j.frede // Terrorstate - west coast tour 2002

August.23.2002 - Los Angeles, CA
at Electronic Orphanage 975 chung king road, los angeles - chinatown
7pm, 5$

August.25.2002 - San Francisco, CA
at Under The Radar, 26mix - ( on mission street between cesar chavez and 26th)
8pm - 5$ - 21+ 

August.28.2002 - Denver, CO
at the Sink Gallery, 2301 w. 30th, Denver, CO 
8pm - 5$ - 303-455-0185 (gallery phone with directions)

August.29.2002 - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pulse Club, 4100 central se.
8pm - $5

August.30.2002 - Albuquerque, New Mexico
fitigogo gallery 1014 central sw. (1/2 block west of 10th on central.)
8pm - $5 

info contact:
j.frede jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
current location:los angeles
http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede
po.box 292045 los angeles, ca 90029

bios:

JULIEN OTTAVI
Sound sculptor
Voice laptop  Percussions & electronics
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.


**sorry for any cross posting,, we just want to get the word out