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[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Engine 27 is proud to present a lecture/performance:

Kim Cascone ­ anti-correlation:
laptop music and noise mediated aesthetics

"The medium is no longer the message, the tool has become the message."

Kim Cascone presents a lecture / performance on the role and controversy
surrounding the use of the laptop computer in electronic music production
and performance.

date & time:            Friday, November 22, 8pm, suggested admission $10

address:                  173 Franklin St. (btwn. Hudson & Greewich)

information              www.engine27.org, 212-431-7466 or post@xxxxxxxxxxxx

No music technology has created more controversy since the introduction of
the music synthesizer in the mid-60's than the laptop computer. The laptop
is now increasingly seen in both production and performance settings due to
the widespread adoption of music synthesis software tools. But it has been
the appearance of the laptop in performance settings that has caused the
most controversy and raises issues concerning reception, context and
expectation. Kim Cascone¹s lecture will examine some of the issues
concerning laptop music as well as introduce new ideas on noise-mediated
aesthetics and reception theory.

Kim Cascone received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee
College of Music in the early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies with
Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City. In the 1980's, Cascone
worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and
Wild at Heart.  In 1986 he founded Silent Records, an electronic music
label. He has also worked as a sound designer for Thomas Dolby's company,
Headspace and as Director of Content for Staccato Systems.

Kim has released more than 15 albums of electronic music and has
worked/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, Ikue Mori,
and David Toop among others.

Cascone has performed at the Lovebytes Festival (UK), Micro 2 Mutek
(Montreal), Transmissions Festival (North Carolina), Observatori (Spain),
Tate Modern (London) and recently performed "Anti-Correlation" throughout
Europe.

For more information about Kim Cascone:
www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=322
www.cycling74.com/community/cascone.html
www.anechoicmedia.com


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