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New Futures Audio Workshop:  improv, electronic and acoustic experiments

Tuesday: 2-18-03: 8pm-12am

136 Taylor, San Francisco

Price >> FREE

Featuring:
-Alan Imberg
-Ernesto Diaz-Infante
-Eugene Rodis (The Luxury Tax)
-Joseph Zitt
-Kiya Babzani
-LX Rudis
-Lance Grabmiller
-Michael Paine
-Moe! Staiano
-Peter Nyboer
-Peter Valsamis
-Scott Hill
-Stephen Ruiz (Zygote)

more info:
http://forum.neuralocity.com
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Select Artists Bios:

LX Rudis:

lx rudis is an artist and worker.  he is at present active in both
commercial and underground media in the san francisco bay area. On the 18th 
hr'll use 2 turntable emulators and a mixer.  He may bring something that 
looks like a theremin along.Of the great Roman writers Horace had least 
sympathy with him; yet he testifies to the high esteem in which he was held 
during the Augustan age. Ovid expresses the grounds of that esteem when he 
characterizes him as: "Ingenio maximus, arte rudis."

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Peter Valsamis

Born in Montreal, Peter Valsamis began playing the piano at the age of six, 
but soon moved to the drums. Concurrently, he developed a sensitivity to 
sound that drew him to record and manipulate sound on tape. Now based in 
Oakland, California, Valsamis continues to nurture a wide range of 
interests. As a drummer, he has presented his music to concert audiences in 
Europe, Asia and North America, performing with Malcolm Goldstein, Steve 
Lacy, Cecil Taylor and Don Preston. He has been Artist-in-Residence at the 
Banff Centre for the Arts and has recent CD releases with piano virtuoso 
Dana Reason and the influential Trance Mission. Valsamis' electroacoustic 
compositions include a full length soundtrack for the award winning 
experimental film re:Cycle by Ken Doolittle. Valsamis received his M.F.A. in 
Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. While at Mills 
Peter studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, William Winant, and Leo 
Smith and received the prestigious Hellman Scholarship in Performance.

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Stephen Ruiz (Zygote)

Stephen Ruiz (aka Zygote) uses the mechanized process of electronic music 
production and combines the expression of complex human feelings to create 
sound art. The tools of his output are computers, tape recorders, wires and 
other conduits of noise. His sound transcends the inhuman element of 
"technologically enhanced" production methods so vital in the world of 
electronic music producers, and in it's place submits raw and unfiltered 
emotion. While exploring the idea of personal expression through the cold 
exterior of machines, he takes the concepts of compositional 
indetereminancy, generative music and
evolving cellular automata and humanizes them. The end result is populist 
music of emotional depth that illicits response via technology. Having 
trained in percussion and guitar, his compositional methods are rooted in 
structured narrative that are constantly being mutated under the pressure of 
new forms of expression.

Stephen has releases on Under the Radar Records and Alectric Records 
(Canada) and is the founding organizer of The "Under the Radar" experimental 
music and video events in San Francisco.

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Alan Imberg

Ambient/Experimental guitarist Alan Imberg has strived from the outset of 
his career to mix the seemingly opposed musical textures of dark guitar with 
ethereal ambient qualities. Evidence of this can be found in the artists he 
refers to as early influences (Michael Schenker, early Metallica, Pink 
Floyd, Vangelis, and Brian Eno). From 1986 to 1992, he would play in a 
series of Heavy Metal bands, concentrating more on "headbanging" and 
performing in clubs throughout California. 

March 2000 marked the debut commercial solo offering from Alan Imberg when 
Dark Duck Records included his piece "Overview of Water" on the CD 
compilation "Ambient Landscapes 2: Passage to Chill". In 2001, Alan followed 
this up by establishing his own recording label (Brun's Son's Music) and 
releasing his 1st full-length CD titled "A Collection of Thoughts". Both 
offerings received critical praise and established Alan Imberg as an 
up-and-coming presence in the Ambient and Experimental music community.

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Joseph Zitt

Joseph Zitt's vocal performance combines a background in traditional 
synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques. 
While he often approaches performance non-verbally, focusing on the vocal 
sounds themselves rather than the meanings of words, he also includes moving 
and surprising uses of text in work that straddles the line between music 
and poetry. In his solo and ensemble performances and workshops, he works to 
create music that is both complex and clear, exemplifying the best that each 
person can bring to free and structured improvisation.

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Peter Valsamis

Hi, I'll be playing drums.

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Peter Nyboer

Peter Nyboer is an audio and video artist and programmer living in Oakland,
CA.  Recent work has been focused on creating commercially available
applications for audio and video mixing using Cycling74's Max/MSP.  He has
started to focus more on playing live music using his "Girl" loop mixer,
playing in large and small improvisation ensembles in the Bay Area.  With
source material such as answering machines, analog synthesizers,
poorly-played clarinet, and thrift-store records, Peter makes sense of this
sonic diaspora by processing it with similar effects, introducing rhythmic
structure, and finding related tangents among the samples' native sounds.
Peter also performs live video for underground events and small clubs,
often mixing and processing the visual details of the urban environment
that are sometimes ignored by the passerby.
His applications can be found at
http://www.yowstar.com and http://girl.yowstar.com

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Kiya \"i am a copier\" Babzani

IDM minus 25 years. Iran, birth of a child. Babzani, Kiya the 1st, aka The
Honorable Mr. Dr. Senor Diplomat Kiya the Horrible Esq. - Chief Medical
Examiner. Language please. English, Farsi, Fanglish, represent. Famous?
Nope. In-famous? Definitely Not. Feed me? Please, but the burritos and women
must be mojado.  Harmonica? Been there. Accordion? Done that. Now playing?
Turntable(ism), sounds of the mouth, guitar maybe, DSP? definitely. Also see
reference book #A-32c5 section G - re: beat boxing. Please direct inquiries
to iamacopierltd. aka do not shake the toner. Be thrifty, be efficient and
feel free to add or remove turnips or rum depending on what your definition
of "play" is.

i'll be making mouth sounds through a mic run through a sound processor.

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ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE

Lives and works in San Francisco, California USA
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and 
improviser is an active member of the vital San Francisco experimental music 
scene. Born in Salinas, California, Diaz-Infante's early musical life began 
with private piano lessons and in high school jazz, marching and concert 
bands, garage rock bands and Mexican conjunto/pop bands. In his teens, he 
became immersed in writing poetry, drawing, playing synthesizer and guitar, 
and lo-fi 4-track recording of songs. He received his formal musical 
education from the University of California Santa Barbara College of 
Creative Studies (1992-94) and California Institute of the Arts (1994-96), 
where he studied a variety of music, composition, electronic music, film 
music, Gamelan, modern dance, and performance art. Diaz-Infante has composed 
contemporary chamber music for solo, ensemble and orchestra. He has been 
awarded residencies at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale 
(CIRM), the Villa Arson (both in Nice, France), The Millay Colony for the 
Arts, Centrum, Villa Montalvo, The New York Mills Arts Retreat, The Ucross 
Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. He has recorded more than 15 
CDs of music, collaborated with numerous musicans, and he has had 
performances and radio broadcasts all over the world.

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Lance Grabmiller

Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1975. Studied viola, cello, alto saxophone, 
tenor saxophone and music composition (in that order) before putting all 
formal studies on hold with the discovery of his first four track tape 
recorder at the age of 14. Using various tapes, effects, objects, 
microphones, amplifiers, razor blades and any instruments that could be 
begged or borrowed, he created quite a din in the Midwest, most notably in 
his collaborations with Shannon Fields which included such ?bands? as 
Alice?s Offspring, Requiem (which included a revolving cast of dozens) and 
HSoA (with Martin Nieznanski), the last of which culminated in a gigantic 
performance noise nightmare that nearly destroyed the Gizmo in Galesburg, IL 
in 1994.

In 1998, after working on ?tape-wrecks? and selling off every instrument he 
owned in his bedroom, he ventured to move his music concrete into the 
computer realm. It all went downhill from there. He worked as producer with 
various elements of the Midwest?s dark-ambient and industrial scenes 
(including remixes and collaborations with Paved in Skin and C17H19N03) 
until his relocation to San Francisco in 2001. In 2002, Lance?s first CD was 
released. Titled 'Anthropology? and assembled by John Bergin of various 
tracks completed between 1999 and 2001, hovering between the various 
influences of Pierre Henry, Morton Subotnik and the then dying ?Glitch? and 
?Drum n Bass? factions of electronic music.

Currently producing and currating events throughout the Bay Area while 
trying to straddle the gap between the ?avant-garde? and the ?electronic.? 
He has played in improvisational groups with Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent 
Romus, Philip Gelb, Joseph Zitt, LX Rudis, Dina Emerson and many more. He 
has also opened for such notable electronic acts as Kid606, Sagan, Wobbly, 
Uprock and Meg Lee Chin among others. Someday he will teach himself to play 
Fugazi covers on his weasing accordion and start that record label he has 
always
talked about. He also refuses to teach himself to DJ in order to join the 
electronic elite and was last seen burning vinyl to keep warm.

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