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[sf]Tonight(6/03):DatPolitics/bLevin bLectum/Lesser+we are2!!!!



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under the radar // TWO YEARS AND RUNNING
tuesday : 06.03.03 ::  http://utr.praemedia.com/
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[ tuesday june 3: under the radar: 2 year  ]

Julip: 839 Geary (between Hyde and Larkin)
9:00pm - Close
$7.00

LIVE PERFORMANCES:

DAT POLITICS (Ski-pp Records / Tigerbeat6)
BLEVIN BLECTUM (Deluxe Records / Phthalo)
LESSER (Matador / Tigerbeat6)
LANCE GRABMILLER (Grinder / Underground Inc.)

DJS:
WOBBLY (Phthalo / Tigerbeat6)
ZYGOTE (Under the Radar)

VIDEO ARTISTS:

PETER NYBOER (Yowstar / Girl)
K.M.T.V.

Artists Profiles

DAT POLITICS:
Dat politics flash by the way of music but also texts some pixellised and 
pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy, After work with 
innovative  and respectable labels as A-musik, Mille Plateaux, Skipp or 
Tigerbeat6, now the laptop-band collaborates with the electro-trash label 
from the Berlin-based trio Chicks On Speed to diffuse their domestic and 
terribly exotic new sonic adventures.

BLEVIN BLECTUM:
Blevin Blectum - nee Bevin Kelley - one-third of Sagan, ex-d84 and formerly 
50% of Blectum From Blechdom. Currently Blevin plays solo and in Sagan (with 
fellow musician J Lesser and video artist Ryan Junell). Her first solo CD 
was released on Phthalo in 1999. Her second solo CD Talon Slalom was 
released May 2002 on Seattle's Deluxe Records. She makes electronic music 
with samplers and computers mostly.

LESSER:
Starting off with the templates of drum and bass but tweeking them beyond 
recognition, Lesser's music delivers crunchy snares and overdriven bass 
frequencies with a heaping helping of skeptical humor, gritty digital noise, 
and DIY instrument-building ingenuity. Soldering together new instruments 
out of the refuse of 80's mixers and synths, J Lesser avoids the standard 
sounds and strategies in favor of a confrontational, schizophrenic and often 
hilarious rethinking of conventional "intelligent: electronic dance music.

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.

Co-organizer of the Under the Radar events.

DJ PERFORMANCES:

WOBBLY:
Wobbly is a multi-talented artist who excels in music, painting, singing, 
writing, dancing and even woodworking. Once dubbed "Mr. High on Life", his 
colorful high energy is like electricity as it provokes intense emotion in 
his audience.

Wobbly is practical and youthful. He possesses charisma and magnetism. He's 
been a natural artist since early youth, but has restrained himself until 
recently, as his creative drive is pushing him to give to the world what 
lies inside of him. He developed himself as a portrait painter. This year, 
he's gone beyond that as he fulfills his philosophical nature in the avenue 
of music, writing and singing. He wants to live a long life and be creative. 
His fulfillment will not come until he's completed the full cycle of his 
inborn talent. His high creativity in all areas has funneled into music 
where he finds himself at this time, with his artistic ability as a painter 
having a profound effect. It appears as if his painting background shows up 
in his music as he paints pictures with his words. His broad background is 
embraced in his inspired voice.

ZYGOTE: (Prepared Audio)
http://www.bayimproviser.com/StephenRuiz

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 indeterminacy, 
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.

VIDEO PERFORMANCES:

PETER NYBOER:
http://www.yowstar.com

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

K.M.T.V.

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