[microsound] [Jiffy-Scuttler]SF-- Fri 1/30 - CARL STONE & RAJAR at Rx Gallery

[Sean Rooney <srooney@xxxxxxxx>]

Apologies all for cross-posting. Gotta get the word out somehow...

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Jiffy-Scuttler One: Friday, Jan 30
Doors Open: 8pm
Music Begins: about 9
at Rx Gallery -- 132 Eddy (near Mason) -- 1 block north of Powell Bart
$6

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JIFFY-SCUTTLER is a music series at Rx Gallery in San Francisco co-curated
by Blevin Blectum, Lance Grabmiller, J Lesser and Sean Rooney. Last friday
of every month. Electronic music that doesn't cower, quiver with fear or
fade into the woodwork. Have a beer, have a conversation, check the gallery
and hear music you won't tag "erase". Jiffy-Scuttler -- electronic music for
today, tonight and all of your special tomorrows!
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CARL STONE (extroverted samples) and RAJAR (live radio signal poaching):

CARL STONE will be following up his fantastic 'introverted' set last friday
at Field Effects with his 'extroverted' (read: "raucous") set at JS. Carl is
one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the
Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers
living in (the USA) today." He has used computers in live performance since
1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San
Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of
the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed
electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been
performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and
the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and
touring, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University
in Japan.

For more Carl Stone info, visit http://www.sukothai.com/


RAJAR is (in alphabetical order) Bob Boster, Xopher Davidson, Michael
Gendreau, David Kwan, and Patty Liu.  We focus on real-time processing of
live radio transmissions using a variety of transformative strategies,
reconfiguring these sounds in hopes of enhancing their entertainment value.
Even more so than other improvisational musics, each performance is a unique
experience as a result of the differences in radio reception at each
location and the program material available at the moment.

For those too tired to google our names, here's too little info about the
members of RAJAR (in reverse alphabetical order):

Patty Liu is a composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music in
various ensembles and contexts. Most recently, she's played in the
Armageddon String Ensemble (violin) and Cheryl Leonard's Instrument in Trees
"band" (cello and tree materials) and composed for Kirsten Williams' Strong
Current Dance Company.

David Kwan:
Last night a DJ saved my life because I was sittin' there bored to death.
Hey, listen up to your local DJ. You better hear what he's got to say. And
if the FCC gives you trouble, just you move out on the double. And you don't
let it trouble your brain because away goes troubles down the drain. I said,
away goes troubles down the drain. There's not a problem that I can't fix
because I can do it in the mix. There's not a problem that I can't fix
because I can do it in the mix. Repeat

Michael Gendreau is well represented in the recorded world (as half of
Crawling with Tarts and as Experts of Legitimation, as well as on his recent
23 Five release under his own name), but never seems to hear  himself  on
the radio.

Xopher Davidson (sometimes known as Antimatter, amongst other pseudonyms)
has a strong affinity for his Tanberg receiver, believing that Danish
technology is, in this case, superior.

Bob Boster frequently performs sound collage under the name Mr. Meridies,
and is a member of the Armageddon String Ensemble.  His favorite radio
station is BBC Radio 4, but he's also quite fond of his alma mater, WXYC in
Chapel Hill, NC.

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