[microsound] [SF,CA,USA][Fri Jan 23] Field Effects 18

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

Apologies as always for the cross-posting! Happy New Year! - aaron

----------[ Quiet American presents at 964 Natoma ]--------------------

Field Effects 18: One, Two, Three, Four
Friday, January 23, 2003
Doors 8pm
964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA (USA)

$6-10 requested sliding donation,
 no one turned away for lack of funds.

----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------

The world makes music, remember to listen.

Field Effects is an ongoing series of concerts showcasing the use of
found sound, found materials, and field recordings in media art,
presented in a uniquely comfortable environment.

For this show, we will have a four-speaker sound system.

Field Effects 18 showcases a pair of internationally renowned artists:

  Carl Stone

    Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music. He has
    been hailed by the Village Voice as 'the king of sampling' and
    'one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.'

    For Field Effects 18, Carl will present KANTIPUR: A new,
    erythroblastic remix of the Tokyo urban soundscape.

    Stone 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 US, 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 Unoversity in Japan.

    Stone is a winner of numerous awards and grants for his
    compositions, including those from the Freeman Award for the work
    Hop Ken, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller
    Foundation, the Foundation for Performance Arts, the Asian
    Cultural Council, and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los
    Angeles.

    He has been been commissioned by the Olympic Arts Festival in Los
    Angeles, dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, ZDF Television (West
    Germany), Michiko Akao, Sumire Yoshihara, Sony PCL, Paul Dresher
    Ensemble, the Strings Plus Festival (Kobe), Takashi Harada and Aki
    Takahashi, NTT/Japan for IC9, the Noh Project, Bay Area Pianists
    and Cal Performances. In 2001 he served as Artist-in-Residence at
    the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Japan.
    His work has been presented at the Other Minds Festival locally
    and TonArt (Bern).

    Stone's music has been released on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-
    EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me, New Tone, and
    various other labels; and has been used by numerous theater
    directors and choreographers.

    Stone has served as President of the American Music Center (1992-
    1995), as the Director of Meet the Composer/California (1981-
    1997), and as Music Director of KPFK-FM Los Angeles (1978-1981).

      http://www.sukothai.com

  Michael Northam

    A self-proclaimed sound 'composter,' Michael Northam works to
    redirect the experience, observation, and discovery of unique
    organic and inorganically driven sound phenomena towards their
    open ended application in what he calls 'intuitive assemblage.'

    From recordings of forgotten places to those mad in the midst of
    massive demonstrations, from the manipulation of discarded objects
    to the articulate drones of harmonic wires of traditional
    instruments, his sound work spans the chasms between tonal and
    atonal musics and acknowledges neither, in order to create a
    suspended space of viewing our condition embedded in stochastic
    fields of constant change.

    Michael has presented sound works extensively throughout Europe
    and North America, and has over the past 12 years scattered
    published works produced from four continents. He is currently
    helping to develop studio facilities and record label concerning
    new sound works, sound sculpture and the documentation of sound
    phenomena in western Switzerland.

    For Field Effects, Michael will present an evolving experiment in
    live quadraphonic acousmatic work  recent recordings from Portugal,
    Quebec and the Pacific Northwest are mixed with manipulations of
    organ; a chimney cleaner, excited wires, and an amplified dry piece
    piece of wood round out the sound masses that ooze from the
    speakers in a warm glow.

      http://www.radiantslab.com/mnortham/

The Field Effects series showcases artists interested in framing
the hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface,
awaiting our attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted.
And beauty in potential, awaiting juxtaposition, collage,
repetition and mutilation.

Seating mostly on futons and our new flock of beanbags, to encourage
comfortable deep listening. You are always welcome to bring pajamas
or a pillow.

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a
donation-based honor system. Hopefully someone will make cookies.
Maybe there will be a special guest.

----> Venue Info <----------------------------------------------------

964 Natoma
San Francisco, CA, USA

Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market.
A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van
Ness. Bike parking inside!

About the series: http://www.fieldeffects.org

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This is a private event for friends, family and our community.

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