freeek improv at CD Cellar Clarendon Sunday, 9/25
FREE SHOW--Sunday nite, Sept 25, at the Clarendon CD Cellar, three local free improv groups will perform: Anthony Pirog + Lost Civilizations + Mercury Fools the Alchemist!
6:00pm - 9:00pm
CD Cellar
2607 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA
Here’s more band info:
Anthony Pirog (Janel + Anthony, Skysaw, a million other projects and collaborations) A jazz guitarist by training (he graduated from Berklee School of Music), Anthony has proven his abilities as both a composer and an instrumentalist to excel in a variety of genres from various jazz ensembles to straight-forward rock bands. Improvisation and Experimentation pervade much of his work, but as a soloist, he focuses almost entirely on those aspects of his playing style, carefully layering and adjusting guitar loops with carefully drawn out guitar tones mixed with various electronic glitches from a massive array of effects pedals and then finding a melody within the cacophony over which the guitar rings through. Merch will be available including brand new solo tapes, the recently released debut LP from Skysaw (Jimmy Chamberlain's "progressive symphonic pop band), CDs and DVDs from Janel + Anthony (electric guitar and cello experimental compositions), and a 45rpm record from his indie rock trio/sextet.
Lost Civilizations began as a project of Mike Sebastian (Tenor Sax, Saxello and Bass Clarinet) and T. A. Zook (BassCello and Misc. Instruments) playing purely improvised ambient free-jazz. More recently, they have been joined by Larry Gomez (Tabla, Cymbals, Misc. percussion) and Louie Rozier (Flute; Percussion). Performances also feature Aaron Martin (Alto Sax, Soprano Sax), Emre Kartari (Percussion) and other friends as guests. Past recordings available at archive.org.
Mercury Fools the Alchemist-- "Chamber psychedelia" from trio of avant classical bass (Daniel Barbiero of Nine Strings, Mindbreath Trio, etc), ambient guitar (Rich Sheehe of Field Shaman), and a homemade "stone age synthesizer" dubbed the "springamajig" (Jeff Bagato, aka Tone Ghosting) produces chimerical cacaphony for mystical journeys. As with all other acts performing tonight, this is strictly free improv.
Veg Fest on Saturday, Sept 24
09/23/11 12:06 Filed in: Event
Calling all vegans & vegetarians! This Saturday, Sept 24, the annual DC Veg Fest takes over the George Washington University’s quad at 20th & H Streets NW. This FREE outdoor festival celebrating the very best of everything vegetarian in and around the nation's capital. With 8 speakers, 2 cooking demos, over 75 vendors including 18 restaurants, a cupcake eating contest, free food samples, free giveaways, free cholesterol tests, a chance to win prizes, and more -- this event will be shining no matter what the weather is like! Of course, carnivores are welcome, too.
Art Fair Overload This Weekend
This weekend, multiple art fairs are dueling for your attention. The Big Daddy seems to be (e)merge, which is bringing artists and galleries from around the world to the Capitol Skyline Hotel in SW DC. This big box event has a big entry fee as well. The nearby Southwest DC Arts Fair seems to have formed around (e)merge, offering a special edition of the local Marcatus Creative Art Market, plus hand dancing, a film festival and other events; all are free. But Is It Art? Fair sets out as an alternative to the bigger, flashier (e)merge, emphasizing a local DIY edge and heavy on a street art vibe. BIIA? costs nada and can be found at 79 Hanover Place NW, DC. Another free alternative festival, SubMerge, has cropped up in a temporary autonomous zone in the Shaw neighborhood, featuring more underground and local artists, with events going into the wee hours. Barracks Row gallery The Fridge bridges the gap between the fests by providing a free shuttle service that will ferry art geeks between submerge, BIIA, and The Fridge itself, where street artist Ben Tolman’s drawings remain on display.
Noise Legend Sudden Infant Rocks Sonic Circuits Fest Tonite!
Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music continues tonite with headlining performance by Swiss “noise music” legend Sudden Infant, his first show in the DC area since an incredible show at SC fest two years ago. Plenty of other great acts also on the bill, with artists from Norway, Germany, Spain, Basque Country, Netherlands, NYC, and of course, WDC.
At 5pm, there’s a special free performance of Terry Riley’s minimalist composition “In C,” featuring a large ensemble of local musicians lead by guitarist Anthony Pirog. The concert takes place in Silver Spring, MD’s Veterans Plaza. See the Sonic Circuits website for more info.
Sudden Infant
N Ensemble - (Bjornar Habbestad - flute, electronics, noise, Nicolas Field - drum kit, Jeff Carey - the usual, Will Redman - drum kit, Marc Miller - guitar, John Dierker - Sax)
Prehistoric Horse
Rinus Van Alebeek
Miguel A. García
nine_strings_trio + movement
Ezramo
Safe, Fast & Effective
7:00 pm Saturday, September 17
$15.00 all ages
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD (map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/
Free parking (limited spaces!) in gated lot outside
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
At 5pm, there’s a special free performance of Terry Riley’s minimalist composition “In C,” featuring a large ensemble of local musicians lead by guitarist Anthony Pirog. The concert takes place in Silver Spring, MD’s Veterans Plaza. See the Sonic Circuits website for more info.
Sudden Infant
N Ensemble - (Bjornar Habbestad - flute, electronics, noise, Nicolas Field - drum kit, Jeff Carey - the usual, Will Redman - drum kit, Marc Miller - guitar, John Dierker - Sax)
Prehistoric Horse
Rinus Van Alebeek
Miguel A. García
nine_strings_trio + movement
Ezramo
Safe, Fast & Effective
7:00 pm Saturday, September 17
$15.00 all ages
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD (map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/
Free parking (limited spaces!) in gated lot outside
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
The Haters Rage at Sonic Circuits TONITE!
Legendary Los Angeles-based noise artist Jupitter X. Larson brings his long running Haters project to Silver Spring, MD, TONITE for the third nite of the Sonic Circuits Festival!
Sonic Circuits continues through Sunday nite with lots of great events. See the website for complete schedule of events, including FREE shows in Veterans Park, one featuring a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C” on Saturday, the other featuring a massive sound art sculpture on Sunday. TOMORROW NITE’S show with legendary Swiss noise artist Sudden Infant is a must see as well.
TONITE”S PERFORMERS::
ELENA AITZKOA [SPAIN]
Elena Aitzkoa is a sculptress, painter and poet born in the Basque Country. Physicality is very important in her sculptures, texts and living. In dance she uses her body as image of the earth. Trans attitude. Feminine posture. As cofounder of Club L´larraskito (Bilbao), she loves improvising. Currently she is lives and works in Madrid. She has made exhibitions and performances in places like: Artium, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria; Azala creation space in Araba; El Tanque Gallery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Sala Rekalde, Carreras Múgica Gallery or Bulegoa in Bilbao; DT scenic space in Madrid. kreared.com/en/proyectos/elena-aitzkoa
THE HATERS [CALIFORNIA]
Artist/writer GX Jupitter-Larsen is based in Hollywood, California. During the 1990's he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories, the premiere self-destructing mechanical performance art spectacle of its' time. His best known work is as the founder and only constant member of the noise act The Haters. The current Haters performance is a piece entitled "Loud Luggage / Booming Baggage", in which amplified suitcases burst, crackle and explode with sound. Underlying much of Jupitter-Larsen's work is a self-created lexicon of personalized units of measurement such as the polywave, the totimorphous and the xylowave. The Loud Luggage performance is a sonic reference to the xylowave, which he defines as "the distance between nothing and something". The Haters have performed all over America and in 15 nations across Europe & Asia, appearing on over 400 CD, vinyl or cassette releases. http://jupitter-larsen.com/
INFANT FACTORY [DC]
Insect Factory is music from Silver Spring, Maryland musician Jeff Barsky. Insect Factory generally focuses on texture and mood, building layers of sound that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones. Insect Factory has recently released a split 7-inch with RST (New Zealand). For Sonic Circuits 2011, Jeff will collaborate with Chester Hawkins's Blue Sausage Infant project, as Infant Factory.
Since the 90's, Barsky has continuously played in bands and improvisational collectives, and has performed frequently on the east coast of the U.S., as well as in Canada, throughout Europe, and Japan. His first proper release, Air Traffic Control Sleep, was released on Insect Fields in the late summer of 2007, to acclaim from the likes of The Washington Post, The Wire (UK), and Terrascope. Barsky's various projects have shared the stage with acts as diverse as Bardo Pond, Richard Pinhas, Nels Cline, Acid Mothers Temple, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal, previous Sonic Circuits festivals/events, and Terrastock 7 in Louisville, Kentucky. Insect Factory has recently released a split 7-inch with RST (New Zealand), and also recorded a follow-up full-length for release in later 2011. http://www.insectfields.org
Les Rhinocéros [DC]
"Hailing from the Washington, DC area, the young band Les Rhinocéros delivers a crazy world in sound, blending aspects of rock, world music, noise, ambient and jazz. The trio of teenagers was formed in 2008 while the players were still in high school, and has developed since then into an intense and wildly imaginative group that takes music to its extremes. Emotional, minimalistic, intense and grooving, this is music that goes beyond imagination to the edges of sanity. The group continues their sonic experiments by adding unusual instruments into the traditional rock band setting." (Tzadik) https://www.facebook.com/LesRhinoceros
RIND [DC]
Rind is the ambient, melodic, brash and occasionally noisy collaboration between cellist Doug Stailey (Sansyou, Field Shaman, The Plums) and guitarist Beau Finley (Destroyer of Worlds, Monitor), who also runs Fuzzy Panda Recording Company.
Valentina Vuksic [Switzerland]
Valentina Vuksic is a computer artist and programmer based in Zürich. Her work is a personal exploration of the possibilities afforded by articulated hard- and software mediation. She approaches computer systems via inductive microphones for magnetic fields, so-called "telephone adapters." With choreographies for software and computer elements, she utilizes these as actors in software/noise pieces for, and in, computers.
Vuksic considers time and space of computer processor and memory as levels of reality. Software being processed creates own temporal and spatial dimensions, which are staged for a public. She aims for a sensual experience of the analytical sphere becoming concrete, where logic encounters the physical world. The mechanic noises serve as mediators to a public. They reveal in an immediate way the activities taking place between computer processes in the widest sense and the computer electronics they are running on.
http://harddisko.ch/
Friday, September 16
Doors 8:00pm
Music 8:30pm SHARP
$12.00 all ages
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD (map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/
Free parking (limited spaces!) in gated lot outside
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
Sonic Circuits continues through Sunday nite with lots of great events. See the website for complete schedule of events, including FREE shows in Veterans Park, one featuring a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C” on Saturday, the other featuring a massive sound art sculpture on Sunday. TOMORROW NITE’S show with legendary Swiss noise artist Sudden Infant is a must see as well.
TONITE”S PERFORMERS::
ELENA AITZKOA [SPAIN]
Elena Aitzkoa is a sculptress, painter and poet born in the Basque Country. Physicality is very important in her sculptures, texts and living. In dance she uses her body as image of the earth. Trans attitude. Feminine posture. As cofounder of Club L´larraskito (Bilbao), she loves improvising. Currently she is lives and works in Madrid. She has made exhibitions and performances in places like: Artium, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria; Azala creation space in Araba; El Tanque Gallery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Sala Rekalde, Carreras Múgica Gallery or Bulegoa in Bilbao; DT scenic space in Madrid. kreared.com/en/proyectos/elena-aitzkoa
THE HATERS [CALIFORNIA]
Artist/writer GX Jupitter-Larsen is based in Hollywood, California. During the 1990's he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories, the premiere self-destructing mechanical performance art spectacle of its' time. His best known work is as the founder and only constant member of the noise act The Haters. The current Haters performance is a piece entitled "Loud Luggage / Booming Baggage", in which amplified suitcases burst, crackle and explode with sound. Underlying much of Jupitter-Larsen's work is a self-created lexicon of personalized units of measurement such as the polywave, the totimorphous and the xylowave. The Loud Luggage performance is a sonic reference to the xylowave, which he defines as "the distance between nothing and something". The Haters have performed all over America and in 15 nations across Europe & Asia, appearing on over 400 CD, vinyl or cassette releases. http://jupitter-larsen.com/
INFANT FACTORY [DC]
Insect Factory is music from Silver Spring, Maryland musician Jeff Barsky. Insect Factory generally focuses on texture and mood, building layers of sound that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones. Insect Factory has recently released a split 7-inch with RST (New Zealand). For Sonic Circuits 2011, Jeff will collaborate with Chester Hawkins's Blue Sausage Infant project, as Infant Factory.
Since the 90's, Barsky has continuously played in bands and improvisational collectives, and has performed frequently on the east coast of the U.S., as well as in Canada, throughout Europe, and Japan. His first proper release, Air Traffic Control Sleep, was released on Insect Fields in the late summer of 2007, to acclaim from the likes of The Washington Post, The Wire (UK), and Terrascope. Barsky's various projects have shared the stage with acts as diverse as Bardo Pond, Richard Pinhas, Nels Cline, Acid Mothers Temple, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal, previous Sonic Circuits festivals/events, and Terrastock 7 in Louisville, Kentucky. Insect Factory has recently released a split 7-inch with RST (New Zealand), and also recorded a follow-up full-length for release in later 2011. http://www.insectfields.org
Les Rhinocéros [DC]
"Hailing from the Washington, DC area, the young band Les Rhinocéros delivers a crazy world in sound, blending aspects of rock, world music, noise, ambient and jazz. The trio of teenagers was formed in 2008 while the players were still in high school, and has developed since then into an intense and wildly imaginative group that takes music to its extremes. Emotional, minimalistic, intense and grooving, this is music that goes beyond imagination to the edges of sanity. The group continues their sonic experiments by adding unusual instruments into the traditional rock band setting." (Tzadik) https://www.facebook.com/LesRhinoceros
RIND [DC]
Rind is the ambient, melodic, brash and occasionally noisy collaboration between cellist Doug Stailey (Sansyou, Field Shaman, The Plums) and guitarist Beau Finley (Destroyer of Worlds, Monitor), who also runs Fuzzy Panda Recording Company.
Valentina Vuksic [Switzerland]
Valentina Vuksic is a computer artist and programmer based in Zürich. Her work is a personal exploration of the possibilities afforded by articulated hard- and software mediation. She approaches computer systems via inductive microphones for magnetic fields, so-called "telephone adapters." With choreographies for software and computer elements, she utilizes these as actors in software/noise pieces for, and in, computers.
Vuksic considers time and space of computer processor and memory as levels of reality. Software being processed creates own temporal and spatial dimensions, which are staged for a public. She aims for a sensual experience of the analytical sphere becoming concrete, where logic encounters the physical world. The mechanic noises serve as mediators to a public. They reveal in an immediate way the activities taking place between computer processes in the widest sense and the computer electronics they are running on.
http://harddisko.ch/
Friday, September 16
Doors 8:00pm
Music 8:30pm SHARP
$12.00 all ages
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD (map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/
Free parking (limited spaces!) in gated lot outside
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
Stylus all turnable ensemble make soundtracks to silent films Wed, Sept 14
The 2011 Sonic Circuits Festival of experimental music gets started Wednesday night at the AFI Silver theatre in Silver Spring with all-turntable ensemble Stylus creating live soundtracks to two silent films, “Lot in Sodom” and Man Ray’s “Emak Bakia.” A supergroup of musicians from the DC experimental music scene, Stylus performs exclusively on vintage Califone turntables, the kind used in elementary schools across the country. The Sonic Circuits Festival continues through Sunday, Sept 18. For a full schedule of concerts, check out the Sonic Circuits website.
Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music Starts Next Week, Sept 14!
DC’s premiere festival for experimental music starts next week, on Wednesday, Sept 14, and runs through Sunday, Sept 18. Highlights include rare DC performances by internationally known noise artists Sudden Infant and The Haters, European Free Improvisors John Butcher and Keith Rowe, Ecstatic Peace recording artist Okkyung Lee, and Tzadik records recording artists (and local group) Les Rhinocerose. Local all-turntable ensemble Stylus kicks things off on 9/14 performing cut-up soundtracks for two black and white silent films [“Lot in Sodom” and the Surrealist masterpiece “Emak Bakia”] at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. Lots of local performers and other out of towners too. Check the extensive festival schedule!
Experimental Music Concert--9/11 Commemorative
Lots of 9/ll Commemorative events going on this weekend, but if you’re looking to combine some challenging music and left wing politics in your observation, check out this concert at George Mason University: “The Cost of War”
From the organizer, Thomas Stanley: “The Cost of War…is enormous in every possible way. As an investment, its returns are gruesomely consistent: death and disfigurement, environmental degradation, and economic ruin. With the events on that September morning, ten years ago, this society entered a period of seemingly interminable war. There is apparently no off-switch for this state of affairs, no condition of victory or compromise that would allow us to pause and step back from this dismal project. So the creeping web of war metastasizes according to its own logic – secret war, proxy war, war declared and undeclared, war whose nefarious targets shift and morph as if on cue. We who work are the financiers of all of this. It is we who must carry its heavy cost.
“Please join Mason students, alumnae, and members of our creative community for our 9/11 remembrance – a chance to steel ourselves through music, and prepare for a day when this costly cycle of organized violence has been finally interrupted. When the wars have ceased, the healing can begin. “
Performances by:
Borborgymus (Andrew McCarry)
Erdén Zikibay
Jelly Gums & the Comfy Guts (Rachel Foley and Ben Cassidy)
Erica Fallin, Mark Cooley, and Thomas Stanley
Brian Wentz
September 11, 2011
5:00 pm/Admission is free
George Mason University
School of Art | Art & Design Bldg | 1007
From the organizer, Thomas Stanley: “The Cost of War…is enormous in every possible way. As an investment, its returns are gruesomely consistent: death and disfigurement, environmental degradation, and economic ruin. With the events on that September morning, ten years ago, this society entered a period of seemingly interminable war. There is apparently no off-switch for this state of affairs, no condition of victory or compromise that would allow us to pause and step back from this dismal project. So the creeping web of war metastasizes according to its own logic – secret war, proxy war, war declared and undeclared, war whose nefarious targets shift and morph as if on cue. We who work are the financiers of all of this. It is we who must carry its heavy cost.
“Please join Mason students, alumnae, and members of our creative community for our 9/11 remembrance – a chance to steel ourselves through music, and prepare for a day when this costly cycle of organized violence has been finally interrupted. When the wars have ceased, the healing can begin. “
Performances by:
Borborgymus (Andrew McCarry)
Erdén Zikibay
Jelly Gums & the Comfy Guts (Rachel Foley and Ben Cassidy)
Erica Fallin, Mark Cooley, and Thomas Stanley
Brian Wentz
September 11, 2011
5:00 pm/Admission is free
George Mason University
School of Art | Art & Design Bldg | 1007
Ben Tolman Art Show at The Fridge
Celebrate the opening of DC-based artist Ben Tolman’s show of new drawings at The Fridge this Saturday with an opening party from 7-11 pm that includes a performance by Bellflur. According to the Fridge website, you’ll see new “ink drawings revealing the whole range of Tolman's art making process from doodles on napkins to obsessively crafted works.” You can find The Fridge on Barracks Row at 516 1/2 8th Street, SE, REAR ALLEY, WDC.
