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The Albany Sonic Arts Collective is very proud to present 2 Soloists In A Car From MA/NH
TUESDAY APRIL 5 @ 8:00 PM
UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD
247 LARK STREET
ALBANY, NY
$5 Suggested Donation for the touring musicians
BONNIE KANE
(Holyoke, MA)
Dedicated improvisor and electro acoustic pioneer, Bonnie Kane's music
lives equally in the avant-garde, hard core and psychedelic arenas.
Integrating saxophone, flute, feedback and electronics, her work travels
through genres of noise, free jazz and improv, psych rock, jam band,
and bio-composition, manipulating sound into magic.
www.bonniekane.com
DEI XHRIST
(Manchester, NH)
Dei Xhrist is a mulitdisciplinary artist working with sound,
performance, and sculpture. She began performing music in 2006, spinning
loops and lock grooves on multiple record players. Voice was initially
added as a background element, supporting
Theremin and less conventional sound sources to create audio cutups and
soundscapes. Xhrist’s voice, now her dominating instrument, has been
favorably compared to Diamanda Galas. She uses glossolalia, concrete
poetry, American primitive, and belle voce with a graceful stage
presence that has been known to morph in to a physical assault past the
fourth wall.
deixhrist.wordpress.com
plus others TBA
The ALBANY SONIC ARTS COLLECTIVE presents:
Saturday March 26th
@ 8:00 PM
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark Street (Albany)
Kurdi/Margolis/Wright: [Chicago IL, Chester NY, Lowell MA]
Muyassar Kurdi - voice, electronics, movement
with
Al Margolis - clarinet, violin, objects, contact mics
Walter Wright - drums, electronics
http://muyassarkurdi.com/
+
Matt Weston - solo percussion + electronics
http://mattweston.com/
$5 suggested donation for the touring musicians.
Muyassar Kurdi (voice), Al Margolis (tapes & electronics) and
Walter Wright (circuit bending and video synthesis)
MUYASSAR KURDI
“Chicago resident Muyassar Kurdi is the final act, delivering a
Dadaistic performance that falls between musical absurdity and autistic
choreography. Completely concentrated upon her bizarre ritual, the
singer – dressed in black – emits tortured vocalisations and cries
worthy of Yoko Ono in full flight, all of it juggling with electronic
effects and white noise. It’s incredibly in-your-face and perturbing but
makes you smile too: the sheer pleasure of making a racket…”
~ Mulhouse in L’Alsace (France)
Kurdi is a musician, performance artist, dancer, filmmaker and educator from Chicago, Illinois.
In performance, she explores the relationship between abstract sound
and meta-primordial movement, obliquely confronting ideas of masculine
subjugation by re-appropriating and then distorting hegemonically,
sexualised, figurative motion and juxtaposing it with random, abrasive
and jarring acoustic and electronic sound components along with wordless
vocalisations.
http://muyassarkurdi.com/
AL MARGOLIS aka If, Bwana
A recent review of Margolis’s work says: “Let it be declared that Al
Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw
materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they
create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up
to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in
compact determination.” (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes). Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette
underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was
co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he
continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making
music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and
more process-oriented composition. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan
Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen
Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David
First, and Dave Prescott, among others.
http://www.ifbwana.com/
WALTER WRIGHT is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer
programming, electro-acoustic music, and video performance. His focus is
on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” Wright was one of the first video animators. At Computer Image Corp
he animated letters, words, and titles for Children’s Television
Workshop. He was a video animator for Ed Emshwiller’s Thermogenesis and
Scapemates, aired by WNET’s Artists Television Workshop. Scapemates was
the first computer graphics video nominated for an Emmy Award (1971). He
showed his work at the first computer art conference at the Kitchen
(NYC, 1973). In 1973-76, as artist-in-residence at the Experimental
Television Center, he pioneered video performance touring public access
centers, colleges, and galleries with the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer.
Wright has developed software and hardware for artists including the
Video Shredder, a desktop video processor for the TARGA2K. Currently he
works with Max/MSP, softVNS, and Processing. His programs and sketches
are available on his blog – nohtv.wordpress.com
Wright performs with several groups including Egregoros, ensemble
indent and Tough Day Tubing. He plays a Bugbrand Board Weevil, a Flower
Electronics Little Blue Boy, contact mics by Crank Sturgeon, drums and
percussion. He recently toured with an amplified drum kit and is
experimenting with Martin Freeman’s Horndog and Peter Blasser’s Shnth. Wright is a co-founder of 119 Gallery, the first digital art gallery on the World Wide Web, located in Lowell MA.
https://nohtv.wordpress.com/
MATT WESTON Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics, and has performed
throughout the US and in Europe. He has appeared on CNN, VH1, and
CBS TV.
He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks, Bill
Dixon, Kevin Drumm,
Paul Flaherty, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Le Quan Ninh, Bob Marsh, Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All
Monsters), Roger Miller
(Mission of Burma), Jim O’Rourke,
William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Jack Wright, and many others.
His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the
Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About
Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish.
His solo works have garnered international acclaim, as have his
recordings with Barn
Owl, Tizzy,
and Thrillpillow.
He has recorded for the Tautology, Sachimay, Breaking World
Records, Imvated, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, and Drag City labels. He
currently records for his own 7272Music
label.
In addition to his solo work, Weston is currently a member of the
Arthur
Brooks Ensemble V; and Arc Pair
with drummer Amanda Kraus.
