TWO EVENTS this weekend!!

FIRST UP:

Albany Sonic Arts Collective and The soundBarn present:



RIVER OF DRONE III

11am – 4pm on Sunday May 22 at The soundBarn, Valatie, NY.

Albany Sonic Arts Collective and The soundBarn are pleased to present River of Drone III a free, long-form sound performance that will center on the extended sounds of drone and will develop through a five-hour performance.
This year will mark the third annual River of Drone and the second Drone collaboration between Albany Sonic Arts and The soundBarn.
Set in a former orchard cooler with views of the Catskill Mountains, The soundBarn is a uniquely suited location for visitors to lounge, listen and linger for an hour, a few minutes or the entire performance. The audience is encouraged to make themselves comfortable and to bring pillows, chairs, food and drink. Listeners are encouraged to move around, watch the accompanying video projections, wander in and out and discover new relationships to sound through immersion, reflection, deep listening, meditation, and concentration.
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We hope you will join us to listen, meditate, bliss out-- or to simply enjoy a swim in the RIVER OF DRONE!

For more information visit: soundbarn.blogspot.com

The soundBarn
330 Maple Lane
Valatie NY 12184
south driveway

SECOND UP:



They Undulate When Struck By Light
an evening of poetry and music colliding


BILL SHUTE/PARASHI

CENTURY PLANTS with PHIL DONNELLY

CRUUDEUCES

Come on out to UAG in Albany to witness a collision of poetry and improvised sound! Parashi will open the evening with a short blast of noisy wandering. Poet Bill Shute (the head of Kendra Steiner Editions label) will read some of his work, and will then be joined by Sandra Burgess and Parashi for a collaborative set. Century Plants and Burnt Hills drummer Phil Donnelly are slated to follow, bringing out their amazing slow-burning psych drones, and then Cruudeuces' thunderous noisescapes will finish things off for the night's end. Don't miss it!


Bill Shute is an American poet who runs the Kendra Steiner Edtions label as a place to put out adventurous music along with equally challenging poetry.

Century Plants are the duo of Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare; they have released material on such labels as Ikuisuus, Tape Drift, Abandon Ship, and Carbon. They can also be found playing with Burnt Hills and in their respective solo projects of Rambutan and Fossils from the Sun. Phil Donnelly is part of the percussive engine behind psych lords Burnt Hills.

Cruudeuces is Nathaniel Brennan, head of the Ghetto Naturalist Series cassette label. Cruudeuces have released material on Kimberly Dawn, GNS, and Tape Drift.

Parashi is the solo project of Mike Griffin; releases in 2011 have been on Stunned Records, Kendra Steiner Editions, and Ghetto Naturalist Series.

Doors will open at 7.30, music will begin around 8.

Monday, May 23
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark Street
Albany NY
$5 suggested donation

RECENT VIDEO EXCERPTS from ASAC shows!

ID M THEFT ABLE:


BLOOD STEREO:

ASAC show on THURSDAY 5/5!!!

The Albany Sonic Arts Collective presents a very special appearance by the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V. Trumpeter-composer Brooks is one of the unsung heroes of the new music, and has worked with Bill Dixon, William Parker, Sonny Sharrock, Alan Silva, Cecil Taylor, and Frank Wright, among others. For this performance, he will be joined by bassist Anthony Santor and percussionist Matt Weston.

ASAC presents:

The Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
Id M Theft Able
Fleshtone Aura



Thurs. May 5th
8pm
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, New York

The Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
http://www.7dvt.com/2010arthur-brooks-ensemble-v

PLUS from Portland, ME:

id m theft able
http://www.kraag.org/id/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MesgVgfzDnE&feature=related

Fleshtone Aura
http://andrewzukerman.blogspot.com/2011/03/fleshtone-aura.html

There is a $5 suggested donation for the concert.

Hope to see you there!

ALBANY SONIC ARTS COLLECTIVE presents...

BLOOD STEREO (Brighton, England)

BILL NACE (Northampton, MA)

1983 (Albany, NY)


Tuesday April 12
Doors 7:30; show 8:00
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
$5 suggested donation


ASAC is excited to announce our next event, a rare US visit by Brighton England’s diy/indie legends, Blood Stereo. Blood Stereo is playing a special performance at Oberlin College and is playing only a handful of US dates so we’re particularly excited by their visit! Complementing Blood Stereo will be Bill Nace, Northampton, MA guitarist extraordinaire, last in Albany with Thurston Moore, as Northampton Wools. 1983 is Jason Cosco an Albany noiseician and video artist solo project.

More information on the performers:

Dylan Nyoukis's work exists on the fringe of contemporary avant garde art and underground DIY, and he is a leading light in the UK's tape/CD-R scene, both as a performer and proprietary of the Chocolate Monk label. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Ludo Mich, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sun City Girls, Bill Nace (natch!), Heather Leigh Murray, Phil Minton, Neil Campbell, Usurper and Wolf Eyes.

Blood Stereo, is an English duo of Dylan Nyoukis, and his wife, the musician and artist Karen Constance, that combines diy technology and the human voice creating a non-idiomatic sound where the human and material collide. Byron Coley described Blood Stereo as:

“a pair of ill-kempt roosters, fighting over a doughnut. The guy rooster is jibbering in some unknown tongue, turning his face inside out, while shoving the microphone slowly through a hole in his cheek. The girl rooster appears to be pecking at him, either that or she's picking at various trash they have strewn around the stage.”

Wonder what that sounds like? Come on and find out!!

Bill Nace is a musician based in Northampton, MA, who last visited us with Thurston Moore as Northampton Wools. Bill’s effected/treated guitar work is pure improv freedom through a lens of total control that never fails to astound. In addition to Thurston Moore, Bill has collaborated with innumerable artists including Chris Cooper, Paul Flaherty, Kim Gordon, Jooklo Duo, Chris Corsano, Jake Meginsky and John Truscinski.

1983 is Jason Cosco, an Albany based noise and video artist, UAG board member, and ASAC member. Jason’s performances are physical affairs where the body invariably becomes instrument. You can’t be sure what Jason will break out but don’t be surprised if pedals, mics, cymbals, turntables, bells and various other plastics and metals make an appearance!

www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com
Contact information for this event: Eric Hardiman, Albany Sonic Arts Collective. Email: albanysonicarts@yahoo.com

Yan Jun & Weston-Godston Duo on 3/24!!

Yan Jun & the Matt Weston – Dan Godston Duo

1st set: Yan Jun -- electronics

2nd set: Matt Weston – Dan Godston Duo
Matt Weston -- percussion
Dan Godston -- trumpet, small instruments

Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
8:00 pm start
$5.00 suggested donation

Yan Jun uses feedback noise in his concerts. He also engages in field recording, site-specific sound art, voice, writing and publishing. He is the founder of Sub Jam/Kwanyin Records, which runs the weekly event Waterland Kwanyin (2005-2010) and annual festival Mini Midi.
http://www.yanjun.org/

Dan Godston teaches, composes music, and plays the trumpet and other instruments in Chicago. He works with the Borderbend Arts Collective to make the annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival happen. Chicago Calling provides opportunities for Chicago based artists to collaborate with artists living in other locations around the world.
http://dangodston.bandcamp.com/

Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics, and has worked with Arthur Brooks, Bill Dixon, Kevin Drumm and, most recently, has collaborated with Century Plants.
http://www.mattweston.com/



http://www.yanjun.org/
http://www.mattweston.com/
http://dangodston.bandcamp.com/
http://www.upstateartistsguild.org/

DRONE with us!!

The Arts Center of the Capital Region and Albany Sonic Arts Collective present:

Drone-A-Long

Wednesday March 9th | 7:00 pm | FREE!
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street
Troy NY 12180

Whether you’re an experienced sound artist or an open-minded newbie, grab the soundmaker of your choice and join a community of those who make hypnotic and meditative sonic art. Those who just want to listen are welcome too!

Wikipedia defines drone music as “a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters…” This event is presented in partnership with Albany Sonic Arts Collective.

The drone will be led by Ray Hare and Eric Hardiman of the Albany Sonic Arts Collective.

ASAC returns with DEEP FREEZE on FEB. 19th!!

Saturday Feb. 19th will mark the return of ASAC to the Upstate Artists Guild on Lark St. in Albany, with a very special night:




DEEP FREEZE: Experimental Music for Snowy Times

ASAC will be celebrating its first concert of 2011 with performances by some of the Capital Region's most exciting experimental musicians including Century Plants with Matt Weston, Holland Hopson, SoundBarn and Insect Posse.

DEEP FREEZE: Experimental Music for Snowy Times

HOLLAND HOPSON
CENTURY PLANTS with MATT WESTON
SOUNDBARN
INSECT POSSE

Plus: LIVE VIDEO PROJECTIONS by MIKE BULLOCK & LINDA AUBRY BULLOCK!!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
8:00 PM
UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD (UAG)
247 LARK STREET ALBANY, NY
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

About Century Plants:
ASAC members Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare have been collaborating for years as Century Plants, utilizing voice, guitar, and complex electronics setups to create haunting, evocative works. For this performance, they will be joined by Matt Weston on percussion and electronics, sure to add a new layer of intrigue.
For more information http://www.myspace.com/centuryplants and http://www.mattweston.com/

About Holland Hopson:
Named by Metroland as the area's "Best Retro-Futurist," composer Holland Hopson will present a set of his typically challenging work in a rare solo appearance on soprano saxophone and electronics. Holland is preparing for an upcoming three week residency with composer and live electronics pioneer David Behrman at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida.
For more information http://hollandhopson.com

About SoundBarn:
soundBarn (Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar) use heavily processed and prepared guitar to construct ad-hoc compositions that span the space from spare, minimal soundscapes to full-on noise with ever-shifting rhythms, pace and moods. soundBarn has recently collaborated with Albany Sonic Arts Collective on full-length performances of Rhys Chatham’s famed “Guitar Trio” as well as performances at The soundBarn—a project of artist/musician Lail and artist/gallerist Tara Fracalossi located on what
was once Heald Orchards in Valatie, New York. Lail formerly performed with the experimental trio Lukomski/Majer/Lail whose improvised sound Metroland weekly recommended "for those who are turned way on by the gloriously weird guitarscapes of Sonic Youth’s late ’90s SYR recordings, or the
dreamy, sometimes atonal soundwaves of Hovercraft…” Both Lail and Weklar were founding members of the long-ago Albany post-punk band The Fauves.
For more information http://www.soundbarn.blogspot.com

About Insect Posse:
Insect Posse are the prolific and inscrutable Mark Lunt and Chris Bassett, purveyors of noisy yet hypnotic hymns to other worlds of nothingness.
For more information http://www.myspace.com/insectposse

There is a suggested donation of $5.00 for admission to support ASAC and UAG.

SEE YOU THERE!

ASAC show @ the SOUNDBARN on 12/4 !!

soundBarn & Albany Sonic Arts Collective present:

Benjamin Britten is Dead

Saturday December 4th. 8 pm
The soundBarn, Valatie, NY. FREE

The soundBarn is pleased to present “Benjamin Britten is Dead,” an evening of long form improvisations that unite members of sonic experimentalists Albany Sonic Arts Collective and soundBarn on the anniversary of English composer Benjamin Britten’s death.

The sound explorations of both Albany Sonic Arts Collective (ASAC) and soundBarn delve deep into the realms of noise, drone, minimalism and free-improvisation. Employing instrumentation ranging from heavily processed and prepared guitar to 21st century banjo, members of ASAC and soundBarn construct ad-hoc compositions that span the space from spare, minimal soundscapes to full-on noise with ever-shifting rhythms, pace and moods.

Albany Sonic Arts Collective and soundBarn have most recently collaborated on a full-length performance of Rhys Chatham’s famed “Guitar Trio” with performances at Flywheel in Easthampton, Ma. and Saratoga Arts in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Performers include: Eric Hardiman (ASAC, Rambutan, Century Plants, Burnt Hills,) Ray Hare (ASAC, Century Plants, Fossils From the Sun, Burnt Hills,) Thomas Lail (soundBarn), Patrick Weklar(soundBarn), and Metroland Magazine’s “Best Retro-Futurist” of 2010, Holland Hopson (ASAC) and others… Accompanying visuals by Tara Fracalossi.

soundBarn is the experimental music duet of Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar. The soundBarn is a project of artist/musician Thomas Lail and artist/gallerist Tara Fracalossi and is located on what was once Heald Orchards in Valatie, New York.
Albany Sonic Arts Collective is a grassroots organization located in and around Albany, NY dedicated to building a thriving community of listeners and performers of music that exists outside of traditional boundaries with a special emphasis on forms that stress freedom and exploration of new ideas.
For more information visit: soundbarn.blogspot.com albanysonicarts.blogspot.com
The soundBarn
330 Maple Lane
Valatie NY 12184
south driveway

ASAC + SoundBarn performing RHYS CHATHAM 11/20 !!

Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio at Saratoga Arts Center, Saturday, November 20

Saratoga Arts is partnering with soundBarn and Albany Sonic Arts Collective (ASAC) to present the full length version of Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio. The performance will be on Saturday, November 20, at 8pm in the theater at The Arts Center, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs.

Written in 1977, Guitar Trio is Rhys Chatham's signature composition. With a single, repeated chord, Guitar Trio (or G3 as it was later renamed to accommodate increased instrumentation of six to ten electric guitars) embodies an amalgamation of the textural intricacies of the avant-garde collided with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock. Chatham’s Guitar Trio created a new type of urban music. Raucous and ecstatic, the sound energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, prefigured the No Wave movement and cast a huge influence over the subsequent work of Chatham’s many protégés, including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth.

Accompanying the performance of G3 is the original visual projection Pictures for Music, created for the piece in 1977 by internationally known visual artist Robert Longo.

soundBarn and Albany Sonic Arts Collective will also perform Swallowtail for three or more electric guitars with electric bass and drums by Holland Hopson. Composed in 2010, Swallowtail is inspired by Guitar Trio and was written as a companion piece to Chatham's work to be performed by the ensemble on the same program.

The G3 ensemble includes: Thomas Lail, Tara Fracalossi, Patrick Weklar, Matt Ernst, Holland Hopson, Ray Hare, guitars; Eric Hardiman, bass; Matt Weston, drums.

The performance is the latest in a series of experimental and underground concerts Saratoga Arts has presented since 2007, when it received a large seed grant from the New York State Music Fund to present an ensemble headed by RPI's Neil Rolnick, John Cage's 5-hour multi-media piece HPSCHD, and other work.

More recently, Saratoga Arts has presented or co-presented with Albany Sonic Arts Collective or The Spring Street Gallery performances by the underground music collective Sunburned Hand of the Man, Ecstatic Peace! recording artists MV + EE and the Golden Road, and the Michael Flower-Chris Corsano Duo.

Albany Sonic Arts Collective is a grassroots organization located in and around Albany, NY dedicated to building a thriving community of listeners and performers of music that exists outside of traditional boundaries with a special emphasis on forms that stress freedom and exploration of new ideas. soundBarn is the experimental music duet of Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar. The soundBarn is a project of artist/musician Thomas Lail and artist/gallerist Tara Fracalossi and is located on what was once Heald Orchards in Valatie, New York.

What: Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio
Where: Saratoga Arts Center, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs
When: Saturday, November 20, 8pm
Cost: $5
For more information: (518) 584-4132 or www.saratoga-arts.org

image credits: Robert Longo, Pictures for Music

DRONE WITH US!!

DRONE ALONG: A Participatory Sonic Arts Event | Led by Holland Hopson

Thursday, November 11 | 7:00 pm | FREE!

The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180
Phone: (518) 273-0552


Whether you’re an experienced sound artist or an open-minded newbie, grab the soundmaker of your choice and join a community of those who make hypnotic and meditative sonic art. Those who just want to listen are welcome too!

This event is presented in partnership with Arts Center of the Capital Region.

We hope you can join us!