Sat. April 10th! at UAG on Lark St.

We really hope you can make it to this very special night of music!

Saturday April 10
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY

8pm
suggested donation $5

Defragmented: A concert of emergent systems
Featuring Marko Timlin and thenumber46 (Suzanne Thorpe + Philip White)

features Finnish- based composer/sound artist Marko Timlin alongside thenumber46, the collaborative effort of electro-acoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe and electronic musician Philip White. Both Timlin and thenumber46 employ improvisation and non-linear analog systems to create music in which a delicate balance exists between the human and machine. A music at once intuitive and mechanical. Explosive and subdued. Violent and meditative.

Friday 3/19 - SISSY SPACEK and more!

Friday 3/19 at the ever amazing UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD in Albany:

SISSY SPACEK (featuring John Wiese)
GERRITT WITMER & PAUL KNOWLES
TWILIGHT OF THE CENTURY (Mike Bullock/Linda Aubry Bullock/Ray Hare/Eric Hardiman)
GRAB ASS COWBOYS
BUDDY COPS

7pm doors
$5 suggested donation
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany NY

Hope to see you there!

MARCH 14th - next ASAC show!

VIC RAWLINGS/BRYAN EUBANKS/CHRIS COGBURN

plus

JONATHAN CHEN

Sunday March 14th
8pm
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY

$5 suggested donation

Will be a GREAT show, hope you can make it!

Sat. 2/13

Not an official ASAC event, but we hope you'll come out for this regardless! And don't worry - ASAC will be in FULL SWING shortly!

Saturday 11.21 at UAG!

SAT. 10/24 - GREAT SHOW!

Hope you can all make it out for this one. It's going to be a stellar night of music and fun.

IMPORTANT -- NOTE THE LINEUP CHANGE!!!

BEN MILLER / MATT WESTON DUO
ANDY CRESPO/JEFFERSON PITCHER DUO
SAM SOWYDRA
CRUUDEUCES

Sat. OCTOBER 24th at 8PM
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
$5 suggested donation


Ben Miller plays sax and analog electronics and was formerly in legendary Michigan group Destroy All Monsters.

Matt Weston lives in Albany and is a member of the Albany Sonic Arts Collective. He's an amazing percussionist.

Andy Crespo is from Western MA. and plays in Barn Owl with Matt (and Chris Cooper). Andy will split your mind wide open with his bass playing.

Jefferson Pitcher lives in Troy and is an accomplished guitarist who has released albums on a variety of labels with collaborators Christian Kiefer, J. Matthew Gerken, and others.

Sam Sowydra recently moved to Albany. He is a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who also performs as part of Baltimore musician Dan Deacon's ensemble.

Cruudeuces is the solo project of Nathaniel Brennan of North Adams, MA. He has also recorded with Twin Beds, and has a slew of releases about to drop on all sorts of labels.

This is going to be an EXCELLENT night of great music - hope you can make it! Email if you have any questions at all.

October events!!

First of all, MANY thanks to everyone who came out to Proctor's for the Faust/Century Plants/Holland Hopson event. It was a great great night.

Two quick ASAC announcements for our next events in October:

1) On Tuesday October 13, Holland Hopson and other ASAC members will lead a collective participatory drone from 8pm to 10pm at the Arts Center in Troy. 256 River St. Bring an instrument or a noisemaker and join us for some hypnotic drone making. Or just come and listen and enjoy.



2) On Saturday October 24th, we'll be hosting a show at the amazing Upstate Artists Guild (247 Lark St. in Albany).

BEN MILLER / MATT WESTON duo (Ben was in Destroy All Monsters, Matt is in Barn Owl)
EXPO 70 (Kansas City epic drone shredders)
ANDY CRESPO / RON SCHNEIDERMAN duo (Andy from Barn Owl, Ron from Sunburned Hand of the Man)

Promises to be another exceptional night of great music in Albany, featuring both local and travelling performers. More descriptive words soon, but for now, just mark your calendars - it's a "do not miss" kind of night...

be seeing you!

ASAC and Proctor's bring you FAUST with CENTURY PLANTS and HOLLAND HOPSON!

Wednesday Sept. 30th - ASAC, in conjunction with Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, is proud to present F A U S T, the original krautrock legends from the early 1970s in Germany. Even better, ASAC's own CENTURY PLANTS and HOLLAND HOPSON will be opening the show. This is going to be a very special night, at the GE Theater in Proctor's, and we hope you'll all be there!!!!

Tues. Aug. 11th -next show!

REMINDER - show tomorrow night!!! And as an extra special incentive, mystery group BLACK CHALK have been added to the bill. Don't miss this one!

An amazing night of music, presented by the Albany Sonic Arts Collective:

TUESDAY AUG. 11th
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
8pm
$5 suggested donation

ELI KESZLER & ASHLEY PAUL
and
PEAKING LIGHTS

More scoop here:

ELI KESZLER AND ASHLEY PAUL.
Keszler is a percussionist/multi-instrumentalist/composer, and Paul plays sax and clarinet. Together their duo is garnering widespread praise for a brand newly released duo LP. Having spent the last 3 years performing all over the northeast, they have developed a unique sound, combining the piercing high pitched resonance of Keszler's bowed crotales and cymbals with altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends of Paul's alto saxophone and clarinet. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuous, multi-layered, dense, shifting harmonics and intense inner-ear sound. Spinning discs, invented resonating metal configurations, bending reed tones, and voice interference carefully blend, creating a wild texture that is both harsh and striking . This is contrasted with Paul's guttural string attacks, which meet the rapid-fire movement of Keszler's low end bowed cymbals and jittery crash.

PEAKING LIGHTS features husband and wife duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis from Madison, WI. They've played in many other bands, but as Peaking Lights, their music has been described as avant-pop drone psychedelia, and live they are mesmerizing. A review of their recent LP says, "Sparks fly in the form of warm fuzz and soft melodies when Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis work through marital bliss. Existing in the open space between the parallel of primordial instinct and the delicate creation, Peaking Lights call on psychedelia’s most potent qualities as it floats through 7 mysterious tracks. "Imaginary Falcons" draws from the distorted pop of Wavves and Times New Viking — and in much the same way those entities wrap those garage-based trappings around saccharine pop and beachside lullabyes, Coyes and Dunis work muzzled magic enveloping their Casio tones, monochromatic drones, and blissed-out synth with the power of lo-fi static and bass heavy production. “Silver Tongues, Soft Whispers” rains down like droplets of Quasi; lightly patterned keystrokes given a Hammond B3 treatment in part due to the low frequency in which it is recorded. “New News” is a slow burner; refusing to climax despite a careful build up of white noise squalls and lackadaisical keyboard pokes.
Never do Coyes and Dunis weigh down their at-home operation by trying to cram too much into each track, allowing their minimal DIY to flourish in simplicity rather than drown in excess.

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