Just a reminder for the Electro-Music 08 conference/festival in Kingsport, TN Aug. 14-16: Continuous performances, demos, workshops, jams, and comradery at a great venue.
http://event.electro-music.com/PLEASE NOTE: I HAD TO SPLIT THE LIST INTO THREE POSTS BECAUSE OF ITS SIZEHere's a list of the performers for the Electro-Music 08 festival:
Artists
Acoustic InterloperDr. Dale E. Parson, a.k.a. Acoustic Interloper, has been writing music for his finger-picked banjos and guitars for the last 37 years, and has been troubleshooting circuits and programming computers for almost that long. About four years ago he finally decided to unite his interests in music composition and software architecture in exploration of algorithmic composition and electro-acoustic instrumental techniques.
http://www.virb.com/dparsonAligning MindsAligning Minds is the unique and captivating collaboration of two producers (Daniel Merrill and Michael Folk) using sound to achieve a mutual vision. Ethereal and dubby, uplifting and haunting, their music winds its way through the imaginative souls of its listeners. offering a deep exploration of subsonic mood and emotional atmosphere. Focused on unifying electronic music through diverse influence, their sound fuses elements of many genres like downtempo, dubstep, breakbeat and idm, but without the need for formulaic restrictions. The Aligning Minds sound is melodic and bass heavy. It's emotionally charged future music that rides on hypnotic breakbeats, infectious basslines, dubby soundscapes, and idm experimentation for one to dance or lounge to.
http://www.aligning-minds.com/Azimuth VisualsAzimuth Visuals is the artistic partnership of Greg and Hong Waltzer. They create video performance art to accompany musical events. Using a combination of computer-generated abstract images, animations, Greg's artwork, Hong's nature photography and video clips, these images are processed and mixed in real time by various effects software and video hardware. The intent is to provide a colorful and dynamic visual experience that is inspired by and complements the music.
http://gregwaltzer.com/azimuth/azimuth.htmlJeremy Bible and Jason Henry
Ohio based sound artists Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry collaborate to fuse elements of musique concrete, acoustic, avant-garde, and electronic music. By means of conceptual, experimental, modern, and algorithmic recording and processing techniques the duo seek to expose a synergistic relationship between real world found sounds, acoustic instrumentation, and electronic sound design. The end result has been described as "paintings of sound", "the aural equivalent of abstract expressionist and minimalist painting", "music with depth and soft command", and "a consolidation of sound that creates an intimate experience transporting the listener to newly fabricated yet oddly nostalgic destinations". By merging the aesthetics of art and science through modern recording technology the duo examine the relationships between sound, ourselves, and the environment. Through research and experimentation into bioacoustics and the utilization of field recordings alongside traditional instruments and sound design a re-contextualization of everyday sound occurs. The duo's creative amalgamation of these elements have caught the attention of recording labels in Russia, Germany, and the United States with a growing number of albums slated for release. Each of the duo's improvisational live performances bring forth new perspectives on their sound and are complemented by an equally significant visual element of large scale projections in a lights out performance environment described as "subtle patterns of breathing white light".
http://jbjh.experimedia.net/Bicameral MindBicameral Mind is Bryce Eiman and Shaun Sandor. We formed in 2007 in North Carolina. Bryce brings much experience to this project as his career in tape treatments, electro-acoustics, ambient, and noise music spans over 20 years in a wide variety of projects. I have been performing ambient and electro pieces since 2006 as Promute, using field recordings, homemade junk, homemade gadgets, and somple signal processors. We appropriately borrowed from Jaynes the idea of the left-brain and right-brain working together to form a single output. We will be featuring a piece that consists of feedback mixing through contact mics, light signal processing, acoustic instruments, homemade gadgets, tape treatment, and sampling.
http://www.myspace.com/bicamindCypress RosewoodCypress Rosewood in Second Life (SL) is Tony Gerber in “real life”, a space music artist with over 30 recordings available and various music scores for documentary films, most recently the planetarium show, "Nine Planets and Counting" in RL and a soundtrack to the SL science exhibit on "Nanotubes" at Nanotechnology Island. His group, Spacecraft has scored music for films including "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise. They have performed live concerts in planetariums around the United States. In Second Life Cypress has been a pioneer of live space and ambient music. He has performed nearly 300 concerts of his special brand of music. His performances create aural vibrations that can aid healing and relaxation. Cypress has also developed a Space Music Museum alongside working on many groundbreaking performance projects in SL. He is also one of the primary designers for the first major music manufacturer on the SL grid, Gibson Music Instruments, building their "Gibson Island" opened July 16th, 2008. He will talk about making music in the virtual world at his workshop presentation here at Electro Music 2008. He will also perform his magical music solo as he does in the virtual world with Cypress Rosewood and as a Spacecraft member.
http://cypressrosewood.comDestroyifyerDestroyifyer is a musician from Illinois who stresses absolute creative freedom. His music often sounds distant and sublime. Among the list of Destroyifyer's odd musical influences are architecture, industrial plant noise, dreams, occultism, warfare and geometry. Honoring music as a divine art form as opposed to a means for success, Destroyifyer crafted his sound with hundreds upon hundreds of songs before deciding to release music for the first time in 2006.
dRachEmUsiKdRachEmUsiK is the most recent project by international, award winning electronic musician, sound designer and producer Charles Shriner. The current sound of dRachEmUsiK has been described as Glitch-Groove Elektronique with a touch of Ambient and Strong Modal Jazz Influence. Simple melodies swirling in mixed tempos, and undulating textures. Dense, erotic, evocative, emotional, spontaneous and sometimes noisy. dRachEmUsiK blends improvisation with structure and is performed in real-time. The music is fresh, innovative and eclectic while maintaining enough familiar elements to remain accessible without compromising creative integrity. Instruments used in performance: Akai EWI 4000s, MacBook Pro, Ableton Live, Reaktor, Kontakt, Reason, Cube, Terra, Peavy 1600, Behringer and Yamaha Foot Controllers.
http://www.myspace.com/drachemusicEarthgirlEarthgirl is the musical persona of Jeannie Allen, an experimental electronic soundscaper based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She combines analog synthesizers, digital analog modeling, found sounds and field recordings to create a sense of traveling through space and time. Jeannie has always been inspired by musicians who use sound waves to evoke inner feelings and thoughts, and she continues to be inspired by all genres of electronic music. Jeannie is currently working on several ambient and electronica projects, with a focus on raising awareness for the needs of the earth and our fellow travelers here.
http://www.myspace.com/earthgirlvibesElectric Bird NoiseElectric Bird Noise started in 1997 as Brian McKenzie’s experiment with loops & effect pedals. Electric Bird Noise has become more refined over ten years of live shows & three albums (Unleashing the Inner Robot (1998), The Pace (2001), & fragile hearts… fragile minds (2007)) & become guitar & drum machine driven music. The guitar work is often multi-layered & incredibly dense, but not afraid to simultaneously go the minimal route of single notes. While it is music difficult to pigeonhole, the term “cinematic instrumental guitar music” is one that McKenzie has embraced. The music is not exclusively post rock, darkwave, shoegazer, or space rock; but involves elements of all four. Perhaps part of not being so simply defined is the geographic isolation of the deep south from any experimental or art rock scene; allowing the music to be more focused on personal expression than emulating anyone else’s sound. That said, clear nods are made within the music to Kraftwerk, the Cure, Depeche Mode, & Brian Eno. Recorded at his own studio, McKenzie showcases different elements of his music on fragile hearts...fragile minds. “Vestibule Transitoire” showcases a single guitar with loop & reverb in a twenty-six minute long ambient piece built for late night car rides. “We Share More Than My Father’s Last Name” is the first EBN song with vocals (sampled from Michael Wood of Something About Vampires And Sluts) & probably as close to a proper single as EBN will ever come. “Fall of The World Trade Center” on the other hand is minimalist piano & electronics with no guitar at all. Electric Bird Noise has played with bands like Attrition,System of a Down, Fear Factory,Hed Pe,Human Drama, Aarktica, Clang Quartet, Remora, Plumerai, & Bardo Pond giving crowds walls of light & smoke while delivering a larger than life sound from one guitar.
http://www.myspace.com/electricbirdnoise
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