Sonic Circuits

Saturday November 7
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$8
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Come experience improvis...ed music in all its glory and mutant forms with

Maria Chavez
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls "pencils of sound" and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces.

Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna's Phonofemme Festival 2009.

Having also performed at such internationally acclaimed venues as STEIM (Amsterdam) and Sonoteca (Lima, Peru), she was awarded a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant by New York's Roulette Intermedium in 2008. In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as an artist in residence for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon.
http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez

Ben Miller + Violet + Tatsuya Nakatani + Ed Ricart
Solos and pairings and group improvisation.

Tatsuya Nakatani, improvisational percussionist. Born in Kobe Japan 1970, raised in Osaka. He has resided in the USA since 1995 and now bases himself in New York where he is recognized as a key player in the improvised music scene. His elements of percussion instrument are Drum set based Orchestration percussion kit, Bowed Gong, Cymbal, Singing Bowls, Various sticks and Drum set. He stands between the MUSIC categories, genre and cultures, Experimental, Jazz, FreeJazz, Rock. Many voices come from his approach of creation. Besides live performances, he also provides sound, sound design for Television, Film, collaborations with Dancers and artists.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

Ben Miller
http://www.myspace.com/benmillerdegeneration
Violet
http://www.myspace.com/microk7

Michael T. Bullock
Michael T. Bullock is a composer, performer, visual artist, and writer living in Boston, MA, USA. His modes of work include electroacoustic composition, improvisation, drawing, and video. Bullock performs across the US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Steve Roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel. Bullock also performs with the BSC, an octet of Boston-based improvisers; as the trio MAWJA with Kerbaj and Vic Rawlings; and in the sound & light duo rise set twilight.

Jonathan Zorn
Jonathan Zorn is a composer/performer of electro-acoustic music. In his compositions he creates interactive systems for acoustic and electronic instruments that exceed the control of any single participant, creating surprises and new ensemble dynamics for performers to explore and navigate. In performance he uses double bass, voice, modular synthesizer, and computer instruments of his own creation. As a designer of computer instruments, Zorn aims to create instruments that have the kind of flexibility, control, and surprise that one would expect from an acoustic instrument, while also defying and remapping assumed correlations between gesture and sound.

Hat City Intuitive
The Hat City Intuitive (aka HCI) have been experimenting with the purest forms of improvisation, dabbling in free jazz, noise-rock, and just -sounds as sounds for over 18 years.
http://www.myspace.com/hatcitysounds

Tone Ghosting
A solo project of Jeff Bagato (aka DJ Panic), Tone Ghosting features a unique homemade instrument he invented himself: playing vinyl LPs with small hacksaw & electronic FX, magnifying, modifying, & energizing the small scrapes & squeaks to create a complex musical vocabulary.
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Sunday November 1
Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Myrmyr
Myrmyr is Marielle J...akobsons & Agnes Szelag from Oakland, CA. They first began to perform together in 2004 while pursuing their MFAs at Mills College. Since then they have performed together across the West Coast and in NYC, combining improvisation with creative electronics and experimental song forms. Myrmyr entwines folk, improvised, and electronic music into songs inspired by their common Baltic roots. With the violin and cello as their basis, the duo creates an intimate chamber music atmosphere, augmented by live electronics, sampling, and an arsenal of instruments.
myrmyr.net
myspace/myrmyr

Daniel Malinsky
Daniel is from Brooklyn and performs “feedback music” – music that, depending on the performance, combines microphones, amplifiers, mixers, drums, and other materials, and falls somewhere on the spectrum between the very quiet sounds of EAI and harsh noise. dmalinsky.blogspot.com

Moon Pie
Moon Pie was formed in spring of 2007 in Washington, DC. We are influenced by countless styles of music spanning dozens of centuries and thousands of galaxies. We make music for you that is fun. We make music for you that is experimental. We make music for you that is definitely psychedelic. Get ready everyone, it’s the pop music of the future.
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FRACTALE
French experimental electro jazz, featuring two saxes, trumpet, electronics, tuba, and drums-
“Fractale is a new tendance electro-jazz group… offers us to explore sounds never heard before. The instruments are used in an unexpected way where we recognise a strong rock and jazz influence : the baritone saxophone ...and the tuba are saturated and electrified, then tuned on a computer basis rhythm. Numerous improvisations are added to the verse/chorus structure. Finally, saturated riffs create nerves and spices to simple catchy melodies”
Sounds great to me!
Hear them here! www.myspace.com/groupefractale

LOST CIVILIZATIONS
Mike Sebastian (tenor sax+saxello, of DCIC), Ted Zook, percussionist Larry Gomez, and special guest Emre Kartari on the drumkit! This should be a very cool and unique performance from these great improvisors and staunch supporters of the improv scene here in DC!
Hear them here! www.myspace.com/lostcivilizationsmusic

VECTOR TRIO
A Washington DC based project designed to explore freedom and possibility in three voices, contextualized by cultural disharmony. The limitations of a trio are quickly dissolved by their use of looping devices which create infinite possibilities. Their latest direction, which began last summer, mixes industrial noise, extended improvisatory techniques, fractured funk, and film score techniques with a no-holds-barred approach to improvisation.
Hear them here! www.myspace.com/vectortrio

BULKHEAD COLLAPSE
Bulkhead Collapse melds feedbacking alien chromatic tones with clattering drumbeats. Former members of Caution Curves and Aerosolized Mucus.Read More