June 2nd 2012 - TADCLAR, Hunter and Harrison & Thin Air
TADCLAR - The administrator of this site seems to not be able to locate much information on this artist...more info to be added later... or just come to the show nad be surprised! (Bill...hint hint!)
Hunter and Harrison This duo consists of guitarist Mike Hunter (of Ombient and the host of the WPRB radio program Music With Space) and guitarist Harrison McKay (of The Tangent Project.) The perform guitar based ambient electronic music using loopers and guitar synthesizers. Synphonic levels of sound are achieved. (photo credit: Hong Waltzer)
Thin Air is the solo project of Steve Bowman (of Delicate Monster.) His sounds ranges from ambient and dreamy to raucous noise. Harmonies from atonal to modal. Melodies from chromatic to singable themes. Sometimes all in the same composition.
PAST EVENTS:
April 27th 2012 - Joo Won Park & Ace Paradise
Joo Won Park is a composer/researcher of music within several genres. His music and audio
applications have been featured in several conferences such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Conference, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, and International Computer Music Conference, as well as in print in Electronic Musician and The Csound Book. He received M.M and Ph.D. in composition at the University of Florida, where he studied with James Paul Sain, Paul Richards, and Paul Koonce. He graduated from Berklee College of Music majoring in Music Synthesis and Contemporary Writing/Production under the direction of Richard Boulanger. Dr. Park was an associate director of Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and currently serves as an assistant professor of music at the Community College of Philadelphia. His music is available on the ICMC 2004 DVD, Spectrum Press, and Computer Music Journal.
Ace Paradise - "A native of southern New Jeresy, Ace Paradise's enduring fascination with Electronic Music has led him to a number of diverse situations. From the nightclub and rave dancefloor as veteran Techno DJ to the deep space chill of STAR'S END as live performer, Ace Paradise understands and embraces the many genres of EM. Using his influences and inspirations, Ace Paradise creates music which is at once cerebral yet accessible" - Chuck Van Zyl, Host of Stars End on 88.5 WXPN Philadelphia, PA. You can visit his soundcloud page here.
March 31st 2012 - Onewayness, Benjamin Miller & Jason Sloan 8pm - Graphic Score/Found Sounds Workshop from 2pm - 4pm
onewayness is Adam Holquist, an experimental electronic musician from Erie, Pennsylvania. He uses hardware and software synths, spoken word and field recordings, and a variety of acoustic and electric instruments to create atmospheric compositions which draw influence from vintage Berlin-school electronic music, minimalism, post-rock, and contemporary electronic ‘listening music'.
Ben Miller uses alto saxophone as source material in combination with tape deck abuse, arcaneelectronics, analog synthesis and fkt-up drum loops. He sets up a wall of dense, varying frequencies through feedback and incidental improvisation.
Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, new.media, sound and net.work artist working from Baltimore, Md. His work explores aspects ofimmateriality and it’s connection in life, death, memory, systems and the virtual world. Through his performances, installations, audio environments, videos net.work actions and sound recordings, he examines the need for transcendence beyond the body through a vehicle of visual ritual and sonic stimulation. With this dialog, Sloan feels an urgency to evoke a collective experience between the viewer, listener and artist that can bridge the gap between the physical and non-physical world. The focus of this transcendence is not to conform to any current trends or systems, but to take a non-dogmatic approach of artistic and intellectual inquiry that explores the basic human need for some type of spiritual alignment or wholeness.
At 2pm - 4pm, Benn Miller will be conduting a workshop of Graphic Scoring and Found Sounds. A donation is humbly suggested ($5-$10)
“A demonstration and exchange of ideas on creative scoring and improvisation using graphic scores, found sound and external operations.”
- Students learn, perform and record Sound using Found Sound via simple Graphic Scores]
- Students record found sound onto various lo-budget Tape Decks and a Casio SK1 8-bit sampler
- Students create, perform and record a collaborative Graphic Score using live sound and music concrete.
November 3rd 2011 - The Great Quentini, Northern Valentine and Delicate Monster
At 8pm, at The Rotunda, Event Horizon will host performance artist
The Great Quentini, Northern Valentine and Delicate Monster in the main performance space. The concert is open to the public, free of charge and will begin at 8:00pm.
The Great Quentini Quentin Davis is The Great Quentini. He is a sculptor and a performance artist who makes his costumes and musical sculptures out of found materials. He has shows in which he wears costumes, plays these musical sculptures, and tells humorous stories; acting out the parts that defy words. These stories are often from his life experience.
Northern Valentine Northern Valentine is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based ambient/drone collective anchored by husband and wife, Robert and Amy Brown.Their music is largely improvisational and is often set to original films that the collective has created.
Coaxing sounds from electric and acoustic sources, they weave meditative drones and soundscapes with "barely there" post-rock instrumentation to create a tapestry that Phil McMullen (Terrascope Online) refers to as "minimalist ambiance at its best. Heartfelt, soulful and affecting, like gazing into a scrapbook of memories".
Delicat
e Monster Both Art Cohen (guitar) and Steve Bowman (synths) love to arg ue about what makes g ood music-with each other and with anybody else who feels as passionat ely as the y do. Through Delicate Monster, they make their arguments
in sound.
When Art and Steve disagree with each other, it's a consequence of their divergent musical backgrounds. Art is rooted in psychedelic guitar,Berlin-school spacemusic, and American folk. He's been a fixture on the
Philly music scene for 25 years-you may know him as half of the duo The Ministry of Inside Things (with Chuck van Zyl). Steve has a musty degree in Music from Harvard, where he first encountered the Buchla. He draws his influence from classical music and radical composers like Ives, Stockhausen, Subotnick, Monteverdi, Bach, and Ligeti. (Their musical tastes do overlap with the Grateful Dead and Captain Beefheart). Art pushes Steve to let the music be clear and simple and to groove on the repetition. Steve pushes Art to surrender to his weird side and luxuriate in the complexity of counterpoint and the thrill of abject dissonance. Playing together off and on for 20 years, Art and Steve have managed to merge their stylistic differences into a novel musical language that is Delicate Monster.
September 22nd - Electronic Memory, Twyndyllyngs and Richard Lainhart
At 8pm, at The Rotunda, Event Horizon will host Electronic Memory, Twyndyllyns and Richard Lainhart in the main perforance space. As always, the concert is free and will begin at 8:00pm.
A slideshow of pictures from this past event can be found here
About the artists:
Electronic Memory (Ken Palmer and Mike Hunter) Members of the Space Rock outfit Brainstatik
step away from space/ambient/electronic/rock/prog/world music and dive into pure electronic music in a compelling way. Ken also performs solo under the PYXL8R name and Mike Hunter under theOmbient moniker.
Twyndyllyngs (Howard Moscovitz and Bill Fox) Two long time solo electronic music artists combine to form a unique sounding electronic music duo. Also part of the trio, xeroid entity, these musicians have together and individually played concerts in England, The Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Canada, Poland, Italy, Canary Islands in Spain, Berlin, Croatia, Romania, Montana, California, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, upstate New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta. Twyndyllyngs may be heard on a weekly internet concert called Chez Mosc on electro-music radio. They play improvised experimental music which has been aired on Star's End (WXPN), Galactic Travels (WDIY), Thought Radio (WMUH), Music with Space (WPRB) and many internet-only programs
Richard Lainhart (rlainhart@otownmedia.com) is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker - a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them.
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