Thanks to Liron Unreich + Catherine Chalmers for the diligent and excellent camerawork.

CORRECTED: it’s on the 18th folks.

MURAL is a trio consisting of Australian windplayer Jim Denley with Norwegians Kim Myhr and Ingar Zach. They have performed since 2007 and released the critically acclaimed “Nectars of Emergence” on SOFA in january 2010. MURAL is a transparent orchestra, aiming for clarity and precision unafraid of static patterns they may encounter in the flux. There are chords, melodies and rhythms but hopefully free of clichéd systems. This is music that is constantly coming-into-being and never predictable in what it will discover. The group performed at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas in march 2010, a concert that was recorded by Ryan Edwards. In August 2011 the group is now returning to the States for a release tour of “MURAL Live at the Rothko Chapel,” which is being released on Rothko Chapel Publications.

Delicate Sen is the trio of Billy Gomberg (synthesizers), Anne Guthrie (french horn), and Richard Kamerman (percussion). Individually, the three have collaborated with a broad array of players in improvisation, new music, noise, electronica, and rock ‘n’ roll and worked with labels including Engraved Glass, Digitalis, Students of Decay, Experimedia, Obsolete Units, HOMOPHONI, Copy For Your Records, and more.

Nate Wooley, Ben Hall, C. Spencer Yeh continue their collective search as a trio for a musical place that inhabits the increasing density of their influences. Their music is the dark spot on the Venn diagram where noise, british improv tradition, contemporary classical music, electronic music, drone, and free jazz intersect.

Reed Evan Rosenberg is an American multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sound. He programs various digital instruments for each specific project on which he embarks, encompassing the areas of improvised electronic music, extreme computer music, and installation art. Recent projects include an in depth study of chaotic synthesis using Boris Chirikov’s Standard Map and a musical system using the boids algorithm which simulates the flocking patterns of birds and was most famously implemented in the CG of Jurassic Park.

Here’s the official event listing:
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/?wtpage=event&id=719

Public Assembly is located at:
70 N 6th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211

This concert has been arranged and promoted by Jesse Goin, and here’s what he has to say about it:

Crow with no mouth promotions is presenting the second in its 2011 concert series of electro-acoustic music on August 6th, 2011, from 8:00 – 10:00 p.m, at Z Studio in downtown St. Paul. There will be two sets of music – Fraufraulein, the duo project of Anne Guthrie and Billy Gomberg [N.Y.C.], and a solo set by Nathan McLaughlin [Sauk Cenre, Minnesota]. I discovered these three musicians in the last couple of years through the usual skeins of linked curiosity, serendipity and, in the case of McLaughlin, my blog, crow with no mouth [McLaughlin contacted me, expressing interest in a Minneapolis performance].

Anne and Billy have a working duo called Fraufraulein, integrating field recordings, electronics, French horn and sundry other sound sources. Gomberg has developed diverse, even divergent areas of music – at times pitch-based, moored by soft pulses, as on his excellent And/Oar release, Comme, reminiscent of Supersilent or Steinbruchel; in Fraufraulein, Gomberg is focused almost totally on fitting and folding discreet electronic textures and timbres into the duo’s mix. Gomberg is refreshingly unensnared by style/genre biases, and his various projects are evidence that his omnivore’s approach to sound does not result in diminishing returns.

I discovered Anne Guthrie through her stunning release on Engraved Glass, Standing sitting, three location recordings subtly limned with sine tones and a nearly invisible contextualization that sneaks up and reveals itself upon repeated listens. On her summer 2011 release on Copy For Your Records, Perhaps A Favorable Organic Moment, Guthrie goes a ways towards revivifying the area of music integrating location recordings, electronics, and real-time improvisation.

Guthrie the improvising French horn player I first encountered in Delicate Sen, a fantastic trio of Guthrie, Gomberg and Richard Kamerman, in which at times, contrary to what you might imagine would be the case when a French horn is embedded with two electronicists, Guthrie’s is the least delicate voice. Trained as both a composer and an improviser, and like Gomberg, genuinely indifferent to the limitations of genre-adherence, Guthrie can put the French horn through Bill Dixonesque paces, or float warm, sustained tones over the crackle and jangle of her compatriots.

Nathan McLaughlin’s reel-to-reel and synth-based creations, Echolocations # 2, 3 & 5, own moments of authentic beauty and mystery – some of his loops sound like chopped and screwed ambient music, some like a less-dire Jason Lescalleet. Though the Echolocation series is, according to McLaughlin, of a specific time and approach to melodic development now in his rear-view mirror, I asked him to bring the reel-to-reel work to this concert. I am pleased as hell McLaughlin will make the trip here, as he rarely plays out.

Please join us at Studio Z on August 6, 8:00 p.m., for two sets of music by three superb musicians.

Saturday, August 6, 8:00 PM
z studio
275 east 4th st
st. paul, minnesota

Studio Z is located in the Northwestern Building at 275 E. Fourth St. in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown St. Paul. Look for the big, red neon Z in the window. Detailed directions are here.

and hey, here’s the facebook event page if that is your kinda thing:

Facebook Event

February 27, 2011 – three duos

Fraufraulein: Anne Guthrie (french horn), Billy Gomberg (synthesizers and computer)
Maria Chavez (turntable), Daniel Neumann (piano soundboard, microphone, computer)
Chuck Bettis (computer), Berangère Maximin (computer)

March 22, 2011 – two trios

mpld (Gill Arno) (modified and amplified slide projectors, computer), Ben Owen (objects, electronics), Ignaz Schick (turntable, objects, electronics)
Andrea Belfi (drums, percussion, electronics), Attila Faravelli (computer through speakers), Byron Westbrook (Korg MS-10 Synthesizer)

February 27 recorded by Richard Kamerman, March 22 recorded by Byron Westbrook. All mastered by Gill Arno.

Please check out all the great recordings here
or, download zipped files:
February 27 (3 duos) – lossless ogg [273.9 MB]; 320 kbps mp3 [182.9 MB]
March 22 (2 trios) – lossless ogg [254.4 MB]; 320 kbps mp3 [164.1 MB].