8/29, Public Assembly: MURAL | Delicate Sen | Hall/Wooley/Yeh trio | Reed Evan Rosenberg

This coming Monday, the 29th, Delicate Sen is performing on an extra, extra special evening of music at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.

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

Give Or Give In (Digitalis 2011)

Emerging out of the summer is a packed release schedule for the last half of 2011. First up is an exquisite looking cassette from Digitalis Ltd. Give Or Give In lifts two sides of synthesizer, electronics and field recordings. On side A, “Rude Divides” brings my performance from this spring’s Qwartz awards in Paris (complete with a contribution from Offthesky), and the reverse “Shown Up In Your Chest Like Silver” weaves field recordings taken in Paris with varying weights of synthesizers, loops, and treatments. Here’s the official line:

billy gomberg operates out of brooklyn, utilizing whatever tools and instruments he can get his hands on to create sprawling compositions. these two 30 minute treks of synthesizer & field recordings morph in countless and often unexpected ways. irregular drones and muddy rhythms inhabit strange, interplanetary dance zones, pumping along until a spectral wave of tones overrides everything and slows it down to a crawl. gomberg has an innate skill in combining so many fine details into a deliciously cohesive whole. edition of 75. chrome.


Thanks to Brad Rose @ Digitalis.

Billy Gomberg “Rude Divides” (exerpt) by foxydigitalis
Billy Gomberg “Shown Up In Your Chest Like Silver” (excerpt) by foxydigitalis

Give Or Give In is currently available from Experimedia and will shortly via the other usual channels.

already -> track of the day at Lend Me Your Ears.

8/6/11: fraufraulein, Studio Z, St Paul MN

This Saturday, August 6th, Anne + I will be giving a special little concert in the Twin Cities, at Studio Z in downtown St Paul.

fraufraulein concert, 8/6/11

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

 

digitalis ltd drops “death by summer” preview

featuring clips from my upcoming c60 Give Or Give In:

Digitalis Limited – Death by Summer batch by foxydigitalis

Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, Richard Kamerman
Blue & Gold, Delicate Sen

well, a couple Fraufraulein releases on the web have pushed open the door this summer. Here is a very, very cool collaborative release featuring myself, Anne Guthrie and Richard Kamerman spinning off our Delicate Sen trio. Opening with a Fraufraulein duo, and closing with a great guitarron solo from Richard, it’s a good time, if you couldn’t already guess.

Use the button at the Ilse website or PayPal travis6johnson@gmail.com

thanks to Travis at Ilse for getting this one together!

I should have copies in stock shortly.

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