FOG RAISER – AN AMAZING NIGHT OF DIVERSE FOG MUSICS
An amazing night of diverse live electronic and electro-acoustic music featuring four different performances that have been commissioned to present their own interpretation of Fog Music. This is a special event to raise funds for the San Francisco Fog Music Festival 2015 that will be held at the Second Act January 28-31, 2015!
The Fog Music Festival is presented by Aural Films records as part of the Fog Music Series that is documenting 24 hours of Fog Music by artists from around the world. A new Artist’s Fog Music is released in the series every week for $1 or more to support the Festival and Artists. Please find and download all the Fog Music Series and others albums now available from Aural Films records at http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/
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◉ 7:30pm - Carolyn Fok
Carolyn Fok has been an award-winning visual and pioneering female electronic musician since 1981, known for her epic approach to music and the painstaking process she takes to develop material. She also has recently been collaborating, engineering, and mastering studio works for her solo projects and groups. Although her naturalist—surrealist paintings and illustrations have shown in New York, San Francisco & Hong Kong, and her music has been featured in Electronic Musician and Keyboard, she is best known for single-handedly creating her own genre of artwork, a form she calls musaics, in which she creates masterly, moving electronic sound designs, original art, and introspective writings.
◉ 8:00pm - Matt Dean
Matt Dean has been a musician, composer and sound designer for almost 40 years. He works in a variety of styles and media, including electronic music, film scores, and game audio design for Sony Playstation. He's formally trained at Longy School of Music and Antioch College, with private studies in guitar, piano, flute, and african drumming. Currently he collaborates with a variety of musicians, artist and designers under the moniker Aos Crowley, Chromasonic, and his own name amongst others. Current projects include a new album with William Spivey.
◉ 8:30pm - Jack Hertz & rizorkestra
"Inspired by the mystery of life. I manipulate sound to create intangible techno-organic impressions between music and noise." - Jack Hertz
Starting from expriments more than 30 years ago with analog tape and a Casio VL-Tone, Jack Hertz has created an extensive ambient and meta-ambient sound universe, with particular emphasis on Frequency Modulation, and has implemented an elaborate and unique customized software platform for FM synthesis.
Based in Los Angeles, rizorkestra is currently "roaming the California coast and deserts performing music, collecting musical instruments, photographing and filming the pacific ocean and the sun in the sky and planning cheap, sensible meals".
◉ 9:00pm - Viv Corringham & Transbay Multimedia Consort
NY-based British vocalist, composer and sound artist Viv Corringham plays FogRiaser as part of her Northern California tour, joined by a Transbay consort of Deep Listening practitioners and neogaku kaiju. Program may include various types of improv games based on sonic grammars, deviant sample-melting, refracted field recording, and intermedia-moiré of words, utterance, sound, memory & music.
Line-up:
— Viv Corringham: voice & FX
— Joe Lasqo: laptop, keyboards, objects
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Jennifer Wilsey &
Suki O'Kane: percussion
— Wind choir:
Nancy Beckman: shakuhachi,
Tom Bickley: EWI wind synth & contrabass recorder, Nan Busse: didgeridoo & dance
— Video artist: Bill Thibault
Viv Corringham has worked internationally since the early 80s, creating music performances, audio installations & soundwalks. She's interested in exploring people's special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association. Her ongoing project Shadow-walks has been presented in gallery shows from New York to Istanbul to Hong Kong.
"Among other music, we'll be presenting an extended transmutation of the ancient shakuhachi piece Mukaiji (霧海箎, "Fog, Ocean, Flute") which was received by the founder of Myōan-ji (明暗寺) temple, Kyochiku Zenji (虚竹禅師), on a boat in a dream. As our sonic boat drifts through the fog we'll embed other solos and pieces into this matrix."
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Aural Films Sites:
Records: http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/
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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWxdmIg2memlN07nC7Raa9A
Get advance tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/877215
Cost: $10