14th Annual Outsound New Music SummitElectro-Plate(a sonic journey down the twisted road of electronic music)Tickets for 14th Annual Outsound New Music SummitSmooth, Stepped & RandomLX Rudis,
Doug Lynner, and Dmitri SFC - Original and Custom Serge Synthesizer Ensemble
INSTAGON [mixer set] Analouge Electronics Ensemble
LOB [Sacramento],
Thomas Dimuzio [SF],
Jack Hertz [Pacifica], Marc Schneider (Medicine Cabinet) [Tracy], Tim White (AA23) [Berkeley], Andrew Wayne (Chopstick) [Sacramento]
Aaron Oppenheim/Thea Farhadian /Tim Perkis - Digital Ensemble
The San Francisco Serge Power Trio - Frequent Bay Area synthesizer solo performers
Doug Lynner, Dmitri SFC and LX Rudis join for a special performance on California's own Synthesizer, the Serge.
Dmitri SFC one half of Slope114 & co founder of The Church Of The Super Serge. The Serge Modular builder behind coa-modular.com.
Lx Rudis is an interdisciplinary media artist based in San Francisco, California. He has been active in both commercial and underground sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1980s. Early contact with groups such as Tuxedomoon, The Units and SRL led to media work ranging from radio shows on NPR with members of negativland to commercial work for ABC affiliate KGO-TV and various corporate entities. since 1988, Mr. Rudis' work has been concentrated in the field of interactive computer entertainment. He was a charter member of SF's Virtual Reality Group and has lectured at Cyberarts and performed at the first Digital Be-In. He has lectured at the Computer Game Developer's Conference and several universities in California. He has worked in all areas of video game production and is named in the credits of over 40 video games from the early years of Atari.
An original demo artist for the Serge Company,
Doug Lynner performs on the first commercial Serge. Of special note is Doug's Mystery Serge, an amazingly versatile analog modular synthesizer designed by West Coast synthesizer pioneer, Serge Tcherepnin. In addition to his avant-garde, experimental composition and music journalism, Doug is a pioneer in live rock performance with synthesizers and a founding member of the synth pop recording acts LEM, Mobius and Invisible Zoo.
Instagon: is an ongoing experiment in audio participation and chaos theory. It is a conceptual project that sometimes appears to be masquerading as a band. Founded in 1993, and so far performing over 675 shows. The project has never repeated the same line up on stage ever... boasting over 660 "members". The foundation and organization of this project is created by the artist & bassist known as LOB. Founded in Orange County, and moved to Sacramento in 2005, Instagon continues to explore new territory and interaction of players as a fundamental conceptual idea with no boundaries of genre or style. Each show or session is particularly scrutinized to put forth a unique experience for the band and the audience alike. Styles have included noise, experimentation, instrumental, improvisation, space rock, jams, jazz.
For the Outsound New Music Summit Instagon will present the "mixer set", a session where multiple players/participants are invited to bring any electric sound device they want to bring with no amplification. Each device is then plugged into a multi-channel mixer and everyone plays their toys simultaneously while the performance is created using the source sound materials being sent to the mixer and adjusting the volume, and panning, to create a sound-collage out of the audio being received. No pre-preparation is involved. All sounds are experienced live by the players, the audience, and Lob the conductor for a completely improvisational experience. For this Mixer Set, the group will bring only analog based devices.
Thea Farhadian (violin/electronics) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin. She has been active as a free improviser since the early 90s, and began working with electronics in the late 90s. Her work has been seen internationally at venues, which include the Room Series, and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Galerie Mario Mazzoli and Quiet Cue in Berlin, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, and the International Women's Electro acoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Thea has performed with Amy X Neuburg, Daphna Naphtali, S.F. Sound, Gerhard Uebele, Daniel Schorno, Dean Santomieri, and Klaus Kürvers. Thea has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College. She has presented her work at conferences and universities internationally and in 2009 was a lecturer in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Thea will be releasing her first solo CD, “Tectonic Shifts,” for violin and electronics this fall.
Aaron Oppenheim is an American-Canadian Canadian-American composer and improviser currently based in Oakland. He recently received a Masters’ Degree in Electronic Music from Mills College, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, and Fred Frith. His recent work has focused on laptop-based improvised music and developing a performance practice for group electronic/acoustic free improvisation. His other work mostly consists of rigorously process-based electroacoustic and acoustic composition. He is a member of several bay-area improvising ensembles including Talk More, Architect/Enchantress, and the Andrew Weathers Ensemble. His pieces have been performed at The San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Mills College Signal Flow, The Berkeley Art Museum, Vancouver’s Sonic Boom festival, Concordia University EuCuE concerts, and Simon Fraser University Student Composers concerts.
Tim Perkis is an experimental musician who works with live electronic and computer sound. He has founded or played in live computer network bands such as the League of Automatic Music Composers and The Hub, as well as groups such as Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny and All Tomorrow's Zombies. He has collaborated with John Bischoff, Chris Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Joelle Leandre, Roscoe Mitchell, Gino Robair, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith, and John Zorn.
Cost: $15/$12