8pm Rachel Austin - voice, electronics
9pm French Radio
Andrew Way - anti-turntables, efx, etc, Jim Kaiser - bicycle wheel, Bruce Anderson - guitars(MX80)
French Radio, a group improvisation/concrete unit along with Andrew Way (anti-turntables, efx, etc) and Bruce Anderson of MX-80 notoriety (guitars, efx, etc). The initial live French Radio performance was described as: "two turntables, a guitar, lots of effects, a bicycle wheel and a reel-to-reel deck conspiring to make something dirty, hypnotic, like the aftermath of a homicide spied through smudged and smashed windows." - S. Kalem, East Bay Express, 25-31 Dec. 2002
Rachel Austin’s aim as an improviser is split between two judgements:
a. to playplayplay
b. to seek the Sublime through narrative in the shapes created by sound
A performance artist, songwriter, dancer, and electronic composer, she has toured and recorded throughout Europe and the US. She taught voice and performance at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) and studied electronic media at Mills College in Oakland.
She has performed with others.
People like:
Kronos Quartet, Fred Frith, Yuko Kaseki, Zeena Parkins, Okkyung Lee, Ellen Waterman, Wood Chen, Maria Chavez, inkBoat, Simon Rose, ikon,
maybe you (since you are here)
etc etc etc
Much to her surprise, Austin’s recent work has taken a more sublime bent with impulses toward computer interventions, narrative, noisenoisenoise and movement. Play, humour, beauty... these [in- & de-]form her narratives.
Cost: $6-15