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RAJAR Biography: RAJAR is a collective project founded in 2003 as part of the Illegal Art exhibition's visit to San Francisco (see http://www.illegal-art.org/), based on the idea of extending appropriation's hold on the art world to include real-time processing of live radio transmissions. While this idea has links to a wide range of musical thinkers, including Cage, Stockhausen, Holger Czukay, and others, it seemed time to re-approach this concept with a diverse approach which represents the current spectrum of electronic music endeavor. The results of this initial exploration have led to an ongoing project with a fixed line-up: Bob Boster, Xopher Davidson, Michael Gendreau, David Kwan, and Patty Liu. RAJAR is a true collective of improvisers, building an equanimitous sound organism for each performance without a leader/mixer/editor. Processing tactics include a wide range of technologies, including no processing, lo-tech stomp boxes & outboard gear, and cutting edge DSP schemes deployed on laptops. This range of approaches builds a particularly rich fabric of sound, which in turn is mapped on the performance space in collaboration with the audience in real-time. In other words, we hook up radios to a bunch of devices and mess with the sounds...usually people seem to enjoy it. Generally it's even more fun for us. All the participants in RAJAR are experienced performer/artist/composers with a variety of acoomplishements as individuals and in other ensembles. Please feel free to contact us if you are in need of a dose of this sort of 'media medicine'. Email: boster@pobox.com |