Tim Perkis
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Biography:
TIM PERKIS has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting and recording extensively throughout North America and Europe. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction. A founder of the computer music band The Hub, he is also a well known performer in the San Francisco Bay Area's active improvised music scene, and a designer of multimedia systems for corporate clients. Recordings of his music are available on the Artifact, Lucky Garage, Meniscus and Limited Sedition labels.
Upcoming Events:
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
SFFriday, Jul 26 2013 7:30 PM
12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's New Sound Festival for underground and experimental jazz, electronics, noise art, spoken word & more!
Emanation & Artifacts - an evening of objects, electronics, tapes, & found sound
DAVID MOLINA'S TRANSIENT, PMOCATAT ENSEMBLE, FUZZYBUNNY
Advance Tickets Available @ Brown Paper Tickets
Fuzzybunny
Chris Brown - keyboard/midi, Scot Gresham-Lancaster - electric guitar, Tim Perkis - laptop
Fuzzybunny is a high-powered electronic improvisation and composition trio consisting of Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster and Tim Perkis. All-out ""carnallectual"" electronic improv,
rockyroaded with pop-music fragments and sonic gags define some kindof new style difficult to describe. Edwin Pouncey in The Wire called them ""a total meltdown of the senses...a trio of smartarses with nothing to say.
Pmocatat Ensemble
Matt Davignon - Conductor, CD DJ unit and Multispeed Tape Player with percussion, acoustic guitar, voice, accordion, melodica and glockenspiel, Amar Chaudhary - Ipod with traditional Indian instruments, Tom Djll - Tape Player with Trumpet, David Douglas tape player with percussion, Gretchen Jude: tape player with Concertina, Guitar, Voice, Melodica, Koto & Shamison, Daniel McAnulty - tape player with Guitar, Rent Romus - 4-Track and Tape Player with saxophone, flute, accordion & zitherod. Daniel Steffey - Tape & CD with Percussion, Benjamin Tinker - Cassettes with Organ, Harmonica and Chanter with Echoplex (tape delay), Nick Wang - Cassettes with Guitar, Saxophone, Ukelele, Michael Zelner - Ipod with saxophone, clarinet and flute
As part of the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, Matt Davignon will present the Pmocatat Ensemble performing his original graphic and textural scores. Each member of the ensemble records the sounds of their instruments in advance of the concert using the composition as their guide to a tape based medium. During the concert, the music is then performed by playing and manipulating these recordings according to the composition.
Performers frequently record the instruments they are most accustomed with, but it's also common for them to play other instruments that are available to them, as defined by the score. The second part of each score provides instructions on how to interact with the recordings, and the other performers on stage. Special attention is usually given to the abilities and limitations of the playback devices.
Transient
David Molina-Electronics, Found objects, Voice, Guitar, autoharp
Transient: is David Molina’s electro-acoustic, ambient, experimental project. He combines traditional acoustic, home made and found object instruments with field recordings and electronics to create meditative soundscapes which can either be light, beautiful and haunting, or dark and disturbing. Transient has collaborated and performed with musicians such as John Ingle, Chris Webb, Polar, Garret La Fever, Miguel Hernandez, Kyron, Marco Eneidi and George Cremachi; and video artist Mickey T, and filmmaker Anna Geyer. He has performed at 2005 and 2007 International Loop Festival, the Chapel of Chimes winter 2005, The Lab, Noise Pancakes, Drum Machine Museum, Galeria De La Raza, Noh Space, SOMARTS, Performance Art Institute, internationally and at various noise shows in SF. He collaborates with performance artists Violeta Luna and Secos Y Mojados.
CDs on which Tim Perkis appears:
