The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music SummitSonicIndustrialPerformance Starts @ 8:00 pm
15 Degrees Below ZeroSay Bok GwaiMute SocialiteThe Late Severa Wires (Santa Fe NM)
15 Degrees Below Zero (Daniel Blomquiest, Michael Addison Mersereau, and Mark Wilson) began recording material for their third full length CD (second on Edgetone) in February of 2008. Unlike the material from their previous CD ("New Travel"), which was mainly recorded as structured compositions before large amounts of reconstruction took place in the editing stages, this new material is initially being recorded as extended improvisations. Their performance at the Summit will continue to play with ideas presented during these recording sessions, and in turn, the performance will produce new ideas that will be used during the actual piecing together of the new CD, steps that will include cut-ups, recontextualization of recorded layers, processing, and other editing -- as well as additional recording.
"15 Degrees Below Zero is a majestic and often cinematic work, its colors produced both from sampled and live sound." -Mike Wood, Music Emmissions
Say Bok Gwai(CD Release celebration performance for CHINK IN THE ARMOR)
True to their roots of musical experimentation and paying homage to their hometown, the first release show will be in San Francisco as part of the Edgetone New Music Summit.
San Francisco's first Chinese American hardcore band, Say Bok Gwai melds two distinct cultures into a completely unique sound. Say Bok Gwai's original compositions are rooted in American punk/thrash/ hardcore music and sung primarily in Cantonese. The subject matter ranges from Chinese American identity to grappling with traditional Chinese values and down with "the man" aesthetics. Say Bok Gwai is a Chinese American band that pushes the envelope of musical, social, and political extremes. Say Bok Gwai shows a new face of Chinese American music and is not for the timid or easily offended. Frontman Alex Yeung is a long time San Franciscan musician who has worked in both the local rock and experimental music scenes. Alex serves as the songwriter and guitarist for Say Bok Gwai---as well as playing guitar for the instrumental group Fear of Math. Drummer Andre Custodio has been an integral part of the Bay Area experimental music scene for over 10 years and is also part of the experimantal trio, Tri-Cornered Tent Show. Say Bok Gwai has released their self-titled debut CD on Monkey King Reccords. This CD has also been released in Hong Kong on Global Chinese Rock Records. Say Bok Gwai has been featured in festivals such as NoisePop, Pinoise Pop, Tidal Wave, and Rock On(Hong Kong). Say Bok Gwai has also been a monthly participant of the only series to feature Asian American musicians called Asian American Musician's Showcase (AAMS) in San Francisco.
Mute Socialite(featuring Moe! Staiano from Moe!kestra! & Sleepytime Guerilla Museum)
Drummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano (Moe!kestra!, ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist
Alee Karim (Atomic Bomb Audition), together they began in 2006 to create bizarre, instrumental fleshings-out of Moe!'s compositional frameworks as Mute Socialite. In January of 2007, 2nd drummer Shayna Dunkleman joined the ranks and augmented the volume and overall goodness.
Mute Socialite represents a dense synthesis of our diverse backgrounds--Moe!'s driving post-punk drumming and percussion guitar, Ava's free jazz sensibility and mangled country and black metal riffage, Alee's sub-bass, grinding harmonic interplay, and Shayna's prismatic sense of percussive dynamics. Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs, and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal, polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world in either fury or love!
Since early 2007, we've shared bills with Uz Jsme Doma, Old Time Relijun, XBXRX, Death Sentence: Panda!, Capillary Action, Time of Orchids, Cellular Chaos (Weasel Walter), Cryptacize (members of Deerhoof), Moggs and Ettrick.
The Late Severa Wires(from New Mexico featuring Carlos Santistevan from High Mayhem)
Ultraviolet-turntables Mike Rowland-drums Yozo Suzuki- guitar Carlos Santistevan-bass The Late Severa Wires will be performing a set of music that is yet another in a series of musical journeys in which they delve deeper and within the musical vocabulary which they have established over the last 7 years. During this time, the Wires have developed and unique vocabulary of platforms upon which they re-organize into new pieces each time they are performed. Using musical semantics to communicate ideas of texture, density, instrumentation, rhythmic relationships, movement and form, they create a new statement with each and every live performance by improvising music over predetermined schematics. Integrating conduction allows each player the opportunity to further steer the music; propelling and shaping the music allowing the moment’s sound to completely manifest itself.
Cost: $12/$6