3rd Annual San Francisco Found Objects Festival, night 1 of 2
Artists from different approaches of experimental music improvisation (acoustic, electronic, noise, ambient, free-jazz, etc) will perform using sounds from a pool of objects submitted by the audience.
Thursday's performers will include:
Peter NyboerChris Cohn
Joe Balestreri
Kristin Miltner
Please bring objects from home for the artists to smack, rub together, shake, squeak, sample and process.
Peter Nyboer is an audio and video artist and programmer living in Oakland, CA. Recent work has been focused on creating commercially available applications for audio and video mixing using Cycling74's Max/MSP. He has started to focus more on playing live music using his "Girl" loop mixer, playing in large and small improvisation ensembles in the Bay Area. With source material such as answering machines, analog synthesizers, poorly-played clarinet, and thrift-store records, Peter makes sense of this sonic diaspora by processing it with similar effects, introducing rhythmic structure, and finding related tangents among the samples' native sounds.
www.slambassador.com
Chris Cohn has lived most of his life as an outcast of "respectable" society. He began playing percussion instruments in 1974, after discovering the music of Harry Partch through his obituary. Since then he's performed live radio sound collage using multiple turntables and tape decks, played percussion accompaniment for African, modern and experimental dancers, founded the Balafon Marimba Ensemble and has been heavily involved with the community that puts on the Woodstockhausen experimental music festival. He says, "I'm obsessed with objects that make cool sounds!" sambacomet@hotmail.com
Joe Balestreri is probably best known for his solo/group project Metaman, which uses Ableton's "Live" software to combine real instrumentation with sequenced field recordings and samples. The result is music that leaps from experimental/electronic sounds to a funky one-man jam band. Well, that's what he does when we let him have real instruments - we're excited to see what he'll do with random objects. www.metaman.us
Kristin Miltner's usual raw materials include but are not limited to voices, bells, cats, the everyday background hum of machines and lights, sadness, water, confusion, toy accordions, moths, amazement, and spoons. She processes these materials using her samplers she created using max/msp. Her duo with electronic musician and composer Mark Bartscher is called miba, and their recently released album "The Corplate Porblem" can be found at www.paxrecordings.com. She is also a member of the Brown Bunny Ensemble and Bilge/Radiolaria, a group of Bay Area musicians dedicated to the performance and composition of original experimental music. http://www.paxrecordings.com/Artists/miba.html
Cost: $6-10