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Outsound.org Presents...The 2005 Edgetone New Music SummitNight 1 - The Future is NOW
10:00 pm DJ Tenshun (San Deigo)
9:00 pm MIRE
A cinematic blending of experimental, electronic, psychedelic, country, and noise.
8:00 pm MATT DAVIGNON
manipulated drum machine
DJ TENSHUN (San Diego)
You havn't heard a turn table do this!!
Jon Calzo is an extraordinary and eclectic turntable/electronic music artist from San Diego. In recent years, he has performed concerts in Los Angeles and San Diego including the Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown. Calzo is also a member of an electronic music duo called TENSHUN who just released a new recording on their own label. For the past two years, Calzo has been blurring the lines to the extreme of musical genres with his extensively vast range of influences, mixing his own music with hip-hop, funk, polish jazz and scratch-dub, 20th century calssical, and the obsurd. A very brief list of his influences include David Tudor, John Cage, The Executioners, and Qbert.
MIRE
Elise Baldwin, laptop
Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco, where she recently completed her MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College. When not indulging her interest in pyrokenesis or reading compulsively in the bath, E can be found cooking up aurally hazardous byproducts in her studio or building software instruments for video manipulation. She has whiled away much of the past decade as a sound designer and recording engineer, composing for theater, film, computer games, live performance, and audio installations. Active in the Bay Area experimental music scene, she focuses on solo and collaborative intermedia performance, appearing recently at the ARTSfest 2004, E.S.P. Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival 2003, the Lab and the National Queer Arts Festival. She is a recipient of the 2004 Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music.
William Fowler Collins, electric guitar
Originally from rural New England, William Fowler Collins (b.1974) is an artist and musician who has been based in San Francisco, CA since 1992. His music explores and synthesizes both musical and extramusical elements. Improvisation, field recordings, electric guitar, laptop computer, processed recordings, microcassette tape recorders, and home-made electronic devices all play roles in the creating, performing, and recording of his music. He recently graduated from Mills College where he studied with Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Alvin Curran, and Chris Brown. Collins currently plays electric guitar (and occasionally laptop/electronics) in both solo and group contexts.
Joel Pickard, prepared lap steel guitar
Joel Pickard has an MA in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, CA where he studied with Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, and Pauline Oliveros. He has a BA in Music from Bethel College in St. Paul, MN where he studied classical guitar. One of his most recent interests has been developing a non-traditional language on the pedal steel guitar, an instrument long relegated to providing the weeping backdrop to generations of country music ballads. In addition to freelance work, Joel is active as a performer in both solo and group settings.
Seth Warren, drums & percussion
Seth warren grew up in New Hampshire, studied English Literature and Religion at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and began an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College in 2003. He creates electro-acoustic music, sound sculptures and installations, sound design for theater and film, and performs as a drummer and percussionist in the bay area and abroad.
MATT DAVIGNON
Matt Davignon has developed a unique form of improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Creating music that is at once elemental and intricately ambient, he explores the outer dimensions of experimentation, often hovering around the threshold between chaos and order. His first project “Music at ½ Speed” was well received by critics and experimental music fans.His latest project, “Bwoo”, evokes biology, and the mystery of elemental structure in nature and in sound. (While all the sounds are initially created using a drum machine, Matt avoids its traditional use as a device for making beats. Instead, he processes the sounds beyond recognition, providing a result that is surreal, haunting and otherworldly) “Bwoo” is both profound in its depth and unique in its musicality. He performs on a large variety of less-than-professional grade instruments. (Including samplers, turntable, CD player, toys, found objects, prepared guitar, store-bought keyboards and drum machine.) Matt also organizes a plethora of unusual shows in the bay area, including the Found Objects Festival, the "2 Night Thingy for Voice & Electronics", The Suitcase Ensemble and Himp-Hoxp (which mixes experimental improvisers with underground rappers).