A summit of sorts of veteran electronic musicians, this show features
Thomas Dimuzio, Larry Thrasher and Jai Young Kim performing solo and in various groupings, with video by Jon Weber.
Larry Thrasher has been involved in sonic explorations in the Bay Area since 1984. He started the world's first English qawwali group, Thrasher Qawwal and Party, inspired by Sufi poet Francis Brabazon and the mysterious silent Indian Avatar Meher Baba, and teamed up with dj Cheb i Sabbah to "Pro Tool" the landmark asian underground classics Shri Durga and Krishna Leela. In 1998 Thrasher and Genesis P-Orridge started the experimental spoken word group, Thee Majesty. Thrasher is at home crafting beats or ambient drones with his signature style of sonic montage which has received heavy play on dance floors and chill rooms around the world, but he remains interested in the experimental and spoken word realms.
Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, mastering engineer and label proprietor based in San Francisco. Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live sampling and studio techniques to create consistently compelling works, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time and technology, effortlessly moving from electro-acoustic and noise to glitch, dark ambient, improv and drone.
Jai Young Kim is a San Francisco musician/engineer/DJ whose musical output is as completely unpredictable as it is self-conscious. For this show, he will start off the evening with an abstract but three-dimensional set of metaphysical drones, lucid dream loops, and distilled beats. The music will be made resolutely with digital audio instruments such as sampling keyboards and a laptop computer. Jai Young's other recording and touring credits include playing keyboards with the widely revered Secret Chiefs 3, the cathartic noise-rock trio Job, and the free-jazz-rock outfit Species Being.
Cost: $6-10