San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents
MKM (
Günter Müller,
Jason Kahn,
Norbert Möslang)
TrimpinPod BlotzMKM (formed 2004) Günter Müller // ipods, electronics, Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer, Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics.
Their sound hovers between the harsh rhythmic noise of Norbert Möslang´s cracked everyday electronics and the rich sonorities of Günter Müller´s percussion-based samples and electronics. Jason Kahn´s work on analog synthesizer bridges these two worlds, adding high frequency interference and processed piezo microphone and short wave radio input.
http://mkm.jasonkahn.net/Günter Müller has been playing a unique drum set with a mobile pick-up and microphone system of his own invention since 1981. The system allows hand-generated sounds on drums and percussion to be modulated electronically. Since 1998 minidiscs, since 2002 an iPod are included in his electronic set. Nowadays he often plays ipod and electronics only. Various recordings released on FOR 4 EARS, the label he founded in 1990, as well as on Erstwhile, Cut, Grob, List, Audiosphere, Amoebic, Rossbin, Creative Sources and others.
http://www.guentermueller.comJason Kahn
Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich. His work includes sound installation, performance and composition. Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, HongKong, New Zealand and Australia.
http://jasonkahn.net Norbert Möslang
Born in St.Gallen in 1952, plays cracked everyday-electronics. Worked with Voice Crack until the end of 2002 and played also in Poire_z. Played together with Borbetomagus, Otomo Yoshihide, Günter Müller, ErikM, Jerome, Noetinger, Lioinel Marchetti, Jim O'rourke, Kevin Drumm, Jason Kahn, Oren Ambarchi,Tomas Korber, Keith Rowe, I-sound, Carlos Zingaro, Florian Hecker and others.
http://moeslang.com Trimpin is a sound sculptor, composer, engineer, and inventor. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing everything from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer. Trimpin has been hailed in New York’s Village Voice as “a genius at circuitry and machinery as well as acoustics and musical structure [who] manufactures orchestras that play themselves. Born in southwestern Germany near the Black Forest, Trimpin spent several years living and studying in Berlin, working as a set designer and meeting up with artists from both Germany and the United States. He relocated in the States in 1979. In 1997, Trimpin received both a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his creative investigations of acoustic music in spatial relationship. In 2005-2007, museums and galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest mounted an extensive retrospective of Trimpin’s work.
http://trimpin.blogspot.com/"Pod Blotz is artist Suzy Poling from Oakland, California. The project is experimental and combines sonic tones with tape manipulation, vocals, theremin and organ drone. Pod Blotz aural sounds are very textured and accompany a stark visual component of video, mirrors and light experiments. Its informed by Musique Concrete and Science Fiction concepts and soundtracks.
http://www.myspace.com/podblotzTickets vailable through
Brown Paper Tickets or at the door (cash only!)
$16 General (available online or at the door)
$10 Student/Senior/Discount (only available at the door)
$40 Festival Pass