[sdiy] Baltimore SDIY, Circuit Bending & 8-bit festival @ saturday september 13th - Press release

Tue Sep 9 18:17:45 CEST 2008

Hi List

Here's the press release for the SDIY event we're having saturday, doors will open for artist / people who want to be in the showcase around 10.30

Karl

The Hexagon
1825 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
josh at hexagonspace.com

For Immediate Release
Baltimore Synth DIY / Circuit Bending / Chiptunes Festival and 8-Bit Invasion
September 13th noon-2am

SDIY / Circuit Bending Performers:
Sebastian & Zook -- Saxello and BassCello
The Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble
The Cheaters Club
Carly Ptak
Peter Blasser

8-bit Invasion Performers:
Bubblyfish
Glomag
Nullsleep
Bit Shifter
noteNdo

8-bit Invasion Video Artists:
No Carrier
noteNdo
Voltage Controlled

The Hexagon is calling on all basement tinkerers, circuit board squelchers, gameboy hackers, and voltage controlled cyborgs to gather up their home-built or home-modified electronic noise makers and bring them out to show off at our first annual Synth DIY / Circuit Bending / Chiptunes festival.  We will have tables, power supplies, and small amps available for instruments, but anyone with large modular synths other space consuming gear should reserve a space ahead of time by emailing josh at hexagonspace.com.  The afternoon event will last from noon until 7pm and is free and open to the public.  It will feature performances by local musicians T.A.Zook, The Baltimore SDIY Variable Orchestra, Carly Ptak (of Nautical Almanac), Peter Blasser, and others.  At 9pm a crew of 8-bit artists from New York will be bringing the dance party with their hacked gameboy electronic jams.  The night will feature Bit Shifter and Nullsleep of the 8-bit Peoples label along with
 fellow chiptune pioneers Glomag, Bubblyfish, and former Baltimore native noteNdo with 8-bit visuals by noteNdo, Voltage Controlled, and No Carrier.  Admission to the 8-bit event is $10.

Sebastian & Zook -- Saxello and BassCello
Mike Sebastian is a multi-instrumentalist who performs on tenor saxaphone, bass clarinet and saxello, and has appeared with such legends as Greg Osby, Peter Kowald and Fugazi’s Joe Lally, among many others. His passion to play grew when he first heard the spirituality of John Coltrane's music.  His visionary approach to his art is distilled in the following comment: "if you let the music take over it just flows without thought, like transcendental meditation."  Mr. Sebastian is a member of the DC Improvisers Collective and the Shape Memory Alloy Ensemble.

T.A. Zook will be playing BassCello through processors at this performance.  His  principal instrument is nylon-string guitar; he also plays electric guitar; electric bass (5-string fretless and fretted); and a variety of analog instruments such as bowls, rainsticks, slidewhistle, whistle-flutes, oceanharp, etc., through digital signal processors.  He studied under Sophocles Papas (classical guitar) and Frank Mullen (jazz guitar); he is currently studying improvisation under David Darling.  Mr. Zook is a member of the Shape Memory Alloy Ensemble.

The Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble
The Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble is a performance group made up of members from the Baltimore Synthesizer Do-It-Yourself (Baltimore SDIY) Group. The Baltimore SDIY Group was founded in November, 2007 by Logan Mitchell, Sr. The group was started in response to an interest expressed by local individuals wishing to pool and share DIY information concerning the design, fabrication, and modification of Electronic Musical (EM) instruments, as well as for those folks interested in collecting and performing locally with EM instruments. To date, the Balitmore SDIY group boasts 20 members from the Maryland, Virginia and DC area.

Several SDIY members have credentials and contacts in the EM industry. Member Greg Kist works for Moog Music as a free-lance technical writer out of his home in Columbia, MD, authoring User Manuals and related technical documentation, and providing beta testing services of new products. His recent documentation accomplishments include the User’s Manuals for the Minimoog Voyager, Voyager Old School, and Little Phatty synthesizers, as well as the forthcoming MP-201 Multipedal.

Member Arthur (Art) Harrison designs and produces a line of Theremins (available assembled and in kit form), doing business in Silver Spring, MD as Harrison Instruments (www.harrisoninstruments.com). In addition to designing and building Theremins, Art is an accomplished Theremin player and performs with several local bands.

Member David (Dave) Vosh builds and performs with his modular analog equipment as solo artist ‘SAFE 2’. He recently performed at the Electro-Music 2008 Festival (http://event.electro-music.com/) in Kingsport TN, and acted as the facilitator of the Analog Madness event that followed. A photo of Dave with his modular synthesizers appears on the Doepfer website (www.doepfer.de). More information on Dave Vosh can be found at his website (www.myspace.com/safe00)."

Peter Blasser (http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/):
The studies that Peter Blasser undertook at the Oberlin College and Conservatory (Ohio, USA) already indicate this artist's singular path: a degree in Electronic Music and Chinese, with minors in Computer Science and Ancient Greek. During his studies, he also taught electronic music and throat singing. In 2001, Blasser undertook an apprenticeship with Don Buchla, the legendary synthesizer maker.

Besides making traditional analog synthesizers and several acoustic instruments, he spent five years working on the notion of "inner surface" in electronic sound production. During this period, he built several large scale electronic instruments that can produce sound on an exposed interior surface; since the circuits are not protected by a protective membrane, the performer intervenes directly on this surface. One of his last instruments, 52 modules integrated into a large canvas roll, is a complex system of patches equipped with connectors that make it possible to produce sounds by directly touching the surface. He is also interested in what he calls "synthesyntheses clothing", that is a "syntheses" of clothing, costume and a character with an electronic instrument integrated inside the clothing. Like the canvas-synthesizer, these wearable synthesizers add a performative touch to the often abstract electronic music scene.

Noteworthy in this series is the admiral's jacket (2003), which is a polyphonic rhythmic machine inspired by the rhythmic machine Steve Reich created in the 80s. On top of generating sound, this instrument/jacket also projects a persona that is generated by the wearer of the jacket.

In January 2003, Peter Blasser toured California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia with the experimental electronic music group, Mister Kilogram. He developed the instruments used during the tour, notably those described above. In the same spirit, in November and December 2003, he was criss-crossing the U.S.A., accompanied by some musicians, to present his new intruments, the shinths, in a series of performances.

Carly Ptak (http://www.heresee.com/cptak.htm):
Trained in the art of hypnotherapy Carly Ptak has a way of getting into your head and sometimes into your heart or even to your stomach. She loves to ferment both ideas and home brews until they are tangy and bubbly and healthy too. Every performance is predictably unpredictable except for the one thing you can be sure of: it comes from a place of love and a desire to create more of it in the world.

Bubblyfish (http://www.bubblyfish.com):

A sound artist and composer, Haeyoung Kim explores the territory of sounds in electronic music.  Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she has been creating 8-bit and experimental sound works. Haeyoung has collaborated with many sound and visual artists such as Malcolm McLaren, the founder of Sex Pistols, Hans-Jochim Roedelius, and the Brussels based new media art group, Lab [au].  Her work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries internationally. Bubblyfish's album, Peripheral is released on Retinascan Records (http://www.bubblyfish.com). Her recent remix work of Kreftwerk's 'It's more Fun To Compute' is included on compilation album, 8 bit Operators released on Astralwerks.

Glomag (http://www.glomag.com/):
Musician, writer/director Chris Burke performs and records under the name Glomag. He has been making 8 bit music on gameboys since 2001. He has performed live in the US and Europe and has several releases available, including the recent Astralwerks CD of Kraftwerk covers, "8 Bit Operators", which features his version of "Pocket Calculator". He has been featured in articles in Wired Magazine and Art Forum and his music is a major part of the award winning internet series "This Spartan Life" which he also writes and directs.

Nullsleep (http://www.nullsleep.com/):

Nullsleep creates powerful romantic pop using repurposed low-bit electronics in a relentless search for new ways to circumvent their limitations. Bittersweet melodies and driving, rhythmic pulses are coaxed out of small plastic devices to produce a surprisingly intense sound. In 1999 Nullsleep founded 8bitpeoples, a collective of artists interested in the audio-visual aesthetics of early home computers and video game consoles. He has since released a number of recordings through 8bitpeoples, Astralwerks, Aniplex and others. Based in New York City, Nullsleep has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including the 20-date International Chiptune Resistance world tour in 2006.

Bit Shifter (http://bit.shifter.net/):

Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset, executed on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter's music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy soundset, repurposing it into the service of novel  idioms. Based in New York City, Bit Shifter is the co-administrator of the 8bitpeoples artist collective, the co-organizer of the annual Blip Festival, and has performed over a hundred shows worldwide.

notenDo (http://audiovideo.sevcom.com/):

noteNdo (Jeff Donaldson) began working with prepared NES consoles back in 2001 with the intent to create animation entirely  with his own hardware hacks. There is no new code involved, only raw machine logic. This work has led to international recognition in new media art and a continuing pursuit of the untapped potential of rewiring consumer electronics to create fresh, new work.  In addition, noteNdo has recently begun digging into LSDJ, writing his own brand of 4bit dance crunch for the Nintendo GameBoy.  Jeff currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and is an active member of the Baltimore based band WZT Hearts.

Voltage Controlled (http://parisgraphics.wordpress.com/):

A self proclaimed "video artist" of 3 years with no education in the arts, Paris/Voltage Controlled became a strong advocate in the Open Source software movement, using software such as PD to emulate early video synthesizers. In 2007 he had a "religous experience" involving a monkey on a platform, put away the laptop and now performs with handheld consoles such as the gp2x and gameboy advance. His visuals seem to answer the question, "What happens when you get drunk and do math?"

No Carrier (http://www.no-carrier.com/):

NO CARRIER, or Don Miller, is an educator, programmer, and live visualist currently living in Philadelphia. He reprograms nearly obsolete videogame and computer hardware, for use at live music events and installations. He primarily codes for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Commodore 64, creating visual works that incorporates both new and recycled symbols and patterns. His work simultaneously speaks to the emerging DIY technology culture, and the reminiscence of a generation raised on interactive media technologies.

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