SPECTRE SERIES on HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

No shows are planned... other local action: http://wunderkindcollective.blogspot.com/

THIS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19: SUN CIRCLE, OSKER MERRILL

SUN CIRCLE



PERSONNEL: GREG DAVIS, ZACH WALLACE

SOUNDS: ECSTATIC HIGH VOLUME DRONES, LONG FORM TRANCE MUSICS AND PEACE NOISE.

LABELS: LICHEN, MUSIC FELLOWSHIP, IMPORTANT


OSKER MERRILL

Osker Merrill is a New Mexico native born on the checkerboard side of the Navajo Nation reservation. Having moved often though currently living in Albuquerque for several years now studying psychology and religious studies to piece together what drives people and for introspective research as well. In addition interested as well in the role media has to play upon the psyche of a person. Whether it be a favorite book, movie or even commercial for a certain type of cereal the media plays a large part in ones life no matter how sheltered one can aim towards. This is a study on life’s ritualistic order and playing the role of creator, sustainer, and destroyer.

Brought forth in the last quarter of the twentieth century under a waxing gibbous moon and observing life as if an alien from another world and sometimes going back to that divergent dimension Osker Merrill has found himself piecing together life from its entrails using recordings. Having captured them on micro cassettes, digital recorders, phones or any other available means they are then woven together in a web. This web is the piecing together of current events, long deep-seated regrets, mythos from yesteryear, and sometimes cotton candy rearranging to bring forth the chaos and calm behind it all.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:30 PM
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html
$5/10 donation requested

NOVEMBER 16: MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN

Malcolm Goldstein (b. March 27, 1936, Brooklyn, New York). American composer, now resident in both Canada and the USA, of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as an improviser and violinist. Mr. Goldstein attended Columbia University from 1952-59, where he studied composition with Otto Luening for one year and where he earned his BA and MA. He later studied violin privately with
Antonio Miranda in New York City from the mid- to late 1960s. As a performer of new music, he has been active as an improviser, violinist and vocalist and has also played various found and natural objects, as well as other instruments. As a violinist, he performed with the Judson Dance Theatre in New York from 1962-64, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde in the 1960s and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York in the 1960s. Since then, he has performed primarily as a soloist, both in improvised and notated music. With Philip Corner and James Tenney he co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963, a new music group that performed until 1970. He later served as director of the New Music Ensemble of Dartmouth College in the 1970s and of the Hessischer Rundfunk Ensemble für Neue Musik in Frankfurt/Main in the 1990s. As a writer, he has contributed articles about improvisation to various journals, notably Perspectives of New Music, many of which appear in From Wheelock Mountain: Music and Writings by Malcolm Goldstein (1977, in Pieces: A Profile, edited by Michael Byron). In addition, he wrote the book Sounding the Full Circle: Concerning Music Improvisation and Other Related Matters (1988, self-published, now available through the McGill University Project On Improvisation). Mr. Goldstein was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society to prepare critical editions of Symphony No. 2 in 1976 and String Quartet No. 2 in 2002, both by Charles Ives. Frog Peak publishes some of his music.

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/goldstein.html


Monday, November 16, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

COMING NOVEMBER 02: THE TRANSDUCERS

The Transducers

Featuring: Martin Back, James Brody, Philip Mantione, Christian Pincock, and Frank Rolla

The Transducers is a group of five composers and improvisers from diverse backgrounds spanning three generations of experience. They utilize laptops, custom software, sound sculptures, circuit bending and custom electronics to produce unique sonic worlds. Within the context of unstructured improvisation, they incorporate audience collaboration by means of the Photo-Instigator, a light-sensitive device suspended above the performers that picks up light beams originating from the audience. These rays are transduced into MIDI controller data streams that are sent to the performers to use or ignore as they see fit. So in essence, audience members become collaborators, instigators and possibly saboteurs.

Excerpt of live performance (MP3)

The Transducers

DATE: Monday, November 02, 2009

TIME: 7:30 pm

COST: $5/10 suggested donation

LOCATION:
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

COMING NOVEMBER 16: MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN

Malcolm Goldstein violin solo

Malcolm Goldstein | MySpace Video


Interview with Malcolm Goldstein

COMING NOVEMBER 19: SUN CIRCLE

LAST SHOWS FOR A LONG TIME

Last shows for 2009 coming up in November. Don't know if the series will continue.

11/02: The Transducers, 11/16: Malcolm Goldstein, 11/19: Sun Circle, Osker Merrill.