The SPECTRE SERIES Presents MARTIN BACK and FATHER OF THE FLOOD. Thanks to all who came out for the first show last week. You'll find photos below. We are lucky to have Martin Back and Father of the Flood with us for the upcoming December 4th show. Doors are at 7:00 PM, with the first performance starting by 7:30 PM.
Where: ARTS Lab Garage - 131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, just north of Central and one block west of University
When: 7:00 PM
Cost: $5-10 sliding scale
Web: artslab.unm.edu/where.html
ARTIST BIOS:
MARTIN BACK
Martin Back (b. 1978 Opelousas, La.-the Zydeco capitol of the world) is a media artist, composer, and musician living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
His work explores graphic score procedures, noise, random and stochastic methods, custom circuitry, and musique concrete.
He studied for a B.A. in Moving Image Arts at the College of Santa Fe where he was a student of pioneering media theorist, historian and author Gene Youngblood and renowned media artist David Stout.
He has performed at festivals and venues in New Mexico and his video works have been shown in festivals in the United States and Canada.
Martin is also the director of the Ancestral Groan Liberation Orchestra, a collective of musicians from diverse backgrounds and abilities,which he formed in August of 2008 in order to explore unconventional composition systems, improvisations, and scores by the collective members and himself.
He is currently, when their busy schedules allow, privately studying composition with composer and sound artist David Dunn.
For his appearance at the second Spectre Series Martin will present several new and old works, including:
'Rancid Perfume' for Two Voices, Percussion, Theremin, and Ocarina
'Live Radio Evil' for live radio and sampling software
'Fire Suppression' live acousmatic music
'Malfunctioning Circuit Study No. 1' for unstable circuitry and computer
more info: http://moongasm.blogspot.com/
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FATHER OF THE FLOOD
Due to the chaotic nature of our everyday lives and the violent consequences of our actions - we exist in an unrelenting crisis of values. Yet, upon any instinct we can grasp escape in a tangible form that has been formulated to directly tranquilize or keep us consumed in that spectacle, whether through synthetic drugs that sometimes "find" their way into our drinking water if we haven't already sought them out for our own discretion, or simply televisions selling us insecurities and enticing our emotional being with scripted "living", all the while laying the foundation for learned behaviors in just how much attention and ultimate control we allow towards our imaginations.
This project was created primarily as a means of coping with the psychological assaults we are confronted with by our civilization and ourselves, whether the dangers of self-introspection or the traditions and practices we have accepted and continually participate in. I embrace and encourage a vegan lifestyle and actively support the struggle for animal liberation and intend for this project to promote cruelty-free living, compassion, and the direct participation of abolishing all that forsake an autonomous existence.
These pieces are intended to allow space and encourage contemplation or self-abandonment at will, they are composed largely by actual sounds from our urban environments that offer the listener an opportunity for a naive ear and a more self-focused position of judgement. These sounds are bleak and consuming. Swells of densely layered soundscapes and imposing drones contrasted with various cold and vacant bowed acoustic instruments/objects, sparse piano movements, and integrated field recordings.
more info: www.fatheroftheflood.blogspot.com
