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electro-music 2009 Festival electro-music 2009 is a three day international conference/music festival to be held at Star Lake Camp, a beautiful, rustic retreat in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, from October 29 to 31, 2009. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts. The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generative music, automatic and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music. Electro-music.com is an international community of composers and musicians that share a passion for electro-music. The community exists to create its own critical mass; to enable its members to develop music on their own terms. Electro-music is new music; still undefined; happening all over our planet. Electro-music is the natural result of two techno/social trends: the availability of low-cost powerful electronic music technology, and the communication revolution enabled by the internet. Electro-music is not defined by a particular style or sound, but by its primary motivation being the joy of creation, and the love of electronic sounds; it crosses many genres. For more information visit the event's web site by clicking on the photo above. |
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Live Concerts Featuring Musicians From The Ambient, Electronic and Spacemusic Worlds Concert at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30 pm) St. Mary's Hamilton Village 3916 Locust Walk (just east of 40th & Locust) on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia. |
The 2009 season: Saul Stokes and Jason Sloan (April 18) Ben Neill and Soporus (May 16) Johann Johannsson and Lichens (June 27) Hammock and Mico Nonet (October 17) Didital Sampler Workshop (September 13) ARC (November 13) |
Ben Neill and Soporus
May 16 On Saturday, May 16, at 8:00 pm, The Gatherings Concert Series will present Electronic Jazz and Dub Futurist Ben Neill and Ben Neill and Soporus, a Philadelphia-based ambient drone ensemble. Trumpeter Ben Neill successfully bridges the gap between Ambient Music and the Avant-Garde, further blurring aesthetic boundaries with the development of his Mutantrumpet - a revolutionary electro-acoustic hybrid of conventional trumpet and synthesized sound. A native of North Carolina and a product of classical training, Neill relocated to New York City during the mid-'80s, immersing himself in the downtown experimental music scene. Increasingly fascinated with minimalism, he studied under the legendary La Monte Young and with the aid of synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog designed the first Mutantrumpet - an instrument fit with three bells, six valves, a trombone slide and an analog processing system which allows Neill to create any number of open, muted and electronic sounds. Through his use of interactive computer technologies, Ben Neill creates a unique musical and visual universe, melding the worlds of Electronic Music, jazz, Pop Culture and visual media. Neill has recorded seven CDs of his music on the Six Degrees, Verve, Astralwerks, New Tone and Ear-Rational labels. In Neill's performance, four linked computers form a "Powerbook Band" that merges his three-belled, computer interfaced Mutantrumpet with live MIDI controlled digital video. Neill literally plays the moving pictures to create "video remixes" as he blows life into real-time and recorded video, making the images an extension of his electrified horn. Ben Neill has performed music extensively in a wide variety of international settings, including the Cite de la Musique France, Berlin Love Parade Germany, Spoleto Festival Italy, Bang on a Can festival, ICA London, Istanbul Jazz Festival Turkey the Edinburgh Flux Festival UK, Cloudwatch and The Gatherings Concert Series to name a few. Neill is also active as a digital installation artist. His collaborative works have been exhibited in museums and major galleries including Sandra Gering Gallery New York, Paula Cooper Gallery New York, Wellcome Gallery London and the Hayden Planetarium New York. Neill studied at Manhattan School of Music, where he earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in 1987. He studied composition with minimalist composer La Monte Young, and has collaborated with numerous other composers and musicians including (rock band Helmet's) Page Hamilton, Nicolas Collins, David Behrman, John Cale and DJ Spooky. Neill was the Music Curator of The Kitchen in New York City from 1992-1998. Soporus is a Philadelphia-based ambient drone ensemble which features guitarist and keyboardist Matthew Stone and bassist William Stichter from well-known instrumental act Saxon Shore along with guitarist Stephen Hoffman. Their live performances feature films and videos edited on the fly by additional member Michael Stichter. As children of the Cold War era, Soporus are heavily influenced by a lifelong fascination with the quiet power of nuclear energy - the seemingly miraculous ability to calmly harness intense reactions coupled with the lingering fear of potential disaster. Soporus continue with the nuclear power plant themes established on their debut ep, Atòmovè Elektràrne, with their full-length 24,110. |
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SOUNDSCAPES CONCERT SERIES is looking for a new venue. If you know of a good place, please tell Bill Fox about it. |