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SOUND @ THE MUSE

www.themuseat269.com

A night of soundscapes, improvisation and sonic art in an atmospheric and receptive environment

PAST EVENTS

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 1

MARCUS LEADLEY & MICHAEL KOSMIDES

A performance using hardware stage and studio effect processors to manipulate loops generated in real time. Key sources are guitar, theremins, vintage synths and silence. The work is entirely improvised and each performance quite unique: visceral and chaotic, often beautiful and at times sonically invasive - yet never too long or too loud...   www.marcusleadley.com

TIMOTHÉE HORODYSKI

Timothée Horodyski is a French woman composer. She has studied classic, jazz and contemporary music. As she liked to sculpt sounds, she has moved towards electro-acoustic music she has studied at the University Paris 8 with Horacio Vaggione and at Ircam. She has a PhD in Music: the subject of her dissertation is the analysis of Varese’s work. She is Lecturer at University Paris 8

THE LANGHAM RESEARCH CENTRE

With the clock ticking on quarter-inch tape, the Langham Research Centre formed in August 2003, with the intention of keeping alive the processes and spirit of Musique Concrète, or tape music: sounds from the real world recorded and transformed on magnetic tape. (It was invented by Pierre Schaeffer as a new music for a brave new world in the post-war Paris of the late 1940s). Egg harps, broken hinges, hungry dogs, executive toys, loose change and chicken carcasses have all featured in the LRC's work, aided by three aged reel-to-reel quarter-inch tape decks.   www.langhamresearchcentre.com

THURSDAY OCTOBER 6

JANEK SCHAEFER

Using his custom built 'Twin' turntable to manipulate especially cut vinyl, Janek's improvised concerts are an evocatively woven soundscape combining abstract electro-acoustic source material with long forgotten vinyl alterations. An evolving dense stream of close focus sound textures, pulses and frequencies which conjure images of an architectonic landscape, traversing though Ballard's 'Drowned World'.    www.audiOh.com

SonVer

SonVer tread a post-rock path of layers, loops and atmospherica, fusing electric cello, guitar and disembodied samples with abstract visuals.  This is music which ploughs its own furrow, zigging between genres and zagging through pigeon holes; From opressive to reflective, this is perfect soundtrack material. www.sonver.moonfruit.com

TIM BURNESS

An established guitarist and artist who works in a wide variety of genres, Tim Burness will be performing atmospheric soundscapes on electric guitar.Guitarists such as Robert Fripp and Steve Hillage are possible reference points for the range of sounds covered.    www.timburness.com

THURSDAY AUGUST 4

SUSAN HAWKINS and OLIVIA PISANI

'subtle tears'
Susan and Olivia are diehard pianists with a deep seeded love for the organic sound of the piano. Armed with some attractive laptops they meld subtle electronic sounds with the luscious beauty that is the wooden keys.
Visuals: Amanda Kyler

THE BURNELL-HUNT DUO

Paul Burnell and Karen Hunt will create electro-acoustic landscapes inspired by the mighty oboe, delightful toy instruments and unexpected percussion. Paul is a London-based composer, and together with Karen make up one half of the percussion quartet Brake Drum Assembly.     www.musicalsquares.com

"khmfn"

"Achtung! Future!" is computer music for a laptop performance and video projection. The music may be described as a futuristic kind of "musique concrète", generated from contemporary factory noises, synthesized robot signals and intensely edited historical machine sounds as well as everyday traffic sounds. In its full-length version it comprises a series of sixteen short pieces, none of which being longer than four minutes. The sonic part of "Achtung! Future!" is performed by Frank Niehusmann live on a laptop computer. The video part is compiled and performed by Karl-Heinz Mauermann and comprises five alternating image elements: (1) a live recording showing Frank‘s fingers playing the computer keyboard; (2) a view of the current audience that may be read as representing tomorrow‘s audience, (3) transitory movements through familiar utopian cityscapes, live on stage, (4) close-ups on eyes gazing into the future. The most important image element, however, shows nothing. The picture is black. All pieces of "Achtung! Future!" have titles pointing out single topics, situations or places pertaining to futurity. In between the individual pieces Frank Niehusmann will explain the future.

Karl-Heinz Mauermann   www.semantic-error.de        Frank Niehusmann   www.niehusmann.org

Thursday June 2

DOUGLASS C. BIELMEIER

Slowly Sinking Slower (fall 2003 - spring 2004) ca.10 mins
Unlike photographs and old home movies, which can provide an objective view of the past, our memory by nature is subjective. We often remember only our happiest moments and discard the rest. This short film deals with how memories often obscure the perception of ones self, and that which is external.

MR SOUTH

A sound and visual artist based in London, Mr South is performing using recorded organic and synthesizered sound bites he has collected from around the world.
The work airs on the side of chill but accessing action, just like a lazy afternoon in the city.
Collaborating v.j. performance by Mark Easton
Visuals by Mr South and Pixinc.

STONE IDOLS

Stone Idols is the creative work of Rob Jenkins.
The music is electronic, sometimes ambient, based on the use of synthesizers, guitars and a wide range of other instruments and selected sound sources.
Stone Idols does not fit neatly into any one musical genre, nor does it care about genre as clique markets are not good for reaching wider audiences. And with a crumbling music market, times call for more diversity.
The aim is for music to be rewarding, functional and achieving longevity for future listening.
Rob is just about to complete the second Stone Idols album due for release later this year.
The set will feature tracks from the forthcoming CD.
Instrumentation for the performance will consist of a Minimoog and a custom made Modular System.
www.mp3ambient.com/stone-idols

Wednesday May 4

BRETT GOWLETT'S HeadSpace

A fusion of music poetry and performance art. Music composed with manipulated found sounds that accompany Brett's soulfully expressive and joyously ridiculous vocals. All framed in a world of psychosis, cartoons, sunsets, plasticine and magic mushrooms.   www.thehumanzoo.com

SMACK MIRANDA

Smack Miranda is a producer, DJ and sound engineer from the north of England, now living in West London. The founding member of three-man electro terrorists Liberation Jumpsuit, when not leading the world's finest Altern-8 tribute band into battle, he can be found engineering and occasionally presenting on Resonance 104.4FM, or performing his unique brand of dyspeptic illbience on his slightly temperamental laptop in venues all over the capital and beyond. His set at the Placard Headphone Festival gained him a favourable review in The Wire, something he hasn't stopped bragging about since. Current projects include work for several theatre companies, collaborations with Japanese poetess Coppe, dominuitive noisenik Spinmaster Plantpot, and a debut Liberation Jumpsuit EP later on this year.   www.liberationjumpsuit.co.uk

WAJID YASEEN

projects :
     2nd Gen with releases on Mute, PIAS, Blast First, Quatermass....
     Uniform with first album on Ad Noiseam
     Dirthole.....an 8 piece garage rock outfit with members from tindersticks, headbutt, the membranes.....
Installation/Dance involvement :
     Various pieces with the choreographer Gail Sneddon
     Various pieces with Athina Valla
     Also worked with CandoCo as an off-schedule experiment at the GDA
Currently working on the new Uniform album with collaborations from Lydia lunch, Barry Adamson, Sleazy from Throbbing Gristle/Coil, Dalek, Justin Broadrick from Jesu/Techno Animal, Germseed and the performance artist Franko B
For the Muse performance, I'll be working with Andreas Constantinou and a group of performers he's putting together....and I also might be bringing in Franko B to do vocals over 1 track....
www.2ndGen.net   Uniform.adnoiseam.net   www.Dirthole.org

Wednesday April 6

Map 165

Sound artists working in areas between music and noise, concentrating on the suspended moments where forms and patterns stop and texture begins.
www.map165.martinasmith.co.uk

slow sound system

the slow sound system explores ambient listening and new electronica. We run irregular listening sessions at The Foundry in east London, co-host the 'Small Pieces' show on Resonance FM and co-curate the Placard London Headphones Festival. We also have material out on the microlabels kabuki kore, grain of sound and 8bitrecs.
'quality avant chillage' BBCi
'quiet, considered music' The Wire
'... a truly chilled East End space' The Guardian
www.slowsound.net

ENRICO GLEREAN (e.g.ø)

is an Italian musician and artist. His artistic research is based on two keywords: "code" and "memory". Using sounds and self-made software, he encodes images and feelings into sounds and vice versa. He has played and took part in exhibitions and festivals around Italy and Europe. He also composes soundtracks for videos, installations and contemporary dance performances. He is the heart of [no.signal].   www.egzero.org