An evening of improvised electronics : Cameron MacNair | Meroitic (PDX) | Deep Cringe (PDX)

Join us for an evening of improvised electronics, from the following musicians:

Cameron MacNair

Meroitic (PDX)

Deep Cringe (PDX)

$5 to $15 suggested donation at the door

August 06, 2023: INFINITET, a monthly free noise jam

INFINITET is a monthly unstructured free noise improvisation/jam every first Sunday from 10am to 2pm. Open to all experimental musicians, instrument makers, and sound artists. Bring your instrument(s) and amp(s), drop in and drop out – sound will be continuous.

The goal of this series is to facilitate a community of musicians who are passionate about improvisation, free of any idioms, to come together. No turns, no sign up sheets, just a stream of continuous sound. Electronic or acoustic, experienced or completely new, all are welcome to join, anything goes! Let’s experience the joy and adventure of free improvisation together.

See you for the second session on August 6th.

Sounding : Eternities / Aug 4th 8pm –

An Evening of Music : 8pm 5-15 suggested donation –

Eternities

Peopling

Arrington de Dionyso et Noel Kennon

Stephanie Wood

David Nicholson

Eternities //////// NYC

Eternities is a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter (Utah) and sound artist Bob Bellerue (NYC). Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. 

Katie Porter is a clarinetist and curator specializing in experimental music. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music. Devoted to collaboration, Katie’s current projects include, Red Desert Ensemble with percussionist/composer Devin Maxwell, Quartet or Two Duos with James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, and Teerapat Parnmonkol in NYC, Phase to Phase a bass clarinet duo with Lucio Capece in Berlin, Malosma a bass clarinet and bass flute duo with Christine Tavolacci in LA, and Eternities with the noise artist Bob Bellerue in NYC. She has premiered works by Sarah Hennies, Teodora Stepančić, Andre Cormier, Daniel Goode, John Luther Adams, Yvette Janine Jackson, Manuela Meier, Michael Pisaro, Jurg Frey, Laura Cetilia, Brian Harnetty, Phill Niblock, Carolyn Chen, Patricia Alessandrini, Nomi Epstein, Quentin Tolimieri and Christian Wolff, among many others. She can be heard on the labels Another Timbre (UK), Gravity Wave / Erstwhile (US), Edition Wandelweiser (DE), FTARRI (Japan), Infrequent Seams (US), Karl Records (DE), and Editions Verde (US). Katie is working to record a giant multi-year project for solo clarinet in Nancy Holt’s land artwork, Sun Tunnels, in the remote Utah desert. http://www.fromkp.com

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 30+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – noise, sound art, experimental music, junk metal percussion, Balinese gamelan, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. Bob’s sound work is focused on multidimensional feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, recordings, and spaces, in combination with electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language. Bob’s work has been presented by The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, Roulette Intermedium, MOMA/PS1, Pioneer Works, Experimental Intermedia, Cafe Oto, Fylkingen, EMS, High Zero Festival, the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, LUFF Festival, Akouphene Festival, Sonic Circuits Festival, CEAIT Festival, Cave12, Diapason Sound Gallery, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Oberlin College, the Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, NYU, UCSD, and UCLA. Bob’s discography includes dozens of releases on Elevator Bath Records, iDeal Recordings, Banned Productions, Fabrica, P-Tapes, RRR Records, Love Earth Music, Prison Tatt Records, Los Discos Enfantasmes, Zelphabet, Peyote Tapes, No Rent Records, and his own Anarchymoon Recordings and Sleepy Hollow Editions. He curates and produces the annual Ende Tymes Festival, and is the Technical Director for Pioneer Works and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. http://bobbellerue.net

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Peopling – OLY

https://peopling.bandcamp.com/album/peopling-ep

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Stephanie Wood – SEA

Stephanie Wood is an experimental sound artist, sound practitioner and healing justice-centered activist. Using a plethora of gongs, DIY sound sculptures, processed found objects and field recordings, she incorporates surrounding soundscape, silence, and group experiences in performances. Stephanie loves playing/composing with eclectic ensembles and teaching group improv with gongs, electronics and found objects. She also hosts Seattle Avant-Garde Music Society and co-hosts the NO CONCERT series at Taoist Studies Institute with Shoko Zama. Instagram: @stephaniewoodbelovedsound

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Arrington de Dionyso et Noel Kennon

Arrington de Dionyso conjures Utopic Spaces with multiphonic vocal work & minimalist instrumentation. It’s shamanic seance meets rock and roll ecstasy; “TRANCE PUNK” combining traditional ritual trance, electrified experimental approaches, dancehall rhythms, gamelan scales and mystically inspired Indonesian incantations. Shocking and hallucinatory, MALAIKAT DAN SINGA always aims to channel Spirit.  

https://arrington.bandcamp.com/

Noel Kennon is a composer and artist living and working in Seattle. This work often is in reference to the physical qualities of sound such as the mathematical (or theoretical) forms of pitch space in relation to the harmonic series, difference tones, and the sonority of volume or rather the sonority of space both enclosed and open (on any scale) as well as nominating the socio/environmental effects and phenomenon of sounding in space such as the purpose and politics in engaging strangers along with other unhelpful pursuits.

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David Nicholson

Will present solo horn and woodwind improvisations. Unknown to many David has developed an idiosyncratic practice worth experiencing

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