Thursday, September 25, 2008

[HvEXAS] REMINDER: the official unofficial troy night out afterparty | fri. 09/26 from 9 pm to 2:30 am | rev. hall, troy, ny

woo. hoo.

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The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out Afterparty
(presented by Goodship & Revolution Hall)

Friday, September 26, 2008
9 pm to 2:30 am
Revolution Hall
425 River Street, Troy, New York, 12180
$8 advance / $10 day of / got to be 18 to get in (ID required)

Ready the resurrection bodies folks, because The RAPTURE is upon us!
So is it pre-trib, mid-trib or post-trib? And are you truly ready to
be taken away so very early in the night? And what the heck am I even
talking about? Here's a hint: It starts with an Official Unnofficial
and end with an Afterparty, only this month the booty shaking begins
promptly at 9pm. No messing around this time, we've got true believers
that need to dance their way to salvation and it's gonna take at least
5 hours to get them there. So buy your tickets early and get on the
Goodship this TNO, staring DJ Mattie Safer as your captain and etc. as
your all-star crew.

...holy smokes, The Rapture DJ's!!!

The sound line-up:

11 pm - mattie safer of The Rapture: Can you say basement after-party
disco beats, and basically the entire premises for this press release?
Flying solo for TNO, he's been out on tour with three of the other
Rapture dudes this summer playing DJ. (Bands are so passé, anyway).
And when I say playing I mean dominating. And when I say Rapture, I
mean as in House of Jealous lovers. And when I say DJ, I mean as in no-
band-in-tow. Color me a believer.

9:30 pm - the pelham 123: Give it up for the souls in Purgatory,
because this kid is a soulful skipper if there ever was one! Pelham is
relocating from NYC to Troy for one night only to add a little cloven
hoof-style mischievous house music to the mix. Certainly no stranger
to the Afterparty, Mr. Pelham knows how we like to move it up here in
the 518. He doles out house sounds of the underground mixed with some
dirty beats and thunderous bumps. Every flock needs a little
temptation from the righteous path once in a while.

opening - mcgillicuddy: Trust me, you really want to bunk with this
cat on a one-way trip to paradise. Her style is 100% "up in the
bedroom", and I don't mean of the sensual fashion. Imagine someone
went through all the records from every decade, picked out only the
hot songs, and then invited you up to their bedroom to listen at top
volume. No Parental Units + records + cheap (legal) booze = Winning
Combo. Thank heaven for little girls.

12:30 am - back from japan: BFJ is our shepard for the night, and when
this kid throws it down you shall not want. Period. 'Nuff said. WWBFJD?

1:30 am - jenks: If Goodship was really a ship and really had a bow up
front, there would be a figurehead protruding in the shape of Jenks,
whose job would be to part any seas encountered. He's like a swinging
battle axe of knowledge, except instead of knowledge he swings bass
lines.

vision:

fielderblank - sound art and snazzy suits by day, VJ by night.
Instrumentalization meets pretty pictures on his output source in a
way that will make any wafers and wine combo hugely more satisfying
than if eaten alone. And that's kind of funny, cause his video is
calming like cookies and milk after school but in a pg-13 kind of
kitchen. Maybe with Garth's mom from Waynes World serving them.

color commentary - it's more like a movie in mini segments. A movie-
ella? This kid has got video fans, folks. Prepare to stop dancing and
stare in genuine interest and sometimes utter shock as his live edited
antics float across the screen. Director Color Commentary is what I
call him behind his back when I'm all alone in my room watching his
work. Wait, what? Pretend I never said that.

blar - play on words is what this VJ is all about. Resist the urge to
run up and scream, "arg, blarg, pirates!" in his face while he's
editing video for the masses. His work is freak-tastic and kind of
fills you with the spirit and adds to the dancing convulsion on the
floor. This is exactly what you'll need to complement the Rapture DJ
hottness.

---

whew.

+ For more information on The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out
Afterparty, please visit http://www.goodship.net/blog

+ For more information on Troy Night Out, please visit http://www.troynightout.org
+ For more information on Goodship, please visit http://www.goodship.net/blog
or http://facebook.com/pages/goodship/10343713754
+ For more information on Revolution Hall, please call 518.274.0553 or
visit http://revolutionhall.com/

+ For more information on The Rapture DJs, please visit http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/144842-the-rapture-line-up-dj-dates-plan-dj-kicks-mix
+ For more information on The Pelham123, please visit http://www.rsso.net/
+ For more information on McGillicuddy, please visit http://www.explodingdog.com/october24/lovecross.html
+ For more information on fielderblank, please visit http://www.finenoiseandlight.net/rst.html
+ For more information on blar, please visit http://www.vimeo.com/user264437/videos
+ For more information on color commentary, please visit http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/295314273_07a7e8e0d1.jpg?v=0

+ For more information on back from japan, please visit http://www.myspace.com/backfromjapan
+ For more information on jenkins, please visit http://www.myspace.com/jenkinsdj

Thanks.

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[HvEXAS] Tuesday at VALENTINE's!

Hey everyone - hi again everyone! Last Saturday's show was amazing - we were really happy with how everything turned out. BIG thanks to Steve Pierce and the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy for letting us collaborate with them. And an even bigger thanks to Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson, and Peter Evans, who put on a beautiful set, as did the Empty Cage Quartet.

On to the next thing now! We're presenting an unusual show outside of our normal monthly events on Tuesday Sept. 30th. This one will be at Valentine's on New Scotland Avenue in Albany. We really hope you can be there - We'd certainly love the support :)  Most importantly, it's going to be a great night of music, only $5 too!! 

It'll be the first Valentine's appearance for Century Plants, featuring ASAC's Ray Hare and Eric Hardiman. Blues Control are an amazing psychedelic duo from Brooklyn, with an LP on Woodsist and an upcoming on on Siltbreeze. Psychedelic Horeshit hail from Ohio, have graced the pages of Spin Magazine, and apparently stole the show from absolutely everybody at SXSW in Austin, TX. Finally, Pink Reason also come from NYC and they offer a fantastic and unique take on garage rock.

So just in case you're wondering what all that babble means -- the sounds will range from deconstructed, shambling garage rock to lo-fi pop nuggets (think early pavement or GBV!) to trippy psychedeliic beauty to raging cathartic drones. And I'm sure there will be plenty of stops in between.  If you need more persuading, just let me know and I'll get you some of the press these phenomenal groups are accumulating!

Definitely another ASAC event not to miss! Holler if you have any questions...

BLUES CONTROL
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT
PINK REASON
CENTURY PLANTS


VALENTINE's in Albany
17 New Scotland Ave.
TUES. 9/30 at 7pm
Check out our blog regularly for news on shows like these, and for the incredible flyer for this one, courtesy of Bob Plante at Forbidden Eye.  YEAH!!

SEE YOU THERE!!

Eric Hardiman
Albany Sonic Arts Collective
www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com

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Friday, September 19, 2008

[HvEXAS] amazing jazz show - tomorrow night in TROY!

Hi folks,
 
Another reminder about tomorrow night's show!  It's co-sponsored by ASAC and the Sanctuary for Independent Media.  It's only $10.  The best jazz show in the Capital Region for ages?  YES!  Trust us - this one will be energetic, free form, probing, beautiful, and everything in between. 
 
Be there!!!
 
Check out our blog (www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com) for the flyer, and here's a quick recap below.  If you need more details on who these folks are, just shoot us an email or read the blog post.
 
Really hope to see you all in Troy on Saturday night!!
 
Saturday, September 20, 2008

A double feature showcasing:

the Empty Cage Quartet (Los Angeles) and
the Weasel Walter Trio (Oakland, CA)

The Sanctuary for Independent Media
3361 6th Avenue in north Troy (at 101st Street).

The Empty Cage Quartet will perform at 8 PM; the Weasel Walter Trio begins at 10 PM. Admission for the all-ages show is $10.

Call (518) 272-2390, email info@MediaSanctuary.org, or visit www.MediaSanctuary.org for directions and more information.
Thanks!

Eric Hardiman
Albany Sonic Arts Collective
www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com

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[HvEXAS] the official unofficial troy night out afterparty | fri. 09/26 from 8:30 pm to 2:30 am | rev. hall, troy, ny

(Please forward / re-distribute as you see fit...)

The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out Afterparty
(presented by Goodship & Revolution Hall)

Friday, September 26, 2008
8:30 pm to 2:30 am
Revolution Hall
425 River Street, Troy, New York, 12180
$8 advance / $10 day of / got to be 18 to get in (ID required)

Ready the resurrection bodies folks, because The RAPTURE is upon us!
So is it pre-trib, mid-trib or post-trib? And are you truly ready to
be taken away so very early in the night? And what the heck am I even
talking about? Here's a hint: It starts with an Official Unnofficial
and end with an Afterparty, only this month the booty shaking begins
promptly at 9pm. No messing around this time, we've got true
believers that need to dance their way to salvation and it's gonna
take at least 5 hours to get them there. So buy your tickets early
and get on the Goodship this TNO, staring DJ Mattie Safer as your
captain and etc. as your all-star crew.

...holy smokes, The Rapture DJ's!!!

The sound line-up:

11 pm - mattie safer of The Rapture: Can you say basement after-party
disco beats, and basically the entire premises for this press
release? Flying solo for TNO, he's been out on tour with three of the
other Rapture dudes this summer playing DJ. (Bands are so passé,
anyway). And when I say playing I mean dominating. And when I say
Rapture, I mean as in House of Jealous lovers. And when I say DJ, I
mean as in no-band-in-tow. Color me a believer.

9:30 pm - the pelham 123: Give it up for the souls in Purgatory,
because this kid is a soulful skipper if there ever was one! Pelham
is relocating from NYC to Troy for one night only to add a little
cloven hoof-style mischievous house music to the mix. Certainly no
stranger to the Afterparty, Mr. Pelham knows how we like to move it
up here in the 518. He doles out house sounds of the underground
mixed with some dirty beats and thunderous bumps. Every flock needs a
little temptation from the righteous path once in a while.

opening - mcgillicuddy: Trust me, you really want to bunk with this
cat on a one-way trip to paradise. Her style is 100% "up in the
bedroom", and I don't mean of the sensual fashion. Imagine someone
went through all the records from every decade, picked out only the
hot songs, and then invited you up to their bedroom to listen at top
volume. No Parental Units + records + cheap (legal) booze = Winning
Combo. Thank heaven for little girls.

12:30 am - back from japan: BFJ is our shepard for the night, and
when this kid throws it down you shall not want. Period. 'Nuff said.
WWBFJD?

1:30 am - jenks: If Goodship was really a ship and really had a bow
up front, there would be a figurehead protruding in the shape of
Jenks, whose job would be to part any seas encountered. He's like a
swinging battle axe of knowledge, except instead of knowledge he
swings bass lines.

vision:

fielderblank - sound art and snazzy suits by day, VJ by night.
Instrumentalization meets pretty pictures on his output source in a
way that will make any wafers and wine combo hugely more satisfying
than if eaten alone. And that's kind of funny, cause his video is
calming like cookies and milk after school but in a pg-13 kind of
kitchen. Maybe with Garth's mom from Waynes World serving them.

color commentary - it's more like a movie in mini segments. A movie-
ella? This kid has got video fans, folks. Prepare to stop dancing and
stare in genuine interest and sometimes utter shock as his live
edited antics float across the screen. Director Color Commentary is
what I call him behind his back when I'm all alone in my room
watching his work. Wait, what? Pretend I never said that.

blar - play on words is what this VJ is all about. Resist the urge to
run up and scream, "arg, blarg, pirates!" in his face while he's
editing video for the masses. His work is freak-tastic and kind of
fills you with the spirit and adds to the dancing convulsion on the
floor. This is exactly what you'll need to complement the Rapture DJ
hottness.

---

whew.

+ For more information on The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out
Afterparty, please visit http://www.goodship.net/blog

+ For more information on Troy Night Out, please visit http://
www.troynightout.org
+ For more information on Goodship, please visit http://
www.goodship.net/blog or http://facebook.com/pages/goodship/10343713754
+ For more information on Revolution Hall, please call 518.274.0553
or visit http://revolutionhall.com/

+ For more information on The Rapture DJs, please visit http://
www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/144842-the-rapture-line-up-dj-
dates-plan-dj-kicks-mix
+ For more information on The Pelham123, please visit http://
www.rsso.net/
+ For more information on McGillicuddy, please visit http://
www.explodingdog.com/october24/lovecross.html
+ For more information on fielderblank, please visit http://
www.finenoiseandlight.net/rst.html
+ For more information on blar, please visit http://www.vimeo.com/
user264437/videos
+ For more information on color commentary, please visit http://
farm1.static.flickr.com/107/295314273_07a7e8e0d1.jpg?v=0

+ For more information on back from japan, please visit http://
www.myspace.com/backfromjapan
+ For more information on jenkins, please visit http://
www.myspace.com/jenkinsdj

Thanks.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Artificial Productions presents:

Gamma Ray
2nd Friday of every month
The Fuze Box
12 Central Ave Albany, NY

Featuring:

Crunk Masters of the Universe
Live Performance – Hip Hop/ Trip Hop

Chris Lewis aka CML
DJ – Trip Hop

Lazer & Blazer
DJ – Electronica

September 12th 2008 from 10pm to 4am
$5 to enter
21 to drink 18 to enter

For more information on the performing artists please visit the following…

Crunk Masters of the Universe = http://www.myspace.com/crunkmastersoftheuniverse
Chris Lewis / CML = http://www.myspace.com/chrislittlenumbers
Lazer & Blazer = www.Artificialproductions.com

Venue Information = http://www.myspace.com/fuzebox

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

ACM Meeting, Sept 15. Hudson Valley FIRST Lego League

NEWS BULLETIN!!!

Frank Wallingford (frank.wallingford@technologist.com) has
formed a group, Hudson Valley Programmers, to study new
programming languages. For information about the group see
http://softwaredev.meetup.com/103/calendar/8535447.


For a calendar of technical society meetings in the
Mid-Hudson Valley go to http://pok.acm.org/calendar.html.


Poughkeepsie Chapter of the Association For Computing Machinery

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Program: Hudson Valley FIRST Lego League

Speaker: Dr. Casimer DeCusatis
Founder and Director, Hudson Valley FIRST Lego League
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corp, Poughkeepsie, NY

About the Topic:

Lego League is an international organization dedicated to
fostering student interest in engineering, computers, and
technical literacy. Established by Dean Kamen (inventor of the
Segway) and administered by the nonprofit organization FIRST (For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), Lego
League is intended to inspire students to become technology
heroes by making engineering as much fun as sports or music.
Students work in teams with a coach of mentor in two age groups,
6-9 years old (Junior Lego League) and 9-14 years old (Senior
Lego League). Each year, teams must design, build, and program a
Lego MindStorms robot to complete a series of missions with a
common theme (such as nanotechnology, ocean exploration, etc).
Teams also prepare a research report and oral presentation based
on the annual technology theme, and are judged during a Lego
League tournament on the quality of their research, design and
performance of their robots, as well as teamwork, leadership,
team spirit, and other factors (see www.usfirst.org for more
information, or visit Hudson Valley Lego League's MySpace page,
www.myspace.com/midhudsonfll). FIRST Lego League is growing
rapidly in the Hudson Valley; this talk will describe our local
efforts to reach over 500 local students this coming season, and
how you can become a part of this exciting new program!

About the Speaker

Dr. Casimer DeCusatis is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and
Technical Executive based in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He is an IBM
Master Inventor with over 70 patents, and recipient of several
industry awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the EDN
Innovator of the Year Award, the Mensa Research Foundation Copper
Black Award for Creative Achievement, and the IEEE/HKN
Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer award (including a citation
from the President of the United States and an American flag
flown in his honor over the U.S. Capitol). He is co-author of
more than 100 technical papers, book chapters, and encyclopedia
articles, and editor of the Handbook of Fiber Optic Data
Communication (now in its 3rd edition); he is also co-leader of
the IBM Academy of Technology study "Innovation Ecosystems". Dr.
DeCusatis received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.) in 1988 and 1990,
respectively, and the B.S. degree magna cum laude in the
Engineering Science Honors Program from the Pennsylvania State
University (University Park, PA) in 1986. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, Optical Society of America, and SPIE (the international
optical engineering society), a member of the Order of the
Engineer, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), and various other professional
organizations and honor societies.


When: 7:30 pm, Monday, September 15, 2008

Where: Ulrich Room, Dyson Hall
Marist College, Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY
Directions: Building 7 on the map at
www.marist.edu/welcome/map.html

Parking: Parking, on campus, on the west side of Route 9 can
be difficult. It may be easier to park on the east
side of Route 9, across from Building 25 on the
Marist campus map at www.marist.edu/welcome/map.html.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Dinner: 6 pm, Palace Diner,
194 Washington Street, POK, 845.473.1576
Menu: www.thepalacediner.com/menu_pg.htm

All are welcome to join us for dinner. (Go north on the Route
9 Arterial to the St. Francis Hospital exit, turn right, turn
right again. The Palace is one block further along on the
right.)

Refreshments are served after the meeting. For further
information, email collier@acm.org or call 845.297.5901.

P - L - E - A - S - E P - O - S - T


[HvEXAS] big news!! Sat. 9/20 event!!

Hey ASAC pals,
 
It's that time again, and we've got big news. For the first time ever, ASAC will be co-presenting an event with the amazing Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy.
 
We could not be more thrilled about this, and hope you will all make it across the river for this extraordinary show! The Sanctuary has been one of our big inspirations in starting ASAC this past year, and the chance to combine forces for this night will be great!!  If you like jazz at all, and if you have even the slightest passing interest in improvisation and amazing musicianship in general, you simply have to make it out for this one!  Lineups this good are rare, and the Sanctuary will give you the best possible place to see this incredible night of music.

Here's the scoop:

Saturday, September 20, 2008

A double feature showcasing:

the Empty Cage Quartet (Los Angeles) and
the Weasel Walter Trio (Oakland)

The Sanctuary for Independent Media
3361 6th Avenue in north Troy (at 101st Street).

The Empty Cage Quartet will perform at 8 PM; the Weasel Walter Trio begins at 10 PM. Admission for the all-ages show is $10.

Call (518) 272-2390, email info@MediaSanctuary .org, or visit www.MediaSanctuary. org for directions and more information.

SEE YOU THERE!!!! Some information on these amazing musicians follows:

EMPTY CAGE QUARTET

The Empty Cage Quartet has consistently been praised as one of the most powerful and original new jazz groups to emerge from the American West Coast. For nearly six years the group has explored imaginative new ways to integrate a diverse mix of musical influences ranging from shuffle swing to free jazz blowouts, minimalist
percussion loops to complex modernist gestures, robotic grooves, odd- meter marches, heavy rock, and nearly everything in between. Performances of this music involve an elaborate system of on-stage cues to navigate the flow of improvisation in, around, and out of modular compositional structures designed to cycle, overlap, combine
and recombine. The result is a continually evolving, multidimensional approach to jazz and new music performance, improvisational acuity, and compositional craft that Amazing Sounds Magazine has likened to an "urban folk music of the future."

The Empty Cage Quartet has toured extensively in the Western United States and in Canada and Europe, and they have received support from the American Composers Forum, the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM), and Chamber Music America's French-American Jazz Exchange. To date they have released six CD recordings that have been featured on jazz radio stations around the world and reviewed favorably in publications including Signal to Noise, The Wire, All About Jazz, Cadence Magazine, Jazz Hot, Paris Transatlantic Magazine, LA Weekly, Tucson Weekly, and Stride Magazine. Stratostrophic, their most recent album, is out now on the Clean Feed label, and in September they will make their New York City debut with a concert at
the Living Theatre co-sponsored by Clean Feed Festival III and the Sixth Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT).

Instrumentation
Jason Mears - alto saxophone, clarinet, flutes
Kris Tiner - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ivan Johnson - double bass
Paul Kikuchi - drums, percussion, electronics


WEASEL WALTER TRIO

A drummer whose current material straddles the many lines between punk, free jazz, no wave, improv, and much more, Weasel Walter will be playing with Mary Halvorson on guitar and Peter Evans on trumpet.

Weasel Walter (born Christopher Todd Walter in Rockford, Illinois) is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell. Over the years, the band has included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical. Walter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick Barr (Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. In addition to leading various free jazz ensembles under his own name, currently he is a member of XBXRX and Burmese.


Before relocating to the West Coast, Walter was a major contributor to the Chicago no-wave/noise/ improvised music underground during the '90s and early 2000s. During this period, he performed as a founding member of bands such as The Flying Luttenbachers, Miss High Heel (with Jim O'Rourke and Azita of The Scissor Girls), Lake of Dracula (with Marlon Magas and Heather M. of the Scissor Girls), To Live and Shave in L.A. 2, and Hatewave (replacing founder Nandor Nevai) among others. Walter has collaborated with artists like Marlon Magas and Jim O'Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L.A., Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant and Ken Vandermark as well as many influential underground rock bands including Bobby Conn, U.S. Maple, Cock E.S.P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by the Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar and Glenn Branca.

Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and Jason Moran. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (On and Off, Skirl Records, 2007); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant- rock band People (Misbegotten Man, I & Ear Records, 2007). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring.

Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans has been a member of the New York City musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. In addition, he performs regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.

Local presentation of the Empty Cage Quartet and the Weasel Walter Trio is co-sponsored by the Arts Department at RPI and Albany Sonic Arts Collective, made possible by volunteer labor, small financial contributions from hundreds of patrons of The Sanctuary For Independent Media and support from the New York State Music Fund.

The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a community media arts center located in an historic former church in Troy, NY. The venue is an intimate and acoustically excellent space which seats about 150. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds.

# # #

Empty Cage Quartet website:
http://www.myspace. com/emptycagequa rtet

Weasel Walter website:
http://www.myspace. com/weaselwalter

Mary Halvorson website:
http://www.maryhalv orson.com/

Peter Evans website:
http://www.myspace. com/peterevanstr umpet

Eric Hardiman
Albany Sonic Arts Collective
www.albanysonicarts .blogspot. com

Eric Hardiman
Albany Sonic Arts Collective
www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com

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Monday, September 08, 2008

[HvEXAS] FW: gigs and cd



Saturday September 13th

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS

featuring:

DJ TONY COULTER

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TC

Tony Coulter has been on the radio in the New York City area continuously
since 1985 -- at one point, on three stations at once. His only excuse for
hogging the airwaves is that he likes everything from Pierre Henry to
America. He has also occasionally written about music for magazines such as
Ear, i/e (later e/i), and the Rail. He has way too many records.

If, Bwana and Michael Peters, sounds and texts
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IF, BWANA
Since the 1980s, Al Margolis has earned an international reputation for his
experimental music recorded under the name If, Bwana. Realized with a range
of collaborators, If, Bwana music is a fusion of ambient, industrial, and
musique concrete, featuring strange soundscapes that are both soothing and
unnerving, often at the same time. Margolis has also been very active as the
owner of two prolific labels, the cassette label Sound of Pig and, since the
1990s, Pogus Productions, a CD label with a focus on experimental
contemporary classical music.

MICHÆL PETERS
Michael Peters is the author of Vaast Bin (Calamari Press, Fall 2007).
Various manifestations of his written-sound-images have appeared in journals
and books like Sleepingfish, Word for/Word, LUNGFULL!, Hyperrhiz: New Media
Cultures, SPELL, Spinning Jenny, and Richard Kostelanetz's Dictionary of the
Avant-Gardes.  His visual poetic structures can be found in various special
collection libraries like the Sackner Archive; they have also appeared in
numerous galleries and anthologies, such as the
recent Ohio State Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection and the
Minnesota Center for Book Arts' Vispoeologee.  Most notably with Poem Rocket
and the Be Blank Consort, aural manifestations of his sounds have appeared
on recording labels such as Atavistic, PCP Entertainment, Magic Eye, and
Luna Bisonte Prods. This appearance at Issue Project Room will be his third
collaboration with Al Margolis.

Letters From Withal Unhanded

Beginning initially with Al Margolis's interest in a multi-faceted project
based upon Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Michael Peters's subsequent
involvement in the project, Letters from Withal Unhanded continues this
fascination. It uses "The Tempest" not only as a material starting point
for this new piece, but as a starting point for arranging the piece as
whole. In this new piece of the project, new "letters" were added to "The
Tempest," complicating as well as dispersing the initial text. Emerson's
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" (published 1850) and Charles Olson's "Quantity
in Verse, and Shakespeare's late plays" (written between 1955-1965) have
been arranged to coincide with "The Tempest." This piece attempts to
arrange and derange--to receive and construct--the hopelessly inseparable
idea of what we call history and that history can be the function of the
moment. What do we choose to use, to fade in and fade out in that rolling
contiguity of this shared moment with all its divisibility, something of it
flows and reaches us along the channels initially set forth, in this case,
by starting with "The Tempest?" The piece, the particle of the particles,
emanates. How do we use this awareness? What are we channeling? How does
it, organized as it is by the three source texts of Shakespeare, Emerson,
and Olson, organize us? What landfall emerges?

STERLING BASEMENT
http://www.johnroach.net/pages/sterling.html
Sterling Basement - Songs of the Gowanus Canal
Sterling Basement are John Roach, John Hudak, Shawn Onsgard, Matthew Rohrer

In this performance, Sterling Basement presents an homage to the Gowanus
Canal. The ensemble includes the multidisciplinary artist John Roach on his
homemade Band-O-Fly instrument, sound artist John Hudak with homemade thumb
pianos, pianist and composer Shawn Onsgard with his mockingbird Melodica,
and the poet Matthew Rohrer delivering texts related to the once thriving
shipping hub.

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Telephone: 718-330-0313

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Deep Listening Institute
presents

An Innocent(Re-Ducks)

Thursday, September 18 at 8 pm

Al Margolis, prerecorded tracks/live sounds

With

Lisa Barnard, voice

Monique Buzzarté, trombone

Tom Hamilton, synthesizer

Jacqueline Martelle, flute

Emily Harvey Foundation

537 Broadway (at Spring Street)

SoHo, NYC

Admission $15 Adults/$10 Students & Seniors

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pogus
50 ayr road chester, ny 10918
fax 509 357 4319 l email pogal@pogus.com
www.pogus.com

September 2008 Release

NOAH CRESHEVSKY / IF, BWANA
FAVORITE ENCORES
(Pogus 21049-2)
UPC: 760342104926

" ŠCreshevsky's music is cosmopolitan and streetwise post-modern
expressionŠI do not exaggerate when I say that I have never heard anything
like Creshevsky's music beforeŠIf you're up for an aural adventure, here's
your ticket." (Josh Mailman, American Record Guide)

"ŠIf, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are
never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very
moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable
state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." (Massimo
Ricci, Touching Extremes)

A split cd of works by Noah Creshevsky (4 tracks) and If, Bwana (3 tracks).
While on the face of it this may seem a somewhat odd pairing, the pieces
recorded here comment on and highlight each other. And as the above quotes
suggest, an aural adventure is indeed in the offing.

Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at
Juilliard, Noah Creshevsky has taught at Juilliard, Princeton University,
and Brooklyn College. He was director of the Center for Computer Music
(1994-2000) and is currently Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of the
City University of New York. His musical vocabulary consists largely of
familiar bits of words, songs, and instrumental music that are edited but
rarely subjected to electronic processing. The result is a music that
obscures the boundaries of real and imaginary ensembles though the fusion of
opposites: music and noise, comprehensible and incomprehensible vocal
sources, human and superhuman vocal and instrumental capacities.
Creshevsky's most recent hyperrealist compositions explore the fragmentation
and reconstruction of pre-existing music in combination with original
synthetic and acoustic materials. Moments suggest musical environments of
indeterminate ethnicity--simultaneously Western and non-Western, ancient and
modern, familiar and unfamiliar.

Hyperrealism is an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds
that are recognizable parts of our shared environment ("realism"), handled
in ways that are exaggerated or excessive ("hyper"). Hyperrealist music
exists in two basic genres. The first uses the sounds of traditional
instruments that are pushed beyond the capacities of human performers in
order to create superperformers--hypothetical virtuosos who transcend the
limitations of individual performance capabilities (e.g., Mari Kimura Redux,
Intrada, Favorite Encores). Hyperrealism of the second genre aims to
integrate vast and diverse sonic elements to produce an expressive and
versatile musical language. Its vocabulary is an inclusive, limitless sonic
compendium, free of ethnic and national particularity (e.g., Shadow of a
Doubt). Hyperrealism celebrates bounty, either by the extravagant treatment
of limited sound palettes or by the assembling and manipulating of
substantially extended palettes.

Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New
Year's Day 1984. There are often collaborators in this project‹both
knowingly and unknowingly. Both are represented on this recording. Xyloxings
was a concept-based work that in the end had the concept discarded for
compositional considerations. Lisa Barnard's vocals were recorded with her
direct knowledge. Scraping Scrafide uses a portion of Tony Scafide's piano
part from a prior work of mine‹3 Out of 4 Ain't Bad‹and processes it. Cicada
#4: Barnard Mix is part of my "discipline" series‹an open set of works‹and
uses Barnard's vocals from other sessions to create one of many possible
versions of this work.

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Thursday, September 04, 2008

[HvEXAS] Gamma Ray

Artificial Productions presents:

Gamma Ray
2nd Friday of every month
The Fuze Box
12Central Ave Albany, NY

Featuring:

Crunk Masters of the Universe
Live Performance – Hip Hop/ Trip Hop

Chris Lewis aka CML
DJ – Trip Hop

Lazer & Blazer
DJ – Electronica

September 12th 2008 from 10pm to 4am
$5 to enter
21 to drink 18 to enter

For more information on the performing artists please visit the following…

Crunk Masters of the Universe = http://www.myspace.com/crunkmastersoftheuniverse
Chris Lewis / CML = http://www.myspace.com/chrislittlenumbers
Lazer & Blazer = www.Artificialproductions.com

Venue Information = http://www.myspace.com/fuzebox

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