field effects 18: one, two, three, four
friday, january 23, doors 8pm
964 natoma, sf, ca, usa
requested donation $6-10

The world makes music, remember to listen.

The Field Effects series showcase the use of found sound, found materials, and field recordings in media art, presented in a uniquely comfortable environment.

For this show, we will have a four-speaker sound system.

Field Effects 18 showcases a pair of internationally renowned sound artists:

carl stone

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music. He has been hailed by the Village Voice as 'the king of sampling' and 'one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.'

For Field Effects 18, Carl will present KANTIPUR: A new, erythroblastic remix of the Tokyo urban soundscape.

Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo Unoversity in Japan.

Stone is a winner of numerous awards and grants for his compositions, including those from the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Foundation for Performance Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).

He has been been commissioned by the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, ZDF Television (West Germany), Michiko Akao, Sumire Yoshihara, Sony PCL, Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Strings Plus Festival (Kobe), Takashi Harada and Aki Takahashi, NTT/Japan for IC9, the Noh Project, Bay Area Pianists and Cal Performances. In 2001 he served as Artist-in-Residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Japan. His work has been presented at the Other Minds Festival locally and TonArt (Bern).

Stone's music has been released on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me, New Tone, and various other labels; and has been used by numerous theater directors and choreographers.

Stone has served as President of the American Music Center (1992-95), as the Director of Meet the Composer/California (1981-1997), and as Music Director of KPFK-FM (Los Angeles) from 1978-1981.

http://www.sukothai.com

michael northam

A self-proclaimed sound 'composter,' Michael Northam works to redirect the experience, observation, and discovery of unique organic and inorganically driven sound phenomena towards their open ended application in what he calls 'intuitive assemblage.'

From recordings of forgotten places to those mad in the midst of massive demonstrations, from the manipulation of discarded objects to the articulate drones of harmonic wires of traditional instruments, his sound work spans the chasms between tonal and atonal musics and acknowledges neither, in order to create a suspended space of viewing our condition embedded in stochastic fields of constant change.

Michael has presented sound works extensively throughout Europe and North America, and has over the past 12 years scattered published works produced from four continents. He is currently helping to develop studio facilities and record label concerning new sound works, sound sculpture and the documentation of sound phenomena in western Switzerland.

For Field Effects, Michael will present an evolving experiment in live quadraphonic acousmatic work — recent recordings from Portugal, Quebec and the Pacific Northwest are mixed with manipulations of organ; a chimney cleaner, excited wires, and an amplified dry piece of wood round out the sound masses that ooze from the speakers in a warm glow.

http://www.radiantslab.com/mnortham/

The Field Effects series showcases artists who are interested in framing the hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface, awaiting our attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted. And beauty in potential, awaiting juxtaposition, collage, repetition and mutilation.

Seating mostly on futons and our new flock of beanbags, to encourage comfortable deep listening. You are always welcome to bring pajamas or a pillow.

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a donation-based honor system. With luck, someone will bake cookies.

This information is not for print distribution or advertising. This is a private event for friends, family, and our community.

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