field effects 6: far afield
saturday, august 10, doors 8pm
964 natoma, sf, ca, usa
$6-10 sliding scale ~ no one turned away

The world makes music, remember to listen.

Field Effects 6 offers a night of field recording-based sound art.

The sixth in a series of concerts showcasing artists using found materials, Field Effects 6 focuses on field recordings and songs collected abroad: far afield. You'll notice I said song: in a rare departure, we'll be serenaded with the unmediated voice.

Field Effects 6 features work by artists:

audiofile collective (seattle)

The Audiofile Collective is three people: Greyg Filastine, a founding member of Infernal Noise Brigade and the media group Post World Industries; Maga Bo, who currently lives in Rio, Brazil, making and producing music; and Steven Miller, a member of Gamelan Pacifica and a modern dance composer. All three worked with !TchKung! for years. They'll be presenting a collage of found sounds from the Indian subcontinent, both unprocessed and heavily edited.

http://www.infernalnoise.org
http://www.postworldindustries.org
http://www.smiller555.com

jessika kenney (seattle)

jessika kenney knows many songs. she is involved in long-term collaborations with jarrad powell and gamelan pacifica, the black cat orchestra, in the traditional and experimental music of java & sumatra, street performance, and shadow puppetry. she has performed with pena flamenco, ellen fullman's long stringed instrument, robert jenkins (phantom empire), s.e. dewantoro in solo, panacea for hirelings, death metal band pathos, on tv at the national monument in jakarta, with the infernal noise brigade, the sun city girls, eyvind kang and bakira, ad ad. she is currently researching javanese macapat, singing with drones, and working on music to be performed with stephen fandrichs harmonic choir at gabriola island, british columbia at the end of august.

jessika will sing us songs from indonesia: songs of love and songs of violence...

http://www.gamelanpacifica.org
http://www.blackcatorchestra.com

thom blum (sf)

Thom will be presenting work from his 'audio postcard' series,
intricately wrought compositions made with field recordings
he made while traveling abroad

Thom has been composing electroacoustic music since 1972, and
his works have been presented in concerts, festivals and radio
broadcasts internationally. He's co-founder of the International
Computer Music Association and has worked as software engineer
for LucasFilm/DroidWorks, a researcher & software architect for
Yamaha Music Technologies, and co-founder of Muscle Fish (an
audio signal processing & analysis software firm). He is
affiliated with the New San Francisco Tape Music Center, and
is a Lake Technology Artist.

http://www.sfsound.org/tape.html
http://www.laketechnology.com
http://www.musclefish.com

~ post concert listening party ~

Your host Aaron Ximm and wife Bronwyn recently completed a
collaborative 38-minute audio reverie of their trek around
the Annapurna Circuit in central Nepal. After the show, we'll
be premiering it for anyone who would like to stay to listen...

http://www.quietamerican.org/related_annapurna.html

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 to encourage comfortable deep listening. Hopefully we'll still have beanbags (thanks to Blasthaus!).

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available.
Hopefully someone will make cookies again.

questions?