Altmusic and the Audio Foundation in association with Vitamin S announce
Deep Days, Listening Nights, a series of concerts, workshops and films relating to listening.
Featuring…..
Jason Lescalleet (U.S.A.)
Gerry Hemingway (U.S.A./Switzerland)
Sarah Weaver (New York)
Thursday 28 July @ Audio Foundation, doors open 8pm
$20 on the door // presales $15 from UTR – www.undertheradar.co.nz
Friday 29 July @ Audio Foundation, doors open 7pm
$20 on the door // presales $15 from UTR – www.undertheradar.co.nz
Saturday 30 July @ Audio Foundation, DELUGE; a presentation of new audio hardware from 12pm
Free // no presales
Saturday 30 July @ Old Folks Assoc., Deep Listening℠ workshop w. Sarah Weaver, 1-3pm
$10 on the door // no presales
Saturday 30 July @ Audio Foundation, drum workshop w. Gerry Hemingway, 4-6pm
$10 on the door // no presales
Saturday 30 July @ Audio Foundation, doors open 8pm
$20 on the door // presales $15 from UTR – www.undertheradar.co.nz
Please see below for more information concerning the Auckland leg of this touring spectacular!
To begin the end of this nationwide slog, please join us after 8pm on Thursday 28 July for what is sure to be a special night. Jason Lescalleet will perform with support from local noise-ritualist The Doll, and a rare outing from the ever-excellent Rosy Parlane!
Jason Lescalleet is a celebrated experimental electronic music artist whose influence on the contemporary avant-garde is hard to overstate. From lo-fi reel-to-reel soundscaping, work for hand-held cassette machines, to digital sampling and computer generated composition, Jason Lescalleet has exploded the notion of what is possible within the realm of tape-based music.
The Doll can be constituted by mixing 3 parts experiment, 4 parts noise, 1 part ritual, and 2 parts theatre, with a pinch of space dust.
Rosy Parlane began playing music with the avant-garde rock trio Thela. He subsequently began working with abstract electronic based music, both as a solo artist and as Parmentier with fellow Thela collaborator, Dion Workman. His soundscapes are comprised of field recordings, pianos, guitars, household objects and other instruments manipulated via digital means. Alongside numerous other collaborations and projects, Parlane has released four solo albums; originally on Sigma Editions, and more recently on Touch.
The following evening, Friday 29 July, will begin at 7pm with a screening of Lescalleet’s recent film, ‘Trophy Tape’ which will be followed by discussion and Q & A. This workshopping session will be followed by what is sure to tickle the ears of audience members – performances from Gerry Hemingway, Peak Brain (Kraus + Emma Smith), and Hermione Johnson!
Gerry Hemingway is one of the great improvising percussionists in the world today. He has been composing and performing solo and in ensemble since 1974, and is well known for his eleven years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and his many collaborations with some of the world’s most outstanding improvisers and composers including Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler and many others. In this series of concerts, Hemingway will be performing “Reasons of Resonance” – a collection of acoustic, electroacoustic, and media works including collaborations with composer Sarah Weaver and visual artist Beth Warshafsky.
Peak Brain is fantastic for many reasons, chief among which being the simultaneous discombobulation and soothing effect they manage to conjure. Experience wonder and comfort in equal measure as waves of analogue synthesiser are punctuated by rhythmic roles of percussion.
Hermione Johnson’s works have been performed as part of the Asia Pacific Music Festival, The Caprice Arts Trust Series, and at the Adam Art Gallery’s Designs for Living exhibition. She has had pieces performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, written music for the stage and for film, as well as for many local soloists and ensembles.
Saturday, 30 July is a day of listening and learning.
From 12pm, Rohan Hill will introduce the corner of the musical world that is Auckland to the recently completed ‘Deluge’ synthesizer, sequencer and sampler.
From 1-3pm Sarah Weaver will lead a workshop in Deep Listening℠ at Auckland’s Old Folks Assoc.. Deep Listening℠ has been described by its developer Pauline Oliveros as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what one is doing.” In practice, Deep Listening℠ cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness and other creative skills.
Sarah Weaver is a New York-based composer, conductor, and technologist working internationally as a specialist in composing telematic music – live performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. Weaver is co-director of the SLM Ensemble with composer/bassist Mark Dresser. She works with Gerry Hemingway in this ensemble context and composes for him as a soloist. She is a certified Deep Listening℠ instructor.
This will be followed at 4pm by a drum workshop lead by Gerry Heminway, an opportunity which the bangers and thumpers of Auckland-city would be foolish to pass up.
Gerry Hemingway is one of the great improvising percussionists in the world today. He has been composing and performing solo and in ensemble since 1974, and is well known for his eleven years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and his many collaborations with some of the world’s most outstanding improvisers and composers include Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler and many others. In this series of concerts, Hemingway will be performing “Reasons of Resonance” – a collection of acoustic, electroacoustic, and media works including collaborations with composer Sarah Weaver and visual artist Beth Warshafsky.
From 8pm, Saturday 30 July, to close the night, and the series of events that was Deep Days, Listening Nights, Jason Lescalleet will share the stage with Aotearoa’s own Richard Francis, Gerry Hemingway will perform as series of works in collaboration with composer Sarah Weaver and visual artist Beth Warshaksky, and Sean O’Reilly will rock his royal brand of stringed-sound.
Beth Warshafsky is a NYC-based artist and teacher working in a multiple mediums and practices including video and digital moving images, live projection, artist’s books, prints, drawings, photographs and text. Beth’s artwork has been shown in laboratory-series at the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg; Follow the Sound Jazz Festival, Antwerp, Belgium; Guelph Jazz Festival & Nuit Blanche, Ontario, Canada; The Tricky Woman Animation Festival, Vienna, Australia; The BITT Festival, Seoul Korea, The 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival; The MadCat Film Festival; SIGGRAPH; Imagina, France; The 5th International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium in Havana Cuba; and in group shows in New York, Connecticut, London, Brazil, Israel, Korea, Ohio, Los Angeles and Washington State. Her live-video collaborations with Gerry Hemingway include Roulette, the Stone, and Spectrum in New York and the Kleintheater in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Richard Francis uses field recordings, modular synthesizer and computer to compose and improvise sound works. He has released solo and collaborative albums on a number of labels including Korm Plastics (NL), Monochrome Vision (RU), Aufabwegen (DE), Last Visible Dog (USA) and his own record label CMR (NZ). Recent published collaborative CDs have been with Bruce Russell (NZ), Mattin (ES), Jason Kahn (USA) and Francisco Lopez (ES).
Sean O’Reilly has been fooling around with corroded electronics for longer than he would care to admit. He has recorded with Sferic Experiment, Olla, King Loser, Sandra Bell, Chug, Rachel Shearer, The Renderers and Dan Newham. In 2011, Dungeon Taxis released the solo project ghost pulse. Sean likes swimming.
Jason Lescalleet
Gerry Hemingway performing ‘Node 111’, volumes 1 & 2 by Sarah Weaver
Gerry Hemingway performing ‘Solo for Cymbal’
Warshafsky/Hemingway
Rosy Parlane
The Doll
Kraus (of Peak Brain)
Hermione Johnson
Richard Francis
Bookings:
www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/ticket
Further information:
admin@audiofoundation.org.nz
www.newmusicusa.org/profile/jasonlescalleet
www.sarahweaver.org
www.slmensemble.org
www.liminalmusicinc.org
www.gerryhemingway.com
These events are presented by Audio Foundation, on behalf of Altmusic, with support from Creative New Zealand, and in association with Liminal Music, The Center for Deep Listening℠ at Rensselaer, and the Waitemata Local Board.