tranzducer.009!!!
$5 at the door tranzducer.009!!! here comes is the skinny. Hans Tammen (print the poster and put it up somewhere!) For our first Fall show this year, a very fine tranzducer.009 indeed. Hans Tammen brings us solo work for prepared guitar, Garth Stevenson’s project Zarth coaxes soul from an electrified rhythm section and Jeff Thompson brings us selections from his Media Ecology Project. NHans Tammen - calls his style of performance “Endangered Guitar,” because of the extreme alterations he enacts upon his instrument’s sound and construction. Originally inspired by Sonny Sharrock’s and Pete Cosey’s fiery and energetic playing, his rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds capture the energy and abstract musicality that Coltrane brought to the saxophone. As a composer he conducted his THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA compositions for large ensemble on festivals and venues in Canada, Russia, Germany and in the U.S. His music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. He recorded with a wide range of artists such as Herb Robertson, Denman Maroney, Günther Müller, Keith Rowe, Alfred 23 Harth, or Dominic Duval - on labels such as ESP-DISK, Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid. All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.” (François Couture) Zarth is a mutant monster consisting of bassist Garth Stevenson and drummer Ziv Ravitz. They met at the Berklee College of Music five years ago and immediately became musical soul mates. Hundreds of musical situations have been thrown their way, everything from big band jazz gigs to electro-experimental improvisations. Their development accelerated when they formed TAQ, a trio with Marcin Masecki, a polish pianist. This fall will mark their tenth trip to Poland. Zarth also plays regularly with such musicians as: slide guitarist, David Tronzo and saxophonist George Garzone. Shortly after moving to New York in 2005 they started an experimental music scene at Bar 4 in Brooklyn on Thursday nights. Soon people began calling them Zarth. On September 28th at LemurPlex, they will be exploring the uses of electronics on their acoustic instruments. Stevenson will be armed with a large pedal board and a 150-year-old double bass and Ravitz with a laptop computer and a set of Gretch drums. Jeff Thompson, an artist and musician based in Long Island City, will be presenting part of his Media Ecology Project, a series of pieces remixing existing popular media. For Tranzducer.009, Thompson will be performing work for multiple turntables and signal processing equipment, turning the worst pop songs ever written into thick, droning fields of sound. During the performance, Thompson will also be projecting several video works, made by conceptually editing Hollywood feature films. Thompson has exhibited and performed in the US and internationally, most recently at Hogar Collection Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Ohio State University Gallery in Columbus, OH; and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. Among various awards received, Thompson was selected for the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art at the Weisman Museum of Art, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and a commission of video works by Dispatx.com. This fall he will be performing and lecturing at Klab9 conference at Lancaster University; this spring he will part part of a panel on sound art at the College Art Association conference.September 28, 2007 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
http://www.tranzducer.com
Zarth
Jeff Thompson
ZARTH
www.garthstevenson.com
www.zivravitz.com
