MAI
2006 _ TORONTO & MONTREAL _ LUCKY DRAGONS
LUCKY
DRAGONS (Providence RI)
THE WINDUP BIRD (Providence RI)
Saturday, May 20th 2006
Tikiroom @ Tranzac – 292 Brunswick Ave (@ Bloor)
Toronto, ON
w/ Wyrd Visions (Toronto, members of Awesome)
Dimanche le 21 Mai 2006
La Pharmacie Esperanza – 5490 boul Saint-Laurent (@ St-Viateur)
Montreal, QC
w/ Magali Babin (Montreal, No Type)
LUCKY DRAGONS – Providence
RI www.hawksandsparrows.org Glitch/folk
-- sensor skin contact dancefreakout performance - Electronic, organic,
interactive…
...formed
in 1999. The cut and paste digital derivative of musique concrete, melodic
memory, splintery soft glitches, anxious dada, dirty indie, beautytronics.
Lucky dragons is Luke Fischbeck, who edits it like a magazine to make
sure it stays going. There are so many others to share the light, though:
singing, drawing, dancing, touching, plucking and spinning or sewing
with sound files or just listening really well. We are a diy sound branding
and sound breaking collective. Records are densely knit collages of ecstatic
language, folk melodies, and AM radio rave ups. Live shows are convulsive
celebrations of sounds from hard drives and gentle skin contact. Our
aesthetic is handmade. Contributing members currently live in Providence
RI, Philadelphia PA, coastal Southern California and New York City.
...Lucky Dragons have performed in such
festivals as Versionfest (Chicago), SINfest (NYC), Boston Cyberarts and
RHfest (Boston,
MA), Listening in the Sound Kitchen (Princeton University) etc…
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/luckydragons
MP3s: http://www.hawksandsparrows.org/downloads.html
Picture: http://static.flickr.com/37/76947294_984ed7b704.jpg?v=0
WINDUP
BIRD aka
Joseph Grimm – Providence, RI www.thewindupbird.com
Drawing inspiration from 60's composers like Terry Riley and Gyorgy Ligeti,
Joseph Grimm is an emerging composer and performer whose works straddle
the line between electroacoustic new music composition and underground
experimental noise. Working under the name The Wind-Up Bird, Grimm's
music often explores polyrhythm by juxtaposing many simultaneous tempos
and periodicities. Oceanic, subliminal drones vibrate below clouds of
warm digital pinpricks. Using delay networks, distortions, and other
modulations, Grimm performs gradual but drastic transformations of input
from live sound sources, emphasizing real-time creation, metamorphosis,
and improvisation. His work is often realized with the aid of custom
software programmed in the max|msp environment. He has used violin, pedal
steel guitar, horns, marimba, and other instruments; but recent work
uses only the singing voice as a sound source for hallucinogenic, surround-sound
drone improvisations.
WYRD VISIONS – (Members of Awesome, Bluefog) Toronto
www.myspace.com/wyrdvisions www.bluefogrecordings.com
Wyrd Visions takes inspiration from his Nordic black metal roots, with
special attention paid to bands like Ulver, Burzum, and Thorns. The cryptic
lyrics implicitly reference themes common within this genre. Fantastic
settings and creatures emerge into the mind as he strums and picks at
his guitar. The movements seem to take on a life of their own: breathing
and surging forward, like a mass devoid of form, comprised of countless
individual cells, all working in unison to push-on through a field of
damp magic. There is never any hint of where the music might go. It flows
from song to song effortlessly, sliding through the fog, ultimately delivering
the listener to a place inside of themselves that they never thought
existed – a place where magic exists and dreams are real. Wyrd
Visions' surreal eye of worlds lost to the ebb of time are eerily re-awakened
here to remind us that we are never far away from eternal night and a
place where the marvelous is beautiful.
MAGALI BABIN – Montreal
Label: No Type – www.notype.com
audio art
apple, bee, caviar, disk, echo, friends, gum, hockey, icicle, jeans,
kleenex, light, money, nature, orange, plates, quire, rice, slat, television,
umbrella, vomit, walkie-talkie, xerox, young men, zoom distortion/p>
abat-jour, braise, cap de roue, dents, eau, filles, grenouilles, housse,
ipéca, jambes, k7, lave-glace, marche, neige, os, peau, quincaillerie,
radio, salive, tissus, utérus, viande, watt, xylophone, yeuse,
zinc
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senseless sweat, with celestial soot
LOUDSPKR
COVERAGE
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