The Experimental Side of the Y2k15 Live Looping Festival
http://y2kloopfest.com/Concert starts promptly at 8pm:
8:00) Future Cassette (AKA John Connell - modular synths)
8:30) Philip Zürcher (guitar, electronics) from Bern, Switzerland
9:00) Rick Walker
9:30) Aram Shelton / Tonal Masher (sax, electronics)
Composer and master percussionist/drummer, Rick Walker has been on the cutting edge of music for the last 30 years. A founding member of the World Beat movement, and now one of the leading lights in the emerging International Live Looping movement, he has taught, lectured, performed, and recorded in 15 different countries as solo headlining artist/sideman. He’s studied,performed and collaborated with master musicians from African, Asian, Indonesian, Indian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, and Celtic rhythmic traditions and plays a diverse collection of 1,000 exotic and traditional percussion instruments including the drumset, his first musical love.
FUTURE CASSETTE (John Connell) is a phoenix born from the ashes of iOS. Swept away by the burgeoning Eurorack Modular synth world, John has transformed his live looping art into a stranger & more experimental world. Incubating since touring France, Switzerland, & Italy in 2014 with many special friends, John is excited to present his as always Persian/Afghan/Indian/Turkish-influenced electronic experimentations live on analogue hardware for the listener to enjoy! Available as well will be my first album ever on limited edition USB drive, including bonus DJ mixes!
Tonal Masher is the solo electroacoustic project of Aram Shelton. To find a different application of the resonant characteristics of the instrument, Shelton removes a necessary component for traditional saxophone performance: the mouthpiece and reed. The fundamental sonic characteristics of the saxophone are harnessed by using the resonant feedback produced by microphone position and non-traditional saxophone key fingerings. Electronics are integrated via a custom made Max/MSP software patch. Shelton is a improviser and composer who makes music with saxophone and electronics. Since 2001, he has been using computer based live sampling via Max/MSP in a variety of settings to process acoustic instruments. He received his MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, and his 2007 thesis focused on the use of live sampling to extend and rearrange the sounds of acoustic instruments in a live performance setting. He has taught at the Oakland School for the Arts and has led improvisation and electroacoustic music workshops in San Francisco, at UC Santa Cruz, Evergreen State University and the jazz school in Luzern (CH). In 2002 he formed the duo Grey Ghost (482 Music) with the drummer Johnathan Crawford. The Wire found their music to be a “focused symbiosis of breath and circuitry”. From 2010 to 2012 he joined Michael Coleman and Alex Vittum in the trio Stratic. All About Jazz compared their music to “a waking dream memory of music”. In the past year, Shelton has focused on solo electroacoustic music that is based on explorations of the resonant feedback frequencies that are unique to the saxophone. Due to his ongoing fascination with sonic rearrangement, Shelton has chosen the anagram Tonal Masher as an apt moniker.
www.aramshelton.comPhilipp Zürcher plays original instrumental compositions and improvisations, juxtaposing progressive rock, modal jazz and modern classical music. He has been composing and performing songs, instrumental pieces for solo guitar and small ensembles, and subsequently also electroacoustic and multimedia productions. As a soloist, he has performed in Switzerland, in England and in the USA.
https://philippzuercher.bandcamp.com/Cost: $6-15 sliding scale