8pm RON THOMPSON, solo guitar
9pm
Peter Nyboer, laptop
This will be Ron Thompson's first solo guitar concert in two years after having major spinal surgery last year. His set will take on a more introspective and refelctive in nature sound within a structure trying to uncover the hidden beuaty beauty.
Peter Nyboer is an audio and video artist and programmer living in Oakland, CA. Recent work has been focused on creating commercially available applications for audio and video mixing using Cycling74's Max/MSP. He has started to focus more on playing live music using his "Girl" loop mixer, playing in large and small improvisation ensembles in the Bay Area. With source material such as answering machines, analog synthesizers, poorly played clarinet, and thrift-store records, Peter makes sense of this sonic diaspora by processing it with similar effects, introducing rhythmic structure, and finding related tangents among the samples' native sounds. A new, soon to be released program called Cosmetic has been diverting his attention lately. Combining sampling and FM synthesis under control of a chance-influenced sequencer, Peter has been exploring his inner robot.
Peter also performs live video for underground events and small clubs, often mixing and processing the visual details of the urban environment that are sometimes ignored by the passerby. His applications can be found at http://www.yowstar.com, http://girl.yowstar.com and http://cosmetic.yowstar.com
Cost: $6-10