The 2006 Edgetone Music Summit
Sound of a Thousand Pictures, a night of the mysterious worlds of phonography
Shea Gauer/Scott Peterson (Long Beach),
Marcos Fernandes (SD),
Glenn Bach (LA),
Aaron Ximm "Quiet American",
Guillermo Galindo a.k.a. gal*in_dog (OAK)
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Shea Gauer & Scott Peterson known as smgsap, is an ongoing experimental project which presents an even blend of electronic and analog textures, using a variety of sources from field recordings, drones, musical & nonmusical sounds as well as manipulated live audio and instruments. They have performed in and created sound installations for numerous settings over the course of their six years of working together. In addition to performing and recording as smgsap they also host an experimental music series called “The Sounds Around” under the name Parabolic Productions. They are also both active members of FLOOD, the Long Beach based artist group that produces the annual SoundWalk event, a one night only event in the Arts District in Downtown Long Beach featuring site-specific sound installations.
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Born in Yokohama, Japan,
Marcos Fernandes has long been active as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico and the US as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, including Wormhole, a decade-long collaboration with percussionist/sound artist Robert Montoya. Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions, started two decades ago and which now features some of today's more innovative experimentalists. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California. Fernandes' recordings have appeared on Accretions, Bake/Staalplaat, Circumvention, Pan Handler, Pax, Pfmentum, Phonography.org, Public Eyesore, Ribosome and Solitary B.
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Glenn Bach is a sound artist, poet, and visual artist living in Long Beach, California. His audio works have appeared on numerous labels and projects, including an EP, Diamond Finesse, on Stasisfield.com. He has performed his work at festivals and concerts throughout California, New York and Paris. His current project is a long poem called Atlas Peripatetic, inspired by a six-month cataloging of sounds heard on his morning walks, excerpts of which have appeared in various print and online journals such as The Argotist Online, Aught, Chiron Review, DIAGRAM, hutt, jubilat, Shampoo, Softblow, and The Tiny. He is also an active curator. Bach ran a monthly house concert series in 2003 that featured some of the leading figures in quiet (lowercase) music. Inspired by the success of the series, Bach put together so.cal.sonic, a six-day festival of experimental and improvised music, in April 2005. He also guest-curated two nights of experimental music and spoken word at the Orange County Museum of Art in March 2006.
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Aaron Ximm "Quiet American", is a 33 year-old sound artist who lives and works in San Francisco. Since 1998, his Quiet American project has focused on constructing new sound-scapes from the intimate recordings he collects while traveling. Aaron and his wife Bronwyn won the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Director's Choice award in 2002 for their collaboration, Annapurna: Memories in Sound.
Ximm's recordings have also appeared in a variety of guises elsewhere in public radio, most notably in the Sound Travels segment of The Savvy Traveler. In 2002 he produced a four-hour documentary on sound artists working with field recordings, Quiet, Please, for KFJC. His work also appears with some frequency on London's ResonanceFM.
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Guillermo Galindo a.k.a. gal*in_dog (post-Mexican composer) Guillermo Galindo's artistic work spans a wide spectrum of artistic expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, performance, instrument building, and multimedia installation and soundscape design.
His music has been performed at major festivals throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
From 1992 to 2004, Galindo wrote music for the San Francisco based Asian American Dance Performances Unbound Spirit Dance Company.
Galindo holds a BA in Film Scoring Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts and a Master in the Arts degree in Music Composition from Mills College in Oakland California. His composition teachers include Julio Estrada, Robert Kyr, Alvin Curran and Andrew Imbrie. Presently, Guillermo Galindo teaches composition, sound design, music cultural history and music theory at the California College of Arts and at the College of San Mateo.
Cost: $10-15