Outsound Presents8pm Holiday Heart (
Ellery Royston and Alexandra Buchanan)
9pm
bLakcPullet Grimoire w/ video projection
performing a release set for his newest CD
"Eating whole villages he threw up from the bitter taste of concrete"
Ellery Royston (b. 1986) is a composer currently residing in Oakland, CA. She has a BA in Electronic Music Composition and an M.A in Interdisciplinary Computer Science from Mills College, where she studied with James Fei, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, and Fred Frith, among others. She is a member of the signal processing duo Laces (with Sara Elena Palmer), and the drone-metal band The Earth Will Take Its Own (with Dominique Leone and Curtis McKinney).
Searching for a way to transform the role of the composer and musician into something more relevant and vital in today's world, Grim builds homemade sound objects, engages in collaboration with artists of other disciplines, explores temporal extremes in music and sound, and works to develop generative music software. Currently exploring highly structured minimalist compositions for instruments closely associated with rock music. At the heart of this work are the absurdity, humor and poetry of modern life, myths and mysticism, history and the subconscious, and a love of musical counterpoint.
In recent years Grim has focused on the relationships between performer and audience by disseminating music outside traditional mediums by way of internet and community radio, sound installation, music sharing, street performance, and public placement of sound objects and media.
Cost: $6-10