8:15 pm:
Matt Davignon - drum machine
8:45 pm: Kristin Miltner - computer/MAX
9:30 pm: Agnes Szelag - electronics/projections
Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient musician living in Oakland, California. Most frequently, he performs and records using a drum machine. By running it through an array of processing devices he a wide range of sounds - delicate wavering pitches, bubbling subharmonic beds and thundering squeals. His improvised music continuously evolves from sonic imitations of natural environments to things that are noticeably musical. www.ribosomemusic.com
Kristin Miltner (K*M*T*V, miba) makes music primarily with computers. A great deal of it involves her incredible voice, and she is a great keyboard player as well. So one could say Miltner’s music is completely digital (the fingers are digits) and yet very rich in an organic-ness that looks outward through the 0s and 1s to the vastness of natural coincidence. She most often performs live with versions of her custom software. She has designed this to scan sound files and live input, with varying degrees of random elements and varying durations). The software then allows her to instantly restructure the sounds into sequenced arrays of units (instantly meaning now, real time) of varying lengths (again, according the chance or purpose). This scanning idea is like imagining a giant octopus in a long thin hallway, up on the third floor of a long thin building with continuous windows on each side of the hallway. (To read more about the giant octopus simile, please visit Kristin's myspace page.) http://www.myspace.com/miltnerunit
Agnes Szelag is a composer, performer and video/audio installation artist. Her work explores the cognitive and aesthetic relationship of sound and visual media in chosen environments. In performance and composition she creates interactive schemes that ride the line between composition and improvisation. Tonight Agnes will present music and visuals to be witnessed horizontally. www.aggiflex.com
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale