CNMAT
1750 Arch St Berkeley, CA 94720
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Gino Robair began Unpopular Electronics in 2010 as an indeterminately populated ensemble for improvised electronic music. During the western leg of its journey, the band inducted Tom Djll to form its current duo configuration. Other collaborators have included Joker Nies, Ashley M. Puente, and Christopher Riggs (the latter on the cd-r “She Just Won’t Quit” for Holy Cheever Church).

Anne Hege will weave together improvisations for her analog, live-looping Tape Machine instrument created from three hacked cassette players and a handmade tape loop, with newer works for a GameTrak Tether controller, machine learning, and live voice. In her set, Divining Wisdom Part 3, Hege explores the magic to be discovered through magnetic fields, voices from other realms, and untrained spaces.

Anne Hege creates musical worlds that invite an awareness of and attention to the body and our present moment. In her work as a composer, vocalist, conductor, instrument builder, and scholar, she explores the roots of musicality in the intersection of ensemble interaction, technology, embodiment, and expression. Her works have been performed by So Percussion, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Stanford Laptop Orchestra, loadbang, and Volti SF. Hege has received awards and grants, including a New Music USA Project Grant, Dresher Ensemble and Artist Residency, Mark Nelson Fellowship (Princeton University), Visiting Artist (CCRMA, Stanford University), as well as residencies at Avaloch, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Røst AIR. Hege is currently the artistic director of the Peninsula Women's Chorus. She performs regularly on her analog live-looping instrument, the tape machine, in her electronic duo New Prosthetics, and in the laptop ensemble Sideband. For more information - www.annehege.com.

Kevin CK Lo is a composer, choreographer, writer and artist living on Chechenyo Ohlone land (Oakland). In his compositions for live performance and installation, he utilizes instruments, digital sound processing and generative programming environments to examine spatial and auditory sensitivities, topological structure and audience kinesthetic response while seeking to corrupt conventional compositional/performative/installative rationale.

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