Audible Electricity

Andrew Weathers / Bachelorette Party / Geodes

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew Weathers

Andrew Weathers is a composer and improviser from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

His music falls somewhere in the margin between American folk and punk traditions and post-war American experimentalism.

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Bachelorette Party

Bachelorette Party is Amanda Schoofs & Peter J Woods.

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Geodes

Geodes are a collective of improvisers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Like A Villain / Nomad Palace

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Like A Villain

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Nomad Palace

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Nomad Palace / Paul Feyertag

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Nomad Palace

A rare Nomad Palace (Geodes, Cedar AV) solo laptop & granular synth set. Microrhythms and the shuffling inner thoughts of wayward CPUs.

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Paul Feyertag

Madison’s Paul Feyertag (NASA) will revisit the world of guitar-driven concatenative synthesis.

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Rosenau/Sanborn / Matthies/Rammel

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Rosenau/Sanborn

Multi-instrumentalists Chris Rosenau (Collections of Colonies of Bees, Volcano Choir) and Nick Sanborn (Made of Oak, Sylvan Esso) are presenting a special set before heading off to the Eaux Claries festival in Eau Claire Wisconsin.

Rosenau’s dense swirling loops of guitar and textures will gently lift your brain out of your skull, toss it around the room and abruptly collide into strategically placed walls of organic beats, rhythms, drones and granular artifacts custom built by Sanborn.

Matthies/Rammel

Wilhelm Matthies - mosesa8B (a horizontally-oriented, fretless, neckless, string instrument, the most recent modification in a 25 year lineage of mosesa strings).

Hal Rammel - amplified palettes (tabletop amplified percussion manifesting 25 years of amplified palette exploration).

Haunter / Geodes

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Haunter

Iowa City’s Kyle Arthur Miller makes blunted sound by candlelight.

Interview with silber media

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Geodes

Geodes is a collective of computer jazz practitioners.

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Liam O'Brien's Faithless Followers / Shane Stritesky

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Liam O’Brien’s Faithless Followers

Liam O’Brien is a Wisconsinite dabbling in an eclectic blend of styles for various venues from street corner to concert hall. He also performs with garbage folk collective Holy Sheboygan! and plays sax in the experimental noise band Tonbi Claw.

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Shane Stritesky

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Brent Gutzeit / Sample and Fold

Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Brent Gutzeit

Brent Gutzeit is an artist currently residing in Milwaukee.

Projects include: TV Pow, Wheatton Research, Liminal, Stumble, Mora, Sseepage, Everyoned, Blanco Nino (Gutzeit/Shiflet), Medium, Kearsley Park, Lumbar Trio.

Current sound focus: Musique concrete, field recordings, drone, noise.

Upcoming releases in 2016: Blanco Nino - Nice Catch CD, Karkowski/Gutzeit CD, TV Pow - TV Pow LP, Gutzeit/Zarzutzki - Ham Radio CD

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Sample and Fold

Milwaukee modular synth supergroup.

Sample and Fold is Brandon Logic, Stephen Merola and Jim Schoenecker.

3 dudes brought together by a common addiction.

Loam / Benjamin J Mansavage Klein

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Loam (Jim Warchol)

Using the computer as an instrument has opened new doors for songwriting in general, and Warchol has carved a niche as someone who uses the device to connect melody and rhythm in new and refreshing ways. - Jon Mueller

2003 interview with Jim Warchol

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Benjamin J Mansavage Klein

Benjamin J Mansavage Klein is a Wisconsin-based composer and tuba player who focuses on expanding concepts of instrument, performer, presentation, and form with works that combine acoustic performance and electronic processing. He has presented his own work globally for over a decade, including appearances at Studio 401 in Tokyo, Japan; with the Magpie dance company in Amsterdam, Netherlands; at the Roni Horn Library of Water in Stykkishólmur, Iceland; and in various venues throughout the United States.

Between 2005 and 2006, Benjamin spent a formative year abroad as a Thomas J Watson Fellow. During this time, he collaborated with artists who took innovative approaches to their work while focusing on the organization of locally accessible concerts and events. Since that time, Benjamin has considered concert organization as an integral part of his creative process. He has worked to organize concert events in London, United Kingdom; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Benjamin has received degrees in composition and performance from Wesleyan University, and Lawrence University. His teachers include: Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, Joanne Metcalf, Martin Erickson, and Matt Turner.

Benjamin currently teaches composition and music theory at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin where he resides with his wife and daughter.

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Jace Ewing / Travis Hallenbeck / Data Entropy

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Jace Ewing

Jace Ewing’s debut album “Simple System” is availble now via Crazy Iris Records. The label describes it as “experiments with homebrew software for generating/transforming melodic patterns. Mathematical purity is mixed with loose improvisation, resulting in a distinctively casual brand of formalism.”

Last year also saw the release of a collaborative algorithmic video for The Waterclock with Garbage Pail Kids creator John Pound.

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Travis Hallenbeck (MIDI User’s Group)

Travis Hallenbeck’s MIDI User’s Group project combines modern approaches with new and obsolete hardware to create a dynamic soup of algorithmic and improvisational machine dances.

Below is an excerpt from a performance at Union Arts in Washington DC.

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Data Entropy

Data Entropy is a computer music collaboration between August Traeger (Somnaphon) and Erik Schoster (He Can Jog).

The sound of binary shimmering.

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Adam Krause / LFTY

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Krause

Adam Krause is an author, musician, activist, and carpenter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has performed and recorded music for more than half his life, and has written extensively on radical politics and avant-garde art, including the books Art as Politics and The Revolution Will Be Hilarious. He spent 8 years with Milwaukee’s Group of the Altos, and in addition to his solo experimental work, currently performs in Marielle Allschwang’s band.

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LFTY

John Schoenecker “LFTY” Milwaukee based electronic music producer. Hip-hop influenced experimental bass music with heavy sampling and a master of wavetable synthesis.