Physic3 - sound art and experimental music ::: check out the flyer

music to set your clock to <>

performances by Tom Heasley, Liam Mooney, DRIVE (Kadet Kuhne ++ Jen Boyd), Jeremy Drake, David Kendall, ISOTOMER EGGPLANT (Shane Hubert ++ Mike Robbins ++ Raven Chacon)

installations by Albert Ortega and Jeff Cain

photography by Wild Don Lewis and Leticia Castaneda

SUNDAY APRIL 4 2004 7:30 PM
(don't forget about that mystic daylight savings time thing)

$10-7 sliding scale

Beyond Baroque
681 Lincoln Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
310-822-3006
beyondbaroque.org

notes on the artists:

Tom Heasley http://www.tomheasley.com

"Tom's music lends itself to evoking deep meditative states of awareness." - Ramon Sender, Composer, Co-Founder San Francisco Tape Music Center
"In this time of great international upheaval it is essential to locate havens of peace and introspection. Tom Heasley's efforts have provided a much-needed source of tranquility and serenity." - David Spies, Marian College
"Finally, some brave soul in the tuba and euphonium world has entered the ambient/experimental realm familiar to fans of trombonist Stuart Dempster and acclaimed accordionist Pauline Oliveros. Kudos to Tom Heasley, who has clearly expanded the harmonic and sonic horizons of the tuba." - ITEA Journal
"i love Tom's music; if you don't go to hear him whenya can, well.....your loss!" - david torn/splattercell

Jeremy Drake  amplified acoustic guitar
Jeremy Drake is an improvising guitar player and concert organizer living in Los Angeles. His primary focus is exploring the sonic and timbral possibilities of the amplified acoustic guitar. He currently performs in several groups including the trio Team Up with reed player Chris Heenan and rotating percussionist, currently Stephen Flinn; Transient Error, an electric guitar trio with guitarists G.E. Stinson and Noah Phillips; and Nels Cline's Blue Mitt Ensemble with guitarists Nels Cline and Noah Phillips, 'cellist Jessica Catron and percussionist Alex Cline.
Current releases include amplified acoustic guitar a solo 3" cdr on experimental musical research and Mount Washington, improvisations from an eight-piece ensemble on Reify Recordings.
Jeremy also organizes a weekly improvised music concert series, LINE SPACE LINE, with musicians Chris Heenan and David Rothbaum.
http://www.jeremydrake.com
http://www.experimentalmusicalresearch.com
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This piece excites the resonant qualities of the acoustic guitar through controlled feedback. By placing objects of differing weights on various points of the guitar strings and body, the instrument achieves the potential for infinite subtle fluctuations of timbre, pitch, drone and pulse.
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Not sure if you’ll need this but. . .
". . .can make you feel modern without making you feel like a machine or a quirk victim."
–Greg Burk, LA Weekly, December 4, 2003

Liam Mooney is a composer (and performer) of experimental music, designer
of noisy sounds, and inventor of unwieldy musical instruments. His work
focuses on the sonic possibilities of everyday objects and on
the physical properties of sound. Recent projects have involved popcorn,
drinking straws, plastic bottles, soap, rubber bands, PVC pipes, dry ice,
toy instruments, yogurt, balloons, drums, electric fans, foam, music
boxes, and vacuum cleaners.
"Candles" is a new (and perfectly safe) piece for tuned explosions.

Liam's homepage

DRIVE (Jen Boyd+Kadet Kuhne)

'Space Heater'
customized recording units and processed metallic parts. . .fueled by two suped-up computerized engines.

Kadet Kuhne's homepage

Jeff Cain

"Network model 5: security alarm for a cheating heart"
materials: toy parrots, stairs
Security arlarm is a site specific installation that
nextworks the sending and recieveing of sound through
toy parrots by responding to the sound and behavior of
the viewer passing through the stairs.

Jeff Cain is an installation artist working with sculpture, video, sound,
and performance. His work has been presented locally at Track 16, Cal Arts,
Crazy Space, Highways, The Electric Lodge, The Wedge, and many other
Southern California venues. As a collaborator and designer, Jeff’s projects
have been seen locally, nationally, and internationally. He has made
collaborative projects with Lisa Adams, Carla Bozulich, Rochelle Fabb, Chris
Goode, Rosanna Gamson, Lauren Hartman, osseus labyrint, and Michael
Sakamoto. As a designer, his clients have included: Ron Athey, Anna Homler,
Rachel Rosenthal, and Annie Sprinkle. Jeff is also the director/curator of
The Wedge, an itinerant curatorial artist’s project founded in the historic
Woman’s building near Chinatown. Having studied at Whittier College and
Cambridge University, he is currently an MFA candidate in studio art at
CalArts.

Albert Ortega's homepage he's got an installation involving motors

David Kendall homepage he's got a live piece involving electronics and laptop

Stane Hubert, Mike Robbins, and Raven Chacon play electronic music as Isomer Eggplant

Wilddon Lewis' s homepage photographer of the czars

Leticia Castaneda photography

notes on the curator:

Bob Bellerue http://www.halfnormal.com

Bob Bellerue / halfnormal is a sound artist, composer, curator, performer, engineer, and writer from Los Angeles and elsewhere. My work utilizes homemade and hacked electronics and programming for live performance, sound installation, and recording. With a background in punk / acid rock, Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and Tibetan Buddhism, I'm interested in the various ways that extreme sonic experiences affect awareness and identity, and the supple techniques used to focus and modulate energy. My work has been presented in Indonesia, Spain, and nine of the various United States, recently at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Beyond Music Sound Festival, CEAIT Festival, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, Highways Performance Space, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival, Dairy Center for the Arts, Crazyspace, 21Grand, 7Hz, the Smell, KXLU, KFJC, KSPC, KGNU, WFMU, KDVS, Stanford, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Naropa University, and CalArts. I have an MFA in Composition - New Media from the California Institute of the Arts, studying with Tom Erbe, Mark Trayle, Sara Roberts, yow. Visit www.halfnormal.com for more salience.