The inscrutable J.G. Thirwell was dropped on this planet some time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth. This evening he will do so as deejay.
A Brooklyn-based Australian ex-pat, Thirlwell has used many names for his many visions: Foetus (and its many name variations), Steroid Maximus, Clint Ruin, Wiseblood, DJ OTEFSU, Manorexia and Baby Zizanie. Over the course of more than a dozen albums he has stretched from yearning orchestral soundscapes, meticulously organized chaos, electronic swathes, blistering big band pastiche, crunching hard rock and even inventing stupefying collisions of genres and forms with a raw emotion and irresistible musicality.
J.G. Thirlwell's new album as Foetus, LOVE, has just been released. He is currently working on a commission for Kronos Quartet and scoring the second season of the Cartoon Network's "The Venture Brothers".
In a rare New York performance, Barcelona-based Convolution merges artist Silvia Mestres' radiant visuals, voice and sounds with Mark Cunningham's trumpet and electronics. Cunningham, a seminal iconoclast from the downtown No Wave scene, performs with Mestres music charged by emotion; provoked by images that surround its creation.
"Subterranean whirls: The art of Convolution is situated somewhere amidst the least predictable ambient, jazz, and rockSthe duo transported us to new territories where heaven and hell got confused: at the bottom of fast and stimulant whirls" - La Vanguardia
Swedish cellist Helena Espvall-Santoleri joins Convolution for this performance. "Espvall-Santoleri unleashes sesually quivering lines, splintered rock-guitar chug, Arabian-tinted motifs, string choke, or some whiplash-fluid and agile combination of all of the above." - Baltimore City Paper
First hitting his stride as a downtown drummer early in the 1980's David Linton then moved to solo performing, live electronics, computer assisted composition, and sound design for dance and theater. Throughout the 90's he became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and production of event / environments.
Linton's fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic musicians and viualists assumed the form of a live television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television 1 AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org
David Linton & The Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System is a performed installation.