Utilizing the sounds of the harp, birds and other surprising creatures, Shelley Burgon will venture once again into the world of spatialized, real-time live processing and will collaborate with the visual artist Rachel Wood Salley in what will be Shelley Burgon’s third piece for Stephan Moore’s 16-channel hemispherical speaker system at ISSUE Project Room.
Shelley Burgon lives in Brooklyn and plays harp and computer in the avant-chamber ensemble Ne(x)tworks and the avant-rock band Stars Like Fleas. Her duo with bassist Trevor Dunn recently released a full-length, improvised, live record for Skirl Records titled Baltimore. In September 2007 Stars Like Fleas will release their highly anticipated second album for Talitres titled The Ken Burns Effect. For the 2008-2009 season Shelley will join seven other stellar musicians in a collaboration with the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of the Dia: Beacon Events series. Shelley has spent many years improvising in and around New York City and has had the pleasure to play and record with many legendary people associated with the vibrant New York downtown scene. Currently she is working on two records, one of original chamber music and one of new songs in which she will be playing a variety of instruments.
www.myspace.com/shelleyburgon
www.nextworksmusic.net
www.myspace.com/starslikefleas
Koen Holtkamp co-founded the apestaartje collective/label in 1998 while studying at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since then the label has relocated to Brooklyn and released CDs from artists from Japan, Germany, Austria, Australia, France, and the US. Holtkamp has released two solo albums as Aero and two albums as Mountains, a duo project with Brendon Anderegg. He has toured throughout the US and Europe performing everywhere from festivals, art galleries, and museums to basements, hippie communes, churches, and rock clubs. Holtkamp has performed with Tony Conrad, Greg Davis, Minamo, Tape, Nicholas Collins, Supersilent, Alog, etc. He has also been included in several exhibitions, most notably at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His current solo performances utilize acoustic instruments and objects played through a series of both analog and digital electronics to create an extremely gradual and hypnotic listening experience. ‘Field Rituals’, his first solo album under his own name will be released by UK based Type records in early 2008.
myspace: www.myspace.com/koenholtkamp
apestaartje: www.staartje.com