This evening focuses on three unique sets of improvised music and sound works with musicians from Lisbon, Seattle, New York, and Boston working together in new and familiar settings. It is the second of three nights of music organized by Rasbliutto at different Brooklyn venues called Three Days and is graciously hosted by ISSUE Project Room tonight in this beautiful space. Info on the rest of the festival and participants is at http://www.rasbliutto.net/threedays.
Vic Rawlings of Boston works with amplified cello and surface electronics teaming up with pianist Gust Burns of Seattle, WA for their first duo collaboration. Lisbon native, Margarida Garcia makes an all too rare visit to New York to work with longtime friend and collaborator Barry Weisblat. Barry and Margarida will be joined by Aki Onda on tapes and electronics to explore a trio they have all been looking forward to. Trombonist Tucker Dulin and Bryan Eubanks have been working on a piece for Trombone and sub-tones derived from the instrument. They will use three subwoofers, live Trombone, and electronics to improvise a piece with these materials and the acoustics of ISSUE.
Gust Burns plays piano, inside piano, tape recorders, and electronics. He is an improviser and he composes and performs new music. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington. http://www.rasbliutto.net/artists/gustburns.html
Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser and instrument builder, specializing in modifications of existing instruments. He has created extensive cello preparations. He also continually develops an electronic instrument from extant exposed circuitry, producing, in effect, a modular analog synthesizer with a highly unstable interface. This electronic instrument is paired with a flexible array of exposed speaker elements, chosen for their often unpredictable and idiosyncratic acoustic qualities. He is based in Boston and is a member of the bsc, undr quartet, and many other ongoing projects.
Barry Weisblat, Brooklyn, NY, is a sound artist/improviser and Electronic Instrument builder. Extensive experiments with electromagnetic devices, solar technology, homemade and modified circuits for application in sound generation/manipulation, audio engineering and photography. Musical collaborations with Margarida Garcia, Tim Barnes, Toshio Kajiwara, Tower Recordings, Sean Meehan, Dion Workman, Mattin, and Ricardo Arias.
Margarida Garcia Studied at the Parsons School of Design, from the New School University in New York. By then she was very interested in Max Neuhaus and Robert Smithson’s work as well as the films and sounds of Tony Conrad and Michael Snow.
She has collaborated in live/recording settings with Manuel Mota, Nöel Akchoté, Barry Weisblat, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshio Kajiwara, Oren Ambarchi, Ferran Fages, Alfredo C. Monteiro, Ruth Barberán, John Tilbury, Sean Meehan, Eddie Prevost, and Rhodri Davies.
Aki Onda is a self-taught electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch. www.akionda.net
Tucker Dulin is a trombonist, sound artist, and programmer finishing his dissertation on music and space for the doctorate from U.C., San Diego. He has performed at the Getty Museum, L.A., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Santa Monica Museum of Art, was a guest of the NO IDEA (Austin/Houston), line space line (L.A.), and Darmstadt (Germany) festivals, and co-founded the Voltaire arts collective in Ocean Beach, San Diego. His current projects include a multimedia/dance duo blank with Amanda Waal, and web development for Jango.com.
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is originally from the Pacific Northwest of the US, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He focuses on collaborative improvisation and solo musical projects, working in live electronic settings with an instrument of his own design that integrates open-circuits and samplers, as well as in acoustic settings with the Soprano Saxophone. He became musically active in Portland, Oregon, and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean Paul Jenkins, Doug Theriault, and Leif Sundstrom (eventually in the duo GOD). Since relocating to New York he primarily collaborates with Andrew Lafkas and Vic Rawlings.