Baltimore Electronic Music 2011 Winterfest One
ORIGINAL INTERNET PRESS DATE - 11/11/2010
Hello to all. This Electronic Music/Experimental Music/Electro-Acoustic Music event, herein known as BALTIMORE ELECTRONIC MUSIC 2011 WINTERFEST ONE, is being sponsored by members of The Baltimore SDIY Group & will be a really nice musical endeavor, so we are really looking forward to this event.
For the first time ever, this event will be held over a 2-night period as The Hexagon was able to honor our original booking request for Saturday February 26th 2011 & then they graciously offered us an additional booking date of Friday February 25th 2011. Thank you so very very much Hexagon Space for being so kind to us.
The show on Saturday February 26th 2011 will also be a CD Release Party for GRAINS OF SOUND's
unique triple album "Sine Language" (Volumes 1,2, and 3).
Please come out & join us for a really fantastic 2-night extravaganza of knob twisting, pitch bending, wiring mazes, sound shaping & visual explosions that will coincide with an absolutely awesome musical voyage into another galaxy of sound alterations.
This event is also listed on the WALL of the Baltimore SDIY Group's FACEBOOK website,
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137766226277622
Please see the event's official poster in the ATTACHMENTS section at the bottom of this website page. Please print it out for souvenirs & for distribution. Thanks to Joseph Meyer for creating it.
Event Date & Times:
February 25th 2011 (Friday) 8:00pm to 1:00am
Event Location: The Hexagon Space (http://hexagonspace.com/) 1825 N. Charles Street Baltimore MD 21201 (www.mapquest.com)
Event's Entrance Fee (Suggested Donation): $8.00 to $10.00 per person. Tickets are sold only at the door.
You Can Bring Your Own Food & Drinks to this event.
Current Lineup of Performing Artists as of 01/29/2011:
1. 8:00pm - 8:30pm: "Fast Forty" (Keith Sinzinger) - http://www.myspace.com/fastforty
Keith Sinzinger (Fast Forty) combines home-built instruments, circuit-bent devices, found sounds and miscellaneous junk to create
what he calls Intense Ambient. A lifelong newsman based in Washington, D.C., he records at District of Chaos Studios and has performed at shows sponsored by Sonic Circuits, Electric Possible and the Baltimore SDIY Group, among others. http://www.myspace.com/fastforty
2. 8:45pm - 9:15pm: "International Electromatics" (Dave Vosh aka "Safe2") - http://www.myspace.com/safe00 & (Frank Vanaman aka "Nuclear Insect Trio") - http://frank.gadgetland.net/
Dave Vosh has been working with electronic and electroacoustic music since the early 70`s and has been performing live since 2005 - solo and in various duo / trio combinations. His influences come from the "classic" era of electronic music, the 50`s and 60`s. He wanders the sonic wastelands, searching.
Frank Vanaman of Nuclear Insect Trio can usually be found playing popular tunes from the 1920s and 1930s -- On pipe organs. His presence in the field of experimental electronic music is inexplicable.
3. 9:30pm - 10:00pm: "Jerohme Spye" (Joseph Meyer) - http://www.myspace.com/jerohme & "Imijasis" (Daniel Hulter) - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Imijasis/101366434823#!/pages/Imijasis/101366434823?v=wall
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Joseph Meyer "Jerohme Spye"
4. 10:15pm - 10:45pm: "The Duc D'Angelos Quartet" (Colin Barnhill, Jeremy Berlin, John Sullivan & Ed Baldi)
The whole of Duc D’Angelos is greater than the sum of its parts; each component may influence other components in a web of incentives, constraints and connections. The slightest change in one part causes tremors everywhere else. The Duc D'Angelos Quartet is dedicated to the idea of non-linear performance. It is music. It is musical form of sound and silence over time but there is no utilitarianism in their approach. They are not useful. They create for the moment, without premeditation. It is décor. It is graffiti via device.
5. 11:00pm - 11:30pm: "micFreak" (Mike Cobaria) - http://www.myspace.com/micfreak)
From Manila to Arizona, now in Baltimore! The name micFreak was never really intended to be used as an artist name. It was an email address that mic used as an alias in joining egroups. Music runs in mic's blood. He started learning the violin at 8, the piano at 12 but wasn't that happy in playing traditional music. He learned to play the guitar, bass and keyboard during his high school years and joined several new wave bands. His college years was a different trip, he joined an r&b band and played keyboards. Playing other artists songs wasn't mic's calling so he started searching for a new musical direction and eventually found a road that lead to electronica after watching the movie "The Saint" with Val Kilmer which featured the Chemical Brothers' track "The Setting Sun". Listening to artists like OMD, Depche Mode and New Order in his teens, mic easily understood how electronic music could be produced so he bought a pc and learned about MIDI w/ Cakewalk V6. Years later he has developed his own sound fusing melody and harmony with a strong sense of rhythm. Now focusing on dance music micFreak is ready to conquer a new genre of electronic music that would surely be one of a kind.
Read more:http://www.myspace.com/micfreak#ixzz0ynWget1c
6. 11:45pm - 12:15am: "Bear And Lampshade" (Rob Neubauer, Mike Smith & Esmail Hamidi)
Bear and Lampshade is Rob Neubauer (Synthesizers/Drum Machines/Sampling/Guitar/Bass), Mike Smith (Vocals, Impressions, Props, Dance), and Esmail Hamidi (Guitar, Vocals, Bent Electronics, Turntable, Fuzz) playing a style of avant-garde new wave pop influenced by everything from film scores to experimental electronica and punk rock. The group formed to be able to experiment with audio without the intention of fitting in with certain scenes, while still attempting to create a consumable product. Live performances borrow from the members' theater backgrounds to make them more than just musical experiences. They play everything from any type of concert festival to bar mitzvahs.
7. 12:30am - 1:00am: "The Blackberry Blondes" (Nathan Blanchard, Meredith Blanchard, Danny Szeles)
The Blackberry Blondes consist of alt-country musicians who like to use homemade and consumer grade electronics to add a post-millennium folk component to their sonic ventures. They have been playing in the Baltimore area for about a year, and have been a recording band for many years. Please visit their website to listen to their songs. www.blackberryblondes.com.
Stage Screen Computer Visuals provided by Joseph Meyer ("Jerohme Spye")
Performance Schedule for Saturday 02/26/2011:
1. 8:00pm - 8:30pm: "Mercury Fools the Alchemist" (Jeff Bagato, Daniel Barbiero, Rich Sheehe)
"Chamber psychedelia" from trio of avant classical bass (Daniel Barbiero of Nine Strings, Mindbreath Trio, etc), ambient guitar (Rich Sheehe of Field Shaman), and a homemade "stone age synthesizer" dubbed the "springamajig" (Jeff Bagato, aka Tone Ghosting) produces chimerical cacaphony for mystical journeys.
2. 8:45pm - 9:15pm: "RDK + Insect Factory" (David Rickert & Davis White with Jeff Barsky)
David Rickert & Davis White
Jeff Barsky
Davis White and David Rickert met in the early 1980s through common friends in the Washington, DC hardcore punk scene. In 2001 they decided to join the city's emerging electronic noise community and formed the duo RDK. Many of their tracks have an evocative nature, influenced equally by 1970s synth pioneers, spacemusic and modern noise improvisation. The Zero Moon label released RDK's well-received (and much downloaded) “Undisturbed” online e.p. in 2006. Rickert employs a modular synth or boutique noisemakers which he commonly builds himself from kits. White handles the sequencers, Moog L.P. and percussion. Different compositional techniques are employed, pentatonic scales, 12-tone interludes, uncontrolled freak-outs or just winging it. RDK will be augmented at this performance as a trio with Insect Factory. Insect Factory is music from Silver Spring, MD guitarist Jeff Barsky. He generally focuses on texture and mood, building layers of sound that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones.
3. 9:30pm - 10:00pm: "Tangent" (Ken Donnelly & Stuart Rosenzweig featuring Mike Jeffries) -
Ken Donnelly & Stuart Rosenzweig
Mike Jeffries
Tangent is an electronic music improvisational duo, formed in 1976 & now celebrating 34 years together, and continues their
musical collaboration into the 21st Century. The duo is made up of Stuart B. Rosenzweig on synthesizers, electronic devices,
electric guitar & bass guitar, and Ken Donnelly on synthesizer, electric guitar & electronic devices. Their music is heavily
influenced by other artists such as Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, John Cage & Beethoven. Stuart & Ken are natives of
the Baltimore MD area.
4. 10:15pm - 10:45pm: "Synth Tech Project" (Logan Mitchell Sr) - http://sites.google.com/site/synthtechproject)
& "Stillybard" (Richard Desimone)
Logan Mitchell Sr "Synth Tech Project"
http://sites.google.com/site/synthtechproject
I've had an interest in Electronic Music since the late 1960's when I first listened to the albums of Walter Carlos (Switched On Bach) & Dick Hyman (The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman), Paul Bley & Peacock and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. I am also inspired by groups such as Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Triumvirat and individual synthesists such as Keith Emerson, George Duke, Bernie Worrell & Don Preston, all of whom I've had the pleasure to meet & take photos with, as well as inspiration by Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Rick Wakeman, Billy Preston, etc. In November of 2007 I decided to put together an electronic music equipment users group called Baltimore SDIY Group (http://sites.google.com/site/baltimoresdiygroup) for those of us who live in the Mid-Atlantic region & collect music synthesizer equipment. We've got over 33 members to date & perform publicly as the Baltimore SDIY Group.
Richard Desimone the Spoken Word Poet
Richard DeSimone aka "Stillybard" has been writing poetry for many years, but only recently began to develop his signature "dark" style. He is also active in reading his work throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. He is currently working on a book of poems entitled "Slit Wrist Poetry". Stillybard is also experimenting with spoken work combined with electronic music.
5. 11:00pm - 11:30pm: "Pilesar" (Jason Mullinax) - http://pilesarmusic.com/
Pilesar (pronounced pie-LEE-zur) is a percussionist and songwriter who specializes in creating quirky soundscapes, rhythmically dense improvisations and wildly eclectic live performances. Instrumentation may include drums, voice, toys, electronics, loops, broken effects pedals, borrowed instruments, thrift store finds, tapes and various environmental factors. As both a soloist and collaborator, Pilesar has released dozens of fiercely independent recordings on his DIY label, Chameleon Dish Archives. For fans of Ween, Boredoms, Ruins, Zappa and Tom Waits.
6. 11:45pm - 12:15am: "Jason H" (Jason Higgins) - http://www.myspace.com/jsuntrance
Coming at you strong with live music, and real time melodies, Jason will keep you dancing thru the night. Original material and tampered knobs bring life back to the electronic scene. The warm sound of the electribes blankets the dance floor and touches the soul. Feel why you love this music again.
7. 12:30am - 1:00am: "Grains of Sound" (Chris Sevanick & Jason Sevanick) - http://www.grainsofsound.net & http://www.alterculture.bandcamp.com
Grains of Sound is the ambient-psy-trance project from brothers Chris
(Exeris) & Jason Sevanick, who gained notoriety with their industrial
electronic act, Mindless Faith. Grains of Sound have performed around
the North East US, in Colorado and twice in Amsterdam. On the new
triple album "Sine Language", they unleash a full spectrum of musical
ingenuity. As a concept album, about the transcendent power of music
to communicate across the barriers of time, space and culture, and
each volume features their hypnotic futuristic sound, both worldly and
other-worldly. The result is a dynamic experience that is equally
stunning in its intensity as it is relaxing in its peacefulness. But
each volume of Sine Language explores different styles and energy
levels of this unified vibe.
This show will also be a CD Release Party for GRAINS OF SOUND's unique triple album
"Sine Language" (Volumes 1,2, and 3).
Stage Screen Computer Visuals provided by Joseph Meyer ("Jerohme Spye")
Local places to eat:
1. McDonald's 15 W North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201 410-837-6884 http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/us/en/restaurant_locator/restaurant_locationsresults.html?country=usa&method=search&primaryCity=21201&postalCode=21201
2. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC at the corner of W. North Ave & St Paul Street) 1821 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202 410-837-3727
3. Joe Squared Pizza (2 blocks West) 133 West North Avenue Baltimore, MD 21201 410-545-0444 www.joesquared.com
4. Sofi's Crepes (1 block South) www.sofiscrepes.com 1723 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD: 410-727-7732
5. The Bohemian (2 doors South) 1821 N Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201:410-545-4404http://www.yelp.com/biz/bohemian-coffee-house-baltimore
6. The Club Charles 1724 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201-5818: 410-727-8815 www.clubcharles.com
7. Caribbean Paradise (across the street) 1818 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201: 410-332-8422 http://caribbean-paradise.com/
Parking: as of 01/20/2011
On the street for free or at a parking meter, or at the Theater Parking, Inc facility located one block from The Hexagon at 1714 N. Charles Street Baltimore MD 21201 410-332-4795. Cost is $2.00 to $10.00. Weekend hours of operation are Friday open at 5:00 am to all night, Saturday open 24 hours, Sunday close at midnight.
Public Transportation Access:
1. Amtrak Train Station - 2 blocks south of The Hexagon: http://www.amtrak.com
2. MTA Buses - #3, #11, #13, #27 & #64: http://mta.maryland.gov/services/bus/
3. MTA Light-Rail's NORTH AVENUE station: http://mta.maryland.gov/services/lightrail/
4. Baltimore's Charm City Circulator Bus (Purple Route).
Operating Schedule - http://www.charmcitycirculator.com/content/schedule.
The Purple Route's map - http://www.charmcitycirculator.com/route/purple-route
Logan Mitchell Sr (ProwlerRaven32@hotmail.com)
Event Coordinator & Producer (Synth Tech Project Productions © 2011)
This website was created on 11/11/2010 & was last updated on 05/08/2011 by Logan Mitchell Sr. © All Rights Reserved 2008-2011.