About the performers
Primate Arena
Primate Arena is a bi weekly platform dedicated to experimental, weird & all things OOOOOOOUT. . Organized by Eran Sachs and Alex Drool, it normally takes place in Tel Aviv, but has somehow ended up temporarily relocating to Bard College.
Matthew Gaertner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG5xhtzKIFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WHVnC_50U
Cat Lamb
Catherine Lamb is a music composer and violist, working from the traditions of American Experimentalism, Just Intonation, and Indian Dhrupad. She is interested in delicate attention to layers of sound and their shadows. She intuitively works through mathematical forms, typically involving the opening from a centered pitch. Her most influential teachers have been James Tenney, Michael Pisaro, and Mani Kaul. She is currently living in Los Angeles, CA where she composes, performs, and teaches music.
Bryan Eubanks
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, Pasco, WA.) is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations. He has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally interested in the saxophone, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, radio transmission, and other electronics. He has been an active musician and organizer in Portland, Oregon and New York City, and currently lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Épée de Bois
Le Théâtre de de l'Épée de Bois is a famously dignified experimental theatre in Paris long-oft frequented by his VRajesty the young conceptualist and international playboy extraordinaire M. Cheyney Thompson on his occasional dérives through the city à bicyclette in search of discursive inspiration...on the second of said soujourns circa late-90s CT was so taken by the space of the place he realized he simply must one day become the theater himself, abstractly allegorized as a one man minimal electronic machine of the cold drama analogue-fantastique...Very Rare for sure.
The Todd Capp Dreamband
Shelley Burgon
Multi-instrumentalist is best known for her improvisatorial work using harp and laptop. She is a member of the chamber group Ne(x)tworks and the band Stars Like Fleas. Shelley has performed her music for series such as the the MATA Festival, Issue Project Rooms Points in a Circle, free103point9 Wave Farm and Summer Winds. In May 2009 she was honored to premiere a new piece for the Merce Cunningham Hudson Valley Project at the Dia:Beacon. Shelley holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. She can be heard as a collaborator and guest on many labels including Hometapes, Skirl, Tzadik and Ipecac. She is inspired by Maryanne Amacher and is currently at work on a solo electronic record.
Some people’s pages:
Primate Arena: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/PRIMATE_ARENA/
Bryan Eubanks: http://rasbliutto.net/bryaneubanks/main.html
Cat Lamb: http://music.calarts.edu/~glewlio/cat_lamb/index.html
Sergei Tcherepnin: http://www.myspace.com/sergeitcherepnin
Andrew Lampert: http://www.ubu.com/film/lampert.html
Nick Buffon: http://photiart.com/index.php?/artists/nicholas-buffon/
Byron Westbrook: http://www.byronwestbrook.com/
Epee du Bois: http://www.myspace.com/epeedubois