PRESS RELEASE:
804noise Fest 2004 / Richmond, VA / South Eastern
Experimental Festival / October 2nd & 3rd, 2004
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The 804noise Fest is an all day music festival in Richmond, Virginia showcasing experimental & noise artists mainly from Virginia. All proceeds go to benefit a non-profit of the coordinators choice, and artists perform for the sake of exposure and community growth. This years non-profit recipient will be the Richmond Independent Media Center a radical news resource for the Richmond community.
The 2nd Annual 804noise Festival is slated for Sunday October 3at the Art Works Gallery. This years festival will feature over 15 experimental and noise projects, visual artwork from local artists, workshops on circuit bending, community organizing, etc; information tables from local radical and independent organizations such as Richmond Indie Radio, Food Not Bombs, Richmond Living Wage, Vegan Action, Richmond Queer Space Project, and more.
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[Saturday October 2, 2004]
Art Works
320 Hull St. (just across the 14th St/Mayo Bridge Downtown)
Richmond, VA 23220
Times To Be Announced
804noise Fest 2004 (Workshop Series):
Programming VST Plug-Ins: VST Plug-Ins, a Steinberg technology, have become industry standard in numerous host products for generating instruments and effect processing. This workshop will cover this standard and introduce methods for programming your own plug-ins. In addition, the workshop will provide some understanding of the science behind the software; scratching the surface on various digital signal processing (DSP) concepts. This workshop will be presented by Wayne aka FERALCATSCAN.
Circuit Bending: Khate will be presenting a workshop on circuit-bending. Pioneered by Reed Ghazala in the late 1960’s, circuit-bending involves the deliberate short-circuiting and re-wiring of a noise-making device to create a unique
electronic instrument. Popular targets for bending include inexpensive Casio keyboards and talking children’s toys, but benders have performed surgery on everything from effects pedals to CD players to baby monitors. Khate will
give a brief overview of the history and growth of circuit-bending, share tips and techniques for getting started, and demonstrate some of the process. Some of her bent projects will be on display for participants to play with, and
there will be a raffle to win a circuit-bent Speak & Spell.
Community vs. Scene: Harm Stryker will talk about the idea behind the (areacode)noise concept, the potential of building a working network of experimental communities tied together by a common philosophy based on open community participation, and to speak about the politcal innuendos of noise and experimental media.
Waveforms & Interference Patterns: Marty McCavitt aka Birds in the Meadow will present a workshop about waveform interfrence patterns, what they are, how researchers have used audio interference patterns to assist in inducing a temporary non-ordinary state of consciousness, and demonstrate how waveform interference is used as a primary audio source by the band “Birds in the Meadow”, then providing examples of their use by other 20th century composers.
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[Sunday October 3, 2004]
Art Works
320 Hull St. (just across the 14th St/Mayo Bridge Downtown)
Richmond, VA 23220
12:00am – 10:00pm
804noise Fest 2004 (Main Event):
This years festival is going to feature visual installations, artwork, and sculptures by several local artists, info-shop tables from local radical organizations, and the following musical performers:
Mark Richardson – Mark Richardson collects and writes about experimental music. His DJ sets,which incorporate drones, noise, and miscellaneous arcane audio, are
inspired in part by the idea of lost radio transmissions that have returned to earth from space.
Jabber Wocky – Jabber Wocky’s style/sound falls in the audio collage/plunderphonics category. An artform mastered by the group Negativland in the 80’s and early 90’s where the artist takes recognizable mainstream music, talk radio, commercials, etc, samples it, manipulates and distorts it, strips away the ryhthm, then re-sequencing it to make something completely new and sometimes making a statement that wasn’t intended by the original material.
Vilam Priest – Vilam Priest plays loop-based ambient and/or sound-collage music, primarily
using Frippertronic methods developed by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the
early 1970s: analog instrument signals are fed into a simple looping device
using volume swells to taper the attack, allowing the performer to work in
cumulative harmonic layers without producing a fixed beat. Priest plays a
Chapman Stick, which allows him to play
simple bass figures over the loop with one hand while improvising melodies,
manipulating loops, or feeding samples, with the other. The mood tends
toward down-tempo (often approaching zero), minor-key, contemplative
chill-out.
Birds of Tin – Originally inspired by dark ambient ramblings and backward loops of the likes of :zoviet france: and the Hafler Trio, Birds of Tin recently has attained a more personal focus. The sounds have become more distinct and less dark, and the focus has shifted to a microview of texture and substance. These days the inspiration seems to come more from visual artists rather than contemporaries in the sound world. Wed if by Transitions’ stated goal is to provide a physical demonstration of the flexibility of sound. It’s statement is that it is not more choices that produce interesting work, but an open mind and a willing heart.
Mix Tape For Adrian – Mix Tape For Adrian perform using drum machines,
pedals and samplers, making simple and to the point improvised electronic, somewhat danceable music with politically charge sampling.
Never Presence Forever – Never Presence Forever’s sound revolves largely around a blend
of dark ambient/death industrial soundscapes often steeped in cryptic
personal exploration or apocalyptic undercurrents.
Harm Stryker – Harm Stryker is Kelly Nourse & Kenny Yates a politically and socially motivated experimental project, which employs carefully crafted samples, minimal sequencing, feedback & theremins, processed with filters, stomp boxes, and other effects to create a rich atmosphere of abstract rhythm & noise.
Laferrera – Laferrera is Jason Laferrera who also plays base in the Richmond post punk outfit Gregor Samsa. Lafff holds his own with his brand of sugar coated misery in the form of rich texured instrumentation and IDMish production.
Gen Ken Montgomery – Gen Ken has been to Richmond before showcasing his interactive sound artform of sampling using contact microphones and various found objects which he runs through a laminator, recording the the process. He hasn’t revealed exactly what he has in mind for this performance.
Monolith Zero – Monolith Zero is Adam Hudson, his solo live performances consist of gaping atmospheres of almost silent drone cut with short burst of harsh noise, usually lasting between 5 and 15 minutes total.
Ting Ting Jahe – Ting Ting Jahe is Ben Scott, Tommy Birchett and NYC/RVA resident Ben Owen who organizes with Free103point9 in Brookyln. Ting Ting Jahe’s sound is based on recylcing live audio from previous performances, found sound, disected turn tables and needles, laptop improvisation, etc.
FERALCATSCAN – FERALCATSCAN is a atmospheric sound collage artist. Mysterious noise scapes, drones and swells.
Khate – Khate makes electronic music which she has given up trying to name, genre-wise. Current major influences include: bells, Godzilla, vinyl static, the weather, ultradistorted kick drums, graphic files opened as raw PCM, loss, cicadas, dub, microsounds, thunderstorms, 50’s monster movie scores, and mixed peppercorns. She uses: IDC Devastator PC, ~Korg Poly 800 Mk II keyboard ~Boss DR-550 drum machine ~Pearl SY-1 Syncussion ~IDC Oracle [circuit bent Speak & Spell] ~IDC ??? [un-named circuit bent Speak & Math] ~IDC Goethite [circuit bent keyboard] ~a variety of thrift store keyboards~IDC Dominatrix [circuit bent phase pedal] ~ART Mach rack effects and Boss pedals ~Sony Playstation ~no MIDI whatsoever and ~37 miles of cable…”
ENE – ENE has been making experimental electronic music for over a decade. The ENE discography features three full length CDs plus a mind boggling array of compilations and remixes. ENE’s live history is even more varied than its recorded. ENE has shared the stage with such luminaries as La Bradford, DJ Spooky, Matmos, DJ Olive + WE, Lee Ranaldo, Windsor for the Derby, Lesser, Blonde Redhead, Sugar Plant, and Christian Marclay in NYC, Tokyo, Osaka, Washington DC, Baltimore, and many more space/time coordinates!
SC:ALL – SC:ALL is Scott Allison from Washington, D.C., and his music focuses on the processing and arrangements of recorded events (field recordings or what many people simply refer to as noise). Processing those sounds and re-presenting them using software specifically developed for real time interaction and composition. SC:ALL also works with sound sources external to the computer, finding ways in which to process those sounds and still find mutual correspondence between them and what happens with the computer. In the last few years he has been active in live performance venues on the east coast, and has also been involved with the process of organizing experimental listening events in the Washington DC area. Currently Scott is involved in a number of collaborative efforts with other similar minded artists and plan to release new work for the label Scarcelight Recordings sometime in 2005.
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We still need help with the handling of the event, if you can stay afterwards and help clean up, set up chairs, break down equipment, work concession, video tape performances, etc. please email [email protected].
804noise.org
804noise
PO Box 4296
Richmond, VA 23220
