The Electric Possible May 13, 2009
2438 18th St Nw
Washington, District of Columbia 20009
Washington, District of Columbia 20009
This series has been at the center of DC's growing experimental music community, providing opportunities for musicians to explore unusual ideas and projects that incorporate new technology, new spirit, new energy, and new combinations of instruments and musicians to create expanded definitions of music. The series encourages musicians to collaborate with each other and with dancers, poets and other disciplines, forming new projects that may be difficult to place in other venues due to their experimental, unclassifiable, or temporary nature.
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BLKwBEAR
Electric Possible @ DCAC - Wednesday, May 13
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Inspired by an El Possible show last year, Keith Sinzinger took a bunch of galvanized pipe - once destined for the dump - and transformed it into a set of tubular bells. Played with various mallets, hammers, finger picks & whatever else comes to mind, and processed through an array of stomp boxes and other electronics, the bells are sometimes earthy, sometimes industrial, sometimes spacey. Added to the mix are tape loops, found sounds, circuit-bent toys & other oddities. After a long absence from live performance (mostly rave chill-out stuff), Keith returned in April 2009 to play at a Sonic Circuits event and gathering of the Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble at the National Electronics Museum. He performs under the moniker Fast Forty, adopted when he was fast approaching 40. Past projects have included remixing the Clinton impeachment debate and the Biden-Palin vice presidential debate (both self-released on cassette). A lifelong newsman, he tries to remain in tune to the news and is constantly on the lookout for ways to exploit it musically. File under: intense ambient.
VLT_BLK
Not a new sandwich, but an overload of Califone turntable abuse from drone masters Violet (Jeff Surak) and BLK w/BEAR (JS Adams, solo). Surak runs the Zeromoon label and organizes the Sonic Circuits DC Festival and concert series. Adams [prepared vinyl + source electronics + loops] curates the upcoming QUEERING SOUND mini-fest; along with BLK w/ BEAR members Doug Poplin [cello + effects] and PD Sexton [bass + source electronics + effects], the band have new material of their expressive mix of warm tones, caustic drone and broadcast bleed forthcoming on Trace Recordings 'TEN' compilation and the LDWR box set, '14 Versions of the Same EP.'
DAVE VOSH & LOGAN MITCHELL, JR. DUO
Dave performs as Safe 2 & Logan as Synth Tech Project; both are members of the Baltimore Synth DIY Variable Ensemble Logan founded, an eclectic assemblage of musicians from B'more & DC area exploring the many sub-genres of electro-experimental music. Both use lots of analog & home built electronics. Logan's also organizer of several upcoming electronic music festivals in B'more: the Baltimore Electronic Music Fest in June 2009 & the National Electronics Museum Electronica Fest in Sept 2009.
$5 at the door