Semata Productions

2011 Top Ten

2011-12-30T09:55:00.004-05:00

Our favorites of the past year; in no particular order:

Cliff Martinez - Contagion OST, Drive OST (Watertower/Lakeshore)
Surgeon - Breaking The Frame (Dynamic Tension)
Jürgen Müller - Science of the Sea (Digitalis)
Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (Type)
Social Drag - New Age Healer (Stunned)
John Mannion - Slice Through Or/In Glassmetal (Hanson)
Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together (Modern Love)
KPLR -Tek No Musik (Crazy Iris)
Imaginary Softwoods - The Path of Spectrolite (Amethyst Sunset)
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmic0/Elegy For Beach Friday (Spectrum Spools)

2011-10-21T16:40:00.001-04:00

Now available:

SEM-021 Pierrot Lunaire - 'Exercise in Futility' c30

SEM-020 Belarisk - 'II' c34

SEM-019 Alvars Orkester - 'Profess' c45

More soon, including LP's by KPLR, Dungeon Acid & more.

SPRING update

2011-04-20T20:47:00.003-04:00

Mutation in the Gryd is sold out - MMS should still have a few as well as Crucial Blast distro. Less than 30 copies left of the Scuba Death LP.

Nice label feature on the mighty Foxy Digitalis here:

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=9829

Buncha tapes and some more LP's coming soon - stay tuned.

BOOM.

February 2011 Batch Preview

2011-02-02T10:59:00.002-05:00

February 2011 Batch Preview by semata

Double CD release show! Work/Death, Cowards, Throat, Vellum

2011-01-04T13:38:00.002-05:00

Holiday Season 2010

2010-11-25T01:42:00.004-05:00

Swinging back into action, full force style after a long Summer lull. We have a new mailing address, please take note on the site. We are also not in the business of hosting/booking shows any more; we will however be involved in one or two special Semata events a year. There is a new Facebook page HERE ; please sign up to be more IN THE KNOW than on here. This page was for event info related to the label, it will now serve the purpose of spreading 'news' and any pertinent info related to the label and its roster.

The new Work/Death & Cowards albums are now streaming in their entirety on the site until Jan.1st. Lots in store for 2011, especially on the vinyl front - next up:

KFW - 081205 b/w 081206 c52
Mutation In The Gryd - Void Forrest CS
Scuba Death - Demon Seed 12"

- UNTIL NEXT TIME -

Xela, Perispirit, Brendan Murray

2010-03-25T12:57:00.004-04:00

Semata Productions Presents:
[CdT029]
Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 8pm

Xela - John Twells now based here in Boston — where he runs his Type imprint and casts out dark, yet never suffocating, compositions under the XELA pseudonym. Recent releases have been on labels such as Dekorder, SMTG Limited and Digitalis. Twells will be joined by Jim Siegel on percussion.

Perispirit - First show in 8 months; in that time Perispirit has been carefully crafting the next step in their sound. Utilizing concrete, collage, tape music and harsh noise as a foundation for their unrelenting sound, Perispirit's new direction has taken their compositions to new heights. Welcome to the future.

Brendan Murray - Local drone superhero; tonight Brendan will play a short set with avant vocalist Noell Dorsey, using live sampling/re-sampling of her voice similar in vein to the new split LP with Perispirit - then Brendan will drop the bomb on us all with a brief solo set.

Piano Craft Guild 791 Tremont Street,

Boston, Massachusetts 02118

Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

REGRESSION, SPYKES, DOG LADY, ZERFALLT

2010-01-11T14:12:00.006-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:
[CdT028]
Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 8pm

REGRESSION - Nate Young of Wolf Eyes, floating darkness of electronics-

analog synth dissections and

tape treatments referencing library music, horror soundtracks,

or in its more austere moments, early electronic music.

SPYKES - Spykes is one of John Olson of Wolf Eyes’ many projects,

along with running the American Tapes

label and playing in Dead Machines and Birth Refusal.

DOG LADY-Mike Collino of Detroit, Michigan on violin and modified electronics.

DOG LADY has released a number of tapes on his own label,

as well as a recent release on Trilogy Tapes,

and a brand new LP on RRR.

Mike’s other projects are Waste Ground

and Pool Water and Gloria (with Wyatt Howland of Skin Graft).

ZERFALLT - re-wired equipment and analog synthesizer

producing clouds of bleak feedback hypnosis

and saturated

tape incantations.

Piano Craft Guild 791 Tremont Street,

Boston, Massachusetts 02118

Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

Bill Nace, Zerfallt, Benjamin Nelson

2009-12-07T13:51:00.004-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:
[CdT027]
Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 8pm

Bill Nace - Western Mass.deconstructed guitar legend; member of Vampire Belt, X.0.4 and Northampton Wools with Thurston Moore.

Zerfallt (tape release)- analog master of dark orchestrated swamp hymns.

Benjamin Nelson (tape release) - dense modular tones

Piano Craft Guild 791 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

Ten Thousand Things, Stillbirth, Ricardo Donoso, Ouest

2009-09-21T10:42:00.002-04:00

Semata Productions Presents:

[CdT026]

Tuesday, October 6th 2009 - 8pm

Ten Thousand Things - recent tapes on Arbor & Ekhein, Geoff Mullen and Scott Reber (Work/Death) bring their open sky New England drone to Boston.

Stillbirth - (record release) Razors & Medicine label head, hi decibel feedback routing, guitar & tape fuckery.

Ricardo Donoso - (record release) Ehnahre drum chair, analog & digital claustrophobic drones; something new for the fall.

Ouest - Boston super group with Howard Stelzer, Brendan Murray & Jay Sullivan - tapes, prepared guitars, synths, turntables, ect. New Englands finest...

Piano Craft Guild
791 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

Oneohtrix Point Never, Keith Fullerton Whitman & Geoff Mullen, Brendan Murray + DJ Ning Nong

2009-05-14T14:30:00.005-04:00

*Jeff & the Arbor crew had to cancel their tour, this show goes on with these hometown heroes.

Semata Productions Presents:

[CdT025]

Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 8pm

Oneohtrix Point Never

three-pointer zones, no fun productions

Keith Fullerton Whitman & Geoff Mullen

double-synth majesty-splat, mms/rare youth crew united

Brendan Murray

somethin' new for summertime

DJ Ning Nong

WZBC's finest, please offer steak fries.

Piano Craft Guild
791 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

Monday, April 13th 2009 - 8pm

2009-04-01T12:52:00.000-04:00

Semata Productions Presents:

[CD'T024]

2673
equal parts Bastard Noise and Terry Riley, focused brute force electronics. Previously has shared records with Unicorn and Kevin Drumm among others.

King Darves
outsider folk stylings as showcased on De Stijl records. a voice more glorious than Calvin Johnson and Michael Gira combined

Jay Sullivan
boston's experimental turntable and field recording golden boy. recently collaborated with Jeph Jerman, and is a member of Ouest and Skeletons Out. Tsunoda and Small Cruel Party worship

Benjamin Nelson
modular synthesis anywhere between uplifting power drone and total melancholy. Phil Niblock and Johnathan Coleclough crying together in a bar

Monday, March 16th 2009 - 8pm

2009-03-06T11:38:00.005-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:

[CD'T023]

Putrefier
Uneven Universe
Sam Goldberg
Skeletons Out

Putrefier
Mark Durgan (Birthbiter, Broken Flag, A part-time member of TNB). Scrappin metal noise blast

Uneven Universe
From the iciest mounts of Michigan most frozen brains come massive sounds of sax/electronics duo Uneven Universe. Dan( from Haunted Castle) and Holly (who are both in Cardboard sax with John Olson) wreck havoc on the basement, turning it into an epic snow storm of tape loops and electronics. Through the totally solid murk saxophones, harp, and bells toll, slicing their way into your eardrums in the most hypnotic way. Prepare to get zoned and frozed.

Sam Goldberg
Sam Goldberg was born and currently living in Cleveland, OH. He makes experimental music mostly using guitars,synthesizer and organ. Mostly, his music can be found on short-run cassettes and cdras but he currently is working on his first official LP for the Weird Forest label. He has toured with Emeralds, Tusco Terror and Caboladies. He also performs in various side-projects such as Free Time, Rumours and Daylight Savings Time.

Skeletons Out
Comprised of Howard Stelzer and Jay Sullivan. Stelzer and Sullivan make use of tapes and vinyl respectively, using these spare, deceptively crude means to conjure strikingly developed, transportive aural landscapes which are equal parts lush and expansive and claustorphobic and atrophied.

Wednesday, February 25th - 8pm

2009-02-11T10:54:00.005-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:

[CD'T022]

ID M Theftable / Audrey Chen
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kraag.org

Audrey Chen is a chinese-american musician and performance artist born outside of chicago in 1976. using the cello, voice and analog electronics, chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. a large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. her performance work incorporates sound, movement and visual/sculptural concepts. chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. Among musicians, she has worked with many great improvisers, including phil minton, elliott sharp, aki onda, phill niblock, alessandro bosetti, mike cooper, mats gustafsson, sten sandell, mazen kerbaj, michael zerang, tatsuya nakatani, assif tsahar, scott rosenberg, le quan ninh, joe mcphee, susan alcorn, michele doneda, paolo angeli, and gianni gebbia. some current projects include duos with gianni gebbia, alessandro bosetti and nate wooley. the SILO trio with nate wooley and leonel kaplan. and Trockeneis with andy hayleck, dan breen, catherine pancake and paul neidhardt. chen has performed in europe, russia, australia, new zealand, china, japan, taiwan and the USA. She is currently based in Baltimore, MD USA where she is member of the red room and high zero collective, an on-going series and international festival devoted to experimental improvised music.
audreychen.com

Lord & Karlheinz
From 1998-2000 the percussion-and-electronics duo Lord and Karlheinz fucked shit up round the city. If you missed the "reunion show" on New Years Eve 2009 you better come to this. Not to be missed.

Januno Trio (James Coleman / Jules Vasylenko / Noell Dorsey)

James Coleman has been develop ing and updating new languages and sonic deployment for the Theremin, arguably the first electronic music instrument, in contemporary and creative musics for the past 10 years. Primarily working in improvisation, he is an active performer and recordist in the United States, and has performed with Jaap Blonk, Axel Doerner, Stephen Drury, Peter Kowald, Chris Mann, Lionel Marchetti, Joe McPhee, Jerome Noetinger, Pauline Oliveros, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, and has primary collaborations with Boston area musicians, many of whom are in the BSC.

Noell Dorsey is a classical trained soprano who sings with various opera, choral and chamber ensembles around Boston. She also is the lead singer of rock band Guillermo sexo and is a member of the minimalist duo Beautiful Weekend. New to the Boston noise-improv scene, she began collaborating with experimental trio Eat Flaming Death and most recently with Boston improv veterans James Coleman and Jules Vasylenko. Her voice can be heard on Boston death metal Ehnahre's new album.

jules is a blind U.K.-rain-ian poet,with a strong persecution complex. a peasant,posing as a bohemian. many ghosts follow this big-thumbed behemoth around. at c-p-3 he is hoping to spontaneously combust. left behind will be a shopping list of things he has been involved in performance art..gorilla theater--the blood is still on the wall !!! dub--from ear to eternity. no wave--but drown. industrial--in dust we trust. electro-acoustic etchings..soundscrapes..tape-loops..ape -oops freak-jazz - noizzee--one hump,or two? art--i have nothing to say,and i am saying it! for more details,check with interpol.

Tuesday, January 20th - 8pm

2009-01-12T14:43:00.010-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:

- an evening of noise n' drones -

[CD'T021]

Sharpwaist

drunk, hopeless power electronics.

Chris Strunk / Ricardo Donoso
21 century drum battle feat. members of the sweater, ehnahre

Double Awake
improvisational drones using modified guitars, electronics, and voice. Shifting textures and pulsing swells of noise; primal volumes and haunting tones."

Tuesday, November 11th 2008 - 8pm

2008-11-04T11:13:00.010-05:00

Semata Productions Presents:

- an evening of noise and power electronics -

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Diagram A
Karlheinz
Xiphoid Dementia
Waterdogs

Diagram A

Harsh Depravity from this Providence noise hero. check out these cds: -----------Diagram A / Noise Nomads split CD (2002) I have few of these left. ------------Diagram A - Go Dead CD (2007)------------ --------------Diagram A -Limited Guts CD (2008)------------- remastered recordings from 2004 cassette release and cdr on RRR There are many more tapes, cdrs, comps etc. that are long gone.

http://www.myspace.com/diagramagreenwood

Karlheinz

A mainstay of the Boston power/noise/harsh electronics scene in Boston, Karlhienz is the performing persona of Karl Giesing, a one man powerhouse of noise, screaming feedback and sonic detritus that will recondition your neural pathways, for better or worse.

http://www.khznoise.net

Xiphoid Dementia

Death industrial waste.

http://www.existest.org/xdementia

Waterdogs

"Matrimony" (CD-R ltd to 24) (Self Released 2007)"Sniffers

Rash" Waterdogs/Sharpwaist Collaboration C38 (Breathing Problem Productions 2008)

http://www.myspace.com/waterdogsnoise

Tuesday, October 14th 2008 - 8pm

2008-10-13T16:22:00.007-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Usurper/Guest Beers
Nackt Insecten
Steve Pyne
Preliminary Saturation

USURPER/Guest Beers

(mostly) miniscule free-noise tantrums wi busted instruments from the mongs what brought youse Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery. Usurper will be in quartet form tonight with Guest Beers, Ali Robertson, Malcy Duff, Greg Kelley, Dave Dougan

NACKT INSECTEN

"Nackt Insecten from glasgow, scotland drone. dense heavy jammer drone w/ mind beamed to outer high huh?? some real drone odyssey styles. screaming veiled drone. collapsed drone ash statues fucking crushed by searing heat. earth drone magnifications. flying carpet lava drone."

STEVE PYNE

"Steve Pyne, who routes feedback loops and electronics through a custom-modified, vintage organ and homemade effects boxes to create uniquely wonderous sounds. A guitarist by training, but a mad inventor at heart, Steve played backup for Boyz II Men and jazz standards at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, before discovering the joys of cracked electronics at a show by Vic Rawlings -- he hasn't looked back since."

PRELIMINARY SATURATION

Preliminary Saturation is the electro-acoustic, free improv, drone-duo in which Dutch sound artists Wouter Jaspers and Steffan de Turck combine their forces. To some extent, both might be better known for their solo-projects: Franz Fjodor and staplerfahrer, respectively. As Franz Fjodor, Jaspers displays a fascination for the darker side of life; with self-made instruments he creates a sound that shippers between droning soundscapes, depressed noise and dark folk. His style signature varies with his mood: from psycho chants to punk screams, from guitar oriented drones to field recordings. De Turck plays around with crunched and broken (micro)sounds, electro-magnetic waves and noise. Sometimes in a back-to-basics analogue setting, other times solemnly using his powerbook. Every once and a while, they come together in the safe harbor of one of their living rooms, pop open a bottle of wine, light some cigarettes and start improvising as long as the mood is right. It's how this recording was made.

Tuesday, September 23rd 2008 - 8pm

2008-09-17T10:54:00.010-04:00

Semata, Intransitive & Non-Event present:
- an evening of experimental electronic music -

JOHN WIESE
NOISE NOMADS
BENJAMIN NELSON
EMBOUCHURE

JOHN WIESE is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Dave Phillips, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari.

Noise Nomads
Caveman performance action/noise from western Massachusetts, NOISE NOMADS is the solo project of Jeff Hartford, also of the band Grey Skull. His recordings have appeared on Load, Gods of Tundra, Bonescraper, Breaking World Records, and a recent LP on RRRecords. Load Records describes him thusly: “Western Massachussets is a land of shopping outlets and hemp-skinned hacky sacks. Jeff Hartford breathes in and out amongst all this hub bub. What he does do is give off an organic crunch. He’s never content to just play to one schtick as it were, instead, practicing everything from christmas tree impersonation, to hand chime phasery, to all out 4-track abuse.”

BENJAMIN NELSON has performed in various groups with styles ranging from instrumental metal and power electronics to free folk and improv. His solo work seeks to bridge the gap between academics and emotional music, drawing inspiration from minimalism, electro-acoustic and post industrial music. While spending the last five years studying electronic music in Boston, Benjamin has performed solo throughout the US and Europe, but this will be his first solo performance in his hometown.

EMBOUCHURE channels frustration, isolation and dread through their minimalist/maximalist drone compositions. Where most drones tend to revolve around healing/meditative practices, Embouchure sets out to poison and scorn. This is not easy listening. Using an arsenal of digital and analog electronics, prepared acoustic instruments, granular synthesis and feedback systems, Embouchure creates a mood of total desolation and abandon.

September 16, 2008 - 8pm

2008-09-09T14:23:00.003-04:00

- the coup d'etat music series -

Leerraum [ ] Night

Leerraum [ ] is an international network, platform and label of artists engaged in studying space, form and structure through a reductionist approach and careful yet radical handling of materials. At this point, Leerraum [ ] consists of 45 artists of 15 different
nationalities, spread across 4 continents and 25 cities.
This September, Leerraum [ ] will be presented for the first time in the United States, featured as Leerraum [ ] Nights in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The presentation
will feature works of 13 artists as live performances or video screenings. Simultaneously,
the Gosia Koszielak Gallery in Chicago will be presenting a sound installation from the series «Untitled Sound Objects» by Pe Lang and Zimoun.

This events are kindly supported by PRO HELVETIA Swiss Arts Council.
www.leerraum.ch

Boston : Piano Factory : September 16, 2008 : 8pm
Leerraum [ ] Night
Asher (Boston, live)
Asher, Pe Lang + Zimoun (Boston/Berlin/Bern, live)
Helena Gough + Zimoun (Berlin/Bern, performed by Zimoun)
Pe Lang (Berlin, live)

Piano Craft Guild
791 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Cost : $5-$10 suggested donation - ALL AGES

*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton

Saturday, September 6th 2008 - 7:30

2008-09-02T14:08:00.009-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

CHRIS COOPER
JED SPEARE, featuring Eli Keszler and Lewis Gesner
GREG KELLEY
The EPICUREANS
VIC RAWLINGS

Chris Cooper
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase is the solo guise of avant-garde guitarist Chris Cooper, who'd previously worked around the Bay Area with "industrial bluegrass" oddballs Caroliner and adventurous indie-popsters Deerhoof. When the financially strapped Caroliner went on hiatus in the late '90s, Cooper struck out on his own, adopting the Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase alias for his experiments with prepared guitar and tape collage. The first Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase album, the obscurely titled Beatings With Gimpy Flighted Wings Entrapped by Post-Fence of Garish Land, appeared circa 2000 on the small Menlo Park label. A 7" release, "Myth of the Golden Jackal & the Frog," followed on Birdman. Cooper subsequently recorded under his own name for Kissy Records, and performed with Barn Owl and the Massachusetts-based Fat Worm of Error.

Jed Speare
Jed Speare is an artist and arts manager working in a variety of media and settings. Initially trained in music composition, he has presented performance, sound, video, installation, conceptual, and community-based works locally, nationally, and internationally in festivals and locales such as San Francisco, Amsterdam, Canada, Taiwan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Bulgaria, France, and Italy. In Boston, Jed has been known primarily as a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 1995 and as the Co- Director and Director of Mobius from 1996 through 2004. He is currently Director of Studio Soto, a space for ideas, in Boston. His sound works are featured on albums of Family Vineyard, Smithsonian Folkways, and Subterranean record labels.

Lewis Gesner
Lewis Gesner is an artist working predominantly but not exclusively in performance and sound mediums. He exhibits frequently in US and abroad, and has been developing systematic reductions for purposes of universal art making significance(s), using terms such as Instrumentism, Lower Consciousness, and SURformalism as an ongoing project and investigation.

Eli Keszler "Multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler is one of a coterie of exciting new Boston-based musicians whose music pushes the boundaries of noise, drones, improv, and electro-acoustic composition. Using a variety of percussion instruments, as well as guitar and electronics, Eli creates intense drones and fast, rhythmically complex pieces. In addition to his solo work, he currently plays in a number of ensembles including a new trio with keyboardist Anthony Coleman and reed-player/vocalist Ashl ey Paul, a duo with guitarist Geoff Mullen, and a longstanding partnership with fellow multi-instrumentalist Steve Pyne called Red Horse. H e has a pair of CDs out onREL, both of which showcase his extraordinarily dynamic playing"

Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.

The Epicureans
formed in 2008 the epicureans have the hottest new sound out there. they range from sparse 'lowercase' type music to "full on" (as the kids say these days) noise with a hardcore metal edge. at once playful and brutal, the epicureans are your best friends and your enemies worst enemy. when they say 'we love you' at the end of every show they mean it. music is all about love and the epicureans, with their thirst for seeking pleasure, are here to provide.

Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser and
instrument builder, specializing in modifications
of existing instruments, creating 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. TONIGHT HOWEVER, VIC WILL BE SHREDDING ON GUITAR.

Sunday, August 31st 2008 - 8pm

2008-08-28T11:07:00.012-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

The Vic Rawlings residency at the Piano Factory continues

Andrew Lafkas (NYC) / Vic Rawlings

Bryan Eubanks (NYC) / Mike Bullock

Zerfallt

Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser and
instrument builder, specializing in modifications
of existing instruments, creating 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.

Andew Lafkas "I live and work in Queens. Recently, I have been writing pieces for strings, also, last year I completed a piece for one hundred 60-minute cassettes."

Bryan Eubanks
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Eubanks is working with the soprano saxophone and electronics in collaborations, installations, and solo performances. He manages a small label, Rasbliutto Recordings, and has presented his music in real-time settings across the US and Europe.

Michael T. Bullock is a composer, sound artist and visual artist based in Troy NY. The range of his work includes contrabass, banjo, video instrumentalism, and illustration. Bullock performs across the entire US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Steve Roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel.

His groundbreaking solo contrabass playing has brought him to medieval chapels and the side of a mountain. Bullock also performs with the BSC, an octet of Boston-based improvisers; as the trio MAWJA with Kerbaj and Vic Rawlings; and in the multidisciplinary duo rise set twilight.

Bullock is the founder of Chloë Recordings. He currently pursues a doctorate in the Arts Department at RPI in Troy, where he researches noise, feedback, and non-idiomatic music cultures. Bullock also curates concerts with the Albany Sonic Arts Collective.

Zerfallt is a cacophony of analog decomposition. Culled from the abundance of generous natural rot this world has bestowed upon us.

Tuesday, August 26th 2008 - 8pm

2008-08-12T14:01:00.005-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

The BSC (two sets)
Ophibre

The BSC
the bsc: bhob rainey (s. sax, director); greg kelley (tpt); james coleman (theremin); liz tonne (voice); mike bullock (dbl. bass); chris cooper (prepared gtr. and electronics); vic rawlings (cello and electronics); howard stelzer (tapes)

The BSC

Led by Bhob Rainey, one of the most celebrated improvisers working today, the BSC comprises eight members who represent some of the world's finest electro-acoustic musicians. The BSC generates consistently fresh and compelling work through innovative rehearsal techniques and long-standing musical collaborations between individual members of the group. The BSC has been a mainstay at numerous festivals of serious music and was the focal point of Philadelphia's Phoneme festival last September.

bhobrainey.net

Ophibre

Ophibre is Benjamin Rossignol, a sound artist living in Boston, USA. His pieces tend to reflect upon the given medium/s of sonic delivery and the potential modes of engaging with them. He is interested in drones, ones that are aural and those to be translated or expressed. His label, Oph Sound, is focused on limited run releases of album art.
www. ophibre.com

Wednesday, August 6th 2008 - 8pm

2008-07-29T10:24:00.012-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Jawwaad Taylor/Dave Dove
Vic Rawlings
Luke Maldof

Jawwaad Taylor/Dave Dove
As a preteen, Northside Houston’s Jawwaad Taylor had an early exposure to creative music when his uncle played him records by Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton. At the same time, Jawwaad was developing his skills as a hip-hop MC. At a young age, Jawwaad became an accomplished freestyle rapper. Later, after meeting David Dove, he joined the group of musicians around Nameless Sound (and the NS Youth Ensemble), and his interest weighed more heavily on trumpet and free improvisation. After a period, Jawwaad returned to rhyming. This return had a goal to bring his musical activities together and form an original approach. He and Dove worked steadily for several years to craft a creative music that kept the authenticity of its sources and maintained the spontaneity of free improvisation. Jawwaad’s broad artistic palette moves the music forward. In addition to his vocals and trumpet playing, Jawwaad brings a producer’s ear to his use of electronics and samplers.

In addition to improvising, Jawwaad is working on a solo hip-hop album. The album will be a follow up to the success of “Craft of the Lost Art” (Lex Records), 2007’s acclaimed release by Shape of Broad Minds, the Philadelphia based underground hip-hop duo that features Jawwaad.

A trombone player, composer, improvisor, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops all over the US and some internationally (Mexico, Canada, Scotland, Vietnam). He has collaborated with many of his favorite local/national/international artists (more and less well known) and has developed an approach to creative music education.

Dove grew up learning the trombone in the public school band program, while at the same time playing bass guitar in punk bands. After high school, he spent years studying and playing a wide variety musical styles (including 6 years in the band Sprawl). In the early 1990’s, he became dedicated to free improvisation. This eclectic background and commitment to creativity eventually led him to conceive of a new approach to music education.

In 1997, Dove started working at MECA, an inner-city arts community center, where he began to develop this approach. In 2000, Pauline Oliveros invited him to start a branch of The Deep Listening Institute (DLI) to further his educational goals and bring contemporary musicians to Houston. In 2006, DLI Houston became Nameless Sound, an independent organization. Nameless Sound reaches over 1500 young people in Houston every year through workshops in public schools, community centers, and homeless shelters.

Vic Rawlings Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser and
instrument builder, specializing in modifications
of existing instruments, creating 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.

Luke Moldof

Luke Moldof is known primarily for his work in the fields of noise/power electronics and free improvisation. He often seeks to establish a common ground between these two seemingly different aesthetics, moving from visceral to subtle at the drop of a dime. In his solo guitar arsenal he incorporates drones, preparations, and a Derek Bailey-esque harmonic palette. In the noise scene, he is best known for being a founding member of the now defunct Craniopagus as well as his solo project Stillbirth. He also plays regularly in the groups Food and Catholic Skin. Luke runs a noise label called Razors and Medicine.

Sunday, July 13th 2008 - 8pm

2008-07-11T11:45:00.010-04:00

Semata & Intransitive Presents:
an evening of electronic music

Featuring:

Neckhold
Neanderthalic four-armed beast discovers there are tools in a dark, damp room. it's hungry, sweaty and frustrated. it wants everyone to hear, empathise and offer their bodies for its feed...brothers from brisbane, australia.

Brown Wing Overdrive
from downtown NYC...Chuck Bettis (formerly of DC no-wave bands Metamatics and All-Scars), Mikey IQ Jones, and Derek Morton (ex-Mikroknytes), are mad jugglers of oddly-shaped musical eggs. Processed banjo, shamanistic chants, and fried electronics set up against lattices of stuttered beatboxing and found-object percussion... their next album will be out on John Zorn's Tzadik label this September!

Ouest
Fourth-mind drone band of Boston anti-luminaries Brendan Murray, Howard Stelzer & Jay Sullivan... lo-tech electronic murk and drift.

Tuesday, July 8th 2008 - 8pm

2008-07-01T12:40:00.006-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

James Coleman / Lou Cohen
The Human Hairs
Max Lord

James Coleman has been develop ing and updating new languages and sonic deployment for the Theremin, arguably the first electronic music instrument, in contemporary and creative musics for the past 10 years. Primarily working in improvisation, he is an active performer and recordist in the United States, and has performed with Jaap Blonk, Axel Doerner, Stephen Drury, Peter Kowald, Chris Mann, Lionel Marchetti, Joe McPhee, Jerome Noetinger, Pauline Oliveros, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, and has primary collaborations with Boston area musicians, many of whom are in the BSC. www.zuihitsu.net

Lou Cohen, composer, performer and digital animator, has been writing algorithmic music for over 50 years. He studied with John Cage and others, and his music has been presented in many venues in Boston and beyond. Lou has performed with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Christian Wolff, Ken Ueno, Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings, Jack Wright, Katt Hernandez, and many others. Lou improvises live sound and live animation.

The HUMAN HAIRS is a boy-girl duo dedicated to extended vocal techniques and arch art jokes, aided and abetted by noisemakers, karate outfits, rare old sound poetry records, last week’s newspapers, and bad synthesizers. The band began in 2007, but is already making a splash around their native Somerville, Massachusetts by playing in galleries and bars to the ear-plugging befuddlement of locals. Screeching, squealing, purring, yelling, blubbering, snorting, talking like Donald Duck, gargling, whispering, and spitting cough drops across the room are only a few of this band’s finely honed skills. Saul Jacobowitz and Angela Sawyer make a great big mess that’s fun for all.

Max Lord is a percussionist who works with treated instruments and electronic sound. He is one of few musicians to adopt the Buchla Marimba Lumina, an expressive electronic mallet instrument. His drumset is often augmented by boxes of wires, large sheets of metal, and most recently amplified wire brushes. As an improvisor, he is known for restless changes of mood and texture, a sense for the absurd and frequent high-volume excursions. Last year he decided he should have a CD and released Electronic Music 2000-2005, a compilation of moody studio experiments with Marimba Lumina and the kitchen sink of electric tricks. He performs somewhat regularly in the northeast, both solo and in group improv situations.

Tuesday, June 10th 2008 - 8pm

2008-06-03T14:12:00.007-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Stillbirth
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Glenn Dickson

Stillbirth is the solo performance project of Luke Moldof, channeling feelings of extreme weakness through carefully crafted minimalist compositions. The music is an output of pure frustration and as a result can prove painful to the casual listener. Luke Moldof received a bachelors of performance in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music, but the aim of stillbirth is to connect or disconnect with the audience on an emotional not musical level. So far there have only been three limited cassette releases on Luke Moldof’s own Razors and Medicine label. Luke has also worked as a member of Craniopagus, Catholic Skin (formerly Violence Jazz), Food, and various improv and drone related projects and collaborations.
www.razorsandmedicine.com

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Boston whippersnappers Andrew Fenlon & his lovely lady pal do a blurry traipse through toys, guitars, computers, broken speakers, unidentifiable stuff with cables curling out of it, & so on.
www.elizabethtaylorandrichardburton.com

Glenn Dickson I am the bandleader of Naftule's Dream and Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. My solo project explores electro-acoustic soundscapes/compositions on the clarinet using a microtonal pallete which I learned from playing and studying with Joe Maneri. Drawing on years of playing klezmer, Greek, jazz and free improvisation, the compositions range from meditational/ambient to very folk-influenced to dense, multi-layered tone poems. In addition to leading and performing with Naftule's Dream and Shirim, I have performed and sometimes toured and recorded with Hypnotic Clambake, Joe Maneri, Taximi (Greek) and have been featured on the soundtracks of the feature films "A Stranger Among Us" (Sidney Lumet) and "Deconstructing Harry" (Woody Allen).
www.myspace.com/glenndickson

Tuesday, May 13th 2008 - 8pm

2008-05-01T16:27:00.007-04:00

Semata & Intransitive Present:

Sudden Infant (Switzerland)/Nmperign
Newton Armstrong/Will Guthrie (Australia)
The Epicureans

Sudden Infant
Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expression, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises.
The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!
Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz is presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world.
Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and short-films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Schimpfluch, Entr'acte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, SSSM, Artware, Klanggalerie, MSBR.
Led workshops about Turntablism & Noise Music at the Music Academy Lucerne.
Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004).
Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006).

Nmperign
Nmperign has been hailed the world over as the leading purveyors of whatever that strange thing they do is. Their palette of sounds makes laptops seem as flexible as doorbells, and their precise but wildly unpredictable improvisations would have you at the edge of your seat if you weren't so afraid of the noise you would make getting there. Fierce and fragile, lush and fractured, nmperign is tough to pin down and all the better for it.

Will Guthrie
Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses home-made instruments, amplified found and junk, microphones & electronics alongside more conventional drums and cymbals. Originally a drummer he has worked in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation, studio composition. In Australia and France he organizes concerts and also runs the experimental improvised CD label and mailorder service; ANTBOY MUSIC. Regular collaborators past and present include Matthew Earle, Adam Sussmann, Ferran Fages, Jean-Philippe Gross, Greg Kingston, Helmut Schaefer, Julien Ottavi, Manu Leduc, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, Sébastien Coste, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Robbie Avenaim, Erell Latimier, Jim Denley, Ren Walters, Clayton Thomas, Mark Simmonds, Snuff Puppetts. Will currently lives in Nantes, France.

Newton Armstrong
"I'm a composer and performer. I'm also a teacher, writer, hacker, and occasional builder of electronic musical instruments. I'm interested in how we listen, how we make sense of sound, and how we negotiate issues such as listening and sense-making when we decide to push sound about in time and space. I've found that other people have very different notions and experiences of time and space, and that these differences are part of what makes other people fascinating. This has led me to work with all sorts of musicians, writers, dancers, choreographers, scientists, engineers, philosophers, and film, video, and installation artists. Sometimes I think that art is only about asking questions. But it's not just a matter of asking profound or beautiful questions, it's a matter of asking the right questions. Or maybe it's that the right questions are always and inevitably profound and beautiful. I don't know, but there are some important questions still waiting to be asked."

The Epicureans
formed in 2008 the epicureans have the hottest new sound out there. they range from sparse 'lowercase' type music to "full on" (as the kids say these days) noise with a hardcore metal edge. at once playful and brutal, the epicureans are your best friends and your enemies worst enemy. when they say 'we love you' at the end of every show they mean it. music is all about love and the epicureans, with their thirst for seeking pleasure, are here to provide.

Thursday, April 17th 2008 - 8pm

2008-04-10T11:53:00.007-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

an evening of solo saxophone performances
Bhob Rainey
Dave Gross(gdg)
Josh Jefferson

Bhob Rainey's music has become a model in the world of experimental sound. He is the founder of both nmperign (with trumpeter Greg Kelley) and the BSC, which he also directs. Collaborations with musicians such as Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Gunter Mueller, and Lionel Marchetti, dancers Nicole Bindler and Yukiko Nakamura, and filmmakers Loren Boyer, Harvey Benschoter, and William Pisarri highlight Rainey's broad experience and outline a complex body of work that continues to expand and surprise. His music occupies a charged space between synthetic and organic sound, bringing forth improbable sensual and narrative experiences through virtuosic extended techniques, homemade synths and sound processors, found recordings, and a kind of living silence that is apt to wreak havoc with the perception of time.
bhobrainey.net

Dave Gross (gdg)
Called "One of Boston's steadfast explorers," by the Boston Globe, saxophonist David Gross has been performing for more than a decade. Among a slew of others whose names are perhaps not as recognizable, Mr.Gross has performed with Phil Minton, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, John Olson, Gino Robair, Martin Tetreault, Tom Carter, Glenn Spearman, Raphe Malik and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with keys, mouthpiece, and a reed.
gdgsite.com

Josh Jefferson
i am a collage artist and i also play alto sax and bass clarinet. i started playing improv, free music in 2001. since then i have been focusing on more extended techniques and abstract sounds...the more improv music i play the more abstract and exploratory i want to become...
myspace.com/joshuacletusjefferson

Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 8pm

2008-04-10T11:23:00.005-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Myo (Baltimore)
Jay Sullivan
Ernst Karel

Myo
Myo is Cory O’Brien, an improviser who works with digitally processed voice and objects. Described by Vital Weekly as “louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound.” Collaborations include Kenneth Yates (of Harm Stryker, Insects with Tits), video artist Metaphreaq, and visual artist Jesse Hartgraves (as Clouds-Out). He currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
myosound.com

Jay Sullivan
"Turntablist Jay Sullivan has been a mainstay of the New England noise and experimental music scene for the past five years or so. Working with distressed vinyl, vintage record players, and a variety of electronic ephemera, he creates his richly crackling music out of dense fields of hiss and hum. In addition to his solo work, he has a longstanding duo project with cassette tape maestro, Howard Stelzer, called Skeletons Out and a newer trio called Ouest with Stelzer and sound artist Brendan Murray."

Ernst Karel
Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s work in audio also takes or has taken the forms of electroacoustic improvisation and composition, fieldwork-based academic research in the anthropology of sound, recording and mixing for public radio and for nonfiction film and video, klezmer and Balkan brass band trumpet playing, CD mastering, and solo and collaborative sound installations, among others.

ek.klingt.org

Tuesday, April 8th 2008 - 8pm

2008-04-01T10:59:00.016-04:00

- the Coup d’etat music series -

Vic Rawlings / Mike Bullock
Calliope Quartet
2Lous

The Vic Rawlings/Mike Bullock duo
combines classical string instruments and electronics in ways that reveal the core elements of each. Rawlings plays amplified cello and an electronic instrument he built out of exposed circuit boards and speaker cones. Bullock plays amplified contrabass, test oscillators, and feedback. The result is a stark sound world utterly alienated from the glib fluidity commonly associated with bowed strings. The sounds are byturns deep-frozen and blisteringly hot. The rhythms are those of hands moving over a workbench or methodically slashing tires. After playing in various bands together since 1997, Rawlings and Bullock first played as a duo in summer 2000. They toured France in October 2003 in support of “Fall of Song” [Chloë]. They returned to France in 2004, and in fall 2005 they toured throughout the eastern U.S. as a trio with Lebanese trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj.

Calliope Quartet

The Calliope Quartet is an electro-acoustic group that was started in order to focus on low-volume, low-velocity music, taking a conventional instrumental ensemble (percussion/electronics, trumpet, guitar, bass) and playing unconventional music. One of our concepts for this project is an exploration of extremes and a natural meeting point between composition and improvised music.
myspace.com/calliopequartet

2Lous
Lou Cohen, composer, performer and digital animator, has been writing algorithmic music for over 50 years. He studied with John Cage and others, and his music has been presented in many venues in Boston and beyond. Lou has performed with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Christian Wolff, Ken Ueno, Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings, Jack Wright, Katt Hernandez, and many others. Lou improvises live sound and live animation.

Sound and silence are allies in the minimal yet intricate music of Lou Bunk. In both his acoustic and electro-acoustic music, timbre unfolds alongside harmony, while extended instrumental techniques, microtones, and a rejection of the virtuosic paints an alien and sometimes barren soundscape.

2008-03-14T11:41:00.050-04:00

Semata Productions presents:

- The Cross-Pollenization Creative Music Festival III -

Saturday, March 22nd 5pm - 11pm

791 Tremont Street (South End) off of Mass Ave. Piano Factory, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 Cost : $0.00 (BYOB)
* Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northhampton Street

5:30 - Howard Stelzer

Howard Stelzer has been active as a composer and performer of electronic music since 1992. His visceral improvised music utilizes the qualities inherent to cassette tape and tape players; namely hiss, the roll of tape across play heads, the crackle of dirt caught inside old players, play speed altered manually by pressure from fingers applied to the tape's reels. Stelzer's work tends to employ space and silence as well as gritty low-fidelity noise, and is almost always centered on the physicality of live performance.Stelzer is a member of the BSC, a large electro-acoustic orchestra led by sax player Bhob Rainey, and the group Skeletons Out, with Jay Sullivan. He also operates the Intransitive Recordings label for electro-acoustic and improvised music. and regularly hosts sound-art, electronic and improvised music concerts by visiting and regional artists in the Boston area, where he lives. howardstelzer.com

6:00 - Orgy of Noise

Besides being the overlord of noise in ORGY OF NOISE, Bill T Miller is a recording engineer producer remixer photographer video tweaker mutant and a member of Out of Band Experience (OBE) - Kings Of Feedack - Drum Army - Slackbangers and is the part-time King Of Slack... for more info go to: billtmiller.com

6:30 - Goatslut

Goatslut tends to cause a lot of problems in class. usually by throwing paper airplanes and putting boards with nails in them on the Teacher's chair. Goatslut enjoys multiple sex partners. We can no longer tell the difference between our live performances and our solitary, treacherous excursions late at night on the john. Goatslut touches itself on the bus in front of kids. Goatslut will key your car. We don't believe in observing the fine line between fucking and making love. We like to meditate while sitting on the washing machine. One of the members has a poster of Aretha Franklin on the wall of their apartment and this has been a steady, ongoing source of tension between this member and the other member of the group. Goatslut hates their hometown but enjoys their Mom's homestyle cooking. Goatslut used to have a bass player but this member committed suicide in 2006. Due surely in no small part to this memb ers inability to sit through a complete round of "Anne of Green Gables". (Goatslut has a drinking game called Anne of Green Gables that we play after shows). Goatslut could tell you more about Him/Her Self, but doesn't think you want to know.
myspace.com/goatslut

7:00 - Asher

asher thal-nir is an artist living and wor king in Somerville, Massachusets. His sound work is composed using recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, location recordings and found recordings which are combined and processed in various ways. His work has been published online and on disk by conv, leerraum [ ], mystery sea, laboratoire moderne, term. and homophoni, with upcoming solo and collaborative releases on the land of, einzeleinheit, winds measure, transparent radiation, leerraum [ ], and/OAR, gears of sand, and sourdine.
myspace.com/asherthalnir

7:30 - James Coleman / Jules Vasylenko / Noell Dorsey

James Coleman has been develop ing and updating new languages and sonic deployment for the Theremin, arguably the first electronic music instrument, in contemporary and creative musics for the past 10 years. Primarily working in improvisation, he is an active performer and recordist in the United States, and has performed with Jaap Blonk, Axel Doerner, Stephen Drury, Peter Kowald, Chris Mann, Lionel Marchetti, Joe McPhee, Jerome Noetinger, Pauline Oliveros, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, and has primary collaborations with Boston area musicians, many of whom are in the BSC. ww w.zuihitsu.net

Noell Dorsey is a classical trained soprano who sings with various opera, choral and chamber ensembles around Boston. She also is the lead singer of rock band Guillermo sexo and is a member of the minimalist duo Beautiful Weekend. New to the Boston noise-improv scene, she began collaborating with experimental trio Eat Flaming Death and most recently with Boston improv veterans James Coleman and Jules Vasylenko. Her voice can be heard on Boston death metal Ehnahre's new album.

jules is a blind U.K.-rain-ian poet,with a strong persecution complex. a peasant,posing as a bohemian. many ghosts follow this big-thumbed behemoth around. at c-p-3 he is hoping to spontaneously combust. left behind will be a shopping list of things he has been involved in performance art..gorilla theater--the blood is still on the wall !!! dub--from ear to eternity. no wave--but drown. industrial--in dust we trust. electro-acoustic etchings..soundscrapes..tape-loops..ape -oops freak-jazz - noizzee--one hump,or two? art--i have nothing to say,and i am saying it! for more details,check with interpol.

Intermission

8:30 - Boston Typewriter Orchestra

BTO is a collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire.BTO aims to entertain the masses while providing a creative outlet for the creative urges of its members. BTO promises to protect customer confidentiality with the utmost vigilance while remaining irreverent at all times.
bostontypewriterorchestra.com

9:00 - ID M Theftable

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kraag.org

9:30 - Eli Keszler

"Multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler is one of a coterie of exciting new Boston-based musicians whose music pushes the boundaries of noise, drones, improv, and electro-acoustic composition. Using a variety of percussion instruments, as well as guitar and electronics, Eli creates intense drones and fast, rhythmically complex pieces. In addition to his solo work, he currently plays in a number of ensembles including a new trio with keyboardist Anthony Coleman and reed-player/vocalist Ashl ey Paul, a duo with guitarist Geoff Mullen, and a longstanding partnership with fellow multi-instrumentalist Steve Pyne called Red Horse. H e has a pair of CDs out onREL, both of which showcase his extraordinarily dynamic playing." myspace.com/elikeszler

10:00 - Vic Rawlings / Tim Feeney

Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed as a duo since 2005. Their music explores an unpredictable relationship with making sounds, achieved by elaborate preparation of acoustic soundboxes, such as drums or cello, and expanded via original electronic instruments , ranging from naked circuitboards to amplified kitchen objects. They focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds and silences, exploring austere combinations of sound and the otherworldly ripple effects that pulse through a silent space or alert ears. The group has toured throughout the Eastern United States, and will release its first CD, In Six Parts, on the Sedimental label in spring 2007. timfeeney.com/feeneyrawlings

10:30 - Nmperign

Nmperign has been hailed the world over as the leading purveyors of whatever that strange thing they do is. Their palette of sounds makes laptops seem as flexible as doorbells, and their precise but wildly unpredictable improvisations would have you at the edge of your seat if you weren't so afraid of the noise you would make getting there. Fierce and fragile, lush and fractured, nmperign is tough to pin down and all the better for it.

bhobrainey.net
geocities.com/greyelkgel

Semata & Intransitive present:

2008-02-25T13:45:00.015-05:00

CANCELED -

Wednesday's Hair Police / Heathen Shame / Craniopagus
concert at the Piano Guild is canceled 
due to Hair Police getting into a blizzard-related car
accident in Ohio. Everyone involved is safe and unhurt, but the tour
is not continuing.

Hair Police
Heathen Shame
Craniopagus

- Piano Factory - 791 Tremont Street (South End) off of Mass Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02118 -
$7
all ages

Hair Police
Working with traditional rock instrumentation as well as electronics, tape manipulation, and oscillators, Hair Police builds demonic walls of sound for a result reminiscent of Throbbing Gristle, early Black Dice, and Wolf Eyes. Hair Police formed in Lexington, KY, in January of 2001. The original lineup included Matt Minter and Ross Compton, but the group soon settled on Mike Connelly (guitar, vocals, tapes, noise), Robert Beatty (electronics), and Trevor Tremaine (drums, vocals, tapes). Soon after forming, the group released its 2001 debut, History of Ghost Dad on Gods of Tundra. Blow Out Your Blood followed on Freedomfrom in 2002, and 2003 found Hair Police in an extremely productive mode that produced Movies: Live '01-'02 (a cassette on Animal Disguise), the Mortuary Servants 7", a self-titled cassette on Hospital Productions, Probe Cutting (a cassette on Gods of Tundra), and splits with Cadaver in Drag and Viki -- the latter of which secured the band its widest distribution. In 2004 Hair Police released a new album, Obedience Cuts, as well as a split with Crystal Fantasy. The following year saw two new albums --Constantly Terrified and Drawn Dead--as well as a reissue of their self-titled album for Hospital Productions on CD.

Heathen Shame

The trio of Greg Kelley, Wayne Rogers, and Kate Village formed under the banner Heathen Shame in the fall of 1999. After a handful of one-off shows they recorded their self-titled debut LP in May of 2002, which caught them just as their sound was starting to gel. They then embarked on a three week tour of America's heartland with Double Leopards (including at least one outdoor show that could be termed a "gathering") in an attempt to share their unique brand of high decibel improvisation. Although they drove away as many people as they converted (OK, maybe a lot more than they converted), the steady gigging continued upon their return and soon the Heathen Shame were playing as one mind rather than three. Speed The Parting Guest is a carefully paced but blazing affair that shows how seamless a unit they've become. In contrast to the abstract feel of their debut, Speed The Parting Guest finds them swinging large blocks of sound around their heads for hours before launching them at you. Their wall of sound is now a sonic universe that they can manipulate with slow malice or lightning precision. Heathen Shame are destined to be THE most talked about two-guitar-and-trumpet combo of 2005 and beyond.

Craniopagus

“Anyone interested in extremely rough and harsh PE/noise should pay atttention to this Craniopagus release. Reminding of extreme force and grit of early Mauthausen Orchestra but with the vocal delivery of newer american power electronics stress. The sound is rough and ear splitting in an analog that makes you cringe. Sounds more like live loud recording than bedroom work. Another excellent element is the chocie to break down the work into actual tracks....giving it an older feeling and keeping the pace moving with sutble changes in tone and atmospehre with each track. “ - Dominick Fernow Hospital Productions on the Fetu in Fetus release

DRONE NIGHT - Thursday, February, 21st 2008

2008-01-28T16:44:00.000-05:00

Thursday, February 21st 2008
Bowed Metal Music
Brendan Murray
Nathan Ahlers

Bowed Metal Music

Peter Warren and Matt Samolis have been working with their modified ‘steel cellos’ since 1997. Bowed Metal is the name of their duo work dedicated to the study and performance of acoustic drone music created by bowing cymbals and tuned steel rods. Our work is loosely structured and is guided by the direction of each performance, being that the instruments themselves often dictate the available pitch and timbral pallet. Our role as players is largely to maintain a focus on the present moment, and an openness to the progression of this unusual music as it unfolds.

mattsamolis.com/ms_sounds.php?id=1

Brendan Murray
Working with analog and digital instruments since 1998, Brendan Murray is concerned with making long form dense compositions of pure sound. Drones remain at the core of his work, with connections between the visceral and the elegant an aesthetic priority. He has released 3 full-length cds of his work, as well as small cdr editions, and has played live throughout a good portion of the United States. Current activities include a new song-based band with live instruments called Paper Summer, a film score for a documentary on the Roma population of Macedonia, collaborative recordings with US sound artist Seth Nehil (as Sillage), a duet recording with Swiss guitarist Tomas Korber, a large scale audiovisual work with New York based multimedia artist Richard Garet and a new trio called Ouest with turntablist Jay Sullivan and longtime co-conspirator Howard Stelzer.
brendanmurray.com

Nathan Ahlers

composer/arranger/guitarist
member of Calliope quartet
organizer of Cross-Pollenization Music Fest
organizer of Coup d'etat series (at Piano Factory)

Thursday, January 17th 2008

2008-01-09T14:53:00.000-05:00

Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 8pm
Greg Kelley
Dave Tronzo / Andrew Hock
K:sada (D.J. Murray)
Greg Kelley

Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.

Dave Tronzo
David Tronzo has devoted most of his life to music since he first became mesmerized by it as a youthful rock-influenced teenager in the summer of 1972. He has literally and figuratively “traveled far” from his beginnings in rural Rochester, New York, where he was born in 1957, steadily honing his skills as a self-taught student to his modern-day evolution to becoming a world-renowned slide guitar musician and teacher. Tronzo has received the distinction of being voted one of the “Top 100 Guitarists of the 20th Century” by Musician Magazine (September, 1993 issue). In addition, the pundits in New York City bestowed their long-time resident (1979-2002) with more accolades (“Best Guitarist in N.Y.C.-1993” by the New York Press). Musician Magazine honored him with the distinction of being one of the “Top Ten Jazz Guitarists.” Tronzo’s unquenchable thirst for mastering his craft has provided him with a diversified taste in music, which can be seen in his unique playing style. Essentially, Tronzo envisions a style ranging widely in emotion and technique, weaving freely through all of the music he plays. The result is a startlingly innovative body of extended techniques for the slide guitar for which he is credited with creating: fluid single lines, finger-behind-the-slide chords, and harmonic slaps, using unconventional slide accoutrements such as plastic cups, rags, pencils and wires. His “inventiveness” as a slide guitarist has been the subject of two doctoral candidates’ ethnomusicology theses in Germany (1995 and 2001). In February 2002, critic Laurence Donahue-Greene credited Tronzo as being “a pioneer of the modern slide guitar.” (Open Ears column, allaboutjazz.com) Tronzo has toured extensively in Europe and the United States, gracing the stages of the most renowned international music festivals in the world. He has teamed up with acclaimed musicians in various duos and projects under his name (Tronzo Quartet/Tronzo Project), as well as others. He is linked with some of the most famous names in musicianship (e.g., David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels and Michael Blake). Tronzo’s slide guitar can also be heard in the soundtracks to director Robert Altman’s film “Shortcuts” and Marco Brambilla’s “Excess Baggage.” He has also recorded and toured with Wayne Horvitz and The President, John Hiatt, John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards, John Cale, Marshall Crenshaw, Foday Muso Suso, Hassan Hakmoun, Gavin Friday, The Jazz Passengers, Mike Manieri, and David Sanborn. Most recently, Tronzo was nominated as one of thirty musicians worldwide to receive the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts for music. He is currently residing with his wife Kelly and their cat, Fred in Newmarket, New Hampshire. He is touring and recording in a solo format as well as with The Tronzo Trio (new CD release pending), The Tronzo/Herbert Duo with bassist Peter Herbert, and a new project “V-16” with drummer Jerry Granelli, bassist Anthony Cox and guitarist Christian Kogel (new CD release pending). Since 2001 Tronzo has been a frequent collaborator with Boston-based dub-jazz collective Club d'Elf, and can be heard on several of their CDs, including 2006's Now I Understand (Accurate), 2004's 100 Years Of Flight (Kufala) & Gravity All Nonsense Now (Kufala), which also features fellow Berklee Prof Dave "Fuze" Fiuczynski. He features prominently (along with John Medeski & Duke Levine) on their upcoming release, Perhapsody (Kufala), due June 19, 2007.

Andrew Hock
Andrew Hock is a guitarist/improviser living in Cambridge, MA. He has studied with Joe Morris, Mary Halvorson, and Ben Monder. Primarily working in the fields of extreme metal(ehnahre, castevet) and freely improvised music; this performance marks his first with teacher and mentor Dave Tronzo. His improvisation style is influenced by Derek Bailey, Joe Morris, Olivier Messiaen, Cecil Taylor, Morton Feldman, and the dark atmospheres of death and black metal. Andrew has won no awards.

k:sada
k:sada (D.J. Murray) will try to have you experience dimethyltryptamine aurally and without legal repercussions. He rarely performs, and lives with no heat.

2007-12-10T12:43:00.000-05:00

Monday, December 17, 2007
Non-Event and Semata Productions present
a FREE concert of experimental music featuring

BRANDON LABELLE
w/JARROD FOWLER

Piano Craft Guild (entrance at rear)
791 Tremont Street
Boston, Ma (South End)
8pm FREE!!!

About the artists:

BRANDON LABELLE is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural narratives. He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, “Phantom Radio”, was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006).

JARROD FOWLER used to be a drummer. His music has become so abstracted and conceptualized that his percussive practice bears little resemblance to that of his contemporaries. His work is influenced by the late- and post-modern fields of philosophy, conceptualism, hip hop, poetry and noise. He is the author of Translation As Rhythm (Errant Bodies 2006).

This concert is supported in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation.

Sunday, December 9th 2007

2007-12-02T19:49:00.000-05:00

Bryan Eubanks / Vic Rawlings
James Coleman / Ricardo Donoso / Nathan Ahlers
Ryan McGuire
Bryan Eubanks
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Eubanks is working with the soprano saxophone and electronics in collaborations, installations, and solo performances. He manages a small label, Rasbliutto Recordings, and has presented his music in real-time settings across the US and Europe.

Vic Rawlings
Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser and
instrument builder, specializing in modifications
of existing instruments, creating 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.

James Coleman
James Coleman has been developing and updating new languages and sonic deployment for the Theremin, arguably the first electronic music instrument, in contemporary and creative musics for the past 10 years. Primarily working in improvisation, he is an active performer and recordist in the United States, and has performed with Jaap Blonk, Axel Doerner, Stephen Drury, Peter Kowald, Chris Mann, Lionel Marchetti, Joe McPhee, Jerome Noetinger, Pauline Oliveros, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, and has primary collaborations with Boston area musicians, many of whom are in the BSC. http://www.zuihitsu.net

Ricardo Donoso
Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has studied film scoring and music synthesis at Berklee college of music, and composition at the New England Conservatory. He currently leads the Calliope quartet, an electro-acoustic outfit focusing primarily on drone and low volume, low-velocity musics. He performs with The Metal and Glass Ensemble who make acoustic soundscapes, using bowed cymbals, tuned glasses, and other sounding devices, as well as performing with various local musicians. Ricardo also founded Semata Productions who host monthly experimental music concerts in the Boston area and a festival 3 times a year called "Cross-Pollenization", which he curates and oversees.
rdonoso.com

Nathan Ahlers

composer/arranger/guitarist
member of Calliope quartet
organizer of Cross-Pollenization Music Fest
organizer of Coup d'etat series (at Piano Factory)

Ryan McGuire
Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Jim Hobbs, Raqib Hassan, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied composition and performance at UMass-Lowell and Berklee, and has recordings on Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Dilettante, Raqib Hassan’s Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra, and the Forbes Graham Quartet.

11/15 First installment of the Coup d'etat Series

2007-10-26T13:40:00.001-04:00

Semata Productions first installment of the Coup d'etat Series will will take place on Thursday, November 15th at 8pm and will feature the artists below.

CRANK STURGEON
Crank Sturgeon: junk sound, faux pas, actionist ethos (act-shun pathos), fisch kopf psychedelia, non-art-performance-art, nothing too serious (and yet serious enough to keep doing it). Crank Sturgeon has been active in the wayward wandering peripheries of noise and performance art since 1992. Combining the foundations set forth by the Dadaists, Joseph Beuys, and Allan Kaprow, Crank has giddily blurred the lines of quasi-art lecture/presentation with a circus of high volume, irreverent pun, and punk sensibility. Whether just a solo voice and spontaneous poetry; or armed with an array of busted guitars, contact microphones, and the essential scrappy costume in tow, the show desires to connect sonic expression and visual distortion with athletics of the absurd: the cause and effect becoming simultaneously caustic and celebratory. Wriggling, combustible, sweaty, and delirious; that would be the hope at least, in matters of fishnoise and man.
www.cranksturgeon.com

OPHIBRE
Ophibre is Benjamin Rossignol, a sound artist based in Boston, MA. He draws primarily from the textures of dream and literature to sculpt his compositions. His label, Oph Sound, is focused on limited run object releases. Releases include pieces such as Condom, Pine Needles and Spice. Ophibre's music has been published by Bruit, TibProd and Expanding Electronic Diversity.
www. ophibre.com

FORBES GRAHAM
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Rakalam Bob Moses, Steve Lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, Jim Hobbs, The One Am Radio, and Luther Gray. His composition "Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence" was commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and world premiered at the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet. Forbes has also written music for the new music/rock ensemble Normal Love. He has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero and The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music. His work incorporates many genres including drum n' bass, jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and hip-hop.
www.polyrhythmatics.net