Non-Event, WZBC. and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum present
multichannel works in the Great Engines Hall
OLIVIA BLOCK
performing Dissolution 2
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02467 (map)
Doors: 6:30pm, Performance: 7pm
Admission:
Door: $15 general admission / $10 members/students
OLIVIA BLOCK creates original sound compositions for concerts, site-specific multi-speaker installations, live cinema, and performance. In a recent feature article in the April 2011 issue of The Wire magazine, Julian Cowley describes Block’s compositions as “finely nuanced textures of environmental material and occasional surges of sonic power blended with an elegant instrumental architecture.” Her compositions often include field recordings, musical scores, and electronic textures. Additionally, she performs her own partially improvised compositions for inside piano and electronics, and objects.
She has performed, premiered and exhibited her work throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours in festivals including Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Kontraste (Krems), Dissonanze (Rome), Archipel (Geneva) Angelica (Bologna), Sunoni per il Popolo (Montreal), and many others. Additionally, she has presented work at the ICA (London), MCA (Chicago), La Biennale di Venezia 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music, The Kitchen (NYC), ISSUE Project Room and Experimental Intermedia (Brooklyn). She has completed residencies and premiered works at Mills College of Music and The Berklee College of Music. Block has presented talks at additional universities in film, music, and media arts departments, including Yale University and Indiana University.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL is a project created by Kevin Micka. Three albums have been produced under this name since its birth in 2004. A live performance of Animal Hospital consists of Kevin alone and is based on the idea of building a piece of music up from scratch into a completely fleshed out arrangement often containing enough parts to employ many musicians. The music often references many familiar aspects of contemporary rock and pop music but is open to venture out into much more experimental territory. As of 2011, Kevin has begun exploring a new avenue for live performance by translating his music into a large ensemble format, sometimes topping 30 members.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture.
Non-Event Presents
Our November Experimental Coffee House
featuring
STEPHANIE GERMAINE / ANGELA SAWYER
Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA 02445
617-879-2500
7 p.m./$5
STEPHANIE GERMAINE and ANGELA SAWYER have both been performing improvised electronics around Boston for 10+ years, but only just began playing together. Both use homemade, souped-up toys, pedals, contact mics, broken mixers, and other everyday technological ephemera, as though they spend their nights raiding the dumpsters behind a Guitar Center. Yet each of the two has forged a personal sonic signature, dipping in and out of projects across avant-classical, jazz, noise, & rock developments as they bubble up through New England’s lively underground music world. Steph plays with Walter Wright in Lowell, is a member of the Lowell-Worcester supergroup LINDA, and founded the trio Phurnne with Jen Gelinau and Andrea Pensado. Angela plays in the jazz trio Duck That, sings in the hardcore band Negative One, and does standup comedy around town when she’s not playing music (or sometimes while playing music). These ladies also have a veritable mountain of releases on cassette, cdr, vinyl, and bandcamp, which they would gladly discuss with you in great detail pretty much any old time at all.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture.
Non-Event presents
REINIER VAN HOUDT (piano, electronics)
performing
Michael Pisaro, Green Hour, Grey Future
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 pm / $12 / $10 members & students
REINIER VAN HOUDT started working with taperecorders, radio's, objects and various string-instruments at a young age. He studied piano at the Liszt-Akademie in Budapest & the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He developed a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond interpretation and improvisation. He has built himself an unusual repertoire that consistently resulted from personal quests; be it from collaborations with composers & musicians, from research in archives, from the composing and staging of music-performances or from unorthodox studies of classical music.
He premiered music by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Francisco López, Charlemagne Palestine, Yannis Kyriakides, Maria de Alvear, Jerry Hunt, Michael Pisaro, Walter Marchetti. He has also worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Luc Ferrari, Olivier Messiaen and Christian Marclay. Reinier van Houdt plays in Current 93, recently releasing an album with contributions by Nick Cave, John Zorn and Antony Hegarty. He is also one of the moving forces behind the experimental music outfit MAE/MAZE.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture.
Non-Event Presents
Our December Experimental Coffee House
featuring
ABDUL SHERZAI
Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA 02445
617-879-2500
7 p.m./$5
ABDUL H SHERZAI creates sound and art in Worcester, Massachusetts. He's made bedroom noise under various monikers since 2006, and has been booking local events since 2010. His most recent collaborative projects, Gay Shapes, Gnärds, and Linda, perform throughout New England. He has had releases on such great labels as Moss Archive, Ayurvedic Tapes, YDLMIER, and most recently the fledgling HEC Tapes.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture.