Entr'acte presents: Olivia Block + Adam Sonderberg + Lee Gamble + Keith Moliné + John Wall/Alex Rodgers
THURSDAY 31st March 2011
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £10 on the door
Entr'acte presents an evening of electro-acoustic soundworks.
OLVIA BLOCK
Olivia Block is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated sound. Block works with recorded media, chamber ensembles, video, and site-specific sound installations.
She has performed throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours and festivals including Sonic Light, Dissonanze, Archipel, Angelica, Sunoni per il Popolo, Outer Ear, and many others. Her works have premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music, and she has completed residencies and premiered works at Mills College of Music and The Berklee College of Music. She has taught master classes at several additional universities.
Block has created sound installations for public sites and exhibition spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the library at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the Lincoln Conservatory Fern Room in Chicago, and at the “Echoes Through the Mountains” exhibit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Her 2008 DVD release with video artists Sandra Leah Gibson and Luis Recoder, Untitled, on SOS editions, has been screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Expanded Cinema symposium at the Tate Modern in London. Her release Mobius Fuse was voted one of the best albums of the decade by Pitchfork.
Block has published recordings through Sedimental, either/OAR, and Cut, among other labels. Tonight she will perform both solo and in a duo with Adam Sonderberg.
Sonderberg is co-director of the Dropp Ensemble and 1/3 of Haptic. He works with concrète-based forms utilizing the computer as a discreet processing and assembly tool. He will be flying in from San Francisco especially for this event and will perform a duo at the beginning of the evening with Olivia Block.
His selected discography includes over two dozen releases, both solo and ensemble work, published by a number of different labels including: Entr'acte, Absurd, Cathnor, Crouton, and/OAR, Compost and Height, FSS, and Longbox Recordings.
Sonderberg is one third of Haptic, a texture-centric performing entity that occasionally utilizes a rotating fourth member to augment the content of each concert. In November 2009, Haptic, together with frequent collaborator and video artist Lisa Slodki, presented Triptych as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s UBS 12x12 Gallery series. The quartet augmented their multimedia installation throughout the month with weekly live performances.
He is also co-director, with Salvatore Dellaria, of the Dropp Ensemble (pronounced 'drope') which consists of an international grouping of musicians and technicians that work together through mail-based data transfer and extensive post-production.
He has worked with Jon Mueller, Steven Hess, Boris Hauf, Brendan Walls, Mark Solotroff, Eric la Casa, Joseph Clayton Mills, Carol Genetti, Tomas Korber, Civil War, Katherine Young, Michael Graeve, Olivia Block, and Tony Buck, amongst numerous others. Since 2003 Sonderberg has collaborated with theatrical, and movement artists / ensembles by producing sound work for theatre, performance art, dance, and film.
Lee Gamble is a founding member of the UK-based CYRK collective. He explores abstraction through the computer, improvisation, digital synthesis, process, and the deconstruction/reconstruction of form.
He has performed throughout the U.K and Europe and has had works published by Entr’acte and AUSREIHE. Lee has curated and co-curated several CYRK events and has produced and curated radio series for London arts radio station Resonance104.4fm.
Lee has DJ’ed for many years at venues and on several radio stations around the U.K. He has created mixes for various organisations, the most recent one for the ICASEA podcast series.
Other current interests include; Disfiguration, parasites, psychoacoustics, communication/anti-communication, abstract space, malfuction and dis/order, modification, absurdity, pattern repetition..
Lee Gamble on the Cyrk website
JOHN WALL
John Wall is a London-based electroacoustic composer and now improviser who first began to make music at the age of 40 when he acquired his first sampler. Between 1993 and 2005 he released seven albums on his own Utterpsalm label to considerable critical acclaim. Beginning with samples appropriated from his CD collection, he gradually refined his music away from his early collage approach to create a highly individual music using tiny fragments of sounds specifically recorded for him, which were then processed and refined in his home studio. Known for his meticulous attention to detail and the considerable length of time each piece of music takes to make, his releases sound like the most finely crafted audio sculptures, somewhere between the contemporary composition of Lachenmann and the experiments of the early laptop musicians of the mid 90s. After struggling for months to complete 2005's stunning twenty-minute work Cphon, Wall went quiet, only to re-emerge a couple of years later as an improviser standing behind a laptop, a role that seemed to fly in the face of everything expected of him as a musician. - Richard Pinnell
Keith Moliné has been smuggling leftfield praxis into garage rock for over
fifteen years in his capacity as guitarist with Pere Ubu and David Thomas.
On his forthcoming Entr'acte release in the company of his 2 Pale Boys cohort
Andy Diagram he explores ways in which various performance and non-performance
parameters can be manipulated to produce new musical material.
He hasn't decided what he's going to do for this solo set. Entr'acte boss
Allon Kaye declares himself intrigued. So is Moliné.
