Gift Tapes presents semi-regular experimental music performances in the Seattle area. Gift Tapes Presents focuses on a fairly wide range of experimental music, while the SYNTH NIGHT series zeros in on contemporary experimental synthesizer music. Please be sure to bookmark this page, as all upcoming and past events can be viewed here. We hope to see you at the show!
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GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
An Evening of Electronic Sound & Visuals
CORRIDORS, MILLION MISTS, MATT CARLSON & PANABRITE
October 10th, 8 PM
Gallery 1412 - 1412 18th Avenue (18th & E Union)
Admission $7
Gift Tapes will present an exciting evening of electronic sound and visuals featuring CORRIDORS, Million Mists, Matt Carlson and Panabrite. Brooklyn-based CORRIDORS mixes multichannel works from processed insturmental and enironmental sound and video imagery. Portland musician, Matt Carlson (member of Golden Retriever) will play a solo synth set and Seattle solo synth acts Million Mists (member of Brother Raven) and Panabrite will both make debut appearances.
Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, The Stone, Diapason Gallery, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery, (NYC), Les Voûtes (FR), Wien Konzerthaus (Austria), NonEvent (Boston), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), Institute of Intermedia (CZ). He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Jandek, Sawako, Heribert Friedl, Stefan Tcherepnin, Maria Chavez, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Tetuzi Akiyama, among many others. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre, David Watson and Jonathan Kane. He has worked as technical coordinator of Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 2004. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik at Sclhoss Schrattenberg. A cd will be released in Fall 2010 on Sedimental Records. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Website: www.byronwestbrook.com
Matt Carlson is a composer and musician who is an active participant in the underground and experimental music scene of Portland, Oregon. His work is deliberately difficult to summarize; his numerous collaborations include modal electro-acoustic improvisation with Golden Retriever, orchestral arrangements and synthesizers with pop group Parenthetical Girls, sound installations, video soundtracks and performance art with Oregon Painting Society, long form freely improvised dance music with CexFucx, and reductionist electronic drones with Bonus. His solo music includes experimental song-form albums, dense electronic noise, atonal deconstructions of funk music, pretty rhythmic minimalism, and compositions for chamber music ensemble, string quartet and electronic instruments. He has toured North America and Europe, and performed in Portland at PICA's Time-Based Art festival in 2009 and '08, Vancouver's PUSH Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival, and Vienna's Donaufestival. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he studied composition with Jarrod Powell.
Website: www.bucketfactory.com
Seattle-based Million Mists is Jamie Potter's solo electronic project, best known as half of the cosmic synth duo Brother Raven and for his long-form minimalist improvisations with Bonus. His music can be described as a fusion of new age dreamscapes and odd space formations, shaped from the sounds of inexpensive Yamaha keyboards, tape loops and effects. Weaving an inter-galactic tale of otherworldly explorations, Million Mists bends the barriers of reality, unveiling new drone territories via ethereal loops and elusive melodies.
Website: www.jamiepotter.net
Panabrite, the solo electronic project of Seattle-based Norm Chambers, blends the sounds of cosmic electronic music, ambient music, library music, and soundtracks. Haunted underwater VHS nature/science documentaries meet queasy synth detritus and blips of new age cult training videos. Equal parts zoned-out drift and focused micro-melodies. Panabrite has self-released three albums on cd-r, including 2010’s Contemplating the Observatory, and a split cassette with Hobo Cubes on Hobo Cult Records, entitled Sub-Aquatic Meditation/Soma Satori. Both albums are inspired by a fascination with outer and inner space-- the dark mysteries they evoke and the endless inspiration they present. In addition to the upcoming Wizard Chimes on Gift Tapes, Panabrite will soon be featured on a split-cassette with Italy’s Theawayteam, on the UK tape label Bumtapes.
Website: www.myspace.com/panabritesounds
GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
Scorpio Vision Quest
EXPO 70, BROTHER RAVEN, & MEGABATS
November 1st, 10:30 PM
The Rendezvous - 2322 2nd Avenue (Belltown, between Bell & Blanchard)
Admission $8
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON.
Coming soon.
Website: www.exposeventy.com
Brother Raven is a Seattle-based duo that creates experimental music through improvisations with synthesizers, tape, and effects. Drawing influence from synth music of the early 80s, Inuit mythology, and time travel, their music combines the atmospheric zones of space music with the positive-vibe ambiance of early new age. Formed in 2008 by Jamie Potter and Jason E Anderson, Brother Raven has released five audio cassettes to date and one LP.
Website: www.broraven.com
Megabats is the Seattle-based duo project of Samuel Melancon (Debacle Records) and Riley Scott. Using Korg DS-10’s as the primary instrumentation, the duo makes zoned out pop drones and slightly dancey skull-floaters.
Website: www.myspace.com/megabats
GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
Night of Contemporary Minimalism
August 24
GREG DAVIS, AURES, MIND OVER MIRRORS & STELLA HAZE
Gallery 1412
SYNTH NIGHT 3
An evening of meditative music
August 13
PULSE EMITTER, STELLA HAZE & SPARE DEATH ICON
Chapel Performance Space
GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
An evening of Contemporary Drone music
June 23
BROTHER RAVEN, ZAIMPH, & JAIME FENNELLY
Gallery 1412
SYNTH NIGHT 2
April 2
MAGNETICRING, J. HANSON, BROTHER RAVEN, & MATT CARLSON
The Josephine
SYNTH NIGHT 1
February 18
STELLAR OM SOURCE, PACIFIC CITY NIGHTLIFE VISION BAND & BROTHER RAVEN
Gallery 1412