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Gift Tapes/DRAFT, two experimental music labels curated by Jason E Anderson, presents experimental music performances in the Seattle area. In 2017 & 2018, Gift Tapes/DRAFT presented an official program of live performances from PNW artists involved in/around the experimental music community at the Chapel Performance Space, in association with the Wayward Music Series. Find out more about the artists presented below and view documentation on our blogs: Gift Tapes blog & DRAFT blog.

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UPCOMING:

September 7, 2019

Gift Tapes/DRAFT Presents:
JASON E ANDERSON
RM FRANCIS

Jason E Anderson RM Francis RM Francis, Jason E Anderson RM Francis, Jason E Anderson web flyer
(click image for high-res images, PDF print poster here)

Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle (50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford)
8pm, $5-15 sliding scale

Gift Tapes/DRAFT presents Jason E Anderson and RM Francis at the Chapel Performance Space, in association with the Wayward Music Series, with support from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Jason E Anderson will present a new composition called CORM (Consequence of Recursive Memory). RM Francis will present new computer synthesis work to open the evening. All proceeds from this performance will be donated to friend and fellow musician Norm Chambers to assist him with medical expenses.

Jason E Anderson

Jason E Anderson is an artist now living in the Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest, having left Seattle in 2018 to live among the Palouse farmlands just outside of Pullman WA. His work includes performance, recordings, film/video, installation, music for dance, producing and publishing. Anderson performs and records music under his own name and in performance art/film collaboration LIMITS with dancer Corrie Befort. In 2001, he began performing in Seattle’s free improv/experimental music circles and in 2008 he co-founded improv synth duo Brother Raven with Jamie Potter, leading to his active involvement in the synth music scene running experimental music label Gift Tapes/DRAFT. In performance, Anderson employs systems that generate sound and patterns that are subject to manual manipulation. His occasional use of voice/text, particularly in the context of LIMITS, has augmented his use of abstract sound with extra-musical information to address concepts and context within the auditory realm. See: Jason E Anderson, LIMITS, Gift Tapes/DRAFT, Mesh Collaborative, Brother Raven, Space Habitat, Spare Death Icon, and Harpoon Pole Vault.

About CORM: Consequence of Recursive Memory is a composition for voice/computer, comprised of prepared texts spoken by the performer in dialogue with a computer as a framework to observe recursion within human memory. The computer ‘listens’ to text spoken by the performer, which uses statistical analysis to model increasingly complex responses articulated by means of rudimentary sound synthesis. The system is biased to stimulate conceptual links between the textual content and technological process, but obfuscates speech intelligibility and pacing to equalize this information with the electronic sound.

RM Francis

RM Francis is an artist working with computer-generated sound via performance, recording, and installation. His work has been presented throughout North America at numerous festivals, including Debacle (Seattle), 2 Day (Portland), Diffusion (Baltimore), and Human Festival (Philadelphia). His Hyperplastic Other project is a series of works utilizing chocolate, video, performance, and sound to dramatize alternative models of subjectivity. Francis was also a member of Mesh Collaborative, a computer music ensemble employing network architecture to explore novel modes of distributed authorship and human-computer collaboration. He lives in Seattle, where he is also active as a concert organizer.

CORM and this performance is made possible with support from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

Office of Arts & Culture Seattle

ARCHIVE:

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
August 11, 2018
Doug Theriault, RM Francis
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
June 2, 2018
Arun Chandra, Scott Goodwin
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
February 3, 2018
SEATTLE PHONOGRAPHERS UNION, MESH COLLABORATIVE
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
August 26, 2017
JARRAD POWELL, GOLDEN RETRIEVER
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
May 6, 2017
SETH NEHIL, RM FRANCIS, CAMERON SHAFII
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
March 18, 2017
MATT CARLSON, JEFF WITSCHER, JASON E ANDERSON
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES/DRAFT PRESENTS:
January 28, 2017
JONATHAN SIELAFF, MILLION MISTS, NORM CHAMBERS
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
August 21, 2015
MSHR, MILLION MISTS, LIMITS, RM FRANCIS
Chapel Performance Space

DRAFT PRESENTS:
February 20, 2015
<RM FRANCIS, JASON E ANDERSON
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
June 21, 2012
With assistance from DEBACLE RECORDS
BEE MASK, MATT CARLSON, SPARE DEATH ICON

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
August 31, 2011
RENE HELL, EARN, RM FRANCIS, HARPOON POLE VAULT
The Josephine

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
June 23, 2011
MARK MCGUIRE, RENE HELL, BROTHER RAVEN, EYE MYTHS
The Josephine

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
Outsider electronic music
May 13, 2011
MATT CARLSON, RM FRANCIS
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
Scorpio Vision Quest
November 1, 2010
EXPO 70, BROTHER RAVEN, MEGABATS
The Rendezvous

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
An Evening of Electronic Sound & Visuals
October 10, 2010
CORRIDORS, MILLION MISTS, MATT CARLSON, PANABRITE
Gallery 1412

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
Night of Contemporary Minimalism
August 24, 2010
GREG DAVIS, AURES, MIND OVER MIRRORS, STELLA HAZE
Gallery 1412

SYNTH NIGHT 3
An evening of meditative music
August 13, 2010
PULSE EMITTER, STELLA HAZE, SPARE DEATH ICON
Chapel Performance Space

GIFT TAPES PRESENTS:
An evening of Contemporary Drone music
June 23, 2010
BROTHER RAVEN, ZAIMPH, JAIME FENNELLY
Gallery 1412

SYNTH NIGHT 2
April 2, 2010
MAGNETICRING, J. HANSON, BROTHER RAVEN, MATT CARLSON
The Josephine

SYNTH NIGHT 1
February 18, 2010
STELLAR OM SOURCE, PACIFIC CITY NIGHTLIFE VISION BAND, BROTHER RAVEN
Gallery 1412