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Audrey Chen www.myspace.com/audreychen
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 artists, including Phil Minton, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ko Ishikawa, Elliott Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, and a myriad of others. l 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. www.redroom.org www.highzero.org
Bird Organ www.myspace.birdorgan.com
Formed in late 2006, birdorgan began performing together in the NH/MA/ME area. Our goal is to work with other like-minded sound artists creating immediate free improvisations in the spaces we are provided. A few venues we have invaded include Strange Maine in Portland , ME , 119 Gallery in Lowell , MA , and the Monastery Artist Space in Manchester , NH . We have also begun working with various visual projections including vintage 16mm industrial/art films which adds another dynamic to the overall birdorgan experience.
Kit Demos is playing with Bird Organ at Frantasia this year. See his bio under his name below.
Carin Fortin www.carinfortin.com
Carin Fortin creates visual solutions for print and digital media. She was born in Switzerland and earned her masters diploma in graphic design at the hgkz/zurich. She has worked in Amsterdam , Paris and Dublin . In 1998 she moved to New York ; she currently works and lives in Brooklyn . Carin created the logo and the artwork piece for 2009 Frantasia Festival.
Cave Bears www.cavebears.suchfun.net
Members: Nick Willliams and Carrie Strimbeck plus one mystery guest. Where we is: cavebears.suchfun.net // myspace.com/cavebears How we is: Cave BEARS started as a few disparate "pipe" cells which gradually formed clumps and clots and eventually there was the first finger which died and was used by the second finger as a pick to play the third guitar. The sun was just a hot point on the horizon back then because we didnt have up or down and at high noon the fingers would run out puddles of white jism which were gradually hardened by the desert sun, then merely a hot point, into the shape of the first desert nomads who had to climb under rocks and bust dirt if they wanted to hear some swingin tunes cause there literally were no musical instruments back then. These were the earliest dates of the CABIA CABLAS, the web of points which keeps measure from burning out and into your damn eyes, and so today this has more or less freely congolmerated into a few lumps of ossified vegetable matter with mottled skin stretched over with it and with the price of newspaper advertising being what it is we just call ourselves CAVBARS or CVEBERS to save money and you would call us that too if you didn't want your arm snapped back to fit into our guitar cases better. Our goal is to bring the hot hot desert sun into whatever musical chasm we might be playing from and to make you go away.
Christopher CathodeExperimental Electronic & Stereophonic Operations http://www.myspace.com/theloustewallsandhaemorrhage
http://www.bandmix.com/dj-trocar/
http://www.facebook.com/christopher.cathode
Christopher Cathode (ca-THODE) is an avant-electronic sound artist who mixes both acoustic & electronic percussion with the nuances of electro gear such as samplers and retro synth engines to create a mesmerizing matamorphosis of sound, timbre, color & texture. There is a profound 'fondness' for metallophones and vibrational alloy percussion. With the addition of amplified 'found' items and the resurrection and treated amplification of 'forgotton' and abandoned medical and industrial devices, the territory covered traverses landscapes akin to post-Apocalyptic wasteland dwellings and engine oil odor-filled factories. The name given to this: Experimental Electronic & Stereophonic Operations (E.E.S.O.)
Since mid-2007, the composer has been involved in collaboration with Teresa Fellion, artistic director and choreographer of T.LION DANCE/BodyStories, based in NYC. The collaboration is a 27-minute modern dance tour-de-force entitled "THE BORDER PROJECT". 'The Border Project carves out a corporeal map of the space in between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Focusing on stories of immigration, it describes journeys of displacement and reworking of identity that happens on the social level and then recreates it on a magnified, human level. The dance movement, theatricality, and text are so physically, emotionally, and spiritually rich, that they provide the audience with a supreme sense of immersion, growth, and satisfaction. “The Border Project” premiered in Lyon , France to rave reviews earlier this year. It includes an accomplished and talented group of dance-theater artists and an original score composed by Christopher Cathode that mixes percussion, electronic music, and poignant French text.'
In February 2009, The Border Project debuted at Les ReuTeuLeu Festival, in Lyon , France , to very gracious audiences and energetic reviews. Other performances have ensued since the European tour, and more are expected to sprout up along the way. An invitation to return to France in early 2010 has been extended to the Company, and is already in the works. Cathode will perform 'The Border Project' live at Frantasia 2009, amidst an electro-heavy set which is sure to feature many of the artist's signature soundscapes and audio-scenarios.Christopher Cathode is available for select collaborations, commissioned work and studio session work, and in addition to Ms. Fellion, has collaborated with Nicole LePera, Naythen Wilson, Steve MacLean and Walt Craven, to name but a handful.
In addition to his own body of work, Cathode can be heard on recordings by: NULL HYPE ("When You're Dreaming", iTunes, 2006), LEFT HAND, and seminal avant groove / experimental outfit THOUGHT CHRIST HAD YAMS.
Two recordings by Cathode for the ByoMek Synhominoid Robotics audio research division, "Trashcompactor_easychair" (1999) and "Lipstick Ring Lick Ionization" (2004) are available at: eMUSIC.com, RHAPSODY, AMIE STREET , and iTUNES Worldwide.
Christopher resides in Lewiston , Maine . This is his 5th appearance at FRANTASIA FESTIVAL & the seasonal Winter/Spring Frantasia Collision Series.
Core Duo www.119gallery.org
Joe Burgio - movement
Joe is an inveterate improviser, a student of post-modern movement forms and a whole-hearted collaborator, producing work with artists in a multiplicity of media. Joe has performed all over the USA specializing in venues that are barely danceable, has on-going projects with Katt Hernandez and Walter Wright (sic), Paul Kafka-Gibbons (the discursive dyad Emu), Pamela Martinez (the oneric and fabric laced Teletextile), and Body Drama. His work in movement improvisation is based on his studies with Debra Bluth, and Butoh with Jennifer Hicks.
Walter Wright - analog synthesizer and video
He was once an unlicensed architect. He became a professor of film, video and computer graphics as well as a video animator, and software engineer. One of the first video animators, he worked at Computer Image Corporation in the early 70's. His tapes were shown regularly at the Kitchen, where he was an associate director. In 1973-76, as artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, NY, where he pioneered video performance touring with the Paik/Abe video synthesizer.
He developed his own performance video system, the Video Shredder, and uses it with his analog synthesizer to mesmerize audiences wherever and whenever he can. He's getting quite good at it. His mission is to create a new music of sound, image and movement. He has performed throughout the east coast of the USA and Canada at art galleries and museums, schools and colleges, media centers, conferences and festivals.
Forrest Larson (Playing with Jed Speare)
Composer/electronic musician Forrest Larson has had a life-long love of old pre-digital analog electronic instruments, and of collecting of “found sounds” from both natural as well as urban landscapes. Simple or "primitive" analog devices such as oscillators, stomp box filters and shortwave radios are of particular interest. His work includes both strictly composed music and live improvised electronic music. Some of his formal compositions combine electronic/found sounds and live acoustic instruments. He has also written music for wind ensemble, string orchestra as well as works for unaccompanied violin, viola and cello.
Gioia (joy-ah) www.gioiamusic.com
Gioia is a veteran male vocalist-track act performer from Boston , MA . In the spring of 2009, Gioia will release his 3 rd , original musical work, a digital download dance/pop album titled, “Flawless.” The tracks from “Flawless” are similar n style to current pop acts as the purpose of the
“Flawless” tour is simple: to get people to dance!
Greg Boardman www.bowandstring.comI have been teaching and performing, for the most part in Maine , for close to forty years. I am currently teaching strings full time in the Lewiston Public Schools, grades 4-8, and at Bates College , where I lead a fiddle group and teach privately. Apart from that, my performing life
brings me from the American Folk Festival in Bangor , playing with my boys, to the viola section of the Maine Chamber Ensemble , playing classical masterworks in Lewiston , to local nursing homes, performing with my students. It is also my joy to play for Christian worship, which I do
these days mainly with the teams at the Mechanic Falls Vineyard Christian Fellowship and for our third-Sunday Taize service at Lewiston 's Trinity Episcopal Church.
My interest in gathering with large groups of fiddlers has led to the formation of the Mighty Cloud of Fiddlers, a rag-tag revolving-door blend of professional and amateur volunteers who meet biennially since 1988 to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. This interest has also led to the creation of the Maine Country Dance Fiddle Workshop, which I co-founded with Kaity Newell and Ellen Gawler in 1992, and Maine Fiddle Camp , started with my wife Martha in '94. Now in the capable managerial hands of Doug Protsik, Maine Fiddle Camp continues to expand and improve, ever true to the initial impetus.
My formal higher education began at Colby College , where composer and conductor Peter Re influenced me greatly, and continued at the University of Southern Maine , where I graduated with a BM in Viola Performance. My studies there with Julia Adams and all her colleagues in the Portland String Quartet inestimably inform my love of chamber music and teaching.I recently received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College , where I was able to draw together many interests in traditional and contemporary art, especially as they interface with things of the Spirit.
As a fiddler, I began primarily under the dual influence of Dave Swarbrick, whose performance with Fairport Convention in 1970 hit me like a ton of psychedelic bricks, and Dave Siegel, a classmate at Colby who introduced me to blues, country, old timey and bluegrass music. Of the many older fiddlers in Maine who lavished their time, company and expertise on me I have to mention foremost Otto Soper and Simon St. Pierre as seminal inspirations. Others I must mention include Cherry Frechette, Ben Guillemette, Lucien Matthieu, Leo Murphy, Albany Beaulieu, J. Walter Snipe, and way over in New Hampshire , Dudley Laufman . Of my contemporaries and students who impact me beyond consciousness, too many names to include here come to mindGregg Murphy – Bagpipes. Greg has performed at and supported Frantasia from the very beginning.
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If, Bwana www.myspace.com/ifbwana
Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New Year's Day 1984. Since, Al Margolis as If, Bwana has earned an international reputation for his experimental noise music.
If, Bwana music is a fusion of ambient , industrial , and musique concretesounds, often featuring strange soundscapes that are both balmy and unnerving at the same time. [1]
Margolis has also been very active as the owner of two prolific labels, the cassette label Sound of Pig and, since the 1990s, Pogus Productions, a CD label with a focus on experimental contemporary classical music.
Jacqueline Martelle
Flutist, has performed in diverse settings in New York , including Experimental Intermedia, Symphony Space, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Third Street Music School Settlement, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall. She has been a featured artist in the World Music Institute's Interpretations series. Martelle has presented concerts highlighting the flute in combination with electronic media and has premiered works written for her by Larry Austin, David Behrman, Tom Hamilton, Alvin Lucier, Al Margolis, and Robert Rowe. A native of Kenosha , Wisconsin , Martelle was given her first flute lesson by a trombonist. Her teachers include Samuel Baron , Israel Borouchoff, and Charles DeLaney. She has recorded for the Pogus, Mutable, Mode, and Centaur labels.
Jed Speare www.studiosota.org www.mobius.org
Jed Speare is an artist working in a variety of media and settings. He has presented music, 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 . He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways album, Cable Car Soundscapes (1983), and in 2008, Family Vineyard records released a double-album, Sound Works, 1982-1987 , that received vital critical acclaim.
In Boston , Jed has been a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 1995, a director of Mobius ( Boston ) from 1996-2004, as well as currently. Since 2006, he has also been Director of Studio Soto, a space for ideas. In 2008, Wire magazine wrote, “ Working field and documentary recordings into socially resonant performance works, this unsung composer is a pioneer of multimedia presentation.”
Johan Tore Nystrom www.myspace.com/skittlesandsauerkraut
Johan Nystrom is committed to continuing the work of influential 21st century philosopher Donald Rumsfield¹, who made the important discovery of unknown unknowns, in turn, Johan follows in pursuit of unknown knowns. His research focuses on the possibilities of acoustic sound, alternately utilizing drums, guitar, and alto saxophone; and additionally the similar (il)logic of unpredictable electronic instruments. This research has led to, among other things, collaborations with Brandon Ables, Steve Boyle, Jack Wright, Wilson Shook, Nathan Hubbard, and others; as well as participation in Edgar Um Bucholtz's film XFCTCPS 360º, 9 shots, (edit) for free improvising ensemble, which used chance operations to determine all aspects of filming, as well as song duration and player configuration. 1Please note that even in the context of this contribution, DR is really a tragic mess. I argue that the discovery no less has merit. Also, note the use of a footnote in an artist bio. This is designed to create a feedback circuit of self-reference. eep eep ACKCH ALCHALKI BULAXCCCCCHH bupbup aCHOO
Joshua DeScherer www.youtube.com/user/jdescherer
“DeScherer gets more exhilarating sounds out of a bass than most full orchestras.”
Christopher Hyde, The Portland Press Herald
Joshua DeScherer (b. 1977, Tenafly , NJ ) has been fascinated with sound from an early age: many of his earliest memories involve making a lot of noise, as well as seeing and hearing loud things such as cannons, foghorns, and jackhammers. To this day, he continues to find music in unexpected places,
enjoying both the sounds of a cityscape (droning engines, rhythmic hammering) and that of a mountain path (distant humming bee tree, rhythmic walking). Josh has played the contrabass for two decades now, the product of an excellent public school music program in Tenafly , NJ , supplemented by studies in the preparatory division at the Manhattan School of Music.
While a student at Colby College ( Waterville , ME ), Josh began his work as a composer. After earning a BA in Music from Colby, he continued on to Tufts University ( Medford , MA ) earning a MA in Music Composition in 2001. During these years, Josh studied composition with Jonathan Hallstrom, Steve Nuss,
Phil Carlsen, and John McDonald. After earning his MA, Josh taught Aural Skills and Music Literacy (Intro to Theory) at Bennington College .
In 2004, Josh left Bennington to pursue a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University at Buffalo . Under the supervision of his primary teacher, Cort Lippe, Josh began to incorporate improvisation and graphic notation into his music.
Jozev Gates – Composer of fretless guitar pieces. An extraordinary guitar and bass player.
Katherine Liberovskaya www.liberovskaya.net
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal , Canada , and New York City . She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties.
Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Hitoshi Kojo, Zanana, Anne Wellmer, David First and David Watson. Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, o.blaat, murmer, André Gonçalves, Monique Buzzarté, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Audrey Chen, among many others.
In addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal and Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in NYC and in various locations in Europe and elsewhere with OptoSonic Tea On the Road.
Katt Hernandez www.katthernandez.comKatt Hernandez has recently moved to Philadelphia , after living in the Boston area for nine years, playing the violin, running spaces, and producing shows. She immediately became involved in performances with Bowerbird, Soundfield, Ars Nova, and Nicole Bindler's Dance Ensemble upon her arrival. Over the last year, Katt has also toured the U.S. with Vashti Bunyan, and most recently also with Vetiver, including a rather magnificent concert of this new and old form fo music at Carnegie Hall as part of David Byrne's "Welcome to Dreamland" event. Before leaving Boston , she also participated in the Voltaic Vaudeville festival, wherein she played Solo, with butoh dancer Jennifer Hicks, and as part of the Beat Circus Vaudeville Orchestra
Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws a fiery array of electronic-like sounds and keening melodies from her completely acoustic violin. She works extensively with microtonality, drawn from a study of a mixture of sources, including traditional folk and sacred musics of the Middle East , Turkey , and Eastern Europe , various odd-ball wisps of old Americana , and the Maneri/Sims 72 note system.
". . . musicians everywhere are aware of her exceptional artistry, and even international writers and producers are telling us of their fortunate discovery. . .it may be oversue, but it is good to see that someone as good as Katt is finally being recognized." ~ Stu Vandermark, Cadence Magazine, Dec. 2004, pg. 133
Killick! www.killick.me
Killick of Athens , Georgia has loved sound in all its forms – silence, noise, organized and disorganized, since he was a baby. Attending a KISS concert at age 5 (thanks Mom!) cemented it. He immersed himself in all popular and unpopular styles equally and studied music theory during high school, learning the concepts of Western harmony, melody, rhythm, and written music, which he now tends to ignore. :-) With focus, humility, and wit, Killick recontextualizes familiar vocabularies into something past classification, creating beautiful and kinetic threads of sound. For Frantasia, Killick will be playing his quartertone electric guitar.
Kit Demos (upright bass) – playing with Bird Organ at Frantasia this year. Kit has studied physics, jazz and classical music performance privately and in college, played bouzouki in the Greek band Opa Opa, as well as bass with Verbs, a psycho-billy-free-jazz-multi-media group based in Portland , ME. He is currently involved in ongoing monthly guest free improv shows with the Mystic Out-bop review in Portland , and records with the Boston-based free-jazz Bright Light Group. Outside of performing, he currently teaches 8 th grade science, tutors math, and runs a private recording facility known as Aria Arts Records.
les (trois) etoiles
performance art improv
based from u m machias since late 1980's
rotating membership performing electric/accoustic
imagery portrayals
founding players are gene nichols, d m ingalls, nan naja, andrea c lyon .Current lineup : nichols, ingalls, naja, gordon phillips, micah pascucci, jenny penny, wing lum, les, steve, and others who'll forgive me.
Little Mystery – Members: Jim Warshauer - Pineal Winds; Blair Raker - Dem Bones;
Michael Knoblagh – all the drums in the world; Eric Dahlman – trumpets and artic oddities.
Martin Chartrand - Martin Chartrand's writing reflects the creativity and resilience of the world's inhabitants, and outrage at a world order that degrades our bodies, minds, and spirits. A lifelong poet, he began writing music at age 18, combining influences from folk to noise to make something that resonates his message. He grew up in coastal Maine and currently lives in Bangor , where he works with a grassroots organization and uses music to express, reflect on, and rejuvenate for the ongoing effort to transform society.
Mike Silverton
Mike and Lee Silverton moved from Brooklyn , NY to Belfast , ME in 2002. The original owner of their 1842 home has the dubious distinction of having played host to Jefferson Davis, later to become the Confederacy's first and last president. ( Davis , on a good-will tour of New England , delivered a speech in Belfast .)
Mike spends his largely speechless Belfast days tending to indoor and outdoor domesticities, working in his art studio and writing about high-end audio and music on recording. Mike's recent poetry takes its raw materials from Internet spam. Casting his memory back more years than he likes to think about, Mike recalls producing poetry readings for the New School for Social Research, WNYC, and Pacifica Radio. His own work has appeared in anthologies edited by the late Bill Cole, a scattering of magazines, and a chapbook, Battery Park, published by Russell Edson's Thing Press in 1966. The present version of Analogue Smoque is much diminished from its original length, available as a two-CD set with Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis, Pogus Productions 21029-2. Mike has shown his art in the Maine Center for Contemporary Art and Belfast 's Aarhus Gallery.
Nicole LePera www.nicolelepera.com
“One of the best things you can do in life is to learn to be fully yourself. Truly who you are and not what you or others think you should be. I have found that one of the best ways to do that is music. It's always been a blessing, one that often keeps me up half the night, but something I can't do without any more than eating or sleeping (though the latter I tend to neglect quite often.)
My music tends to span the gamut of styles, as you have probably noticed. I just write whatever comes to me, with no censoring whatsoever. This has brought me some rather uncomfortable songs such as "The Carousel" and "Wolf." It's important to remember that I do not always write from my own perspective, I might be writing from yours. Or maybe the world's. Or I might be speaking in pure symbolism. Or, I might be speaking pure nonsense. :)
I plan to keep on living, keep on writing, keep on playing, solo for the most part, although I do enjoy collaboration with other songwriting pals. These pals also span the gamut, I have friends in pure folk and others in crazed black-metal-surf-grunge. I have an interesting background in that I received a Masters Degree in Music Composition, writing string quartets, orchestra music and the like. However, I ended up returning to the world of songwriting, abandoning the more complex styles of music.
Interests include music--obviously, creating shiny shiny artworks, barfing up soundbytes in my sick webcomic. I am also working on a novel. “
Noel Walsh - Guitar and special effects. Noel has performed at and supported Frantasia from the very beginning. http://www.myspace.com/noelwalsh
Offset Needle Radius www.myspace.com/offsetneedleradius
Where does not take their music and audio output after decades of performing in punk and metal bands? How does one remain true to their auditory work without the input of band mates? Where does a band member fit into the world of music as an individual? Offset Needle Radius. Blending song, composition, intuition, melody, tempo, with sound collage, improvisation, electronics. Ranging from musical songs to soundscape. Trying to create different arrangements or situations for each performance. Offset Needle Radius is an active transformation of a life of music and experimental sound into the unknown.
Patter Cubs – Members: Lee Michael - banjo, mandolin, vocals; Rachel Alexandrou – vocals, tinkeress; Jared Littlefield – percussion.
Lee Michael : “I play 'experimental folk-punk banjo' with bits of screaming and my friend Jared plays drums while I play experimental folk punk banjo. Rachels part in all of this is completely undefined. “
Phil Poirier www.philpoirier.com/music - www.philpoirier.com
A misplaced artist/singer/songwriter who plays out when the mood strikes. Phil will be exploring overtone or “throat” singing woven into improv. and original compostions.
Qfwfq Duo www.qfwfqduo.com
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow , Poland , in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. They moved to the US after having lived 5 years in Buenos Aires , Argentina .
In addition to performances, Qfwfq have created installations and have given lectures .
Red from Rebel Red www.rebelredmusic.com
"..Red Peralta's passionate performance, delivered with finesse and grace, entices the audience to let go and share the experience...A bluesy, mystical voice, driving acoustic guitar and irresistably funky stompbox create a lean, mean "one woman band"... With sassy wit she bares her soul, bringing her audience, toes tappin' all the way, right along with her. Press reviews have likened Ms. Peralta to Eartha Kitt, Grace Slick, Patti Smith and Marianne Faithful; her songwriting has been compared to Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Tommy James and the Shondells, Roger McGuinn and Levon Helm. Not to be missed!" - Clara Kent
A charismatic singer and prolific songwriter, Red's songs are populated by hobos, flowers, telepathy, motherhood, eternity, war, peace, housework, reincarnation, insanity, rage, childhood, old age, rivers, oceans, stars and a few X boyfriends....
Red was born in New York City , but grew up in England . She cut her performing teeth playing clubs in Europe for ten years, before returning to the USA where she collaborated with the late - producer Steve Burgh (John Prine, Willie Nelson, Steve Forbert), who produced her first album, "Water Planet", and introduced her to a family of East Coast folk and roots musicians, some of whom she still works with today.
Red disappeared for several years to raise 2 boys ("..I think I'm getting the hang of it now...") .
She returned in July, 2008 with a new Rebel Red album, "Sex, Religion, Politics", featuring guitarist Jeff Pevar (Ray Charles, Crosby , Stills and Nash) and saxophonist Erik Lawrence (Levon Helm).
Relay for Death www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_H4X4AFyERachal Spikula and Roxanne Spikula. Video artists extraordinaire.
“We seek to bridge the gap between good and bad performance.” Relay for Death.
Skinny Vinny – Members: Andrew Eisenberg, percussion; Josh Jefferson, alto sax www.myspace.com/skinnyvinnyjjape
The duo of Skinny Vinny has been making music and playing together since 2002. Inspired by speed chess, fast art, and all things Duchamp, Josh Jefferson and Andrew Eisenberg work together to define,
refine and otherwise extend their understanding of music. Andrew Eisenberg plays percussion on an assortment of modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded thru a process of playing and breaking
them. Josh Jefferson plays alto sax and bass clarinet. Over the years he has focused more on abstract sounds and extended techniques and is always in constant pursuit for the abstract unknown.The Erskine Band – Guitar & special effects. Josh has performed at and supported Frantasia from the very beginning.
Tom Hamilton www.myspace.com/dataday
TOM HAMILTON has composed and performed electronic music for over 30 years, and his work with electronic music originated in the late-60s era of analog synthesis. His ongoing series of concerts, installations and recordings contrast structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments. Rather than addressing traditional modes of expression, presentation and observation, Hamilton often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of “present-time listening” on the part of both performer and listener.
Hamilton is a 2005 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, participating in a residency at the foundation's center in Umbria . His CD London Fix received an honorary mention in the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. Hamilton 's performing and recording colleagues include Peter Zummo, Bruce Gremo, Karlheinz Essl, Bruce Arnold, Rich O'Donnell, Jonathan Haas, Jacqueline Martelle, Thomas Buckner and Richard Lerman. He has been a collaborator with visual artists, including Fred Worden (filmmaker), Van McElwee and Morey Gers (video artists), and the late Ernst Haas (photographer).
An active participant in New York 's new music scene, Hamilton was the co-director of the 2004 Sounds Like Now festival, and he has co-produced the Cooler in the Shade/Warmer by the Stove new music series since 1993.
Tom Hamilton has two recent CD releases: “Shadow Machine” (Pogus), with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, and “Local Customs” (Mutable), for a small ensemble with electronics.
Eclectic, Improvisational, Electric!
Truly an auditory and visual adventure.