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Alien
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I've given up on composing (er, finishing) tunes. I'm currently
trying to configure my gear, sample & video libraries and
live-looping system in a way that will enable me to easily join
a kickass livetronica band someday... I can see myself morphing
into a Negativland-and-Ableton-inspired ADD Brian Eno (circa
Roxy Music)... droppin samples, loops, horn, visuals, percussion...
whatever the moment calls for.
Andrew Vachon
Audrey Chen
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 simple visual/sculptural concepts. chen performs
solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and
dancers. some current projects include duos with gianni gebbia,
tatsuya nakatani, alessandro bosetti and nate wooley. the SILO
trio with nate wooley and leonel kaplan. and Trockeneis with
andy hayleck, dan breen, catherine pancake and paul neidhardt.
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 festival devoted to experimental
music.
Bird Organ
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.
Calliope
Quartet
We are the Calliope Quartet, an electro-acoustic group that was
started in order to focus on low-volume, low-velocity music,
taking a conventional instrumental ensemble (percussion/electronics,
trumpet, guitar, bass) and playing unconventional music. One
of our concepts for this project is an exploration of extremes
and a natural meeting point between composition and improvised
music.
Cave Bears
Members: Pat Rivets, Ursula LaThon, Bran Fake & Rachel Hatred.
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.
Chris
Cathode
Christopher
Carmody
Ed Snyder
Evokiai
We are the rain children and where the animals roam in the day
Gil Helmick
graduated with Honors and Distinction from the California State
University in Sonoma, California in 1976. He avoided graduate
school and traveled throughout the United States, Canada , portions
of South America and Central America plus various countries in
Europe and Asia. His experiences ranged from Park Avenue hotels
to Brazilian truck stops, the intimacies of the high jungles
to drinking wine with derelicts on the cold winter sidewalks
of the Tenderloin in San Francisco. "My beds have been made over
marble floored villas and 6 weeks of homeless transient mats." During
the 1980s, Gil was published in small California anthologies
and performed upwards to forty public readings. In March of 1985,
he flew to Paraguay and Brazil to write fiction. Gil completed
two novels, The Accomplice and Wounded Angels. After residing
in California, Mexico, New Orleans, Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia.
Gil currently resides on Bailey Island, Maine. Recently, he completed
a collection of poetry, Wounded by Zen. "I live in the midst
of wounded angels. I have the scars to prove it."
Greg Boardman
I 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.
Gregg Murphy
Bagpipes
The
Holy Experiment
Hooper Piccalero
Unafraid of complexity, repetition, lyricism or silence, Hooper
Piccalero creates refreshingly creative musical landscapes. With
no drums or bass, the Boston-based quartet mostly disposes with
solos and accompaniment in favor of overlapping layers of sound.
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Jenni Barron
Joe Gates
Johan
Tore Nystrom
Johan Nystrom is committed to ontinuing 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.
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Josh Erskine
Katt Hernandez
Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws a firey
array of electronic-like sounds and keening melodies from her
completely accoustic 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 whisps of old Americana, and the Maneri/Sims
72 note system. Playing with as wide and unexpected a variety
of other performers as possible is tantamount to her sonic and
spiritual pursuits. She has also played music of the late Ottman
empire and Whirling Dervish ceremonies with the Eurasia Ensemble.
She spent some time playing old-time, vaudeville, and early jazz
tunes with Matt Somalis(a.k.a. Shoe) whilst channelling the spirit
of Amelia Earhart in the duo Lindy's Radio. And she also plays
the mysterious incarnation of a disturbing cartoon character
in the frightening music and performance art duo Dr. Selenium
and Madame Margo. In fact, she plays somewhere for somebody at
least weekly, come hell or high water.
Killick!
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.
les (trois) etoiles -
performance art improv
based from u m machias since late 1980's
rotating membership performing electric/accoustic
imagery portrayals
foundingplayers : 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,
others who'll forgive me
for frantasia 08, likely just a trio of these
Lewis
Gesner
hello- my name is Lewis Gesner- I will be performing on Saturday
I believe- I will perform a piece i call "Tree Puppets" - it
is a meditation on and interaction, as well as an imitation-
of nature, and natural forces- the mimicry by performer(s) of
the wind through trees-. I will tie ropes to trees and tree branches
(and maybe others will participate) and gentle move the branches,
swaying them, by pulling ropes- imitating the movement of wind
as it would pass through the trees - the rustling makes is it
a sound piece- as well as any wind actually occuring- in participation
will be accepted as part of it- and, a visual piece, too- and,
a physical improvisation-. I am an artist living in Boston, MA.
I exhibit and perform my work internationally, and am a member
of Mobius Artist Group in Boston.
MV Carbon
Mystic Out Bop Review
free improvisation trio based out of Portland, Maine, has been
performing in the New England area since 2000. The trio is: Kit
Demos on bass, Chico Valentine on drums and Alonzo Holliday on
sax.
Noel Walsh
Noel is now 26 and has written and performed over 150 original
songs as well as playing hours of traditional folk songs, Irish
ballads, sea shanties, and popular rock 'n' roll covers of yesterday
and today. He's played for thousands of appreciative people at
over 60 venues, most of them repeat performances. He's been in
several bands; "Slow Children At Play", "Earthtone", and "The
Real" to name a few.
Ophibre
Patrick Walsh
Qfwfq Duo
Shea Mowat
Suzann Kole
Suzanne produces a unique and haunting sound, blending ethnic,
experimental, jazz, and chant into soulful and sensitive improvisation
and vocal offerings for films, recordings, and collaborative
projects.
Teresa Fellion
To
Be Named By A Non Human Later
Vic Rawlings
Vic Rawlings (Boston) is active as an improviser and instrument
builder, specializing in modifications of existing instruments. He
performs as a soloist and as a member of the bsc, undr quartet,
and in various duo and trio assembles and has toured extensively
in the U.S., Canada & France. He has taught improvised
music at venues ranging from community centers, high schools,
grade schools, and improvised music festivals to Harvard University
and Rivers Music School.
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