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[sic] live at the FREE RADICAL- Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06

2003-01-24

[sic] live at the FREE RADICAL Concert Series
Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06
Montreal

February 7th, 2003
Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, 2022 rue Sherbrooke Est
9:30pm

Festival Details:
http://www.htmlles.net/2003/f/index.html

FREE RADICAL CONCERT SERIES
February 5th - 8th, 2003
Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, 2022 rue Sherbrooke Est

Currently embarking on its 6th season, Maid in Cyberspace/Les HTMllles is an international festival featuring art works exploring the ever-evolving medium of virtual space, as well as hosting symposia, artist talks and theoreticians’ debates on various subjects relating to women’s roles in art and new media. This year’s theme is that of the AGENT LIBRE / RADICAL AGENT, with a strong focus on aspects of Social Activism in art and technology.

With an eye on emerging artists, the Free Radical Concert Series features a range of new music, from actuelle and experimental to orchestral, techno, electro, and technopunk.

CONCERT SCHEDULE

Wednesday, February 5th : Electrotext Acoustica

(an evening in Quadrophonic Sound)
Kathy Kennedy http://www.21grand.org/20030129.html
Alexis O`Hara http://grenadinerecords.com/alexis.html

9:30 pm Thursday, February 6th : Free Electrons

(An evening of improvised electronica)
Magali Babin and I8U
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/babin_ma.html
http://www.i8u.com
Hyeung Kim (NYC Game Boy Composer)

9:30 pm Friday, February 7th : New Electronic Music

Anna Friz + Annabelle Chvostek (forays into radiophonics and theramins)
http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html
http://annabelle.org
[sic] http://www.squirrelgirl.com
Myléna Bergeron
http://www.oral.qc.ca/eng/productions/mylena.html

3pm - Saturday, February 8th: Free Radical Radio Camp

Lederhosen Lucil (Free Radical Radio Camp Musical Guest)
Live Broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM

9:30 pm Saturday, February 8th: Bitbang

Lesbians on Ecstacy
Nanobot Auxillary Ballet
Les Georges Leningrad
Alice and the Serial Numbers + Valerie (K -Project)

Cheers,

Aiden


Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker Live in Montreal Jan. 3, 2003

2002-12-31

from alien8’s mail out:

Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker Live in Montreal Jan. 3, 2003
New Release by Francisco Lopez
New Items Availble On-line from the Alien8 Store
___________________________________________________

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FRANCISCO LOPEZ, TIM HECKER LIVE IN MONTREAL JAN. 3, 2003

Francisco Lopez will perform live at the Casa del Popolo in honor of
the reissue of his first American release, "Addy en el pais de las frutas y
los chunches". This is perhaps the artist’s strongest recorded document,
a personal favorite of Lopez himself. His performance will be done
using sounds from the release, which are dense brutal environmental
recordings. The soundscapes are so dense and rich that they consume the
listener, from total beauty to absolute fright. This will mark our sixth presentation of a live
performance by the artist and they never seem to tire the listener.
This performance is different from the events presented at the Darling Foundry and the Sala Rossa in that it will be a more intimate in style.

Tim Hecker will also perform a rather rare solo set by recent
standards, although he has been performing out of town as well as with Fly Pan Am.
Expect a powerful set of ambient music that is not afraid to get
incredibly intense at times. This will mark Tim Hecker’s third
appearance with Francisco Lopez.

This show happens on Friday Januar 3, 2003 at the Casa del Popolo, 4873
St-Laurent at 10 pm. Admission is $10.

The capacity of the Casa del Popolo is very limited so advance ticket
purchase suggested. Tickets for this event will be $10 on sale at Casa
del Popolo, Cheap Thrills, Esoterik and l’Obique. Tickets on sale as of
Dec 15.

* * * * * * * * *

NEW RELEASE BY FRANCISCO LOPEZ

We are very pleased to be able to announce the availability of the
artist’s most astonishing recorded work yet! "Addy en el país de las
frutas y los chunches" was originally released in an edition of 500
copies on the ND label in 1997.

This release is most comparable to efforts that centered more on the
environmental aspects of artists work and is somewhat comparable to
releases such as "La Selva" and "Untitled Music for Geography". "Addy…"
was the first American release by Lopez and to this day remains the
artist’s favorite release. The sound world created and captured by
Francisco Lopez on this recording is absolutely incredible, a
beautifully horrifying listening experience. This could very possibly
be one of the most important ambient records of the last 10 years and
truly reinvents the concept of field recordings.

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NEW ITEMS AVAILBLE ON-LINE FROM THE ALIEN8 STORE

MERZBOW: PUROLAND CD (OHM)
Latest Merzbow release on Norway’s OHM records. Contains tunes that
Akita played at shows this year as well as a tune influenced by 70’s
German hard rock band Jane and a cover of the Monkeys.

VENETIAN SNARES: DOLL DOLL DOLL CD (Hymen)
A hybrid of monstrous breakbeats and drum and bass ... a terrorising
wall of sound, a splatter mix of broken drill and noise, tweaked
frequencies, cut-up noises, bizarre funky samples, and straight noise
attacks. It rattles the speakers, shatters the windows, drives your
adrenaline to all-time high and then pins you to the floor with the
thunderous percussion attacks. Each track constantly changes, one
second exploding with speedcore passages, and the next moment tripping over
itself and collapsing into broken, twisted and aggressive techstep.
Rhythmic textures, sonic explorations and ceaseless creativity the
component parts of this accelerated sound are ultra-fast beats,
disjointed samples, distorted shouts of vocal, stabs of synth that
squeal with resonance and the occasional bout of plunderphony. These
components are then stitched together in an almost haphazard manner but
one that you may suspect is more than deliberate.

[SIC] ... AND RABBITS NAMED FRIDAY CD (Squirrelgirl)
[sic] is the nom de plume of Montreal producer Jen Morris, who after a
limited-run self-titled EP is set to launch her first full-length album.

...And Rabbits Named Friday (Squirrelgirl) could easily be the
alternative soundtrack to Japanese cyber-punk shock film Tetsuo the
Iron Man. Mechanical rhythms churn under noisy drones and frigid melodies.
Highlights include the dissonant symphony for alarm clocks "puddles"
and the electronic invasion of wind-up toys that is "royk." The sparse,
dark atmospherics and the admitted lack of funk will probably not appeal to
many fans of what’s coming to be known as the Montreal minimal sound, a
fact that suits Morris just fine. One listen to …And Rabbits and it’s
obvious that sound and texture are paramount in all of [sic]’s
compositions. Contrast, dissonance, and tone are reoccurring themes in
every track. Watch out for this one!

VARIOUS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC, VOL. 1 2CD (Sub
Rosa)
This should appear under Guy Marc Hinant’s name. The director of the
label Sub Rosa offers here much more than a compilation album: it is a
strongly assumed, personal look at the history of electronic and noise
music. His approach, a-chronological and atypical, makes a thunderous
statement for anti-compartmentalization. By blending classic tracks,
forgotten gems, and fresh developments from all musical fronts
("serious"/academic music and "popular"), he encourages creative links,
filiations, and in the end discussion. The first five tracks work as an
introduction to the early days, with Luigi Russolo, Walter Ruttman (his
image-less film Wochende from 1930), Pierre Schaeffer, Henri Pousseur,
and Gordon Mumma each representing a decade. After that, the listener
travels between decades and genres. Highlights are numerous and include
such genre-defining classics as Pousseur’s "Scambi" and Edgar Varese’s
"Poeme Electronique," plus a mammoth, previously unreleased 30-minute
piece by Pauline Oliveros and Sonic Youth’s "Audience," a
just-unearthed recording from 1983 in which the musicians turn the microphones
toward the audience and treat this as input (it turns cheers into hysterical
cow moos).

VARIOUS: NEVER MIND THE BOOTLEGS: HERE’S SEX WITH NID & SANCY CD
Part two in the Bootleg series with 10 new songs including the
introduction to the cd, (I understand that there is also a 3-cd set
with mp3s also available with a similar title to this cd). Things go deeper,
get darker, and more complex than ever with this disc, with hardcore
rhythms, schooling raps and incredible mix capabilities, the only crime
in this set being the high amount of profanity throughout. This time
out we are at least clued into the different artists in each track and
throughout there is a current of rap taken to a higher plateau, with
added samples, vocals and rhythms to further the cause. One is given
the feeling the money man in the music industry quaking in their boots....


Coupon Clipper new MP3 by [sic] & Roughage

2002-12-27

Good Afternoon,

I’ve uploaded a new MP3 for your enjoyment.

Cheers!

Aiden


difficult music (*) RRs.R

2002-12-24

More hiss, more noise, more forks and knives....

Difficult music for difficult people Vol II
is out on RRs.R (Belgium)

its a "41-track compilation CDr featuring a fine selection of 40 experimental bands, for the sole purpose of your listening enjoyment."

41 tracks, total length: 78 minutes 18 seconds, featuring these fine experimental acts of various brands and nationalities:

1. Cock ESP - I don’t enjoy porn as much as I used to
2. Phil Thomson - zzzzzxxxxxxxxxzzzzzzzzz
3. Xsclub - Total blamblam
4. Eugenics Council - Whore
5. Anti Kati - Another A/K Trial
6. Coin Gutter - tlia3ml
7. Moysk - Excerpt from (?)
8. Echo System - pre-metro (Gare du Midi/Zuid Remix)
9. Norma X’d out - Excerpt from the garage tapes (1996)
10. Anti Kati - Atomic Cafe Pt1 duck and cover tha song
11. Paul Devens - On foot with god & moon
12. ManGenerated - Privacy (excerpt)
13. Mourmansk150 - All died
14. K2 - Right brain debile
15. Daniele Brusaschetto - Schiavo (remix)
16. Acts of Worship - Cherry Blossom Factory II
17. Zanstones - live at Observatori 2000, valencia, spain (excerpt)
18. Laura D. - Posh girl eat heart out
19. Syssisspsk - Untitled
20. Siemers - 19801208
21. Destroyed Panikmusik - Aparición
22. A sonic Deterrent - Secret lover
23. Ungeromimizu - Untitled
24. Ripit - Strapped under it
25. Cumulus - Popcorn Remix # 2
26. Lecanoscope - Chondria
27. Mannlicher Carcano - Diamond dust has been carrying coal
28. Gintas K - track # 1
29. Outermost - Medicine Injury
30. SIST EN 343 - C1 - 40U
31. Forgotten heroes - Destroy all Hippies!
32. No-Fi - (Skin on Skin) fraction
33. Bastard Noise - Ice Graves
34. Longing for stork - Untitled
35. Patient Zero - Groinchurn Deconstruction
36. Jan AG - Bullet Blaster
37. Die Anstalt - Join Us!
38. [SIC] - Shapeshifting Cullion
39. Sabrina and Barry Van Puymbroeck - Joe Le Taxi
40. Phil thomson - ^bbv^
41. M-drÍk - Jardin Secret

ENJOY!

For more info...
http://mangenerated.tripod.com/

Cheers

Aiden


VANCOUVER UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

2002-11-19

Dearest Vancouverites...

THE V.U.F.F begins this Thursday November 21st, 2002

[sic] will be performing ’Realignment’ the following night at The Blinding Light 10pm during the ’Live On All Channels’ bill alongside Roughage, Brain Coffey and Eric Theise.

details http://www.blindinglight.com/vuffschedule.html#live

’Realignment’
LIVE sound and video (25 mins)
Through images of waterfalls, road trips, myriad physio treatments and walks through the park in search of squirrels [sic] explores the failure inherent in conscious attempts to align the mental and the physical. As we continue to overplan, overspend, and overkill, physical and emotional incoherence follow. Ultimately, these sounds and images become jarring, and they provoke anxiety. Slow-motion images become separated and disjointed as [sic]’s soundtrack supports their awkward state.

VUFF schedule and daily news can be found here http://www.blindinglight.com/vuff.htm

Cheers,

Aiden


DON’T BE A FUCKING ASSHOLE, COME TO OUR SHOW

2002-11-03

DON’T BE A FUCKING ASSHOLE.
COME TO OUR SHOW.


ROUGHAGE
[SIC]
&
THE ROYAL TEASE

LIVE AT THE CASA DEL POPOLO
NOVEMBER 7, 2002
SEVEN DOLLARS AT THE DOOR

FORGET WHATEVER ELSE YOU HAVE PLANNED FOR THURSDAY NOV. 7TH!
THE STIRRING DIGITAL CACOPHONY OF ROUGHAGE
MEETS
THE HAUNTING ANALOG DRONES OF [SIC]
AND
THE ENTERTAINING HISTRIONICS OF THE ROYAL TEASE.

FEATURING DAZZLING AUDIO & VIDEO PRESENTATION.

DON’T MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY.


Montreal Music News

Montreal mirror

ROUGHAGE & [SIC]
Performances at the Vancouver Underground Film
Festival
http://www.blindinglight.com/vuff.htm


Details about performers:

Scratch/Earwing recording artist: ROUGHAGE
Royk/Squirrelgirl star: [sic]
And performative synth duo: The Royal Tease

Zev Asher formed ROUGHAGE in Montreal in 1988. This experimental music and performance project has appeared on over a dozen CD’s, LP’s and cassettes on labels around the world. With a rotating line-up, ROUGHAGE has also performed extensively in North America, Japan and Europe.

Earlier this year, Zev toured solo as ROUGHAGE in the Balkans.
He performed in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Banja Luka and Illirska Bistrica, as well as Paris. ROUGHAGE performances always feature an extensive visual element, often involving multiple projections of film and video.

zev@sub-versivemedia.com
www.sub-versivemedia.com

Select ROUGHAGE links
eye net
http://www2.arnes.si/~pomknz2/zev1.html
http://insound.com/zinestand/cscope/feature.cfm?aid=7098


[sic] is the solo project of Montreal sound manipulator Jen Morris.
Her music is often created from samples derived from her original
digital field recordings. Haunting and atmospheric, CD’s released by [sic] have been glowingly received by critics and music lovers around the globe. This is a very rare opportunity to see and hear this exciting artist live, accompanied by projected visuals of her own unique design.

Select [sic] links
Info: sic@squirrelgirl.com
www.squirrelgirl.com
incursion
stylus magazine
BBC


The Royal Tease is a collaboration between extreme noise terrorist WADE MORRISSETTE and casiocore superhero THE WORLD PROVIDER. Their combination of instrumental synth pop and conceptual performance has been delighting and confusing audiences all over town, Their self-titled demo recently broke the top 20 on CISM.

regards,

aiden


HUSHUSH - ...And Rabbits Named Friday [sic] cd available through mail order

2002-10-27

Hello,

[sic]’s most recent effort ’...And Rabbits Named Friday’ is now available for purchase though HUSHUSH.

http://www.hushush.com

other recent additions to husush’s mailorder include

Beefcake
Various Artists
Maschinenfest 2002
Mago
Magwheels
Mimetic
Polmo Polpo
Tim Hecker
Shalabi Effect
Set Fire to Flames
Sam Shalabi
Telepherique + Contagious Orgasm
Cordell Klier
Various Artists
Brain in the Wire
Dead Hollywood Stars
Scorn
Hypnoskull
Not Breathing
Bernhard Günter
Richard Chartier
0/r
Ghislain Poirier
Goem
Taylor Deupree
Kreptkrept

take a look and browse through their amazing selection,

ta,

Aiden


PHOLDE

2002-10-03

Good morning.

Pholde (Alan Bloor’s ambient project) will play a live set on Oct. 5th
at
Casa del Popolo
4873 St. Laurent
Montreal, P.Q

additional information from alien8 news:

"Pholde a.k.a. Knurl will make his Montreal debut under said name and will be joined by guests Whilst performing in a quartet also featuring the duo of Jacques Gravel and James Schidlowsky.
Also on the bill will be Roughage.
The over all theme for this evening will be subtle shifts in sound with a strong emphasis on the ambient qualities of improv.

The show happens at the Casa Saturday Oct 5 and admission is $6."

additional information from the Panta Rhei newsletter:

"Hello,

This a letter to let everyone know that the Pholde "In Accordance With
Conscience" CD release can be purchased and heard at cdbaby.com/pholde.

Pholde.com will hook you up to the Ambient Ping (theambientping.com)
web-page,where a Pholde web-page exists.
Great live photos as well as info on the Pholde project. From there you can also check-out the Knurl web-page from Alien 8 Recordings.(alien8recordings.com)

Also, two shows coming up if you’re in the area.
Knurl Oct. 4th- Kingston, Ontario. (about two hrs. west of Montreal)
Tone Deaf Festival. This festival runs two nights: Oct.4th + 5th.
For more info contact Craig Leonard at elevenfifty@hotmail.com or
Princess Court Theatre—(613) 530-2863—where tickets can be
reserved ($15).

Pholde Oct. 5th- Montreal, P.Q.
Casa del Popolo
4873 St. Laurent

Thank you for your time,

Alan Bloor"


Privatelektro News September 2002

2002-09-28

Mornin’

Here is some news from Marek and Christian.

Best,

[sic]


dear friends.

privatelektro news september 2002

"They might even run backward, from the present to the past.
A bolder hypothesis might make them sixteen different versions
of the same story told in parallel." murakami - the wind up bird cronicle

releases ++ music ++ pics ++ video ++ dates

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

out : end of october * detailed news will follow

release: privatelektro 05 + cd + limited 200 pcs. +

artist: triPhaze
titel: scotland tapes
length: 28.45 min

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

music: 15 min live + parachute + online since beginning of september
http://www.privatelektro.de/parachutezentrum.html

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

video: new 3 min video: parachute live @ leipzig Kaltstart
media: quicktime size: 3mb
http://www.privatelektro.de/video.html

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

pics: new pics added to the slide show section:
http://www.privatelektro.de/slide_show.html

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

dates: privatelektro mini scotland tour october..

triPhaze: & mr.sakori:
4. october: cooper gallery, dundee , scotland ::
6.30pm - 8.30 pm live
9.30pm - 11.30pm on the decks @ doughty neebors, dundee opposite art school

10. october: edinburgh college of art
kick off 8.30 strictly! first gig at 9 pm
together with the scottish label benbecula
http://www.benbecula.com/

expos:

till 28.september 2002 Photos:
triPhaze aka marek brandt @ ride on : artists from berlin and new york
@ sonntags - wühlischstr. 12 berlin - friedrichshain

mr.sakori - new work scotland programm
collective gallery edinburgh, uk
21.september - 27. october

upcoming in october:

Your Future:
mr.sakori & triPhaze, vehicle, amy maletta, stacey matthews
: lower foyer gallery dundee, uk

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

best wishes: Marek and Christian.

privatelektro - anti heroes + future designers
leipzig + hamburg + berlin
http://www.privatelektro.de


News from Alien8

2002-09-16

UPCOMING ALIEN8 PRESENTATIONS

Pholde a.k.a. Knurl will make his Montreal debut under said name and
will be joined by guests Whilst and others to be confirmed. The show
happens at the Casa Saturday Oct 5.

Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple/High Rise etc. will perform a
solo set along with some local guests tba at the Casa Monday Oct 14.

Acid Mothers Temple play their first ever canadian concert at the Sala
Rossa Tuesday Oct 15. This show will also serve as the record launch
for the bands alien8 debut, Electric Heavy Land. Joinig Tokyo Japan’s
freakout group for the 21st century will substractif recording artist Tim
Hecker and special guests Hrsta round up the bill. This is a super solid
triple bill and certainly one of the most anticipated live shows of 2002.

Tanakh will finally make their local debut with guests tba at the Casa
Saturday Oct 26. This Richmond, Va. based band will be joined by
Harris Newman and another act to be confirmed.

Tim Olive ex-Roughage and Nimrod performs with Jeffrey Allport as a
duo at the Casa Saturday Nov 9.

take care,

[sic]


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UPCOMING SHOWS

Devin Sarno live

Jen Morris & Michael Egger Pivophone LIVE

Pivophone by Jen Morris & Michael Egger (world premiere)
Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 8 PM
Cinema Bellevaux, Route Aloys-Fauquez 4, 1018 Lausanne Vaud, Suisse

À faire se retourner Edison dans sa tombe, voici en première mondiale le pivophone, dont la performance sera retransmise en direct sur plus de 20 radios publiques européennes, dans le cadre du Art’s Birthday organisé à Lausanne par Espace 2 au Cinema Bellevaux.

Tournant dans la tête de Jen Morris depuis des lustres et réalisée avec Micheal Egger, cette nouvelle machine pourrait s’inscrire comme la cerise sur le gâteau d’une histoire des machines à bruits. Des Intonarumori futuristes aux tubes robotiques des frères Decoster, c’est toute une généalogie glorifiant la virilité agressive, la force, le pouvoir, l’industrie et la guerre que révèle le pivophone. Le pivophone met en doute ce qui jusqu’à son arrivée faisait autorité dans les arts du son. Alors, s’agit-il d’écouter des pives comme John Cage désirait entendre l’âme des cendriers ? Non, mais on se rapproche. Et oui il faut se rapprocher. On est dans l’art de la miniature. Miniature d’un gros show télévisé où les pop stars sont des pives. Miniature d’une scène faite miroir. Miniature d’une patinoire d’Holidays on Ice, où les danseurs-hockeyeuses sont finalement grandeur nature. Alors déjà assité à un ballet de pives majestueuses sous speed ? Déjà écouté le fracas d’une pive contre une autre ?

Jen Morris est une artiste sonore de performances électroniques, radicales et troublantes. De renommée internationale sous le pseudo [sic], Morris communique rarement avec l’espèce humaine. Mais lorsqu’elle le fait, à travers, aussi, la vidéo, l’installation, la bande son de films et son label Squirrelgirl, c’est frontal et désarçonnant. Automatic word wrap
http://squirrelgirl.com/releases/SIC/

Michael Egger est un artiste vidéo, bricoleur-inventeur, programmeur, musicien et pédagogue.
anyma.ch/about/michael_egger/

Et aussi au programme de la soirée:

Thomas Tilly, Abstral Compost, Louis Schild et Antoine Läng, Raphaël Raccuia.

robot vs rabbit live

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