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Montreal 08.25.2006 – Share

Share New York August 27th 2006
i8u | bernhard gal

[share] i8u+Bernhard Gal ]
2006-08-27 20:00:00
On their touring map, I8U and Bernhard Gal have added a stop at Share, tonight!

Share is an open jam, not just for digiral, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday in New York City at bar Mundial (505 E 12th St between Ave A and B) from 7 pm to 1am. How do I get there?

7 pm to 1 am: open jams and walk-in sets
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join.

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Boston 08.24.2006 – WZBC Rare Frequency

WZBC – rare frequency. August 24th 2006
i8u | bernhard gal |Yuko Nexus6

Rare Frequency
Power. Broadcast Power.

Rare Frequency is a radio show, podcast, and website devoted to experimental, electronic, improv, noise, and quasi-pop music, with the occasional non sequitur thrown in for good measure. The traditional radio program is broadcast (and streamed over the web) every Thursday from 7-10pm EST on WZBC Newton 90.3 FM, a broadcast service of Boston College, as part of its No Commercial Potential (a.k.a. NCP) block of programming.

The show is hosted by Susanna (a.k.a. dj top hush), who has been known to write the odd article and/or review for ‘zines such as Grooves, Signal to Noise, XLR8R, and the Weekly Dig. She also co-curates the experimental music series Non-Event, works a day job at the music distributor Forced Exposure, and enjoys writing about herself in the third person.

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Boston 08.24.2006 – sQuareone

sQuareone. Friday August 25th 2006. 8pm. $8
Yuko NEXUS6 | Bernhard GAL | Alessandro BOSETTI | I8U |
49 Melcher St. Floor 2 (Fort Point), Boston
http://www.squareproductions.net
This show is co-produced by Intransitive Recordings

YUKO NEXUS6 is a sound artist based in Hikone, Japan. Using a mixture of field recordings, cut-up samples, digital processing, and her own voice, Yuko creates beguiling, often slyly humorous, always wonderfully idiosyncratic sonic collages and compositions. Conscious of the unspectacular dryness of an artist in front of her computer, in performance she is constantly inventing and adding little elements like grains of sand that derail her music towards something alive and astute. She received an honorary mention in Europe’s Prix Ars Electronic competition in 2003. This is Yuko’s first Boston performance.

www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nexus6/index_e.html
www.sonore.com/yuko_nexus6

Austrian-born composer and sound artist BERNHARD GAL creates electronic and electro-acoustic music, as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. His projects and sound installations incorporate light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. He runs the record label Gromoga Records and is director of the Austrian art organization “sp ce”. Currently, Gal divides his time between Vienna and Berlin, where he also teaches sound art at the University of Arts.

www.bernhardgal.com

ALESSANDRO BOSETTI is a composer, saxophonist and sound artist. Bosetti’s work centers on the musicality and unusual aspects of the spoken word. His text-sound compositions navigate the boundary between sound anthropology and composition, often employing field research and interviews as the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist, he has developed an original instrumental language, using extended techniques and a variety of noises, and which are strongly influence by electronic music. Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy and currently lives and works in Berlin.

www.melgun.net

France Jobin aka i8u is a sound / installation / web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. Her audio art is sculptural in nature, revealing powerful, opaque, and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art follows a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. I8U has released solo recordings on labels such as Staalplaat, Piehead, and Oral, and has collaborated on releases with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian, and Tomas Phillips. She has also appeared on compilations on ATAK, Bremsstrahlung, and Mutek.

www.i8u.com

BYOB
Intransitive Recordings site
www.flickr.com/photos/non-event/
www.myspace.com/nonevent

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Quebec – 08.20.2006 – La Chambre Blanche

Audio abstractions (Aa) August 20th 2006
i8u | bernhard gal | Érick d’Orion
Une soirée audio à la Chambre blanche

Québec, 6 août 2006 — La première édition des soirées Audio abstractions (Aa) aura lieu à Québec, le 20 août à 20h, à la Chambre blanche.

Fondateur et directeur artistique du défunt collectif de diffusion MACHINES : abstractions sonores électroniques, l’artiste de Québec Érick d’Orion présentera une nouvelle série d’évènements sonores basée sur la recherche, l’expérimentation et la découverte de nouvelles sphères audio, principalement électroniques, effectuées par des artistes établis ou en début de carrière.

Pour la première édition des soirées Aa, c’est au 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est, que les amateurs d’art audio et de nouvelles musiques se rendront pour découvrir le travail de l’artiste montréalaise i8u, de l’Autrichien Gal et de l’instigateur de l’évènement, Érick d’Orion. Lors de cette soirée, on pourra entendre les propositions solos des trois artistes ainsi qu’une improvisation collective.

Ce sera la première visite à Québec de l’artiste viennois Gal. Reconnu mondialement, son travail audio évolue dans les sphères de l’électroacoustique, du fieldrecording et de l’ambiant. Certaines de ces œuvres sont présentées en concert; d’autres constituent des installations; d’autres, enfin, peuvent être admirées dans des expositions. ( http://www.bernhardgal.com )

France Jobin (i8u) est une artiste qui travaille autant l’art Web, l’installation et l’art audio que la musique électronique. Elle a participé aux plus prestigieux festivals de création : SEND + RECEIVE (Winnipeg, 2003/2005), le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Mutek (Montréal, 2001/2004/2005) Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), Club Transmediale (Berlin, 2004), le Toronto’s Images independent film festival et la Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique 06. Ses œuvres ont été exposées au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. ( http://www.i8u.com/ )

Musicien autodidacte, artiste audio et compositeur résidant à Québec depuis 1993, Érick d’Orion concentre en grande partie ses recherches audio sur le « maximalisme numérique », effectuant un travail qui se rapproche étroitement du noize, de la musique concrète et, curieusement, du free jazz et de l’électroacoustique! Il a travaillé avec un nombre considérable d’artistes et sur de nombreux projets qui l’ont amené dans plusieurs régions du Canada et dans plusieurs pays.

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Audio abstractions

Dimanche 20 août, 20 h

Chambre blanche, 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est

10 $

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Review – Anther i8u + tomas phillips(petite sono) 2006 – by Frans de Waard, Petite Sono

I8U & TOMAS PHILLIPS – ANTHER (CD by Petite Sono)

Tomas Phillips is not a new name for me, but since his previous release with Tobias C. van Veen (see Vital Weekly 499) I learned that he has had various releases as Sea Optic, Lisbon and Eto Ami (in collaboration with Dean King) and that there is a solo release under his real name on Trente Oiseaux (which we probably missed out on). These days he works with Tobias C. van Veen, Dean King and i8u. Behind i8u is France Jobin, who had a release on Multimedia Pandora (see Vital Weekly 216), Piehead Records (Vital Weekly 325) and Bake Records (oddly not reviewed). Besides making music, she also works with installations and web art, not as separate things, but it can be seen as one big work. She has played around the world (Mutek, Transmediale), but things have been quiet for some time. Maybe the quiet time was used by her to record this album with Tomas Phillips? On the cover (housed in a larger carton box) it says ‘headphone listening suggested’ and normally that is not well-spend on me, because I like to walk around when I want when listening, or hop from chair to computer and back, but in this case it would indeed be a good suggestion to sit back, put that headphone on and have a careful listen. I8U and Tomas Phillips play a nice game of silence. Even when you crank up the volume considerably, things hoover still at the edge of silence. Sometimes a peep comes up, white static emerge from the swamp and something nothing happens at all. ‘Merge’, the final piece, seems to the one with most activity with what seems also the track with the most clear synth lines and what could be a slowed down rhythm. In terms of music, regular music, this track is the most ‘ambient’, whereas the other two are more abstract and microsound. This trio of tracks is a pretty strong collection that deserve to be listened too with headphones indeed and a good glass of wine within reach and two candles in an otherwise dark room.

(FdW) (Address: http://www.petitesono.com)

-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

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Montreal 01.28.2006 – Textures_03

TEXTURES_03: Jan 28th 2006 – 9pm
i8u | tomas phillips
with Clonal Machina
from San Francisco

Textures is a series of deep-listening events held on the last Saturday of each month at Pharmacie Esperanza. These salon-style concerts focus mainly on live performances of ambient, noise, improv and experimental music in a comfortable and intimate setting.

Two Montreal debuts at our Textures concert series. First up will be the ambient stylings of Clonal Machina, who has recently relocated from San  Francisco. The second performance of the evening will be the first live collaboration between I8U and Tomas Phillips, in anticipation of their upcoming release Anther on petite sono.

La Salle D’Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza)
5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur)
Montreal, QC

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Winnipeg 02.21.2005 – Send and Receive


A Festival of Sound 2005

Silent Music, Secret Noise

An evening of live performance featuring
some of the best small sound and eloquent
static from Winnipeg, Canada and Zurich.

not half [Winnipeg]
I8U [Montreal]
Jason Kahn [Zurich]

Friday, October 21 2005
at the Urban Shaman Gallery
203-290 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg MB Canada
R3B 0T2

Doors: 8:15 pm | Performances: 9:00 pm
Admission: $10

Winnipeg¹s Allan Conroy [aka not half] began making audio experiments in 1983. He developed an obsession for radios, tape-loops, squeaky sounds and unusual acoustic phenomena,
all recorded to tape in a largely improvised fashion. Acquiring samplers in 1992, he began to sample this comprehensive body
of work, a project which continues to the present day. not half frequently uses anything and everything to make sounds, either exclusively or combined with other working methods.
www.noroomfortalent.com
www.dtrashrecords.com

I8U¹s audio art can be understood as sound-sculpture.
It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments
where analog and digital meet. Her web art can be said to follow
a parallel path, intertwining both musical and visual elements.
From classical music to blues, it took only one chance meeting
with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music.
This is I8U¹s second visit to Send + Receive.
www.i8u.com

Originally a percussionist, Zurich¹s Jason Kahn has collaborated with artists including Evan Parker, Chirstian Marclay and Steve Roden. Kahn currently performs using a laptop and analogue synthesizer and combines these with percussion. Kahn is the founder of the CD label cut, has composed music for theatre
and dance and has given concerts around the world. In the past several years Kahn has exhibited several sound installations.
www.jasonkahn.net
www.cut.fm