[NewMusic] Wed, 9/3: Phill Niblock, sfSound Group & Sharkiface at SFEMF

[Matt Davignon]

Wednesday, Sep 3 2008 8:00 PM

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2008
Project Artaud Theatre
450 Florida Street
SF
Cost : $17 General, $12 Student, $55 Festival Pass

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2008

Phill Niblock (New York)
sfSound Group (SF Bay Area)
Sharkiface (SF Bay Area)

And installations by Jen Boyd, Clay Chaplin and Alex Potts

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media
musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in
the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping in Lower Manhattan. He has been
a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. His
influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan
Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. He's even worked
with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo on "Guitar two, for
four" which is actually for five guitarists. Niblock constructs big
24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones, resulting
in sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, changes
imperceptible, and his music has a way of creeping up on you. Since
1968, Niblock has put on over 1,000 concerts in his loft space,
including Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski and Jim O'Rourke.
www.phillniblock.com

sfSound Group has been presenting innovative and challenging concerts
in the San Francisco bay area since 1999. A true 21st century
ensemble, the group has an extraordinary roster of Bay Area
composer-performers whose virtuosic and "extended" instrumental
abilities are equally balanced with their involvement in composition,
electronic sound, performance art, computer audio programming, and
experimental instrument making. The group's sfSoundSeries presents
cutting-edge new works by local and international composers, virtuosic
improvisations, theatrical performances, live diffusion of tape music,
and avant-garde classics. The group also frequently presents existing
work in highly creative "radical transcriptions," blurring the lines
between performance, composition, interpretation and improvisation.
www.sfsound.org/group

Sharkiface is Bay Area experimental artist Angela Edwards, co-founder
of the veteran "costume noise" & comedy duo Tarantism, a member of the
electronic duo Pigs In The Ground and the macabre experimental doo-wop
quintet Diatric Puds. Solo performances usually involve dense textures
and rich layered tones using various rare electronic intstruments such
as the Ciat Lonbarde Tranoe, a heavily modified stereo delay and
looping instrument, and the Bug, an electro-acoustic soundboard built
by Tom Nunn. www.sharkiface.com
Cost : $17 General, $12 Student, $55 Festival Pass