[NewMusicEvents] Reminder: Joker Nies, Gino Robair & guests @ CNMAT 4/25

[Amy X Neuburg]

Friday April 25, 8:00 PM

Joker Nies (Germany), circuit-bending performance and discussion, with  
Gino Robair, percussion
Special guests: instrument designer Rob Hordijk (Netherlands), and  
vocalist Amy X Neuburg

CNMAT (Center for New Music & Audio Technology) at UC Berkeley
1750 Arch St.
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu
Cost $10, no one turned away for lack of funds

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Joker Nies (Cologne, Germany) has presented workshops and performed  
his energetic improvisations on re-built electronic toys all over  
Europe and the U.S. He will be joined by well-known local  
percussionist Gino Robair, with guest appearances by vocalist Amy X  
Neuburg and instrument designer Rob Hordijk (Netherlands).

Joker will also give an explanation of circuit-bending and talk about  
his work, and Rob Hordijk will discuss his hand-made synthesizer the  
Blippobox -- one of Joker's featured instruments.

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Biographies:

Joker Nies lives and works in Cologne, Germany, as a musician,  
sound-designer/engineer, and technical editor for the German  
Sound&Recording magazine. He has a long history of working with  
modular synthesizers, individually designed electronic devices,  
DSP-based systems and software-based sound sources. In the early '90s,  
modifying the Omnichord became his initiation to circuit-bending.  
Since then he has converted a steadily growing number of simple toys  
into alien sound devices. Nies regularly performs live, solo and in  
various collaborations, and holds workshops and tutorials about  
circuit-bending and MAX/MSP. He has performed and lectured throughout  
Europe and in the USA and Mexico. More information at  
http://www.klangbureau.de/Joker_E/klangbureau-Biografie.html.

Gino Robair is a mainstay of the Bay Area creative music scene. His  
primary musical interests include percussion, analog electronics,  
Styrofoam, and prepared piano. He has composed music for dance,  
theater, gamelan, radio, and television. Robair's concert works have  
been performed in North America, Europe, and Japan, and as  
percussionist he has performed internationally or recorded with such  
luminaries as Tom Waits, Terry Riley, Anthony Braxton, Lou Harrison,  
John Zorn, Nina Hagen, and Kronos Quartet.

Trained originally as a sculptor and jewelry maker, Rob Hordijk has  
been building audio and synthesizer electronics for over thirty years,  
combining his interests towards the "sculpture" of sound. He has  
consulted on the design of commercial synthesizers (Clavia G2) and  
designed many specialty analog modules, including the 36dB Twinpeak  
resonator and the Tilt filter, several types of chaos generators, and  
the Bessel waveshaper. Hordijk's current work is on "coffee table"  
synthesizers -- small, entirely hand-built boxes designed on the  
principles of circuit-bending to take on a "life of their own." He  
regularly gives lectures and workshops on sound design and synthesis.

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Amy X Neuburg
http://www.amyxneuburg.com
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