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EMF Hip Chips Marathon

Saturday, May 7, 6:30 - 11:30pm
Tonic
New York City

EMF presents a laptop music marathon at Tonic, New York's hippest underground music club. As part of Hip Chips, this marathon presents a broad stylistic range of laptop performers.

Curated by Hans Tammen, the schedule is:

6:30pm

FIVE NYU COMPOSERS

Langdon Crawford performs "Fly by Wire" (2005) for Theremin controlled software synthesis. Roberto Osorio-Goenaga & Andres Valdivia-Serrano performs "Any Source" (2005) a sample manipulation piece for two laptops. Chad Wagner performs "Opcode Bloat" (2005) for Double Bass and live sound processing via Powerbook. Paul Rothman performs "Whispers in Silence" (2005) for recorded sound and live electronics.

7:30pm

DAMIAN CATERA WITH BENJAMIN CHADABE

Benjamin Chadabe, improvising percussionist, sound and video artist, has performed with Jaap Blonk, Elliott Sharp, Jorrit Dykstra, Jonathan Lamaster, Warren Burt, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Pierre Joris, and Nicole Peyrafitte. His debut CD 'The Metaphysician's Hammer' was released in 2000 to excellent reviews, and his work has appeared on many other CDs.

Damian Catera, electroacoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist, has toured the US and Europe and his works have appeared in exhibits and festivals in New York, Moscow, and many other places. His release 'deCOMPOSITION' contains live improvisations for guitar, computer, and radio which were recorded during a European tour in 2001.

Benjamin Chadabe and Damien Catera have worked together for more than two years, performing a mix of electronics and percussion in which Catera's transformation of Chadabe's sounds develops into a complex texture of energy, loops, and improvisations between the performers.

8:30pm

JOKER NIES, ANDREA PARKINS & HANS TAMMEN

Joker Nies lives and works in Cologne, Germany, as a musician, sound-engineer, and technical editor for the German Keyboards magazine. He performs internationally with artists like John Butcher, Ernst Reijsinger, Thomas Lehn, Alan Silva, Dave Tucker, Seth Josel and many others, in various constellations.

Andrea Parkins is a New York-based sound artist, composer, and improviser who plays laptop sampler, electronically-processed accordion, electronic keyboards, and piano. Her latest ensemble project, Ash and Tabula, a collaboration with guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Tom Rainey, has recently released a CD on the Atavistic label and will perform several concerts in Europe during fall 2005.

Hans Tammen, composer and improviser, has developed a personal style influenced by contemporary electronic compositions, the rhythmic concept of the free jazz pulse, and European improvisational strategies. Projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light or video. His works have been presented in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia and all over Europe. His music appears on more than a dozen CDs, on labels like Nur/Nicht/Nur, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, or Hybrid.

9:30pm

DAVID FIRST: OPERATION KRACPOT - MUSIC OF THE SPHERE

Operation:Kracpot is a compositional and improvisational framework created to explore and exploit the frequencies emitted by the human brain and the earth's magnetic field. Data collected from Poker Flat, Alaska of the Schumann Resonances - a set of six quasi-standing waves that occur as a result of continuous global lightning strikes - are transformed into various musical parameters such as tunings, timbres, rhythms and more ... Accompanying this will be a special video element designed by the composer to further modulate the senses.

David First has played guitar with renowned jazz innovator/pianist Cecil Taylor (culminating in a legendary Carnegie Hall concert) and the rock band TelevisionÕs Richard Lloyd. He has created electronic music at Princeton University and led a MummerÕs String Band in bicentennial parades. He has played in raucous, drunken bar bands and in concert halls with classical ensembles.

10:30pm

VORTEX (SATOSHI TAKEISHI & SHOKO NAGAI) WITH ADAM KENDALL

Adam Kendall is a New York City video artist and musician who works solo and in collaboration with others. His works have been presented in the United States and abroad, he regularly performs live, and he has been the video resident for ongoing NYC multimedia events.

Satoshi Takeishi, percussionist, and Shoko Nagai, keyboardist, comprise the experimental music duo Vortex. They compose and perform with electronics and acoustic instruments and are well-founded in traditional jazz and contemporary alternative styles. They perform in the United States and internationally as a duo and with musicians such as John Zorn, Ray Barretto, Elian Elias, Lukas Ligeti, Paul Winter, and others.

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