gallery 1412

upcoming shows at gallery 1412:

all shows 8pm unless otherwise noted.
$5 - 15 sliding scale
All Ages!

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friday, june 5 
Aphonia Festival 2009: day two 

featuring:
- LA Lungs
- KRGA
- Unicorns in the Snow 
- Mangled Bohemians

L.A. Lungs was formed in the summer on 2005 in a Tacoma studio apartment by Afterthought Lung (nee Nathan Markiewicz) and Leeward Lung (nee Lori Peterson).  What began as a "studio" project became a "functioning" live act by the summer of 2006, with L.A. Lungs making their live debut at the, now defunct, No Tomorrow concert series in Seattle. L.A. Lungs continue to perform around the Pacific Northwest and have been fortunate enough to share bills with artists such as Acre, Wesley Borden, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Crank Sturgeon, The Dead Air Fresheners, Steve Fisk, Forest Friends, Gowns, Bill Horist, Derek Johnson, Mattress, Myrmyr, POWRFL POWER, Shearing Pinx, Talbot Tagora, Your Drugs My Money, and many others.  Visitors to the Aphonia Fest can look forward to the possibility of hearing work from LA Lungs' recent Aphonia Recordings release, Most of the Time We Do Not Realize We are Shedding Our Skins 2008, as well as newer material.

Kristian Garrard’s  project, KRGA, aims to combine the sounds of any and all instruments around into thick, swarming clouds of tones using self-built sampling software. He uses emphasis on drones and moving textures to create warm and dense atmospheres. Most pieces are created using only one or two instruments as source material  to be processed & resampled in the software environment, Max/MSP.  Past works have used utilized the ubiquitous 60 hz ground-hum, a “personal massager”, as well as more traditional instrumentation.  In performance, deconstructed sounds swirl around the room, as patiently created beds of tones build into a complex organic storm.

Unicorns in the Snow is the one-woman project of Kansas City-based composer, performance artist, & social worker, Julia Vering.  The project’s roots are grounded in earlier attempts to explore empathy in a visual context.  Her most recent work, “The Aviator”, is a miniature opera inspired by the narrative of an aging, anti-social pilot, obsessed by the inimitable power of flying planes.  In the final act, recorded the day after the aviator’s death, reveals the primal collaboration of the artist and her elderly muse, commencing in a primal scream accompanied by violent arthritic movements of the performers’ neck and hands. 

Mangled Bohemians (PDX) are an intensely atmospheric two-piece band featuring massively effected guitar and electronics. Mining heavily from the post-punk tradition of the likes of Glenn Branca, Savage Republic, Heathen Earth era Throbbing Gristle, and Sonic Youth's SYR releases, Mangled Bohemians create long spacey drones that melt into beautiful washes & pseudo-melodies. 
 
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see more info about Aphonia Fest, day one (at the Rendezvous) here:
myspace.com/jewelboxtheater 


saturday, june 6 
Aphonia Festival 2009: day three 

featuring:
- Paintings for Animals
- Derek M. Johnson
- Daedelum
- The Precambrian

Heavy drones, overtone melodies & the sound of the land – Paintings for Animals is the vocal electro-acoustic music of Pearson Wallace-Hoyt.  The sound possesses an archaic resonance connecting the human voice with an Earthen narrative of the landscape, flora, fauna & human ritual of both pre & post-history. Started in 2001 & transformed for live presentation in 2007, performances have taken place at art, dance & music galleries, warehouses, bars, cafés, DIY venues & live radio. Paintings music has been used in film, for video, installation & with dance.

Derek M Johnson is an Olympia native and can't seem to ever get away.  He frequently performs solo acoustic/electric cello throughout the Northwest with an ever changing, direct animation slide show.  He's been a member of Bloodclot, Dead Air Fresheners, Le Ton Mite, Frequency dB, and the unfortunately named Superfly 2000.  Collaborations include: Unwound, Thollem McDonnas, Jeremy Jay, Ben L Robertson, Arrington de Dionyso, Bob Marsh, among others. 

The magnetic vortex that is eastern Washington is perhaps best reflected by the banshee like howls and tortured vocal treatments that hover over the fractured rhythms and found-sounds of Ryan Leeds' project, Daedelum. Leeds is interested in exploring the boundaries of traditional instrumentation & dissecting, reassembling, & colliding the parts with electronic gestures and commentaries. The music is aurally diverse and intentionally oblique.  The compositions are informed as much by Leeds' upbringing and education as by his various employment stints, including work as a recording engineer for a books-on-tape factory, a camera operator for a local news affiliate, a graphic designer, and currently as a CAD technician. 

Aphonia Recordings founders, Ben L. Robertson & Andrew Senna team-up as The Precambrian. In concept, The Precambrian is a constantly evolving interactive synthesis environment/instrument, engineered by Robertson using the graphical programming language, Max/MSP. In its current incarnation, The Precambrian utilizes a slide zither & various pitch recognition algorithms to coax out microtonal intervals derived from a graphical system of 11-limit, just intonation matrices & traditional Arabic Maqams. Additionally, Senna (armed with a handful of piezoelectric transducers, microphones, field recordings) executes a series of absurd narratives & synthetic onomatopoeia, indicative of both his sound design work for film & theater. 

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friday, june 12
Marc Smason and the Free World

Rosalynn DeRoos - clarinet/sax   
Marc Smason -  trombone/voice    
David Haney - piano    
Dalton Davis - drums

Group improvisation, original compositions and spontaneous arrangements. Sounds - contrast - fun - exploration - spaces

Rosalynn De Roos is a clarinetist who has traveled all over the world.  Flexible in style Miss De Roos can be heard performing classical, twentieth century, world music, Latin jazz and experimental improvisation.  Rosalynn has performed all over the Seattle area with groups such as the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, the Degenerate Art Orchestra, the Everett Chorale, Mo-Estra, Resonance Woodwind Quintet, Artha New Music Ensemble, the Ladies Musical Club and Vira-Lata (choro ensemble). Current projects include: The Midway Orchestra a heavy metal band part of Pure Cirkus, Yellow Hat Band and her N.W. Choro Collective. 

rosalynnderoos.com

Trombonist/vocalist/composer, Marc Smason learned, from his mother, to sing as a young child in Texas and studied classical and jazz trombone in Seattle and Los Angeles with Ken Cloud, Stu Dempster, Julian Priester & Slide Hampton. Voice with Jay Clayton (jazz), Yo Jin Chong (Korean) & Ki Wasitodipuro (Javanese).  After some time at New England Conseratory, he went to California Institute of the Arts for a B.F.A.  A long-time member of International Federation of Musicians, Local 76-493.

He has performed around the world with such luminaries as Big Joe Turner, the Funk Brothers, Andy Statman, Perry Robinson, Sam Shepard, Julian Priester, Buel Neidlinger, Rick Mandyke, Sonny Simmons, Hadley Caliman,  Jeff Johnson, Caroline Kraabel, John Edwards, Eyvind Kang, Marc Graham, Baby Gramps and the Ivar's Clams. His playing encompasses many styles including jazz, latin, free improv, klezmer and R&B. 

marcsmason.com

David Haney, born in Fresno, California, grew up in Calgary, Canada.  David studied composition with Tomas Svoboda and piano with Eddie Weid.  As a composer, David has received numerous commissions for ballet and film, including music for “Thousand Points of Light” with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. His chamber works have performed by the Society of Oregon Composers on numerous occasions.

As a bandleader and recording artist, his work has been widely cataloged by New York-based Cadence Jazz Records and C.I.M.P Records.  Since 2001, David’s eleven Cadence and C.I.M.P. releases have featured such jazz titans as Julian Priester, Andrew Cyrille, John Tchicai, Han Bennink, and Dominic Duval.

As a pianist, David  has performed in many of the world's greatest performance spaces and on radio and television throughout North America, Argentina, Chile, and Europe. From the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires to BLA Jazz in Oslo, David has performed solo concerts and with a host of great improvisers. His projects have featured Bud Shank, Roswell Rudd, Bernard Purdie, Julian Priester, Andrew Cyrille, Han Bennink, Buell Neidlinger, Wolter Weirbos, Johannes Bauer, and Gerry Hemingway. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.     

davidhaney.org

Dalton Davis is a multi-instrumentalist and has been playing music for over thirty years. Born in 1965, he grew up in Seattle, WA, playing music ranging from garage rock to big band swing. In 1988 he received a B.A. in music performance at Western Washington University studying percussion with Michael Clark of the Seattle Symphony and jazz with Chuck Israels.  After founding and performing five years with Jumbalassy, a highly popular reggae-calypso band, he worked as a studio drummer and touring musician with many signed acts throughout the 90's.  Dalton has been involved in experimental improvisational music for the last ten years having performed with Perry Robinson, Wally Shoup, Jim Knodle, Marc Collins and David Haney.  His influence for drums in this genre originates from the work of his childhood friend Jim Black.


saturday, june 13
Stuart Dempster/ Bill Smith/ Christian Asplund/ Greg Campbell 

Smith and Dempster, deans of the local improv scene, reunite one segment of the UW Contemporary Group they led for 30 years for an evening of quirky sounds, tiny toys, randomness, and quiet meditation.


sunday, june 14
Gallery 1412 readings

details to come next week!


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