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[SF,CA,USA][Fri Oct 10] Field Effects 15: Field Trips

Subject: [SF,CA,USA][Fri Oct 10] Field Effects 15: Field Trips
From: Aaron Ximm <>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
Apologies as always for the cross-posting...! -- aaron

Late breaking 964 news! 964's own Zoe Keating will be hosting a show
of accomplished loop-based musicianship -- *this* Friday, October 3!
The lineup features Zoe's own wonderful loop-cello solo project, and
Santa Cruz's astonishing loopmeister Rick Walker on trademark neon-
green. Show starts promptly at 8:30 pm.

----------[ Quiet American presents at 964 Natoma ]--------------------

Field Effects 15: Field Trips
Friday, October 10
Doors 8pm
964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA (USA)

$6-10 requested sliding donation,
 no one turned away for lack of funds.

----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------

The world makes music, remember to listen.

Field Effects is an ongoing series of concerts showcasing the use of
found sound, found materials, and field recordings in media art,
presented in a comfortable environment.

For FE15: Field Trips, we focus on work strongly rooted in field
recordings proper -- the original motivation for the series. With
luck we'll be running a four-speaker main PA.

Field Effects 15 features work from sound artists:

  Sean Rooney

    Sean Rooney is a Bay Area-based artist who works in a variety of
    media including live audio and video performance, installation and
    web art. His music combines noise, microtonal drone, plunder-
    phonia, hacked hardware circuit-twisting, digital ambience,
    field recordings and advanced homebrew DSP software into a whole
    which is by turns frenetic, textural, chill, and imagistic.
    Disquiet magazine has called his music 'cooly metamorphic.' John
    Bischoff called his performance 'some of the best electronic
    music I've heard in a long time,' and Field Effects alumni
    Kenneth Atchley called a recent performance 'one of the most
    beautiful electronic music shows I've ever heard.'

    Roony has presented work at The Museum of Jurassic Technology,
    The Whitney, OFFF '03 in Barcelona, and around the US. He is
    former curator of Detritus Night, an experimental electronic
    music series at The Luggage Store Gallery and artistic co-host
    of The LivingRoom. Roony is currently on the steering committee
    of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

    For Field Effects Rooney will be performing two recent multi-
    channel works, 'Slots'  and 'Pile Driver.' Both pieces are
    performed using custom software written in the SuperCollider
    audio processing environment.

    'Slots' combines two banks of samples. The first group are the
    sounds of the hidden interior of a PC -- a motherboard as it
    performs processor-intensive graphics calculations and operating
    system files mutated into sound. The other group is a series of
    field recordings I made at Circus!Circus! casino in Reno as I
    walked around the slot machine area. Software and slot machines
    have more in common than is perhaps immediately apparent...
    the circus metaphor needs no explanation.

    'Pile Driver' uses processed field recordings from a construction
    site at 8th and Townsend Streets in San Francisco. Sample playback
    is driven by a live analysis of the recording and controlled by
    the performer. No one has ever ballroom danced to 'Pile Driver.'
    Ever.

      http://www.ntet.net


  Jesse Hammons

    Bay Area Artist Jesse Hammons records experiences from our
    natural world.  His personal sound library contains audio
    documents ranging from the urban core of the New York City
    Subway to the sparsely populated areas of California's
    Lost Coast.

    In October, 2002 Jesse stepped out from his apartment in
    Potrero Hill and hiked anticlockwise around the San Francisco
    and San Pablo Bays. Self-sufficient except for backpacking gear,
    a MiniDisc recorder, and $300 in cash, the expedition lasted
    30 days and covered a distance of 300 miles.

    The work Hammons will present at Field Effects, 'I Walk
    Around the Bay/FE,' is a sonic summary of thirty hours of
    audio that he recorded to document the journey.


  Steve Polta

    Steve Polta has been a Bay Area resident for ten years,
    spending much of this time involved in various non-commercial
    and more-or-less under-the-radar film projects. His films
    have screened throughout the US and South Korea. Lately
    he's been producing recordings and audio performances dealing
    with distressed materials, tortured electronics and the misuse
    of dead technology. Polta likes the sound of wires, circuits
    and machines; the way recordings take on lives of their own,
    once the source material is forgotten; the way recording
    technology (the cheaper the better) can overwhelm what it
    captures.

    For Field Effects, Polta will present 'boil,' which was made
    with a couple of Radio Shack piezos in the kitchen one
    afternoon and recorded with a Sony TC-D5: again, tortured
    electronics, screaming from behind the surfaces of mundane
    events.

    Polta participated in compilation releases on the Sounds from
    the Pocket label (more to come!). Sometimes he (over)builds
    masses of open-reel tape loop/microphone/radio/white noise
    amalgams, which can be hauled out for live performance --
    get in touch for details. He's trying to figure out what to
    do with the recordings he makes; if you have ideas send him
    email at  He'll trade for just about
    anything. If you want to just make him a mix tape or
    even send someone's old answering machine tapes, he'll
    match you point for point. Mysteries in the mailbox. Get in
    touch!


The Field Effects series showcases artists interested in framing
the hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface,
awaiting our attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted.
And beauty in potential, awaiting juxtaposition, collage,
repetition and mutilation.

Seating mostly on futons to encourage comfortable deep listening
and viewing. Alas, our loaner beanbags may have departed; you may
want to bring a pillow.

Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a
donation-based honor system. Hopefully someone will make cookies.

----> Venue Info <----------------------------------------------------

964 Natoma
San Francisco, CA, USA

Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market.
A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van
Ness. Bike parking inside!

----> Additional Info <-----------------------------------------------

This message is not for print distribution or advertising.
This is a private event for friends, family and our community.

Questions? Write 

About the series: http://www.quietamerican.org/related_fe.html


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