In OBJECT IMPERMANENCE things are temporary, subject to decay, change, or disappearance. They are not fixed or eternal, but constantly shifting, evolving, or eventually fading away. The evening features four experimental guitarists who have reconsidered the guitar in their own idiosyncratic ways. JEREMY SLATER's sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, ambient noise, environmental sound, and other instruments. HANS TAMMEN explores overtones and noises that are emerging from pianos, guitars and other stringed instruments affected by vibrations from transducers. NICK DIDKOVSKY's work joins the furious energy of rock with intricate composition, some of which finds its origins in rich software systems of his own design. REG BLOOR delves deep into frenetic, atonal, dissonant, and angular screechscapes.This event will also mark the premiere of her new music video, VIEWER DISCRETION IS NOT ADVISED, directed by Mark Borchardt.
⚫︎Ticket⚫︎
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⚫︎Date⚫︎
Sun, Oct 27th 6:30pm-10:30pm
⚫︎Address⚫︎
Bushwick area ( close to J, M, L train)
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⚫︎Timetable⚫︎
6:30pm:Open
7:00pm: Jeremy Slater & Hans Tammen
8:00pm: Nick Didkovsky
9:00pm: Reg Bloor
⚫︎Performers⚫︎
( ) Jeremy D. Slater is an intermedia artist and composer working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. He was born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, ambient noise, environmental sound, and other instruments. Video work includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. Jeremy D. Slater is also known as ( ) and is a member of music projects Plan 23, The Principle String Quartet, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, EMP, and tū. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center and HERE with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan.
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. In his EIGENGRAU works he is exploring overtones and noises that are emerging from pianos, guitars and other stringed instruments affected by vibrations from transducers. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and music software programmer. He founded the rock band Doctor Nerve in 1983, and more recently, the metal bands Häßliche Luftmasken and Vomit Fist and the free metal guitar duo CHORD. He is a member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet and has composed for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, ETHEL, and others. He has performed with DITHER Guitar Quartet, John Zorn, Billion Dollar Babies, and Blue Coupe. His compositions and guitar work appear on over 50 records. Album credits include Alice Cooper "Paranormal" (2017).
With computer music pioneer Phil Burk, Didkovsky created Java Music Specification Language, which he uses to teach algorithmic music composition at NYU. With composer Georg Hajdu, he has created MaxScore, an object that uses JMSL to bring music notation to Max/MSP.
In 2010, he founded the $100 Guitar Project with Chuck O'Meara. His Punos Music record label (www.punosmusic.com) serves up his more extreme musical projects.
Current projects include a release of new music for electric guitar entitled "Profane Riddles", a new CD called "Seagull Brain" with guitarists Chris Cochrane (No Safety, Collapsible Shoulder) and Mark Howell (Timber, Zero Pop), new electric guitar duets with Sean Walsh (Skullshitter), and a new full-length Vomit Fist record.
His Erdős number is 4.
Legendary New York Avant-Garde guitarist Reg Bloor has released four instrumental solo records “Egregious Harmonics Vol. 1”, “Viewer Discretion Is Not Advised”, ”Sensory Irritation Chamber”, and "Theme from an Imaginary Slasher" and has performed all over the world, including at The Red Bull Music Academy New York Festival, the OFF Festival, and Basilica Drone.
Long-time member of The Glenn Branca Ensemble and founder of band The Paranoid Critical Revolution, Reg’s innovative mix of frantic No Wave, Out Jazz, and screechy Metal as well as her inventive chords, angular atonality, and groundbreaking techniques, not to mention her impish sense of humor, have been an unsung influence on two generations of New York experimental guitarists.