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From: "j.frede" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:21:51 -0700
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: siren songs, automobiles, and the like
brief news brief…
august…
21st - my "a siren song for parthenope" sound installation will be on show
at this years soundwalk in long beach, ca this saturday… details below
http://www.soundwalk.org
28th - j.frede (los angeles) / Marcelo Radulovich (San Diego) / Sutekh (San
Francisco)
a collaboration between electronic music composers and custom car
enthusiasts, Urban Noise will showcase audio works that would be played and
performed by customized automobiles. - Conceived and Commissioned by
Electronic Signal Project.
http://www.esp.la/noise.html
september…
27th - live performance at line space line, a improv duo with austrian
artist Bernhard Gal -
http://www.linespaceline.org
october…
1st-23rd- european tour with david brady and kadet kuhne, we will be driving
all over central europe have lots of laughs,, and oh yes playing shows.
http://www.current-recordings.com/av_tour
review…
- a review of my newest album, "j.frede rewrites scanners diary" can be
found on the current recordings site,,, from a polish magazine, kindly
translated by Ewa Pietraszak…
date | August.2004
reviewed | j.frede writes scanners diary [cd]
publication | GAZ-ETA - Number 22
location | Poland
writer | PAWEL GZYL
url | http://www.vivo.pl/gaz-eta/gazeta.php?nr"&id=3
The latest example of the most liked modern electronic artist has just been
recorded and released! Scanner is the acclaimed British experimenter and
manipulator, known for his production for Sub Rosa. Four years ago he
released the album "Diary", which, through the vehicle of sound, chronicles
the semblance of his experiences and memories since 1976. The music derives
its worth by way of the fascinating and inspirational American musician from
Los Angeles- J. Frede, who produced this work on his own label, Current
Recordings.
The album sounds along the lines of pulsating sounds in accord, juxtaposed
with industrial noise (Page 1). We begin in a time of long unfurling ribbons
of clouds modulating rhythmically to a decrescendo of gently crackling
leaves and fine grating sounds (Page2) Within moments deep dub base pulsates
with layers of piano and percussion. (Page 3) At a certain moment, the music
comes to an almost complete change - we are left with a quiet hum coming
forth time and again with various points of vast space. (Page 6) The
adrenaline climax break brutally and aggressively amongst a mass of
vibrating sounds overlaid in distorted, hip-hop
rhythms (Page 7). When the ruckus dies down, left there only from context,
is an irritating and intoxicating silence (Page 8).
Robin Rimbaud was completely enchanted with J. Frede's work and latest
recording. Isn't this recommendation enough (Enough said)?
PAWEL GZYL
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F L O O D
Presents
SoundWalk 2004
CONTACT:
Shea Gauer at Open (562) 499-OPEN
Visit soundwalk.org to learn more about SoundWalk 2004
Email: [email protected]
LONG BEACH, CA- On August 21st, 2004, the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD is
breaking new ground by organizing the first annual SoundWalk event.
SoundWalk is a day of installation of works by over 30 Southern California
sound artists in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the
downtown Long Beach East Village Arts District. Performances are scheduled
in a few locations, including the first art event to be scheduled in the
East Village Art Park. Please see the complete list of participating artists
and their locations that follows.
WHAT: Sound Art Festival "SoundWalk 2004", a day of
discovery of sound art installations by over 30
Southern California sound artists
WHERE: In a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces
throughout the downtown Long Beach East Village Arts
District, specifically located in the area encompassed
by Broadway, Atlantic, Ocean and Elm. Maps available
at Koo's, 540 E. Broadway or at Open, 144 Linden, in
Long Beach.
WHEN: August 21st, 2004 from 6 - 10 pm (see map for
performance schedules)
Reception for artists, 5-6pm at Koo's, 540 E. Broadway
Closing Performances, 10-11pm at Koo's.
ADMISSION: Free
PARKING: Free parking is available on the street, or
in the SST parking lot at the SW corner of 4th and
Linden.
SoundWalk 2004
Groundbreaking Art Event Produced by Long Beach Artist
Group, FLOOD
This event, conceived of as SoundWalk, is a variation on the concept of the
usual "ArtWalk" events that happen every 2nd Saturday in the Arts District.
We envision an environmental experience, which alters the participants'
perception of their sense of being in a familiar space. Habituation blunts
our inquisitiveness, our engagement in the visual as well as audible
surroundings. Sound installations will thus not only be an exciting moment
of perception, but a way of rethinking our sensory engagement with the
spaces in which we function.
In contrast to indoor art installations, which are seen and experienced as
separate from our daily routines, we are visited with the expectation of the
extra-ordinary. Our sound-installations function in concert with the sounds
of the city, thus adding, altering and intermingling with the customary.
The outdoor locations keep the ordinary din of the city in the
extra-ordinary event. The viewer may thus perceive common occurrences in
startling new ways. We wish to surprise, puzzle, enchant, excite and delight
those who intentionally or unintentionally participate in SoundWalk. This
event is free to the public and is being sponsored by the Downtown Long
Beach Associates (DLBA), Gallery 33 East, 689 Design and the East Village
Association (EVA). A Catalog/CD about some of the artists involved in this
project will be available for sale to the public during and after the event.
More information about FLOOD and the artists is available upon request.
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