field effects 20
friday, september 17, doors 8pm
964 natoma, sf, ca, usa
requested donation $6-10

The world makes music, remember to listen.

The Field Effects series showcase the use of found sound, found materials, and field recordings in media art, presented in a uniquely comfortable environment.

Field Effects 20 features work from composers:

bernhard gal

Bernhard Gál (aka gal) is a composer, artist and musicologist from Vienna, Austria who creates electro-acoustic music as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. In his inter-media and sound art installations Gal combines sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts.

Of his work he has written:

'[My work] operates between the world's soundscapes and their detachment from context. The personal discovery of music within nature as well as within the routines of everyday life keeps fascinating me. sometimes I return to a certain place only to record its sound...'

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1971, Gal began to nurture his growing interest in music and (sound) art around 1986, playing piano and guitar, performing in local rock bands and pursuing private compositional studies. After studies at Vienna's University of Music (Sound Engineering) and the University of Vienna (Musicology), and a year-long residency in New York City in 1997-98, he decided to focus on his compositional and artistic activities. Since 1998 Gal works as a freelance composer and artist. In 2003 he was a guest composer of the DAAD artist-in-residence program in Berlin. Currently Gal lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

Gal's work has been presented in concerts, sound installations and exhibitions throughout Europe, and in Japan, Taiwan and the Americas. As a musician, Gal has performed solo and collaborated with Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Brian Labycz, Chao-Ming Tung, Kai Fagaschinski, Manuel Mota, et al. He has worked with architects, choreographers, dancers, painters, performance-, media- and video artists, such as Akemi Takeya, Mandy Morrison, P. Michael Schultes, G.S. Sedlak and Emre Tuncer. In 1997 Gal began an ongoing collaboration with the Japanese architect and installation artist Yumi Kori ('audio-architectural installations').

For his music and art projects Gal received various awards and grants, e.g. a Composition Award of Initiative Minderheiten Vienna 2000, the Karl Hofer-Prize of the University of the Arts Berlin 2001, an Annual Grant from SKE-Fonds Vienna 2002, a fellowship from the DAAD Guest Artist Program Berlin 2003, and the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition 2004.

Bernhard Gal's music has been published by various records labels including Durian, Plate Lunch, because tomorrow comes, Intransitive, Bremsstrahlung Recordings and Klanggalerie.

http://www.bernhardgal.com

thomas dimuzio

Thomas Dimuzio is a composer, musician, mastering engineer and label-proprietor based in San Francisco.

Of the work he will present at Field Effects, Dimuzio writes:

'Recontextualization could be a possible theme for my set. I was also thinking of dropping a mic out the window as a supplementary processing source...'

Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live sampling and studio techniques to create consistently compelling works, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time and technology. Effortlessly moving from electro-acoustic and noise to glitch, dark ambient, improv and drone, Dimuzio's eclecticism bespeaks a career equally informed by profound dedication to his craft and collaborations with friends, artists and technologists alik e.

Dimuzio's latest release Slew, available through RéR Megacorp/Gench, compiles compilation tracks spanning from 1990 to 2004.

http://www.thomasdimuzio.com
http://www.gench.com

The Field Effects series showcases artists who are 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 and our new flock of beanbags, to encourage comfortable deep listening. You are always welcome to bring pajamas or a pillow.

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

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

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