electronica
7-9pm
$8 donation
NON EVENT & the BERWICK RESEARCH INSTITUTE present:
JANEK SCHAEFER (UK) - modified record players, electronics
HOWARD STELZER (US) - cassette players, electronics
Non-Event & the Berwick Research Institute are pleased to present the Boston-area debut of UK sound artist and turntablist, Janek Schaefer. Using custom built record players and variety of other devices, Janek explores the spatial and architectural aspects of sound, as well as the twisting of technology. His work incorporates a hybrid of analog and digital techniques, combining field recordings with live, modified vinyl and found sounds to create evocative and involving environments. His most recent release, “Songs of Europe,” a collaboration with fellow UK turntablist, Philip Jeck, was released this fall on the Asphodel label to considerable critical acclaim.
Schaefer runs the label audiOh!Recordings and has released records on Sub Rosa, Staalplaat, Hot Air, Sirr, Rhiz, Alluvial, Diskono, and Asphodel. He works full-time as a sound artist/sound designer/musician and composer from the audiOh!Room in London and has performed and exhibited widely throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, and Australia. His Tri-phonic Turntable is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World’s Most Versatile
Record Player.”
Howard Stelzer has been active as a composer and performer of electronic music since 1992. His improvised music utilizes the qualities inherent to cassette tape and tape players; namely hiss, the roll of tape across play heads, the crackle of dirt caught inside old players, play speed altered manually by pressure from fingers applied to the tape’s reels. His work tends to employ space and silence as well as gritty low-fidelity noise, and is almost always centered on the physicality of live performance, with an instrumental (rather than the classical ‘concrete’) approach to the tapes. He has collaborated with folks such as Kevin Drumm, Otomo Yoshihide, Le Quan Ninh, Martin Tetreault, Gert-Jan Prins, Axel Doerner, Jason Lescalleet, Jerome Noetinger, Joe McPhee, Sawako. He has toured the US and Canada six times, and performed at the TENT festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In addition to solo performance, Stelzer is a member of the BSC. He also operates the Intransitive Recordings label and mail-order catalog for electro-acoustic and improvised music, and regularly hosts sound-art, electronic and improvised music concerts in the greater Boston area.
production:
www.nonevent.org
www.audioh.com
www.berwickinstitute.org