Saturday, April 12th 2008
Thus featuring Neil Feather and John Berndt
Traum from Detroit, Michigan
Neil Feather and John Berndt have collaborated since 1994 as THUS, using their unique, self-built instrumentation to develop their own idiom of otherworldly music. Like a civilization of two, like a cargo cult in reverse...
Sound mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments for thirty years, and is increasingly known outside of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music. A founding member of Thus and The Official Project, as well as the leader of Aerotrain, he has a long history of collaborative projects and solo concerts.
John Berndt is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. As an enfant terrible, he participated in what might be called the second wave of the neoism cultural movement. Berndt participated in the "86th International Neoist Apartment Festival" in 1986 in Berlin, & the "One Millionth" in New York City in late 1988. Subsequently becoming a respected businessman and grafting those skills onto his avant-garde roots, Berndt, one member of a collective of artists and improvising musicians in the spirit of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, works on the Red Room experimental performance series, which has presented weekly events since the early 1996, and the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, a large annual improvised music festival begun in 1999 in Baltimore where all performers play in new groups. He also runs the Recorded record label which has issued several discs by Berndt's sometime collaborator Henry Flynt.
TRAUM is Ben Hall and Hans Buetow of Graveyards and Mêlée plus local favorite Chris Riggs. John Olson of Wolf Eyes says that their work "sounds like some Bailey shit but without all that art shit."
Traum from Detroit, Michigan
8pm at Fairchild Chapel
Neil Feather and John Berndt have collaborated since 1994 as THUS, using their unique, self-built instrumentation to develop their own idiom of otherworldly music. Like a civilization of two, like a cargo cult in reverse...Sound mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments for thirty years, and is increasingly known outside of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music. A founding member of Thus and The Official Project, as well as the leader of Aerotrain, he has a long history of collaborative projects and solo concerts.
John Berndt is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. As an enfant terrible, he participated in what might be called the second wave of the neoism cultural movement. Berndt participated in the "86th International Neoist Apartment Festival" in 1986 in Berlin, & the "One Millionth" in New York City in late 1988. Subsequently becoming a respected businessman and grafting those skills onto his avant-garde roots, Berndt, one member of a collective of artists and improvising musicians in the spirit of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, works on the Red Room experimental performance series, which has presented weekly events since the early 1996, and the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, a large annual improvised music festival begun in 1999 in Baltimore where all performers play in new groups. He also runs the Recorded record label which has issued several discs by Berndt's sometime collaborator Henry Flynt.
TRAUM is Ben Hall and Hans Buetow of Graveyards and Mêlée plus local favorite Chris Riggs. John Olson of Wolf Eyes says that their work "sounds like some Bailey shit but without all that art shit."
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