poster by Linda Aubry

David Kendall/David Rothbaum: analog and digital synthesis
Patrick McGinley/Ben Owen: field recordings
[Area premier for both duos]

151 Madison St.
Troy, NY
8 PM
Saturday, 29 September 2007.

David Kendall is from Los Angeles. David Kendall's musical practice makes use of the logistics of collaboration, as well as digital and analog audio synthesis. The goal is to interface discrete components together to create organic systems, where each part feeds in to others to create an interconnected whole. The presented sound is unitary, highly unstable and often unpredictable. Each discrete element tends to have the power to alter the overall sound dramatically, based on changes to the elements.

patrick mcginley (aka .murmer.) is an american born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from 1996 until 1998 he lived in paris, france, where he studied theatre, and began his sound experiments in the context of those studies. moving to london, uk, in 1998, he began a collection of found sounds and found objects that would become the basis of all his work. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live soundworks for others. in 2002 he co-founded framework, an organisation that produces a weekly radio show on london's resonance104.4fm. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one's own breath. http://www.murmerings.com

ben owen is based in Brooklyn NY and works with sound, transmission, light, and print. ben's current work include sound and light installation, weekly internet radio, experimental composition, improvised performance, and score based performance. His sound works grew out of stone litho printmaking where process and destabilization held significance as parallel to itself. Engaging indoor and outdoor space's with sound and light were informed from cycles of inking and surface reception, spacial sound fluctuated between existing sound fields, intervened environments, and disregarded ambiances. through the practice of installation and transmission, time and location are disjected from standard presentation to introduce amplified sound and its architectural meter.

Admission to this concert is free; donations will be accepted and given to the musicians. Parking will be available on Madison St. and the neighborhood (there is ample free street parking). There will be signs at the venue to direct you to the event.

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