Non-Event

Non-Event presents
Our August Experimental Coffee House
featuring

OPHIBRE

Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA 02445
617-879-2500
8 p.m./$5

OPHIBRE is Benjamin Rossignol, a sound artist who lives in Boston. When composing, he strives to reflect upon the given mediums of sonic delivery and the various modes of engaging with them. He is currently exploring Reaktor, MaxMsp and analog synthesis.

His works have been published by labels such as Sentient Recognition Archive, Digitalis ltd., Ruralfaune and Mang-Disc. He also runs his own label, Oph Sound, with which he works with alternative formats and artist’s tapes.

He has performed alongside artists such as Jarrod Fowler, Id M Theft Able, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jason Lescaleet, Jim Haynes, Murmer, Marc McNulty, Forbes Graham and The BSC. He is a graduate of The New England Institute of Art with a degree in audio and media

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Non-Event presents
Our September Experimental Coffee House
featuring

REUBEN SON

Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA 02445
617-879-2500
8 p.m./$5

REUBEN SON is an abstract musician who utilizes guitars, tape, and electronics to generate vibrations that evolve over time. He often sidesteps the notion/action of “composing” by attempting to mediate between his influences and his instruments. Born in 1986 in sunny Southern California, he moved to New England to attend college at Wesleyan University and currently resides in scenic Boston, Massachusetts. He has published two tapes on his own Private Chronology imprint and has releases forthcoming on Razors and Medicine and Digitalis Limited.

Listen to newer unreleased recordings by Reuben on SoundCloud.

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Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present

THOMAS KÖNER (U.S. debut!)

Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15
617.262.6050

THOMAS KÖNER is a pioneering multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. Over his long, much celebrated career, he has worked between installation works, sound art, minimal soundscapes, and (as one half of Porter Ricks) fantastically repetitive dub techno. Amazingly, this performance will be Köner’s U.S. debut!

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Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present

BLACK TO COMM (U.S. debut)
with Xela

Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15
617.262.6050

Marc Richter (aka BLACK TO COMM) is no newcomer to the experimental music scene. As the figurehead of the Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer has brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music fans in the last few years, but it is with his own compositions that he has made the biggest splash. He has released records on Digitalis, Trensmat, Type, and his own label, pioneering a new, organic drone sub-genre, using tape loops, vintage organs, and an inexhaustible swamp of found sounds. His last album, the critically acclaimed Alphabet 1968, represented a more song-oriented approach, with references ranging from Moondog to Basic Channel by way of Bernard Herrmann.

Originally from the UK’s Black Country (the glottal rich manor of Walsall to be exact), John Twells is now based in Boston, where he runs his Type imprint and casts out dark, yet never suffocating, compositions under the XELA pseudonym. As Xela, Twells incorporates a vast palate of sounds and influences that ranges from the sublime to the noisily daemonic. For this performance, Twells will be joined by Jim Siegel on percussion.

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