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PATAPHOR at Café Fixe
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Non-Event Presents
Our May Experimental Coffee House
featuring

PATAPHOR (laptop + guitar pedals)

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

PATAPHOR is the project of Shannon Smith, a Boston based musician who utilizes laptop and guitar pedals in her performance. Her music attempts to investigate the space between drone and noise. She has tapes on Ydlmier and Teosinte Records, as well as a CDr on her own label, MRSA. Prior to living in Boston, she attended graduate school in Milwaukee for Modern Studies, focusing on sound art, and she has a forthcoming tape on FTAM as part of the Milwaukee Noise 2005-2010 box set.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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IN CAMERA at the Goethe-Institut Boston
Friday, June 8, 2012

Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present

IN CAMERA
with VIOSAC (Graham Stewart)

Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15 general admission/$12 students
617.262.6050

IN CAMERA is CHRISTOPH HEEMANN and TIMO VAN LUIJK.

Born in 1964 in Aachen, Germany, CHRISTOPH HEEMANN was a founding member of the group HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA (H.N.A.S.).From 1985 to 1993, H.N.A.S. released several albums of surreal collage music, drawing inspiration from such diverse elements as musique concrete, avant-garde, krautrock and improvised music. After the group disbanded Heemann continued working solo and with the group Mimir (with Edward Ka-spel and Jim O'Rourke), the drone projects Mirror (with Andrew Chalk) and In Camera (with Timo van Luijk). Heemann's solo compositions have been described as "ear-movies," in which he fuses field recordings, acoustic instruments, electronics, and electroacoustic sounds into audio narratives.

TIMO VAN LUIJK is a Finnish-born composer and improviser living in Belgium. He was a founding member of the experimental multimedia collective Noise-Maker's Fifes (1989-2006) and started his solo project Af Ursin in 1995.Van Luijk mainly works with acoustic (wind and string) instruments, various (sound) objects, keyboards and magnetic tape. Within this setting he creates structured freeform arrangements in which the intuitive and emotive aspect form the core of his musical approach.

VIOSAC (Violence and the Sacred) has been recording and performing electronic/experimental music since the mid-eighties. Based in Toronto, it began as a collaborative project and, over the years, has produced music in a broad range of experimental styles: noise, ambient, pure electronic composition, and improvised cacophony. Though some of the group's original members still contribute elements, for the past four years, VioSac has been the solo effort of Graham Stewart. This latest manifestation of VioSac has released three studio CDs of compositions for analogue synthesizer. The latest, 2010's Dawning Luminosity waas described by Frans de Waard as "an almost perfect piece of surround sound, ambient in the very most true sense of the word."

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BACZKOWKI-NACE-CORSANO-KELLEY at Spectacle, Sunday, June 24, 2012

Non-Event and Spectacle present

STEVE BACZKOWSKI-BILL NACE-CHRIS CORSANO-GREG KELLEY Quartet
with KATE BIGGAR

Spectacle
128 Brookside
Jamaica Plain (near Green Street T)
$10/ 8pm

Steve Baczkwoski (reeds) and Chris Corsano (drums) met in 2002, jammed at an old Buffalo ice house, and have played together in various formations ever since: duo, trio with Paul Flaherty (The Dim Bulb, 2005, Wet Paint) and also a quartet with Flaherty and Tony Conrad. Bill Nace (guitar) met Steve in a town famous for hockey sticks, first played together in a converted ice rink, and have recently formed a duo (Live in Buffalo, 2010, 8mm). Chris and Bill formed their duo Vampire Belt in 2002 in what used to be a bait shop. Up until now, the three's first and only performance together was in Thurston Moore's Dream/Aktion Unit at the Victo festival in 2005. For the Boston show only, the trio will be joined by trumpeter Greg Kelley.

About the artists

Multi-wind instrumentalist STEVE BACZKOWSKI lives in Buffalo, N.Y. where he works as a conduit for creative music of any and every sort. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight, switched to baritone by the time he was twelve, and has since developed a wide array of woodwind styles & formidable breathing techniques. In addition to organizing the Buffalo Improvisers Orchestra, and the Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit, Baczkowski also performs solo, in duo with Ravi Padmanabha, Bill Sack, Nola Ranallo, Omar Tamez & Bill Nace and in ensembles such as Genkin Philharmonic, 12/8 Path Band, Necrophonia, the William Parker Trance Quartet, and frequent collaborations with like-souled folks from around the world.

BILL NACE is one of the premiere avant-garde guitarists active today. He has one of the most personal and unique pallets of sound ever to be culled from an electric guitar. Nace creates a distinct, mind-bending cacophony and focuses his textures with intense precision and control. He works under various guises (x.0.4 with Jake Meginsksy and John Truscinski, a duo with Paul Flaherty, Northampton Wools with Thurston Moore, and Ceylon Mange with Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance) and his own name.

Drummer CHRIS CORSANO began a longstanding, high-energy partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. A move from western Massachusetts, USA to the UK in 2005 led Chris to develop a solo music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings, pot lids, adhesive tape and other household devices into his drum kit. The years 2007 and '08 were spent as the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings with the likes of Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker & John Edwards, Virginia Genta, and C. Spencer Yeh on his days off. Returning to the U.S. in 2009, Corsano shifted focus back to his own projects, most notably a duo with Michael Flower, Rangda (with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and his solo work. In addition to the those mentioned above, he's also played with, among others, Joe McPhee, Jessica Rylan, Akira Sakata, Jim O'Rourke, Jandek, Nels Cline, and Sunburned Hand Of Man.

GREG KELLEY began studying the trumpet at age 10. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where in addition to studying the Conservatory curriculum, he also immersed himself in a deep study of avant-garde and experimental music, eventually coming to the conclusion that his musical focus fell outside of the academic sphere. After his studies, Kelley moved back to his native Massachusetts, quickly insinuated himself into the local avant-garde circles and soon commenced a period of intense travel and collaboration, bringing him across the United States, throughout Europe, Japan and South America.

He has appeared on over 60 albums and despite a more limited travel schedule, he still manages to play in a number of groups including Nmperign, Heathen Shame, the undr quartet and the BSC, among others.

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