This month, we have 11 electronic musicians doing some topographical research on your ear drums. Ambient textures, ethereal drones, industrial grinding and subtle anti-rhythms are just some of the tools at their disposal. Visionquest will boggle your eyes and Jonathan Ackerman will handle the aftermath. Here are some short bios to familiarize you with our performers.
Garland Villanova
Even minus her magic cave and army of winged cats, Garland Villanova would fear nothing. While the Saint Paul-based sound and visual artist regularly plumbs her own subconscious for inspiration, employing glyphs, sigils, and notes from dreams as shorthand maps for sustained exploration of unexplored psychic regions, Villanova insists on making her shit permeable to everything she encounters without taking orders from anyone. As for outcomes, she’s interested primarily in vibrating air molecules, agitated quantum fields, and the respect of her diciest peers.
John Vance
John Vance, anti-composer, is influenced by the gamut of nonsense in modern musics, from Cage's Water Walk to novelty songs and the Hanatarash. He has been associated with Cock ESP, WRONG, Polar Bear Club, Eclectic Ensemble and electronic solo project Rexor.
Datura 1.0
Datura 1.0 uses electric guitars and self built circuit bent toys and toy keyboards as well as Laptop and desktop computers to both create the sounds he hears in his head and de-construct the sounds we hear in the world.
Cordell Klier
Avant-garde sound artist
www.doctsect.com
The Radar Threat
The Radar Threat is real-time composition of electronically created sound. This hardware based man/machine symbiont has been been a festering mutation of rhythmic melodic noise since 1997.
Seth Ryan
A tireless local noise catalyst, Seth Ryan is the organizer of the hugely successful Heavy Focus Festival held yearly in Minneapolis. Favoring found sounds, voluminous eruptions of mixer feedback and sawed-off blasts of high end, he never misses his artistic mark.
Visions of Christ
John Jerry and Casey Deming use samplers, pedals, cassette players and mixers to conjure up sublime sonorities from dimensions unknown. Genuine shamans of sound, they will make a believer out of the staunchest of skeptics.
Makr
Hustler by day and playboy by night, Mark McGee still finds time to helm sans merci icebreaker To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, contribute tectonic basslines and seasoned gravitas to Come Fizzy Dolphin and feed his own aesthetic bloodlust as Makr. Wringing drones and demons from old cassette players with arcane sensibility, McGee envelopes listeners in deeply subjective yet brutally intimate musical mists, calling to mind postmodern moguls of minimalism like Deathprod and Muslimgauze.
Mike Hallenbeck
Mike Hallenbeck is a composer and sound designer active in music, film,
theater, dance, and installation. He collects sounds both hither and yon,
brings them home to play with each other, and helps them decide what they
want to be when they grow up.
FoodTeam
Ryan Olcott is probably better known for fronting ex-prog group 12 Rods or maybe in some circles, Mystery Palace. FoodTeam is yet a different direction.. This time, in the spirit of free composition which he utilizes two identical self-modified & circuit bent keyboards to create rhythms and textures that sound more expensive than the tools they're made on. No modern computers. No Midi. No pre-programmed sequences. 100% improv.
Tim Kaiser
Tim Kaiser creates etherial sonic atmospheres with a variety of hand-built gonkulations and acousto-electric contraptions. He has toured extensively in the US and has been featured in a variety of publications.
Visionquest
My birth was televised and ever since I've been obsessed with all forms of visual media. Creating animations and using sampled video I create a visual space that reflects my cultural ADHD and love for all things visual.
Jonathan Ackerman
DJ par excellence, Jonathan Ackerman has distinguished himself as an omnipresent party starter and tastemaker on the Minneapolis club scene. Well versed in electronic music from the commercial to the conceptual, he knows how to scratch your musical itch.
