[Microsound-announce] striatium - microsonic landscapes

[Gary R. Weisberg]

'striatium - microsonic landscapes'

Kim Cascone & Gary R. Weisberg

Widow Jane Mine (on the grounds of the Snyder Estate)
Rosendale, NY
(Go to www.meterpool.com/striatium.html for link to Google map and 
directions)
August 3, 2007 @ 8pm
Admission: $10


Sound artists Kim Cascone and Gary R. Weisberg will broadcast dark 
subterranean atmospheres conjured from mangled field recordings and other 
unusual sound sources inside an old abandoned mine in upstate NY.
Come join us among the bat guano and stalactites for an evening of 
supernatural sounds rescued from the hulls of sunken ships. Not to be 
missed!


Kim Cascone: laptop, max/msp & location recordings
Gary R. Weisberg: laptop, live processing, misc. instruments

Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received his 
formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the 
early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies at the New School in New 
York City. In the 1980's, after moving to San Francisco and gaining 
experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David Lynch as 
Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. Cascone left 
the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he 
founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music 
label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the company in early 1996 
to pursue a career as a sound designer and went to work for Thomas Dolby's 
company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. After a two-year stint 
at Headspace he worked for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where 
he oversaw sound design using algorithmic synthesis for video games. Since 
1984, Kim has released more than 30 albums of electronic music and has 
recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John 
Tilbury, and Pauline Oliveros among others.
Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list, which focuses on 
issues concerning digital music and laptop performance 
(http://www.microsound.org) and has written for Computer Music Journal (MIT 
Press), Artbyte Magazine, Contemporary Music Review, Soundcultures and 
Parachute Journal.


Gary R. Weisberg began performing improvised music with no formal training 
while studying English literature at SUNY New Paltz in the early 70's. After 
moving to San Francisco in 1976, he was involved with a loosely knit 
collective of jazz and experimental musicians and artists, operating a small 
performance space called The Blue Dolphin. During this time he began 
studying electronic music composition at San Francisco State University, 
where he received his bachelor's degree in the same field. During the 80's 
and early 90's, he maintained a MIDI project studio, producing sound and 
music for visual artists' gallery openings, TV/film and video productions, 
as well as recording some of Kim Cascone's early work. Since moving back to 
New York's Ulster County, he continues producing CDs of his own 
compositions, working on sound installations for California-based sculptor 
Teresa Cunniff, and exploring the possibilities of digital audio art.