Midnight Winds of London

Here's a video film maker Dereck Moench and I did a few weeks ago. It's for a Harold Budd Film Festival where people take a new score he wrote "The Midnight Winds of London" and reinterpret it anyway they see fit. It will be playing at the Bath Music Festival 2008,at The Pavilion, Bath, England on 31st May 2008.

Mikronesia - The Midnight Winds of London {2-part reinterpretation} from Derek Moench on Vimeo.

String trio and solo piano audio

The premiere of my piece, "Daemon En Gauze" exceeded my expectations. Carlos, Martha and Eve played so wonderfully and it was very well received. Below if the audio from the piece which you can download from Archive.org


[MP3]
Carlos Santiago - violin, Martha Savery - viola, Eve Miller - cello. Composed by Mikronesia.
Recorded live at Nexus Gallery - 04/23/2008



[MP3] Mikronesia - piano and electronics
Recorded live at The Rotunda - 04/18/2008


photos by: Pandar

String Trio This Wednesday

Had a great time at the two performances on Friday. The art opening at Slought was very inspiring and lots of people. Bilwa and I rocked it dual laptop style taking it back to some 90s Warp Records minimal IDM for a while at the opening. People seemed to be really into it.

Then I headed over to GATE, did an improv set of laptop and piano. I got a really stellar recording of this performance and plan on posting it here soon....


This week Wednesday night is the Paraphrase<>Nexus show. The premiere of my string trio, "Daemon En Gauze".

It starts around 8PM at the Nexus Gallery at the Crane Arts Building - 1400 N. American Street (Fishtown).

There's a nice article about the event in this week's City Paper

In addition, composer/sound artist Mikronesia will premiere "Daemon En Gauze," a string trio performed by Normal Love violinist Carlos Santiago, violist Martha Savery of Gemini Wolf, and Rachel's cellist, Eve Miller. Having worked extensively in electronic music, Mikronesia employs acoustic instruments to emulate the textures of electronics in the piece, inspired by the work of Gyorgy Ligeti.

Read the entire article here - http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/04/17/just-do-it-3

Two Performance this Friday

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I'll be performing with fellow Snd-er from Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd, Bilwa at Slought Foundation. We'll be doing an improv set of beats, melodies and effects during the opening reception to a new show at the Slought Foundation called 239 Years (Divided by 12 Artists).

So that's this Friday at Slought at 4017 Walnut, starts around 6:30 (complete information below).

Then as that performance is wrapping up, I'll be doing a set at this week's GATE show across the street. This will be a solo acoustic piano and electronics Mikronesia set. Also are the bill are Brown Wing Overdrive and Myo, plus visuals from Marge.

So that's around 8 PM at the Rotunda at 4012 Walnut. So folks in and around Penn's campus on Friday and can definetly get their Mikro on with two performances.

Friday April 18 - 6:30 PM
Opening Reception for 239 Years (Divided By 12 Artists)
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia is pleased to announce 239 years (divided by 12 artists), an exhibition in the Slought Foundation galleries of new faces on the contemporary art scene, on display April 18 - May 18, 2008. The artists featured in this exhibition are working with photography, painting, sculpture, and video and are based in Philadelphia, New York, and Berlin. The opening reception will take place on Friday, April 18, 2008 from 6:30-8:30pm with the artists present, with live electronic music improvisation by bilwa and Mikronesia.

Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia
http://slought.org/content/11397/


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Friday April 18 - 8:00 PM
GATE
Brown Wing Overdrive
Mikronesia
Myo
live visuals by Marge

Free admission
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Begauze

Something going on this week. Performance-wise, I'll be playing a Mikronesia laptop/ambient set at an art opening reception at Slought Foundation this Friday.

A reception with Mikronesia and Bilwa
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3513
Slought.org
Ph: 215.701.4627
7pm

Also this week busy working with Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd on Rashomon V. It's sounding really good we're enjoying working William Fields on this one!

Also the string quartet, "Daemon En Gauze" is now a trio, a couple of factors made it so the 2nd violist couldn't make it and some other things made it so this premier is just going to be a trio. I say "just" but they sound amazing so far, we had a rehearsal going through the piece for the first time and I was blown away at how talented these players are. So that's going to be an exciting night for me.

Also working with Pandar on some new Gemini Wolf songs. We're hoping to debut a few at our duo show at Johnny Brenda's for the Mascher Space Coop Funstival!

NNTS02 - The best of NTNS radio Jan-Feb-Mar 2008

You download and listen to this comp now. Go forth and listen!

http://www.mystahr.com/NNTS02.html

Contains the Mikronesia track "Royal" from vxvii

String Quartet

Just finished up my first full length string quartet. It's called "Daemon En Gauze", it will be premiered on April 23 at Nexus Gallery as part of the Paraphrase Nexus series. I'm really excited to have such amazing players to perform the piece as well. It's going to feature violinist Carlos Santiago (from Normal Love), violists Martha Savery (from Gemini Wolf), Asim Jackson and Eve Miller (from the Rachels) on cello.

Also this week is our big Gemini Wolf show at the Barbary. Tell everybody this is going to be a blowout show unlike no other in Gemini Wolf history. We haven't had the opportunity to play a full on Gemini Wolf show in Philly since out show at Johnny Brenda's back in January. As a hinted last week, this may well be our last show until the fall. Our plan to take the summer off to record our follow-up album. Also member of the Gemini Wolf will be traveling and working on some side projects, so it will be time of growth and expansion for the band. Expect all your favorite Gemini Wolf tunes as well as some new songs from our catalog at this extended show.

Here's the info:

Thursday April 3
Gemini Wolf (with DJ's Bilwa and Diamond Girl)
The Barbary
900 Frankford Ave. (Frankford and Girard)
Philadelphia, PA
10PM. $5. 21+

Weeks, Months and Years

I had a really super time at the latest installment of Perpual Mvmt<>Snd's Rashomon Effect. This was the fourth such performance of a four part interactive round-robin dance and music improvisation. This time I decided to leave all the electronics at home and just go simple and lo-fi. I played a melodica and a severely out of tune auto harp. It became very visceral and immediate for me since I could produce a dense and immediate sound with out having to have my electronics all sorted out before I could make a sound, which can be limiting in an improvisational settings. It was fun to just bash on the side of the auto harp or scream with the melodica when the mood struck me. Something about turning a knob or triggering a laptop sample that doesn't give you that same immediacy.

We also added to this Rashomon Performance to keep it a little more true to the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, in which four people describe a murder from four different vantage points. Visual artist Blane Sigel choose a provocative video and the performers and audience all saw this video at the same time and we re-told what we saw through our performance. A nice added touch that I hope to work with more in the future.

The next installment of The Rashomon Effect will be on April 26. This will feature another layer of complexity. Myself, Bilwa and electronic musicians, William Fields and City of Horn's Rick Henderson will take a live recording from the March 22 Rashomon Effect and use that performance as source material for the fifth Rashomon. This "remixed" electronic score will be another layer abstraction and memory. I'm not 100% sure how the movement will be re-interpreted and de-constructed, but I'm sure Emily and crew having something up their sleeve.

Next week we will be playing our final Gemini Wolf show (I think) for several months. Since the Josiah release party back in May 2007, the band has been going full steam. We've played shows all over the North East. We've got so many songs in the incubation stage, we just need to bite the bullet and not book any more shows so we can sit down and work out these songs for the next album. So this is your chance to finally come out and see Gemini Wolf, if you haven't already. The show is going to quite a party with DJs Bilwa and Diamond Girl, a special long Gemini Wolf set we're were pretty much going to play our entire catalog and visuals by the Klip Collective. Here's the flyer with all the info

Gemini Wolf
Thursday 04/03
The Barbary
940 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia (Fishtown area)
10 PM - Post-Beach House Show



So April and May are going to quite busy with this show, the string quartet performance, a duet performance with Bilwa at Slought Foundation and the Mascher Space Coop FUNstival at Johnny Brenda's (where I'm going to my best at being a jazz cabaret pianist).

Then afterwards I'm looking forward to writing, recording and enjoying the summer by preparing for the many projects and performance that await me this fall.

Rashomon IV

Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd presents The Rashomon Effect IV

Saturday, March 22, 2008
8:00p.m.
$5
Mascher Space Coop
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave (Mascher St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave.), Philadelphia
http://www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org

Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd offers a fourth episode in the performance series The Rashomon Effect, an improvised score featuring live music and dance and based on the storytelling method employed in Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomôn. The term "Rashomon effect" refers to the effect of subjectivity on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. In The Rashomon Effect, the performers inhabit an improvised score in which sound and movement themes are introduced and revisited by each, morphing and expanding as memories do.

Sound: Bilwa and Mikronesia, lap guitarist Jeb Lewis, and violist Martha Savery
Movement: Jil Stifel, Allison Lorenzen, Rebecca Patek, and Emily Sweeney
Visuals: Blaine Siegel

If you can't join us for this one, there will be a fifth installment of The Rashomon Effect on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 8PM at Mascher Space Coop, featuring additional performers and building on the fourth installment.

NTNS Radio

The Mikronesia track "Royal" from vxvii, will appear on the next NTNS Radio Compilation coming out March 29. You can download the comp. at radio.intelligentmachinery.net

Updatage

Been busy working in the studio. Planning some stuff for spring 2008.

First up I'm writing my first full length string quartet. Although I written parts for combinations of string duo, trio and quartet for Gemini Wolf tunes, this will be my first string quartet performance. Not having gone to music school or having formal training in this area, it's been fun and challenging. Megan has been helping me showing me the notations for various bowing techniques. Plus I got a copy of Gyorgy Legeti's First String Quartet Métamorphoses nocturnes. This quartet is about a 20 part piece with short bursts of avant guard string sounds that approximate various electronic music sounds. So using this score, I've been able to see how to notate different sounds I was to hear.

The premiere of my piece "Daemon En Gauze" will be at the Paraphrase/Nexus series at Nexus Gallery on April 23. The players are an great cross section of classical, noise and jazz players. It should be nice since parts of the score are improvised.

In Gemini Wolf news, we're working on the new album recording some tracks tonight. We've got a couple of shows every couple of weeks.

Mar 13 - Zebulon, Brooklyn
Apr 3- Barbary, Philly (after Beach House around 10PM)


Lastly we're getting back to doing a Rashomon Effect performance with Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd. Believe it or not our last Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd performance was last year's Fringe Festival. We should be getting the flyers next week for that, which will be

Sat Mar 22 - Mascher Space Coop, Phily.

That's all for now, I forget if I posted all these, but Megan's been ferreting for vxvii reviews and found these. Enjoy and go download the album if you haven't already.

http://www.petcord.com/weblog/
http://www.blogstudio.com/chargingthecanvas/planing%20lakes.html
http://netlabelsnews.blogspot.com/

Gemini Wolf at the Sound Clash

We're pleased to announce for the second year in a row Philly Car Share has chosen a Gemini Wolf tune for their yearly compilation CD that will be given away to all Philly Car Share customers.

In addition, Gemini Wolf will be competing in the second round of the Sound Clash playing with five other bands at World Cafe Live (downstairs). The contest will feature a 20 minute set from each band and the winner gets cash prizes, recording time, fame and glory!

So come out and support Gemini Wolf. Doors are at 6:00 PM and it's free!

World Cafe Live
31st and Walnut Philadelphia

Iris review

Reviewed by Massimo Ricci in Touching Extremes

http://spazioinwind.libero.it/extremes/touchinghome.htm

MIKRONESIA - Iris or comfortable too (Gears Of Sand)

Mikronesia is the nom d'art of Michael McDermott. Piano has been his favourite instrument since, as a small child, he was sitting on his grandmother's lap while she introduced him to the infinite world of the 88 keys. Yet, as life brought in its influence under the form of other involvements (namely playing with various bands and solo electronic music), the artist left the original object of interest alone for a long time. In 2007, though, McDermott decided to go back to the big box, exploiting its timbral properties to conceive a brand new composition mixing the best of two worlds (with a Harold Budd/Brian Eno inspiration, just for starters). Modifying the results with a laptop and an assortment of pedals, Mikronesia serves now an album that surely doesn't sound neither "Eno" nor "Budd" and is indeed quite personal, this being the feature that made me focus on it a little bit longer than my usual average in these genres. Many of the sounds heard are kind of suffocated - like perceived with a pillow on our head as we desperately try to sleep, the neighbour's daughter practicing her solfeggio exercises in the contiguous room - and, when in headphones, sometimes a distinct distortion creeps in. Not sure if it was meant to be there - we're not talking Vangelis-like engineering here. But all those strange electro-deformations - reverse reverbs, glitches, broken waves and interrupted drones - amidst this general atmosphere of "ugly beauty" somehow work well, and in the right conditions and circumstances this is a CD that could introduce several nice revelatory moments. Give it a good test. "Amorphous ambient for discriminating minds", anyone?

Another (mostly) nice vxvii review

"The final curtain call was made and Kikapu left the field with VXXII by Mikronesia. As the cover art suggests, a departure means also a new beginning. In this case the production is opened by a dampened piano and unconnected stutter samples. A deep bass regularily accentuates the first quater note. Tight 4/4th structure. The music is indecisive whether to stick with the melodic similarity to J-pop ballad kitsch or to fall apart in fragmented sonic events, which are more compliant to a typical electro acoustic production. And and therefore noisy samples remain desintegrated ornaments and interfere with the mellow piano line.

Fortunately the remainder of Mikronesia’s VXVII is much more focussed and consistent, where all components work as a whole and contain melodic lines that serve as binding element between the glitchy chord snippets and layers of noise. Moments where Mikronesia unfold their musical potential with soundscapes of iridescent beauty. Hibersea is another strange orchid in the morning sun, with confusing bitonality, distant hallucinatory female voices and pentatonic theme progressions. Mikronesia also undertake forays into Minimalist music, with subtiles changes in modulation and micro details or explore the noisy distortion of the later Oval. Gate could even run as digital Psychedelia with hammond organ emulations and resonant feedback vibrations that come close to the sound of a sitar.

Apart from the opening track, the remainder of the release turns out as a well thought, contrastive and a joy to listen to. Mikronesia’s VXVII is a worthy final chapter of Kikapu’s history and a recommended download in my opinion."

From Petcord

Bittersweet Dirts Video & Philly Car Share Sound Clash

Gemini Wolf "Bittersweet Dirts" from Derek Moench on Vimeo.






Vote for Gemini Wolf at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227DHD7F8ZS

Get Embed with Mikro!

If you want to embed the new Mikronesia album, vxvii album player on your site, just cut and paste the following code onto your website, myspace, prodigy BBS, abacus or forearm.

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"...Satie-esque electronica..."

The first review in for vxvii. Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet wrote a very nice review of the album, here's an excerpt.

"The latest Kikapu netlabel release, Mikronesia's vxvii, is one of its best ever - nine tracks of Satie-esque electronica....

....The Mikronesia collection serves as a fitting endpoint for the label, which has long emphasized gentle atmospherics, field recordings, and light glitch. (Kikapu also hosted its share of melodic, beat-driven electronica, which is virtually absent on this album.) The comparison to Satie is particularly strong in the watery piano on the opening piece, "She Brings" (MP3), but it's reinforced throughout due to an approach by which every track, no matter how loudly it is played, seeps into the background. Haunting voices are filtered through bells and reverb on "Hibersea" (MP3), and other high points include the textural white noise of "Moke Cene" (MP3) and the insectoid field recordings worked into "Part" (MP3). Get the full set at archive.org."


Read the entire review here.

vxvii

I'm pleased to announce a new Mikronesia album has been released today. vxvii is out now on Kikpu. Sadly this will be the last release ever on the formidable net label. They're shutting their doors after seven years of great music. As with all kikapu release, this one's free, so go download it! Kikapu uses one my personal favorite tools on all of the web, archive.org as a way to distribute the free MP3s.

You can download vxvii here at - http://www.archive.org/details/kpu109

The album was recorded mostly in 2007. I actually started it on my birthday in 2006. Those familiar with the Mikronesia sound from 2005-2007 will really like this stuff. It's very melodic and emotional music, with meticulously etched layers of noise and melody. vxvii is kind of a companion piece to my 2006 album about the last few moments of someone's life, Tissue Paper Ghosts. This album is about birth and life.

I'm very proud of this work. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks to Brad for all his dedication to great music through Kikapu over the years and for making this the swan song of his label. Also thanks to William Fields for recording the live track "Gate" for this album as well.

January Time Is Here

Thanks to everyone who made it out to Johnny Brenda's for Gemini Wolf's show last weekend. We played to probably our biggest crowd since the album release show back in May. The bands were super tight, the crowd was amazing, the sound was booming, Bilwa held it down on the decks. It was a super-duper night all around. Mike O'Brien took some fine pictures, you can view some at Gemini Wolf's Myspace over here.

We're taking at least January off to do some recording and write some new songs. We just started working on new songs this week and were very excited about Gemini Wolf stuff for 2008. We're in the process of setting up some really spectacular shows in March, April and May with Kilo and Pink Skull. Also in the works is another New England Tour for May.

I just got back from a brilliant lecture / interview with Maria Schneider. She's a composer who has studied with Bob Brookmeyer and Gil Evans. She has a very unique approach to composing and explaining her process. At the talk she played some of her pieces on CD and explained the rhythms and motifs she choose and how she bridges traditional jazz and classical theory. It was kind of like a DVD commentary with the director sitting there, explaining their process. Another interesting part of the talk dealt with her label / artists' collective called Artists Share. This label allows listeners to contribute financially and be involved in the music making process with the artist. It's a great way to allow fans to support musicians directly and getting something more than a recorded song out of the process. Artists with Artists Share do things like webcast video of them recording their album, post rough mixes and sketches of their works in progress, allow contributers to come the recordings and get their names listed as executive producers on the album. As giant mega-labels continue to die off, this sort of model, I think, will be the future of music.

Speaking of giant mega-labels, earSnake is slithering along nicely. We're moving things along slowly as we crawl from our holiday egg. After the success of the 12 Days Podcast, we're just gathering our thoughts and planning the next steps. We're in the process now of getting Gemini Wolf's first CD re-packaged. When we initially released the album, it was a limited edition hand made pressing with four different album covers culled from Pandar's "House of Josiah" photo series. The official earSnake release will have some different artwork and packaging. We expect those CD sometime next week. For now you can purchase the CD directly from earSnake.com and we'll ship the new version of the CD when we get it. By March, at the latest, the album will be available on iTunes, Emusic, Napster, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc.

Lastly, my Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd co-collaborators Bilwa and Emily Sweeney will be doing a performance this weekend at the Community Education Center as part of the New Edge Mix series, where they'll be premiering "moved," a new work inspired by the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. The performances are Friday 1/11 and Saturday 1/12 at 8:00 PM and Sunday 1/13 at 3:00. The CEC is at 35th and Lancaster Ave in West Philly.

Johnny Brenda's Show Update

Jniero Jarel isn't doing the show. He'll be sick on saturday... Hmm... Anyway, we're psyched that Venomous will be filling in. Should be an amazing show.

SATURDAY JAN 5
Johnny Brenda's
1201 N. Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215-739-9684

Hessians, Gemini Wolf, Venomous and Bilwa (DJ set)
$8 Door Sales at 8pm
9:00 PM

"A Poet Without Words..."

Wrapping up a great year of music here in Mikroland.

Many thanks to everyone at earSnake who made the 12 Days Podcast such a success. You can still listen to the holiday and wintertime tracks until Jan 6. So head over to www.earsnake.com to listen in.

As soon as we get back, Gemini Wolf will be playing a stellar show with hip-hop artist Jneiro Janel's Shape of Broad Minds, whirling dervish, Kilroy and Kezoian DJ Bilwa at Johnny Brenda's on Saturday Jan. 5. (See flyer to the left). This will be your last chance to catch Gemini Wolf for a little while. We're taking a month or so off after this show, so don't sleep on it! We've been going non-stop since we put out our album back in May, so we're going to take some tima and write some new songs and work on the next record.

In Mikronesia news, I had a great gig at GATE last week. I got to play a great set, doing live sampling and manipulation of acoustic piano notes and textures as I played piano with the laptop. I look forward to exploring that sound more in 2008. Also in early in 2008 I'll be releasing a new album called vxvii on Kikapu.

As I stated in the beginning of this post 2007 has been a wonderful year. Whether performing on stage at the Annenberg Center with Pauline Oliveros, touring with Gemini Wolf, playing our amazing album release show at Art@Sophi, various recording projects with earSnake and Gears of Sand, performing and working with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd for the Rashomon series and the Fringe Festival, working with Nexus gallery, playing solo shows, jamming with friends, studying jazz piano, growing Gemini Wolf (breifly) to a nine-piece unit with a string quartet and everything I've forgotten- I'm very grateful for it all and look forward to all thing music that come up my way in 2008.

I'll leave with a recently posted review of my 2007 album Iris Or Comfortable Too by Fred M. Wheeler in Tokafi.

"...What is so remarkable about this CD is that Mikronesia should be called a poet although he uses no words and relies exclusively on instrumental means. His outstanding compositions bear the power to draw peoples’ attention to their inner selves, generate fantasies and trips into their souls in the process, thus working in an almost therapeutic way. A truly outstanding piece of art..."

Read the rest of the review here.

PODCASTIC

The earSnake 12 Days Podcast is up and running. The newly recorded Gemini Wolf tune, "Snow Song", is the first wintertime treat. It's an ancient song that Pandar had when we first played together. We've played so many versions of it, i think this one captures the more fairy tale and weird aspects of the song. It's pretty different for a Gemini Wolf song, but also pretty familiar. Some other wolfies are doing some solo songs later next week, including Gary Dann, Katie Vigilante and the Gemini Wolf String Quartet.

Head over to earSnake.com and set you controls for the heart of the podcast!

PodGateCast

Gearing up for the earSnake Holiday Podcast. Putting the finishing touches on some songs tonight and it launches this Friday 12/14!!! Peep it out at www.earsnake.com...

Also next week in addition to the Gemini Wolf Troc show, I'll be doing a Mikronesia set at GATE (info on the flyer to the left).

We've also landed a very nice show at Johnny Brenda's in the new year. Holla!

Holiday Magik

Lots of fun stuff going on this month!

I'm knee deep right now in earSnake Holiday podcast merriment. Finished up a solo electronic version of a Charlie Brown Christmas song, Aphex Twin style. Also doing some production and keys on Ulysses Slowburn and Spenser Michael's "christmas" tracks. It seems that various factions of Gemini Wolf are going to be putting out songs too, including Gary Dann's anti-holiday tune, Katie Goodrum's new song (?maybe?) and a Gemini Wolf string section redition of "Christmas Time Is Here Again". Not to mention the classic Megan Leigh (aka Pandar) track "Snow Song" with some Mikronesic sprinkles on top.

Also Gemini Wolf is gearing up their last show of 2007 in a week and a half upstairs at the Troc for the Monday Night Club. This performance will feature two sets of Gemini Wolf as well as an earSnake recordings showcase with earSnake artists Bilwa, Mikronesia, Jalima Shani and Spenser Michaels.

Mark your calendars and come out to this festive Yule log of explosive sound.

December 17
Monday Night Club
Hosted by Needles Jones and AD Amorosi
BALCONY at THE TROCADARO
1003 Arch St. Philadelphia PA

An evening with Gemini Wolf plus special guests.

Two Sets of Gemini Wolf
Opening set of Mikronesia vs. Bilwa
Plus intermission set earSnake recording artist showcase with Jalima Shani, Spenser Michaels.

10:00 PM - Free / 21+

If I told you once...

I don't have idea what the subject of the this blog entry means... It's been two weeks since an update here. I've been off doing some other stuff for the past two weeks.

Coming up this Wednesday our compadre Bilwa is currating his monthly series, paraphrase at Nexus gallery. Also on the Gemini Wolf tip, our drummer Gary Dann is going to accompanying Kathy Ochoa for this performance.

paraphrase/NEXUS returns Wednesday, 11/28 @ 8PM

"paraphrase/NEXUS," a series in which artists of various disciplines and media create performances inspired by exhibitions at NEXUS/foundation for today's art, returns Wednesday, November 28 at 8PM. The performance is free, and takes place at NEXUS/foundation for today's art in the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N American St. Suite 102 in Philadelphia.

For November's installment, Kathy Ochoa, a Canadian-based dance artist, will be joined by Philadelphia-based performance artist J. Makary, a new member at NEXUS, to explore the work of Bonnie Brenda Scott, Tasha Doremus and Bilwa, also new members at NEXUS. Bonnie's drawing and video installation, "ALERT! THE MEDIA!," Tasha's series of photographs entitled "A Poor Memory For The Future," and Bilwa's installation, "set," which invites the viewer to become a performer, provide the inspiration for an evening of original dance and performance.

Independent dance artist Kathy Ochoa has worked with Brooklyn-based dance company, Human Behavior Explorers, and her choreography has been presented in New York as part of Movement Research Works-in-Progress Series, as guest artist for ProjectLimbs Dance Company, and as part of the Metro Dance Project Series. In Canada, she has presented work in Edmonton, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary.

Philadelphia-based performance artist J. Makary makes movement-inspired video works, though she has recently become more involved in live performance. To see some of her work, visit http://jmakary.com.

In December and January, paraphrase/NEXUS will feature performing artists exploring "Yummy: A celebration of craving, compulsion, and culture," an exhibition of food-inspired art. Wednesday, December 19 will feature dancer/choreographers Meg Foley, Rebecca Patek, and Allison Lorenzon, and performance artist Audrey Culp. Wednesday, January 23 will feature sound/video artist Aaron Igler, dancer/choreographer Scott McPeeters, and more TBA.

Established in 1975, NEXUS/foundation for today's art is as an artist-run, non- profit gallery space dedicated to supporting local emerging and experimental artists engaged in new art practices. Nexus presents challenging, innovative and compelling exhibitions of contemporary art that stimulate creative thought and dialog among the public, increasing awareness to the meanings and methods behinds today's art. Nexus was conceived at a time when very few non-commercial galleries existed in Philadelphia. The founders of Nexus, three artist/educators, sought to create an exhibition space for emerging artists working with new mediums and concepts that would act as a forum on contemporary art. As the first artist-run cooperative in Philadelphia, Nexus was, and continues to be, committed to the professional presentation of the artist's work and the education of the public about contemporary art issues.

For more information about paraphrase/NEXUS and videos of past performances, please visit http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ or http://www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org.


Looking beyond this week, Gemini Wolf as well as some of the other artists on earSnake recordings are putting together a podcast of MP3 holiday tunes to help launch the label. It's going to mad busy over the next couple of weeks putting everything together, but I think we'll be able to do it.

ACTION AIDS BENEFIT

We had a great time at the Landing Pad VII Space Rock show. The bands were loud and crazy and people stayed late for the Gemini Wolf set and seemed to really dig it.

This week, Pandar and I will be doing a special Gemini Wolf show as a duo for the Action Aids Benefit at The Balcony at the Trocadaro in Philly. Here's the info:
ACTION AIDS BENEFIT! Please Come!!

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2007
STARTING AT 8PM
THE BALCONY
(UPSTAIRS AT THE TROCADERO)
1003 ARCH STREET
CHINATOWN, PHILADELPHIA

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! We're asking a sliding scale of $5 to $20, but if you can afford more, PLEASE BE GENEROUS, this is an important night!

HOSTED BY AD Amarosi, CAConrad, and Betsy Andrews

THE EXTRAORDINARY TWO-HEADED DIVA MCs FOR THE NIGHT WILL BE
NEEDLES JONES
&
THE DIVINE MS. JIMMI

PERFORMERS INCLUDE:

THE FEVERFEW

THE ABSINTHE DRINKERS

MY INVISIBLE

GEMINI WOLF

ISH KLEIN

JASON ZUZGA

FRANK SHERLOCK

THEY ARE BIRDS

ASHRAF OSMAN

DOROTHEA LASKY

TARA MURTHA

MARALYN LOIS POLAK

Art@Sophi Performance Video

Here's a video put together and recorded by DoN Brewer at DoNBrewerMultimedia from my solo Art@Sophi performance. Enjoy!

Art@Sophi Recording

I've uploaded an excerpt of my three hour performance of solo piano and laptop at Art@Sophi Gallery last weekend. It's a live recording through a room mic, so you can hear lots of people at the gallery talking and stuff and they come and go. So if you can just concentrate on the playing, it's pretty good, I think. This MP3 is a little over an hour in length. I'll be performing in the same style again at GATE at the Rotunda in December.

Thanks again to Monika and all the artists at POST. Special thanks to Mike Murray for wheeling out this beast of a tennis ball-beaten, hammer-smashed, ancient piano into the main gallery for me to play. All in all the piano has a very nice tone and I was grateful to play on something with such a unique and wonderful sound. The sounds of this performance, if you're wondering, is just acoustic piano, sent through an SM-58 microphone into my laptop running Ableton Live. Using a MIDI controller I would record and loop certain phrases, run them through VST pluggins and manipulate the audio data on the fly and create clouds of processed piano sounds over which to play more piano. It's a technique I explored extensively on Iris Or Comfortable Too (Gears of Sand). There's talk of releasing another piano ambient album on Gears of Sand, but all live performance for the Suchness series of limited edition hand pressed CDs. More on that later, for now enjoy the set.

[MP3] http://www.archive.org/download/MikronesiaLiveatartatsohi2007.10.20/MikronesiaArtatsophi20071020.mp3

Slightly off, but still in time

Grand olde tyme at the Halloween bash this weekend. Thanks to Brett and Mellow Veneer and to all the costumed freaks in the place. Here's a quick video from Carl. Our main man, Derick was taking some footage and projecting some of his ambient video stuff during our set as well. Next up for the Wolf, is the Landing Pad space rock festival on November 10. Until then it's shedding, tuning up and tightening up the reins.


Gemini Wolf at Cafe Habana from Carl Franke on Vimeo.

Electric Candyland

Friends, it's THE WEEKEND for Halloween parties and masquerades. This Friday, Gemini Wolf, Mellow Veneer and DJ Brett bring you into the heart of the season with some spooky sweet sounds at this rockin' masquerade party. Spread the word.

Friday October 26
Electric Candyland
Cafe Habana
201 S. 21st Street
(21st btw. Chestnut and Walnut)
Philadelphia, PA

with

Gemini Wolf
Mellow Veneer
and DJ Brett

8PM :: $7 ($5 with costume)

Great weekend

Had a great weekend of music. We didn't post it on the site, because it was a private event, but Pandar and I did a few hours of Gemini Wolf music as a duo at Nexus Gallery last Thursday. It was fun to strip down the setup and jam on some old songs with just guitar and laptop while gallery type people dined on wine and cheese.

Then on Friday I did some beats and piano at Philadanco for the COSMOS dance class. That was a lot of fun and I look forward to working with them on a weekly basis.

Saturday, as mentioned below, I did a nice long set of my new favorite type of music to play, piano and sampled piano sounds. For about three hours I played this old wonky upright at Art@Sophi and sampled certain phrases into the laptop and tweaked them out creating a bed of mangled piano sounds over which to improvise with more piano sounds. It was a lot of fun and I got a great response from the people at Sophi. The artwork from POST looked great, by the way.

This week getting ready for the Halloween show on Friday night with Mellow Veneer and DJ Brett at Cafe Habana. I'll be sending out a press release tomorrow and post the info here.

POST

I'll be performing my first Mikronesia set in a while this Saturday at Art@Sophi as past of the POST. My performance is from 6:00 - 9:00 pm. I'll be doing some improvisational piano stuff with laptop DSP, similar to the styles heard on Iris Or Comfortable Too (GoS). So come out early enjoy the music and stay late for the The Absinthe Drinkers.

Art@Sophi & Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Exhibit
Featuring Artists Working In South Philadelphia. Oct. 20-28

Opening Reception
Saturday Oct. 20 6pm
Live performances by
Mikronesia & The Absinthe Drinkers

1241 Carpenter St
3rd Floor
(Corner of 13th & Carpenter)
S. Philadelphia

This show will exhibit the works of more than 20 South Philadelphia artists who are participating in the annual, citywide Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) event. Art@Sophi, in partnership with Zradio will host a weeklong event Oct. 20-28, 2007 to support the visual artists working in the area. Opening reception is scheduled for Saturday Oct. 20th at 6pm.

Featured artists include: Julia Blaukopf, Don Brewer, Kevin Broad, Jennifer Coburn, Alden W. Cole, Charles Cushing, Matt Dougherty, Elaine M. Erne, Rebecca Gilbert, Wendy Goldberg, Kellianne McCarthy, Mike Murray, Harry Murtha, Michele Ortiz, Doris Peltzman, Dolores Poacelli, Arthur Ostroff, Elise Sheridan-Arnold, Monika Turtle, Justin Weaver, Jed Williams and Dina Wind

Nexus Media

So the show at Nexus two weeks ago was really ace. We've got some video and audio from the performance. It was me, Bilwa on Sound and Emily Sweeney and Rebecca Patek dancing. It was a great installation to work with. On one side were large black and white balloons that made a vertical maze. On the other side were various drawings of bunnies and surreal settings. The whole Paraphrase idea is for artists to come into the Nexus Gallery and do a performance inspired by the work.

For this one for whatever reason the massive balloons made me think of radios. So I did my take on John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4. I played two radios through a series of pedals and sampler. For Bilwa, he had bunch of smaller balloons played through contact mics and as percussion instruments. It was wild and the dance, sound and visuals were very disorienting.

Here's a link to listen to the whole performance (around 22 minutes)
http://www.archive.org/details/PereptualMvmtsndParaphrase20070926

Here's some video action

Gemini Wolf @ Tritone

MON. OCT 8
9PM $7
Tritone
1508 South Street
http://www.tritonebar.com
http://www.myspace.com/tritone

Sugar Town Presents, A Night of Lady Rockers & DJ's:

PARADISE ISLAND (Jenny Hoyston of Erase Errata) http://www.southern.com/southern/band/HOYST/press/ (Includes hi res photos) http://www.myspace.com/jennyhoystonparadiseisland
Jenny Hoyston made one killer guitar record last year with her band, the Bay Area grrrl punks Erase Errata. Although they used to get lumped in with the New Wave revival, Erase Errata cut their own twisted road on Nightlife -- at a recent show in Brooklyn, guitar freaks crowded by the side of the stage just to watch Hoyston's hands move. This solo project is basically a victory lap: Hoyston, who also has sung in Anxious Rats with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, tries a few new rhythmic experiments with her signature spazzy post-punk guitar.
She grinds out some math-rock grooves ("Spell D-O-G"), mucks around with engaging low-tech synth pop ("Everyone's Alone") and even strums a surprisingly tough acoustic tune, the four-track bedroom ballad "Break Apart, Reattach." But the strongest moment has to be "Novelist"
-- Hoyston murmurs, "I did not die in vain," while her jittery guitar twitches like a nerve on fire. (Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone)

GEMINI WOLF
http://www.myspace.com/geminiwolf
Calling Gemini Wolf an electronic rock act is like saying Noam Chomsky's just a linguist. It's not enough. This blip-folksy duo — Pandar and Mikronesia — expanded the initial tinyness of their pastoral synth-sound to make something soulful and sweeping. You could blame the addition of a dub-hungry bassist and some chamber string kids. But they're just two more reasons its debut, Josiah, has the makings of an epic. (AD Amorosi, City Paper)

RED SKATE RED
http://www.myspace.com/redskatered
http://www.myspace.com/redskatered
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2004-09-09/music4.shtml
After calling themselves Under Not Over, keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Stephanie Nelson (The Tunics) and drummer Emil Weintraub (Beat Jamz) decided to revert back to their old band name that they shared with the late activist/performer/force of nature Axi Nue and current Clockcleaner bassist Karen Horner. CP's Pat Rapa described their music as "intense riffs, dancey grooves and a rebellious attitude." Bassist Jen Rice (Club Lyfestiles, The Celebs) replaces Horner.

DJ LIZBOT (WPRB)
http://www.wprb.com/djplaylists.php?id=65
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=9150
Lizbot spins beeps & whirls while records fly deftly through her robotic appendages, resulting in a frothy melange of no wave, prog, folk, noise, funk, punk, serialism & any other genre you can think of.

Another "Iris" Review

Here's a great review from Hypnagogue

Mikronesia, Iris or Comfortable Too
Mere moments after the first tender piano notes of Iris or Comfortable Too, you know you're headed off to interesting territory. The sound suddenly wavers like a disturbed reflection in water and swarms of electronic burble begin to move under the surface. From there it just gets more intricate as composer Michael McDermott takes Eno-esque ambient piano and tugs, tears, and twists it, submitting it to a host of electronic treatments to create new, unique aural textures. His manipulations run from the extreme to the subtle. In "No Rage" the notes are picked apart element by element and stitched back together in a rough quilt of beautiful, glitch-ridden imperfection. "(The) Lye Owl" is a slow and graceful piece built on carefully layered atmospherics with a distinctly dramatic tone. "Genre" and the closer, "Oil Vet", leave the piano mostly alone as McDermott applies a comparatively lighter hand to the effects and distortions, and his playing show itself as elegant and thoughtful. ("Genre" spends it last minute in a pleasant shower of effects.) "Nyca" throbs its way in like a subtly shifting waveform trying itself out over and over, changing ever so slightly on each pass. "Lebu" rolls in with a sparse, dark beauty, hard-played chords left to stand alone and drift apart in echo, the space between each becoming thick with expectancy.
Since I was compelled to listen to this CD three times straight through right from the get-go, it's definitely a Hypnagogue Highly Recommended CD.

If you haven't picked up a copy yet, please take a listen to the sound samples and pick up a copy at CD Baby

Tour Wrap Up and Nexus

Got back from the Gemini Wolf New England tour yesterday early. We were all exhausted from driving all night from Vermont. The tour was super fun, it was great hanging out, being silly, playing music and meeting tons of interesting people for a few days.

The beginning of the tour started in Willimsburg, NY. It was a Wednesday night and there were five or so bands playing at Trashbar. We were last, so there wasn't much of a crowd there at 12:30 AM on a Wednesday. It was a great way to warm up for a few days of shows though, we worked out all the kinks of the newer songs. We also got to meet this crazy dude, Mojo who booked the show. He told us all sorts of tales from New York from the past 30 years with hanging out with Throbbing Gristle and tons of other people I never heard of.

After the gig we drove all night to Boston. We got there early and met up with our friends Rich and Jayashree. Three of us stayed with them and the other wolves went to Dr. Lynn's place. We hung around Sommerville, which was nice and did our gig at P.A.'s Lounge. There was a small and attentive crowd and the show went really well. We stayed in Boston for another night and hung out with Rich and Jayashree pretty late. Early in the morning we headed up the Atlantic coast up to Rockland Maine.

We stopped in Portland, ME, which was an awesome little town. We totally loved Maine all around. The gig was in the this outdoor court yard in the middle of Rockport which is an amazing little artsy town. All there people came out and celebrated the end of the summer season with us. Afterwards, our contact Kate hosted us as their beautiful lakeside cabin. We partied with them and woke up to enjoy some lovely Maine nature.

After Maine, we drove all day to Bennington, Vermont. That was another cool town, we mostly stayed on Bennington campus. It was great to hang out with all these creative kids at Bennington, they were super nice and super psyched to have us play there. We did our show, we played pretty much every song we had to the enthusiastic crowd, we even broke out our Radiohead cover "Idioteque" which I thought they wouldn't recognize, but they loved it! We all partied like college kids and enjoyed the beautiful campus the next day which is situated on 470 acres of Vermont mountainous greenery.

Later that day we did the short drive over to Brattleboro. Yet another interesting small town in New England. Lots of punk rocks kids, food coop, good coffee, art galleries all at the base of the Vermont mountains. We did our show to a small crowd for a sunday night at the art space Tinderbox. After we said our goodbyes, we packed the fan and headed back to Philly.

Katie posted some pics here, we'll prob. have some more pics and sounds coming up soon: http://picasaweb.google.com/katie.goodrum/WolfTour07

Now to get to some business for the week. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I'll be performing with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd at Nexus Gallery at 8 PM as part of the Paraphrase Series.

PARAPHRASE/NEXUS

Performing artists inhabit work of visual artist to comment on voyeurism

(Philadelphia) PARAPHRASE/NEXUS, a new series in which artists of various disciplines and media create performances inspired by exhibitions at Nexus Gallery, returns this month with a third installment.

On Wednesday, September 26 at 8p.m., members of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd will inhabit Jody Sweitzer's installation entitled Crowd: stumbling through displaced intimacy. In Crowd, the human figure is represented by giant inflatables that create an environment in which to investigate voyeurism and the human reaction to the invasion of personal space. Electronic musicians Bilwa and Mikronesia are joined by dancer/choreographers Rebecca Patek and Emily Sweeney in a performance that attempts to shift the relationship of the stagnant viewer to an active, self-reflecting participant. For more information about Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd visit: www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org. All PARAPHRASE/NEXUS performances are free and are held at Nexus Gallery in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St., Suite #102.

On to New England

So last night was the last Fringe performance of Fresh Juice. It was standing room only and the best night yet! They seemed to get better and better each night. I recorded our piece Gasp each night, so I'm going to make a best of mix at some point in a few weeks and post it here. There were several video cameras there each night, so expect some video action as well.

I'm heading to some more Fringe performances today and tonight, then I've got three days off before the Gemini Wolf New England Tour! Who-hoo.

Here's the list of cities and venues on the tour. Anyone in the New England area who has been wanting to see Gemini Wolf, now's your chance. You can check out the MySpace for the exact details of show times, venues, etc. We'll be updating photos, blogs, etc. here and at Gemini Wolf MySpace during the tour.

Wed. Sept. 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Trash Bar
Thur. Sept. 20 - Boston, MA - P.A. Lounge
Fri. Sept. 21 - Rockland, ME- Lulu's Lounge
Sat. Sept. 22 - Bennington, VT - Bennington College
Sun. Sept. 23 - Brattleboro, VT - The Tinderbox

GASP

So tonight is the final performance of Gasp at the Philly Fringe Festival. It's been a wonderful experience to be part of such a varied, entertaining and artful show as Fresh Juice. Here's an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer - although there's no mention of Mikronesia and Bilwa, we did have something to do with the sounds that the audience hears during the piece ;)

Here's a snipet from Tuesday night's performance by Carl


"Gasp" by Perpetual Mvmt Snd from Carl Franke on Vimeo.

The Fringe Festival

As I mentioned last week, September is going to be a busy busy month. First up is five performances for the Philaldelphia Fringe Festival with Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd.

Breifly, we'll be doing a piece that involves five dancers, Bilwa and myself on sound and video artist John Phillips. It's a piece that involves the symbolic life of a moth, from its cocoon stage to and its survival and its death, using the breath as a focal point. Sound-wise, Bilwa and I have a series of microphones setup on stage, and we record and manipulate the dancer's breath and movements creating an improvised score of texture and rhythm. John Phillips is doing something similar with video.

The whole night is part of an evening called Fresh Juice that's being put on by the Mascher Street Dance Coop.

Below are the flyers, press release and more info about show times and tickets. There's obviously a lot going on in Philly the next two weeks with the Fringe Fest, but definetly try and come out and see this performance.

The Fresh Juice Flyers:


The Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd Gasp Flyer:



Large Fresh Juice Main Flyer:


Press Release:

Philly Fringe Festival

Fresh Juice:
Shared evening of dance to feature six Philly artists

Mascher Space Coop in Kensington presents Fresh Juice, a shared evening of dance, video, and multimedia performance featuring the work of six Philadelphia choreographers. Five performances will be offered throughout the Philly Fringe Festival on Thurs, Sept. 6 & 13 at 9PM; Sun, Sept. 9 at 7PM; Tues, Sept. 11 at 7PM; and Fri, Sept 14 at 9PM. Tickets for Fresh Juice are $10 and are available through the Philly Fringe box office at http://www.phillyfringe.org or 215.413.1318. Fresh Juice runs 90 minutes.

Mascher Space Coop is located at 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. (Mascher St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave.) in Philadelphia (for details on getting to Mascher see the bottom of this page).

Dubbed the “next collective art space” in 2007 by Philadelphia Weekly in their "Next Philadelphia" issue, Mascher Space Coop members Meg Foley, Erin Foreman-Murray, Makoto Hirano, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd, Zornitsa Stoyanova, and Christina Zani collaborate to produce fresh works, fresh ideas, fresh (as in recently arrived; just come) juice (essence, strength, or vitality).

Meg Foley will present slip with dancers Devynn Emory, Christina Zani, and Jil Stifel, in which formal elements such as accumulation, obstruction, and choice are exploited in order to expose a glimpse of what it means for humans to be human: breakable, feeling, physical beings in relation to one another. Erin Foreman-Murray walks the line between the ordinary and extraordinary, reality and the fantastical in a group work exploring dream states. Makoto Hirano and David O'Donnell try and try again in prototype. In gasp, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd uses the performers' bodies as points of genesis: dancers are accompanied by their own breath manipulated by electronic musicians Bilwa and Mikronesia, while their bodies metamorphose via live video projection by John Phillips. Zornitsa Stoyanova pushes the boundaries of the audience-performer interaction in her multimedia work, Insert Headset, and Christina Zani tries to reconcile modern life while dancing, talking, and eating her way through an accumulation of movement and images in abun/dance.

Fresh Juice: six Philadelphia choreographers showing experimental works on the outskirts of the city. Could we be any more fringe? For more information visit http://mascherdance.com or http://www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org/freshjuice

Mascher Space Coop provides a supportive home for Philadelphia-based movement artists and small companies to develop and perform their work. Founded in 2006, Mascher produces the In Flux performance series and Philly Dance COSMOS, a community supported class series.

Artists' bios:

Bilwa is a Philadelphia-based musician and visual artist. He is a member of Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, where he curates the performance series PARAPHRASE/NEXUS. Bilwa is also currently co-director of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd and a member of Mascher Space Coop. Past projects include Hoopty Heaven, an ambient dub duo whose cd Elements was released in 2001 by the Slought Foundation, and VERSIONsound, a roots/reggae/dub soundsystem. Bilwa is also co-founder of the Rashomon Effect Performance Project, an electronic music series inspired by the storytelling method employed in the 1950 film by Kurosawa. Bilwa has shown photographs, paintings, and mixed media works at The White Couch Art Room, Rocket Cat Café and Gallery, Soy Café and Gallery, Rogue's Gallery, Crosley Deluxe Gallery, and Spirit Wind.

Meg Foley is an independent dance artist and choreographer based in Philadelphia. She received a BA in Dance from Scripps College and a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from Laban Centre London. As well as presenting her own work, she has the good fortune to dance/perform for Nichole Canuso Dance Company and for Devynn Emory. Her favorite color at the moment is green.

A native of rural north-central Pennsylvania, Erin Foreman-Murray is a dancer and independent choreographer based in Philadelphia. She received her BFA in modern dance from Temple University and has also trained at the American Dance Festival, Vassar College, and Barnard College. Recently, Erin has had the pleasure of showing her work at the Movement Research Open Performance Series (NYC), In Flux, the FAR Space with Limina Projects (NYC), the Glue Performance Series, and Current. Erin is a resident artist of the Mascher Space Coop and on the team coordinating Philly Dance COSMOS, the community supported class series.

Makoto Hirano was born in Japan and raised in Chicago. He studied dance and theater performance at Columbia College Chicago, and at Temple University where he earned a B.F.A. in Dance. Now based in Philadelphia, his works have been presented by Yale University, Melanie Stewart's Dancehouse, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and at the Asian Arts Initiative through the APIA Residency Program. Performer/collaborator credits include: Love Unpunished and Barrymore-nominated Pay Up with the Obie Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company, St. Matthew Passion with Myra Bazell, and multimedia installation Still Unknown with Subcircle. Makoto was a performing company member with Paule Turner/COURT (Dance Magazine's 'Top 25 to Watch') in '04-'05. Makoto's writing has been commissioned for Selective Sight (Subcircle) through Brat Production's 'Causeway Series.' His current projects include: Accent - Roko Kawai; TAR - Charles O. Anderson/Dance Theatre X; Wandering Alice - Nichole Canuso Dance Company; Strawberry Farm - OMNiBUS Performance Co.

Zornitsa Stoyanova is a native of Bulgaria and holds her B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College where she studied with Susan Sgorbati, Susan Rethorst, Dana Reitz, Eva Karczag, Brendan McCall, Paul Matteson, and Terry Creach. Her improvised and choreographed works have been shown in Bulgaria, Hungary, and at St. Mark's Church in New York City. In addition to recently launching her own performance group, HEREBEGIN DANCE CO., Zornitsa is a member of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd. She is also an experienced sound designer, videographer, and theater technician and has designed lights for numerous dance companies, including Amnesiac Music and Dance and PIMA Group.

Emily Sweeney co-directs Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd, an interdisciplinary performance collective in residence at the Mascher Space Coop in Philadelphia, which she also helps administer. A member of Susan Sgorbati's Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, she has presented her own improvised and choreographed works as part of PARAPHRASE/NEXUS, the bowerbird performance series, and in the Soundfield Festival. Her work will be presented at the CEC during the 2007-08 New Edge Mix series. Emily has danced in the work of Dana Reitz, Susan Rethorst, Doug Elkins, and Nia Love at such venues as the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and the White Wave Dance Festival. Emily holds her B.A. in Dance and Literature from Bennington College.

Christina Zani is a dancer and choreographer living in Philadelphia. A student of many movement techniques, she has pursued ballet, tumbling, competitive tap, Graham technique, contact improv, release techniques, and Haitian dance, among others. After studies at the University of Michigan, Zani moved to NYC where she performed her own work at CB's Gallery, Bridge For Dance, Jennifer Muller's HATCH series and Fort Greene Park. In 2003 she moved to Philadelphia, where she has shown works at the CEC, Painted Bride, and Mascher Space Coop. Christina held a choreographic residency at the Atlantic Center For the Arts in 2005. She has been immensely challenged and inspired by performing in the works of Douglas Dunn, Ann Carlson, Headlong Dance Theater, Lisa Kraus, Tania Isaac, Anita Cheng, Shapiro & Smith and Jacek Luminski among others. A few of her non-dance related passions are film, cats and homemade pasta.

Mikronesia (a.k.a. Michael McDermott) is a producer, composer, musician and sound artist. Since 1999 he has been performing at theaters, clubs, parties and galleries along the U.S. East Coast as a multi-instrumentalist, laptop based performer and DJ. Mikronesia has been doing collaborative production and performance, concentrating on lending his ambient and DSP skills to artists from all musical genres. His main group, Gemini Wolf, is a seven piece electronic/chamber/rock band for which Mikronesia plays keyboards, laptop and arranges, including traditional rock instrumentation and a string trio. Mikronesia is an original member of the multi-disciplinary improvisation music/dance ensemble Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd. He has also worked with modern classical music collectives like Arts in Motion and The Philadelphia Composers Forum. In April 2007, he was part of a deep listening ensemble with Pauline Oliveros who performed at the Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts in Sound Exchange 2007. Mikronesia has released two albums with ambient label Gears of Sand. Tissue Paper Ghosts (2006), is an ethereal glitch album about the psychic remains of a car crash and Iris Or Comfortable Too (2007) is a breath taking work of minimalist piano and warm electronics.

John Phillips is an intermedia artist. His work has included interactive sound installations both with Carolyn Healy and solo, audio-visual performances, audio tape pieces for dance and theater venues, international electronic art festivals and conferences, and on nationally broadcast New American Radio programs. His work has been supported by numerous commissions and grants including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Location of Mascher Dance Coop:

Getting to Mascher on the El: Take the A Train (Market-Frankford Line heading East) to the Berks Street stop (one stop north of Girard). Walk one block south on Front Street (under the El). Turn right on Montgomery Avenue, then take the first left onto Howard Street. Walk one block south on Howard Street and turn right on Cecil B. Moore Ave. Walk one block west - building is on corner of Mascher & Cecil B. Moore. Entrance is on Cecil B. Moore.

Show Times for the Next Two Weeks:

Thursday Sept. 6 - 9 PM
Sunday Sept. 9 - 7 PM
Tuesday Sept. 11 - 7 PM
Thursday Sept. 13 - 9 PM
Friday Sept. 14 - 9 PM

Tired

Long weekend with Gemini Wolf shows of all kind and some Mikronesia music. Thanks to Kilo, Mellow Veneer and Quiet Jack for the fun times. Kind of a roller coaster weekend in terms of sound, crowds, sound people, vibes and milkshakes, but overall a positive experience.

We've got about three weeks off from Gemini Wolf shows until the fall New England tour in mid-September. I'll be performing with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. You can find out about those Fringe shows and the tour in the shows section.

Also, between shows this past Saturday, I got a chance to score some music for Derek Monach's short film for the 12 Hour Film Festival. He and his team had to write, film and edit a movie in 12 hours. I haven't seen the final product. I scored a bunch of short ambient / film music type pieces based on Derek's script and vision for the piece. Derek is also working on a music video for Gemini Wolf's song "Noah". Here's the performance only edit he did already. This is going to inter-cut with some of his stop action animation and other film sequences. Can't wait to see and hear the final product on both works.

Shows tonight

site's been down again for a couple of days. i'm switching hosting providers soon, i swear...

many thanks to the super crazy gonzo style Kilo last night for the fun gig at the tritone.

great show tonight in Philly. Gemini Wolf, Mellow Veneer and Naeemah at Cafe Habana at 21st and Chestnut. See the flyer, hear the sounds tonight, smell the roasts in the morning.

Nice mini review of Iris

From Smallfish Records in UK

"Now this is just a gorgeous CD. Using 2 laternating styles against each other, Mikronesia delivers a deliciously mellow and warm sound using reverb drenched pianos that sound almost classical at times, such is the skill with which the phrases are played. It's simple but incredibly effective and really evokes a certain feeling of depth and sadness... luscious. The flipside of this is the more experimental ambient pieces, once again using pianos as the basis and then treating them via laptop processing. Really quite a lovely piece of work that comes recommended."

http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/release/?cat=GOS28

Mikronesia in North Carolina

I'll be performing a couple hours of improv ambient music tomorrow night at the opening night reception of Leona Cauley's new Water Colors show at Holly Springs Cultural Center.

If you're in the Holly Springs Area, stop on by. It's free, great art and music.

Holly Springs Cultural Center
300 W. Ballentine St.
Holly Springs, NC 27540
(919) 567-4000
http://www.hollyspringsnc.us/dept/park/culture/

Melting crayons dashing cars

So just been shedding in the studio the past couple of weeks. Planning a lot of shows, events and what have you for this fall. The schedule is going to look something like this

(late August)
three philly Gemini Wolf shows playing some new tunes and re-arranging some old ones with obi-wan-mcBilwa on samples and percussion.

(early sept)
Fringe Festival shows with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd

(late sept)
Gemini Wolf New England tour

check out the newly re-designed shows section for all the details.

ok now getting ready to install Sebelius to make better string arrangements and work on some other classical type composed music for some other upcoming project.

Zebulon / Brooklyn

A man a few words these days... New York folks represent.

GEMINI WOLF, CAVEMEN, STATIC TRIO
zebulon
258 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.218.6934

GW @ Habana

Philly peeps, tonight! Gemini Wolf hits around midnight.

Gemini Wolf @ Johnny Brenda's Video

From our show last week with Talkdemonic and Grandchildren.



Gemini Wolf at Johnny Brendas from Carl Franke and Vimeo.

also here are some photos from that same show... colorful! Photos by Danette Pascarella.

GW video shoot and photo shoot

We had a lot of fun at the Gemini Wolf video shoot for "Noah" with video artist Derek Moench. Special thanks to Mike and Monika at Art@Sophi for letting us do it there. I'm sure the final product will be something really special. Here's some photos from Derek. Some are during the shooting and setting up the video. Others are from our roof press photo session with Hiro Tanaka.


More updates later this week.

Iris Or Comfortable Too

Iris Or Comfortable Too
by Mikronesia

The newest Mikronesia album has been released on Gears of Sand Recordings. It's an album using only piano sounds and textures. Fans of Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Erik Satie, Debussy and Machinefabreik will definitely enjoy this album. Here's a quote from Gears of Sand label owner, Ben Fleury-Steiner:

"...[Iris Or Comfortable Too] is a masterpiece--it is totally mikronesia but has this deeply realized hypnotic appreciation for the piano--the acoustic warmth and range are never sabotaged--far from it--but elevated into another beautiful poetic and heartfelt realm....the only records that come immediately to mind--and this is one hell of a good thing for me as they're some of my favorites--are alvo nota and ryuichi sakamoto's "insen" and Eraldo Bernocchi and Harold Budd's "Music for Fragments From the Inside"---"Iris" captures the warm subtle glitchiness of the former--particularly in nota's processing of sakamoto's flowing, engrossing piano lines--and the classic, one-of-a-kind spaciousness of budd's piano sound that meshes so effortlessly with bernocchi's spacey synthesis.."Iris" is simply a gem of an album that GoS is honored to release and is sure to cause a buzz amongst reviewers and listeners alike!"

If you are looking for some relaxing atmospheric music, enjoy spacing out to Echos late at night on PRI or are interested in hearing some neo-classical / ambient music, please check out Iris Or Comfortable Too.

I'm very proud of this work and this it's my best solo album to date.

You can order the CD from CDBaby now.

Thanks
Mikronesia

We're talking demonic

Hello everyone, we have a big Gemini Wolf show coming up next week. We'll be playing with two great bands, one from West Philly on from Portland, Oregon. Talk Demonic is currenly on tour with The National and doing a one-off show at Johnny Brendas with us. JBs is hands down the best club in the city, so come out and help support new music on a Monday night. Gemini Wolf plays first around 9:00 PM, so come out early.

Monday June 25
Johnny Brenda's
1201 N. Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215-739-9684
8 pm

Grandchildren - Psychedelic / Classical / Experimental from west Philly. Crazy setup, a must see.


Talkdemonic (one little indian records) - synth / violin duo from portland oregon. currently on tour with The National.

Gemini Wolf - extra-sensory laptop rock with strings from philly.


Also you can purchase a digital copy of Gemini Wolf's new album 'Josiah' from their MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/geminiwolf

Tonight @ Fire

Hello everyone, thanks to the Philly folks who made it down to Mojo 13 performance last Friday night. As always, thanks to all the interesting people at Mojo 13, a really great place to play.

Tonight we have another Gemini Wolf show at the Fire.

We've got two bands from New York and residents, Natalie Walker, April Smith and Quintero bringing some great music to the Fire this evening.

TUESDAY JUNE 12
Puracane, April Smith, Gemini Wolf, Natalie Walker, Quintero
at The Fire
412 Girard Ave. Fishtown. [directions]

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Also for those who missed our album release show, we have the entire concert video online at
Enjoy!

Finally we just found out, we'll be opening for a great band, Talk Demonic (featuring members of the Decemberists!!) at Johnny Brenda's on Monday June 25. This band is on tour with The National and doing a one-off show with us. So it's going to be big. More on the details of that show in a few weeks.

Hope to see you tonight at the FIRE.

MOJO 13

This Friday Night, at Mojo 13 in Wilmington. Gemini Wolf, The Sky Drops and Shade bringing you some psychedelic stew. http://www.myspace.com/mojothirteen for directions. This place is a really cool bar with great people who are into music and you can't been the carnival / freak show ambiance. plus free pop-corn. Gemini Wolf plays first at 10:00, so get there early to catch us!

Also, as many of you know, Gemini Wolf had four limited edition Josiah album covers for our album release show. We are about sold out of them and are moving into the second limited pressing of Josiah. Based on fan feedback, we've settled on the official album cover and here it is. You can pick up a copy today or soon download it from Snocap on Gemini Wolf's Myspace.

Current

Here's the skinny on Current:

Mascher Space Co'op and Herebegin Dance Co.
presents

Current:
an evening of dance and art
Sat., June 9th

New choreographed works by Meg Foley, Nicole Bindler, Eric Conroe, and Zornitsa Stoyanova.
Music by Mikronesia
Sculpture by Audrey Culp
Poster art by Greg Dunn

8p.m. only $5 at the door

Mascher Space Cooperative
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
(Mascher St. & Cecil B. Moore Ave.)
www.mascherdance.com

One night only!!! Local and guest artists show their latest work in an evening filled with dance,music, video and visual art. Gallery opens at 7:30 p.m. when you would be able to enjoy Mikronesia's electronic music, Adrey Culps's sculptures and Greg Dunn's Japanese inspired poster art. Show starts at 8:00 p.m. when guest choreographer from Vermont will show you the latest of his text inspired solo dances. Come see, Nicole Bindler's first showing of "Pia Matter", Meg Foley's new solo and Zornitsa Stoyanova's multimedia performance.

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Also speaking on electronic music / dance, here's a cool video from Bilwa/Emily/Rebecca and myself performing at Nexus Gallery from last month.




And here's one from the very first Rashomon with Mikronesia, Helena Espvall, Sean Mattio and Bilwa on Sound and Allison Lorenzen, Emily Sweeney, Zornitsa Stoyanova and Rebecca Patek on the movement tip. That's John Phillips on the video. Wow John Wow! I haven't seen this until now, since that's me in the corner with the video playing behind my back. Pretty, pretty, pretty good!

Album Release - Nice Photos

Photographer Melessia Hassey has posted some nice photos from the Gemini Wolf album release party at Art@Sophi. You can view them here - http://melassey.phanfare.com/album/296053

Putting the finishing touches on my new Gears of Sand release Iris or Comfortable Too. It's an homage to the founders of atmospheric music, Brian Eno and Harold Budd, but hopefully has a more modern sound. I'm really excited about this release.

I've got three shows coming up in two weeks; two Gemini Wolf shows in Wilmington (Mojo13 - June 8) and Philadelphia (The Fire - June 12). The third show is a new modern dance performance working with dancer/choreographer Zornitsa Stoyanova. The piece is a multi-media performance with video and dance as part of the Current series at the Mascher Space Coop Dance Space. I'll be writing the music for it, although the show is on June 9, I still need to write the music which I'll be doing this week.

Getting Back

Hello everyone. Finally getting back to reality, I needed to take a week off from everything after the album release show.

The show itself was amazing. Thanks so much to all those who were a part of the show. Especially to Mike Murray and Monika for all their help. The people that came out had a great energy and everything looked and sounded great! We'll have some photos and videos posted in the next couple of weeks.

This summer were going to be doing a lot of behind the scenes administrative stuff both with Gemini Wolf and Mikronesia related projects.

In the next couple of weeks there will be a new Mikronesia ambient album on Gears of Sand. I'll also be perfoming some new music / dance with Zornitsa from Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd.

OK Lots to do, I'll post more later.

m~

Press On

We're spreading the word like mad about the CD Release Show this Friday!!

We had a nice interview and some songs played on Sapphire Cut's Club Underground show. You can listen to the entire show by following the links listed on her website. We'll have a sample clip from the interview posted here in a few days.

We were at Art@Sophi last night, the space looks amazing, we're so excited about this party. It's going to be one for the books.

So, we're going to take down the Gemini Wolf streaming album from the website this weekend, so go listen now and check out the album before the CD Release.

Josiah Press Release

Busying working on post-production stuff for Josiah. We just had a small listening party last night with people on the album and band, etc. Expect announcements about the album release for the next six days as we get ready.

Here's the press release that went out last week. If you know any blogs, papers, message boards, etc. Please spread the word about the event.

Gemini Wolf, Philadelphia based electronic rock band celebrates the release of their new album 'Josiah' with art and music party at Art@Sophi, Friday May 18,

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Press Release.

An amazing new Philadelphia based band, Gemini Wolf, has just finished their debut album. They recorded and produced the album at their own studios in Philadelphia and mastered it with James Dellatacoma at Bill Laswell's Orange Music Sound Studios outside of New York.

The band's sound is an amalagm of dozens of styles. Over a bed of ambient electronics and keyboards soar ethereal vocals, mellencholly string arangements, pulsating acoustic guitar, thunderous drums and dubby bass. Their songs and sound is often epic is scope, but is all grounded in solid musicianship and classical songwriting and arrangements.

Gemini Wolf has been playing as a full band for about year. They have released singles on Nophi records and have been featured on the Philly Car Share Soundclash CD Vol. 1. They have played various clubs and parties in New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balitmore.

Before releasing the album on a large scale with a label, the band is having an album release party for the Philly fans. They will have a about 100 CDs featuring one of five limited edition 'Josiah' covers. The experimental photography artwork will be paired with a full scale photo show by Gemini Wolf singer / songwriter, Pandar.

The album release show will feature an extended set by Gemini Wolf as well as performance by electro-rockers The Hessians (featuring Kilroy) and a performance by Merle Keith (free jazz improv with live painting). Art@Sophi is curated by Mike Murray and Monika Turtle and will have various artists' work on display for the party. Also during Gemini Wolf's set, visual artists David Gerbestadt will be performing an interactive mixed media performance with video, oil projections and lights.

The event is $5 at the door. Gemini Wolf CDs and other merchandise will be on sale at the event. It's all ages.

Art@Sophi
1241 Carpenter St.
Philadelphia, PA
19147


You can listen to the entire album online for free streaming at www.geminiwolf.net

http://www.geminiwolf.net
http://www.myspace.com/geminiwolf
http://www.artatsophi.com


Josiah
Album Release Party

Friday May 18
Art@Sophi
1241 Carpenter
South Philadelphia

Gemini Wolf
with Hessians (featuring Kilroy)
Late night dance party with DJs Ghost and Nomad
Artwork and videos by David Gerbstadt
Performance by Merle Keith
Art shows, lights, food, drink, CDs for
sale and plenty of live music.

$5 - 8 PM - All Ages

More information and sounds at www.geminiwolf.net and www.myspace.com/geminiwolf

Clown Face

Correction from the last post, the clown face was in Wilmington.

We'll be back at Mojo 13 - June 9 with The Sky Drops. See you then, Mojo!

Some other summer shows for Gemini Wolf are in the works. More details after the album release party.

Post Weekend shows

Many thanks to Nerd Parade and all the peoples at the shows. This Friday in Brooklyn was very fun. Pete's Candy Store is a great little venue. The next night at Wilmington's Mojo 13 was awesome. Really nice people and attentive and all around fun.

Here are some quick highlights from the Gemini Wolf mini-tour.
(1) Len stepping in poo, 30 seconds into the tour
(2) Alison nearly burning down Pete's Candy Store
(3) Meg and Gary post-show on Friday telling people about their cats.
(4) The clown head in Brooklyn
(5) Gary exclusive "comp meal deal" with the bar tender Mojo 13
(6) Visko drummer Frenchy coming out of retirement to come to the M-Room on Wednesday
(7) Paying about $20 in tolls to get to Brooklyn, then not realizing that we needed to "pass the hat" to get paid
(8) Hanging out with Nerd Parade

Many thanks to The Nerd Parade and best of luck to them on the remainder of their tour. They're mad talented and going places, I'm sure of it.

Now we're focusing in on the Gemini Wolf album, Josiah, album release show.

Friday May 18, Mark your calendars, it's going to be one for the books. Gemini Wolf, Merle Keith, Nomad and Ghost, Hessians and much more. Art@Sophi - 1241 Carpenter, South Philly.

BOI-BOI!!

On to Brooklyn

We had a great time at M-Room last night. Thanks to Kilroy, The Nerd Parade and Dan for a great night. Now we're playing Brooklyn tomorrow night at Pete's Candy Store, then Saturday at Mojo13 in Wilmington. Hope to see you there.

New Josiah songs added to MySpace too.

M-Room and new album

So tonight is the first Gemini Wolf show in about three months. We're kicking it at the M-Room tonight with Kilroy and Nerd Parade. SHould be a fun night.

Also we finally got the Gemini Wolf album Josiah mastered by James Dellatacoma at Bill Laswell's Orange Music Sound Studios. It sounds unbelievably good, I've never heard such and improvement from mastering! James did a great job, warming up the sound, running it through some serious analog gear.

You can hear the results, streaming on the Gemini Wolf website; the entire album is streaming there, so check it out and let us know what you think.

Hope to see some peoples at the M-Room tonight.

Paraphrase / Nexus and Mixing and Mastering

This has been a super busy week for me. Gemini Wolf is putting the finishing touches on the mixes, we're mastering the new album on Thursday.

Also getting ready for a new performance of electronic music and dance at Nexus Gallery this Saturday. This will be the first Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd show in quite some time, so def. try and make it out. It's free at 8:00. Detailed info below, hope to see you there.

New series invites performance artists to interpret work of visual artists

( Philadelphia) PARAPHRASE/NEXUS is a new series in which artists of various disciplines and media create performances inspired by exhibitions at Nexus Gallery. The series is curated by Bilwa, and its inaugural performance will take place on Saturday, April 28 at 8p.m. and will feature Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd in an improvised dance and music installation interpreting Yukie Kobayashi and Elsabé Dixon’s collaborative show, Kumo Cloud Wolk, and Matthew Pruden’s Magnetic Sleep.

On April 28, Dancer/choreographer Emily Sweeney and electronic musician Mikronesia will perform their exploration of Kumo Cloud Wolk. An installation of handmade paper and silk weavings, Kumo Cloud Wolk is inspired by the ways in which the processes of papermaking and silkworms’ weaving are similar to the formation and lifespan of clouds. Dancer/choreographer Rebecca Patek and electronic musician Bilwa will offer their interpretation of Matthew Pruden’s Magnetic Sleep, a multimedia piece exploring 19th century spirit photography, parapsychology, and Spiritualism – the belief that the human personality continues on after death and can communicate through the agency of a “medium.” Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary performance collective dedicated to exploring the intersection of various artistic media, the way these media inform and inspire one another in a perpetual loop, and th e way this intersection creates something that is greater than movement or sound on its own.

The second installment of PARAPHRASE/NEXUS will be Saturday, May 26 at 8p.m. and will feature Philadelphia dancer/choreographers Christina Zani and Devynn Emory investigating select photographs from The Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image’s annual PhotoImage ’07 competition. PARAPHRASE/NEXUS will then take a three-month hiatus and resume in September.

All performances are free and will be held at Nexus Gallery in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St., Suite #102.

For more information about PARAPHRASE/NEXUS, please visit http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ or http://www.myspace.com/perpetual_mvmt_snd .

Deep Listening

So I had some personal, family stuff take over this week, but getting back to music and other things slowly.

This weekend is the culmination of the SoundExchange07 Workshop series with Pauline Oliveros. The details are on the events page. Basically Friday night is a concert with Pauline, Roscoe Mitchell and Samir Chattergee. Sunday is the performance with the entire ensemble featuring four Philadelphia composers, Pauline Oliveros. This concert will take place at the Annenberg Center, located on UPenn’s campus at 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. It starts at 4:00 PM and is $20.

Should be a great weekend of new and exciting music.

In the cave

I've been in the cave for the past three days. Mixing Gemini Wolf album and working on tracks for Iris. Lots of editing and mouse moving. Would like to get back to key / button pushing, knob turning and slider sliding soon.

Soon, we (Gemini Wolf) will be coming out of the cave to blast the land with our sonic spray of attitude.

Before the 'Josiah' mini-tour, I've got two Mikronesia events.

(1) Sound Exchange 2007 performance at the Anneberg Center on April 22.
(2) A performance with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd at Nexus gallery on April 28.

Ping Performance

LivePA has posted a link to my Mikronesia set in Toronto from last year's Ambient Ping performance.

Enjoy - http://livepa.blogspot.com/2007/04/mikronesia-live-at-ambient-ping-042506.html

MixingMania VII

Getting some rough mixes together for Gemini Wolf, Josiah tracks. Mastering in a few weeks. Sounding good. Traveling this week, setting up info for CD Release. Maybe working some Iris chopping.

It's going to be May 18 at Art@Sopi.

<< [ Here's the flyer ] [Here's the press release] >>
Gemini Wolf, Philadelphia based electro-dub-symphonic rock band is releasing their debut LP, 'Josiah'. To celebrate this release the band is having their CD Release party at Art@Sophi at 1241 Carpenter St. in South Philadelphia on Friday May 18.

The band has been playing clubs around Philadelphia, New York, Wilmington and Baltimore for the past two years. They have released singles on Nophi records as well as having a song chosen for the Philly CarShare SoundClash Vol. 1.

Gemini Wolf's debut LP is a sonic journey through dozens of music genres. Combining, dreamy vocals, acoustic guitars, thunderous drums, Philly-style soul string arrangements, glitchy laptop programming, dubby bass, thunderous drums nine tracks are nestled together into tight dramatic composition. The album has been produced and mixed by Mikronesia (Robots in Disguise), Gary Dann (Dootlebug, New Millionaires), Joe Bowie (Silent Assassins) and Bilwa (Hoopty Heaven and Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd).

The CD Release party will feature an extended set from Gemini Wolf, sets from the mixed-media / free jazz group, Merle Keith and The Hessians feat. Kilroy. Spinning a late night set will be the acclaimed DJ Frosty. Visually, Art@Sophi will curate the gallery with various paintings, lighting and video projections. In the main room with Gemini Wolf will be legendary artists, David Gerbstadt, doing some projection interactive art set to the band's music. Also featured at the show will be a 'House of Josiah' photos series, surveying a surrealistic domestic landscape through photos and artwork from the album, by Gemini Wolf singer/ songwriter, Pandar.

FRIDAY MAY 18
Gemini Wolf CD Release Party for 'Josiah'
Art@Sophi
1241 Carpenter St.
Philadelphia, PA
~Gemini Wolf~
with Hessians feat. Kilroy, Merle Keith and DJ Frosty.
Visuals: David Gerbestadt
8PM - $5 - All Ages.
http://www.geminiwolf.net
http://www.artatsophi.com

Archive.org

Recommended by Gary Dann, I've been using archive.org to host some larger audio files. Mostly complete live shows as Mikronesia and Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd. Here's some info about archive.org.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.

So now by search for 'mikronesia' or 'perpetual mvmt< >snd' at archive.org, you can stream or download audio. I've uploaded mostly all of perpetual mvmt< >snd's performances. These performances have also been added to the Mikronesia player on the left side.

Enjoy.

Some dates

So there's a lot going on Mikronesia-land from the mid-April to mid-May... Here's the low down so you can sync up your Wizard.

April 20-22 : Sound Exchange 2007. American Composers Forum performance with 15 piece ensemble (including Mikronesia on synthesizer), Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell and Samir Chatterjee. at Annenberg Center for the Performing Art.

April 28: New series at Nexus Gallery with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd.

May 2: Gemini Wolf @ M-Room (with The Nerd Parde and Kilroy)

May 4: Gemini Wolf @ Pete's Candy Shop - Brooklyn (with The Nerd Parade)

May 5: Gemini Wolf @ Mojo 13 (tentative - with The Nerd Parade)

May 18: Gemini Wolf CD Release show at Art@Sophi

more on all this in a few weeks, look for site updates and new sound files too...

Thanks for reading.

Hallelujah

First off, welcome to the new mikronesia site! It's been a few weeks in development and a few months in conception. We've got a snazzy flash music player to the left that you can choose different playlists that will be constantly updated and kept fresh with tasty new mikronesia sound nuggets.

Also, the badware hack thing that make my site come up in Google as a "site that may harm you computer" has been found and fixed. Hopefully it didn't turn away too many people.

On the music tip - lots in development.

I've got a new collection of work entitled 'vxvii', you can listen to it on the flash player to the left. I'm also working on a new release for Gears of Sand, tentatively titled Iris or Comfortable Too, this new work for GoS is going to be comprised of entirely piano sounds. Initially I wanted to take a new approach to the classical minimal / ambient piano work on Satie or Harold Budd, we'll see how much "piano" makes it though the DSP/processing production on the album. That should be out late May / Early June.

Also on my more beat oriented production, the tracks I've been working on for MC Virya are also on display in the flash player, check under the 'production collaboration' playlist for two tracks. Also in the next week or so, Spenser Michaels and I are finally going to put out that track "Beyond" that we've been working on and off again for about a year and half! We only meet up every couple of months and we've got a few other tracks in the works. He's been busy with the Grand Grand Grand LP anyways.

Finally for Gemini Wolf, we're putting the finishing touches on our debut LP, Josiah. We're going to have CD release party on May 18 at Art@Sophi. At the CD Release party we're going to have limited pressing of the LP with four different versions of the cover art based on the photos series "House of Josiah" by Pandar, which will also be on display at the Art@Sophi gallery.

We're not doing any Gemini Wolf shows until May when we'll do a few warm up shows in Philly and New York culminating with the CD Release show on May 18.

I won't be doing any Mikronesia dates until mid-April for the American Composers Forum Sound Exchange 2007 with Pauline Oliveros.

Now that the new site is up expect updates in the 'News' as well as some tweaks throughout the week as I get the site working correctly on the server.

Cheers!

Thanks to gate

Thanks to everyone at GATE, Aidan, Scott, Quentin, Gina, Ben and all those that attended, it was a great time. We video taped and audio taped myperformance, so I plan to have it up soon. Maybe with the new Mikronesia website, which is coming in a week or two!

Scott took some photos over here www.gatephilly.net/past2007-02.htm

Next month's GATE looks awesome, with all 8-bit game boy performers on March 16.

Also I talked to Ben from Gears of Sand, we're going to putting out the second GoS Mikronesia CD this summer. It's going to be an album of processed ambient piano music, a la Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Should be interesting. More on that later.

GATE

Gate presents:

AIDAN BAKER ( experimental guitar / drones ) - from Toronto

MIKRONESIA ( dense glitch / ambient with live DSP processing ) - first solo show in 6 months

THE GREAT QUENTINI ( homemade instruments / performance art ) - resident costumed freak

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TONIGHT - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
8pm
FREE

The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

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More info: gatephilly.net

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Thanks to Art@Sophi + GATE GATE GATE

So the Art@Sophi show was a spectacular feast for the eyes and ears. Thanks to all those that came out. It was a packed house, with great people, great music and great art. Thanks to Monika and Mike Murray, "The Keith", Sepents of Wisdom and Lexx.

As I said in an email last week, that was our last show until the CD release show which we've been working on for the last couple of months. We've got about two and half more tracks to record and some polishing up, not mention all the post production stuff. So it's a lot of work, but we'll get it done. We're planning an extravaganza for the CD release, so get ready folks. It's either going to be in about 6-10 weeks.

In the mean time, I'll be doing my first Mikronesia show in over six months at the Rotunda at GATE this Friday. I've been working on album's worth of new glitchy, melodic ambient music over the past couple of months, so I'll be doing some of that material as well as improv stuff with live processing of glockenspiel, flute, melodica, music boxes, etc. It should be quite a blissful evening. Also on the bill is fellow Gears of Sand recording artist, Aidan Baker and the always entertaining Great Quinteni.

Here's the flyer: more info this week as well as maye some previews of my set and new ambient tracks.

Art @ Sophi & Philly Carshare update

So the press machine is rolling along for Art@Sophi this Friday. For those who don't know, this will be our last Gemini Wolf show until our CD release show, probably until May! So make sure you come out and support. The event itself, is going to be amazing. We were there last week and Mike Murray and crew has really transformed the space to something other worldly. This is not to be missed!
Here's the info:

February 9 @ 8pm art@sophi FRIDAY - 13th&CARPENTER;

Featuring the sounds of: Gemini Wolf (http://www.myspace.com/geminiwolf), Serpents of Wisdom (BADMASTER records http://www.myspace.com/serpentsofwisdom)
live art performance by the merle keith
artwork by david gerbstadt & mike murray
dj mix by lexx (http://www.myspace.com/lexxjohnson)
art@sophi is a collective of inspired souls, artists, musicians & performers who create, connect & converge – to stimulate, support & sustain the local arts in philadelphia

this event is open to the public,
$5 donation at the door.
1241 carpenter st 3rd floor
(corner of 13th & carpenter)
phila pa 19147

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Also, we just found out last night, that Gemini Wolf was selected to appear on the Philly Car Share CD. We're very excited about this and we'll have more info soon. 5000 copies of the CD will be distributed around the city and in every Philly Car Share car!

Art@sophi Press Release

February 9 @ 8pm
art@sophi

Featuring the sounds of

Gemini wolf
(orchestral/electronic rock band with strings, guitars, female vocals, laptops, acoustic guitars, thunderous rhythm section fusing electronic, folk, glitch, dub and
dozens of other elements together in tight dramatic songs. last performance for six weeks as they finish of their debut album 'Josiah'. http://www.myspace.com/geminiwolf)

Serpents of Wisdom
(Singing zappa-esque freaky dungeons and dragons inspiried anthems with releases on BADMASTER records. http://www.myspace.com/serpentsofwisdom)

live art performance by the merle keith
artwork by howard kleger & mike murray
dj mix by lexx

art@sophi is a collective of inspired souls, artists, musicians & performers who create, connect & converge – to stimulate, support & sustain the local arts in philadelphia

this event is open to the public, $5 donation at the door.

1241 carpenter st
3rd floor
(corner of 13th & carpenter)
phila pa 19147

Johnny Brenda's - on to Rashomon

Gemini Wolf rawked it at Johnny Brenda's last night! Awesome venue, awesome sound, awesome crowd. Thanks to everyone that came out. We got a really good recording, so we'll put a track or two up here soon, or over at MySpace. Speaking of mySpace, we have uploaded two rough-mixes of two tracks from our forthcoming album, Josiah. You can listen to blissed-out-tribal-freakout "(Bittersweet) Dirts)" and epic "Enganlements" right now, go forth and listen.

Next up for da wolf, is to work on the final three songs for the album as well as working on some new tunes for our live set. Our next live performance will be Feb. 9 playing at the monthly second Friday art / music and multi-media show at Art@Sophi. You can read about this mind-bending experience and see some photos from past Art@Sophi events on their website.

This weekend, the Rashomon Effect returns for its second installment with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd. I mentioned last week that this Rashomon is going to embrace the effects of silence and minimalism as an interpretation of movement and sound. The musicians are going to be same as last time, Mikronesia on synths and processed glockenspiel, music boxes and melodica, Bilwa on laptop and dub/delay effects and Helena Espvall (from the Espers and Vashti Bunyan's ensemble - an interesting side note, I noticed on her webpage, her next show after the Rashomon will be at Carnegie Hall, with Vashti Bunyan sharing the bill with Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, CocoRosie and Adem!!, so you can only image, we always blessed to be playing with someone as talented as Helena) on cello. The dancers will be Emily Sweeney, Rebecca Patek, Daniele Strawmyre, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Allison Lorenzen. We got a nice little review in the Philadelphia Weekly, you can read it here. For the record, any similarities between Bilwa and David Caruso are merely coincidental.

One last item I'm very excited about, is that I've been selected to perform as part of the American Composers Forum in SoundExchange_2007 with Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell. I'm headed to a six hour workshop on the project this Saturday, so I'll know more about it next week. It's going to be the weekend of April 20-22 at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and feature about 15 other composers / performers.

Sugar Low and Entanglements

It seems the Gemini Wolf track "Sugar Low" made it on a best of list for 2006 at http://40versions.wordpress.com/
It's pretty funny since we didn't really release anything in 2006, it was just listed on our MySpace page. The track was recorded by myself and Megan in a few hours when we were snowed in in Winter 2006 (you know, back when it snowed). Speaking of mySpace, we have put out the first rough mix of a track from our forthcoming album, Josiah. You can listen to "Entanglements" on our mySpace. Ya Heard?!

Upcoming Imagery

Happy new year

Is it too late to say that? Anyway, happy new year. Getting back into the swing of things. Gemini Wolf had their first rehearsal in about a month last night. We're excited to be playing Johnny Brenda's in two weeks. Tonight, I'm headed off to rehearse with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd for the next Rashomon Effect show. The general idea of the performance is going to playing with silence and space. I'm going to experiment with a super minimal setup with just melodica and effect pedals, should be interested. I believe Bilwa is just going to have turntable. We're so pleased that brilliant cellist, Helena Espvall is going to be returning for her second performance. The fourth "sound" member is going to be silence. So we're going to really explore minimal playing as an accompaniment for modern dance led by Emily Sweeney.

Coming up tomorrow I'll be DJing some tracks mixed with live MIDI sequencing and synths at the Fire (3rd and Girard). I'll be playing all night between and after bands at Zelda Pinwheel's CD release party for the new album For SafeKeeping Warm. You can read a review here in the Philadelphia Weekly.

End of Year

Soon the end of the year will be here. We're still wrapping up some of the Gemini Wolf recording for Josiah this week. We're also in the planning stages for the next Rashomon with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd on Jan 20th. In the short term, I'll be DJing between and after bands at the Zelda Pinwheel at the Fire on Friday Jan 5th. Then two weeks later Gemini Wolf will be playing at Johnny Brendas with two great bands Esque and Leopule (Sounds Familyre). More of a breakdown in a few days. Have a good peaceful holiday season.

Oh here's the flyer for the Zelda Pinwheel show:

Rashomon Recording

We've got the recording from the Rashomon Effect Show from this Saturday. It's a really amazing recording. It was done with a stereo mic hanging over the dance floor. The layout of the show was a large dance floor with a musician in each corner. Therefore you get a really good spatial sense of the show from the recording.

The musicians are:
Mikronesia - synth, processed glockenspiel, music boxes and fx.
Helena Espvall - cello
Sean Mattio - percussion
Bilwa - laptop, soft-synths

The dancers are:
Allison Lorenzen
Emily Sweeney
Zornitsa Stoyanova
Rebecca Patek

The video artist is:
John Phillips

We're hopefully going to post some video of the event online soon. For now, enjoy the audio from a very special night. Enjoy!

Perpetual Mvmt< >Sound - Rashomon Effect - December 9 2006

Weekend Wrap Up

What a great weekend of music, parties, dancing, food and holiday fun. As I mentioned early the Gemini Wolf show on Friday night at the Khyber was our best yet. We got a pretty decent recording from the sound guy, Ken Gregory. I still need to go through it, but I'm sure I can post a track or two here. Many thanks to the other bands on the bill; Lo Power Plane, Music For Headphones and Gentlemen Christ.

Saturday night was a completely different vibe, but equally enjoyable. Bilwa and Emily had done a lot of work putting together the first in the revived Rashomon series at the Mashcer Street Cooperative Dance Studio. They had lots of press including a full page metro article and the turn out was great. People were very attentive and responsive to the performance and it was really amazing. I got a really good recording of the show. I'll be posting audio soon enough. Thanks to all those that were involved in this performance; musicians Bilwa, Helena and Sean; dancers; Allison, Rebecca, Zornitsa and Emily and John Phillips inspiring video work. There were a few people video taping the performance, so at some point we'll sync up the video and audio and try and post it online. We're all looking forward to the next Rashomon which will be sometime in late January.

Getting back to recording on the Gemini Wolf project. We've got about six tracks recorded, two or three more to go. Doing some over-dub and post production this week.

North Star Photos

Our good friend and photgrapher Hiroko Tanaka has been along to all of our recent Gemini Wolf shows and she took some great ones at the great North Star.

The gallery is online. Peep it.

This Weekend

OK, I've been in a cave of doing stuff un-musical all this week. So tonight and tomorrow it's ON!!

Come out to some winter time old city action with Gemini Wolf at the Khyber. We hit the stage around 10. The band after us is really great too, Music For Headphones. Some come through to 2nd/Chestnut in Old City. Plus upstairs our old pal Skippymodee is doing his hommage to 808 drum machine known as Future Shock 086 all night long. Represent.

Tomorrow night is the Rashomon Effect, more on that tomorrow after the Gemini Wolf show.

Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd - Rashomon Effect

Just announced and some photos.

We just found out that Gemini Wolf is playing at the Khyber on Friday December 8th with Music For Headphone; two more bands TBA. We are still working on recording this week as we get ready for this show. Also the night after the Khyber show, I'll be performing with perpetual mvmt< >snd at the return of The Rashomon Effect. This show will feature a series of short, improvised duets between dancers and musicians, with each duet overlapping to the next. The musicians include; Mikronesia (electronics), Bilwa (electronics), Helena Epsvall (cello), and Sean Mattio (percussion). This show will feature four dancers, four musicians and video artist John Phillips, all creating an improvised score of movement, sound and color. Sounds like it will be a fun weekend.

Hiroko Tanaka took some great photos from our M-Room show last week. Enjoy

Getting in tune

Gemini Wolf has been getting ready for our big Astralwerks show this Sunday, it should be a good one. Just announced, we're also doing another Khyber hit on December 8th with Music For Headphone and another killer band (not the Killers, we don't think, but somebody still just as good).
That's about it, getting ready for holiday madness, trying to finish up recording of Josiah and some other recording projects by year's end, so I can feel accomplished and like a winner!

Me - 10 / former-Me - 0

YAH!

In case you're wondering, I've broken my rule of not posting while I'm sleep deprived.

Much Fun at the M-Room

We had a great time and show at the M-Room last week. We got a great response from the second show with the string duo. Hiro took some pictures too, which we'll hopefully post here soon. Coming up, our next show is next Sunday night at The North Star Bar in the Art Museum area. We'll be supporting two Astralwerks bands, Small Sins and The Little Ones.

Also I wrapped up four tracks that have been in the works with MC/musician Virya for sometime now. We're happy with the four tracks and he'll be launching a MySpace page soon to showcase the tracks. I might post a few here, esp. after the mikronesia.com redesign. Whaaa...

Lots of stuff planned for the remainder of the year. We want to finish up the recording on Josiah, after this North Star show. We've got some special guests that will be featured on the tracks; the brothers Baybutt to record some oboe and French horn on "Phantom Digits", Bilwa to offer some dub styings on "Muddy Brown", Spenser Michaels has already done some fantastic backing vocals on "Owl Song", plus some other tricks up our sleeves.

BN NOW M!!!

Great gig at Bar Noir last night, we have a lot of fun rocking out classic Gemini Wolf quartet style. We got to play long set, pretty much all the songs we have. Thanks to Persona, A.D., Needles and Mark for a fun night. Next up is the M-Room this Thursday with Music For Headphones and Panda Riot.

New Bar Noir Flyer

Persona made this cool flyer, a little better than the one I made in Microsoft Paint.... anyway, come out to this show, it's going to be a fun FREE way to spend your Monday Night and soak away your Monday blues with good music from Gemini Wolf, Persona and DJ AD, plus were having visuals by Tolo at Bar Noir.

Josiah

From this week's IcePack...
"Anyone who wants to hear more than "Owl Song" from Gemini Wolf's stringed electro-rock ensemble can hear new songs from their due-in-January CD, Josiah, "

so I guess the name is official now, I think Meg and I had it as an inside joke, but I think it fits with the themes of the album, so far. "Get to safety"

The actual content of the article was meant to plug our first Gemini Wolf show in almost six weeks... at

Monday November 6
BAR NOIR (says LIQUID on the sign upstairs)
18th Street (between Chestnut and Samsom)
w. Persona and Gemini Wolf
9 PM :: FREE :: 21+

mmm pugs

I ate so many dogs on Halloween, I still feel sick.

The Lord Taketh...

So we lost the Flying V show, but we've got another show coming up that weekend instead, just announced we'll be supporting two Astralwerks Bands:

small sins
The Little Ones

check out their MySpace pages, some good acts to be playing with plus their on everybody's favorite label Astralwerks (Chemical Brothers, Air, Beta Band, Beth Orton, Future Sounds of London, Fat Boy Slim, Sparklehorse, Sia... etc).

So it's
Sunday Nov. 19
North Star Bar
27th and Poplar Streets, Art Museum of Philadelphia.
small sins, The Little Ones and Gemini Wolf

Yah!

Flying V Show Cancelled

So we're not doing the flying V show in West Philly now on Nov. 17. They had to move the venue to Mill Creek and they had to drop one of the bands, and they dropped us because we had 2 other show next week. I guess this is some new policy with promoters in Philly, you can't play any other shows for two weeks, which makes it pretty impossible to promote and get going with your band if you can only play twice a month in Philly.

Oh well.

Khyber Photos

Here's some photos from the Khyber show last month... also we should have some video clips soon, Mike Barber from Arzher Productions took some video footage that we're in the process of getting audio to sync up. Anyway these shots are from Mike O'Brien... thanks MIKES!!


loretta coldcut


da mizza


bbbbbbllllllluuuuuurrrrrr


richie, len and alison


the wolf sexset


checking email


"she guards the doorway"

Gemini Cave

After of a month of recording and time off, Gemini Wolf is coming back for some live shows next month, check out the shows section for more info.

The recording is going well too, we've got about 4 songs pretty much done (except for strings and some small overdubs).

That's about it for now.

HARK!!!!

... coming up on 24 hours straight of being up, so this might be rambling and there might be mispellings and misgivings ...

tomorrow is the bowerbird show with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd, check out the events section for more info. thursday night oct 12 - 8 pm. cecil b moore / masher IN fishtown. experimental / freejazz / ambient / dance.

also been working hard on the Gemini Wof LP, we've got about 5 songs with Rhythm tracks recorded and we just did the strings on "Entanglements" and "Silence in Our Voices", it's sounding great and we're really excited with the process...

also on the GW tip, we're doing a three shows in November as the sexiest sextet in the sixth borough (oh man), with strings, drums, bass oh my... Bar Noir ... M-Room then LAVA, more soon...

also this Monday (10/16) I will be DJing at Fiso for a new "carnival like" weekly hosted by Jalima Shani. Jalima says there will be some TV people there doing interviews, so I don't know... lots of stuff going on right now..

come through the Bowerbird show, it's going to be a gas!
http://www.bowerbird.org/upcoming.php

LP6

Well it's back the infamous Landing Pad Space Rock Festival, this Saturday. I've played almost all of these fesivals performing ambient soundscapes between bands, which can add up to a few hours at a music festival. These things are always funs with crazy psych bands, visuals, free food and other goodies, so check it out.

This Satuday at the Rotunda 7 PM - midnight.

WAsh cycle <>

we had a great time at the WAsh cycle show last saturday. we really transformed the space into an alien space craft or as zornitsa put it, "an futuristic movie from the 80s"... thanks to lisa and bianka for hosting such a great event and to bilwa for the amazing photos and vibe...

we got a really great recording on the improvised score by bilwa and myself, i guess you're only getting half the story with out the accompanying dance by emily and zornitsa, but by itself i think it sounds pretty dang good.

Perptual Mvmt<>Snd - WAsh Cycle Improv
(52 MB / 39:00)

we'll be perfoming again on October 12 at the Mascher Space Cooperative in Fishtown. check out the shows section for more information.

perpetual mvmnt<>snd

the gemini wolf khyber show was amazing, we had alison on violin and richie on cello and it sounded fantastic. we'll have photos, videos and sounds coming up here soon...

right now gemini wolf is recording their first LP, we won't be doing any shows until november while we record.

i'll be performing with the modern dance / electronic music group perpetual mvmnt <> snd which features 2 electronic musicians (mikronesia + bilwa) and two dancers (emily + zornitza) performing an improvised score with colors lights and other insteresting visuals. def. want to check this out. plus there bilwa will be showing his cleverily titled new photo series WAsh cycle.

it's friday sept 22 8 pm
at 10st. laundromat
10th & ellsworth s. philly;

Shows, shows and more shows

AA lot of exciting show this week in the wet n' wild world of Mikronesia. Here's the down-low-lowdown:

Tuesday 8/29 - The Weekly Cipher - Jalima Shani (hip-hop/spoken word artist - Nonsense Records) with Mikronesia on laptop. Medusa Lounge (21st/Chestnut). 10 PM. FREE.

Thursday 8/31 - (Return of) RELEASE THE KRAKEN - with DJ Mikronesia weaving a flesh-knit circuit board of electronic, rock, hip-hop, jazz and international carpet bombs. Upstairs at the Khyber (2nd/Chestnut). 9 PM - 2 AM. FREE.

Friday 9/1 - ARTS IN MOTION PRESENTS : provocateur - at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Great Hall. Mikronesia as a AIM guest remixer/arranger performing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 arranged for laptop and string quartet.
5:45.
http://www.artsinmotion.org/provocfront.gif
(this flyer gets you discount $10 admission and one free drink.)
See the press release below for detailed information, it's going to be amazing First Friday event, so try and make it out early.

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Friday, September 1, 2006
ARTS IN MOTION PRESENTS : provocateur

A performance at Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Art After 5" Series.

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Arts in Motion pays tribute to PMA's provocateurs - visionary subversives who have shaped the evolution of art. Classical virtuosi, DJs, and experimental video artists fill the Great Stair Hall with progressive music and immersive visuals inspired by the Museum's collection.

Performing Artists:
Raphael DiLuzio, Video Artist
Michael Stauffer, Music Visualization Artist
Eric Haeker, Composer/Keyboard
Michelle Bishop, Violin
Abe Feder, Cello
John Phillips, Video Artist
Jennifer Han, Violist
Ben Camp, Composer/Electronic Musician/DJ
Mary Bichner, Composer/Vocals/Keyboard
Michael McDermott, Electronic Musician
Maurice Roberts, Electronic Musician/Keyboard/Composer
Dave Clayton, Electronic Musician
Ian Cole, Guitar
Hannah Jin Cole, Violin

http://www.philamuseum.org/artafter5/
http://www.artsinmotion.org/

------------------- PRESS RELEASE FOR provocateur -------------------

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