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This is a first-come, first-served partially seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Artists
Ghostly International Presents SMM: Context
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, curator, producer and mixed media artist. He is predominantly associated with post-minimalist, drone and ambient music and has been exploring textural electronics for over half a decade. He is also known as the main member of electronic/shoegaze outfit The Sight Below.
Irisarri’s recorded output captures an essential vision of floating tones, deep pulsing bass and textured Gaussian curves. His use of ostinato phrases taps into minimalist ideals, whilst his use of atmospheric layers of reverb suggests a more cinematic quality. In all, Irisarri’s compositions are deeply emotive and epic to the point of being symphonic. His work is widely published in over a dozen labels around the globe, most notably on respected Ann Arbor, MI imprint Ghostly International.
Irisarri travels frequently to perform live throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East. Highlights include concerts at Barcelona’s Sónar Festival, Detroit’s Movement: DEMF, Montreal’s MUTEK, Krakow’s Unsound Festival, and London’s OpenFrame. Aside from electronic music festivals, Irisarri has presented his works at multidisciplinary arts events, including Milan’s prestigious MITO SettembreMusica festival and Israel Festival in Jerusalem.
Irisarri has collaborated live with an assortment of like-minded artists: Fennesz, Lillevan, Lawrence English, Grouper, Andrea Belfi, Simon Scott, Lusine, Shackleton, Lissom, Solvent, Svarte Greiner, and Marcus Fjellström.
Back home in Seattle, Irisarri curates and produces advance sound and interdisciplinary art events, thus helping create a hub for contemporary art proposals in the city.
“Irisarri uses his guitar as a strings-like symphonic element to generate atmospheric masses…like an ambient symphony recording that’s been rescued from attic entombment after half a century.” - Textura
His albums include The North Bend and Daydreaming
http://irisarri.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rafael-Anton-Irisarri/15249970295
http://soundcloud.com/studio-irisarri
Goldmund
Composer Keith Kenniff started playing drums, guitar and bass at an early age. His musical path eventually led him to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with honors in 2006 with a B.A. in percussion. In 2001 Keith began writing ambient electronic music under the moniker Helios. The first Helios record, "Unomia", was released in 2004 on the influential underground IDM label Merck Records. His follow-up album, "Eingya", released in 2006 quickly became an underground ambient/electronic staple and made its way onto many critic's top 10 lists. The third Helios full length , "Caesura", was released in 2008, followed quickly by "Unleft" in 2009.
Keith also records and performs music for solo piano under the name Goldmund for which he has four releases on Type Records and Western Vinyl, including the most recent album ‘Famous Places", released in 2010. His music as Goldmund, and under his own name has been featured in many films, such as "Mister Lonely" by acclaimed indie filmmaker Harmony Korine and can be heard regularly on programs produced by NPR, and the BBC. Keith has also written music for commercial clients such as Honda, MTV, Canon, T-Mobile, Christie's, Coca-Cola, American Express, Ubuntu, and Paramount Pictures on the film trailer for "Revolutionary Road" in 2009.
In 2008 Keith started the project Mint Julep with his wife, Hollie and will release their new album "Save Your Season" in 2011. Keith has toured and performed extensively throughout the US, Europe Japan and Canada. http://www.unseen-music.com
Noveller
NOVELLER is the solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. Noveller has toured the U.S. and internationally, at times supporting acts such as Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds.
In 2008, Lipstate played at the Un Son Par Là festival in Nîmes, France. In 2009, she performed in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage’s “Drastic-Classicism” at The Kitchen in NYC. Following that performance, she joined Rhys Chatham at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a performance of “Guitar Trio." She also performed in Chatham’s large ensemble piece, “A Crimson Grail: for 200 Guitars” in August 2009.
The Manhattan New Music Project and X Initiative co-presented a concert on the rooftop of the X Initiative in October 2009, where Lipstate premiered new film work. Lipstate debuted her improvised guitar duo with Carla Bozulich at NYC’s The Stone in February of this year. Recently, Lipstate performed at the Suoni Per Il Popolo fest in Montreal, and Decibel Festival in Seattle, and Unsound Festival in Krakow.
Her short films screened at the SXSW film festival in 2006 and 2007, and earned Lipstate the “Diamond in the Rough Cut” award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. She debuted a new film, ‘Interior Variations’, at the New Museum as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May 2009. The film also screened at the 12th Kyoto International Film & Video Festival in Japan, and as part of the ‘New York Avant Cinema Series’ at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival. Lipstate’s film works were showcased in the Women of NY Cinema screening as part of the 2009 NY Eye + Ear Festival in Tribeca.
Her most recent albums are Desert Fire and Red Rainbows.
Kyle Bobby Dunn
Kyle Bobby Dunn is a 21st century composer and performer living in Brooklyn.
He has premiered his highly specialized works in live settings, including exclusive outdoor and site specific environments, throughout North America for nearly a decade.
He enjoys traveling, mostly vegetarian crêpes, pungent cheeses, french onion soup, robust coffees, obscure beers, distant firewood smells, reddest wines, and perfected instruments.
His recordings include Rural Route No. 2 and Six Cognitive Works.
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