the finite state machine presents:
s u r f a c e d i s p l a c e m e n t
an evening of electronic music
Monkeyphone
Akumu
the Great Vowel Shift
James Schidlowsky's Ringen
Saturday, September 25th, 9 PM
le Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent blvd.
4 dollars, PWYC
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Monkeyphone
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Monkeyphone is the collaborative project of seasoned, hyperkinetic drummer Tomas Matthews (Desert Owls), ambient/dance guru Bob Doell (Paul Keeley, Gyges), and IDM/Electroacoustic composer Shane Turner (Turner of Wheels, The Fold). Their live performance for amped electronics and drums freely combines their favorites of the electronic music canon. Echoes of dance, dub, krautrock, fusion, and industrial form into high energy beats that are layered with thick synthetic grooves, spiced with warm noise and soft pliable ambiance.
http://www.myspace.com/monkeyphonemusic
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Akumu
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Akumu is Toronto’s Deane Hughes, composer of dark electronic ambient music.
Formed as a solo project in 2000, Akumu [Japanese for “nightmare”] explores the eerie side of natural systems through long-form instrumental tracks constructed from drones, found sounds and micro-sonics that synthesize organic and electronic elements into haunting atmospherics and low frequency beats.
He has released three full-length albums, a DVD of videos, a split release with Andrew Duke plus various compilations and net tracks. He has scored music for television and film and has performed live across Ontario and Quebec including at Montréal’s Mutek Festival and Toronto’s X-Avant and Ambient Ping events.
He is currently producing new material for release later this year.
http://www.musicbyakumu.com/
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/akumu/id35764941
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The Great Vowel Shift
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Yan Basque is a Montreal-based musician, experimental sound artist, writer and visual artist. As The Great Vowel Shift, he explores the intersections between improvisation and noise, found material and structure, using lo-fi electronics and analog sounds. Yan releases song-based material under the name Racine, plays guitar with the punk band Drunk Dial, and has collaborated with artist Nicole Aline Legault on a book: Empty Bottles Carrying Talking Teeth. He spends too much time on the internet. He lives in Verdun with his cat Ingemar.
http://greatvowelshift.tumblr.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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James Schidlowsky's Ringen
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James Schidlowsky used to make music.
From No Type:
"James Schidlowsky is a sound artist, performer and improviser. His music ranges from ambient to free jazz, but is primarily abstract. He investigates the intrinsic sounds of the guitar using various objects, the sounds of radiowaves, interferences and treated field recordings. He has released several solo CD-Rs, online albums and has collaborated regularly with Olivier Borzeix, Alexandre St-Onge, Jacques Gravel, Nathalie Dion, Magali Babin and A_dontigny."
Ringen has been described as an orchestra of elves and faeries playing strings and horns and an elven church organ. Beautiful, shimmering, effervescent.
http://www3.bell.net/james.schid/
http://www.notype.com/drones/bio.e/schidlowsky_ja/
