Action Research 208

Action Research #208:

Wade Matthews & Jill Burton
(Madrid, Spain & Gainesville, FL)
http://www.wadematthews.info
http://www.jillburton.net
"In 1989, after completing his doctorate at Columbia University in New York, French-born American musician Wade Matthews moved to Madrid and became active on the international improv scene. Drawing on his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (His doctoral dissertation was on improvisation guided by electronic sounds) he approached the bass clarinet and alto flute as “acoustic synthesizers,” rethinking their sonic possibilities, phrasing, and relation to breath in a musical language based on real-time creation. When faster processors made laptop synthesis viable, Matthews gradually abandoned the woodwinds and returned to his first love, tweaking a virtual synthesizer to allow very rapid control of sound parameters for solo playing and dialog with others. In 2007, he founded INTERMEDIA 28 with photographer Adam Lubroth and guitarist Julio Camarena. There, he began to combine field recordings with electronic synthesis in a 2-computer setup that has since become his main instrument." --http://www.wadematthews.info/Wade_Matthews/ABOUT.html

"Jill Burton (born 1952) is an American improviser, extended vocalist, dancer, performance artist and energy worker. Noted as one of the great foundation improvisors of America, she is also known for incorporating spiritual healing with improvised performance. Active in the American improv scene since the early 1970s, she has lived and worked all over the country, including a ten-year stint in the 1980s as part of the downtown East Village experimental arts community, and six years in Sitka, Alaska, where she worked with Tlingit storytellers providing musical accompaniment for their healing stories. Burton is unusual for a musician in that her work is ephemeral, in-the-moment, and therefore recordings of her work are rare. She has collaborated with many notable experimental musicians and dancers, including LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams, Jane Scarpantoni, Judy Dunaway, David First, Rain Worthington, Gino Robair, Jack Wright, and Scott Walton." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Burton

Asherohm
modular synthesizer processing by Dave LeBleu (The Mercury Program, The Album Leaf)

The Andrews
densely woven textures

Frog
sublimation
http://vimeo.com/user3917908
http://youtube.com/user/frogforfun
http://frogforfun.bandcamp.com/

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Portal 4
Gainesville, FL

$5 please

9:30pm

Action Research is a series of experimental/ noise/ electronic/ underground shows established in Gainesville, FL in June 2007.

http://actionresearchfl.blogspot.com/
http://youtube.com/actionresearchfl
https://www.facebook.com/groups/73786145920/