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/

Action Research 202

Action Research #202:

Ryosuke Kiyasu
(Tokyo, Japan)
(solo snare)
http://www.kiyasu.com
https://ryosukekiyasu.bandcamp.com/
"In 1995 he started his career as a drummer and experienced live performances in various bands. In 2003 he moved to Canada in North America in order to gain experience as a drummer and began to play solo with snare drums. Perform solo live mainly on the local jazz bar. Also, while living in Canada, he started hardcore band THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE and worked as a drummer.

"From 2004 after returning to Japan, he started grindcore band SETE STAR SEPT and free jazz band KIYASU ORCHESTRA, and has released numerous works and has performed various tours to countries around the world. From 2012, he is also working as a band of Keiji Haino, a drummer of" FUSHITSUSHA.

"As a solo snare drummer, the countries that have performed in the past span the United States, Canada, Indonesia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Mongolia."

Jill Burton
(solo voice & movement)
http://www.jillburton.net/
"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." -- Wikipedia

Bluesharp
(solo guitar)
https://bluesharp.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Chadwick
(solitary moments)
https://andrewchadwick.bandcamp.com/

Frog
(solo vision)
http://vimeo.com/user3917908
http://youtube.com/user/frogforfun
http://frogforfun.bandcamp.com/

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Friday, September 6, 2019
Portal 4
Gainesville, FL

Sliding scale entry of $5 - $10 suggested, more is welcome!
Your support of an international artist touring the US DIY experimental underground is appreciated!

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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/

Action Research 188

Action Research #188

Id M Theft Able
(Portland, ME)
(eminent sound collage/poetry/experimental/improv magic)
http://www.kraag.org/
https://idmtheftable.bandcamp.com

Jill Burton
(eminent vocal improv & movement)
http://www.jillburton.net/

Royallen
(merry-go-round of tapes & records)
https://royallen.bandcamp.com

Ironing
(rollercoaster of tapes & records)
http://youtube.com/ironingfl

Frog
(brackish visionary)
http://vimeo.com/user3917908
http://youtube.com/user/frogforfun
http://frogforfun.bandcamp.com/

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Thursday, June 21, 2018
The Limin Room
2029 NW 6th St.
Gainesville, FL

9:30pm

$5 or more please

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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/

Action Research 178

Action Research #178:

Baker-Barganier Duo

(St. Petersburg, FL)

https://baker-barganier.com

https://www.facebook.com/bakerbarganierduo/

"The Baker-Barganier Duo formed in September 2016 when multi-instrumentalist Erich Barganier joined forces with New Renaissance artist Elizabeth A. Baker to create a duo that combines spectral sonic landscapes, motion and visual art. Fusing toy piano, mandolin, experimental electronics, kinetic motion and more together, the ensemble explores original sonic landscapes and blurs the boundaries of experimental, classical and progressive music to create a unique experience."

Preston Beebe

(Montreal, Canada)

http://prestonbeebe.com/

"A composer and percussionist who uses technology at the forefront of his work. His artistic approach involves audio feature extraction, organic processes, microscopic and invisible elements and how they interact in space and time."

Jill Burton

http://www.jillburton.net/

"Extended vocalist/ composer/ holistic/ sound/ movement/ energy/ performance artist JILL BURTON was a professional ballerina, modern dancer, dance teacher/accompanist, and free improvisor in Gainesville FL during the 1970s. In 1978, she traveled to San Francisco where she met for the first time her life-long friends and collaborators Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, and connected for the first time to a larger, world-wide community of free improvisors. She lived in Manhattan's East Village from 1981-1991 where she was very active as part of the downtown experimental music/dance/performance art scene; including co-founding, w/Rain Worthington, the band HIZOHI (which also included Jane Scarpantoni, Yuval Gabay, and Kumiko Kimoto). She has been privileged to work with and learn from artists from all over the world, including the Peking Opera, the Noh Theater, and Alaska Native Tlingit dancers and storytellers. She has studied and practiced hands-on healing and energy work for over twenty years, always incorporating this into her performance work. In other words, she is a "world-class, visionary badass". Current projects include Jill's INFERNO, an octet a capella operetta inspired by Dante."

A.J. Herring

(Avant trombone)

Frog & Jenn Downey

(rare sounds)

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The Limin Room

2029 NW 6th St.

Gainesville, FL

$5 please

8:30pm

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/

Action Research 159

Action Research #159

Golden Retriever

(Olso, Norway)

https://goldenret.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/goldenretrieverband/

"Golden Retriever is a pure noise-improv outfit from Oslo, Norway who plays hard-hitting noise with drums, guitar and electronics. GR has toured extensively in Europe and did a short stint in the US last year. The music is usually balls-to-the-walls harsh noise but with strong elements of Black Metal, punk and Japanoise. Both musicians are frequent improvisers on the Norwegian scene and have a long history of putting on fiery live shows."

Propan

(Oslo, Norway)

https://soundcloud.com/propan-2

"Propan is a vocal duo with two of Oslo's young female improvisers. Utilising, feedback, loops and an extended reportoire of vocal techniques they make otherworldly, rapturous music. Known for their mesmerizing sound and freakish vocal sounds they've been refining a distinct approach to improvised music."

Elka Bong

(NY/MA)

(Al Margolis aka If, Bwana + Walter Wright)

http://www.ifbwana.com/

https://ifbwana.bandcamp.com/

http://signalculture.org/walter-wright.html#.V2g6WCFnGT8

Al Margolis aka If, Bwana:

"If, Bwana was born on New Year's Eve 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. A recent review of Margolis's work says: "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes).

"Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition."

Walter Wright:

"Walter Wright is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes computer programming, electro-acoustic music, and video performance. His focus is on "improvisation as a way of being present in the world."

"Walter was one of the first video animators. At Computer Image Corp he animated letters, words, and titles for Children’s Television Workshop. He was a video animator for Ed Emshwiller’s Thermogenesis and Scapemates, aired by WNET’s Artists Television Workshop. Scapemates was the first computer graphics video nominated for an Emmy Award (1971). He showed his work at the first computer art conference at the Kitchen (NYC, 1973). In 1973-76, as artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, he pioneered video performance touring public access centers, colleges, and galleries with the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer.

"Walter has developed software and hardware for artists including the Video Shredder, a desktop video processor for the TARGA2K. Currently he works with Max/MSP, softVNS, and Processing. His programs and sketches are available on his blog.

"Walter performs with several groups including Apocalypso, Ensemble indent, and Los Condenados. He uses a Bugbrand Board Weevil, a Flower Electronics Little Blue Boy, intact mics by Crank Sturgeon and sometime plays drums. He recently toured with an amplified drum kit and is experimenting Martin Freeman's Horndog and Peter Blasser's Shnth"

Jill Burton

(extended vocals/sound/movement/performance)

http://www.jillburton.net/

"Extended vocalist/composer/holistic/sound/movement/energy/performance artist JILL BURTON was a professional ballerina, modern dancer, dance teacher/accompanist, and free improvisor in Gainesville FL during the 1970s. In 1978, she traveled to San Francisco where she met for the first time her life-long friends and collaborators Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, and connected for the first time to a larger, world-wide community of free improvisors. She lived in Manhattan's East Village from 1981-1991 where she was very active as part of the downtown experimental music/dance/performance art scene; including co-founding, w/Rain Worthington, the band HIZOHI (which also included Jane Scarpantoni, Yuval Gabay, and Kumiko Kimoto). She has been privileged to work with and learn from artists from all over the world, including the Peking Opera, the Noh Theater, and Alaska Native Tlingit dancers and storytellers. She has studied and practiced hands-on healing and energy work for over twenty years, always incorporating this into her performance work. In other words, she is a "world-class, visionary badass". Current projects include Jill's INFERNO, an octet a capella operetta inspired by Dante."

Sunmoonstar

(ambient electronic sparkle that recently moved to Gainesville from Australia!)

https://sunmoonstar.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/sunmoonstar

https://www.facebook.com/IIIsunmoonstarIII/

Frog

(I never know what to expect and am consistently floored)

http://vimeo.com/user3917908

http://youtube.com/user/frogforfun

http://frogforfun.bandcamp.com/

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Friday, September 23, 2016

Superfun

(next to Curia On The Drag/Gallery Protocol)

2117 NW 6th St

Gainesville, FL

$5

Action Research 73

David Dove & ms. YET
(experimental trombone + electronics & bellydance duo)
(Houston, TX)

Jill Burton & Jim Ivy
(breath control; vocal & sax improvisations)
(Gainesville & Orlando)

Roamer X
(Psyche/drone minstrelry; soaked songs)

John David Eriksen
(temporal origami; cello & field recordings)

Ironing
(analog media tomfoolery)

A.J. Herring
(always trombone)

Frog
(cracker jack prize)

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Friday, August 26, 2011
8:30pm
The Laboratory
818 W. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL
$5
All Ages

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