workshop #3
Saturday, February 1st
doors at 7:00p
show 7:30p
$10-15 sliding scale
workshop #3 features new and in-process works by Seth Nehil, cat ross with visuals by Megan Mckissack, and Anthony J. Stillabower.
workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. workshop supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even “songs”. it is an informal showing, a moment to work through new ideas, or old ideas in a new way.
curated by stephanie lavon trotter and presented by PWNW, the space supports acoustic and electronic works, as well as work that includes projection, lighting and movement.
stephanielavontrotter.com/
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Seth Nehil is a composer and sound designer. He has collaborated with choreographers, theater companies, installation artists and film directors. He produces documentary videography as Paradise Meow.
sethnehil.net / paradisemeow.com
I’ll be performing live modular electronics, with a focus on sampled sounds modulated and accompanied by the voice. I’ve been influenced by the hypnotic fringes of minimal and dub techno, working with repetition through unpredictable systems and improvisational interaction.
cat ross (alias, soth seier) is a researcher, creative technologist, and performing artist whose practice is centered in social and environmental justice as they relate to burgeoning technologies. sothseier.com
Megan Mckissack is a creative technologist working and prototyping with live visuals, projection, creative coding, and other emerging technologies.
____ is a sound project composed by cat ross as output from their collaboration(s) with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD). ____ employs sonification as a means to communicate multi-dimensional, complex data sets sourced along the Pacific Coast at the intersection of natural resource depletion, dwindling fish populations, warming oceans, seafood toxicity, social and environmental injustice, and labor dynamics within globalized late-stage capitalism. This work is dedicated to frontline communities and passionate defenders of what is most precious, water. More about this project
Anthony J. Stillabower
Some of my music has been described as “Nancarrow meets Zappa”, but that’s probably not true anymore. A more recent anecdote described what I do as “John Zorn meets The Jetsons” — I was not upset by this development. Since then, it has been suggested that I sound like a “sort of Autechre meets Arvo Pärt.” Obviously, I have no idea what I am doing.
Currently, I am being paid as a researcher. No, that’s not a joke.
http://www.ajstillabower.com
improvising with voice, bespoke feedback instruments and machine learning algorithms
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