Pump October 2017 - Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Toy Piano Cats with Steven Speciale at the Art Park

nick — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:29:40 +0000

Date:

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Time:

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

RSVP on Facebook (optional and not requred for admittance)

Steven Speciale is a pianist, composer, and conductor. He teaches music at Loyola High School of Los Angeles where he is also the Choir Director and Music Director of the Hannon Theatre Company. The Toy Piano Cats are a new music and art ensemble at Loyola.

The Toy Piano Cats will host a concert centered around our interpretation of John Cage's "Bird Cage" (1972). According to Cage, "Bird Cage" is “Twelve tapes to be distributed by a single performer in a space in which people are free to move and birds to fly.” The duration, arrangement, and modulation of the tapes comprising this work were ascertained by means of I-Ching chance operations.

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Big Epoch

nick — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:53:52 +0000

Big Epoch uses a blend of bent gear and hardware to craft his beat-centric tones. An experienced warrior of the LA noise scene you can expect his set to deliver big surprises!

Big Epoch is part of phog masheeen's Club Bit Map taking place the the East Village Art Park, a night of experimental music and beats.

type of work:

Sound Art

Sound Art Performance

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Performance date and time:

Sunday, October 15th, 2017, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Potar

nick — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:51:09 +0000

Potar is a local wonder of Circuit Bending. For those unfamiliar with bent circuits, circuit bending is the artful rewiring of consumer electronics so that it malfunctions in interesting ways and produces interesting sounds as a result. Potar have been at the vangard of this movement and from time to time taught classes on circuit bending.

Potar is part of phog masheeen's Club Bit Map taking place the the East Village Art Park.

type of work:

Sound Art Performance

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Performance date and time:

Sunday, October 15th, 2017, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Club Bit Map at the Art Park

nick — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:49:05 +0000

Date:

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Time:

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

RSVP: on Facebook (optional and not required for admittance)

Club Bitmap heralds phog masheeen's return to free electric improvisation with beats. Working with legendary sonic swash bucklers Potar, Big Epoc and Skunk Puppet.

Skunk Puppet rides the sonic waves of the laptop variety. Using a carefully chosen batch of apps Skunk Puppet creates an angry zoo of unimaginable beasts who's voices fly from the speakers.

Big Epoch uses a blend of bent gear and hardware to craft his beat-centric tones. An experienced warrior of the LA noise scene you can expect his set to deliver big surprises!

For Club Bitmap, phog masheeen will be fueling the Groove-Box to push envelope for the performers. Sliced beats served filtered and funky.

Wikigong and The Dirty Chaps at the Art Park

nick — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:47:15 +0000

Date:

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Time:

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

RSVP: on Facebook (optional and not required for admittance)

Learn more:
Wikigong
The Dirty Chaps

wikiGong

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 02:13:45 +0000

wikiGong.com is an artists' collective dedicated to cataloging the sounds of large public structures for creative purposes, such as assembling virtual instruments. Its guiding metaphor is the Indonesian gamelan ensemble. Like its sonic raw material, wikiGong's work bends toward the built environment and our reactions to it: toward place, community, and history. Past projects combined sonic textures derived from infrastructure with narrative, focusing on the Golden Gate Bridge, the Los Angeles River, the Bradbury Building, the Gerald Desmond Bridge, and technological development.

wikiGong.com's presentation for PUMP, "Elegiac: Without Adult Supervision," attempts a broader, deeper elegiac interpretation of previously performed pieces. Jacob Dickinson ("Elegiac" of wikiGong's debut triumvirate) will front these versions, employing the growing archive of audio and video resources created by the wikiGong collective's ongoing process, and supported by a purpose-built network of on- and offstage collaborators.

“Silentium Universi” is the name of our primary piece: “Silence of the Universe,” starkly opposed to "the music of the spheres." It's another name for the Fermi paradox, its inspiration and subject.

The Fermi paradox is this: Any reasonable guess tells us that our vast universe teems with life, and that other civilizations will have developed many times. And yet…the silence is deafening.

If the universe is alive with intelligent species, where are they? Why haven’t we heard from them?

The Fermi paradox takes its name from nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi. As he put it, “Where is everybody?” Many answers have been offered.

Channeling a gentle children's TV host, Elegiac/Jacob will explore an extended version of the previous "Silentium Universi" narrative, introduced at soundpedro. We anticipate that this billion-year spree of fate, indifferent gods, failure, murder, suicide, doom, deception, broken dreams, futility, entropy, rapacious viruses (both wet- and software), obsessive-compulsive artificial intelligence, gamma ray bursts, bad luck, and simple stupidity, sheathed in irony no more prophylactically effective than a thin, scuffed layer of re-used, hand-me-down latex, must break the placid mask of our avuncular narrator. However, we can only speculate regarding his failure mode.
Things could get ugly.

"Buzz" revives wikiGong's favorite vehicle for stage banter. "Buzz" shows intelligence in the service of sycophancy, obfuscation, and outright deception, illustrating another mechanism through which a civilization might choke to death on its own fumes. If we insist on confusing this blather with communication, then we richly deserve the extinction we ardently pursue.

Dave Ayer ("Disaffected," and wikiGong originator) will be present in his audiovisuals as the ghost in the machine, the deus ex machina, the man behind the curtain.
New arrival Israel Romero will add his own layer of sonic styling.

type of work:

Sound Art Performance

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 14th, 2017, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Toy Piano Cats with Steven Speciale

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:27:54 +0000

The Toy Piano Cats will host a concert centered around their interpretation of John Cage's "Bird Cage" (1972). According to Cage, "Bird Cage" is “Twelve tapes to be distributed by a single performer in a space in which people are free to move and birds to fly.” The duration, arrangement, and modulation of the tapes comprising this work were ascertained by means of I-Ching chance operations.

Foam core silhouettes of bird cages will double as bluetooth speakers. Hung in space, digital projections of animated birds cast bird cage shadows on the walls over the animations. Field recordings of birds and other sounds are processed and played according to chance procedures.

type of work:

Sound Art Performance

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The Dirty Chaps

nick — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:35:44 +0000

The Dirty Chaps are comprised of 2 musicians, one performing on keyboard-based synths, the other with a guitar-based synth, various additional devices. They also incorporating iPads as instruments, utilizing the latest sound-creation apps. We will giving visitors to the Pump a chance to try out the iPads. They have some wonderful exchanges with members of the public joining in with what they happen to be doing at the time, completely Spur of the Moment.

type of work:

Sound Art Performance

Location:

Art Park, 150 Elm Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 14th, 2017, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM