Meg Clixby and C. Spencer Yeh will be co-reading a late Saturday night slot at Triple Canopy‘s upcoming event this weekend:

“In celebration of the opening of 155 Freeman, Triple Canopy is pleased to present a marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s enormously long and allegedly unreadable novel The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. This weekend, starting on Friday at 7 p.m., an invited list of New York–based artists, writers, publishers, scholars, and other collaborators will gather in Greenpoint to perform the entirety of Stein’s text in a continuous read-in, expected to last 48 hours, more or less.”

more info:
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/updates/163

Artist Reception: Friday, January 13, 6-8 PM 

Electric Works is pleased to welcome back visual and sound artist Jim Haynes to the Project Space. Haynes creates almost-abstract images via a unique photographic and rust process. The resulting images feel like half-remembered dreams of the American landscape. Haynes is also branching out in new directions with this show: color photography is making its first appearance in his work at the gallery. This body of work not only contrasts nicely with the almost-black and white nature of his earlier work, but also reveals Haynes as a sensitive and subtle creator of photographic images, no matter the medium.

Jim Haynes lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Exploratorium (San Francisco), Westspace (Melbourne, Australia), Diapason (New York), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Works (San Jose), Eyedrum (Atlanta), The Fugitive Art Center (Nashville), and Varnish (San Francisco). He writes about sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, The Sound Projector, and Chunklet.

For Disaster and its Opposite, Jim Haynes pushes the photographic content toward two opposing extremes, with corroded photographs on one trajectory and richly hued color photography on the other. Haynes has worked with chemically distressed photography for close to twenty years, investigating the boundaries between the man-made and the natural. In this body of work, the content of the corroded photographs is specifically of sites of disaster and destruction, including several arson and demolition sites. It should be noted that the images from aftermath of the Merapi Volcano explosion from 2010 were taken by Matt Shoemaker and used with permission. The color photographs represent an abstracted opposite of the crumbled architecture of the corroded black & white images. The vibrant blues, reds, and greens of these color field images were augmented through optical printing errors and the unpredictability of a plastic lens camera. All of the visual elements are in turn augmented by a subtle sound design from modified shortwave radio reception and crackled noise through aestheticized but decidedly lo-fidelity speaker constructions.

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Here’s the info you need:

NewIdeas MusicSeries 13 at PIANOS
158 Ludlow Street (btw Stanton/Rivington)
$ FREE! $

Richard Garet + Brendan Murray (9:15 pm)

Brendan Murray (8:45 pm)

Richard Garet (8:15 pm)

Michael Vincent Waller (7:30 pm)

There is a Facebook page for this event right here.

Please join us for the first Non-Event listening session and beer tasting with Howard Stelzer of INTRANSITIVE RECORDINGS and beer from HIGH & MIGHTY!

Hear the forthcoming CD 1975 by celebrated composer and improviser C. SPENCER YEH, while sampling beer by Holyoke’s High & Mighty Beer Company. This special event will take place at the lovely Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, with all proceeds going to support Non-Event’s Fall season!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Aviary Gallery
49 South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
8 p.m. / $10 (admission + one beer + snacks; we’ll request a small donation for subsequent beer)

Howard Stelzer will also have items for sale from the Intransitive catalogue.

About C. Spencer Yeh’s 1975

1975 is the debut solo album of prickly electro-acoustic miniatures by C. Spencer Yeh. Spacious tone clusters welcome us into Yeh’s private universe, alternating with bouts of clipped vocal fragments. As we move further in, the music grows more intimate and diffuse. Drones give way to delicate rustling and hovering shards of laser-focused feedback. Yeh explains the strategy: “One thing is I really wanted to focus on a certain feeling of stasis. So much of what else I do just kinda pushes and pushes forward. So in a way, 1975 is more vertical than horizontal, even though one can’t escape the horizontal completely. I also wanted to be very transparent, elemental and literal in this album.” The literal is there in the deceptively matter-of-fact titles — “Drone,” “Voice,” “Shrinkwrap from Solo Saxophone CD,” “Two Guitars (2005)” — but knowing which sound source is buried beneath these tones does little to remove the sense of mystery. 1975 is a work of confident, sensual minimalism with unsettling atmosphere.

About High & Mighty

High & Mighty Beer Company began in 2006 as an offshoot of Shelton Brothers beer importing company. Will Shelton took his idea for a novel German-style ale to Paper City Brewery in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Beer of the Gods was born, to extraordinary commercial success, critical acclaim, and unabashed adoration from beer geeks the world over.

Eventually, Will discovered that he enjoyed selling the beer he made even more than he did the splendid beers that Shelton Brothers imports, and in June 2008, he abandoned his brother to focus on making American beer that added an American attitude to the best of European beer styles. The beer is still lovingly made at Paper City, but look for High & Mighty to open a brewery of its own in 2011.

About Aviary Gallery

Aviary is a gallery and artist boutique located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. It was founded in the spring of 2011 by Lindsay Metivier with the purpose of creating a space for established and emerging artists to share their work with the greater Boston community. Aviary is not intended to be a traditional exhibition space. Aside from serving as a gallery, Aviary offers a curated selection of local art, photography, jewelry, books and crafts. Beyond gallery hours, the space will host workshops, lectures, concerts, film screenings and performances.

Thank you to Intransitive Recordings, High & Mighty Beer Company, and Aviary Gallery for making this event possible!

Information can be found right here.
Or if you prefer to register your attendance at The Face Book, you may do so here.
A tasteful flyer (designed by Egan Budd) is embedded below for your enjoyment.

Below is Mike’s video for the first track on the album. Please enjoy it.

First Disappearance (excerpt) from Michael T. Bullock on Vimeo.

I think the limit to two sets per night is a nice way to present a festival; at festivals I’ve attended in the past, my ears and brain have grown weary after absorbing multiple consecutive performances that each demand serious concentration. By the time the later acts have gone on, I’ve been mentally and physically exhausted from sitting in the same room for so long, and can hardly recall what came earlier. Amplify 11: Stones will take place over a longer amount of time, but with just an 8pm and a 10pm show. That’s a good size chunk of sound to take in, I think. The two-act framework also makes a strong curatorial statement, since each act appears to be deliberately chosen as a compliment to the set it shares an evening with.

The line-up features some of the Erstwhile usual suspects, a few new faces, and our good friend Jason Lescalleet performing a solo set. On Sunday Sept 4, Jason plays at 8pm, followed by a duo of Keith Rowe and Christian Wolff.  Other Intransitive pals scheduled to appear include David Kirby (of the Homophoni net-label… go download his free releases now), Graham Lambkin (who painted the lovely cover image for my LP with David Payne), Ben Owen (head honcho of the magnificent Winds Measure Recordings label), Taku Unami, Richard Kamerman, and the always-brilliant Olivia Block.

Dig the complete schedule here.

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Und: Mama Baer bewirbt sich natürlich mit einem MUSIK(?)-Video, haha!

Vielen Dank, thanks a lot,
- Mama Baer und Kommissar Hjuler
www.asylum-lunaticum.de

So what are ya waiting for? Vote early! Vote often! Vote Mama Baer!

Thursday, June 9:
The Scrapyard Forecast presents
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Jim Haynes
Brendan Murray
The Pollen Sisters
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Blim : 115 E Pender : Vancouver, British Columbia
http://blim.ca/
http://scrapyardforecast.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130830280328319

Friday, June 10
Nonsequitur presents
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Steven M. Miller
Brendan Murray
Jim Haynes
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Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Avenue N : 4th Floor : Seattle, Washington
http://nseq.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170717759652399

Saturday, June 11
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Brendan Murray
Jim Haynes
The Slaves
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The Albino Beach House
3634 N. Albina Avenue : Portland, Oregon
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187509837965788

Sunday, June 12
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Brendan Murray
Jim Haynes
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Second Sunday Cinemas : Arcata, California
Where exactly? That’s a good question! Check the Helen Scarsdale Agency website for up-to-date info.

Thursday, June 16
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Brendan Murray
Jim Haynes
Ricardo Da Silva
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The Bus : The Albany Bulb : Albany California
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112231578864521

Thank you all so much for your interest in our little label. We hope you’ve enjoyed the CDs we’ve published in 2010! If you haven’t, thanks for not telling us! Here’s what you can look forward to in 2011:

int037 C. Spencer Yeh “1975″ CD
int038 Raymond Dijkstra “Cataloque du Bruits” CD
int039 Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson “A Long Wait Produced Something Further” CD
floor7 Maile Colbert “For” CDR
floor8 RLW “eaRLy W 5: Grauzeit” CDR

… as well as new music by Tom Recchion, Lionel Marchetti, Kuwayama Kiyoharu & Masayoshi Urabe, and more. Thanks for listening!

your pals,
- Howard & Ashley Stelzer / Intransitive Recordings & Magazine