Intransitive at First Night Boston 2012!
Intransitive Recordings is proud to present an evening of exciting electronic music as part of First Night, the official New Year’s Eve celebration of the city of Boston! First Night is a huge gathering of music, performance, arts, fireworks, and more.
Buttons are $18 (children under 4 admitted free) and are be available at dozens of locations, including Shaw’s Supermarkets, Star Market, Tedeschi’s, and Au Bon Pain. Buttons are available now at a special web price of $15 only at www.firstnight.org only through Dec. 22. For more information, call 617-542-1399 or visit the web site.
Here’s the line-up:
TIM FEENEY & VIC RAWLINGS
ERNST KAREL
JASON LESCALLEET
… curated by Intransitive figurehead HOWARD STELZER.
See you there!
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Tim Feeney & Vic Rawlings have performed as a duo since 2005. Employing highly modified cello, percussion, amplified everyday objects, naked speakers, and raw electronics, their music is unpredictable and unstable. Austere textures, gritty drones, and malevolent silences unfold slowly over a long period of time. The duo’s first CD, In Six Parts, was published on the Sedimental label in Fall 2007. Their latest release, Ithaca Recordings, is available as a free download fromhttp://thewatchfulear.com/
Feeney is a professor of music at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Rawlings teaches guitar, banjo, ukulele, composition, and improvisation.
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Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s audio work also includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition; fieldwork-based academic research in the anthropology of sound; recording, mixing, and sound design for public radio and for nonfiction film and video; solo and collaborative sound installations; etc. His most recent recording is the highly acclaimed Swiss Mountain Transport Systems, a recording of the trams that carry people up mountains in Switzerland, published by Gruenrekorder (Germany). Swiss Mountain… was praised by NPR’s “All Songs Considered” as one of the best records of 2011!
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Jason Lescalleet‘s sound world occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition, and minimal electronics. Using decidedly primitive tactics and equipment (e.g. antiquated reel-to-reel recorders, damaged tape, etc.), his work focuses on extreme frequencies and microscopic audio detail.
Jason has been a member of Due Process, performed and recorded with Keith Rowe, Joe Colley, Jason Kahn, John Hudak, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley (both separately and as Nmperign), and most recently Graham Lambkin in their Breadwinner project which has yielded unprecedented and glorious results in the electroacoustic music of today. Lescalleet lives and works in the state of Maine.
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Intransitive Recordings is a publisher of experimental electronic music, based in Boston since 1998.
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