07/10/10: Laboratory Music #1 @The Laboratory

[hal mcgee]

you are invited to perform at

LABORATORY MUSIC #1
improvisation festival

open call for performers
anyone can participate

solo minimalist free improvisation
noise experimental electronic electroacoustic music


photo of Lenny Pearlman by Anastasia Creasy

Saturday, July 10, 2010
7:00 PM - 1:00 AM
The Laboratory
818 West University Avenue
Gainesville, Florida

free admission - donations will be requested for out-of-town performers

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=312307157034

a concert of
solo performances
of minimalist
free improvisation (whatever that means to each performer)

in a fun, intimate, relaxed, comfortable and friendly setting
with plenty of good food and drink

all styles of free improvisation are welcome

Contact Hal McGee if you want to perform
haltapes@gmail.com

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STIPULATIONS:

9 minute limit on performances

minimal gear setups
- performers must be able to set up and break down within 5 minutes

all performers will play through a small mini-mixer and two small guitar amplifiers
- I will set the volume level

or you can play acoustically (without amplification) if you choose

house lights will be up full
- no mood lighting or darkness

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non-musician improvisers are welcome to perform

- conceptual and performance artists
- video artists, painters, and collage artists
- jugglers, contortionists, puppeteers, ventriloquists, mimes, spoken word artists, etc.

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first-time improvisers are welcome

- you are encouraged to perform even if you have never performed before
- be brave! try it!

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AN ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM

If there is sufficient time
the last part of the show will consist of
performances of ad hoc improvisational duos
the duo members will be chosen by drawing cards
- or another random chance method

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Laboratory Music is directly inspired by and is an extension of
Hal McGee's improvisational series
Apartment Music
- videos and audio files from those shows can be found here:
http://www.halmcgee.com/apartmentmusic.html

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Keywords:

instantaneous composition minimalism non-idiomatic free improvisation from-scratch-with-no-preconceived-ideas fluxus spontaneous music improvisation-for-everyone democratic-anarchy bohemian inclusivity surrealist automatism no-input-mixer feedback loop noise dada electroacoustic laptop prepared guitar circuit-bent minimal-synth electronics turntablism lo-fi lo-tech collage tape-cut-ups drone experimental electronic music lower case improvisation CaMel cAsE improvisation junk percussion tape loops contact microphone cassette microcassette Spontaneous Music Ensemble AMM People Band Derek Bailey Evan Parker Paul Rutherford Peter Brotzmann Han Bennink Keith Rowe Toshimaru Nakamura Thomas Lehn Konk Pack William S. Burroughs

[ironing]

is Lenny going to be there??

[hal mcgee]

is Lenny going to be there??

I telephoned Lenny on Sunday and invited him to attend. He told me that he will try to, more or less.

[hal mcgee]

List of performers who have expressed an interest, including several people who have never played in Gainesville before. Anyone else? Frog? Adam?

01) -- Hal McGee

02) -- Loren Knack (Dubbio Nil)

03) -- John David Eriksen

04) -- I CONTACT
Iamel
http://www.myspace.com/516852989

05) -- Krysten Davis (Tallahassee)

06) -- Black Beast Of Arrrghhh (St. Pete)

07) -- minim

08) -- Chris Nadeau (St. Pete)

09) -- Dan Reaves (Orlando)

10) -- Jamison Williams (Jacksonville)

11) -- Janet Night

12) -- Bo Bratcher

13) -- Travis Johnson (St. Augustine)

14) -- Ironing

15) -- Nick Boutwell (North Fort Myers)

16) -- Kris Gruda (Orlando)

17) -- Richard Orlando (Bayside, New York)

18) -- the saint petersburg institute of noise

19) -- Oblongata (Mike Berchou of St. Pete))

20) -- No Limit Cycle

21) -- Wampole (Tampa?)
David Wampole

22) -- Andy Hess (Sarasota?)

[hal mcgee]

Wow, this show is getting big!

Just added on in the last 24 hours:

23) -- Sterling Shuck (Ryan Allen of Gainesville)

24) -- Dan McCoy (Gainesville)

25) -- Frog

26) -- Pony Payroll (Atlanta)

[hal mcgee]

27) -- David Kirby (Marietta, Georgia)

28) -- Jim Ivy (Apopka, Florida)

29) -- Kevin Lee Newberry (Jacksonville)

30) -- Andy Krone (The Moon)

[ess]

29) -- Jim Ivy (Apopka, Florida)

Is Jim Ivy from Dr. Moonstien?

[hal mcgee]

http://www.myspace.com/soundofchang and http://www.myspace.com/telavivbats

and I'm not quite sure about Dr. Moonstien...
http://www.myspace.com/drmoonstien
but Moonstien is in the Top Friends list for Tel Aviv bats, so maybe...

I may have been stretching my assumption there concerning Dr. Moonstien...

From the Chang profile:

Organized and arranged by Jim, "Zip Zip Tang" was first performed on June 27, 2009 at Wills Pub in conjunction with the second Florida Quarterly Noise Report. Apparently, the performance was not documented.

[hal mcgee]

recently added:

33) -- Ted Bowman

34) -- Soteric (St. Pete)

35) -- Fill Spectrum (Jacksonville)

36) -- Peter Senesac

37) -- Jiblit Dupree (Polk City)

[ironing]

David Kirby! AWESOME!

his netlabel: http://homophoni.com/
interview: http://www.earlabs.org/release/label.asp?labelID=1

I haven't seen him since he played as part of Dead Vagina when I was in Atlanta in 2005!

[hal mcgee]

38) -- visual collage artist Brad Kokay of Sarasota will improvise a collage
39) -- James Bess, Tampa

I will only accept 40 improvisers. Then, I will assume that only three-fourths of those people will actually show up and perform. In any case, be prepared for a LONG show... starting as early as 3:00 PM... but more likely 4:00 or maybe 5:00. It'll be a great show.

[ess]

James Bess, Tampa

That's James of Insect Joy, right? Ask him who "Insect Soy" is.