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Jan 14
Kevin and Maria del Carmen Montoya are presenting their Rhizome commission winning installation I Sky You January 14th at 7 pm at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City (on Bowery)
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Jan 6
This program has been in the works for some years! State of the art facilities housed in a 16th century monastery.
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Nov 1
FRESNEL released! Fresnel is a series of recordings with venerable Houston saxophonist and improviser Seth Paynter. Fresnel features Seth playing soprano saxophone, mizwiz, a north African double-reed double-flute, and bahu, a Chinese metal-reed bamboo flute. He is playing through Kevin's listening instrument brundleFLY that responds to elements of Seth's playing through audio analysis. A dense sound-world that is as frequently solitary as it is wild, Fresnel explores the solo improvisation in prosthesis. The computer wraps itself around Seth, extending and altering his sound to create a multiplexed monophony that sounds as ancient as it does futuristic.
Fresnel was recorded at the REMS Lab studios, Rice University, Houston Texas.
(Image courtesy of Maria del Carmen Montoya. It is a still of her piece, I Could Have Danced All Night)
Check it here:
FRESNEL on Iynges
FRESNEL on Free Music Archive
FRESNEL on Last FM
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October 20
A new issue of Point of Departure has been released with Kevin's take on the electroacoustic improvising duet of FURT , A.K.A. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer. In this column Kevin explores dealing with complexity and the impossibility of silence.
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October 4
This video of Kevin improvising on guitar with Lyn Goeringer and her hand-made theremin just finding its way to VIMEO. This is from a 2007 concert at the Space at Alice as a part of the 2007 Pixilerations festival in Providence, RI
Lyn Goeringer and Kevin Patton from Lyn Goeringer on Vimeo.
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September 4
Coming out 31 October on the Iynges label is Fresnel a series of recordings with venerable saxophonist and improviser Seth Paynter. Fresnel has Seth playing soprano saxophone, mizwiz, a north African double-reed double-flute, and bahu, a Chinese metal reed bamboo flute. He is playing through Kevin's new software instrument called brundleFLY that responds to elements of Seth's playing through audio analysis.
A little taste with Seth on mizwiz here . . . Tall Grass
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August 23
Here is a recent video excerpt of the Digital Poplar Consort, showcasing a more minimal side, live in concert from the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Montreal. This is three of the instruments with the Fossil being performed by Maria del Carmen Montoya, the Pogo by Kevin Patton and the MouthBox by Peter Bussigel.
Special thanks to the wonderful pianist Xenia Pestova who took the video and was kind enough to put it on youtube.
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August 5
Point of Departure 24 has launched with another version of Kevin's column Future Shock examining the work of Joel Ryan and the implications of the structural shift in music making procedures of his practice.
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June 8
Point of Departure 23 has launched with Kevin's new column Future Shock. This is a bimonthly column that explores the vicissitudes at the intersection of improvisation and electroacoustic music. The first column is about the 40 year anniversary of STEIM and the contribution Michel Waisvisz has made to our discipline.
Michel Waisvisz 1949-2008
Franca Lohmann©2009
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May 15
New Release on iynges recordings
Night Wanderings is a collection of three pieces for different interfaces. They were all done in the wee hours, two pieces in the family room of Ulrich Maiss in the middle of the night and the other at the summer home of Sébastien Chatron in Chennevière-Sur-Marne where the high speed train was a constant and beautiful presence.
Also, it's free. so go get it!
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May 12
New Video Of EnvyCODE live at STEIM with a duet for new instruments: Fossil v. Banshee!
FOSSIL v. BANSHEE | Envycode | Live At STEIM from eljunkielovegun on Vimeo