Saturday, March 16th, 2019, 8:00 pm
Gallows Hill Theatre, Salem, MA
CHARMAINE LEE (New York, NY)
Charmaine Lee is a New York based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification and microphones to augment and distort the human voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, and Joe Morris, and maintains ongoing collaborations with contemporaries Conrad Tao, Zach Rowden, Lester St. Louis, Leila Bordreuil, and Ben Bennett. She has performed at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, the Lincoln Center, Roulette, The Kitchen, and the Stone. Charmaine is a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American. As a composer, she has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and has a forthcoming commission with Spektral Quartet (2018). Her music has been released on Anticausal Systems.
SERRATED SLUMP (Akron, OH)
Serrated Slump is the Akron based duo consisting of interdisciplinary artists Maggie Duff and Pete Bach. Duff plays various hand tools (primarily the singing saw) which are run through a chain of various guitar FX pedals. She also experiments with vocalizations and field recordings. Bach processes both prepared and found samples with software and samplers. By combining these disparate materials, they achieve both full, shimmering ambient sonic environments as well as more harsh and foreboding sounds. Their music draws inspiration from sounds they hear while working outdoors in their home city, including machines, traffic, plants and animals, distant voices, etc.
They curate events at Hive Mind in Akron, OH and are part of the Akron-based tape label Soft Pedestal. When they aren't making art and music, you might find them in an urban garden or hanging out with cats.
MARK CETILIA (Providence, RI)
Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.” His work has been screened / installed at the ICA (London), Oboro (Montréal), and O’ (Milan); he has performed widely at venues including Café OTO (London), STEIM (Amsterdam), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Roulette (NYC). His sound works have been published by Interval, Radical Matters, Dragon’s Eye, and Estuary Ltd., which he runs with his partner Laura.
GOLDEN SHORES (Boston / Attleboro, MA)
Golden Shores is the duo of Dan Boucher (Young Sexy Assassins,
x-Neptune, x-Lil Sexer) & Donna Parker. She’s been playing noise since 2001 and almost has the hang of it by now! Two legends of the Boston scene ...
This is a MUST!
Here's some links with them playing in different projects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5BuTRdEKVE
