EXOTIC BOULDERS + DEVIN SARNO

1st set

Devin Sarno solo bass guitar

2nd set

Johannes Bergmark amplified found objects
Damian Bisciglia amplified found and modified objects, electronics
Joseph Hammer real-time tape loops, electronics
Mitchell Brown analog electronics

Exotic Boulders

Johannes Bergmark is a writer, electro-acoustic music and text-sound composer, sound poet, piano technicianand
surrealist. He plays improvised and live electronic music for invented instruments of his own design, selected objects, the musical saw, toys, voice and electronics. He has toured internationally and collaborated with other artists worldwide,
made sound sculptures, interactive sound installations and taught and lectured. In some settings he has also acted, danced, used objects or done jester tricks. Bergmark is residing in Los Angeles temporarily but otherwise lives in Szczecin, Poland and Stockholm, Sweden, and was active in the organization for radical and experimental art Fylkingen (Stockholm), at the electronic music studio EMS and in the Surrealist Group in Stockholm. Currently his main focus is the development of different multi-disciplinary works with Anna Bergmark.

http://www.bergmark.org

Damian Bisciglia is a humble hermit who has scraped, bowed and plucked his way into the hearts of the many piles of junk he's brought to life since the early 80's in the aural visual art group Points of Friction and in his solo work as Agog, among other collaborative projects. He also employs tape loops, electronics and other various treated acoustic instruments and found objects (like the shrink-wrapped laundry hamper found on his Agog LP on Anomalous Records) to unite the communication of mites and chiggers with man. This will be the 3rd gig he has played in the last 20 years.

Joseph Hammer, a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created experimental works since 1980. His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer, and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. As a member of the trio Solid Eye, Hammer has performed widely (including a one month tour of Japan) and is an influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground sound community. The analog tape loop is his magic carpet, marrying sound fragments in ferric oxide.

Mitchell Brown often takes cues of focused listening from the developmentally disabled children he has assisted daily since '95 at a special education school in Glendale. In some of the children, the reduced capability to interact with others allows them to flourish internally through self-stimulation of the senses in a solipsistic manner. Brown doubles as Professor Cantaloupe while DJ-ing on KXLU on Wednesday nights for a children's show, The Kids Are Alright, and Glossolalia, a sound-art show. He runs the Melon Expander record label, supporting humble hermits working in the field of electronic, electro-acoustic and various head musics, new and archival.  

www.melonexpander.com

Devin Sarno began CRIB in early 1990 as a solo bass sound project focusing on improvised subsonics. Over the better part of a decade, this music has evolved from high volume feedback experimentation to a sonic examination of the meditative properties of low-end drone music. Influenced in part by artists such as: Phill Niblock, Deep Listening Band & Arvo Part as well as everyday ambience & silence, the music of Devin Sarno has been described as "A rich and genuinely beautiful music. If, on one hand, this sound is one of foreboding, its resonance, on the other, is deeply seductive." ~ Motion UK

Admission: $5

reservation line : 213- 613-1537