Defragmented: a concert of (for) emergent systems
Marko Timlin [Finland]
thenumber46 (Suzanne Thorpe + Philip White) [US]
Defragmented: a concert of emergent systems, features Finnish based composer/sound artist Marko Timlin alongside thenumber46, the collaborative effort of electro-acoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe and electronic musician Philip White. Both Timlin and the number46 employ improvisation and non-linear analog systems to create music in which a delicate balance exists between the human and machine. A music at once intuitive and mechanical. Explosive and subdued. Violent and meditative.
Defragmented: concert of emergent systems will consist of a set by thenumber46, a solo set by Marko Timlin, and a trio performance with all artists. Gil Arno will join in New York City.
Appearing at:
April 9, 9pm - L'envers - 185 Van Horne, Montreal, Canada
April 10, 8pm - Albany Sonic Arts Collective - 247 Lark St., Albany, NY
April 13, 8pm - White Box Gallery, 329 Broom St., New York, NY (with special guest Gil Arno)
April 16, 8pm - Pyramid Atlantic, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD
Marko Timlin is a Helsinki-based sound artist, composer, musician and inventor of virtual and analogue instruments. He has developed
an intuitive interaction with electronic media, creating his own unconventional sound adventures in an improvisational context
challenging to both the ear and the mind. Maintaining a delicate balance between order and chaos, his music happens in real-time,
often surprising the artist as well as audience. His performances are effectively a dialog between man and machine.
Timlin founded the Berlin-based group tritop with Antye and Jotka of Laub, with whom he released 2 CDs and a Vinyl-maxi on
INFRACOM records. His collaborations include Merja Nieminen, Kristina Frei (Zeit_Raum), Klaus Janek, Pink Twins and Petri
Kuljuntausta (Helsinki Invasion), NewImproMasters, Laub, Tarwater, Jazzanova, Rope, Foo Fanick and the 17 Hippies. He has toured
extensively throughout Europe with his "human sampler" instrument. more info
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thenumber46 is a flute and feedback duo comprised of Suzanne Thorpe on flute and electronics and Philip White on mixer-feedback. The duo explores feedback systems acoustically, electronically, visually and metaphorically in improvised exchanges. They create aural structures and poly-articulate constructs. They sound autonomous utterances and sonic dialog with each other and the spaces in which they perform. They have toured throughout the south and east coast, performing at galleries and venues including OK Mountain, Austion, TX, Redux Contemporary Art Studios, Charleston, SC, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, The Stone, NYC, and the Pyramid Atlantic, MD. Their recording, Bleach & Ammonia, will be released November, 2009 on Tape Drift Records.
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Suzanne Thorpe is a musician, composer, educator and arts-activist who strives for instances of intimacy and understanding through a network of sonic signals. Thorpe performs both acoustically and electronically, extending her instrument with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and real-time software components. Thorpe's recent solo compositions are multi-channel works that employ psycho-acoustic phenomena, tuned filtering systems and feedback. Her research is in telematics, or distance performances over the Internet, that engage transmitted biofeedback data. Her findings have been presented at ARTECH 2008 (Porto, Portugal), and she has been awarded the Frog Peak Collective Award, 2008 for her work. As an improviser, Thorpe has performed with Chris Brown, Chris Cogburn, Rob Cambre, David Dove, Annette Krebs, Maggie Nicols, Liz Tomme, Bhob Rainey, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Bullock, Gino Robair, Miya Masaoka, and Zeena Parkins among others. She was a 2008-featured performer at San Francisco's Activating the Medium festival, performing with Zbigniew Karkowski, Anti-Matter, and Ulrich Krieger, and at Issue Project Room's Floating Points festival, 2008 and 2009. Most recently she has appeared at Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, and can be heard in various locations in and around New York in the fall of 2009. As a founding member of Mercury Rev, Thorpe composed, performed, recorded, produced and toured with the band, from 1989 through 2001, earning numerous critical accolades and a gold record for 1998's Deserters' Songs. With Mercury Rev, Thorpe found herself sharing the stage with Bob Dylan, Hole, Spiritualized, Pavement, High Llamas, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Porno for Pyros, Hum, Cat Power, Ride, Sonic Boom, Sonic Youth, and more. Thorpe is currently one half of the flute and feedback duo thenumber46, with media artist Philip White. Their recording Bleach & Ammonia will be released on Tape Drift Records, 2009, and is also available for download. She can be heard as a member of The Wounded Knees, with Jimi Shields (Rollerskate Skinny, Lotus Crown), and D2 Affinity, with Chuck Johnson, as support for My Bloody Valentine, and in various configurations in-and-around New York City. more info
Philip White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of inter-media pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.
In 2008, Philip received his MFA from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Hilda Parades , Helmut Lachenmann, Roscoe Mitchell and James Fei. His works have been exhibited in galleries across the US and Germany. He currently performs with Suzanne Thorpe (thenumber46), Chuck Johnson (with chuck johnson with philip white) and Charity Chan (Cat on a Wire). Recent performances/exhibitions include Diapason (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Redux New Media Festival (Charleston, SC) and Neurotitan (Berlin). Thenumber46’s forthcoming debut Bleach and Ammonia is being released in cassette format on Tape Drift Records. Philip also writes about music, contributing to the Wire magazine, SEAMUS Journal and Notes. more info
Gill Arno was born in Italy and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores areas where sound and image overlap, and is often constructed with found objects and found sound. He is known for his project mpld in which he utilizes two old modified slide projectors to create performances where static images become pulsating and fade continuously into one another. The projector's mechanical sounds are tapped and manipulated to reveal their musical potential. Other activities include performances with the New York Phonographers and in various other collaborative and improvised settings. He publishes books, recordings and other multiples via his own imprint, Unframed Recordings, and runs Fotofono, a small studio in Brooklyn where sometimes public events are held. "I will bring to White Box Gallery a piece based on my latest video project. Made of sequences shot last December in the foggy/snowy Italian plains where I've spent my adolescence, the video has a live soundtrack drawn from more recent abstractions. My intent is to engage both psychological and technological devices used to construct an ever-dissolving, continuously redefined sense of self. The yet untitled piece will solidify as DVD, to be later published by Contour Editions." more info