Quodlibet
Recordings News & Releases
Quodlibet
Status
Report
- Spin-17 w
Donald Miller - soon to be released.
- Fan lists Spin-17
is #127 of the 500
Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums of All Time
- Ed Chang interviewed in Signal to Noise #44
- Dual reviewed in Decibel Magazine Jan 2007 (with Iron
Maiden on cover)
New Releases:

Ed Chang
"marble / latch"
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon
Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR106
From Carbon Records site:
"here's an amazing drone guitar release from Ed Chang, the man behind
NYC-based Quodlibet label. member of Spin-17, and all around
free-improv, experimental, out-there musician. this showcases his
softer, more subtle drone-infestations/incantations. [packaged in heavy
vinyl sleeve with b&w photo by Ed on the front, and veluum back
cover. cds are spray painted] "
A
careful work exploring the possibilities of
continuous electric guitar drones developed over extended periods of
time. Featuring smooth transitions between the different sound masses,
the static character is the result of a careful mastery; the balance
involved in handling feedback being akin to that of high-tension wires.
Quite subtle in its approach, the materials are displayed with a
certain Indian tanpura quality in the slow unfolding of overtones.
Other tracks present harsher surfaces, with noise elements that
emphasize rougher textures and larger doses of processing.
Get it from Carbon Records, very cool label.

Ben Miller /
degeneration
Ben Miller; prepared stereo guitar,
radio, electronics.
with guests:
Motoko Shimizu (voice on 2 tracks)
Ed Chang (homemade electronics and
reeds on 1 track and live guitar sampling on 1 track)
Ben
Miller’s new release features soundscapes built from a mis-tuned radio
resonating against guitar strings run through live electronics. Other
pieces feature “The Zoo”; his deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo converted
to stereo with multiple pickups manipulated by metal spring, slide, bow
and other special effects. SPIN-17’s Motoko Shimizu and Ed Chang
collaborate with voice, toys, assorted electronics and live sampling.
If you want to feel as though you’re
stuck in a dream – this is it!
“Sirens of Phobos is a
masterpiece.” Roger Miller
$8
from Living Music
MP3 Sample Sirens
of Phobos

Rust
Ionics
moving/pictures (LP)
Ed Chang - sax
Doug Theriault - guitar
Adam Kriney - drums
Limited to 311 copies in clear blue vinyl with clear plastic sticker
packaging
This skronk
throwdown occurred in Brooklyn April 2005, this was the first meeting
between the members of noise-attack duo Dual and the leader of the
Colour Sounds/Owl Sounds freak-psych army. So intense the metal
plates
were damaged during pressing. Last Exit meets up with the Ruins
to
gang up on Painkiller. Turn it up to 10 and throw away the knob..
A Quodlibet/Colour Sounds/Outer Limits
split release.
QLLP-01 / CSR018 / OL05
$12 at the Catalog
page.
I think I have 5 left so email me first
before ordering.
Motoko
Shimizu
Jennie & Me
Solo Turntable compositions for young and fun people - appropriate for
the beach, cocktail parties, crime scenes, giant squid sightings and
much more. The 5-foot woman strikes again with her sidekick
turntable Jennie - phono needles everywhere
beware!
1.
31.5Hz
2. Which hand is more important?
3. Martian VS Sputnik
4. High Fidelity Simplified mp3
sample
5.
Sgt. Kabukiwoman
6. This is the way we play records on Friday morning mp3 sample
7.
Non-breakable Micro-Groove
mp3 sample
QLCDR-03
Ultra-limited edition in clear poly-keeper.
$6 at the Catalog
page.
Quodlibet Recordings
Ed
Chang
"my
first saxophone"
Solo saxophone
improvisations. Chang's first and only full-length solo sax
testament on the very first sax he ever played.
Alto
Sax (1-4), Prepared Alto Sax (5-7).
Recorded June
28, 2006/Nov 7, 2005 @ The Foundry
QLCDR-02
Ultra-limited edition in clear blue poly-keeper.
$6 at the Catalog
page.
SAMPLE
mp3
Quodlibet Recordings
Han Degc
"metal"
Han Degc
"metal"
This is one of Han’s laptop experiments in chopping up and recombining
thrash/death metal samples into a superfast superchaotic
brain-melting stew. This uses uncleared, copyrighted samples (not
that you'd recognize them at this point) so you won’t be seeing this at
Tower Records anytime soon….This is only available as a freebie when
you order $15 worth of stuff from our website, so I don’t actually
“make money” from “stealing” other people’s “music”...“yo.”
banana bam bam /
gerbil mountain / war iron hand pus / blud nutz corporate body /
buzzsaw threnody / gall / biohazardous blitz buffet / metal fun gear /
liver buster / night of the yellow ochre worm
Quodlibet Recordings CDR Series 2006
QLCDR-04
These are also extremely limited to
45 units, and come in a round metal case with printed metallic disc art
and a piece of the computer the music was created on.
At
the Catalog
page.


Agents at
Midnight
(New Full-length CD!)
Ed Chang: saxophone.
Ed Howard: electronics,
harmonica.
The full-length debut of noise-jazz duo Agents At Midnight, and a real
pro-pressed CD in an edition of 500 copies, the first in 5 years!
Meticulously constructed from hours and hours of recording sessions,
this album is a distillation of all the many sounds and styles explored
by this duo. Rumbling bassy drones, unflinchingly ear-piercing
examinations of feedback tones, dizzyingly fast sample-based pieces,
musique concrete-inspired collage. And on all of it, sax and
electronics flow subtly into one another, bleeding over until the
authorship of sounds is often uncertain. Agents At Midnight inhabits a
weird hybrid territory somewhere between abstract modern improv, harsh
noise, and free jazz, sometimes blending these styles, sometimes
veering between them.
1.Terrible
Meditation II (9:39)
2.This Is Your Brain On (8:47) MP3
Excerpt 2.34MB
3.The Dread At
the Back of Your Throat (8:25) MP3
Excerpt 1.92MB
4.Ghost Packets
(7:35)
5.Arse Cracked (14:25)
6.Damaged Symphony For Karl Stockhausen (18:38)
Limited 500.
$10 at the Catalog
page.
Co-released with Fargone
Records.
RELEASED May 23, 2006.
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DUAL
PYROCLASTICS
Doug
Theriault - Guitar / Ed Chang - Laptop Electronics
Doug
Theriault and Ed Chang atom-smash supersonic guitar frequencies
with laptop-generated blender blast-beats to create 16 non-stop ear-pummeling
electro-noise action tracks. Improv,
destroyed. This is
Dual
at their most-focused, and most-insane...
1.
The Escaping
Horizon
2. Sun Eclipse
3. My ashes, your Eyes
4. Cataclysmic Propulsion
5. Shadow of Death
6. Expanded Oblivion
7. Moving Shapes from the Sand
8. Gradually Intersecting
9. The Wunderling Unmasked
10. Clouds of the Shaman
11. Symbiotic Parasitism
12. Fractal Displacement
13. Tremor, out of Space
14. Shards of Light
15. Shooting into the Prism
16. Pastiche |
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QLCDR-01
SAMPLE
mp3
$6
at the Catalog page.
Quodlibet Recordings
Dual just completed a short tour in the Pacific Northwest
supporting this record:
"Dude you owe me ear surgery"
(new fan?)
"Gnarly" (Jeffrey from
Climax Golden Twins)
"Extremely loud"
(Eric
from
Noggin (!))
"and the beheaded oxen is slowly
dragged from the stage" (David Chandler, Solenoid) |

Elephant Calls (Utech
Records 2006)
Ravi Padmanabha - tabla, percussion
Ed Chang - acoustic guitar
Limited edition of 200 in
cardboard packaging. Ed uses an acoustic guitar with a tuning
which
took days to develop. Ravi plays tablas and a percussion array
with
which you could probably make very many tasty meals. All
acoustic, in
large part minimal and meditative, this is from
yoga to yogurt to yog-sothoth.
Tracks: 1.Uhtan 2.Avatar
3.Elephant Calls 4.Ivory Asuras 5.Prana of Sati 6.Hanuman Calls
SAMPLE mp3
Available from Utech
Records and Quodlibet.
$11 at the Catalog
page.

Various Artists (2006)
Format: 12” Vinyl
Limited 300 copies first run.
This is a curatorial project
by Pendu Gallery and is available through Pendu Sound Recordings.
It is a tribute to the continuing positive influence of John Cage on
free /improv /creative /& noise music. Here are recordings
from New York and Chicago that show a diversity of experimental
techniques being used by individuals and collectives to get rid of the
glue in order to achieve an interesting and exciting music that is new
and relevant.
Getting rid of the glue is a phrase first used by Henry Cowell
before introducing the music of Christian Wolff, Earl Brown, Morton
Feldman, and John Cage at a New School concert in 1950’s. John Cage in
his influential lecture entitled “History of Experimental Music in the
United States” recounts the remarks of Henry Cowell.
| “…That here
were ... composers getting rid of glue. That is: Where people had felt
the necessity to stick sounds together to make a continuity, we ...
felt the opposite necessity to get rid of the glue so that sounds would
be themselves.” - John Cage |
This will be the first in a series of
"Getting Rid of the Glue" themed LPs dedicated to improv / experimental
/ & noise music.
Get it here: http://www.psr.pendugallery.com/releases/psr0016.htm
SIDE A
1. Dirty Churches -
Eat Birth
2. Spin-17 - Fin Fang Foom
3. K.P. - Birds
Fucking Outside My Window
4. BIG A little a -
Yves St. Sean
5. Fessenden - Pt.
III/II
SIDE B
6. Eager Meek - To
Accidental Crashes and Long Naps
7. Mialessot + Daniel
Carter + Old Ghost - Hemorrhage
8. Maria Chavez -
Untitled (Live @ Spoken Word, 04/06)
9. Talibam - Talibam
Eat a Sound Soup
10.Excepter – Sonja
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"Finally! Total Unity"
Luther Thomas - sax, voice
Jeffrey Shurdut - guitar,
perc
Ed Chang - laptop
electronics, sax
Motoko Shimizu - voice,
toys, turntable
Recorded
at Studio Chang - East Village, NYC, USA,
on April 14, 2006 and at Joker’s Joint Christiania, Copenhagen,
Denmark, on June 23, 2006.
Cover art by Åke Bjurhamn.
Available
from North
Country Dist
and Ayler Records
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Marshall Allen -
Saxophone and EVI
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut - Guitar
MOTOKO Shimizu - Voice, Toys & Turntable
Ed Chang - Electronics and Saxophone
(with guest Danny Ray Thompson
- Flute)
Live at the University
of Pennsylvania
The legendary
saxophonist Marshall Allen (leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra) meets up
with some "young guns" from NYC and an all-out sonic trip into z-Space
begins. This was the first meeting between Marshall and Spin-17
members Ed & Motoko, and the sparks fly! Jeff Shurdut
provides the
guitar-glue that holds this ultra-sea vessel together and Marshall
propels the band right through your temporal lobes and into that part
of your brain you never knew about, but always missed....Danny Ray
Thompson hits the bandstand at the end and these two veterans of Sun
Ra's Arkestra steers the group into a safe and heliocentric
port...Bottom line, this record is full of NOISE and BEAUTY.
SAMPLE
mp3
No
Labels
Records. Available from North
Country Dist


Imaginary Control Systems
Pt.2
Ed Chang: Alto Sax
Jeffrey Shurdut: Electric Guitar
Jay Dunbar: Bass
Brian Osborne: Drums
Free
improvisations in Brooklyn NYC 2006.
No Labels 2006 North
Country Dist
EVERYBODY'S
MUSIC
LIVE! at TONIC,
NYC
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut
- Piano
Blaise Siwula - Reeds
Daniel Carter -
Reeds and Winds
Michael Evans - Drums
MOTOKO Shimizu -
Voice, Toys & Turntable
Ed Chang - Laptop
Electronics
Tom
Shad -
Electric
Bass
Jeffrey
Shurdut showcases his jack-hammer skills on piano in this 7-piece
electro-acoustic ensemble with Ed & Motoko of Spin-17 at the center
of the maelstrom. Front and center are Daniel Carter and Blaise
Siwula
in double-horn attack mode for this 1-track, 1-hour slab of noise-jazz
spazz bombardment. In many ways a companion piece to Shurdut's
recent
disc with Marshall Allen, as he takes his vision further down the
yellow brick road and into Technicolor OZ.....
No
Labels
Records. Available from North
Country Dist

Spin-17 with Jeffrey Shurdut
& Ravi Padmanabha
21st Century Folk Music Vol 3
Motoko Shimizu (voice, turntable,
toys),
Ed Chang (sax and radio),
Jeffrey H Shurdut(guitar)
Ravi Padmanabha
(percussion)
Free
soul improvisations - this incarnation of
Spin-17 (with special sauces Jeffrey Shurdut & Ravi Padmanabha)
takes the best parts of free improv folk-skronk and ladles it over an
epiphany-prone drone-groove rhythm section resulting in a full-flavored
creative music casserole.
No Labels
Records. North
Country Dist
SAMPLE
mp3
Review
here.

Agents at Midnight
terrible meditation
Agents at Midnight: Ed Howard (aka The Seven Arts) uses
electronics and harmonica to create a barrage of textures and noise
which veers between harmony and corruption. Ed Chang utilizes circular
breathing techniques with prepared alto saxophone to create
psychotic-acoustic squall effects. From lowercase scrabble to uppercase
bludgeoning, these 2 sound painter experimentalists have been exploring
the boundaries of texture, abrasion, and splatter since the early 21st
century (or March 2005). This 3-inch is one 20-minute track.
Fargone Records. $6.
Check
out a sample
here.

Chris Welcome, Motoko Shimizu, Han Degc, Matt
Hannafin
ABC No Rio,
8-21-05
Improvisations from Welcome
(hollow-body electric guitar), Shimizu (voice, toys, percussion), Degc
(prepared alto sax), and Hannafin (percussion, rudimentary
electronics), recorded live at the C.O.M.A. series, ABC No Rio, NYC.
One of those moments when something completely unexpected arises from
the combination of disparate improvisational personalities -- in this
case music that's simultaneously dense and spare, steady and jittery,
urban and bucolic, funny and serious. Built from a dialogue of small,
well-placed sounds, it's music with a wonderfully natural yet
classically avant feel, like a country garden as landscaped by Merce
Cunningham and John Cage. Total time: 29:09. Part
of the Sachimay Interventions $5 series. A sample can be heard here.
To purchase contact: Chris
Welcome , Matt
Hannafin, or Motoko
Shimizu .
Motoko
Shimizu : Attack of the 5-foot Woman (Sachimay Interventions)
The first solo release from
Spin-17's Motoko Shimizu, this is a live recording of a solo concert at
the 226 Series in NYC. She appeared and disappeared as Ms. Drumhead
from Outerspace 9, her whimsical voice interacting with toys and
percussion, part shaman, part child, part siren, part pussycat,
exploring the boundary between comedy and tragedy. Total time:
27:10. Part of the Sachimay Interventions $5 series.
More info about Sachimay
Interventions here.
Buy this item on the Catalog
page. A sample can be
heard here.


Doug
Theriault/Brian Moran/Ed Chang - Tic Tac Tek
Doug Theriault: guitar & electronics.
Brian Moran: circuit bent electronics.
Ed Chang: homemade electronics & noise machine.
All music recorded live at Quodlibet Studios NYC, April 8, 2002.
"This epic recording documents the collaborative efforts of
Portland-based guitarist Doug Theriault with a pair of undeservedly
obscure New York musicians. Brian Moran and Ed Chang both play a wide
variety of bizarre electronic gadgets, and Chang is additionally known
for his free-jazz sax, noise-rock guitar stylings (most notably in duo
with Theriault), and goofy sample-laden collages as half of Spin-17. On
this disc, the group -- both in room-clearing trio arrangement and more
intimate duos -- unleash a chaotic barrage of electronic noise that
veers from subtle glitchy segments to all-out head-shaking noisequakes.
Somewhere between Voice Crack and Merzbow, this trio has staked their
own unique ground. Comes in a white gatefold sleeve with full-color
pro-printed artwork"
Check out a sample here.
www.fargonerecords.com,
FAR-031, limited 60, $8,
released
June 15, 2005.
- Trio
DT BM EC (8:40)
- Duo
DT BM (11:57)
- Duo
DT BM (9:28)
- Duo
DT BM (9:40)
- Trio
DT BM EC (15:49)
- Duo
EC BM (10:27)
Ed Chang,
Adam
Kriney and Motoko Shimizu : Lust
Ionics - Saung
"This
1-track hour long recording is a new moment. A momentum, a tom-tom, a
lusting fever for exploration through no-now-worlds of miniature
happenings, toy sounds, sax-jazz-skronk, free-rock, stop-start
stutter-go-fall-over-musik!, blast-beat rhythms, prepared-guitar,
extended techniques, and freak-out vocal mayhem. The executers of aural
stuffs are Ed Chang on alto-saxophone and electric guitar, Adam Kriney
on drums and percussion, and Motoko Shimizu on vocals, toys,
percussion, and electric guitar. Ed has been around the NYC scene for
quite a while now with his groups BLINDFOLD (members of NNCK), DUAL
(with Portland based SONS OF FIRE member Doug Theriault), SPIN 17 (with
partner Motoko), and more, Adam is drummer for psych/prog/freakout duo
LA OTRACINA and free-jazz enseble OWL SOUNDS, and 1/2 of sexy-noise duo
THE BEETS, as well as owner of Colour Sounds Recordings, and Motoko is
in SPIN 17 with Ed as well as a collaborator with many downtown NYC
legends such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matt Heyner, etc. Fans of
Japanese noise, ESP Disk fire-blowers, and minimal-improvers take
note.."
Colour
Sounds Recordings, Limited edition
of 20. $5 each.
(Listen to a track here)
Ed
Chang & Han Degc : Nois und Stringe (Sachimay Interventions)
On this release Ed Chang plays
The
Noise Machine exclusively and improvises with the neo-skronk new music
classical
guitar stylings of Han Degc. Ed’s
testimonial: “This is
one of my favorite
recordings. Why is it available for only
$3? Who’s responsible for
this!”
That’s right – only
$3. In fact we can’t even afford
to host an mp3 sample (at least not yet).
But hey it’s only $3.
More info about Sachimay
Interventions here.
Buy this item on the Catalog page.
A sample can be
heard here.
More
Upcoming
Releases:
Spin-17 w
Ravi Padmanabha
Ed
Chang & Toshi Makihara
Spin-17 - Live
Ed Chang & Han Degc - Nois Und Saxe
Han Degc - 36 cents
Old
gigs
Motoko Shimizu
(voice, toys) & Shayna Dulberger(bass)
May 13@8pm
Monkey Town
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
718.384.1369
Spin-17
May
12@8:30 pm
Cornelia
Street
Café
29 Cornelia
Street (bet. W4th and Bleecker St),
NYC
With Jody Redhage
cello and Chie Roden piano play the music of Yoichi Togawa,
William Fowkes tells
it like it is.
<>http://www.composerscollab.org/events.html,
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/ , 212-663-1967>
$15,
students/seniors $10 PLUS
one-drink minimum
<>Sympathy for
Lady Vengeance
May
9@9pm >
Freddy's
backroom
485 Dean
Street, Brooklyn 11215 (corner
of Dean Street
and 6th Avenue)
http://www.freddysbackroom.com
718.622.7035
Clifton
Hyde (Lap Steel Guitar), Robyn Siwula(viola) and Motoko Shimizu(voice,
toys, melodica) will play eclectic improvised cabaret songs.
http://www.myspace.com/sflv
August
19
Sunday ABC noRio COMA Series
156 Rivington St,(located between Clinton and Suffolk
St. near the F and J trains at Delancey/Essex), $5
Sympathy
for Lady Vengeance featuring
Motoko Shimizu w Clifton Hyde &
Robyn Siwula
August
17 Friday at The 5C Cafe and Cultural Center
68 Ave C @5th Street 7-9pm
The Push-Pull Quartet
&
Ben Miller's
Degeneration
with
Ed Chang and Motoko Shimizu guests
www.benmiller.info
August 7
Tuesday Cornelia Street Cafe 8:30
The Cornelia
Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan)
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Ed
Chang (electric
guitar) and Motoko Shimizu (turntable)
perform compostions
for and accompanied by
the films of Stephanie Gray.
These films of
Stephanie's are super-8
stream-of-conciousness/poetic-abstract cine-logs of NYC with and
without human intervention. They examine things remembered,
things lost and things found. There will be 5 films, each between
3 and 7 minutes long. This is the first time we've written
compositions for film, so this is pretty exciting for us.
Musically, expect it to see-saw between Neil Young and Merzbow.
Also the same evening:
The Gold Standard a piano theater work by Ed Schmidt
and Jed Distler. directed by Arnold Barkus lighting design
by David Lovett
June 21
Thursday Cornelia Street Cafe
Spin-17 - Terry Riley's In C with
about 100 other performers:
The Mighty CCi
House Band & Friends play
on Cornelia
Street, NYC
between Bleecker and West 4th
streets
FREE
Make Music NY event
In C – no music more appropriate for a communal high to celebrate
the first day of summer and the first Make Music NY event.
May
26-27 Theater for the New City
THE 12TH
ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
Spin-17 performs
http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/les.htm
May 13
Sunday ABC noRio COMA Series
156 Rivington St,(located between Clinton and Suffolk
St. near
the F and J trains at Delancey/Essex), $5
The Resonators Guitar Quintet
w Ed Chang, Kurt Gottchalk, Len 37 Siegfried,
Kristen Persinos, Clifton Hyde
May
12 10pm Saturday, St Marks Church
NOISE!
w
George Steeltoe Ensemble
jay dunbar-
bass/cello
jeffrey shurdut-
gtr
lathan hardy- sax
ed chang -
elct/sax
brian osborne-
percussion
George Steeltoe Ensemble
May 5
Saturday 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
226 East 2nd St, #5D (between Ave B & C), NYC
(donations
appreciated)
Music begins at 7pm.
The Resonators Guitar Quintet
w Ed Chang,
Kurt Gottchalk, Len 37
Siegfried, Kristen Persinos, Clifton Hyde
Dilettante
(from Boston)
http://www.myspace.com/dilettantenoise
March
9 Friday at 6:30pm- Aperto Music Series @ 5C Café
Andrew
Barker w
Ed Chang & Fritz Welch
(Cello/Sax/Percusion)
(playing first)
5C
Café,68 Ave C @ 5th St.,(F train to 2nd Ave),NY NY (212)
477-5993,www.5ccc.com
Also
Adventure
Club (with Justin Wood)
Justin Wood
(woodwinds) / Adam Schneit (woodwinds) / Michael Bates
(doublebass) / Devin Gray, (percussion)
&
Matt
Sullivan (solo oboe)
$6 cover
February
17 Saturday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
226 East 2nd St, #5D (between Ave B
& C),Manhattan NYC USA
Music begins at 7pm.
(donations appreciated)
Ryan Jewell, Mike Brown,
Ed Chang (perc, bass, sax)
Improvised music from the
center of the earth.
www.myspace.com/ryanxing
Joshua
Fried (Homemade electronics sculpture)
With
a vintage Buick steering wheel, old shoes mounted on stands, boombox,
and laptop, RADIO WONDERLAND transforms the very bits and bytes of
commercial culture--in the form of live FM radio--into dizzying
multi-metric dance rhythms. Created and performed by Joshua
Fried, composer, performer, drummer,
remixer, producer, and the youngest composer in Schirmer Books'
*American Music in the 20th Century*.
Julianne
Carney & Lathan Hardy (Violin & Sax)
Ahnfinod
[ahn' fee node] - flexible
balance structure chaos
nature create patterns movement navigate breathe life
Julianne
Carney, Violin / Lathan Hardy,
Saxophones
www.juliannecarney.com
myspace.com/lathanghardy
February 15
Thursday 8PM The Lucky Cat
http://www.theluckycat.com/index.html
Agents at
Midnight (Ed
Chang & Ed Howard) w Ryan
Jewell
The first show
this year for the scorched-earth electronics and sax duo of Ed C and Ed
H joined by Ryan Jewell on drums - it's demolition-time!
Reuben Radding w Jack Wright
Lukas Ligeti Ensemble
February 13 Tuesday - The Cakeshop 152 Ludlow St.,
NYC $7, 8pm doors http://cake-shop.com/
Ryan Jewell/Ed Chang Duo (drums and
gtr/misc)
Psychedelic free-groove catharsis, we open a night of
noise-rock goodiness
www.myspace.com/ryanxing
also
CLARITY
D CHARLES SPEER (mems
NNCK/SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN)
PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (Strange
Attractors Audio House/from Austria!)
LA OTRACINA
February
8 Thursday Goodbye Blue Monday
8-12midnight
BAD-TEMPERED
SAXOPHONE w/ Spin-17, Travis LaPlante,
Violence Jazz
Goodbye Blue
Monday, 1087 broadway, bushwick, brooklyn
,J to kosciusko
go to myspace.com/FrequenciesNYC for show info
Frequencies is an
experiential and holistic exhibition which captures facets
of the DIY community and extends outside the physical bounds of the
gallery --
referencing both "public art" and "life as art" movements. It
questions the artist-viewer vs.
musician-audience relationships, and thus the cognitive division
between visual
art and music, gallery and rock venue.
FrequenciesNYC.com
Spin-17
Ed Chang &
Motoko Shimizu. Ed will play sax with a guitar stuck into the
bell. Motoko applies the Noise Whip.
Violence
Jazz
Violence
Jazz is for the art of
saxophone playing what "Dueling Banjos" was for banjo. Buildings like
their music.
Also :Tiktaalik Roseae (Bonnie
Kane and Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut Trio) and Travis LaPlante
Jan
27 Saturday 9PM, New York Rebels Guitar Festival @ Freddy's Backroom
OK friends we're really excited about
this one, we're going all-out!
In fact we've been practicing so much for this show (we're talking
months here) I think we may just do it psychically and not actually
play any instruments, just beam it in. Nah, that won't be loud
enough. In fact, no joke, I got new speakers for my amp just for
this gig. Dadadada dadadada dadadadadadadadadada L--- G--!
Spin-17 at The
New York Rebels Guitar Festival (night 2)
Freddy’s
Backroom
485 Dean Street (near
Flatbush & 6th Ave.)Brooklyn
http://www.freddysbackroom.com/live_cal.html
In
1956, bassist, bandleader and radical upstart Charles Mingus made his
debut at
the third Newport Jazz Festival. Four years later, in reaction against
the jazz
establishment and its codification of a handful of stars, he and Max
Roach
organized the “Newport Rebels” jazz festival. In that tradition, a
small cadre
of well-mannered guitarists, all coming from good families, have come
together
to present the New York Rebels Guitar Festival, two nights of
innovative guitar
work by seven guitarists, a bassist and a singer with toys and drums.
Some of
them might even like Springsteen.
Jan 26 Friday : Solos Night
Chris Forsyth
Brandon
Seabrook
Mary Halvorson
Jan 27 Saturday : Duos Night
Ecstasy Mule
Clifton Hyde with Trevor Dunn
and
Spin-17
Press Release here.
January 21 Sunday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
Andrew Drury - Percussion Solo
Andrew Drury will do his debut solo performance, working
with a floor tom as an acoustic filter, amplifier, and resonator for
various agitated objects. Drury has performed and recorded
recently
with Jack Wright, Rouba3i, Wade Matthews, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley,
and others...
P.D. Wilder (from Austin TX)
“if a broom swept the tile floor of a ghost
town’s back porch, with infinity in its breadth, it might resemble the
sound of this guitar...” – david caddell, the local.
“flowing sounds and sensitive dissonances seem no less fascinating than
flying saucer attack...with an apocalyptic folk tendency, above all
during the singing.” – salvo pinzone, losing today.
“p. d. wilder, one third of austin road warriors hotel, hotel, using
his guitar as a gateway to serene places where beauty has a deep
undertow” – michael chamy, dallas observer.
http://www.lo-bango.com/pdwilder
http://www.myspace.com/pdwilder
Spin-17 Special Quartet
Ed
Chang, Motoko Shimizu,
Chris Welcome & Shayna Dulberger - Ed & Motoko will be
concentrating on electronica abstracticus while Chris and Shayna lay
down the smash-boppin' string-thing/groove thang. (Ed -
Electronics, Motoko - Turntable/Voice, Chris - Guitar, Shayna - Bass)
January 16
Tuesday 9PM
Vision Club Series
Joe McPhee w Ed
Chang & Jeffrey Shurdut
(part of the Vision Dance Music Series Jan 16 - 21)
A
six day festival featuring culturally
and stylistically diverse group of dance artists at different
stages in their careers - collaborating with stars of the New York
avantJazz.
http://www.visionfestival.org/main.asp
7:30 pm Lewis Barnes Trio
9 pm
Joe McPhee/Ed Chang/Jeffrey Shurdut
This will be a very exciting show, anything can happen and
probably
will. In fact, the possibilities are downright scary...
Place:
La Tea @
Clemente Soto Velez – 107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
Subway:
F to Delancey Street or J,M,Z to Essex Street
Cost:
$20
per night / $10 students and seniors / 3 nights for $40
January
8
Monday 8:30 CCi's Serial Underground at Cornelia Street Cafe
The Cornelia
Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan)
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Spin-17
(Motoko Shimizu
& Ed Chang)
SPIN 17 with
Ed Chang and Motoko Shimizu
Joshua Fried's RADIOWONDERLAND w. guest composer/guitarist David First
a new string trio by Judd Greenstein of Free Speech Zone Productions
Jed Distler meditates with the Masters
The best cure we know for holiday
recovery is a little electronic, a little acoustic, some new age
Stravinsky, and a dash of improv. Chase it down with great food and
drink, on CCi's Serial Underground, Downstairs at the Cornelia Street
Cafe.
Dec
26 Tuesday 8pm - Tonic
Jeffrey Hayden
Shurdut's Finally! Total Unity
Luther Thomas . Blaise Siwula Marc Edwards . Ras Moshe . Ed
Chang
Nick Gianni
Dec 16 Saturday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
Jack
Wright
(reeds) and John McClellan (drums)
"These two have played with various partners before--nate
wooley, jonathan moritz, lisle ellis, shayna dulberger, chris welcome,
and others--but somehow they've always missed the plain duo. Which is
what you'll hear: spare, condensed, perhaps confusing (genre?) without
being confused."
Andrew
Barker/Fritz Welch/Ed Chang Trio
(cello/percussion/saxophone)
ANDREW BARKER - cello (GSB, Little Huey Orchestra) ED CHANG - sax
& homemades (Spin-17, Dual, Agents at Midnight), FRITZ WELCH
-
percussion (Peesseye) Present new improvised music. Although
longtime
pals, this will be the second meeting between three very different
musicians. Multi-layered acoustic improvisations with a century
of
experience between them.
Wrikken
(from Amsterdam)
Cinematic minimal music,
experimental
techno and sick jazz
Wrikken is a project of Ivo Bol and Joris van Perlo. who have made
music together since they were 15. It originated in the Dutch city of
Groningen where they played in cult bands like Soom, Plan Kruutntoone,
Wastewell and G.I. Magnetic Inflatable Carrot plane. In 1996 they
composed music for strings, saxophone and electric guitar. After 1996
their music has become more and more electronic.
The music of Wrikken is constructed during an ongoing process of
redefining their own sound, based mostly on samples made from their own
music. Influences are Minimal music, Coil, Beefheart, David Lynch.
Wrikken collaborated with several theatremakers, filmmakers and visual
artists. They have been touring in Germany and Holland with their live
soundtrack for Maya Deren’Äôs film Ritual In Transfigured
Time
(1945-46). Stichting Mixer released their debut single.
Dec
11 Monday
8:30 Cornelia Street Cafe
The Cornelia
Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan)
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Take One Down, Pass It Around: a
holiday countdown
with Jed Distler, Matt Sullivan, Andrey Gritsman, Andy Christie,
Libby Shapiro, Ellen Kaye, Ed Chang,
Motoko Shimizu, Randall Woolf, and surprise guests.
What happens when you reinterpret the great camp classic "99 Bottles of
Beeron the Wall" with poetry, storytelling, piano theater, contemporary
music, New German Cabaret and audience participation, rolling it all
into a 60 minute performance piece? The answer is Take One Down, Pass
It Around. CCi artistic director Jed Distler leads a stellar cast of
characters known through previous Serial Underground shows and Cornelia
Street Café's literary events.
music charge at the door
$15 music charge PLUS one drink minimum
Dec
1 Friday 8:30pm Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 BROADWAY,BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN,NEW
YORK 11221
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
Ninni Morgia Ensemble w Ed Chang,
Jordan Schranz, Jade Dylan
(guitar - sax - bass - drums)
"Getting Rid of the Glue" Noise Show
Sunday Nov 26, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Cakeshop 152 Ludlow St.
Matt Mottel from Talibam! & Friends .....
Hemorrhage with Daniel Carter ....
Spin-17 ....
Hatefuck (members of K.P. and the Punks) .....
Dirty Churches
Nov 18 Saturday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
226 East 2nd St, #5D (between Ave B
& C),Manhattan NYC USA
Music begins at 7pm.
(donations appreciated)
Ninni Morgia (guitar) &
Jordan Schranz (bass) Duo
Ninni played in Italy in a noise rock
band called White Tornado
and in a free jazz band
Conjura. Currently in New York he performs with Wizard trio,
Right Moves,Quivers and Nausea.
Jordon Schranz, a 7-year inhabitant of Brooklyn, New York, regularly
stages, performs, and promotes avante garde, free jazz and experimental
music performances and is a recording artist on the Black Saint record
label with his group ³The Eastern Seaboard². He has
also been
running his own CD-R and Vinyl label, Tigerasylum Records, since 2003.
He is an accomplished painter and visual artist whose artwork is
represented by the Black and White Gallery in New York. Currently
he is developing an online Fine Arts program for Sessions.edu. Jordon
earned his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.
Joshua
Convey (of Fessenden) w Spin-17
An active member of the Chicago based trio
Fessenden, Joshua Convey,(now living in New York) produces a broad
range of sounds using bass guitar, guitar, field samples, clarinet,
small keyboards, turntables, or anything else that might make a noise.
http://www.fessendenmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/joshuaconvey
Spin-17 is
Ed Chang & Motoko
Shimizu and they play electronics, toys, sing and make noise.
They have been performing as Spin-17 since 1997 and have toured the US
3 times. Their eponymous CD charted at #1 at WXDU radio at Duke
University.
"...some of the funnest and funniest sounds
you will have heard in quite some time." - Experimental Musical
Instruments magazine
Spin-17 MySpace
Casey Block
Casey Block is a sound artist who performs and records w/ NY based
groups HellsHills and Mushroom Cloud (full 6 piece band and sometimes
trio) and also performs in various collaborations and solo
performances. He uses digital and analog sound sources to create ultra
minimal to highly dense fields of sonic architecture. He blurs the
lines between drone music and processed field recordings allowing
overall moods to determine the direction of the sound. He also runs eat
records in Greenpoint and has an Internet radio show on East Village
Radio .com called "just Music". He will be
performing with wall visuals being projected by
Jordon. Minimal, filling, and profound.
Oct 21 Saturday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
226 East 2nd St, #5D (between Ave B
&
C),Manhattan NYC USA
Music begins at 7pm.
(donations appreciated)
Matt
Hannafin (Percussion) & Ricardo Arias (Balloon Kit) Solos & Duos
Percussionist Matt Hannafin straddles the worlds
of free improvisation and Iranian classical and traditional music, and
incorporates influences borrowed from nature, electronic music, the
urban-industrial soundscape, and the traditional musics of Tibet,
Korea, and Japan. He studied classical Iranian tombak with master
Kavous Shirzadian, Arabic and Indian percussion with Jamey Haddad and
Glen Velez, voice with composer La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath,
and African and Afro-Caribbean percussion with John Amira, Magette
Fall, and others. A member of several improvising duos and ensembles,
hes performed and/or recorded with artists as diverse as Turkish
multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek and noise guitarist Donald
Miller of Borbetomagus, in settings ranging from the UN General
Assembly Hall to CBGB's.
Ricardo Arias was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1965. He has
lived in
Barcelona, The Hague, and currently resides in New York City. He
studied composition and electroacoustic music with Chilean composer
Gabriel Brncic at the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona and flute with
Hiroshi Kobayashi and Joan Bofill, also in Barcelona. During 1995-1996
Arias studied computer music at the Institute of Sonology in ThaHague.
He holds a BA in Anthropology from Hunter College in New York City.
Most of Arias' music is improvised and made in collaboration with other
musicians. Apart from occasionally playing the flute, he uses
nconventional instruments and found objects as sound sources. He has
performed with a shifting array of small found objects, amplified with
piezo-electric transducers. Since 1992 he has focused almost
exclusively on the balloon kit, a number of rubber balloons attached to
a suitable structure and played with the hands and a set of
accessories, including various kinds of sponges, pieces of Styrofoam,
rubber bands, etc.. Arias has been artist in residence at Harvestworks
(New York City, 1999) and at Engine 27 (New York City, 2003) and was a
fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center (Umbria, Italy, 2004).
Kenta Nagai - Shamisen
Kenta Nagai is a sound artist
based in New York City who works with acoustic and electronic sound,
visual media and live performance. He is known for his fearless,
fretless guitar playing. In addition to solo and ensemble music
performance, Nagai has also worked collaboratively with dancers,
theater directors, poets and visual artists. His work has been
performed in many NYC venues including Lotus Music and Dance, The
Knitting Factory, Roulette, Tonic, PS 122, Gale Gates et al, Lincoln
Center Out of Doors, Joyce SOHO, The Cooler and O.K. Harris Gallery.
From 1999 until 2002 Nagai was a composer in residence at The Cave
Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His latest work "Long
Long Long"
was perfomed at Roulette. It featurs an eclectic assortment of Asian
instruments from Korea and Japan, and draws on the heritage of these
unique musical instruments and their uncommon sonorities.
Oct
14, Saturday Bowery Poetry Club
Jed Shahar, Ed Chang & John Clair duo and others accompanying poets
and performing
musical interludes
Oct
1 Sunday - 89.9 WKCR Live
Constructions radio performance
10 pm
Trauma Unit w Ed Chang, Ninni Morgia,
Jeff Shurdut & Jade Dylan
Sept 29, Friday - Goodbye Blue
Monday 8pm, $5 Donation
1087
BROADWAY,BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN,NEW YORK 11221
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
Spin-17 (Ed
Chang
& Motoko
Shimizu) with co-deconstructors
Brian
Osborne (Paper Leg) & Shayna Dulberger (KillMeTrio)
Brian and Shayna will be
laying down the hurricane while Ed & Motoko make like the Wicked
Witch on her bicycle...and all of us dodging winged monkeys no
less..
also Ernest
Anderson III Trio,
Marc Edwards Slipstream Time Travel, & Magic Zorillo
Sept
30, Saturday - The Chocolate
Factory Theater
5-49 49th Avenue,
L.I.C., NY 11101
http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/contact.html
Spin-17 w Heather Vergotis (sax)
September
23, Saturday,
Brecht Forum, 8pm/9pm
Brecht Forum,
451 West Street,
New York, NY
between Bank &
Bethune streets www.brechtforum.org
mail@brechtforum.org
A
John Cage festival $10
w guests Spin-17
8:00
– Mode Records screens films about John Cage, including 19 Questions
and other selections from the DVD "From Zero" by renowned Dutch
director Frank Scheffer in collaboration with Cage's long-time
associate Andrew Culver. In 19 Questions, Cage answers questions on a
variety of subjects, using chance operations to determine the duration
of his colorful and often witty answers. A unique opportunity to view
the Cagean process of chance in real-time.
9:00 pm
Twiceband plays John Cage:
- Excerpts from "How to Improve the
World (You'll
Only Make Matters Worse)" - Brian Boyles: spoken
word
- Radio
Music - Barry Chalaba, Kurt Gottschalk, Robert Hardin, Frank
Keeley. John McDonough, Sam Meyer, Paul Spencer, Gregory Wildes: radios
- Aria
with Variations II - Spin-17 (Motoko
Shimuzu:soprano,Ed Chang:noise machine)
- Tuba
solo from Concert for Piano and Orchestra - Jay Rozen: tuba
- Cartridge
Music - Ed Chang, Kurt Gottschalk, John McDonough, Paul Spencer:
phono cartridges
- Landscape
Under Construction (McDonough) - Beverley Caplan, Barry Chalaba,
Kurt Gottschalk, Robert Hardin, Tony Hightower, Aaron Jaffe, Frank
Keeley, Ed Littman, Scott Lydon, Kevin Mason, John McDonough, Sam
Meyer, Jason Oakes, Marianne Osiel, Jay Rozen, Tom Shad, Paul Spencer,
Gregory Wildes: CD Players. Landscape Under Construction is
a composition by John McDonough for between 1 and 42 CD players playing
John Cage CDs. Each of the 42 parts was written using the I Ching.
September 24 Sunday - 7PM - "226
Series/The Foundry"
226 East 2nd St, #5D (between Ave B
&
C),Manhattan NYC USA
Music begins at 7pm.
(donations appreciated)
Paper
Leg - Brian Osborne : contact
mics on misc objects,
radios and percussion "like a fat-ass
freak rumble inside some gamelan storage room" - The WIRE, Byron Coleyey
Elephant
Calls Ravi Padmanabha : tabla/perc Ed Chang : acoustic
guitar
Ravi
& Ed
meditate on acoustic rubbings , pluckings and bowings. This show
celebrates their newest CD on Utech Records. A rare performance,
the
first such in almost a year. Pull up a pillow and
and enjoy our mellow vibe.
Jean
Paul Jenkins (guitar) & Gregory Reynolds (saxophone)After the prism has stratified
light into a gaudy hierachy of colors, JP and Gregory
endeavor to scoop them up and smash them back through the
prism in order to restore the virginal beauty of pre-divided white
light. Of course this doesn't always work
perfectly and what they end up with can generally be
described as dirty white light at best. If dirty white light
was a sound.
JP
lives in Portland OR above a
Bike shop at SE 20th and Ankeny (top
apartment) stop by and have tea. We will play and maybe can go for a
walk. There is a good Greek place a few blocks over if you want to go
out for food. I have been going to the sauna near my house after we
play lately. Its not too expensive and if my friend is working we might
get a discount. In any case, I'll be there most of the day so stop by
anytime.
Gregory
lives
in NYC
and performs mostly improvised music on the alto saxophone. He has
collaborated in many improvised meetings with many wonderful
performers. His unique approach towards saxophone playing is informed
by the texture and tones of feedback/electronic music as well as a deep
appreciation for space and natural sound. Currently he is working on a
series of performance and visual pieces that explore
the liminal nature
of the horizon and the phenomena of twilight.
September 19
Tuesday
Tommy's Tavern,
(http://www.tommystavern.com/)
1041 Manhattan Ave, (at Freeman), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
718-383-9699, Show stats at 8:00 promptly, $6 cover, touring bands will
be playing!
ALOPECOID (solo action from Jay of
DAYLIGHT'S
FOR THE BIRDS,
http://www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds)
THE FURNITURE
(on tour!,
solo set,
http://myspace.com/thefurniture)
PIGEONS (members of SEA
DONKEYS/ENOS
SLAUGHTER/IZITITIZ,
http://www.morantapelabel.com)
CASSETTE
CONCRET (on tour!, solo
set, http://myspace.com/joshimusic)
DANDELION
FICTION (on tour!, solo
set, http://www.dandelion.hebronix.com/)
RUST IONICS (LP
release show! members OWL XOUNDS/LA
OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/SPIN-17/DUAL/QUIVERS/WIZARD TRIO,
http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistssonsoffire.htm)
(we'll probably play around 11pm, but get there earlier just in case!)
This is the release show for the
new Rust
Ionics LP (Ed Chang/Adam Kriney/Doug Theriault) - Ninni Morgia
will be subbing for Doug - Improv free-jack meltdown with
Sax/Guitar/Drums!
Tuesday, August
29, Tonic, 10pm
107
Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets in
Manhattan's Lower East Side
www.tonicnyc.com
Spin-17
and many
others more in:
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's "The 1 1/2 Hour New Music Festival Band"
Blaise Siwula bari +
tenor +
Trumpet + String instrument
Adam Lane bass
Andrew Barker cello
Marc Edwards drums
Ed Chang black tube,
alto,
computer, violin
Motoko Shimizu voice,
toys
Enrico Oliva alto
Brian Osborne
percussion, home
made objects.
Shayna Dulberger bass
Chris Welcome cello
accordion
Nick Gianni soprano,
tenor,
violin
Jay Dunbar voice, bass
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut
piano,
guitar
Wednesday
August 30, Goodbye Blue Monday 9pm, FREE
1087
BROADWAY,BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN,NEW YORK 11221
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
Ed
Chang (alto saxophone)
Ninni
Morgia (electric guitar)