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)
  

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New Releases:

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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
				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)

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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.

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Getting Rid of the Glue
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


 

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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

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EVERYBODY'S MUSIC
LIVE! at TONIC, NYC 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

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

1. Trio DT BM EC (8:40) 
   
2. Duo DT BM (11:57)
3. Duo DT BM (9:28)
4. Duo DT BM (9:40)
5. Trio DT BM EC (15:49)
6. Duo EC BM (10:27)
   

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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)

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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

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Old gigs

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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

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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

Admission: $15, students/seniors $10 PLUS one-drink minimum

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<>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

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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

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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

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August 7 Tuesday Cornelia Street Cafe 8:30
The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan)
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
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
Terry Riley's In C
on Cornelia Street, NYC
between Bleecker and West 4th streets
FREE
Make Music NY event
6:30 PM
Thu June 21
In C – no music more appropriate for a communal high to celebrate
the first day of summer and the first Make Music NY event.

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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

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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

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May 12 10pm Saturday, St Marks Church
NOISE!
w
George Steeltoe Ensemble
brian osborne- percussion

George Steeltoe Ensemble

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jan 27 Saturday 9PM, New York Rebels Guitar Festival @ Freddy's Backroom


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.

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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)

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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

This will be a very exciting show, anything can happen and probably will.  In fact, the possibilities are downright scary...
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.

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Dec 26 Tuesday 8pm - Tonic
Luther Thomas . Blaise Siwula Marc Edwards . Ras Moshe  . Ed Chang  Nick Gianni

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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.

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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

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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)

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"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

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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.

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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.

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Oct 14, Saturday Bowery Poetry Club
Jed Shahar, Ed Chang & John Clair duo and others accompanying poets and performing musical interludes

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Oct 1 Sunday - 89.9 WKCR Live Constructions radio performance
10 pm

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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

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Sept 30, Saturday - The Chocolate Factory Theater
5-49 49th Avenue,  L.I.C., NY 11101
http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/contact.html

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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. 
  

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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.

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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!

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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"
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)