Sundays
Information
Archive
Moon Fall
Moon Fall
To hear on Sunday 20 and 27 February 2011, 2 pm - 9 pm:
Moon Fall
by Tim Perkis
Tim Perkis on 'Moon Fall':
Moon Fall is a work based on a recording of a story told by Hiromi Vardy, a Japanese dancer, biwa player and restauranteur from Berkeley, California. In 2008 we performed a theatre piece that we created together based on this story. She tells about an unusual experience she had many years ago, in which, after a long period of insomnia, she entered a trance in which she felt that the moon was calling her.
The piece presented here is a new work incorporating my sound design and electronic music with a recording of her relating the story. Additional sample material used in the mix include excerpts from a recording of an eariler work of mine, Lou Drift (2006), performed by San Francisco-based electronic music ensemble The Hub, along with vocalist Aurora Josephson.
Tim Perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, recording, lecturing and exhibiting installation works in North America,Europe and Japan. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction.
In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised music, having performed on his electronic improvisation instruments with hundreds of artists and groups, including John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Frank Gratkowski, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Joelle Leandre, ROVA saxophone quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in include the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub -- pioneering live computer network bands -- and Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny, All Tomorrow's Zombies and Wobbly/Perkis/Antimatter.
In his parallel career as a research and software engineer, he has built logistics and process management systems for large companies, consulted on multimedia art presentation for a variety of public agencies, written software embedded in toys and other consumer products, and created new tools for media production, research and analysis. He is currently working with a team developing a guide system for the blind based on mobile phone technology.
Recordings of his musical work are available on several labels: Artifact,Limited Sedition, 482, Lucky Garage, Praemedia, Rastascan and Tzadik(USA); EMANEM(UK); Sonore and Meniscus(France); Curva Minore and Snowdonia(Italy); XOR(Netherlands); Creative Sources(Portugal).
In addition, he is the producer/director of a feature-length documentary film on improvisational music in the San Francisco Bay Area, called Noisy People (2006).
Förderer
Sponsoren
