Telemetry

12/14/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

December's Telemetry sees the return of Gardener along with In Fossa, also of Richmond. Local duo Altra round out the evening of experimental electronic music.

Gardener

Gardener is the solo electronic project of Richmond, VA-based Dash Lewis. Using a modular synth, effects pedals, and his own voice, Lewis creates glacial slabs of rhythmically complex, trance-inducing psychedelia, weaving looped vocal passages into deeply textural drones. Interested in the organic interplay between electronics and the human voice, Dash works to meld seemingly disparate elements into a single instrument, creating compositions that encourage a state of deep listening.

gardenermusic.bandcamp.com/

In Fosa* (duo of Liza from Sters and Matt)

Richmond-based duo In Fossa combines experimental video with ambient analog electronics.

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Altra

Alex Christie and Travis Thatcher use a lot of patch cables and make danceable noisy things.

11/15/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Dave Watkins is an audio/visual artist living in Richmond, Virginia. He has focused his studies primarily on music and the performing arts and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology in 2007. As a musician, he has performed all around the country, coaxing any number of sounds out of an electric dulcitar he designed and built, in conjunction with assorted effects and loop pedals, and sometimes augments his performances with live sound reactive video projections. He has shared stages with artists such as William Tyler, Sir Richard Bishop, Dan Deacon, Tim Barry, Des Ark, and Christopher Tignor. Watkins has also engineered and produced albums for other Richmond artists such as Dumb Waiter, Night Idea, and Lobo Marino in addition to his own solo work.

www.davewatkinsmusic.comdavewatkins.bandcamp.com/

Becky Brown is a composer, harpist, artist, and web designer, interested in producing intensely personal works. She focuses on narrative, emotional exposure, and catharsis, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience, wherever they are. Depending on who you talk to, her music is “honest, direct and communicative,” “personal and raw,” or “took me to a place I didn’t want to go.” She is a 3rd year graduate student in composition at UVA.

www.becky-brown.org/

Live Text Scores led by composer/performer Heather Frasch

HEATHER FRASCH, is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, performer/composer (flute, laptop/electronics & sonic objects), and creator of interactive sound installations and digital instruments. Through the creation of complex timbres, the usage of unstable notation systems, and electronics her work explores notions of fragility and stillness within an intermedia sonic arts practice. Influenced by the dis-embodiment of acousmatic music practices, she investigates the re-embodiment of sound and the intimacy between humans and their technological objects.

She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and further degrees from IRCAM, CNR de Lyon, and Temple University. Frasch was composer-in-residence at the IEM (Institüt für Musik und Akustik) in Graz, Austria (2015) and at the Villa Ruffieux, in Sierre, Switzerland (2017). Other honors include: artist residency at the EMS in Stockholm (2014), the George Ladd Prix de Paris in Composition (2008), International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition Prize (2012), and the Nicol DeLorernzo Prize in Composition (2010 and 2008). Her work has been performed at Moscow Autumn Festival, San Francisco Tape Festival, NYCEMF, Mixtur Festival, hcmf//, Akademie Schloss Solitude; and by the Ensemble SurPlus, sfSound, Vertixe Sonora, Adapter Ensemble, BCMP, among others. She is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Virginia in the department of Composition and Computer Technologies. www.heatherfrasch.net/

10/25/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Paul Stapleton (California-born, Belfast-based) is Professor of Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast, working primarily in the areas of new musical instrument design, music performance, sound design, and critical improvisation studies. He designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures and custom-made electronics in locations ranging from Echtzeitmusik venues in Berlin to the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), and has received critical acclaim for his sound design and composition work as part of the immersive audio-theatre piece Reassembled, Slightly Askew. Paul has (co-)directed several Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and European Commission funded interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the relationship between music improvisation and law, to the development of new methods for studying social interaction in music performance. www.paulstapleton.net

Trash Cats - experimental improv duo Kittie Cooper and Alex Christie.

Naomi Alligator - Projecty of Charlottesville artist and songwriter Corrinne James. naomialligator.bandcamp.com/

9/20/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri

Between them, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri have made 16 albums and 1 kid. Both toured internationally for a billion years and got to meet loads of famous people, little of which has proven the least bit helpful toward assembling a swing set in their backyard. For the moment, Devon's traveling shoes are happily in storage, opting instead to hang with their daughter and teach songwriting / guitar. Paul, formerly a guitarist’s guitarist, is these days relegated to synthesizers due to hand issues. He also quit drinking after his hands went wonky and rarely leaves the house, especially since he cut his hair.

www.patreon.com/DevonandPaul

Angela On The Arts

Angela On The Arts plays freely improvised music. The band includes John D’earth on Trumpet, flugelhorn and percussion, Bonnie Gordon on viola and Michelle Oliva on Bass clarinet and loops. Their jazz-and-chamber-music-inflected sound vibrates with a sonic archive early jazz, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, early modern modal music, Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage, rock & roll, Charles Ives. The band explores improvisation as a musical practice, and a way to move through the world. They have performed at a number of Charlottesville venues and last summer played at Bruce Hornsby��s Funhouse music festival. They enjoy busking on the down town mall in the summer and will release their first album this fall.

www.facebook.com/angelaonthearts/

K.I.A.S.

K.I.A.S. (Keep it a Stack) is a female rapper/singer located in the Charlottesville area and is a member of the UVa Raplab.

@christa-gleaves

Corncob describes her music as making noisy bleeps and bops and cussing about things like patriarchy and internalized misogyny. She hails from Philadelphia but currently studies music composition at the University of Virginia.

Komi Da Homie is originally from Togo in West Africa but grew up in Virginia Beach. He is a recent graduate from University of Virginia, Majoring in both Music and African American Studies. He describes his music as versatile but still grounded in hip hop.

Raven Bauer Durham, based in Syria, Virginia, is an experimental guitar-based performer, incorporating ambient textures, voice, song-structures and abstract layers. Raven is also a previous member of Virginia based improv/drone/noise group, Phoenix Auto Group.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Recorded March 27, 2019

Reaches

Justin Randel is Reaches, an artist exploring the potentialities and possibilities for twisting the electronic communalism of dance music through his own framework of introspective, soul-searching lyricism and songcraft. Under both his Reaches project and other various monikers he has toured across three continents including 22 countries and traveling has left him with an impressively deep catalog of stories, names and places from which his work emerges.

Trained in music composition, Randel was equally informed by years trawling through online music boards, blogs and P2P networks, culling together a taste that spans global pop, electronic composition and sonic experimentation in equal measure. This expansive sense of the disparate threads and thoughts of the global underground find a cohesive point of exchange in Randel’s work, as if his songs seek to pull together the disparate communities, the faces and zones that he has lived and worked in over the years into a more communal space.

Wherever the Internet Goes, Sorrow Follows, his sophomore album, sits at a precise juncture of psych-tinged song craft and dancefloor-oriented. It’s a testament to his ability as a songwriter that these pieces could almost find a home in any of the environments he has come across, whether a diesel generator driven rave in Eastern Europe, a loft party in Brooklyn, or anywhere else, a series of tracks sent out like love letters to the worlds he’s passed through and shared. As a result, the record itself feels full of the tragedies and triumphs of the world around him, friends lost and found, and the shared spirit of creativity, of building a world for themselves,

http://www.webefriendsrecords.com/i-love-you

Palice

Drone pop designed to transport you into someone else’s dream.

https://soundcloud.com/paliceshmalice

Personal Bandana

Dave and Travis play synthesizers.

https://personalbandana.bandcamp.com/album/sic

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA.

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Ghost Trees

Ghost Trees are Seth Nanaa on drums and Brent Bagwell on tenor saxophone. Nanaa (ex-Indian Summer) and Bagwell met in NYC in 2000. Along with bassist Jordon Schranz, they formed The Eastern Seaboard. That trio toured the US relentlessly, releasing two records with legendary Italian label Black Saint and a fistful of vinyl and CDs from Tigerasylum Records. After playing together for over a decade, they began investigating the duo format in earnest and released their debut 10" picture disc on the Future Recordings label in 2012. September of 2014 saw the release of their LP, The New Gravity. In June of 2016, the duo - expanded to a big band as part of a month-long residency at Goodyear Arts - released a double 7" called Goodyear. Their most recent effort, an LP entitled The Fascination, was released in October of 2017. www.ghost-trees.com Space-Saver Horn and drums come together like matter in a black hole, dense and inescapable. – Bill Meyer, Downbeat Magazine 4/5 Stars

Based in Charlottesville VA, Travis Thatcher (Voice of Saturn, Judi Chicago) and Steve Snider (Golden Glasses, Cataract Camp) utilize saxophones, drums, fx and self-designed electronics to produce a dynamic, wooly wall of noise containing within as much nuance as it does concussive power. Space-Saver is the real-time combination of Snider and Thatcher’s diverse musical experiences and tastes, including free jazz, doom metal, acid techno, ambient and minimal synth music. space-saver.bandcamp.com Kittie Cooper

Kittie Cooper is a composer, performer, and educator based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She makes art that incorporates feminism and explores the spectrum between silliness and seriousness. Her work has been called "highly original and wonderfully fun". She is interested in text and graphic scores, improvisation, and DIY electronic instruments. She has recently performed and presented at festivals and conferences including SPLICE, Electronic Music Midwest, N_SEME, and MOXsonic Festival. She also performs locally in Charlottesville as a guitarist, electronic musician, and improviser. Kittie teaches music for students with visual impairments at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. She holds a BM from Northwestern University in music education and guitar performance, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in special education at George Mason University. In her spare time, she enjoys taking care of the stray cats in her neighborhood. kittiecooper.com

TELEMETRY is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each transmission is recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and The UVA Music Department in Charlottesville Virginia.

For more information, visit thebridgepai.org

Telemetry is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre.