Upcoming Concerts
Non-Event presents
Our September Experimental Coffee House
featuring
REUBEN SON
Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)
Brookline, MA 02445
617-879-2500
8 p.m./$5
REUBEN SON is an abstract musician who utilizes guitars, tape, and electronics to generate vibrations that evolve over time. He often sidesteps the notion/action of “composing” by attempting to mediate between his influences and his instruments. Born in 1986 in sunny Southern California, he moved to New England to attend college at Wesleyan University and currently resides in scenic Boston, Massachusetts. He has published two tapes on his own Private Chronology imprint and has releases forthcoming on Razors and Medicine and Digitalis Limited.
Listen to newer unreleased recordings by Reuben on SoundCloud.
Non-Event presents
ANDREA NEUMANN / BONNIE JONES DUO
with Michael Bullock
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $10
617.262.6050
About the artists:
ANDREA NEUMANN studied piano at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin. Since 1996 she has been primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds, she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument, which she calls the “inside-out piano.” Neumann has released recordings on Erstwhile, Sedimental, Rossbin, Charhizma, Zarek, and the Japan Improv label. This is her second appearance at Non-Event.
BONNIE JONES lives in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. As a composer and improviser she re-purposes digital delay pedals as circuit-bent electronic instruments, directly playing the exposed circuit boards with instrument cables to produce raw and often chaotic electronic sound. Her sound palette challenges the accepted languages of contemporary music as well as the conventional modes of playing associated with electronic musicians. Jones’ multimedia performance works use projected text and live writing to improvise with musicians, video artists, dancers, and other writers. The work draws on her background as a poet and explores a form of writing “off-the-page” that directly interacts with the audience and other collaborators.
MICHAEL BULLOCK is a composer, performer, visual artist, and writer living in Boston. His modes of work include electroacoustic composition, improvisation, drawing, and video. Bullock performs across the US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Steve Roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel. Bullock also performs with the BSC, an octet of Boston-based improvisers; as the trio MAWJA with Kerbaj and Vic Rawlings; and in the sound & light duo, rise set twilight.
Funded in part with the help of the following
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present
CHRISTOPH HEEMANN
with Brendan Murray
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15
617.262.6050
About the artists
CHRISTOPH HEEMANN is one of the most enigmatic figures in European drone music. In 1984, Heemann and his brother Andreas Martin formed the seminal experimental music project, Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa (HNAS). HNAS’s surrealistic collage music combined elements of musique concrete, electronics, folklore and humor. Later, Heemann, together with Edward Ka-spel and Andreas Martin recorded three albums as the group Mimir, attracting the attention of Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, Masami Akita (aka Merzbow), and Jim O’Rourke. In 1989, Heemann formed the mysterious and influential drone outfit Mirror, with English sound artist Andrew Chalk. An ongoing project, the duo is known for its pristinely soporific music, as well as their deliberately hard-to-find recordings and rare live performances.
Currently Heemann composes, performs, produces, and records albums by sound artists/composers such as Limpe Fuchs, Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, and many others. His ongoing musical collaborations include work with Jim O’Rourke, William Basinski, Lee Ranaldo, and Timo van Luyck on the In Camera project.
BRENDAN MURRAY is a musician who uses digital processing, percussion, tuned instruments and analog synthesis to create large-scale compositions based in drone, pulse and repetition. Currently active as a solo performer and in numerous collaborative projects with filmmakers, poets and other musicians across the United States. He lives in East Somerville, MA.
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present
THOMAS KÖNER
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15
617.262.6050
THOMAS KÖNER is a pioneering multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. Over his long, much celebrated career, he has worked between installation works, sound art, minimal soundscapes, and (as one half of Porter Ricks) fantastically repetitive dub techno.
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present
BLACK TO COMM (U.S. debut)
with Xela
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
8 p.m. / $15
617.262.6050
Marc Richter (aka BLACK TO COMM) is no newcomer to the experimental music scene. As the figurehead of the Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer has brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music fans in the last few years, but it is with his own compositions that he has made the biggest splash. He has released records on Digitalis, Trensmat, Type, and his own label, pioneering a new, organic drone sub-genre, using tape loops, vintage organs, and an inexhaustible swamp of found sounds. His last album, the critically acclaimed Alphabet 1968, represented a more song-oriented approach, with references ranging from Moondog to Basic Channel by way of Bernard Herrmann.
Originally from the UK’s Black Country (the glottal rich manor of Walsall to be exact), John Twells is now based in Boston, where he runs his Type imprint and casts out dark, yet never suffocating, compositions under the XELA pseudonym. As Xela, Twells incorporates a vast palate of sounds and influences that ranges from the sublime to the noisily daemonic. For this performance, Twells will be joined by Jim Siegel on percussion.
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