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Yes! First show of 2011 and its kinda awesome. It is the second installment of the Kaleid Series at Impala Gallary in rogers park

The show is Thursday Feb 3rd. I would be most happy if you could attend, but I do understand if you cant make it. If I am not a complete idiot a recording of the set will appear on his blog shortly after the show.

To sweeten the deal you also get to see Scot Tuma & Mike Weis perform. Mike Weis can usually be found in Zelienople and Goodstuff House (which includes Scot Tuma) and both are amazing ambient/free jazz/drone projects that I have loved for many years. Scot Tuma also has a solo record that came out last year on DIGITALIS that is really something beautiful. I am super nervous/excited to be playing a show with them.

I dont know anything about Red Electric Rainbow except that video. Should be pretty neat.

The show is BYOB and I promise to bring something fancy.

Here is a google calendar link if you so choose.

I have been thinking about this post/idea for a while. I hesitated because I didnt want anyone to do it before I could. In reality though, no one reads this and if they do and decide to do it that is kinda awesome.

So the idea: ambient music for a shop/cafe where the sounds are pulled from said space. Using contact mic’s and other sensitive microphones to capture and sample the noises of the space in real-time. Manipulate them on laptop and feed them back into the space. Things like the whir of a refrigerator or coffee machine could drone and modulate. The sound of footsteps, the door opening/closing, the muffled din of cups/plates/coins could provide a constant changing rhythm.

I would love to do this for a day somewhere.

I came to this idea sometime this summer while at a coffee and ice cream place. It was playing the contemporary indie/college hits (think death cab for cutie, BSS, et. al.) on very small tinny sounding speakers. The only other 2 people in the space were immersed in their laptops, both with headphones on. Maybe they didnt like the music playing or you could also assume they were just trying to block out all the other noises that could distract them. So maybe music from generated from the sounds of the space would be more soothing, or could be used to even negate the loud distracting sounds of the space.

It could be a fun experiment.