Thursday, January 24, 2008
MUSIC PERFORMANCE - January 26, 2008
Jed, TVillage
Twisted Village: 12 B Eliot Street Harvard Sq. Cambridge
Twisted Village and Jed Speare celebrate the release of 'Sound Works, 1982-1987' a 2cd set on Family Vineyard that highlights his years on the West Coast, New York and Amsterdam. Speare has been making tape music, field recordings, performances & video installations (& sometimes all at once) for over 30 years. Probably known to you as the creator of 'Cable Car Soundscapes' on Smithsonian Folkways, Speare was also involved in the 80s San Fran underground, appearing on Subterranean Records & the 'Red Spot' compilation.
Speare has also been a member of the Boston experimental intermedia group Mobius Artists Group for 13 years, and served as Mobius' co-director or director from 1996-2004. He currently runs Studio Soto, & continues to present unusual mixed-media performances that juxtapose and combine multiple avant-garde communities and approaches.
"Anybody who heard the Smithsonian Folkways recording 'Cable Car Soundscapes' back in the day will know Speare's work. He is a composer and sound artist whose idea about musique concrete is very different from the other rather rabid experimentalists out there. Speare has continually experimented with the same form and gotten astonishingly different results: he records and splices analogue sound and either combines them with, or juxtaposes them against field recordings made in all sorts of different places and situations. This double disc set on Family Vineyard is an amazing journey through his long form works. There are only five pieces spread over two discs. There is also a killer liner essay by poet and publisher George Quasha in the booklet. This is beyond the concept of electronic music, actually. It feels so real and organic it's almost an addictive listening experience. The really hip thing is he can do this kind of a set live with a few other artists helping hjim out: no samplers, no looping tape recorders, nothing like that; it's real mixology!"
--Thom Jurek, artsandfaith.com
For Electric Voice Phenomenon review of "Sound Works 1980-1987" click
HERE
For 'Sound Works, 1980-1987' on Family Vineyard Records click HERE.
Jed cd cover
About Mobius:
Mobius, founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977, is known for incorporating a wide range of the visual, performing, and media arts into innovative live performance, video, installation and intermedia works. Mobius has produced hundreds of original works that have attained critical acclaim in Boston, nationally and internationally. Works created at Mobius have been presented throughout the North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Mobius has long been committed to creating artist exchange projects bringing artists from different geographic regions to work together. The international exchange projects with artists from Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, and Taiwan have focused on site-specific and publicly-sited work. Mobius has presented work involving thousands of artists over its 30-year history and is recognized as one of the seminal alternative, artist-run organizations in the U.S.
For more on Mobius click HERE.
Mobius, Inc is funded by the Tanne Foundation; the Nonsequitur Foundation; the Boston Redevelopment Authority; the LEF Foundation; the Boston Cultural Council, a program of the Mayor's office on Arts, Tourism, & Special Events; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the Oedipus Foundation; and generous private support.
mobius
725 Harrison Av
Boston, MA 02118
www.mobius.org
Twisted Village: 12 B Eliot Street Harvard Sq. Cambridge
Twisted Village and Jed Speare celebrate the release of 'Sound Works, 1982-1987' a 2cd set on Family Vineyard that highlights his years on the West Coast, New York and Amsterdam. Speare has been making tape music, field recordings, performances & video installations (& sometimes all at once) for over 30 years. Probably known to you as the creator of 'Cable Car Soundscapes' on Smithsonian Folkways, Speare was also involved in the 80s San Fran underground, appearing on Subterranean Records & the 'Red Spot' compilation.
Speare has also been a member of the Boston experimental intermedia group Mobius Artists Group for 13 years, and served as Mobius' co-director or director from 1996-2004. He currently runs Studio Soto, & continues to present unusual mixed-media performances that juxtapose and combine multiple avant-garde communities and approaches.
"Anybody who heard the Smithsonian Folkways recording 'Cable Car Soundscapes' back in the day will know Speare's work. He is a composer and sound artist whose idea about musique concrete is very different from the other rather rabid experimentalists out there. Speare has continually experimented with the same form and gotten astonishingly different results: he records and splices analogue sound and either combines them with, or juxtaposes them against field recordings made in all sorts of different places and situations. This double disc set on Family Vineyard is an amazing journey through his long form works. There are only five pieces spread over two discs. There is also a killer liner essay by poet and publisher George Quasha in the booklet. This is beyond the concept of electronic music, actually. It feels so real and organic it's almost an addictive listening experience. The really hip thing is he can do this kind of a set live with a few other artists helping hjim out: no samplers, no looping tape recorders, nothing like that; it's real mixology!"
--Thom Jurek, artsandfaith.com
For Electric Voice Phenomenon review of "Sound Works 1980-1987" click
HERE
For 'Sound Works, 1980-1987' on Family Vineyard Records click HERE.
Jed cd cover
About Mobius:
Mobius, founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977, is known for incorporating a wide range of the visual, performing, and media arts into innovative live performance, video, installation and intermedia works. Mobius has produced hundreds of original works that have attained critical acclaim in Boston, nationally and internationally. Works created at Mobius have been presented throughout the North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Mobius has long been committed to creating artist exchange projects bringing artists from different geographic regions to work together. The international exchange projects with artists from Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, and Taiwan have focused on site-specific and publicly-sited work. Mobius has presented work involving thousands of artists over its 30-year history and is recognized as one of the seminal alternative, artist-run organizations in the U.S.
For more on Mobius click HERE.
Mobius, Inc is funded by the Tanne Foundation; the Nonsequitur Foundation; the Boston Redevelopment Authority; the LEF Foundation; the Boston Cultural Council, a program of the Mayor's office on Arts, Tourism, & Special Events; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the Oedipus Foundation; and generous private support.
mobius
725 Harrison Av
Boston, MA 02118
www.mobius.org
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