Michael Durek

1 – PAS at Brooklyn Fireproof 12/8
Reverend Screaming Fingers Big Band+Little Band of Sailors+Alias Pail+PAS Musique
119 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn, NY
Doors 8pm
Suggestion donation – $10 RSVP

2 -New Cloud Cloud set at the Court Tavern 12/17  Trevor Faurot Tribute show
The Court Tavern. 108 Chuch St, New Brunswick, NJ
CLOUD CLOUD, TRINITRON, CHRIS HARRIS (of like trains and taxis), JAC, WALKING WITH CAVEMEN
DOORS: 9pm ,  I go on first
$8   RSVP
The untimely passing of Trevor Faurot, a great musician and great guy, has prompted a Tribute show, headlined and curated by Trevor’s group Waking with Cavemen.  I will be playing as Cloud Cloud and premeiring the NEW SHIT – listen to it on Classwar Kareoke………..

3- New Track on Classwar Kareoke Survey CK0016 – Cloud Cloud – “Phony Insect Water Machines”
On the same survey, my theremin work is also featured on Zilmrah’s Upheavals in Remission
and check out the new PAS track there while you’re at it!  Or heck download the whole survey for free, over 2000 folks already have.

4 – SK Orchestra / PAS on TV in Germany Watch
With Robert L. Pepper and Michael Durek (Or as they write – Michael Dudek, obviously b/c I’m a dude)
Also Brandstifter, Meng-Hsuan Wu, Inox Kappelle, Daniel Hering, Datashock, and many others appear.

* The most passionate speech ever set to SKO music!

Did you see this crazy guy? I was inpired to spice up his speech with an SKO track and some wild dogs. He takes a football coach role and “plays” that role in the context of a local political speech. Content aside, it is unintentional performance art at its best.

* Sunday, Nov 20th, 13 Thames, 3rd Floor AvantElectroExpectroExtravaganza

1 – International and local acts tomorrow Saturday 10/22 in New Brunswick (!!)
Come enjoy and drink wine with…

Doom Trumpet
SK Orchestra (Mike Durek, Brandstifter, Tsubasa Berg, Jim Tuite…)
Wizards of Oi (Brandstifter, and Aaron Moore from Volcano the Bear)
Summer Dresses (Trevor of HAB and Jim Schmidt)

This is Brandstifter’s Farewell show before he returns to Mainz and the river rhine.

Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
108 Church Street
8pm
$5
Face Book Event

I’m accompanying Laura Mylott Manning as sound designer for…
Smash, Crumble and Grind – Chalk Dress
Dino Eli Gallery
81 Hester Street (At Orchard), Manhattan
Artist reception;
Friday October 28, 2011 6 – 9 pm
The Performance is at 7 pm
I was commissioned to make a soundcollage to accompany Laura’s performance.
Note: The performance itself will last about 10 minutes, so don’t be late!

1- Supercoda show on Sat October 8th  – Show at 13 Thames SK Orchestra tape release show, Brandstifter & Kerstin Lichtblau, Jerry and the t Party, $50 Trumpet pre-vietnam send-off show!
Show starts at 8pm.
$5, we tried to make it free but the venue charges a little to help with rent/accommodating us/etc

2 – Did you see my bananas?
Two weekends ago, at Bartertown for the DUMBO arts festival, if you gave me a receipt you would have gotten a banana, or a GOLDEN banana.
It was called “Bananas for receipts”

3 - The Tape! Micro-release , original silk-screened art, hand-numbered, on sicsic tapes : SK Orchestra live at the Flux Factory.
Dust off your tape player and dig in. Check out the art by Paula de Castro.

4- A little pic of me in Rachel Mason‘s Opera “Alien Suns” this was a gas!

Now that the PAS tour is over there is more space, but also more time to  work.  On April 30th I’ll be at Blue Monday playing with Lawry Romani from Zilmrah and Chris Haack .  It’s curated by Robert Pepper of PAS and will include Amber Brien, Bob Seibert, Valerie Kuehne and more.

I’m very excited about recent and upcoming collaborations with folks like Jim Tuite, Richard Lainhart, Philip White, and Anthony Donovan of the Vultures (who also does the Classwar Kareoke Survey).  I am so excited, that I’m going to make you wait on some of the details.    But I will tell you about a remix that I did of Richard Lainhart’s “Cranes Fly West” that will be coming out on his next release on Ex Ovo.  Jim Tuite made a video to go along with the remix, that you can view at Certain Circuits.

It’s been a busy holiday season! I hope you had a blessed one. Here are a few of my latest comings and goings.

This spring, I’ll be going on a 3 week tour of Europe with PAS, hitting spots like the CocArt festival hosted by HATI, Knot Gallery in Athens, Greece, the experimontag (that is the correct spelling) at Madame Claude in Berlin, a few shows in Lithuania with Agharta Label and Booking, and more. I’m applying for a grant from the US Embassy in Lithuania to help pay for all of this, so keep your fingers crossed!

Also, the new PAS Alrealon release, “Reconstruction” is out! Mixed by Robert L. Pepper, and featuring Dave Tamura, FluiD, LaptopAcidXperience, Black Saturn, John 3:16, Big Brother on Acid, and Zilmrah.

We met our funding goal for the Omega Sound Fix, and we’re excited to repeat and expand the festival next year. Thanks to all of our lovely backers who helped us meet our goal! Including, in no particular order: Alfa Art Gallery, Patrick Durek, Lisa Woodley, Steve Bumgarner, Liz Migliore, Dennis Strong, Shawn Fafarra, Dan Century, Jesse Fairbairn, Jim Tuite, Anne Percoco, Justin Zaremba, Prita Patel, Buddy Schrieber, Henry Prol, Jay Van Dyke, Matt Prol, Bern and the Brights, Val Henderson, Leigh and Neil Selden, Michiko Mull, Brian Bolanowski, Megan Gibbons, Brendan Doohan, Polly Moller, Matt McMickle, Community Sound, Scott Vizioli, Nadia Awais, Liz Migliore, Charles Hardy, and Joe Dingerdissen