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


A truly diverse feast of innovative music!
Sunday Nov 20th
13 Thames, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn
$5
PJ’s not required8:30pm – SK Orchestra – Ambient / Experimental
9:10pm – Loop B – Brazillian Junk Percussion
9:50pm – Badmitten (damien olsen) – Electro/Lounge/Space chillOut/ Post Rave Ambient
10:20pm – Amar Chaudhary (catsynth) – electronic instruments with “modern-clasicical”, jazz and world-music
11pm – Doom Trumpet (simple, meditative, layered pop songs) 

 

* Saturday, Nov 26th, A night of Experi-MENTAL music
@ Theaterlab: 137 WEST FOURTEENTH STREET – NEW YORK
$10 with complementary wine.
7pm
featuring:
PAS
Richard Lainhart and Lucio Menegon
Koning’s Blauw
Amar Chaudhary
‘History of the Future’ live film score directed by Richard Lainhart with ‘The Orchestra of the Future’.

I will be playing here in lots of different capacities.

* Solo Cloud Cloud set at the Court Tavern Saturday 12/17/2011 , details soon.

 

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!

 

- The SK Orchestra and PAS at
„KunstZwerg“ Art Festival
September 2nd to 4th 2011 in Zweibrücken/Germany

SKO’s International Debut!

- PAS at Electro-musicfest at Huguenot
“The woodstock of electronic music”
Sept 11th 5pm in the theater
click here for directions/ details

– One of my tracks is on the compilation Classwar Karaoke Survey 015!

- ALIEN SUNS/ A Supernatural Opera by Rachel Mason and Little Band of Sailors
I’m playing theremin!
September 15th, 9pm at Dixon Place, NYC
$10
The FB Event

Click Here for tix and details

- I have a booth at Bartertown, by The Heather Hart Experience
at the DUMBO Arts Festival!

September 24th and 25th (Saturday and Sunday)
Click here for directions/details
My booth is called “Bananas for receipts” - I’ll be trading bananas in exchange for receipts.
Bring your receipts and other stuff for trade!

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I’m very excited to be participating in….

- The Experi-MENTAL festival III
Fri-Sunday, August 5th-7th
Presented by PAS and Alrealon Music
Curated by PAS and Valerie Kuehne
Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
SK Orchestra’s set is Saturday 8pm
But I will sitting in with Invisible Hand on Friday at 10pm
and Valerie Kuehne and Chris Haack on Sunday

 

-The SK Orchestra’s first international performance at „KunstZwerg“ Art Festival, and another set by PAS
is taking place September 2nd to 4th 2011 in Zweibrücken/Germany. Big thanks to our dear friends Brandstifter and Tanja, and of course my amigo and bandmate, Mr. SK100,  Robert L. Pepper, without whom I wouldn’t be doing any of this.

and….

A small label in Frankfurt, sicsictapes, is distributing a two sided SKO tape to the world-wide experimental scene!

You get more of what you focus on. Why? Because a thought is a physical thing, an electric whiz-bomb, and like all physical things it has a frequency.  And when you play a C on a stringed instrument around other strings tuned to C, all of the other C’s start ringing sympathetically (as well as other notes in its overtone series, but I don’t think I should get into that here ;) .  And when you think a thought, other thoughts on the same frequency start ringing. And now I’m resonating on the level of a fresh avocado, and now on the level of some cafe con leche with cinnamon dust on top.  And to me, those are some frequencies that are worth resonating. 

 

And now….

1 – The SK Orchestra is back!

Sunday July 10th at

ABC No Rio COMA SERIES

Show starts at 7pm

w/ special guest Bob seibert

2 – PAS goes to New England

119 Gallery Boston, MA

Saturday July 9th

7:30pm

3 – Anne(my girlfriend)’s NYC debut solo show

Field Studies

at A.I.R. gallery

On display until July 17th

click above for details

4 – The Experi-MENTAL festival III

Fri-Sunday, August 5th-7th

Presented by PAS and Alrealon Music

Curated by PAS and Valerie Kuehne

SK Orchestra’s set at Saturday 8pm Saturday

Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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European Tour, 20 days, 5 countries

PAS is touring Europe and playing a shows and a few festivals in Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Greece, and Germany.  We’re very excited about returning to CocArt Festival this year where we’ll play on the same bill as Philippe Petit, Hati, and many more.  You can read all about it on my…..

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Ok, I’m clearly not a celebrity with a drug habit and scores of teeny boppers banging down the door of my tour bus.  But, still, it’s pretty neat to be playing festivals and shows in other countries.  If you’re curious and/or bored, you can read about my experiences on my blog here.

April 8th Show at Alfa Gallery in New Brunswick w/ International Acts
108 Church Street New Brunswick, NJ
Time : 7pm
Cost: $6
All Ages
Richard Lainhart/ PHASTI (Poland/Brooklyn) / Yan Jun (china) / blithe(doll)

Hati is coming in from Poland to perform with PAS.  Short story: We traveled to Poland last year to play Hati’s festival but it had been canceled due to the plane crash that happened around that time.  We still met with them, and the museum there sponsored a recording session involving PAS and Hati.  Now Hati is coming to the states and we will play on April 8th as P.H.A.S.T.I.  (The CD is available on the net label, Alrealon, by the way)  Would be great if you could make it!  Also Yan Jun is on tour from China, and will be on the bill, as well as Richard Lainhart and blithe(doll).  Should be a neat time and good networking opportunity.

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