THE IXMAE SOUNDSCAPE
PERFORMANCE SERIES | SF | 07

Curium
Curium presents the North American premiere of Nowever: a video installation of visual environments that accompany the work of E.E.Cummings. Curium pairs the poems of Cummings to individuals who speak with distinctive voices, matching the quality of the piece to the essence of their personalities. The projected video environments bring each poem into clarity and focus, while the delicate music brings the delight and wonder of Cummings’ work to life. Nowever has recently been featured on NPR's Echoes.

Nux Vomica.
Nux Vomica is Alan and Jenny Herrick (Auricular Records) and Evan Sornstein (Dynamophone Records), an ambient sound art trio formed in 1991. They utilize digital and analog electronics, found sound, and modified machinery to achieve a unique trance-like aural environment. Long-active members in the experimental music community, their work has included involvement in and collaborations with Big City Orchestre, Haters, Freeland, Voice of Eye, Battery, St. John the Baptist, Ultrasound, Sense/Net, and Concerto Infernal. They will be presenting all new material after a four-year hiatus.

2:07am
19-year old Randy Chairs began his project 2:07am from experimentations on how the early morning (or late night) affects music composition. He is currently working on compiling his results into a full-length album and will be presenting some selections from it at Ixmae. He will be accompanying his work with geometric- and symmetry-oriented slide and video projection.

Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson is a native of Iowa and lets the future speak through him. His awareness of how music can have a deep impact on people’s lives is apparent in his compositions, from the detailed structures to the free improvisations. Whether it is his unique use of the laptop as an instrument or the incorporation of every day sounds into one of his compositions, he is always listening for the next thing he can do to push music onwards and upwards.

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Zoe Keating
Avant-cellist Zoë Keating is a one-woman string quartet who creates "sublime minimalist music with a pop sensibility" (SF Weekly). She uses live electronic sampling and repetition to layer the sound of her cello, creating rich, multi-layered compositions. Zoë has been featured on NPR's Day to Day and Public Radio International's Echoes, and her music is used regularly in television commercials, on public television, and in documentaries and dance productions. Zoë's self-released album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" made it to #2 on the iTunes classical and electronica charts. Thriving on live performance and improvisation, Zoë performs regularly across North Amercia and Europe, opening for artists like Imogen Heap, Rasputina, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), The California Guitar Trio and The Legendary Pink Dots.

Lullatone
Lullatone makes cute music. They call it pajama pop.Thier latest CD, "pajama pop pour vous", is pillow-pop music with a bedtime beat, a sleepytime samba. In 2003 they released “little songs about raindrops” featuring “a tiny orchestra of toy instruments” to offer their idea of how raindrops might sound. Their first two albums mainly use sine tones to make small symphonies.

Disinterested
Tresspassers William guitarist Matt Brown crafts shoegaze-ambient like no other. Easy and gorgeous, humble and encouraging. Currently on tour promoting his upcoming Album 'Behind Us' Disinterested grew out of the desire to make ambient music with only a guitar, exploring limits of effects pedals and experimentation in the recording process. Originally intended to be a solo project, Matt found the desire to collaborate hard to resist and has enjoyed working with many people including his band mates, folks over the Internet he's never met (Ma-Chan, Klassen), classical singer Dino Palazzi, and, on the new record, renown guitarist Bill Frisell.

RF & Lili De La Mora
Ryan Francesconi is a multi-instrumentalist, media artist, and programmer. Francesconi blends organic instrumentation (voice, guitars, strings, horns, field recordings) with subtle glitchwork, pop sensibilities, and his own software. He is a co-director of the San Francisco-based record label Odd Shaped Case. They will be playing songs from thier new release ‘Eleven Continents’ with Lili De La Mora’s breathy voice, wisps of cello, trumpet, flute, and harp (Joanna Newsom).