.microsound talk on -empyre-

Sound at the molecular
level - slices of sound that are less than .1 second in length - are the realm
of .microsound.  Practicioners stretch and massage these tiny bits of sound into
spatially intense, surprisingsly expressive works that cover a wide range of
styles.  On -empyre- for the month of August are five practitioners of this art
form.
--->
Trace Reddell { http://www.du.edu/~treddell/ } has been
exploring the intersections of audio and multimedia production, digital
networks, media theory, literary criticism, and the history of drug culture for
almost fifteen years. He resides in Lafayette, Colorado, where he spends much of
his time in Pharmakopolis. Trace's literary sound and multimedia pieces include
LITMIXER (2001) { http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/litmix/index.htm
}, featured in Electronic Book Review's music/sound/noise issue, and "Machinery
for Dreaming" { http://llc.du.edu/faculty/treddell/palimpsest/reddell_machinery_for_dreaming.mp3
}, an exercise in .txt-to-.midi conversion exploring the work of Thomas De
Quincey. Collaborative projects and affiliations include the pharmakon.t remix {
http://www.djrabbi.com/ } work at djrabbi.com
with Mark Amerika, Chad Mossholder of Twine, and Rick Silva; and Pharmakopolis
Broadcasting Services, an upcoming series of live webcast animations created for
Randall Packer's Tel-SPAN network. Publications on networked laptop performances
are forthcoming from Leonardo Music Journal and Electronic Almanac and
Contemporary Music
Review.
---> john
hudak { http://www.johnhudak.net/ } bio: I began piano
lessons in first grade. I remember the teacher was Japanese, and her home had a
feeling of preciseness. The piano I had my lessons on was immaculate... the keys
were smooth, cool, ivory, with a definite weight under my little
fingers.
---> Glenn
Bach { http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/sound.html } is a
sound artist who maps the sonic terrain of the city through detailed sound
walks, manipulated field recordings, blind sound drawings, and found poems. His
audio works include a recently released four-track EP on the Stasisfield label {
http://www.stasisfield.com/ }. With a recent
appearance at Sound/Shift Oakland, Bach has upcoming performances at the Big Sur
Experimental Music Festival and the CPEACH Summer Series in Eureka, California.
He improvises with two other musicians as Luminous Flux, and directs a larger
group, The Double Blind Ensemble, for his composed works. His poetry has been
published in numerous small press literary journals, and he received three
Pushcart Prize nominations for his poetry in print. He currently lives in Long
Beach, California, with his future
wife.
---> Sound and
visual artist John Kannenberg { http://www.whistlingpariah.com } formed the
experimental improvisational duo Wireshock with guitarist Scott Kane in 1997 and
began exploring electronics and computer-aided composition. In 1999, John began
work as a solo sound artist using manipulated field recordings as the foundation
for loop-based generative electronic pieces. His major audio and visual works
deal with a variety of themes, including atmospherics, transmissions and
interference { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/aero/ },
melancholy and nostalgia { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases_02/2002-miles/
}, and abstracted narrative tales. John has exhibited several sound art
installations, alone and as part of a collective known as J3. In April 2002 John
created Stasisfield.com { http://www.stasisfield.com/ }, an experimental
mp3 record label and digital art
gallery.
---> tobias
c. van Veen { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org } is a sound
& net.artist { http://www.thisistheonlyart.com }, curator,
techno-turntablist, and writer. He has been enmeshed with musikal resistance
culture since 1993 / working with -- tactical radio {  http://www.citr.ca },
TAZ occupations { http://www.shrumtribe.com } / performance &
tactical media { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog  }. ||
tobias is currently a researcher on the "Culture of Cities" Project { http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/cultureofcities/
} at McGill University in Montr��al, Canada, where he is completing his MA
in Communications on the politics of sonic microcultures { http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0307/msg00035.html
} & remixing a book of collaborative sonic writings on electrofied sounds
and events.

hallucinations & antics . tobias c. van Veen :: .words in the realm.