Friday at Nophest (Nov 24th)
Yuzu Green Tea
Originally uploaded by ravelite. my recollections of an extraordinary event
Friday night was a meeting of electronic music. Since threv and R Garcia have dedicated their label to just that, they brought in many talented musicians from ATL and outside.
When Kelly and I arrived, John tricil helped me set up sound. After playing a short composed intro via the nascent Firefox ChucK plugin, I presented some pieces that have come to adolesence over the past weeks / months, stopping briefly to give a statement of musical purpose. A glitch broke the flow of my dubiously vocal cover of Bowie's "Heroes", which closed the set. (Thanks to everybody who came and listened.)
Luckily I recorded my set and a few others on my MD recorder before it stopped (due to batteries?) Audio from this performance in this entry or nophest-friday.
After the set, I drank some delicious tea and enjoyed the rest of the performances:
- tricil several intense guitar based laptop songs- when he added vocals at the end it reached a climax.
- Tory Merkatroid performed cool downtempo with a band - 2 laptop / electronics + 2 svelte vocalists
- Darby Dust with a set of catchy glitchy laptop music
- R Garcia's new project with Abby - AM sang very cute guitar pop songs
- live beatmaking- (seriously)
- Zach Push Button Action Man mesmerized with an all-hardware 30min set of ambient beats with a battery of samplers, fx, and a theremin connected by patch cables.
- Maui Threv and Ryan Dempsey improvised a duo beatmaking set- brave. Both gentleman were in top form, with signature threvic moments where he dangles the last remnant of the beat in front of you as you reach up in anticipation...
- Jeremy Logikal from Nash Vegas was the star in this event (photo). He was engaging, kinetic, and musical throughout. Both he and Threv seem to come from the same school of performance.
- Matt Larvae performed these ponderous beats and rhythms along with strangely arresting videos: 8bit Tiananmen Square, Puppet Larvae, Nation of Bling. The last piece was a beautiful shoegazy blanket of chordal fuzzy noise.
- Koabra gave a great kinetic drum n' bass performance that resulted in his frame crashing, but he finished with a killer cover from the Nutcracker (Dance of the Suger-Plum Fairy).
All in all, was an ear-opening introduction to ATL electronic musicians.