The Rashomon Effect V - Philadelphia, PA - 4/26/2008
Join Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd for the fifth installment of The Rashomon Effect, an ongoing performance series featuring an improvised score based on the storytelling method employed in Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomôn.
The term "Rashomon effect" refers to the effect of subjectivity on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
Saturday, April 26 at 8PM
Mascher Space Coop
155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
(Mascher Street and Cecil B. Moore Ave.)
Philadelphia, PA
$5
Movement: Allison Lorenzen, Jil Stifel, Emily Sweeney, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Daniele Strawmyre
Sound: Bilwa, Mikronesia, Rick Henderson, William Fields
Projections by Blaine Siegel
[Photos]
International Computer Music Conference 2006 - New Orleans, LA - 11/9/2006
1. Indra
[Video of Performance w/ Dance]
[Official Conference Website]
Live at Mojo 13 - Wilmington, DE - 5/26/2006
1. indra
2. nama (b)
3. improv 1
4. brechia (erosion)
5. coretone
6. improv 2
7. doux
8. seaglass
9. improv 3
[Photos]
Live at Gate to Moonbase Alpha - The Rotunda - Philadelphia, PA - 5/19/2006
1. indra
2. fwoado
3. nama (b)
4. brechia (erosion)
5. colors
6. doux
7. seaglass
8. hivernal
9. coda
[Photos]
Live at The Ambient Ping - Toronto, Canada - 4/25/2006
1. indra
2. fwoado
3. nama (b)
4. brechia (erosion)
5. coretone
6. doux
7. seaglass
8. hivernal
[Photos]
Live at the Philly Winter Festival of Delicate Creative Music - The Rotunda - Philadelphia, PA - 1/4/2006
1. Nama
2. Watermark
Live at Ars Electrik - The Aqua Lounge - Philadelphia, PA - 10/29/2005
1. Namaskara
2. Sunwire
3. Watermark
4. Ujjayi Dub
5. Hakea (plus)
Live at Hologram - Manhattan Room - Philadelphia, PA - 7/14/2005
1. HelloB
2. Wooble
3. Untitled
4. Sakai
5. Ainu
[Flyer]
Live at Electro-Music 2005 Conference - Cheltenham, PA - 6/4/2005
1. HelloB
2. Untitled
3. Gengrains (improv)
4. Sakai
[Photos]
Live at Chaise 2 Release Party - Southpaw - Brooklyn, NY - 5/6/2005
1. Hello Brooklyn
2. Wooble
3. Sakai
[Photos]
Live at the 4W5 Cafe - Wilmington, DE - 4/4/2005
1. Sakai
2. Brechia/On
3. Untitled
4. Ainu
5. Radial
Live at the Rocket Cat Cafe - Philadelphia, PA - 4/2/2005
1. Brechia/On/Untitled
2. Ainu
3. Sakai
Live at Hologram - Philadelphia, PA - 2/2/2005
1. Untitled
2. Wooble
3. Falcor (WF)
4. Aloeswood
5. Brechia (on)
6. Radial
Tsunami Benefit Concert - Wilmington, DE - 1/28/2005
1. Wooble
2. Radial
Team Techno live at The Five Spot - Philadelphia, PA - 10/17/2004
1. Falcor
2. Musicfile
3. Girlfriend Demo / Thriller
4. Afterglow
5. Transient Spektar
6. The Rupture
7. Bomb Diggy
[Photos]
Live at UCAL - Feedback Concert Series - Philadelphia, PA - 9/11/2004
1. Aloeswood
2. Buttons
3. Brechia
4. Slipp
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
Live at Hologram - Philadelphia, PA - 9/1/2004
1. Aloeswood
2. Buttons
3. Brechia
4. Slipp
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
Live at The Khyber (FM) - Philadelphia, PA - 7/29/2004
1. Slipp
2. Brechia
3. Another
4. Buttons
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
[ Stream entire set] [Flyer] [Photos]
Live at Silk City (Knobs) - Philadelphia, PA - 7/27/2004
1. Slipp
2. Brechia
3. Another
4. Buttons
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
[ Stream entire set] [Flyer] [Photos]
Live at Philadelphia Laptop Battle 2 - Philadelphia, PA - 5/13/2004
Round 1: Brechia
Round 2: Buttons
*I apologize for the distortedness of the recordings. I'll eventually figure out this newfangled recording device.
[Grooves Magazine Write-up] [hi res PDF version]
[Photos] [Flyer] [My write-up]
Live at the Philadelphia Electronic Music and Art Festival - Philadelphia, PA - 5/1/2004
1. Brechia
2. Buttons
3. Slipp
4. X-Song
[Stream entire set] [Photos] [Flyer]
Live at Hologram - Philadelphia, PA - 1/7/2004
Complete Live Set, 60 min 20 sec, 82.8MB [Stream]
1. Build
2. Another
3. Slipp
4. BoKP
5. NtTest
6. Brechia
7. X-Song
8. Peace Piece
Photos here.
The Conversation Group
Brandon Schakola, Steve Wolfe, Cliff Winton, and William Fields
Live at EIDE - Newark, DE - 9/8/2003
Complete Live Set, 72min 30sec, 83MB
This set was completely improvisational. Everything was done on the spot. Nothing was prepared or practiced ahead of time.
Photos here.
Live at EIDE - Newark, DE - 8/4/2003
Complete Live Set, 63min 34sec, 73MB
1. Beetle
2. Native
3. Bells of Khyber Pass
4. Another
5. Metal Interlude
6. Untitled (2002)
7. X-song
8. Peace Piece*
9. Miss Waldron's Red Colobus**
* Based on the original by Bill Evans.
** Encore, not live. (Ran out of live stuff.)
Photos here and here.
Live at Brown University - 5/16/2003
Complete Live Set, 31min 53sec, 36MB
It was an outdoor electronic music event called "We Are the Robots" on the last day of finals at Brown University. The space was a beautiful second floor outdoor terrace, but unfortunately it was unseasonably cold, overcast, and gray. Towards the end of the event it was probably in the high 30s to low 40s. Thankfully the beer, wine, and pizza was flowing and I had some extra clothes to bundle up.
The show opened around 7pm with a lovely IDM tag team iTunes DJ set between Mark Domino and Adam Florin. This was followed by Bennett Barbakow with some very nice abstract instrumental hiphop/live sampled & looped scratching. Next up was Adam with a combination of home-brew wind controller ambience and granular pop-tune cut-ups ala Bit Meddler/Prefuse 73. Then came Josh Walker with a set of punishing industrial noise, and Joe Winter with more organic semi-rhythmic noise structures. During Joe's set the campus police arrived and told us to turn it down, as they had received complaints.
By this point it was around 10pm, it was very cold, and most of the crowd had left. There were probably around 20 people left when I went on.
Before the show, Mark and I had set up some inter-computer communications, whereby I would send him real-time note and controller information that he could use to trigger visual processes and events. It was working perfectly... that is, until we got on stage. We didn't have time to troubleshoot, so Mark did some more freeform visual interpretation. He projected on a huge 20'x20' screen behind us.
I am fairly happy with the way my performance went. It was a bit rough at times, and there were a few moments where my system hung for a split second, throwing off the rhythm, but otherwise it went fairly well. I've learned from it and got some good ideas for ways to improve my performance environment, so next time should be better.
To give you some idea of what is going on in my performance:
There are no loops, nothing is pre-recorded, and there is no automation involved. Every change that you hear is manually triggered. So, when you hear the melody turn more random, or a lowpass filter hit the drums, or the bass drop out, or the pitch suddenly shoot down three octaves, or you hear the vibes switch to a different melody, it was because I was turning a knob, hitting a button, or clicking on something. I can make each piece as short or as long as I want, as distorted or as quiet as I want, and as rhythmic or as ambient as I want. It's much more fun than winamp, that's for sure.
William Fields live @ MIT
1. Amaryllis (live)
2. Clrs (live)
3. Native (live)*
4. Second (live)*
5. Miss Waldron's Red Colobus
6. Manitou
7. Another (live)
8. Searchlight Needles
9. Kulma
10. Bulb
11. Peace Piece (live)**
* Contains unintentional heat-induced computer glicthes.
** Based on the original by Bill Evans.
All live tracks are completely unedited and unmastered. All non-live tracks are available for download on the music page.
