As part of the POSSIBLE
an exhibition at the Berkley Art Museum
Alan Bishop and I will be showing some film excerpts, listening to some radio collage, unearthing strange audio and talking about Sublime Frequencies on Sunday Feb 16 at 1:00pm at the Berkley Art Museum
Facebook event HERE if you care about such things.
Performance in Oakland–February 13
At the White Horse Bar
through the auspices of the Stranded Record Store
playing with Alvarius B.
Here is a link to tell you where and when.
and a facebook event HERE
An Evening of New Music by the Seaside
At the Venice Beach home of Renee Petropuolos and Roger White
Saturday December 7th, 2013 at 7PM
Featuring solo works by Steve Roden, Robert Millis and the trio of Gregory Lenczycki, Jorge Martin and Nicholas Vincent Sky Walsh.
Please RSVP to gregorylenczycki@gmail.com for the address
Details on the performers:
Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles living in Pasadena. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text and performance.
Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins, rmillis) has a new LP out entitled “relief” and recently returned from a 9 month trip to India where, as a Fulbright research scholar, he studied Indian music, sound art and the early recording industry. For this performance he will be working with the resonances and dissonances of overlapping tanpura drones alongside abstracted field recordings.
robertmillis.net
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/848500-rmillis-relief
indiantalkingmachine.tumblr.com
Gregory Lenczycki is a Los Angeles based composer and performer. His work explores the architecture of sound and the rhythms of space through both electronic and acoustic means. Recent performances include the commissioned requiem entitled You Are Not Alone, the opera Brainchild II, the song cycle Mont Blanc based upon Shelley’s poem of the same name and video and sound work now on display at the Centre for Living Arts in Mobile AL.
http://gregorylenczycki.bandcamp.com
Jorge Martin, part research scientist at Cedars-Sinai, part musician, is one-half of the duo Spastic Colon. His sounds originate from sine waves, pulses, feedback, and from people with whom he collaborates. Returning to his classically-trained musical beginnings, Jorge is intently focused upon the continued mastery of his clarinet.
http://www.spasticcolon.org
Nicholas Walsh is an artist and musician currently residing in Jamaica. A recipient of degrees from Bowdoin College and San Francisco Art Institute, he has been on the outer fringes of the American noise-rock scene for quite a while. He is a prolific home-recorder of self-composed music, and examples of his work may be found at: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=powerprocess
Here’s a link to a pdf of the review: https://robertmillis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/page_53x.pdf
Performing as part of Paul Kikuchi’s BAt of No Bird Island Ensemble.
http://paulkikuchi.com/work/music/projects/no-bird-island
playing a track from the forthcoming “relief” LP along with Popul Vuh and other great musics…
New LP out on the lovely Helen Scarsdale label.
From the label press release:
Our man Millis is a Climax Golden Twin and a noted curator of globe trotting / time traveling esoterica, amongst other accolades. In the former category, Millis and Jeffery Taylor steadily release some of the most headscratching amalgamations of avant-rock, decontextualized temple music, heightened-state minimalism, and collaged field recordings this side of the Sun City Girls (including the soundtrack to the cult film Session Nine); and in the latter, Millis has published a number of acclaimed anthologies for Sublime Frequencies (Scattered Melodies, This World is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope, Phi Ta Khon, The Crying Princess, etc.) and Dust-To-Digital (our personal favorite, aptly titled Victrola Favorites). With his fingers in so many jars of jam, it can seem like an uncommon occurrence for Millis to release solo work although he is one to smear his sticky hands all over himself in performance, installation, and collaboration. Thus, The Helen Scarsdale Agency is delighted in presenting his latest opus, Relief.
A fever dream of blurred harmonics and ethnomusicological spelunking, Relief repeatedly returns to variations on a peculiar yet beautifully serpentine drone, whose twinkling acoustic properties meld the hallucinatory mouth-music of the Bangladeshi Murung people and the curved air hypnosis of Terry Riley. Millis bookends and interrupts his mysterious miasma with comedic interludes snatched from his lauded collection of antique 78s, maudlin piano tone-clusters, and teleported crescendos of spectral ballroom waltzes. More Nurse With Wound than The Caretaker, this polyglot raga-drone of daytime somnambulism and psychedelic slipperiness speaks to the uneasy borders at psychological, cultural, and geophysical states of being. Oh, to be a human on this planet.
Rob Millis and Matt Shoemaker
at the Chapel Performance Space 8:00pm.
Good Shepherd Center
Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/235826579898968/
More info HERE
Alvarius B (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls)
rmillis
at the Josephine SEATTLE August 23rd 2013
https://www.facebook.com/events/553492754712798/
Happy to be part of this group sound exhibition in Santander, Spain at the Villa Iris, La Fundacion Botin.
New LP due October/November on the Helen Scarsdale Agency label
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New cassette release on Alterity 101
info HERE
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I am part of a sound exhibition in Santader, Spain that opens August 2nd. I will be creating an installation based on the research I have done into early sound recording in India. Also contributing to the catalog.
More information HERE
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Recent interview in Pitchfork about these 2 new Sublime LPs and my work in general:
http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9082-imagined-communities/3/
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Two new Sublime Frequencies LPs I produced and designed:
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Performance at Khoj as part of their Evening of Sound, Delhi. February 2, 2013
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Notes on sound…
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I am the “critic in residence” for Auditions, an international sound art residency at Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi. January 5-February 5, 2013.
http://www.khojworkshop.org/project/12340
http://auditionssoundresidency.tumblr.com
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I’m participating in the Sound Reasons sound art festival in Delhi in November/December, 2012
http://soundreasons.in/sound-reasons-festival-nov-dec-2012/
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photoblog with images from India
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