August 20th - Starry Wisdom: An Ambient Music Experience in Minneapolis!

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aliensporebomb

From 7-10 PM at the Historic Mounds Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota

An evening of ambient musical soundscapes, created by four different solo guitar visionaries. Join us as we take a journey through previously unknown musical spaces - relaxing, pretty, strange, terrifying, or wherever the path leads next.

* Chrysanthemum (Awren Nuit)
* Ionosphere Casting Shadows (Todd Madson) (ME!)
* Explosive Space Modulator (Dave Stagner)
* Primadonahue (Michael Donahue)

The show is at the historic Mounds Theatre in St Paul, a beautiful and comfortable venue. It will be free and open to the public. Donations to the Mounds Theatre itself in lieu of tickets will be gratefully accepted! The Mounds will be selling beer and wine at the show.

Combining guitars and electronic processing to create improvised musical soundscapes is an unusual art form that is rarely performed in concert venues. We are incredibly grateful for the Mounds Theatre's support in providing a venue for such a unique musical experience.

If you're in the upper midwest, you might want to attend!  There hasn't been anything like this in many years so far as we are able to ascertain.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

aliensporebomb

My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

gumbo

Dang !!  Wish I could be there.. :'(

Hope it goes REALLY well!

Cheers from Oz,
Peter
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carlb

Dang! My girlfriend got us tickets to the Kevin Kling thing tomorrow night. Really would have loved to check this project out.
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chrish

What a great local event. Is there going to be a compliation cd release?

aliensporebomb

Check this out - room mic'ed mixes.  Board mixes come later.  I still have the basic loops on my looper.

It was a good gig and I had fun seeing the other performers.

But, you would not believe how LOUD it was up there.  I haven't played that loud in probably five years.  Didn't need to be that loud in that wonderful theater space, I kept turning down on my end end until it was pretty pleasant.  I'd played that space before too, old theater with wonderful acoustics.  There's some talk about doing this again.  We ended up having some issues with attendance because Metallica, Wilco, Kevin Kling, a theater festival and the first day of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival all occurred on the same day as this event.  Still, our audience stayed until the end.  That was great.

The room mixes start in the middle of Mike Donahue's Zappa-esque set and continue through Awren (Chrysanthemum), me and then Dave Stagner.

https://soundcloud.com/fm_heatsink/sets/starry-wisdom-an-ambient-music

And:
https://soundcloud.com/fm_heatsink/starry-wisdom-an-ambient-music-experience-part-2?in=fm_heatsink/sets/starry-wisdom-an-ambient-music

There's video as well at the event page but the audio seems to best convey what happened.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

chrish

I forwarded the music to your performance (didn't have time to hear it all) and I gotta say,,NICE. The last song you played had a lot of emotion in it. Once I figure out how to do it, I gotta get that CD.

aliensporebomb

I just got the stereo mixes from off the board - really nicely clean.  Very little needs to be done although the between song patter of the room mixes and applause makes it a little more fun maybe.  Maybe I'll find a way to mix the two - stay tuned.  Glad you liked it.  That last piece came out of nowhere, really.  Surprised me.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.