Name=Kim Cascone
Affiliation=anechoicmedia
Country=USA
Email Address=kim@anecoicmedia.com
Home Page=http://www.anechoicmedia.com

Bio=Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received
his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in
the early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the
New School in New York City. In the 1980's, after moving to San Francisco
and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David
Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.
Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a
label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier
electronic music label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the
company in early 1996 to pursue his love of sound design and went to work
for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer.
Currently he is working for Staccato Systems as a Voicing Engineer where he
designs new sounds using an object oriented sound development tool called
SynthBuilder. Since 1980, Kim has released more than 15 albums of electronic
music and has worked as a collaborator and producer on numerous projects
including Organum, Merzbow,Thessalonians, Haruomi Hosono among others.
Cascone's compositions have been performed at the International Computer
Music Conference, CalArts Electronic Music Festival, Woodstockhausen Music
Festival and recently traveled to Germany where he performed new work in
Frankfurt and Leipzig. His latest CD is titled "cathodeFlower" and is
published by Mille Plateaux/Ritornell (Germany).

Type=Performance
Abstract=visual concept:
essentially the visuals are generated by a Cellular Automata program called
"bomb"...the program accepts music input via CD or live input and uses it to
change the rules that determine the "born/live/die" cycle of any given cell
group...other rules determine color and how the cell groups replace one
another thereby creating interesting fluid, organic textures...
examples of content produced by the software developer can be found at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/1/index.html
my wife Kathleen has developed the visuals that the program uses as starting
points as well as custom color palettes and images sequences, and I will be
doing a live mix of the visuals on the PC or Mac while I also handle the
live mix of the audio...

audio concept:
the musical piece "cathodeFlower" is the second installation in a triptych
(blueCube( ), cathodeFlower, residualism) that deals with computer generated
soundscapes...the idea is that each CD replicates a virtual space that can
transport the listener...all the material is created and mixed in the
computer using: Csound, Max/MSP, AudioSculpt, Soundhack and SynthBuilder.
The main technique used in the composition if that of "herniation" where the
newer material references earlier work by forming a "guaze layer" which
let's the transmuted early work "peek" through while partially obscuring the
original source material.
Technical Requirements=equipment needs:
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visuals:
- (OPTIONAL) 200 MHz Pentium II PC with 64M RAM, 3 Gig hard drive, monitor,
mouse, keyboard, 10x CDROM drive, and a video card that outputs an SVGA,
composite, S-Video or component signal.
** (or a comparable MacIntosh PPC)
****(if you cannot supply a Mac or PC then I can bring my laptop to generate
the images)

- (MANDATORY) a LCD projector powerful enough to cast an image in a darkened
room appropriate to the size of the venue. the LCD projector should take
SVGA, composite, S-Video or component type inputs...the LCD projector should
be tested beforhand so the combination is known to work

audio:
- 4 CD players (or 2 dual DJ CD players)
- Mackie 16 channel mixer (or comparable DJ mixer)
- 1 outboard effect (ie: fx box with reverb, delay, flanger, etc)
- cables, adapters and power strips for all equipment
- a technical person who will be responsible for the proper operation of the
equipment
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hello,
I'm arranging a summer tour in Europe for the last 2 weekds of June...I'd like to hear from anyone who would be interested in either performing and/or helping to set up concerts in the following cities: Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Berlin, & Vienna... the material I plan on performing will be in the glitch/microsonic/post-digital vein so artists mining similar territory would be prefered...
please respond to me off the list if you have any contacts or desire to share a bill...I have a performance proposal I can send out to interested parties...
Cheers!
KIM


tour plan...Aug14 - Sept1 (or later due to wanting to see the Ars Electronica)



* Frankfurt
    - venue:
    - artists: m2 (panacea)
Stockholm (fly)
     - venue:
     - artists: COH, Hausswolff
Zurich
    - venue:
    - artists: Voicecrack
* Vienna
    - venue: Rhiz
    - artists: Pita, cd_slopper
* Leipzig?
    - venue: ?
    - artists: ?
* Berlin
    - venue: Podewil
    - artists: Monolake
* Frankfurt
 fly => SFO