Wobbly, Tania Chen, Max Kutner, Marcos Fernandes

Noge Underground 3: California Dreaming

Tania Chen, Wobbly electronics, found objects + Max Kutner guitar + Marcos Fernandes percussion

サンフランシスコ/ベイエリアで1990年より作曲/演奏活動を続けているウォブリー/Wobbly（本名ジョン•ライデカー/Jon Leidecker）はエレクトロニック•ミュージック、サンプリングのパイオニアである。マトモスやエクスペリメンタル／アヴァン・バンドのネガティブランド、ディーター•メビウス、フレッドフリスなどとコラボやプロデュースを手掛けている。今回は今注目されているロンドン出身、サンフランシスコ滞在エクスペリメンタル•アーティストのタニア•チェン/Tania Chenと共に初来日。ロサンゼルス主審の若手ギターリストのマックス•クットナーも最近注目されているインプロヴァイザー/作曲家。初来日の3人～お見逃しなく。

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TANIA CHEN is a performance, sound artist, and free improviser. She performs internationally on piano, keyboards, digital, vintage electronics, found objects and video. She creates sound compositions utilizing found moments, found objects, electronics and video. 

Tania has recorded with Stewart Lee, Steve Beresford, Henry Kaiser, William Winant, Wadada Leo Smith, Thurston Moore, David Toop, Jon Raskin and with the bands Bad Jazz and Tender Buttons. Forthcoming recordings are John Cage's "Electronic Music for Piano". Her solo recordings include Michael Parsons & Cornelius Cardew's Piano music, John Cage's "Music of Changes". Her forthcoming recordings are Andrew Poppy's piano music and John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano performed with Thurston Moore, David Toop and Jon Leidecker. Tania is Sound Artist in Residence at Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco.  

http://taniachen.com/

WOBBLY / Jon Leidecker has been producing music under the name Wobbly since 1990, improvising with recordings to produce music which inherently resists the act of being captured. Recent performances deploy a battery of mobile devices driven by their built-in microphones, reacting instantly with error-prone variations on the notes and sounds they believe they are hearing: a tightly-knit orchestra with inhuman reflexes, resulting in structures which the human performer influences more than controls. Your phone is the instrument, and your phone is always listening. Wobbly's live and studio collaborations with Negativland, Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, Matmos, Fred Frith, John Oswald, Thomas Dimuzio, Huun-Huur-Tu, Sagan and the Freddy McGuire Show compliment live mix media collages broadcast twice a month on KPFA FM's Over The Edge radio program.

http://www.detritus.net/wobbly/


MAX KUTNER is a guitarist, composer and instructor originally from Las Vegas, NV. As an instrumentalist, Max's focus is on new works for the electric guitar as well the promotion of electric guitar in new performance settings. His current concert programs feature radical restructurings of older works from all musical epochs utilizing new technologies as an extension of the original intent of composers, as well as avenues for improvisation. As a composer, Max translates several of his non-musical passions: namely literature and architecture, into a distinctly singular musical language that is neither strictly exclusive or accessible to performers. His compositions have been featured in showcases at CalArts and the Wulf, television station KCET and radio stations KPFK (Los Angeles, CA), FRSC (Santa Cruz, CA), KCBS (Seattle), KBOO (Portland, OR), KMHD (Portland, OR), WFMU (Newark, NJ), KXLU (Los Angeles, CA), WVUD (Newark, DE), WCBN (Ann Arbor, MI), KSDS (San Diego, CA) and KUNR (Reno, NV).

Max was responsible for developing, producing and performing multiple instruments in the U.S. premiere performance of Mike Keneally's The Universe Will Provide (REDCAT) and has also participated in West Coast premiere performances of pieces by Sofia Gubaidulina (REDCAT) and Ulrich Krieger (Beyond Baroque). He has also performed as a member of the Johnny Vatos Boingo Dance Party featuring former members of Oingo Boingo, the Grandmothers of Invention (Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Napoleon Murphy Brock) playing the music of Frank Zappa before a worldwide audience, the Alphonso Johnson Band, Henry Kaiser and Lili Haydn. Presently, Max is the lead guitarist of the Magic Band (John French, Denny Walley and Mark Boston) which performs the music of Captain Beefheart around the world.

His performance credits also include dozens of recitals with various singers and chamber groups as well as leading several live bands who are actively performing in the greater Los Angeles area. He has also performed and/or recorded world music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Norway, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Persia, Nigeria,Turkey, Ireland and Scotland. Max is being featured on an upcoming album of John Cage's indeterminate works for Mode Records and has previously been a soloist with the University of Nevada Chamber Choir and Guitar Ensemble. Max has also performed as lead guitarist for Truckee River Community College (TMCC) productions of HAIR and RENT and has contributed to the sound design of an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play, Desire Under the Elms. From 2012-2013, he taught on the Adjunct Faculty of CalArts as guitar instructor for non-majors. Additionally, Max is the Artist Liaison for the Los Angeles-based creative music label, Orenda Records.

http://maxkutner.com/


MARCOS FERNANDES 横浜で生まれたマルコス・フェルナンデスは、カリフォルニアで30年以上、パフォーマー、プロデューサー、キュレイターとして過ごしました。米国、カナダ、メキシコ、香港、日本の各地で、ソロのインプロバイザー、フォノグラファーとして公演し、またパーカッショニスト、サウンドアーティストとしてさまざまなアンサンブル、ダンサー、ビジュアルアーティスト達と共演してきました。フェルナンデスの作品はAccretions、Bake/Staalplaat、Circumvention、Cobra Discos、Disk Union,、Enban、Less Than TV、Pax、Pfmentum、Phonography.org、Public Eyesore、Solitary B他から60点以上発表されています。現在のプロジェクトはアルゴノーツ、メルト、国際オバケ連合、ザ・メタファーズ、タナボタ、東京フォノグラファーズ・ユニオン。

http://www.marcosfernandes.com/