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RELEASE DATE: Sunday 24 April
2011
ONLINE PRESS
RELEASE + BIOGRAPHIES
THE NEW GAY .
TRIANGLE ARTISTS GROUP . SONIC
CIRCUITS
present
QUEERING SOUND 2011
ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC . MARK BEAZLEY
Artisphere
Dome Theatre 1101
Wilson Boulevard
Compact discs, recordings, publications and other merchandise from
contributors will be available for sale.
Admission is $10.00 and available at the door and online.
Artisphere is two blocks from the Rosslyn Metro (Blue/Orange Line)
Metro station. Free event parking for patrons is available on evenings and
weekends. Please use the N. Kent Street garage entrance after 5:00 p.m.
Validation is required and can be secured at the front desk at any time
during your visit. Please take the elevator to the Main Lobby or "ML" and
turn towards the U.S. Post Office; Artisphere entrance will be directly in
front of you. directions
Live Performers + Digital Contributors
ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC is Bev Stanton,
who was born in the Bahamas and raised near Walt Disney World. She has won
over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Her
music has appeared in shows on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV and other
cable television networks. Stanton is one of 24 female electronic artists
and deejays profiled in Pink Noises: Women in Electronic Music and
Sound (Tara Rodgers; Duke University Press, 2010), alongside Anne
Lockwood, Ikue Mori,
Pauline Oliveros, Le Tigre and Mira Calix. Last year, Stanton released a
30-minute download EP influenced and created with iPhone Touch
applications. Her 19th release, Deeper, was released earlier this year.
Her YouTube channel and blog feature product reviews and demos. For
QUEERING SOUND 11, Bev plans an improvisational
trial-and-error/show-and-tell project with her latest toy, the AKAI
synthstation25, a midi controller for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Noisemakers will be available to the first 50 audience members and you are
invited to play along! [LIVE PERFORMANCE]
MARK BEAZLEY is foundering member of
the group Rothko. Rothko
stopped making music in October 2010. Mark now plays in Rome Pays Off,
with original Rothko member Crawford Blair and Chris Gowers from Karina
ESP, and also in Low Bias with Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin (performing with
Roshi ft. Pars Radio, Pere Ubu, Nico, Eric Random & The Bedlamites and
others), and in Signals with Chris Gowers and Philip Julian
(Cheapmachines). Mark is also founder of Trace Recordings, whose first
release was the thought-provoking and moving 'Wish for a World Without
Hurt' collaboration between him and BLK w/ BEAR. Selections from 'Wish for
a World' were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant 'The Flight that
Fought Back' program and other film and television productions. [LIVE
PERFORMER_USA PREMIERE]
Mark
Beazley - Where Do I Go by Mark Beazley
Rothko
& BLK w/BEAR - Wish For A World Without Hurt by Mark Beazley
OLIVER BENDORF was born and
raised
in Iowa City, Iowa. He will
return to the Midwest this fall after a three-year stint in Washington,
D.C., to begin the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as
the Martha Meier-Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Poetry. His poems
have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Sugar House
Review, Blood Orange Review, 55, and Collective
Brightness, an anthology from Sibling Rivalry Press. He was recently
named an 'Emerging LGBT Voice' by the Lambda Literary Foundation. When not
writing poems, he enjoys birding and coming up with new flavors for his
homebrewed kombucha. [LIVE READING]
BLK w/ BEAR is a full-band effort of
JS Adams (prepared vinyl +
turntables + loops), Doug Poplin (cello + effects), PD Sexton (bass +
source electronics + effects) and now Renee Shaw (video), whose recordings
of warm drones and broadcast interference have accompanied film/video
projects in NYC and London, as well as BBC and Sun television programming;
as well as in the Discovery's Channel's Emmy-nominated 'The Flight that
Fought Back' production; broadcast in the USA, UK, Russia, Japan and
Germany. BLK w/ BEAR's newest recordings include the forthcoming Yonokiero
remix project, Sorry about your Remix, on Front & Follow (UK) and a split
CD with Nine Strings on Cohort Recordings (USA). The band.s back catalogue
is available on Sonic Circuits. District of Noise imprint (USA), Trace
Recordings (UK), Front & Follow, and Ultra Red.s Public Record download
label (USA). Poplin also performs as part of the Bach Sinfonia and Sad
Emoticon with Rich Morel; Adams is a nationally-exhibited visual artist
and part of the turntable-deconstruction duo VLT_BLK and STYLUS turntable
ensemble; Reneé Shaw is an installation and performance artist;
under her VJ POPPINS persona, she
manipulates video output through
live, spontaneous editing; and Sexton also performs as a solo artist.
BLK w/BEAR sound like The Books drank a bunch of cough syrup
and morphed to look exactly like Peter Brotzmann . Isaac Linder,
2005
...like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a severe
nervous breakdown . Wire Magazine, 2010
[LIVE PERFORMANCE] website .
soundcloud
DANIELLE EVENNOU is the daughter of
a car salesman and stenographer. Born and raised in New Jersey, she values
persuasion, shorthand, humor, and shiny things. With Regie Cabico, she is
the co-host of Sparkle: a queer-driven reading series for all, at Busboys
& Poets. She has performed her poems alongside musicians and trapeze
artists. Her work has been featured at Sunday Kind of Love, Queering
Sound, Cheryl's Gone, Capital Pride, and Come Hear! in New York City. Her
poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Blue Collar
Review, Objet d'Art, Xenith and DCist. In 2010, Evennou
was the recipient of a Young Artist Grant from the DC Commission on the
Arts and Humanities and the winner of the 27th Annual Larry Neal Writer's
Award in poetry. Her first chapbook, Queen of Tuesday, was
published in 2010. She is currently studying public administration at the
George Washington University with plans to inject iambs into tax code.
[LIVE READING]
NICK LOPATA lives in lovely Takoma
Park, Maryland. He has been
creating and editing video for Blowoff, the popular deejay event thrown by
Bob Mould and Richard Morel at Washington DC's 9:30 club, now also held
nationwide including NYC, San Francisco, San Diego, Provincetown, Atlanta
and Chicago. In addition to his video work, Nick's other projects include
photography, lighting design and a local independent film, The Saferoom.
His contribution to QUEERING SOUND this year is a video created for
partner Rich Morel's DEATHFIX
project with filmmaker and musician
Brendan Canty. [DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR]
NOVELLER is the solo project of
Brooklyn-based guitarist and
filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the electric guitar as her muse,
Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to
conceive of how it's housed in a single instrument manipulated by a
solitary performer. She released her first two full-length albums on
Brooklyn noise label No Fun Productions in 2009. Noveller's latest
full-length, 'Desert Fires' came out via Lipstate's own imprint, Saffron
Recordings, in July of 2010. Saffron Recordings also released a split LP
between Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard) last
year. Lipstate is currently working on 'Glacial Glow', the follow-up to
'Desert Fires' to be released by Weird Forest in 2011. Recently, Lipstate
performed at the Suoni Per Il Popolo fest in Montreal, Decibel
Festival in Seattle, and Unsound Festival in Krakow. Noveller has toured
the U.S. and internationally, at times supporting acts such as Xiu Xiu,
the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, Aidan Baker, and Emeralds. She has
previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts & Labor, and One
Umbrella. Lipstate has also participated in Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army,
and Glenn Branca's 100 guitar ensemble. [LIVE PERFORMER]
NOVELLER "ALONE
STAR" from Matt Kleiner
on Vimeo
ROME PAYS OFF is a new group, formed
by original Rothko members
Mark Beazley and Crawford Blair in February 2010, with Chris Gowers from
Signals and Karina ESP now joining them on treated electric guitar. Their
debut album, 'There's No Simple Explanation' is available on Trace
Recordings. The band provides a playful and witty video created by
Crawford Blair to
"Song 10" from the album. Blair previously
contributed an audio piece in his Nowhereians guise to Queering Sound
2006. [DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS]
JOSEPH ROSS is a poet working in
Washington, D.C. His poems have
been published in many anthologies and journals including Poet
Lore, who nominated him for a Pushcart Prize, Beltway Poetry
Quarterly, and Tidal Basin Review. He co-edited Cut Loose the Body:
An Anthology of Poems on Torture. He currently teaches in the College
Writing Program at American University and is the Interim Poetry &
Lectures Coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library. [LIVE READING]
STEPHEN SPERA was born in
Philadelphia and
studied at the
University of the Arts, and had a successful career as artist,
photographer, and musician before moving to Manhattan. Spera's works have
been exhibited all over the world, and is represented in many fine
collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the J. Paul
Getty Museum. He is author of many books and was included in Dennis
Cooper's Little Caesar anthology of American poets under thirty.
Stephen
has performed in front of audiences worldwide and has received fellowships
and grants, including 'Meet the Composer' in NYC. Spera has had great
critical acclaim with his '4{H2O}' CD on Parvoart Recordings (Germany) and
his contribution to the 'TEN' compilation on Trace Recordings, for which
he also designed the packaging. Using everything from old tape decks and
analogue effects to cutting edge software, his audio works suggest more of
a homage to the blurry reverie and sometimes unsettling disorientation of
dreams or memories of childhood experiences. He is also founder and
curator of an online museum of the curious, strange and imaginary, the
Museé Vaché. [DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR]
SPERA
chalkwhite sea by stephenspera
DAN VERA is the author of The
Space Between
Our Danger and
Delight (Beothuk Books, 2008). His poems have appeared in Beltway
Poetry Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Gargoyle, The
Amistad, Konch, and the anthologies Full Moon On K
Street, DC Poets Against the War and Shaping Sanctuary.
He is co-founder of Vrzhu Press, publisher of Souvenir Spoon Books, edits
the Gay culture journal White Crane, co-hosts the Capitol Hill
reading series, and helped create the new poetry incubator Poetry Mutual
of America. [LIVE READING]
U.S. GIRLS is actually one U.S.
girl, named Megan
Remy. Packing
nothing more than a reel-to-reel tape deck, a microphone and various stomp
boxes, U.S. Girls delivers a maelstrom of classic pop filtered through
something unknowable. The exact genre of U.S. Girls is a moving target.
Some group her in with the female electronic artist "bliss" movement, but
the influence of classic rock is as evident as the harsh touch of
electro-punk pioneers Suicide. A rewarding mix of cut-ups and
reconfigurations; an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy
alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony, all
presenting deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting. [LIVE
PERFORMER]
THE NEW GAY (TNG) is an online resource for alternative
queer
events,
culture and ideas. TNG is a blog for those frustrated with monolithic
queer culture and it's limited offerings and strives to provide our
readers with access to the rest of the queer experience. TNG is home to
everyone over the rainbow whether you are LGBTQ or don't quite fit in a
box.
The TRIANGLE ARTISTS GROUP is an affiliation of lesbian,
gay,
bisexual,
and queer artisans from throughout the Washington-Baltimore area and
covers a wide spectrum of visual, literary, and performance arts.
SONIC CIRCUITS seeks to foster the spirit of collaboration
through the
diversity of participating artists, and its varied programming appeals to
arts enthusiasts of all type; offering experimental and avant-garde
electronic music to free jazz, noise rock, modern composition, avant-garde
improvisation, electronic drone and experimental folk, as well as live
video and film programs, presented year round. The 2011 Sonic Circuits
festival is scheduled for September 16-18 at Pyramid Atlantic, Silver
Spring, Maryland.
ARTISPHERE is a new breed of urban arts center that features four
distinct
performance venues, three visual art galleries, a 4,000 square foot
ballroom, HERE restaurant and a free Wi-Fi town square. With intimate
co-located spaces and multiple programs occurring simultaneously,
Artisphere was designed for people and art to collide. Its unique
footprint encourages visitors coming for a familiar activity to try
something new. Artisphere is managed by Arlington County's Cultural
Affairs Division and supported in part by the Rosslyn BID, individuals,
corporations and foundations.
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