CCi Artists
SPIN-17
Spin-17 takes the stage surrounded by electronic bric-a-brac, jerryrigged
instruments, both toy and adult size, plus numerous objects, not originally
designed to make music, that manage to emit provocative sounds when guitarist/saxophonist
Ed Chang wraps his creative hands around them. Motoko Shimizu’s vocals
evoke a sampler gone wild, with mapcap leaps between register extremes, high
octane
Bel Canto roulades, and elemental grunts and groans. Relentless yet structured
noise pieces coexist with dozens of unrelated songs turned stylistically
upside-down-inside-out as they’re mercilessly crammed into wacky medleys.
Singer/composer Motoko Shimizu has performed extensively across the US and
in her native Japan. A City College graduate with a degree in music and voice,
she has been studying with Sheila Schonbrun since 1997. In 1998, she sang
in Brian Eno's Music for Airports with Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center, and
was a 2001 fellow at the Music/OMI International Music Colony. Her solo improvised
shows feature voice, toys, percussion, guitar and casiotone, as well as eclectic
song collections. The next best thing to being at one of her shows is her
live solo CD Attack of the 5-Foot Woman on Sachimay Interventions.
Since the early 90's, Ed Chang has forged a personal voice and aesthetic
in the language and anti-structure of free improvisation and experimental
composition.
In addition to mutating the natural timbres of conventional instruments (his
extended saxophone techniques, for example) and then applying these sounds
to new structural forms, he’s also invented unique sound producers.
One is the Noise Machine, a modified electromagnetic contact element capable
of quiet textural sonorities, as well as harsh noise cranking. His 36 Cents
Box is an internal feedback device activated by
36 cents in change which
produces intense high-speed electrical glitches.
Click on http://www.geocities.com/quod17us/samples.html, and you’ll
find a wide range of sound samples from Ed
and Motoku, together and individually.
You also can hear them challenge and galvanize the great alto saxophonist
Luther Thomas (of Funky Donkey and Human Arts Ensemble fame) in 2006 recordings
from Copenhagen and New York, available from the Ayler Records label’s
download-only series (http://www.ayler.com/dls.htm).
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