YEAR ENDING VIDEO DRONE AT SPR

Site:Sound Video

Thanks to Lea Bertucci for curation and Clocktower for the shiny video

Music Computer

built for tonite's set at

the glove

8pm

we're openin'

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3/24

 

!!excited!!

Ding! at Outpost from Clocktower

Listen here:

http://clocktower.org/drupal/play/13042/show/ding-a-concert-of-chimes-bells-gongs

Truly an honor.

Heavy and Fun.

Percussionists Shayna Dunkelman, Fast Forward, Jake Nussbaum, Pat Spadine, and Tim Spelios in a 90-minute free session for metal instruments recorded live in concert at Outpost Gallery in December 2015. Trippy, funny, soothing, and deeply beautiful.

With over 100 instruments on hand, and some special chimes and handmade xylophones from David Horvitz and Skip LaPlante on loan, the five performers roamed the space freely exchanging sounds and musical messages using all. Bells, cymbals, toys, pots and pans, Tibetan bowls, a semi-truck wheel hub, a bucket of bottle caps, and some surprise interruptions, made the night.

As a kind of radio experiment, we have mixed two recordings of the event. One microphone was placed 15 feet above and the other at eye level, about 50 feet apart. The result is a time/space/sound warp, with a synchronization crossfade that meets in the middle and multiplies the magical illusion.

Recorded live in concert at Outpost Artists Resources in Ridgewood, Queens on December 22, 2015 as part of their ongoing concert series.

 

  

special thanks to Fast Forward for bailing out my sinking ship

February 28, 2015 7:00 pm

February 28, 2015 7:00 pm

The Firehouse Space Commissions for Evolving Projects: Pat Spadine and Daniel Belquer

Ashcan Orchestra – Cory Bracken, Philip Panos, Tim Rusterholtz, Austin Vaughn, Jeff Tobias, Pat Spadine
Coming to grips with it’s own technophobia, the Ashcan Orchestra will be presenting works composed for a new series of instruments constructed during investigations into the balancing of automation and human performance. Ranging from electronic to mechanical, Ashcan has been building new soundmakers and interfaces as a search for a toolset which can enhance the available resources for composition and capabilities of performance, without sacrificing the qualities of human personality and error inherent to it’s music. Beyond their sonic influence the instruments have also extended their presence to new systems and compositional techniques gathered during their engineering and employed in the new works.
JACOBZ LADDR is a technospiritual ritualistic intermedia performance where the ladder is used as a metaphor for heightened states of biophysical connectivity based on the controversial assumption that our DNA can be reprogrammed through vibrations. Words, digital interactivity, voicing, music, video, light and live performance are intertwined to construct a momentary bond with the audience celebrating the now through consciousness and presence.
Directed and Conceived by Daniel Belquer
Choreographed by Joe Waltz
Performed and developed by Daniel Belquer, Matt Fidler, Mike Sperone and Kevin Ramsay
Featuring Hans Tammen, Malik Crumpler and Murilo O’Reilly (specially from Rio)
Light design by Daniel Belquer and James Cao
Videos and cards design by James Cao
Software design by Daniel Belquer, Mike Sperone and Kevin Ramsay
With the kind support of Eventide Inc. and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

Ashcan on the Radio

Listen to a talk with Eve Essex on the Issue Project Room Radio Show on Clocktower Radio. Talking about Apollo's Accidental Answer, with some tape audio from rehearsals HERE.

Also tune your radio dials to WKCR 89.9 at 10pm Sunday the 22nd for more radio Ashcan fun.

One week til AAA.

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10pm Thursday, Presented by Northern Spy 

@ 

Trans Pecos

915 Wyckoff

QNS, NY

Video From Roulette

From a wonderful evening with David First at Roulette.



s.sigley
c.bracken
s.gordon
p.panos
b.alexander
a.vaughn
p.spadine

Scream Piece # 2

thee apocalypse

is too easy.

a Future is hard.

Build

me

Something.

s.sigley
p.panos
s.gordon
c.bracken
p.spadine

Live at Le Wallet Recital Hall

set:
light construction #21 "4X4"
proximus centauri
acme anvil march
duet for saw
bell piece #36

players:
s.sigley
p.panos
c.bracken
a.vaughn
p.spadine

camera:
j.artery

additional audio from rob

New Video From Awhile Back

The nice folks at Secret Project Robot put up some video from our show during the 2012 holiday season. Looking forward to returning on 2/22/14.................

video 1.    Bell Piece #16.4
video 2.    Happy B'day Herman & Spin

j.bernstein
s.sigley
a.markiewicz
p.panos
j.frye
p.spadine

Work by AKI ONDA

On Nov. 22nd. 

It will be a honor for myself and Eli Keszler 

 to be performing a new piece by Aki Onda 

titled "Damaged" at Issue Project Room.  

 Full info here.

William Engelen, Falten for Violin and Haegum. Courtesy Bernd Borchard, Berlin

Assemble 11

Joining a great bunch of folks for RAFT's eleventh Assemble :

Ashcan at Knockdown w/ 207 Balloons......

Thanks to Doron Sadja for the invite

Ashcan Orchestra at Knockdown Center 9.14.13 ...... Maspeth, QNS

set:
Bell Piece #4 X 2
Rhinobox.
Bell Piece #13.2 "a theory of weight"
Balloon Conclusion

players:
a.kidambi
a.vaugn
b.stardrum
c.bracken
p.panos
s.sigley
p.spadine

camera:
h.f.jack


and another view from SIXDUST

More Ashcan in the Outdoors

 Bell No. 15 (on pipes)


 Bell No. 28 w/saw

p.panos
s.sigley
c.bracken
p.spadine

camera g.benson


more sunlight than ashcan has received all year......

Ashcan on ESPTV

the wonderful folks at ESPTV put up a new episode of their venerable program which includes Ashcan's performance to benefit Red Hook's Hurricane Sandy victims from last November.
 Fantastic video.
many thanks to the ESP peoples.


ESP TV #39 from E.S.P. TV on Vimeo.

Bell Piece # 31

Light Construction # 11

j.bernstein
s.sigley
p.panos
p.spadine

Ashcan on A.I.R.

Ashcan's performance from 11/12 via ARTonAIR hosted by our friend Eve Essex . Listen to it HERE.


Dig around their archives and find tons of other greatness.

the Ashcan Institue for Self-Organising Pattern Reseach

 Now Showing at Big Law Country Club (located in Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave) until July 17th.

Some stills from the exhibit to entice:

Building upon Ashcan’s fetish for unprocessed quirks in physical reality, it is presenting a glimpse into the recent investigations of the “Ashcan Institute for Self-Organising Pattern Research”. The gallery space at Big Law Country Club is currently transformed into a study on a single specimen “found” during the Institute’s research into analog video feedback. A multitude of moving and still depictions of the image are on sidplay, allowing the visitor to step within and be encompassed by this particular paragon of the astounding weirdness of the physical universe.

Wow. Great Video from 5.11.13

Big thanks to unARTig for this spectacular video from The Knockdown Center

set:
1. Bell Piece #33
2. Percussion Construction #1 "an Oscilloscope display of a Particular Clang"
3. Bell Piece # 21 w/ The Amazing Amy
4. Bell Piece #31 w/ The Amazing Amy

players:
s.gordon
s.sigley
p.panos
p.spadine

video:
unARTig

also that evening Ashcan took part in Raft's Assemble X.
unARTig provided a beautiful document of that as well: