indigenous noise to colonial signals // 
unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories

Thanks to  Bill Laswell and Bob for keeping the faith. As Bob says ""I had no song in my repertoire for commercial radio. I sang about debauched bootleggers, mothers who drowned their own children, Cadillacs with only 5 miles to the gallon, union hall fires, floods. Darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers wasn’t for radio. There was nothing easy-going about the folk songs I sang. They weren’t friendly or ripe with mellowness. They didn’t come gently to the shore." NB The Radio KaraGkatsu eps are aural worlds without number; a sonic ventures interweaving music, sound, comedy, audiobook extracts, film dialogue, poetry, interviews, soundscapes and goobledegook.

Next Edition: 19_24.08.25 | International Festival of Digital Creativity & Electronic Music

Genre-crossing composer/percussionist John Hollenbeck, renowned in both the jazz and newmusic worlds, has gained widespread recognition as the driving force behind the unclassifiable
Claudia Quintet, GEORGE, and the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, groups with roots in jazz, world music, and contemporary composition. He integrates his deep interest in contemporary composition and spiritual practice into a musical language that is as accessible and expressive as it is advanced.
He has earned six GRAMMY nominations for: Best Jazz Large Ensemble Album for his albums “Songs You Like a Lot”, “All Can Work”, "A Blessing" and “eternal interlude”; for his composition
“Falling Men” from Shut Up and Dance; and for his arrangement of Jimmy Webb’s “The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress” from Songs I Like a Lot. He has worked with many of the world's leading musicians in jazz including Bob Brookmeyer, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, and is well known in new-music circles for his longtime collaboration with Meredith Monk and for his work with Ensemble Cairn of France.
John’s most notable awards include a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 ASCAP Jazz Vanguard Award, and a 2012 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. He has created an extensive body of work including commissions by Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ethos Percussion Group, University of Rochester, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Orchestre National de Jazz, and Frankfurt Radio Big Band. He was professor of Jazz Drums and Improvisation at the Jazz Institute Berlin
from 2005-2016 and joined McGill University Schulich School of Music’s faculty in 2015.

Christi Denton is a Portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments.  She has a degree in Music Composition from Mills College and a graduate certificate from the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (France). 

Christi has built giant chimes as part of the Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival and amplified exhibits in the Exploratorium.  She played at the Spark Festival of Electronic Arts and Music and her music is part of the exhibit Six Seconds Around Me in the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Italy. In 2011 and 2012, her work was featured in collaborative performances for Ten Tiny Dances at the Time Based Art Festival in Portland, where dancers controlled music through light and flex sensors.  She competed in the 2012 Guthman Instrument Competition, was in residency at Caldera in 2014, and has played in every Electrogals festival since 1995.


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