Cosmic Trigger-An Exploratorium of sound, light, and kinetics.

Night Two of the Fall Experimental Music Festival at fidget space | philadelphia.
10PM Saturday November 12, 2011

Cosmic Trigger: Tim Motzer and Dejha Ti collaborate to produce an immersive night of music, movement and interactivity exploration. The music, improvised by Tim Motzer (guitars, electronics, and laptop), both solo and in configurations of duo and trio with Bart Miltenberger (prepared trumpet and electronics), and Jim Hamilton (percussion) promises to be an evolution in soundscaping. The fidget space will be invaded by Dejha Ti’s unique blend of projections, real-time kinect visuals and modular set installations, while dancers Leanne Grieger and Zach Svoboda travel the “inner space” in search for meaning through their exploration of spacial stages and “trans-time dialogues”.  Art direction, set design with Erik Silverson, and cinematography, and lighting by Ahing Huang.

Photo: Tim Motzer

Four Flights Up At the fidget space:
Fall Experimental Music Festival

Don’t miss the second annual Fall Experimental Music Festival at thefidget space. Leave it to the dynamic pair, (Megan Bridge and Peter Price), to organize a festival where discourse around experimental music can be shared, lush soundscapes can spill and fill the spacious Kensington warehouse performance space, and the edges of the form and field can be questioned, pushed, and blended with other disciplines.

Friday, November 11th (8PM)
Temporary Now : and local improviser, Nicole Bindler, have co-curated an evening entitled Temporary Now in which experimental music and dance will meet.

Saturday, November 12th
Soft Machine (8PM): an evening of music sets by ’s Peter Price, artist in residence at thefidget space Joo Won Park, and Boston-based percussionist Flandrew Fleisenberg.

Cosmic Trigger (10PM): Total immersion in an evening of evolving improvisational soundscapes, kinect visuals, screens, projections, and experimental dance, co-curated by Tim Motzer and Dejha Ti.

Sunday, November 13th
Philly SHARE (8PM):
a monthly open improv jam for electronic musicians, media artists, and dancers. It will feature a set by SHARE’s co-founders, Mikronesia (Michael McDermott) and Pandar (Megan Cauley).

Temporary Now will feature music and dance improvisers: Meg Foley, Gregory Holt, Curt Haworth, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Christina Gesualdi, Travis Woodson, Dan Blacksburg, Julius Masri, Nicole Bindler, Andy Hayleck, Joo Won Park, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Annie Wilson, Mauri Walton, Megan Bridge, and Peter Price. What is the order? Who will perform together? — Don’t you want to be surprised? Like it or not, the artists’ pairings won’t be disclosed until the show. Improvisational relationships will be forged; the visual and aural “now” will be given the time and space to meet. How simultaneously lovely and uncomfortable.
Co-Curators is a platform for the collaborative work of Megan Bridge (choreography) and Peter Price (time-based media). ’s dances are dark worlds populated by post-human, biological, machinic entities– bodies, video, sound. Bridge and Price create awkward dystopias, referential and even appropriationist, grounded in the discourses of contemporary art, culture, and theory (we like experiments). They have been creating live performance works together since 2000. http://www.thefidget.org
Nicole Bindler is a body-based performing artist, inspired by her studies of new dance,
dance-theater, contact improvisation, and butoh. She is also a bodyworker and uses somatic practices, such as Body-Mind Centering, Yoga and Feldenkrais as a source of creativity, inspiration and physical training. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Berlin, Tokyo, Beirut and Quito, Ecuador. Recent activities include co-organizing the FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival with Curt Haworth; participating in Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn Scotland; Co-creating “I made this for you.” (2011 finalist for the A.W.A.R.D. Show!) with Gabrielle Revlock. http:// nicolebindler.com/

Soft Machine: Joo Won Park, an electronic musician residing in Philadelphia, attempts to make our everyday sound unusual with current audio processing techniques. Joo Won will present a melodica piece with time-lapse video, an improvisation for contact microphone and furnitures/rocks/toys, and a piece for mbira and whistle. www.joowonpark.net. Flandrew Fleisenberg – Boston based percussionist plays a kit of random junk including pots, pans, ice, rope, heaters, buckets and some assorted broken drum parts. In addition, ’s own Peter Price plays an improvisational set.

Cosmic Trigger: Tim Motzer and Dejha Ti collaborate to produce an immersive night of music, movement and interactivity exploration. The music, improvised by Tim Motzer (guitars, electronics, and laptop), both solo and in configurations of duo and trio with Bart Miltenberger (prepared trumpet and electronics), and Jim Hamilton (percussion) promises to be an evolution in soundscaping. The fidget space will be invaded by Dejha Ti’s unique blend of projections, real-time kinect visuals and modular set installations, while dancers Leanne Grieger and Zach Svoboda travel the “inner space” in search for meaning through their exploration of spacial stages and “trans-time dialogues”.

Co-Curators
Tim Motzer is an eclectic guitarist, 1k recordings label owner, co-founder of 1k sessions webcasts, music producer, artist, composer, and improviser. He has collaborated with Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit (Can), Ursula Rucker, Markus Reuter, David Sylvian, among many others on over 60 recordings and multiple world tours since 1997. He also continues to score music for film (Miami Vice, HBO) and the world of dance with various companies in Philadelphia and abroad. 1krecordings.com

Dejha Ti pushes boundaries as an artist in multimedia, design, webcasting, and video installations. Founder of webillishus, she co-founded and directs 1k Sessions, a monthly concert series webcasted from Philadelphia. Dejha brings her latest passion, live visuals, to the fidget space. 1ksessions.com

Philly SHARE
Mikronesia (Michael McDermott) and Pandar (Megan Cauley) together started SHARE Philly as an offshoot of the global electronic media open night which started in New York over 10 years ago. They also have an electronic avant pop group, Gemini Wolf and founded the eclectic electronic beat based record label earSnake in 2007. They recently wrote and produced a two act multimedia opera “Pangaea: When The Continents Were One” which premieres at the Rotunda on Nov 11.
Housed in a 19th century, 4700 square foot warehouse in Kensington, thefidget space opened its doors in June 2009. Through a presenting platform, an artist-in- residence program, and affordable rehearsal space for dance and theater groups, and thefidget space work to promote experimental and interdisciplinary art making and discourse. With a focus on immediacy of audience experience (imagine lounging on a comfy couch, sipping on a glass of wine, and watching a performance
unfold a few feet in front of you), thefidget space aims to challenge conceptual paradigms in the arts and humanities and deepen thinking about culture and the nature of human experience.http://www.thefidget.org

Listing/Prices

Friday, November 11th, 2011 (8PM) Temporary Now
Saturday, November 12th, 2011 (8PM) Soft Machine
Saturday, November 12th, 2011 (10PM) Cosmic Trigger
Sunday, November 13, 2011 (8PM) SHARE (free!)

One show: $20 general admission, $10 student/artist/economically challenged
Two shows*: $30 general admission, $15 student/artist/economically challenged Whole Festival Pass*: $45 general admission, $25 student/artist/economically challenged

*Must purchase on-line for two show discount or festival pass! (single show tickets may be purchased at door). Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/208274

thefidget space: 1714 North Mascher St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19122