In Concert: Rubén Patiño // IM Fraser // RE Rosenberg // DW Sutton
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | 8-11PM | $7-$10
Rubén Patiño (b. 1979, Barcelona) is an artist working in the field of electronic music, operating in a hybrid territory that incorporates elements of club culture and contemporary art. Most of Patiño’s work takes form in time-based proposals that include sound, light, video, text, ideograms, and other diverse materials. Interested in distorting the perception of space and working with audiences, his practice tends to challenge standardized formats of presentation and explores the boundaries between concert, public event, and installation.
He is part of N.M.O., a “Fluxus Techno / Military Space Music” unit with percussionist Morten J. Olsen that operates in between repetitive pattern oriented music, performance, and inventive forms of sound spatialisation.
N.M.O. have played at many major international festivals such as Sónar, CTM, Unsound and Mutek, as well as contemporary art museums including MACBA in Barcelona and Serralves Foundation in Porto. They have released critically acclaimed EPs on labels like Anòmia, The Death of Rave, and Where to Now?, as well as a double 12″ on Diagonal Records.
As Lag OS (Anòmia/Haunter Records), Patiño explores the potential of soundscapes as illusory spaces in a series of works that recreate artificial environments through synthetic sound. Lag OS takes form as a collection of sonic scenes from a mysterious imaginary wetland; a series of evocative narratives that muddle the periphery of ambient music, abstract sound, and amorphous club music.
Ian M Fraser (b. 1980) is a musician working in the field of computer music. His area of interests includes generative music, machine listening, non-linear synthesis, chaotic/stochastic methods, and artificial/alternative intelligence. For the past decade, he has worked with Reed Evan Rosenberg on the development of Keroaän, a musical AI designed to perform without any human intervention whatsoever. He lives in New York City with his wife and cat.
Reed Evan Rosenberg (New Jersey, 1986) works with sound, code, lighting and language to create work that synthesizes his interests in noise, dynamical systems, non-human intelligence, sublimated violence, puckishness and utopia-in-general. Collaborations include Keroaän with Ian M. Fraser, “Medium Rude” on ErstAEU with Ethan Tripp & Tandem Electrics with Richard Kamerman.
Better known under the project LXV US producer David Wesley Sutton also presents work under his own name, and formerly as Current Amnesia, which is equal parts INA-GRM intricacy and unstable basement electronics through which Sutton manipulates antecedently unknown synthesis techniques into sublime spiritual landscapes.
