Jordan Topiel Paul presents 80/30, Bhob Rainey, and Tether
Curated by Eric Laska
80/30 is a long-form structure of indeterminate duration for web browser and any number of interpreters. Blocks of sonically dense noise, tones and rhythmic pulses are separated by periods of silence that articulate the space’s resonant qualities and ambient background. As the piece progresses, the repeated elements begin to transform senses of attention, acoustic afterimage and timing.
Jordan Topiel Paul (b. 1985, NYC) is a composer whose work addresses the dynamics of listening, spaces and contemporary culture. Extending from the proposition that music’s primary material is listening, his pieces direct listening to an expanded musical context that foregrounds attention, physicality, venue, timing, and genre. His performances and installations have been presented foremost on the internet (http://topiel.info) as well as in apartments, canyons, motels, chapels, museums, galleries, cafes, public plazas and music spaces throughout North America. He lives and works in Mexico City.
Bhob Rainey is an award-winning composer / performer, saxophonist, and sound designer. In 1998, with trumpeter Greg Kelley, he founded the duo Nmperign, which quickly became a model for a new phase of non-idiomatic improvisation often referred to as “lowercase” or “EAI” (Electroacoustic Improvisation). In 2000 he founded The BSC, an improvising large ensemble, in which he developed techniques for an improvisational discipline that were eventually outlined in his 2011 publication, . Throughout the late 1990’s and early 2000’s he performed globally and collaborated with numerous improvisers of both the (then) current and previous generations, including Axel Dörner, Andrea Neumann, Günter Müller, Michel Doneda, Lê Quan Ninh, and many others. Rainey was awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2013, and in 2014 he received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to complete a multimedia project with filmmaker . Among other things, he is currently working on a long-term project with New Paradise Labs dealing with radical contingency, as well as creating multichannel electronic works in collaboration with Chris Cooper under the moniker “Prants”. To date, Rainey has over 30 releases as a leader or co-leader.
Website:
http://bhobrainey.com
Music:
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/bhob-rainey
Tether is a project of Lauren Pakradooni from Philadelphia, PA. In performance and recordings she manipulates and layers handmade cassette tape loops into compositions that are structured around created sonic spaces of melody and dissonance teetering on song. Past projects include former Moniker “Pak”, and NPR the Band.
https://soundcloud.com/p-a-k-1
<-- video by Jamie Mohr, music by Tether
