{"id":21168,"date":"2018-06-26T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=21168"},"modified":"2018-06-27T23:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T03:56:57","slug":"21168-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=21168","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday June 30, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nSpencer\u00a0Herbst\u00a0& Taketo\u00a0Shimada, Robert Mayson, Loren Connors & Samara Lubelski<\/span><\/strong>
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Microscope is very excited to present a night of solo and duo sound performances by\u00a0New York-based artists Loren Connors,\u00a0Spencer Herbst,\u00a0Robert Mayson, Taketo Shimada and Samara Lubelski, who curated the\u00a0event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of three solo and duo sets combine electronic and acoustic sounds and feature various improvised elements.\u00a0Lubelski and Connors, collaborating for the first time, perform an improvisation on violin and guitar.\u00a0Mayson presents the\u00a0solo work \u201cDrum Stool\u201d which he describes as\u00a0exploiting\u00a0“the friction vibrations caused by spinning and grinding the drum throne\u2019s seat against its base\u201d.\u00a0Herbst & Shimada will conclude the night. The two, who have played together in the group Messages – with Herbst on\u00a0percussion\u00a0and Shimada\u00a0on bass and tambura – are performing\u00a0live as a duo for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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General admission $10<\/span><\/em>
\nMembers or students w\/ ID $8<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSamara Lubelski\u00a0<\/strong>is a songwriter, Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Improviser, and Engineer\u2026With a voluminous musical pedigree, the list of artists (individually and collectively) that Lubelski has played\/performed\/recorded with, reads out like a best-of the who\u2019s who of the art, noise, free, improv, experimental, etc. Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings, MV and EE, and Thurston Moore are just a few to mention. Her first solo outing, 1997\u2019s\u00a0In the Valley, was a major installment in the recorded legacy of experimental string music, a dense exploration of drones and resonance.\u00a0The Fleeting Skiesfollowed in 2004 with a full-band recording of lush psychedelic folk-rock. Since then, Lubelski has released a wonderfully colorful series of albums:\u00a0Spectacular Of Passages\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Parallel Suns\u00a0(2007), Future Slip\u00a0(2009),\u00a0Wavelength\u00a0(2012), and\u00a0The Gilded Raid\u00a0(2016). Ms. Lubelski has also studio-engineered records for Double Leopards, Sightings, and Mouthus, amongst many others.\u00a0Her current projects include an improvisational duo with Marcia Bassett and a long-standing collaboration with German collective Metabolismus.\u00a0Additionally, Ms. Lubelski has worked with Thurston Moore on a variety of outings, including playing violin on Mr. Moore\u2019s solo records\u00a0Trees Outside the Academy\u00a0and\u00a0Demolished Thoughts\u00a0and recording and touring with his band Chelsea Light Moving. Her most recent collaborative album is with Body\/Head\u2019s Bill Nace, which came out on Nace\u2019s Open Mouth imprint earlier this year.\u00a0Flickers At the Station\u00a0on Drawing Room represents Lubelski\u2019s most current full-length offering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loren Connors\u00a0<\/strong>has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music embraces the underlying aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms. He names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as his most important influence.\u00a0 Connors has performed solo and with many leaders in independent music such as Keiji Haino, Thurston Moore, John Fahey, Jandek, and Kim Gordon.\u00a0Connors has also on occasion performed with an avant blues band called Haunted House, together with vocalist\/lyricist Suzanne Langille, guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. His recordings have been released on Family Vineyard, Northern Spy, Drag City, Recital, and other labels. <\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Mayson<\/strong>\u00a0is a NYC based sound artist and musician from Melbourne Australia, where he completed a BA of Fine Art (Sound) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Robert was part of Melbourne’s 2000’s era DIY noise\/rock scene in which he was a member of several touring groups, including Grey Daturas and Whitehorse, and also founded the label Diagnosis Don’t Recordings.\u00a0Since moving to the USA in 2011 he has performed solo and with the likes of Pete Swanson (as the duo Maggoted), United Waters, Coconuts, Modra, and Degreaser. He is presently a member of the trio The Utter Nots with Masami Tomishisa and Patrick Holmes.\u00a0Robert currently co-curates Abasement, a monthly experimental music series held at Lower East Side venue Max Fish, with Joe Frivaldi.\u00a0He also co-founded and co-curates Nocturne, a monthly late-night live music series held at Brooklyn venue Ceremony, with Chip K.\u00a0Robert\u2019s drone and textural works explore the unintentional sonic properties of musical instruments and non-musical objects, removing context to produce introspective timbral environments. <\/span><\/p>\n

Taketo Shimada<\/strong>\u00a0is a visual and sound artist. He was born in Tokyo and moved to New York in 1988. He has lived and worked in Rockaway Beach since 2009. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Spencer Herbst<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Colorado and moved to New York in 1994. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMicroscope Gallery Event Series 2018 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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