12/14/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

December's Telemetry sees the return of Gardener along with In Fossa, also of Richmond. Local duo Altra round out the evening of experimental electronic music.

Gardener

Gardener is the solo electronic project of Richmond, VA-based Dash Lewis. Using a modular synth, effects pedals, and his own voice, Lewis creates glacial slabs of rhythmically complex, trance-inducing psychedelia, weaving looped vocal passages into deeply textural drones. Interested in the organic interplay between electronics and the human voice, Dash works to meld seemingly disparate elements into a single instrument, creating compositions that encourage a state of deep listening.

gardenermusic.bandcamp.com/

In Fosa* (duo of Liza from Sters and Matt)

Richmond-based duo In Fossa combines experimental video with ambient analog electronics.

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Altra

Alex Christie and Travis Thatcher use a lot of patch cables and make danceable noisy things.

11/15/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Dave Watkins is an audio/visual artist living in Richmond, Virginia. He has focused his studies primarily on music and the performing arts and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology in 2007. As a musician, he has performed all around the country, coaxing any number of sounds out of an electric dulcitar he designed and built, in conjunction with assorted effects and loop pedals, and sometimes augments his performances with live sound reactive video projections. He has shared stages with artists such as William Tyler, Sir Richard Bishop, Dan Deacon, Tim Barry, Des Ark, and Christopher Tignor. Watkins has also engineered and produced albums for other Richmond artists such as Dumb Waiter, Night Idea, and Lobo Marino in addition to his own solo work.

www.davewatkinsmusic.comdavewatkins.bandcamp.com/

Becky Brown is a composer, harpist, artist, and web designer, interested in producing intensely personal works. She focuses on narrative, emotional exposure, and catharsis, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience, wherever they are. Depending on who you talk to, her music is “honest, direct and communicative,” “personal and raw,” or “took me to a place I didn’t want to go.” She is a 3rd year graduate student in composition at UVA.

www.becky-brown.org/

Live Text Scores led by composer/performer Heather Frasch

HEATHER FRASCH, is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, performer/composer (flute, laptop/electronics & sonic objects), and creator of interactive sound installations and digital instruments. Through the creation of complex timbres, the usage of unstable notation systems, and electronics her work explores notions of fragility and stillness within an intermedia sonic arts practice. Influenced by the dis-embodiment of acousmatic music practices, she investigates the re-embodiment of sound and the intimacy between humans and their technological objects.

She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and further degrees from IRCAM, CNR de Lyon, and Temple University. Frasch was composer-in-residence at the IEM (Institüt für Musik und Akustik) in Graz, Austria (2015) and at the Villa Ruffieux, in Sierre, Switzerland (2017). Other honors include: artist residency at the EMS in Stockholm (2014), the George Ladd Prix de Paris in Composition (2008), International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition Prize (2012), and the Nicol DeLorernzo Prize in Composition (2010 and 2008). Her work has been performed at Moscow Autumn Festival, San Francisco Tape Festival, NYCEMF, Mixtur Festival, hcmf//, Akademie Schloss Solitude; and by the Ensemble SurPlus, sfSound, Vertixe Sonora, Adapter Ensemble, BCMP, among others. She is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Virginia in the department of Composition and Computer Technologies. www.heatherfrasch.net/

10/25/2019 installment of the Telemetry Concert Series.

Telemetry, is an unconventional music series, showcasing bold new musical compositions, new instrumentation, and unique collaborations across space and genre. Each performance is free and open to the public. Performances are recorded live at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, in partnership with UVA Arts and UVA Music Department in Charlottesville, VA. Visit TheBridgePAI.org for more.

Paul Stapleton (California-born, Belfast-based) is Professor of Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast, working primarily in the areas of new musical instrument design, music performance, sound design, and critical improvisation studies. He designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures and custom-made electronics in locations ranging from Echtzeitmusik venues in Berlin to the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), and has received critical acclaim for his sound design and composition work as part of the immersive audio-theatre piece Reassembled, Slightly Askew. Paul has (co-)directed several Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and European Commission funded interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the relationship between music improvisation and law, to the development of new methods for studying social interaction in music performance. www.paulstapleton.net

Trash Cats - experimental improv duo Kittie Cooper and Alex Christie.

Naomi Alligator - Projecty of Charlottesville artist and songwriter Corrinne James. naomialligator.bandcamp.com/