Ami Yamasaki

Ami Yamasaki creates performances and installations based on her voice and echolocation. She is exploring the relationship between sound, voice and body. Sound is a blank space of the body:but sound is a part of the body, directly vibrating the eardrum and skin. Through her artistic practice she presents a world of sound, acoustics, and silence.

Since 2000 she has internationally presented performance and installation. Examples of this work include: Setouchi International Triennale “Insular Membrane”(2019), Japan Foundation Fellowship outcome “Ephemeral Knots” (2018), Japan Society NY “Sounds to Summon” (2016), Aomori Contemporary Art Center ”Exchange”(2013). She received an award at “Tokyo Experimental Exhibition vol.09”(2014) and grand prize at “The 4th Art Award of Sapporo 500 m Museum” (2016). In 2021 she will participate in “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE” at Padiglione d'ArteContemporanea, introducing performative contemporary Japanese art.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she co-founded the online performance platform “#leap2live,”providing 12 performances and workshops to a global audience. It will also be performed for the New Normal Experiment in Tokyo 2021.

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Index[off], released on July 3rd is only available via https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/index-off

website: https://amingerz.wixsite.com/ami-yamasaki

merch: https://amiyamasaki.bandcamp.com//A>

Chuck Bettis

Chuck Bettis was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's downtown musical tribe. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe.

He has performed live collaborations with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Matmos, Yoshimio, Mephista and Afrirampo to name a few, recorded & played live with; Ikue Mori, Nautical Almanac, Berangere Maximin, Yellow Swans, Toshio Kajiwara, Jad Atoui, etc, plus a long history of punk bands he was in (most notably the experimental punk band Meta-matics as well as the enigmatic All Scars). Bettis has also created soundtracks for short films by Motoko Fukuyama & provided live music for the Move Move Collective dance performances.

Current working groups are; Snake Union with Dave Grant, Die Trommel Fatale with Brandon Seabrook/Marika Hughes/Eivind Opsvik/Henry Fraser/Dave Treut/Sam Ospovat/John McCowen Chatter Blip with Dafna Naphtali and Mossenek with Mick Barr & Colin Marston, as well as improvising, recording, or composing with an array of musicians from around the world.

website: https://chuckbettis.com/

merch: https://livingmyth.bandcamp.com/

Hali Palombo

Hali Palombo is a composer and visual artist working in Chicago, IL. Crafting most of her music from a large personal library of CB and amateur radio recordings, Hali's compositions also include morse code, wax cylinder samples and field recordings she has taken at various Midwestern points of interest.

website: http://www.halipalombo.com

merch: http://halipalombo.bandcamp.com

Dave Seidel

Dave Seidel was born in Hudson, NY in 1958 and received a BA in Music Theory & Composition from Simon’s Rock College in 1978, studying with Larry Wallach and Thom Lipiczky. He also studied classical guitar with Edward Flower for a time.

In the 1980s he played electric guitar in the Downtown NYC new music scene, working in ensembles led by composers Lois V Vierk, Scott Johnson, Guy Klucevsek, and Bill Obrecht, and co-leading the band People Falling. He premiered the electric version of Vierk’s 五 Guitars (Go Guitars) for five microtonally-tuned guitars, live and on Simoom (Experimental Intermedia CD, 1990), and recorded Vierk’s Red Shift on River Beneath the River (Tzadik CD, 2000). Tracks from the Go Guitar sessions are still in use today at nearly every performance of Go Guitars as presented around the world by many different guitarists. He appeared on Klucevsek’s Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse (Experimental Intermedia CD, 1991). He performed at a wide variety of venues, ranging from night clubs (CBGB, Mudd Club) to downtown performance spaces (The Kitchen, Dia Art Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop) to concert halls (New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Minneapolis’ Walker Arts Center) and at several new music festivals (New Music America in Los Angeles, Bang On A Can in New York, and Styrian Autumn in Graz, Austria).

Since 2004, Seidel has been focused on composing and performing electronic music, usually with a microtonal and/or drone emphasis. Starting in 2009, he spent several years actively participating in the northern New England improv scene at venues such as 119 Gallery, and XFest. He has presented his solo and collaborative work at Electronic Music Midwest, MOXsonic, SEAMUS, North Country Electronic Music Festival, PVDLoopFest, and The Thing in the Spring. He often collaborates with video artist Greg Kowalski, including sound design for Greg Kowalski’s Machine 5 Theatre Works.

His CD "~60 Hz" was released on the Irritable Hedgehog label, in 2014, and his new double CD "Involution" will be released by XI Records in early 2021. He has a number of Bandcamp releases.

website: http://mysterybear.net

merch: https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com

Kevin Blackistone

website: http://blackistone.com

merch: http://blackistone.bandcamp.com