10/01 @ 8:00pm - Bonnie Jones and Andrea Neumann + Bob Bellerue

Bonnie Jones and Andrea Neumann will present an evening of electro-acoustic improvised music, using hacked electronics and custom-made instruments. Jones makes music with the circuit boards of digital delay pedals, teasing out tones and crackles by short-circuiting the board. Neumann performs on the inside-piano, a custom made amplified and electronically processed abstraction of a piano sound board.

Bonnie Jones

Bonnie Jones works with sound, text, and performance. Born in South Korea (1977), she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. During sound performances, Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet “English”) and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, an interdisciplinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.

Andrea Neumann

Andrea Neumannhas composed multimedia projects incorporating film, dance, and performance for the inside-piano — a simplified piano reduced to strings, resonance board, and a metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the inaudible sounds, she has invented numerous playing techniques, sounds, and techniques for preparing the dismantled instrument. Because the original inside-piano is very heavy, a piano builder (Bernd Bittmann, Berlin) constructed a new and lighter one for her. She has worked intensively in the intersection between composition and improvisation and electronic and handmade sounds with Berlin musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward, and Burkhard Beins.

Bob Bellerue

Bob Bellerue is a composer, experimental musician, and creative technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last 20 years, he has been exploring live music and sound art, working with homemade percussion ensembles, the Balinese gamelan, dance, performance scores, installation, and live noise. Formerly based in Los Angeles, he ran the sub-garde experimental music and performance space, the I1 Corral, and curated the Beyond Music series and festival. Bellerue’s current work utilizes custom electronics and programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field recordings, de-musicalized instruments, and found oscillators. He is in the midst of long-term collaborations with the choreographer Wanda Z Gala and is involved with other experimental musicians such as Ecomorti, Telecult Powers, David Kendall, Smegma, Joseph Hammer, Phroq, Albert Ortega, Tecumseh, and Jarrett Silberman. He also performs regularly as a solo artist and in KILT with Raven Chacon. His work has been presented in Indonesia, Europe and across the United States, namely at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Issue Project Room, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, Stanford University, California Institute of the Arts, UCSD, UCLA, and Naropa University. He is the Technical Director at The Kitchen and runs the Anarchymoon Recordings record label.

This concert is made possible in part by High Zero Foundation