Table of the Elements – The Copernicium Festival:
May 12-14 at ISSUE Project Room

Image from Robert Longo's Pictures for Music (1979)

Image from Robert Longo's Pictures for Music (1979), to be shown alongside Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio

Jonathan Kane’s February, Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio, Stephen O’Malley, Zeena Parkins, Films by Robert Longo, Tyler Hubby, & Tony Conrad

May 12 – 14, 2011

Since 1993 the record label Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise, intending nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century, and beyond. Its projects have focused on musicians whose light shimmers outside the frames of convention, and comprise a vital contemporary archive of experimental, minimalist, improvised and outsider musics.

Thursday 5.12 – TotE from A – Z

Zeena Parkins
Roger Miller and Ben Miller – M2
Agathe Max
Ateleia

Friday 5.13 – Free/Not Free

Guitar Trio with projections by Robert Longo (Rhys Chatham’s 1977 composition) performed by The Lords of Tinnitus – Robert Longo, Jonathan Kane, Robert Poss, Ernie Brooks, Zach Layton, Adam Wills, Colin Langenus, Bill Brovold
Text Of Light - William Hooker, Alan Licht, Nels Cline
Jon Mueller
Peg Simone

Saturday 5.14 – Drone x 4

Stephen O’Malley
Jonathan Kane’s February
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, a Tyler Hubby film featuring a 1996 performance by Tony Conrad with Gastr del Sol (David Grubbs & Jim O’Rourke)
Igor Cubrilovic

With films by Tyler Hubby

Jeff Hunt, visionary art director, packaging innovator, and enigmatic founder of table of the Elements, based the label on the finite concept of assigning a chemical element to each release. Now, 18 years and some 115 releases on, TotE nears the end of the assignable elements. While the label’s creative mission will carry on with its satellite imprint ‘Radium’, the remarkable Table of the Elements label nears its inevitable conclusion.

Party Time!

TotE recording artist Jonathan Kane has assembled a vast cross section of TotE and Radium artists, representing both the history and the future of the label, to celebrate Jeff Hunt and Table of the Elements’ accomplishments and contributions to the experimental music world. Also featured at all performances will be films of historic TotE artists in performance, and a video gallery of TotE’s ground breaking and influential artwork, design, and packaging concepts.