Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Just putting this here so I don't forget

EXiS Call for Entries!
10th EXPERIMENTAL FILM and VIDEO FESTIVAL in SEOUL 2013

Annual international experimental film and video festival EXiS 2013 is waiting for your innovative film and videos! EXiS is the biggest premier showcase of experimental media works in Asia.

■ FESTIVAL DATES
Sep 5 ~ Sep 12 2013, Seoul, Korea
■ ENTRY DEADLINE
June 1st, 2013 (Postmark)

... ■ What We Look for:
Experimental film or video work in any format and in length.

■ Requirements
1) Films completed after: September 1 2012
2) Preview Tape (1/2” video cassette or any region DVD)
3) Country of production: all countries
4) Entry Form (both mail & e-mail)
5) 1 photo of artist & 3 production photos (e-mail only)

- NO ENTRY FEE

■ Where to Send:
Attn. Programmer at EXiS office Mapo-gu Soegyo-dong 475-13
Wonchun Bldg. 6th Fl. Seoul, Korea (121-842)

When mailing, please write “without commercial value, for cultural purposes only” on the envelope.

* PLEASE NOTE – Submitted Materials Will NOT Be Returned.

서울국제실험영화페스티벌 HOST_무빙이미지포럼 Moving Image Forum
Executive Body_EXiS 2013 Organization Committee
EXperimental Film And Video Festival in Seoul EXiS2013
Tel. +82(2) 3141-1841
Fax. +82(2) 3141-1842
email. entry2013@ex-is.org

A Vacant Lot To Be In Reviewed in The Wire

Jason Zeh
A Vacant Lot To Be In
Crippled Intellect Productions LP


Those who grew up with the cassette as the principle means for portable listening and file exchange find its resurgence a bit puzzling. How many beloved tapes died from the tape snapping or getting melting in the sun from leaving it on the car dashboard or the physical mechanism itself jamming? For Jason Zeh, those failings are exactly what he seeks to extract through his visceral collages from discarded tape machines and malfunctioning cassettes. While many of his previous recordings have employed the mangled sounds of crumpled and even burnt tape, A Vacant Lot To Be In focuses on the electro-magnetic properties of the tape machine, as Zeh shoves magnetic pieces of metal into the mechanism to interfere with the signal flow. The result is ominously insectoid humming and scabrous noises that increase in density and velocity over both pieces of this vinyl, collapsing into a exhausted smolder of corroded drone and hiss.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

More Teasers


Here is the finalized, full color, artwork for the cassette and VHS that will come with the artist edition of A Vacant Lot To Be In. I am about to send them off to the Risograph printers after running into some problems and other work demands over the last week. These are going fast. So, contact CIP if you want to reserve one.

NMASS in Austin, TX

2013 marks the 10th year anniversary of Church of the Friendly Ghost! This is the fifth annual NMASS (New Media Art and Sound Summit) 



At The Church of the Friendly Ghost.
2803 Manor Rd, Austin, Texas 78722
 
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/257350554404705/
nmassfest.org
 

Wednesday, June 12th at Town Lake (around sunset)
Lisa Cameron's Canopy of Sound opening ceremony

... Thursday, June13th at SVT

ERCATX II & How to Build a Fire: Films and Videos by Michael Morris
plus the work of: David Bartner, Lyndsay Bloom, Nathan S Duncan, Jarrett Hayman, Kirsty Hughan, Caroline Koebel, Patrick Marshall, Metrah Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar,Scott Stark and Rachel Stuckey

Friday, June 14th at SVT

Eurorack synth module building workshop with Super Synthesis and Delptronics* Modular synth meet and greet / show and tell, Thomas Fang, Daze of Heaven, Douglas Ferguson, Rick Reed, Atlanta-based sound designer and IDM wizard Richard Devine with visuals by SYMBOL, Argentinean electronic musician Nicolas Melmann presentation of live sound and video performance.
(this day is brought to you by I/O Music Technology http://www.io-mt.com/)

Saturday, June 15th at SVT

An afternoon brunch followed by a screening of the documentary Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano, followed by performances by Demaris & Knowles, Josh Ronsen BBC turntable trio, Derrick Fore & Mohadev Bhattacharyya, Bryan Day, Nick Hennies, Brent Fariss, Red Ox vs. Cinders, Jason Zeh, O'Neill+Odam installation performance, Coppice, the Dialtones performance and installation, and "Decline" late night visual score ceremony.

Purchase your advance ticket for only $35 here!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cotfg-nmass-2013/x/2396972

Other links:
http://nmassfest.org/
http://do512.com/event/2013/06/12/cotfg-new-media-art-and-sound-summit-2013

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Show in KC June 17th

Monday June 17th 
8:00pm
$5
FOKL
556 Central Ave.
Kansas City Kansas

Jason Zeh
KC extended technique cassette music.
http://jasonzeh.blogspot.com/
https://vimeo.com/64354733
https://vimeo.com/47962724

Coppice
Chicago duo of bellows and electronics. Coppice will be
performing a new composition for prepared pump organ
and tape processes
http://www.futurevessel.com/coppice/
http://soundcloud.com/futurevessel/coppice-pied-excerpt

Ashley Tini and The
Lawrence chamber ensemble performs music by Iannis
Xenakis and David Lang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvepxvHXKk

Piper Harrow
KC tapes, mouth, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpFGiTa5j44

Conceal and Carry
KC ambient drone-pop.
http://soundcloud.com/user2128422

Friday, May 17, 2013

More Images from Hammer Anvil Stirrup in Lincoln, NE




Tue. June, 11 Wichita Kansas

Tuesday June, 11th
10:30pm

Kirby's
3227 E 17th St N, Wichita, Kansas 67208-1910


JASON ZEH - kansas city tape manipulator. and overwhelming, enveloping, and enthralling adventure is sound decay. releases on chondritic sound, gods of tundra, gameboy productions, etc.

CRICKET ENSEMBLE - recently founded offshoot of CRICKET WAND. drone / ambient duo? trio?

+1 more tba

KIRBYS
FREE
COME SUPPORT JASON ZEH

Wed. June, 12 Austin TX

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12TH
6pm - 10pm
HOUSE OF CACA (1111 Saucedo St, the house with the red door and all the trash in the yard)
FREE/BYOB
FREE BOOZE (while it lasts)
... DONATIONS ENCOURAGED (seriously)

Jason Zeh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4MLenmTvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gFluRj0Vs
Kansas City, Missouri's master of tape manipulations. If you can't catch him at the NMASS festival; here's a free gig that you have no excuse if you miss it. Bring donation bux/whiskey for him if you can.

Breakdancing Ronald Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqE6P9DGdVI
1/2 of the House of Caca staff. Cut-up Harsh Noise and junk abuse meets Pansy Power ElectroniXXX and funny mashups.

Gym Mat Nap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdraUWqH9c
The other 1/2 of the House of Caca stalves. Abrasive ambience with tapes, white noise, occasional vocal, + element of surprise.

Dromez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrT2LRZ49qE
Freaking out about creeps. Screaming, awkward, emotional, brutal chick, harsh noise and feedback. Winner of contests.

Aunt's Analog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FRO274H_U
Harsh pedal-abuse from Austin's own OG HN king!

DJ Papa Caca will be in full effect this night. For real.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Roughly 1hr before the show, we will be having an exclusive screening of GX Jupitter-Larsen's (The Haters) film "A Noisy Delivery." It'll be the first, and currently ONLY, screening of it in Texas. Come chill in our living room and watch this flick with us. More info:

GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture.

Shot around the world A Noisy Delivery is the first, yes the 1st, feature - length movie by GX.

Official Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCDRurt-ZBM

unofficial Trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruq53Ai-Hg

"The synopsis: a couple were going to get together after the girlfriend had dropped off her package, but the boyfriend will have to keep waiting. The whole day turned out to be an attempt in crossing the distance between nothing and something. Everyone, it seems, was at the post office for philosophy instead of postage."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Alexandra Pharmakidis, of Power Monster/Sex Bruises/Mustard Tugboat/Mema/etc, will also be having a miniature one-night-only gallery showing. She'll be showing off excerpts from her collection of mail-art trades as well as her own work. These will be viewable in the living room of the house during both the film and the show. Please treat them with respect and care.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Review of Hammer Anvil Stirrup

Read it here.

"The sounds created aren’t always musical. One of the key sonic components of Jason Zeh’s '3 Examples of Extended Tape' is tape hiss along with other noises and hums created by three cassette players run through a mixing board."

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Show in Lincoln NE



8PM Wednesday May 15 at Toothblack House
3708 J ST Lincoln NE Roy Werner and John Brumley (CA) electronic sound and light
Jason Zeh (KC) minimal tape sounds
Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson (NE, NYC) sound and light
Joseph Jaros (NE) sound
Scott Cook (NE) sound
Mighty Vitamins (NE) the task at hand
             we’ll start on time
Please donate $5 to the touring artists

Thursday, May 9, 2013

2013 MILWAUKEE NOISE FEST

FTAM, Rushmor Records, Callous Musik and Koala Buttons present...

2013 MILWAUKEE NOISE FEST
AUGUST 22-24
THE MIRAMAR THEATRE
... 2844 N OAKLAND
6:00 DOOR, 7:00 SHOW
ALL AGES
$16.00 PER NIGHT//$41.00 THREE DAY PASS

THURSDAY, AUGSUT 22
The Haters (CA)
Frank Rosaly (IL)
Hal Rammel and Jim Schoenecker (WI)
Lucky Bone (WI)
Hostage Pageant (OH)
KrampusØ (WI/MN)
Blessed Sacrifist (WI)
Fake Blood Universe (WI)


FRIDAY, AUGUST 23
The Rita (Victoria, BC)
Steel Hook Prosthesis (TX)
Reptile Worship (WI)
Dan of Earth (WI)
Startless (IL/MO)
Wapstan (Montreal)
Anal Hearse (WI)
Nummy (WI)


SATURDAY, AUGUST 24
Negativland (CA)
Pedestrian Deposit (CA)
Peter J Woods (WI)
Climax Denial (WI)
Jason Soliday (IL)
Dr Rhomboid Goatcabin (OH)
Urth (MN/IL)
Mildew (WI)


Line Up Subject to Change


LINKS TO TICKETS:
THURSDAY- http://www.themiramartheatre.com/event/274363
FRIDAY- http://www.themiramartheatre.com/event/274373
SATURDAY- http://www.themiramartheatre.com/event/274381
THREE DAY PASSES- Click any of the above links


an FTAM production
http://experimentalmilwaukee.com/
peter@experimentalmilwaukee.com

Artist Edition VHS Cover

Here is the Black and White art for the VHS that comes with the Artist Edition of A Vacant Lot To Be In.

The final version will be a full color Risograph print of this design. If you are interested in getting one, make sure that you reserve it soon. They are quickly disappearing.

Update: as of now, there are only five of these left that are unspoken for. If you want one contact Crippled Intellect Productions.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A Vacant Lot To Be In Review On Vital Weekly

JASON ZEH - A VACANT LOT TO BE IN (LP by CIP)

The other new record on CIP is by Jason Zeh, of whom I first heard on the same label, and whose work since then has my interest. Zeh is one of the few people I know who uses extensively cassette tapes, processed in extreme conditions, to create some excellent musique concrete from a very lo-fi point of view. Tape is treated with paint, dirt, needles, sand papers, but also tape recorders are subject to similar modifications, and all of these processed recordings are put together with some great effect. Two pieces, one per side and each is described on the cover, such as 'all sounds derived from cassette loops of varying lengths stretched between modified tape decks. Magnets, splicing tape, sand paper and magnetized knife blades have been used to slowly dismantle the recorded source material' and that's what happens over the twenty minutes of 'Cycles Of Doubt'. That piece is throughout quite a drone like affair, whereas 'A Vacant Lot To Be In' is a slow growing animal, reaching it's forceful peak at one point, buzzing loudly with tons of hiss, in a might crescendo ending the piece. Excellent stuff, carved into an analogue medium for optimum playback. (FdW)
Address: http://cipsite.net http://misanthrophicagenda.com

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Hamer Anvil Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds



Photos by Craig Roper and Bryan Day


I have a piece in this sound art exhibition in Lincoln Nebraska right now. The show is called Hamer Anvil Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds and was curated by Jay Kreimer and Bryan Day. 

LUX Center for the Arts
2601 N 48th St, Lincoln, Nebraska 68504

Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds
Reception: May, 3 from 5-8pm
May 3-June 28
... Sponsored by: Garner Industries

Lincoln artist, Jay Kreimer and San Francisco musician, Brian Day invited a group of contemporary sound artists from around the country to make work that engages your eyes and ears. A variety of mediums are used to create curious instruments that make sounds that are familiar and foreign. Participating artists: Harry Bertoia, Scott Cook, Bryan Day, Anne Hege, Tore Honore’Boe, Joseph Jaros, Tim Kaiser, Ben Kreimer, Jay Kreimer, Sung Kim, Cheryl Leonard, Reinhold Marxhausen, John Collins McCormick, Tom Nunn, Ed Ruchalski, David Samas, Jeff Snyder, Robert Stewart, Jeff Thompson, Jon Yates and Jason Zeh.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Soup Of Freak

Soup of Freak, a 62 artist compilation featuring me, is available here

Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds

Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds
Reception: May, 3 from 5-8pm
May 3-June 28
... Sponsored by: Garner Industries


LUX Center for the Arts

2601 N 48th St, Lincoln, Nebraska 68504


Lincoln artist, Jay Kreimer and San Francisco musician, Brian Day invited a group of contemporary sound artists from around the country to make work that engages your eyes and ears. A variety of mediums are used to create curious instruments that make sounds that are familiar and foreign. Participating artists: Harry Bertoia, Scott Cook, Bryan Day, Anne Hege, Tore Honore’Boe, Joseph Jaros, Tim Kaiser, Ben Kreimer, Jay Kreimer, Sung Kim, Cheryl Leonard, Reinhold Marxhausen, John Collins McCormick, Tom Nunn, Ed Ruchalski, David Samas, Jeff Snyder, Robert Stewart, Jeff Thompson, Jon Yates and Jason Zeh.

Austin, Texas

Church of the Friendly Ghost presents the fifth annual NMASS (New Media Art and Sound Summit) from Thursday, June 13th until Saturday, June 15th, 2013! Concerts! Art Installations! Film screenings! Workshops!

artists and workshops include...

Eurorack synth module building workshop with Super Synthesis and Delptronics* Modular synth meet and greet / show and tell, Thomas Fang, Daze of Heaven, Douglas Ferguson, Rick Reed, Atlanta-based sound designer and IDM wizard Richard Devine, Experimental Response Cinema will present the films of Dallas artist Michael Morris and a program of local experimental filmakers, Chicago's Coppice will perform new material for prepared pump organ and tape procceses, Nick Hennies in a vibraphone and bass duo, The Austin premier of the film Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano, Red Ox vs. Cinders, master of cassette tape destruction Jason Zeh, Argentinean electronic musician Nicolas Melmann will be presenting a live sound and video performance, a new installation by Sean O'neill and Clay Odom. Plus more artists and events are being added every day!    
tickets for the whole weekend cost only $35. 

You can support the fest on Indie Gogo by going here.