SONIC CIRCUITS benefit performance no. 3 September 14, 2008

** BEN MILLER (SAXOPHONES, ANALOG SYNTH, TAPE + ELECTRONICS)
** N_DREW (AUDIO-VISUAL / VJ PERFORMANCE)
** JONATHAN ZORN (ACOUSMATIC SOUNDS FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE VA)

DOORS _ 6:30 P.M.
MUSIC _ 7:00 P.M. SHARP
ADMISSION: $5.00 AT THE DOOR

PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 GEORGIA AVENUE _ SILVER SPRING MD 20910 _ 301.608.9101
LOCATED THREE BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE SILVER SPRING METRO STATION (RED LINE)

INFO + DIRECTIONS: WWW.PYRAMIDATLANTICARTCENTER.ORG

BEN MILLER uses Alto and C-Tenor saxophones as source material for electronic and tape manipulation. Incorporating multiple foot pedals, tape decks and analog synth, he sets up a wall of dense frequencies through feedback and slow-paced improvisation. In 1977, Miller played alto sax in the art-punk band Destroy All Monsters (featuring Ron Asheton from The Stooges and Michael Davis from The MC5). He currently plays sax and composes for The Push-Pull Quartet having just released their first CDR "At The Stroke of Twelve" on Tiger Asylum Records, as well as being the composer/conductor for his 15-member ensemble, The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra. INFO: http://www.myspace.com/benjaminrush miller

N_DREW (Andrew Bucksbarg) creates audio-visual/ VJ performances and interactive works, exploring organic and abstract forms, live A/V processes and participatory techno-culture, enthralling audiences with images, beats, ambient sounds and pixilated atmospheres. He is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University. As an experimental interaction artist, Bucksbarg concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange. His work appears in museums, galleries and festivals internationally. INFO: http://www.organicode.net/about.html

JONATHAN ZORN is a composer/sound artist/performer currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia. He likes to make sounds using his voice, double bass, guitar, accordion, modular synthesizer and computer. His compositions and electronic instruments involve systems of interaction that exceed the control of any single participant, creating unstable sonic terrains and ensemble dynamics. Jonathan maintains several ongoing collaborative projects with artists and performers around the country including Rachel Thompson, David Kendall, Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks and Katherine Young. INFO: http://rasbliutto.net/artists/ jonathanzorn.html

The 2008 SONIC CIRCUITS FESTIVAL of Experimental Music runs September 28 through October 5 at the Velvet Lounge, National Museum of Women in the Arts and George Washington University in Washington DC, and at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring MD.

FULL ARTIST LINE-UP/SCHEDULE + MAILING LIST: www.dc-soniccircuits.org

Official Website: http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org