Jacob Kirkegaard, Lesley Flanigan and Tristan Perich April 19, 2011

In an intimate concert focused on the intersection of electronic and acoustic sound, 186 Carpenter presents Jacob Kirkegaard, Lesley Flanigan and Tristan Perich on April 19, 2011 at 8PM.

Jacob Kirkegaard presents Wermutstropfen (Wormwood Drops). In 2006 Tessa Knapp & Jacob Kirkegaard created the video Filament which was made from their recordings within and around the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland. As a comment to Japan, sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has now created a sound piece based from the accelerometer recordings that he made of the turbines and thousands of tubes inside of this power plant. This is the sound of nuclear power, the process of splitting atoms apart.

Lesley Flanigan performs Amplifications, music for handmade speaker instruments and voice. Based on her 2009 album of the same name, Flanigan sets herself amid a cluster of wooden speakers and microphones, layering tones of physical speaker feedback with those from her own singing voice to shape sound as fragile mass.

Tristan Perich’s ensemble will perform his Elevation Maps, a glacially slow composition combining long, pure tones from five accordions with cascading electronic frequencies. By juxtaposing 1-bit sound—the most primitive digital waveform—with traditional classical instruments, Perich’s compositions explore the foundations of electronic and acoustic sound. In Elevation Maps, Perich’s sounds become a slowly moving tapestry of sound.

Jacob Kirkegaard, Lesley Flanigan and Tristan Perich
April 19, 2011, 8pm ($5 admission)
186 Carpenter, Providence, RI 02903

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. Using unorthodox recording tools, including accelerometers, hydrophones and home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments : a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.

Artist and vocalist Lesley Flanigan (New York) sculpts electronic music by hand, exploring the tangibility of sound with her own handmade speaker instruments, amplifiers, recording devices and voice. Her captivating performances intimately unfold revealing the nuts and bolts of sounds that construct her music. ArtsCriticATL writes that, “Flanigan’s performances come loaded with philosophical ideas, often blurring the boundaries among music, noise, sculpture and performance art.”

New York-based composer and artist Tristan Perich works are inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” His 1-Bit Symphony (Cantaloupe, 2010) was called “sublime” (New York Press), and the Wall Street Journal said “[its] oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth.”

For more information, please contact Jori Ketten from 186 Carpenter at [email protected] or visit:
- http://www.tristanperich.com
- http://www.lesleyflanigan.com
- http://www.fonik.dk

Official Website: http://www.tristanperich.com