Sonic Circuits Presents Eli Keszler, Ashley Paul, Silvum July 7, 2009

Sonic Circuits Presents

Eli Keszler, Ashley Paul, Silvum

Tuesday July 7
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red
line)
Free parking in gated lot out front (limited spaces)
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

eli keszler

Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, Eli
creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning
harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He has performed, recorded
or collaborated with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock (performed
a new work of his for bowed crotales and saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell,
Loren Connors, Charles Cohen, Anthony Coleman (appearing on his New
World Records Release), Aki Onda, Bryan Eubanks, David Linton, Steve
Pyne (Redhorse), Greg Kelley, Ashley Paul. Eli has performed at venues
like The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Irving Plaza, Merkin
Hall, Issue Project Room, The Stone and The Knitting Factory (NYC and
LA), and countless bookstores, basements, and small galleries around
the US and Europe. He has released solo CD’s and cassettes on REL as
well as labels such as Rare Youth (debut solo LP, Livingston), Reverb
Worship and Something on The Road.

“…fantastic LP of austere solo percussion and dark matrixes of strings
from this past collaborator with Jandek, with aspects of Scelsi and
Dumitrescu, , Keiji Haino and Biota.” -david keenan (volcanic tongue,
wire magazine), on eli’s solo LP “livingston”

“It’s hard to envisage that this music has been made by just one
person ..especially on parts of Untitled, where the music slowly
builds..the slower more textural sections are particularly striking:
bowed cymbals, bells and fender rhodes give track 2 a chamber music
intimacy.”

mike barnes, wire magazine August 2007

ashley paul

Ashley Paul plays reeds, unique string instruments, electronics and
sings. Her dream-like music juxtaposes aggressive, sustained high
pitched blasts, floating vocals, clattering strings and bells, cry-
like saxophones and is somehow tied together by oddly melodic songs.
In the past year she performed with Loren connors, Aki Onda, Joe
Morris, and Greg Kelley, premiered a new work by Phill Niblock for
soprano saxophone and bowed crotales (written for her and Eli
Keszler), performed as part of the US premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s
masterpiece ‘Der Schall’ at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and was
heard in a live feature on wzbc’s Rare Frequency. Additionally, Ashley
performs regularly with Anthony Coleman in duo, trio and on his recent
New World Records release, plays duo with Eli Keszler and has recently
begun performing solo, sharing the stage with Thurston Moore, Mats
Gustaffson, Chris Corsano and others.

“An entirely impressive collection of alvin lucier / horatio radulescu-
lineage difference tones, discordant euro-style free improv, and
rattling, almost no-wave esque exercises …a form destroyer if there
ever was one ; highly recommended !!!”

Keith Fullerton Whitman mimaroglu music sales

“Album of the column from this newcomer…DOL is an intriguing hybrid,
merging long-form tones with primitivist DIY clatter and Improv
dissonance. Paul handles the mutually antagonistic idioms with aplomb
and a winning mixture of accuracy and rawness.”

-wire magazine November 2008

links/sounds: http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler http://www.myspace.com/ashleygpaul
http://www.relrecords.net/catalogue.html http://www.relrecords.net
http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler

Silvum

“I’m always trying to focus and clarify where I am going with my sound
works to generate the most honest creations possible. Like anyone, I
am inevitably influenced by many things (to view that as negative is
utopian), but never want those influences to overcome my expression.
In the spectrum of my goals, there’s no point in recreating what has
already been done (I have no problem with stylistic explorations of
established styles or approaches in other artists / genres), and I am
always realizing that my works can be easily classified (I’m not
destroying any boundaries). While sound revolution is not the point, I
do want to create something as “true” and refined as possible,
something that is me, or more practically a part of me: a mood a
sensation, a memory. An alchemy where I take the standard elements and
generate something unique.”

http://www.myspace.com/silvum

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