July 18: Knob Jobs
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KNOB JOBS
////////////////////////////////////WHEN: SATURDAY 7/18/09 10:30PM
WHERE: SVT 2803 MANOR RD. AUSTIN TX 78702
/////HOW: CHURCH OF THE FRIENDLY GHOST
//////WHY: BECAUSE YOU DESERVE THIS//APPROACH: 3 SEPARATE SOLO SETS
///////(INCLUDING FILM WORKS BY RICK REED)
///////FOLLOWED BY A TRIO PERFORMANCEKnob Jobs is a trio made up of Brent Fariss, Nick Hennies, and Rick Reed.
Fixtures of the Austin experimental music scene, the three musicians have worked together on many different projects but never a project as focused and cohesive as Knob Jobs. A fully-formed unit, Knob Jobs performs using analog synthesizers, found sounds, and various electronic instruments to create music that exists in the space between drone, harsh noise, and minimalist experimental music. Collectively drawing on decades of musical experience, the resulting music is both intense and cathartic. Knob Jobs’ performance at SVT will be their first performance in two years, last appearing at Rick Reed’s Toneburst series in 2007 at Ceremony Hall.
*+bio+* Brent Fariss is a composer / performer living in Austin, Texas. He has collaborated in several modern music ensembles including Gates, the Araxia Trio, and the Imbroglio String Quartet. As a performer, he has worked alongside Arnold Dreyblatt, Phill Niblock, Mary Olivier, and Pauline Oliveros. Currently, he is completing a trilogy of music theater pieces (*d er Idiotprinz*, *The Magic Show*, & the forthcoming *Larry Lewis*); collaborating with the retro-noise project, Waco Girls; and performing with the Knob Jobs. In 2008, Fariss received a Meet the Composer grant for his choir piece, *dim gleam*. He currently has an installation running as part of the Recreating the Domain. Fariss holds a Master’s degree in Composition from Texas State University, where he also studied the contrabass. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/brentfariss
*+bio+* Nick Hennies is a percussionist and composer from Louisville, KY. He received his M.A. in percussion from the University of California-San Diego in 2003 where he studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick and performed with the percussion group ‘red fish blue fish’, the SONOR Ensemble, and in a duo with trombonist Tucker Dulin.
Since relocating to Austin, TX in 2003, Hennies has performed regularly with the Austin New Music Co-op as well as presenting solo concerts and frequently collaborating with other local and visiting musicians. He has premiered works by Stuart Saunders Smith, Arnold Dreyblatt, Radu Malfatti, J=FCrg Frey, Gerhard St=E4bler, Eugene Chadbourne and many other composers from the United States and abroad and has extensively toured North America with his band The Weird Weeds. Other notable appearances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series, Festival Agora (Paris), the No Idea Festival (Austin), and with Jandek in his first ever U.S. performance.
In addition to performing, Hennies studied composition with Herbert Br=FCn and Stuart Saunders Smith, hosts a weekly radio show devoted to experimental music on KOOP Austin community radio, and is a steadfast promoter and organizer of experimental music events in Austin. www.myspace.com/nickhennies
*+bio+* Rick Reed came to music by way of the visual arts. He had originally studied painting and graphic design during the 70’s, but after moving to Austin in 1980, he was inspired by the liberating punk rock DIY mentality that was so prevalent around this time. He soon found himself rekindling a love affair with electronic sounds that he began as a child playing with reel to reel tape recorders and short wave radios. So, in 1981 he began recording his own music of drone noise using analog synthesizers, which by then were just starting to become affordable for the average person.
Laboring in almost total obscurity for 15 years, he was discovered by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore in 1996 and finally had his first official record, “Experimental and Improvised Music From Austin, Tx.” released on Ecstatic Peace the following year. Since then, he has continued to work not only on music, but video art, installations, field recordings, film soundtracks (his music for Ken Jabobs “Capitalism: Child Labor” won the grand prize at the Vila do Conde film festival in Portugal, Spain in 2007), as well as continuing his first passion, painting.
Over the years, he has appeared in numerous local groups such as FTC, The Abrasion Ensemble, The Ethereal Bastards, Field, The Deep Dream Decoders, Frequency Curtain and The Voltage Spooks, with Keith Rowe (ex-AMM). Rowe and Reed perform together again as part of the Le Weekend festival in Stirling, Scotland in May of this year. Reed’s work can be heard on labels such as Beta Lactam Ring, Bremsstralung Recordings, Pale Disc/Japan and Elevator Bath, which just released a picture disk LP, “Dreamz/Blue Polz”. www.myspace.com/richardkreed
mission:
Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions, experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz. While we place an emphasis on home-grown music (Austin, Texas) we also connect the local audience with new performers and composers and serve as a hub for the creative music community in Austin.Church of the Friendly Ghost serves as a laboratory for creative musicians outside the the limits of institution and industry, as well as a gathering place for the culturally adventurous in Austin, accessible as a social, practical, and artistic network.
By providing an alternative to traditional bars and venues, a logistical and promotional network, and serving as a forum for artistic discourse, C.O.T.F.G. nurtures and enable a more diverse range of creative musics, and curates an ongoing series of exciting and thought-provoking musical performances that take place at Salvage Vanguard Theater.
These performances accessible to the public, inclusive to the community as a whole, and always offered at an affordable admission. Church Of The Friendly Ghost seeks to raise the profile of creative music in Austin and Texas worldwide. We at Church of the Friendly Ghost believe that Art is a right and a public resource. Thanks for your support and interest!
*We are a 100% volunteer-run community organization with support from Salvage Vanguard Theater and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin.*
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