MINIMAL BRUTUS / DAS AUDIT / MYSTIC RULER / SAVINI PSOAS

Minimal Brutus Das Audit Mystic Ruler Savini Psoas

Minimal Brutus Dr. Kevin Patton (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/KevinPatton/NightWanderings) is a musician, scholar, and technologist active in the fields of experimental music and multimedia theatre whose work explores the intersection of technology and performance. The design of new musical instruments as well as interfaces and computer systems for analysis, composition, and performance is at the center of his practice. Robert Boston (http://www.soundcloud.com/rbostonzeit), pianist and composer, has worked with electronic music, theater, installations, and dance companies world wide. In New York, he has performed extensively with the Martha Graham Dance Company and with the Mark Morris Dance Group, where he is currently principal accompanist.

Das Audit http://soundcloud.com/das-audit Using an improvisational approach Das Audit creates organic and compact compositional forms inspired by the physical properties of sound. The group comprised of John Anderson (percussion), Eve Essex (alto sax/flutes), Craig Kalpakjian (guitar), and Sean Keenan (bass) distill elements of modern composition and folk music with a sense of rhythmic play and minimalism. The result is in a hypnotic and experimentally broad musical palette.

Mystic Ruler http://www.soundcloud.com/mysticruler Nicholas John Stevens’ instrumental scapes consist of analog synth drones, interspersed with melodic movements thru heavy-handed use of tape echo, wistful trombone lines, and cassette tape loops of loved ones passed. "The ghosts of a dead high school marching band play Amazing Grace in counterpoint at midnight to an empty city street in a Jack O'Connell novel."

Savini Psoas http://savinipsoas.bandcamp.com/ Denton, Texas deportees, Christian Lee (Dolores Boys, Phantom Family Halo, Fang w Martin Bisi) and Nikki D'Agostino create an electronic soundscape of nightmarish saxophone riffing, electronic processes, and flashes of light. "Blade Runner meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre in a foreign call center of night-terrors."