The opening night of the 5th annual X Avant Music Festival,
featuring legendary Detroit techno pioneer…
JEFF MILLS (Axis/Tresor/Underground Resistance) – LIVE A/V performance
Performing an all new experimental A/V composition entitled “Believe”
with special guests ...
Big Zang Percussion Ensemble – LIVE - Montreal Martin Fazekas breakandenter – DJ - Toronto Jamie Kidd Platform/Metalogic – DJ – Toronto
Visuals by Wuestenarchitekten Derivative– VJ - Toronto
Sound provided by Alieninflux
Location: SPK, 206 Beverly St., Toronto, ON Doors: 9pm – 2am – PLEASE NOTE EARLY START TIME, HEADLINER GOES ON EARLY!!! Advance tickets: $17 at TicketWeb.ca, Rotate This, Soundscapes, Slinky Music, Shanti Baba, Earth & Fire, Plastic Wrap.
$15 for Music Gallery Members
$75 for X Avant V Festival Pass – see www.musicgallery.org for more info
About the Artists:
---Jeff Mills----
Jeff Mills is considered one of the most brilliant DJ and producers of techno in the World. He is the most recoｇnized representative figure of the Detroit techno, where he began his career as a DJ on the WDRQ radio in 1984. With Mad Mike Banks, he created the collective Underground Resistance, which became a common reference in the electro sphere. In 1992, Jeff Mills created his own label Axis in Chicago.
Jeff Mills’ artistic career goes much further than techno music. For over a decade, he’s been transcending disciplines with a large number of collaborations within contemporary art. Interested in cinema and attracted by images, Jeff Mills started working on the fusion of image and sound. In 2000, he created and presented at the Centre Pompidou a new sound track for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. A year after, he created Mono, an installation inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick. In 2004, Jeff Mills produced the DVD Exhibitionist, which presents DJ sets filmed from various angles (from front, top and side).
In 2007 Jeff Mills received the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture. Always busy, Jeff Mills is involved in numerous projects at this time.
For this very special event Mills will be performing his A/V composition entitled “Believe” inspired by Mills’ interest in conspiracy theory and extraterrestrial life.
---Big Zang Percussion Ensemble---
Big Zang brings a unique program of “progressive percussion” repertoire created by sound designers and electro-acoustic musicians. Composers who draw their influences from their “pop culture” backgrounds and revamp it in a classical setting, David Lang and Mark Applebaum are probably two of the most influential and involved modernist composers today. Placed alongside DJ/percussionist Dennis Desantis and Italian composer and cellist Giovanni Sollima, this show will be a vexing and delightful listening experience. Wit core members including Eric Derr, Ben Duinker, Sandra Joseph, Corinne Renné, and Dan Morphy, this Montreal-based collective came together during the “Roots and Rhizomes” residency at the Banff Centre led by none other than percussion guru Steven Schick.
---Martin Fazekas---
Martin Fazekas, also known as Evolve, has been a regular feature in the Toronto electronic dance community for over five years. As one third, and resident DJ, of Toronto’s highly regarded breakandenter party crew, Fazekas has consistently raised his profile performing at numerous local events and festivals including OM and Harvest, and alongside some of the world’s most respected DJs and producers such as Daniel Bell, Heartthrob, and Sammy Dee, just to name a few. His sets combine the finer elements of techno and house, often leading toward the darker and/or deeper edges of both genres.
---Jamie Kidd---
Toronto based Jamie Kidd is a multi-instrumentalist turned electronic producer and DJ. His obsessions with rhythm and skills as a musician inspire him to take the spirit of live music into every performance. As a funk, jazz and rock bassist, Jamie has recorded and toured with numerous live groups throughout Canada and the US. A graduate of the Humber College esteemed Jazz Performance and Composition program, Kidd has since focused on improvisation-based ensembles including the Chameleon Project, a live drum’n’bass, dub, and disco quartet with whom he released the full-length album Stereoscopic in 2003. As a producer, Jamie has composed singles and remixes for several labels including Toronto's own Thoughtless Music. In 2006, Kidd joined Frederik Hatsav to form Metalogic. Their collaborations have accumulated in edgy, dynamic and highly rhythmic electronic music for such labels as London's Perc Trax, New York's Addon, and Brooklyn's legendary Hidden Agenda imprint. Metalogic’s next album, Torus, is set to be released on Berlin's Nachtstrom Schallplatten in the summer of 2010.
In one of the most vibrant underground scenes in North America, Jamie has quickly distinguished himself among the city’s finest techno, tech-house, and minimal DJs. Since its inception, he has been the resident dj for Toronto techno titans Platform, performing alongside some of the world's most respected artists, including Jeff Mills, Speedy J, Trentemoller, Adam Beyer, Tiefschwarz, Radio Slave, Matthew Dear, Rob Hood, James Holden, Timo Maas, Junior Boys, and many more.A fetish for bass heavy, pulsating sub textures, dubbed-out effects, and long teasing blends, Jamie Kidd hijacks your mind on an impulsive journey in and out of deep unauthorized darkness, and manic but pleasurable innocence.
---Wuestenarchitekten, Derivative---
Dedicated to advancing the way we make art and visualize information and ideas, Derivative has produced live visuals and interactive art projects for an exemplary roster of international superstars that include Prada, Herzog de Meuron, Rush, and most recently Plastikman. They have also developed major theme park attractions globally. In a unique alliance with raster-noton now entering its second year Derivative designed and built an expandable framework for multi-screen live performances under the guidance of label founders Carsten Nicolai (alva noto) and Olaf Bender (byetone). The collaboration resulted in a series of shows last year at Club Transmediale, Sonar, MUTEK, OFFF, and Ars Electronica that were received as precedent-setting.
geroin
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MikeyN
Sick! Just what I've been looking for lately!!
knacker
The Wizard returns!!!! Special live A/V performance too.
