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Now approaching its fourth annual installment, the San Diego Experimental Guitar show is expanding into a two-day affair with the addition of a sound art show the night before the big event.
“Each year I experiment with new ideas that I think would make the event more exciting,” says curator Sam Lopez, a noise musician who performs as Zsa Zsa Gabor and books fringe art/music showcases in his periodic Stay Strange series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfGnu--LgME&feature=player_embedded
On Friday, March 22, musician Nick Campbell (Wages) presents PERSONO, an interactive sound art installation at Space 4 Art (340 16th St. – East Village).
“There will be a few central sonic elements,” says Campbell, “guitars played by falling sand, by automated motors and also played manually by motors that attendees will trigger. My goal is to create a unique sound-art experience that is conceptual, but also sonically pleasing. I usually approach music from a pop perspective (thinking in terms of songs versus sounds alone), and an installation offers the chance to think in terms of pure sound and how people interact with that sound.”
Campbell says he arrived at the idea while exploring the possibility of recreating the experience of existence using sound.
“The idea was to find a way to blend the infinite with the finite, just as we live finite lives within seemingly infinite time,” Campbell says.
“My search to create an infinite ringing chord led me to sand - not only could falling sand play a continual chord, but sand is often used to symbolize time, so is appropriate on a few levels. To then symbolize finite life, I thought to use manmade elements (namely programmed motors) to play a pattern on guitars that would have a beginning and end. As the final element, I then thought to have the person experiencing the whole thing stand in the center and manually play instruments through pushing buttons that would turn motors. I view these as the elements of human life symbolized: the infinite around us, the finite existence we have, and the ability to manipulate the world around us during our time here.”
The free opening reception will run from 7 to 10 p.m.
All guests must RSVP to [email protected] or sdxgusa.com (two persons maximum per RSVP).
A free public showing will be held the following day, Saturday, March 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
SDXG2013 kicks off at 8 the same evening at Soda Bar (3615 El Cajon Blvd. - City Heights - $7) with performances by Scott Nielsen, Bart Stull, Clint Davis (No Fancy, Memorial Cervix), Demetrius Antuna (ANA/, KATA), Rafter, and Wages.
There will be a raffle for two limited edition effect pedals courtesy of HORSELOVER Fat/Wretched Excess and Ginormous Electronics.
All raffle proceeds will benefit Street of Dreams: Musicians for Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational and creative support to at-risk teen mothers.
“A few years ago, there was talk in certain music publications about the death of the guitar,” Lopez told the Reader in 2011.
“Notions were made that this archaic instrument was no longer a relevant tool for creating music. As a guitarist, I took offense to this statement. Since I curated noise shows, and had friends who played a similar style of noise guitar, I decided to fight back this inanity with a sonic extravaganza that would prove that the guitar was still a force to be reckoned with.”
SDXG has since seen performances from avant-guitarists including Pall Jenkins (Three Mile Pilot, Black Heart Procession), Henry Barnes (Man Is the Bastard, Amps for Christ), Bobby Bray (the Locust, Innerds), Bill Wesley (The Array Orchestra), Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Rob Crow (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable), Randy Chiurazzi, Aaron Legrow (California Bleeding, Dead Animal Mod), and Jon Calzo (DJ Tenshun, Skrapez).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_-qc3-KrM&feature=player_embedded
Says Lopez: “No longer the spiky instigator, the experimental guitar show is now a welcomed and viable vehicle for artists who feel the need to push the boundaries of their musicianship.”
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/05/41193/
Now approaching its fourth annual installment, the San Diego Experimental Guitar show is expanding into a two-day affair with the addition of a sound art show the night before the big event.
“Each year I experiment with new ideas that I think would make the event more exciting,” says curator Sam Lopez, a noise musician who performs as Zsa Zsa Gabor and books fringe art/music showcases in his periodic Stay Strange series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfGnu--LgME&feature=player_embedded
On Friday, March 22, musician Nick Campbell (Wages) presents PERSONO, an interactive sound art installation at Space 4 Art (340 16th St. – East Village).
“There will be a few central sonic elements,” says Campbell, “guitars played by falling sand, by automated motors and also played manually by motors that attendees will trigger. My goal is to create a unique sound-art experience that is conceptual, but also sonically pleasing. I usually approach music from a pop perspective (thinking in terms of songs versus sounds alone), and an installation offers the chance to think in terms of pure sound and how people interact with that sound.”
Campbell says he arrived at the idea while exploring the possibility of recreating the experience of existence using sound.
“The idea was to find a way to blend the infinite with the finite, just as we live finite lives within seemingly infinite time,” Campbell says.
“My search to create an infinite ringing chord led me to sand - not only could falling sand play a continual chord, but sand is often used to symbolize time, so is appropriate on a few levels. To then symbolize finite life, I thought to use manmade elements (namely programmed motors) to play a pattern on guitars that would have a beginning and end. As the final element, I then thought to have the person experiencing the whole thing stand in the center and manually play instruments through pushing buttons that would turn motors. I view these as the elements of human life symbolized: the infinite around us, the finite existence we have, and the ability to manipulate the world around us during our time here.”
The free opening reception will run from 7 to 10 p.m.
All guests must RSVP to [email protected] or sdxgusa.com (two persons maximum per RSVP).
A free public showing will be held the following day, Saturday, March 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
SDXG2013 kicks off at 8 the same evening at Soda Bar (3615 El Cajon Blvd. - City Heights - $7) with performances by Scott Nielsen, Bart Stull, Clint Davis (No Fancy, Memorial Cervix), Demetrius Antuna (ANA/, KATA), Rafter, and Wages.
There will be a raffle for two limited edition effect pedals courtesy of HORSELOVER Fat/Wretched Excess and Ginormous Electronics.
All raffle proceeds will benefit Street of Dreams: Musicians for Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational and creative support to at-risk teen mothers.
“A few years ago, there was talk in certain music publications about the death of the guitar,” Lopez told the Reader in 2011.
“Notions were made that this archaic instrument was no longer a relevant tool for creating music. As a guitarist, I took offense to this statement. Since I curated noise shows, and had friends who played a similar style of noise guitar, I decided to fight back this inanity with a sonic extravaganza that would prove that the guitar was still a force to be reckoned with.”
SDXG has since seen performances from avant-guitarists including Pall Jenkins (Three Mile Pilot, Black Heart Procession), Henry Barnes (Man Is the Bastard, Amps for Christ), Bobby Bray (the Locust, Innerds), Bill Wesley (The Array Orchestra), Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Rob Crow (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable), Randy Chiurazzi, Aaron Legrow (California Bleeding, Dead Animal Mod), and Jon Calzo (DJ Tenshun, Skrapez).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_-qc3-KrM&feature=player_embedded
Says Lopez: “No longer the spiky instigator, the experimental guitar show is now a welcomed and viable vehicle for artists who feel the need to push the boundaries of their musicianship.”
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/05/41193/