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Friday August 8 2008 - 888
Included in the cheap admission you will receive a recording of the show, special gifts and merch from the bands and updates on upcoming events!
The viennagram will be recording the chorus to their radio single Long Way Back To Paradise Live with audience participation, so everyone singing along will get to be in the final release of the song and have your name mentioned in the credits on the CD.

Bands Performing 888
CowGirl
Spogga

The Magic Show + Intermission
Triangle Forest
The Viennagram

FRIDAY JULY 11 2008

The Official Soundsessions After Hours Event At Studio Blue

where
271 Bullocks Point Ave, East Providence 02915
DIRECTIONS

when
FRIDAY, JULY 11 - 230am - ?

what
21+ After-hours
Live Drum 'n' Bass featuring

Sistine Criminals


Members of The Alchemystic's with Evolve: lifeinthegroup.

Check websites for updated details.
http://www.providencesoundsession.com
http://www.thestudioblue.com

Plus special guests, to be announced.

FRIDAY JUNE 13 2008 @ PC THEATER
Directions to P.C. Theater

87 Empire St Providence RI

" WE'LL DO IT LIVE "

An Audio/Video Performance

TO BENIFIT - THE WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL

Treanor Brothers Animation, HDADD™, Meat Water and ARC STUDIOS are pleased to
present "Do It Live", an audio/video performance, on Friday, June 13th from
8:00 pm to 1:00 am at the Pell-Chafee Center, 87 Empire Street,
Providence.

The evening will feature some of the world's top audio/video artists,
including Aerostatic, Benton-C Bainbridge, Brian Kane, David Lublin,
Duncan Laurie, Jeswa, Nalepa, Ooah, Peter Kirn, Richard Devine, RNDM
and Robotkid, Synesthete and Unkle Thirsty.

The performance is being held to benefit the Woonasquatucket River
Watershed Council. Proceeds will go toward fulfilling the mission of
the WRWC, which is to encourage, support, and promote the restoration
and preservation of the Woonasquatucket River Watershed.

Over the past two summers, many of the artists featured in "We'll Do
It Live" have convened for an informal salon at the Jamestown studio
of sound artist and radionics expert Duncan Laurie. Last year Laurie
staged a performance at Fort Adams called Water Music Remix during
tall ships weekend.

Tickets for the all-ages performance are $15 ,$10 student
teacher,military, police fire the
day of the show. There will be a cash bar.
For more information, email Nick Bauta at nickbauta@gmail.com, or call
401-588-4288.

Featured artists include:

AEROSTATIC (Native State Records)
www.myspace.com/aerostaticmusic

Aerostatic is Terry Golob and Michele Darling, based in Brooklyn, NY.
They compose and perform a hybrid style of electronic music that is
atmospheric, ambient, microbeat and downtempo with breakcore/grindcore
sensibilities. Aerostatic utilize artifacts of sound generated by
digital and analog processes in conjunction with a variety of
interactive technologies, to compose and design audio environments for
performance, film, and installations. Their work has been featured in
shows and festivals in the U.S., U.K., Italy, and Australia.
Aerostatic perform regularly throughout New York City and Brooklyn.
They have also played in Italy, Vienna, Argentina, Rhode Island,
Chicago, and Los Angeles. Their piece "Continuous" was included on the
ambient compilation CD, Beneath The Surface on Native State Records.
Aerostatic also composed the soundtrack for the Hub Culture
Retrospective: Antarctica DVD by Hub Culture, UK. Their Digital EP
'Code' has recently been put out by Native State Records. Aerostatic
did a remix for the forthcoming CD 'Water Music Remixed', a beautiful
compilation by several cutting edge electronic artists who
reinterpreted parts of Handel's Water Music.


BRIAN KANE
www.briankane.net

Brian Kane is the Karl Rove of the Art World.


BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE
http://www.benton-c.com/

Benton-C Bainbridge is a Bronx artist who has made video as a
painterly and performable medium for 25 years. Using custom digital,
analog and optical systems, Benton-C's movies contribute to a dialog
in an emerging global language. Benton-C has shown his work on 5
continents in venues and events including SFMoMA (San Francisco),
Hayden Planetarium (NYC), Lincoln Center, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires),
EMPAC (Troy, NY), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Dallas Video Festival,
Madison Square Garden, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Museum of
Modern Art, Eyebeam (NYC), CELCIT (Managua) and LUX2006 (Sevilla).
Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is making video paintings,
installations and performances with systems co-designed with fellow
artists/technologists Kanye West, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Destiny's Child,
among many others.


DAVID LUBLIN
www.vidvox.com

David Lublin of Vidvox and lmnopf is not professional enough to have
anything to say about himself artistically, but nonetheless his act is
still worth checking out.


DUNCAN LAURIE
www.duncanlaurie.com

Duncan Laurie is a sculptor and audio artist that has been exploring
and writing about semiotics and the relationship of subtle energy
technology (psychotronic and radionic) to art; devising sonic plant
and mineral communication experiments for artistic presentation. He
has been featured in Make magazine and the Sound issue of Visionaire,
which featured the likes of David Byrne, Yoko Ono, U2, and Michael
Stipe. Using brainwave monitors, he has been coaxing small voltages
out of plants and rocks to drive Ableton Live.


JOSHUA KAY aka JESWA (Soul Oddity, Phoenecia, Schematic Records)
www.myspace.com/

Joshua Kay aka Jeswa is the founder of Schematic Records and one half
of the pioneering electronic groups Phoenecia and Soul Oddity. As Soul
Oddity, they were hometown champions of electronic music, pioneering
Miami's rave scene with a sound that combined Detroit electro with
Miami bass funk creating something undeniably powerful for the
dancefloor. As Phoenecia, the quirky duo (Joshua Kay and Romulo del
Castillo) spearheaded the Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) movement with
their inventive, chirpy, blip-and-bass antics. Josh set aside
recording to run their label, Schematic Music, and to manage other
artists. But lately they've been performing out again, including a
Soul Oddity tribute concert in the Design District that drew hundreds
of old-school fans clamoring for the once-hot tune "DJ Tokyo."
Phoenecia puts art -- abstract collages of synthesized sound -- before
pandering to fans. The future-is-now approach leads many to consider
them legends ahead of their time. Schematic Artists include Delarosa &
Asora, Richard Devine, Din-ST, Dino Felipe, Finesse And Runway, Nick
Forté, Hearts Of Darknesses, Jeswa, Kiyo, o9, Otto Von Schirach,
Phoenecia, Takeshi Muto, Secret Frequency Crew and Shapeshifter


NALEPA (Native State Records)
www.myspace.com/nalepa

LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist
collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass, glitchy breaks,
bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful sinewave melodies to create his
patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has produced tracks with
such legends as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, worked with the LA
Philharmonic, shared a bill with Amon Tobin and DJ Spooky at Walt
Disney Concert Hall, rocked Flavorpill's Friday's Off the 405 Series
at the Getty Museum and performed on The Do Lab Stage at Coachella
2007. Nalepa is one of the artists featured in Visionaire 53 SOUND
which includes 100 original sound pieces by David Byrne, U2, Danger
Mouse, Dan The Automator, Yoko Ono and more. When he's not in the lab
or rocking dancefloors together with Tokyo-based MattB as Bass
Science, Nalepa can be found teaching Ableton Live, ProTools and
Reason to the students in his Principles of Music Technology classes
at Chapman University Conservatory of Music.


OOAH (The Glitch Mob, Alpha Pup)
www.myspace.com/ooahmusik

In the heart of the deep south, New Orleans, Louisiana a sound was
born. That sound was comprised from threads of punk, jazz, and of
course, hip hop. That sound is Ooah. From the age of 16 when he
started playing house parties, Josh Mayer knew he wanted to make music
and so took that desire straight to the west coast to pull from and
add a unique flavor to the electronic movement that has been steadily
growing there for years. As a result, Josh started his career as a hip
hop battle DJ, and has never left his dirty south roots behind though
his path has taken him from the south to San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Burning Man, New York and abroad. Currently Ooah spends his time
composing as a solo artist and for The Glitch Mob. The Mob is
comprised of Ooah, edIT, Kraddy, and Boreta. The four artists together
on stage are like nothing that exists elsewhere. Their sound is a
fusion of hip-hop and subsonic electronic music recently described as
"Futuristic Crunk" or "Laser Bass" in The New Yorker. To watch The Mob
is a unique experience every time as each set is entirely new
depending on the composition and mixing by each of its members. In a
word, freestyle. As a solo artist, Ooah's music is comprised of
hip-hop, dubstep, IDM, and more. His unmistakable style can be found
in the company of such artists as Flying Lotus, Noisia, The Grouch and
Eligh, Megasoid, Mala, Deru, and Matisyahu. Ooah is presently
recording both a solo album and an album with The Glitch Mob.


PETER KIRN (CreateDigitalMusic)
www.createdigitalmusic.com

Peter Kirn is a composer/musician, media artist, technologist, writer,
and the editor-in-chief of Create Digital Music. His work has been
presented around the world and televised on CBC-TV Canada and TV-5
Europe, and he regularly performs as a laptop musician and
keyboardist. As a regular contributor to Keyboard and Macworld
magazines, he has written about music technology and musicians; his
book Real World Digital Audio came out in December 2005 on Peachpit
Press. He has also presented lectures, workshops, and master classes
at conferences, universities, and schools, both on his own work and
music and media technology. He has studied at Sarah Lawrence College
and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he is
finishing his Ph.D. in music composition.


RICHARD DEVINE (Schematic/Warp/Sublight/Asphodel/Detroit Underground)
www.myspace.com/richarddevine

During the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp
artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has
released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and
Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem
worldwide. Based from Atlanta, Georgia he has done film score work for
Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper). He has also
collaborated with BT (Brian Transeau on movie "Surveillance" Directed
by Adam Rifkin, Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and have done sound
mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, composed and
designed commercials for the Nike Shoe Company and worked with various
companies doing sound design for Audi, BMW, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury,
Scion, Coke, LandRover, Lexus, Peugeot, Dodge, HBO, Nestle, Nike
Japan, McDonald's, Sprite, Sony, Spike Television network and XBOX
(Halo2 and 3 for Microsoft Gamming Division http://www.halo3.com. He
has also worked with Konami gaming division for the Dance-Dance
Revolution game. And currently now for Sony Play station PS3
(Infected) for Dawn of the Dead. He has also recently completed all
the sound design for the new xbox360. http://www.xbox360.com, and
"Gears of War, Forza, and Massive Effects websites. In conjunction
with TV and film work Richard also has done programming and sound
design work with major audio companies. His work has been featured on
new software and hardware titles from many innovative companies such
as Native Instruments, Izotope, WayOutware, Eventide Effects Company,
GRM tools, Korg, Clavia Nord, Alesis, Akai, Ableton Live, Apple
Computers, Access Virus, DigiDesign, Openlabs, Universal Audio,
Hartmann Neuron synthesizers, Stanton Magnetics DJ Company, Roland,
Propellerheads, Yamaha and M-Audio Division.


RNDM & ROBOTKID
http://www.robotkid.com/rndm-robotkid/

RNDM & ROBOTKID represent the next stage of audio/visual live
performance. Using turntable-controlled video playback systems, the
DJ/VJ duo sample from their extensive knowledge of pop culture and
eclectic music to create audio-visual remixes live on stage. dj RNDM,
a Boston native, is one of the city's hottest up and coming DJs. An
avid turntablist, RNDM brings a unique flair to his performances by
combining different styles and techniques, from mixing and scratching
to juggling and blending. www.djrndm.com ROBOTKID makes musical games
(Rock Band) by day and video art for bands/DJ's by night. Robotkid has
been performing in Boston-area clubs for over 10 years. You can see
some of his work online at www.robotkid.com


VJ SYNESTHETE
www.synesthete.com

VJ Synesthete (Todd Thille), an Istanbul based multi-media artist, has
VJed with top audio artists in the US and Europe, the likes of Sven
Vath, Talvin Singh, DJ Spooky, The Orb and Transglobal Underground. He
won the first (and so far only) Maker Faire VJ Battle. Besting a pool
of 8 talented artists. He has been building custom hardware and
software for his live performances, working with Rhode Island based
artist Duncan Laurie recently to incorporate Nature signals.


UNKLE THIRSTY
www.unklethirsty.com

Simply put, Unkle Thirsty makes cups. Since completing his MFA at RISD
in 2003, he's been moonlighting as a psychogeographer with PIPS, an
artist collective he co-founded. He has a strong background in craft
and has recently rejoined his ceramic roots by making utilitarian
pottery. His goal is to stimulate conversation about contemporary
social issues while sharing a "cup" of coffee or tea.

o v e r t h e p a s t b e l o w .

Get Yer Ya-Yas Out Tonight
11:38 am on May 9th, 2008

Studio Blue Current recording studio/party space hosts the Viennagram (pictured) tonight with Baylies Band and Radio Drama 7pm



28 hours later
1:26 pm on April 27th, 2008 by Beth Comery

viennaguy So what have we learned? Zombies move faster than you might think… when being chased by angry bar managers. And they dance okay too, although that fetid odor of rotting flesh and dried blood makes them somewhat undesirable partners. Ghouls on the other hand smell quite nice thank you. And they are snappy dressers and are frankly pretty hot in a baseball furies/thriller/heroin chic-goes-to-the-prom kind of way. Mostly what I learned at the happening at Studio Blue on Friday night (and if you missed it you are to be pitied) is that watching a guy* eat a light bulb is actually pretty damn entertaining. One rarely sees such aggressive good cheer and anarchic party energy. What a scene — and it was in Riverside.

What I did not learn on Friday cuz I knew it already, is that The Viennagram is amazing and fun and they rock. I like that Viennaguy a lot but I didn’t get his name. (They will be playing May 9 at Firehouse 13, and again on May 21st at AS220. Go see for yourself.)

Is it Z-Day already?
8:48 am on April 25th, 2008 by Beth Comery

8:30 PM — Preparations for the third annual Zombie Day invasion take place in the Upper Quad at RISD, 55 Angell Street, where an experienced team will apply makeup and blood. Your clothes will get messed up, plan accordingly.

10:00 PM — From there, the zombies will swarm down Thayer Street, lurch around Brown, and back to Angell Street in search of slow-moving yuppies and pie-throwing commies, vegans and freegans and out-of-town mommies. And please — I am begging you — get that guy who plays the saxophone. This is being organized (a relative term when speaking of zombies) by Andrew Fogel and a gang of RISD students who must insist that you be at least 18 years old to take part for reasons of liability. (Oh right, almost forgot, get the lawyers!) A donation of a buck or two is requested to support the purchase of the Z-Day supplies. You can even RSVP on Facebook.

11:00 PM until whenever — The Undead After-Party at Studio Blue, of which, more later.

it was a groovy happening
10:59 am on March 1st, 2008 by Beth Comery

viennagramSay what you will about local auteur (RIFC) Mike Ryan, he throws one helluva party. Last night he and the lovely Cat had a few friends over to Studio Blue in Riverside (I’m pretty sure he had permission). Normally a recording and production studio/performance venue etc. etc., for a few hours it was taken over by a happy crew of loonies who danced like mad to The Viennagram. Sounds like (in their own words) “Tom Waits played backwards… sex-cat mating calls… underwater noise nostalgia…” that sort of thing. But that doesn’t begin to describe how dance-able this music is. Fronted by their weirdly charismatic drummer, the band also found time to work on their painting.

2007

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