Gordon Monahan
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Genre : Expérimentale
Lieu Ontario, CA
Affichages : 8583
Dernière connexion : 2010-07-19
Membre depuis 2007-05-08
Site Web www.gordonmonahan.com
Label C3R Records, Guelph
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Scroll down for more videos and biography .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance. Monahan began performing in public as a member of various rock bands in Ottawa, Canada (1968-73). Since 1978, he has performed and exhibited at numerous performance spaces, galleries, and festivals. Early in his career, he specialized as a pianist, performing John Cage’s Etudes Australes, premiering pieces by James Tenney and Udo Kasemets, and composing extended works for acoustic piano (Piano Mechanics, 1981) and amplified prepared piano (This Piano Thing, 1989). The renowned composer John Cage once said, "At the piano, Gordon Monahan produces sounds we haven’t heard before." Beginning in the late 1970’s, he created sound works using elements of natural forces and the environment, eventually constructing long string installations activated by wind (Long Aeolian Piano, 1984-88), by water vortices (Aquaeolian Whirlpool, 1990) and by indoor air draughts (Spontaneously Harmonious in Certain Kinds of Weather, 1996). His work for electronic tone generators and human speaker swingers (Speaker Swinging, 1982), is a hybrid of science, music, and performance art, where use of electronic oscillators to construct the Doppler Effect contrasts with issues central to performance art such as physical struggle and ’implied threat’. Viewing the loudspeaker as a discrete instrument for generating or ’representing’ music, Monahan has constructed a loudspeaker catapult (A Magnet That Speaks Also Attracts, 1986) and a series of ’imitation’ loudspeaker installations (Music From Nowhere, 1989). During the 1990’s he developed an ensemble of multi-functional computer-controlled sound-machines which undergo various transformations as performance and installation environments. He created an interactive mechanical sound installation for the Sony Center in Berlin (2000), and has recently developed new installations using computer-controlled water drops falling upon amplified objects (When it Rains, 2000/2002). His work, Theremin in the Rain, was premiere at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, in 2005. In recent years he has composed music for dance projects by the Coleman-Lemieux Dance Company of Montreal. Monahan’s interest in ’hi- and low-tech’ and ’high and low culture’ led him to collaborate with Laura Kikauka and Bastiaan Maris in establishing The Glowing Pickle (Berlin, 1993-95), an electronic surplus store using 20 tons of discarded East German scientific equipment, parodying both communist and capitalist cultures. He also collaborated with Laura Kikauka to produce the infamous Berlin underground club Schmalzwald (1996-2000). He is electric organist with the lounge band Fuzzy Love, who released their first CD Pagan Schmalz and Other Sacrifices in 2000. Fuzzy Love has performed at such venues as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Festival of Vision, Hong Kong, and the 2001 Venice Biennale. Gordon Monahan won First Prize at the 1984 CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers, as well as commissions from the Vancouver New Music Society; CBC Radio; Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami; The Kitchen, New York; the DAAD Inventionen Festival, Berlin, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Sony Center, Berlin, and the Coleman-Lemieux Dance Company, Montreal. His controversial commission for the Dade County MetroRail transit system was banned during the 1988 New Music America festival in Miami. That same year, Monahan was chosen as CBC Radio’s entry to the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Monahan has been Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (1990), the Exploratorium in San Francisco (1991), D.A.A.D., Berlin (1992-93), the Western Front, Vancouver (1999), Podewil, Berlin (2002) and a fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts (1991). -
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thanks for commin to LOLA gordon. hope you and laura had a great time!
- hungerIl y a 2 an(s)
An einem hoffentlich wunderbar sonnigen 31. Juli präsentiert die Hamburger Musikunfallgruppe HUNGER ihre neue CD.
Es ist ihre nunmehr fünfeinhalbte CD in 13 langen Jahren, und sie ist besonders schön geworden und soll daher mit einem besonderen Spektakel an diesem besonderen Ort feierlich begangen werden, auch wenn das Spektakel vielleicht nur darin besteht, dass eines der seltsamen Conzerte stattfindet, für die HUNGER auf der ganzen Welt heimlich geliebt werden, vielleicht passieren aber auch noch andere tolle Dinge.
Das launige Duo erwartet euch mit einer gewagten Mischung aus kaputten Keyboards, verstimmtem Gesang, verrosteten Trompeten und zugleich verbogenen wie extatischen Rhythmen .
“blanke aber eindrucksvolle Zerstörung” (www.mauru.net)
“sperriger Synthie-Pop-Core zwischen Disko und Devo” (szene hamburg)
“a cartoony lo fi mix of beats, cheap-sounding keyboards … audible jazz influence as well, often taking the form of squawking brass sounds or an occasional hint of swing in the beats. Everything is thrown into the mix from woozy disco, complete with sarcastic-diva vocals, to abrasive bursts of noise. Film music is another reference point …” (hairentertainment.com)
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- Danielle de PicciottoIl y a 3 an(s)
Greetings from a cold and rainy Berlin -miss y..all
- melissa peralesIl y a 3 an(s)
COMING UP :: VORSCHAU :: THURSDAY and FRIDAY Back to Back Soundtrack!
M:Soundtrack presents on Thursday 12.03. 2009 at SCHOKOLADEN :: The Understated Brown- TUB (Bln/Aus) + Clare Cooper (solo harp) + Full Fucking Moon (Aus)
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M:SOUNDTRACK and BABYLON present the next installment of the BERLIN - NEW YORK series #6 on FRIDAY the 13th of March @ 8 p.m. with the Berlin Premiere of ...
“I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign... just different in the mind – different brains, that’s all...” - Billy
Babylon* Rosa-Luxemburgstr. 30 * U2 Rosa Luxemburg-platz *
www. billythekiddocumentary. com - melissa peralesIl y a 3 an(s)
hello Gordon!just see that your on so ill take a chance to shout out! where are you in the world? the farm?..it snowed today in berlin just as we thought spring was ready to...jump..i moved last week and am living with boxes but finally made it out of my coal oven flat...hope you are well..it would nice to see you sooon best Mx
- melissa peralesIl y a 3 an(s)
VIVA SCHOKOLADEN!!! M:Soundtrack presents am Donnerstag 24. Juli 2008 @ 21uhr the ASIPLUSBAND, breaking down songs (Andy Moor (e-guitar), Clayton Thomas (doublebass) Tony Buck (drums), Asi Föcker (voice, e-guitar) - Bln + Seby Ciurcina (acoustic guitar, voice) (15 set) + Chico Mello (acoustic guitar, voice) & Nicholas Bussmann (Cello) untradional Brasilien Songs (15 set) + DJ Jasmina Maschina
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From the Art world to the Schoko Side ..tonight M:Soundtrack presents some of berlin's best of the best from the music scene talents from jazz, experimental, avantgarde come together with artist and musician Asi Föcker for a evening of friends and top-notch music that you will not want to miss !...
SCHOKOLADEN mitte * Ackerstr. 169 * U8 Rosenthalerplatz *
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