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Action Potential ft. ERIKA [DETROIT]
April 21, 2016 @ 8:00 pm
Kremwerk, Northwest Film Forum and Decibel are proud to present
ACTION POTENTIAL, a night of immersive LIVE electronic music and visual performance.
Featuring…
ERIKA (LIVE)
(Interdimensional Transmissions / Detroit)
https://soundcloud.com/erikadotnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Huu8RayQk
JINX‘75 (LIVE VISUALS)
(Decibel / Seattle)
https://vimeo.com/jinx75visuals
RAICA (LIVE+DJ)
(Further Records / Seattle)
https://soundcloud.com/chloeharris/raica-live-optic-echo-tour-sept-12-2015-gallery-1412
BIG PHONE (LIVE)
(Green Orb Artifacts, Peloton Musique, Knightriders / Seattle)
https://www.thestranger.com/music/feature/2015/07/01/22468837/big-phones-machine-intelligence
Doors at 8 PM / 21+ / $12 adv at http://bit.ly/APErikaAtKremwerk
Kremwerk
1809 Minor Ave,
Seattle
About:
ERIKA:
Erika dreams on the cellular level, or perhaps of transdimensional intelligences moving through strange patterns on celestial objects, working towards a mysterious goal. Her connection to the dreamworld becomes concrete in her approach to music, simultaneously so solid and yet so ethereal. Erika still finds time to accomplish many things in her waking hours, such as being a member of Ectomorph, co-conspirator of Detroit’s Interdimensional Transmissions record label, DJing with vinyl, making music with her pet machines, and running erika.net – a freeform streaming radio station. Erika.net celebrates its 14th year this year, being one of the very first iTunes presets. From 1993 through 1999, Erika was very involved in WCBN in Ann Arbor, as a freeform and jazz DJ, and Program Director.
The daughter of a famed scientist and already running a well known BBS from her bedroom by the time she was 13, Erika is no stranger to expressing her ideas through technology. In 1997 she was handed a TR-606 and asked to join Ectomorph, and has since become an electronic musician of the highest order, focusing on analog synthesis, with live hardware sequencing that allows transformation over time and a deep depth of tone.
RAICA
Further Records boss Chloe Harris toured as a world renowned DJ for 18 years before she fell in love with the creative challenge of hardware experimentation. Now, her ambitious improvised live sets as Raica walk the fine line between lucid animation and blurred darkness.
BIG PHONE
As a machine-intelligence designer and prototyper at Google, his team recently developed a technique that uses computer-vision and object-recognition algorithms to generate hallucinations. “They feed noise into a computer-vision algorithm and tell it to look for a specific thing,” McDowell says. “What you get is a really psychedelic image.” When he’s not at his day job, he produces very strange and cerebral techno music. His home studio in the Old Rainier Brewery is a spacious pad that abounds with the typical tools of electronic musicians (analog and digital synths, laptops, Ableton, etc.) and more esoteric instruments like shruti box, harmonium, charango, and shakuhachi. Also of note: Both an Everlast punching bag and a Ganesha bead curtain hang from the ceiling. McDowell may be toiling for one of the world’s biggest companies, but he strives to have both his technical expertise and his music benefit humanity.
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