sun may 11 2:00pm mcalpin hall, woolworth center basement, princeton university, princeton nj free
ffmup presents an end-of-a-season bash, featuring a set of improvised electroacoustic music by the awesome newton armstrong, will guthrie, howard stelzer, and tbd. Refreshments and hanging out will follow.
newton armstrong/will guthrie/howard stelzer


Newton Armstrong Newton Armstrong is a composer and improviser working with electronic media. His work has encompassed performance, installation, instrument building and interaction design, and he has collaborated in various capacities with other musicians, writers, dancers, choreographers, and sound, film, video and installation artists. His main instrument (as of early 2006...) is a self-built embedded Linux synthesizer named Mr. Feely. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Newton currently resides in scenic New Jersey.


Will Guthrie Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses home-made instruments, amplified found and junk, microphones &Êelectronics alongside more conventional drums and cymbals. Originally a drummer he has worked in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation, studio composition.


Howard Stelzer Howard Stelzer has been active as a composer and performer of electronic music since 1992. His visceral improvised music utilizes the qualities inherent to cassette tape and tape players; namely hiss, the roll of tape across play heads, the crackle of dirt caught inside old players, play speed altered manually by pressure from fingers applied to the tape's reels. Stelzer's work tends to employ space and silence as well as gritty low-fidelity noise, and is almost always centered on the physicality of live performance.
Stelzer is a member of the BSC, a large electro-acoustic orchestra led by sax player Bhob Rainey, and the group Skeletons Out, with Jay Sullivan. He also operates the Intransitive Recordings label for electro-acoustic and improvised music. and regularly hosts sound-art, electronic and improvised music concerts by visiting and regional artists in the Boston area, where he lives.


opening act... haleta smallwood cluett? it just might happen.