tue nov 18 9:30pm terrace club 62 washington rd princeton nj free
tim barnes/mattin
	Tonight is the premier of this duo. Both Mattin and Tim's sound work deals with contrast. A Basque Country native, Mattin works with an electronic instrument (computer); however, he investigates the acoustic properties of his computer by generating feedback—feedback which is often instigated by actually bowing the computer itself. During the past three years, local percussionist and composer, Barnes has worked strictly with acoustic instruments, but searches for a sound field where acoustically generated sounds take on electronic-sounding qualities. Seperately, their explorations and performances bring a kind of fragility to improvisation, yet their approach to sound is effused with intensity. Mattin has spent a good part of the last two years touring throughout Europe, playing with such artists as Eddie Prevost, Radu Malfatti, Kaffe Matthews, Dieb 13, Mark Wastell, and Rhodri Davies (to name a few). His sound work has also been exhibited in Ireland, England, and in Spain. This is Mattin's first visit to the United States. Tim runs the record label Quakebasket, which has released archival recordings of Angus MacLise and Christopher Tree, while also supporting new artists such as Glenn Kotche, Minamo, Michael Schumacher, Marina Rosenfeld, and Toshio Kajiwara. As a performer, Tim has played with such visionaries as Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sean Meehan, and John Zorn. www.mattin.org www.quakebasket.com
margarida garcia/barry weisblat
In the short time these two have publicly displayed their musical aesthetics, both Barry (homemade electronics) and Margarida (double bass) have each collaborated with an impressive collection of experimental artists, such as Tower Recordings, Oren Ambarchi, Tetuzi Akiyama, Ruth Barberan, Toshio Kajiwara, and Phill Niblock. In fact is was Niblock who first brought Margarida to New York from her home in Lisbon, Portugal this past Spring. Her first performances at the Phonomena Sound Events, and the debut of her duo with (Brooklyn native) Weisblat at Experimental Intermedia, instantly captured the attention of New York's dowtown music community. However, it is not just music that these two deal with. Weisblat's machine and circuit manipulations also reach into the area of photography and sound engineering, where he has aided the likes of the late Peter Kowald, Erstwhile Records, and sound artist Dean Roberts. While Garcia's graphic design work has been displayed as video art, installations, and poster art. As a duo, Margarida and Barry have developed a spontaneous language and a dynamic range that is all their own. She journies through the landscape of the bass and electronic pick-up with her fingers, bow, sticks and stones, and anything else she finds fit, while he experiments with electro-magnetic devices, homemade circuits, and solar cell technology. The textures that emerge from their performance peel back the layers of air, knots it together, and then let's it simply hang.
...from the show
garcia_weisblat_1.mp3 [1.6MB] garcia_weisblat_2.mp3 [3.3MB] barnes_mattin_1.mp3 [2.5MB] barnes_mattin_2.mp3 [3.9MB]