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presents
Beard Farm, Axon Defecto, Don Slepian
Beard Farm - d/a73 impresario Wright Lagrone has said, “Beard Farm
is both the best and the worst name for a band that d/a73 has ever
encountered”. Players Tom Bruce and Karl Fury play stringed instruments,
hardware and software synthesizers, Linnstrument controllers and iPads.
Beard Farm has appeared at electro-music festivals and other venues
throughout the Northeast and in Asheville, NC. Karl Fury is a
multi-instrumentalist and composer from central New Jersey. His musical
background ranges from rock and blues to jazz-rock, world music,
ambient, electronic and free improvisation. Karl performed and recorded
for several years in the world music duo Near East with Mahan Rishi
Singh Khalsa. Karl continues to collaborate and record with Dr. Brad
Garton, head of the Columbia University Computer Music Center in New
York City, and with The A founding member of The Equinox Project
with Juan Garces and David Berends, Karl also continues to record and
perform solo instrumental music. Thomas R. Bruce is a musician and sound
designer living in Ithaca, NY. Along with Beard Farm, he performs as a
solo artist and in two other collaborations: DFLT
(with James Spitznagel, and WPS (with Charles Shriner). At different
points in a varied and checkered career, he has been hailed as an
artistic vandal by Opera News, lauded as a leading innovator and
visionary in the American legal profession by the American Bar
Association Journal, and found eminently suitable for employment by
Fluegel Brothers’ Dog and Pony Circus by leading theatrical critic
Leonard Simons, who declared himself willing to put in a call to Colonel
Fluegel on his behalf.
Links to their recorded works are here and their SoundCloud page is here.
Axon Defecto
- Bass underscorred Ambient Looping Soundscapes. Axon Defecto is a
project created to explore the ambient textures that are possible of the
six string electric bass used with pedals, filters and loopers combined
with synthesizer sequencing.
Don Slepian
- Don Slepian, Electronic Classical Keyboardist, combines unique skills
in musical electronics with a lifetime of electronic music performance.
He was originally known for his innovative 1980 Ambient Electronica
release, “The Sea of Bliss”, used in the early ’80’s in the NPR program
“Music from the Hearts of Space”. “His music is already at the level of
sonic and musical integration which few achieve — simultaneously
stimulating and effervescent and soothing and profound.” — “Hearts of
Space” Music Guide
“… one of the genre’s major talents…” — Rolling Stone Magazine
Born
into a scientific family, music technologist Don Slepian showed both
musical and technical talent early in life. He was a tester on the early
internet as a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), Synthesizer Soloist with the Honolulu Symphony and Musical
Director of the Honolulu Theater For Youth. He has been presented by
WNYC’s “New Sounds” in New York’s Lincoln Center and performed at the
Pompidou Center in Paris. He is currently living in the Pocono Mountains
of Pennsylvania where he writes and builds instruments.
Admission is FREE
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