Krispen Hartung - Boise Experimental Music Festival Coordinator

Krispen's 28-year music performance and recording background is an experimental and continuously evolving road trip marked by many excursions and detours - from classical guitar, progressive rock, and world-beat, to fusion, traditional jazz, and avant-garde. In 1993, after leading a series of traditional and jazz fusion groups, Hartung began studying the method of real-time looping, the technique of digitally recording live performance, playing it back in real-time, and repeating this process indefinitely to produce multiple layers of interweaving and complimentary guitar parts. Since then, he has become one of the North West’s (USA) most accomplished real-time looping artists and Idaho’s leading member of the international looping community Looper’s Delight. Hartung’s debut solo CD Places was released for sale world-wide in April of 2004 and consists of a series of colorful, innovative, and thought/mood provoking looping compositions that he improvised and recorded on the spot in one take.

As a result of his diverse background and studies, Hartung now exhibits a dynamic and atypical performance style that integrates multiple genres and gives new meaning to the world of improvisational guitar. His discography includes 1) Places (described above) 2) a free improvisational work entitled Live at the Kulture Klatsch, featuring didjeridu artist and percussionist Vincent Miresse, 2) his second solo CD, Descent to Self, a collection of improvised and computer-based avant-garde compositions, and 3) Xperimentus, a collaborative project comprised of duo compositions of he and 13 other looping artists from around the world.

info@krispenhartung.com

http://www.krispenhartung.com

www.myspace.com/krispenhartung

Rick Walker

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and master percussionist/drummer, Rick Walker has been on the cutting edge of music for the last 25 years. One of the original founding architects of the World Beat movement, and now one of the leading lights in the emerging live looping movement in Northern California, he incorporates a vast array of world music and pop styles in his repertoire.

He is an exceptionally versatile and sensitive musician and is eccentrically creative, finding rhythm and melody in hundreds of everyday objects.

He has also produced 21 live looping festivals,including the World's First Women's Live Looping Festival, the First Bass Live Looping Festival, the First Bass Live Looping Tour (with fellow loopers Michael Manring, Steve Lawson and Max Valentino), and this past summer, the Y2K2 Live Loopfest, which featured 48 live looping artists from all over the country --the largest gathering of live loopers in history-- playing 22 hours of continuous music on 2 stages in 2 days. Rick has just become an endorsee and clinician for the Gibson/Oberheim EDP (with LOOP IV software by Aurisis; the cadillac of live hardware loopers) and has embarked on a California tour with the Looping Trio (Andre LaFosse, of Los Angeles, and Steve Lawson, of London) with special appearances by Michael Manring, Jon Wagner, Cara Quinn and Hans Lindauer. He is currently planning his first solo live looping tour of 12 countries in Europe and the British Isles for summer 2003

looppool@cruzio.com

www.looppool.info

Lumper/Splitter (Joe Rut and Lucio Menegon)

Lumper/Splitter is the mind meld of two 'obsessive soundhounds' - Joe
Rut and Lucio Menegon. Combining their extensive experimental and
improvisational experience, the Oakland, CA based duo create sonic
tapestries using effects manipulation, looping, amplified objects,
homemade instruments, found sound, and even some honest guitar playing.
You decide - are you a Lumper or a Splitter?

www.kingtone.com (Lucio)
www.joerut.com (Joe)

lm@kingtone.com

www.kingtone.com/lumper_splitter.html

Ted Killian

For over four decades Ted Killian has explored his own personal approach to guitar playing and music-making in both solo performance and in ensembles alongside such luminaries as John Bergamo, Dick Dunlap, Jim Connolly, Bob Sterling, Garen Horgen, Josef Woodard, Richard Fernandez, and Jeff Kaiser. . Ted's playing spans the distance from the tender to the brutal, and his CD Flux Aeterna has achieved a surprising amount of worldwide airplay and critical acclaim.

ArsOcarina@aol.com

www.pfmentum.com/flux.html

Jeff Kaiser

Jeff Kaiser is a vegan and plays entirely too much chess on the internet. He is a big fan of yoga and green tea, as well as cigars and scotch. He also plays the quarter-tone trumpet with electronics and has performed with many groups and individuals including the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Eugene Chadbourne, The Choir Boys (with Andrew Pask) and his own big band, the Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet. He owns and operates two record labels (pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan Records) while maintaining an active musical career touring, performing and recording for films, other people and his own music. For a full bio, visit: http://www.jeffkaisermusic.com

Quarter-Tone Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Electronics

admin@pfmentum.com

www.jeffkaisermusic.com/

Jared Hallock

Jared Hallock's years as a performer have led him down many roads. Holding a degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Idaho, he has shared many a stage. From jazz combos to funk bands, orchestral work to the avante garde, he thrives on exploring all avenues of performance art. Recently Hallock has created theatrical/musical stage shows, acted in plays, and performed with a variety of musical groups. Using a grant from the National Foundation for the Arts, Hallock also works with the community to help nurture young artists.

One of his current projects is exploring the world of experimental music. Following in the footsteps of Phillip Glass and John Cage, he creates music using both traditional and non- traditional instruments. Some of his compositions include the use of cups, body percussion, spoons, electronic percussion, and anything else within reach. As a result of his eclectic explorations, Hallock has become a regular performer as a drummer, marimba player, composer, and clinician in the Pacific Northwest.

jaredhallock@hotmail.com

Bonefish Sam & His Orchestra

Bonefish Sam & His Orchestra has been bringing Boise the weird music for well over 15 years. The styles and participants have changed many times, but the marketability has remained low and the strangeness has remained high.

Their current performance lineup is an all-improvised all-live combo, utilizing glockenspiel, bass guitar, omnichord, masses of electronics, projections, and occasional guest musicians.

Anything can, and has, happened on Bonefish Sam's stage, but two things are certain:

1) An attempt to make music that, while 'experimental', is still interesting to listen to, without letting Fluxus-style gimmicks get in the way of the music. The music, ideally, will be more interesting than the concept. John Cage, we're talking to you here.

2) The performance will be a performance, not a prerecording or a predetermined sequence. The audience deserves the opportunity to watch things go horribly wrong. Isn't that why people watch Nascar races?

bonefish@boschs.org

http://bonefishsam.com

Jeff Rice & Ted Apel

Jeff Rice is a composer of electronic music and specializes in works using unusual sound sources such as cosmic rays, the ultrasonic wing beats of wax moths and customized radio controllers. He lives in Boise.

Ted Apel is a sound artist whose sculptures and installations focus on the audio transducing element as the source of visual and sonic material. He has exhibited his work at sound art festivals and exhibits including the SoundCulture 96 festival in San Francisco; the Ussachevsky Festival in Claremont, California; the EarArt Sound exhibit in Chico, California; the Sinusoidal Sound Art Show at SFSU; the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland; and the Sound Symposium in St. John's Newfoundland. He was twice a prizewinner at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his sound installations. And his sound installation received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001. Ted Apel studied electroacoustic music at Dartmouth College with Jon Appleton, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff. He is currently teaching computer music as adjunct faculty at the Boise State University Department of Music.

tapel@vud.org (Ted)

http://vud.org (Ted)

Unicorn Feather

Unicorn Feather recalls names and dates; opposing death and dynasty like cinder. Immersed in greenery / excited by handwriting.

theunicornfeather@hotmail.com

www.theunicornfeather.com

The Rex-X-Ray Band (George McLean & Nate Paradis)

George McLean is a long time Idaho resident, using digital / analog synthesizers and other electronic devices to perform “free form electronic improvised jazz”. The music is created live, no over dubs, no second takes – just energetic electric doodeling and noodeling to produce oceans of sounds and music unique and fascinating.

Singing and playing and recording with rock / jazz bands, building and experimenting with instruments and the structure of music as relates to oscillators and auditory phenomenon both from a scientific and esthetic perspective, George began his musical endeavors some years ago on the east coast. There and then he collaborated with other contemporary musicians, modern dance groups, and performed at art galley openings, street festivals, engineering conferences, poetry readings, etc….

George is an art school graduate with training in drawing painting and sculpture and also an architect accepting private commissions both residential and commercial. Copies of George’s poetry and songs are available.

Nate Paradis entered the fold some nine years back as singer/percussionist. primarily focusing on electric guitar for the last seven years, his 'minimalist/appropriate' style of play combines space, jazz, rock and noise. the recording project 'benedicteyeball' features our young hero on percussion, guitar, bass, vocals and keys. look for his band 'iqeq' around town.

geomc@northendarchitects.com (George)

n8p333@gmail.com (Nate)

www.northendarchitects.com/music.htm

She Blows Neon (Alejandro Anastasio)

Artist, Traveler, and Warrior, AlejAndro Anastasio lives his life as an artist in Boise Idaho. His mother still has the tiny sculptors he made in the first grade. He has a part time day job creating graphic art for the Federal Government, freelances graphic art on the local, regional, and national levels, and has had a number of Fine Art Shows in Boise showing his unique sculptors.

Living as a Martial Artist as the Sensei of 3 Shapes Aikido in Boise Idaho, AlejAndro has used his dojo (martial art school) as a venue to promote the arts in Boise. Such as an art gallery showing local artists, a theater for plays and performances, and supporting The Dharma and Zen by hosting visiting Nuns and Monks. As a music venue the dojo has supported classical guitar shows, didgeridoo events and workshops, and hosted both BlueWolf --- Apache Songcatcher/Flute Player, and Pamelia Kurstin ---Theremin Player. Both of whom are worldly renowned musicians. The space has been used a number of times for Boise's local independent movie competition ---i48. In 2005, AlejAndro's short film "Life Without Two Hands: A Comedy of Memories," placed third overall and won best screenplay.

AlejAndro's musical background started with the didgeridoo over 9 years ago. He teaches, plays, and performs the didgeridoo in Boise. Together with his Brother Esteban Anastaio, a Classical Guitarist they cut their first Classical Guitar/Didgeridoo CD as "Brothers Anastasio, Musical Samurai." AlejAndro is also a Theremin (the world's first electronic musical instrument and the only instruments played without touching) player and feels the Theremin is the perfect instrument for someone without two hands. Creating "Sound Sculptors" in the living moment and billed as a solo power trio ("just me, myself, and I"), She Blows Neon creates Electro Primordial Ambient Flow.

alejandro@3shapesaikido.com

www.3shapesaikido.com

Art Hodge

Grammy award winning-producer for Santana's "Supernatural" whose music has been used on MTV's reality-based shows and in the motion picture score to Fight Club. More recently, in 2005, Art's music currently runs in the Bacardi commercial, "Torpedo", which is an underwater stop-animation spot marketing Bacardi Limon. In 2004, Art composed the music and sound design for "Portrait", an 8-minute movie which stars Minnie Driver and ran online at Amazon Theater. Art also remixed and performed "California Dream", which features vocalist Angela McClusky, for a one minute 2005 Toyota Camry commercial which features a girl moving to the West.

Art's profesisonal experience as a music maker began in 1997 as remixer and producer/composer of the Dust Brothers and back then the clients/credits included Linkin' Park, No Doubt, Eagle Eye Cherry, Crazytown, Coolio, The Offspring, Robert Smith, Len, Ben E. King, Everclear, Money Mark, Flak, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Chemical Brothers, and others. After leaving the Dust Brothers back in 2000, Art launched his own production and music composing/publishing company which continues to be successful.

Art's music has been placed in films (Pluto Nash, Scooby Doo in Cyberspace, Revelation, Booger), commercials (Nike, Kmart, Bacardi) and television shows (MTV Road Rules, MTV Extreme Challenge, American Classics), and has produced acts including The B-52's and performed original music for videogames (Championship Surfer). Art currently hosts two hour-long weekly radio shows on KBSU and teaches music production at Boise State University in addition to his music work in Los Angeles.

arthodge@gmail.com

www.arthodge.com
www.myspace.com/arthodge

LINDA

LINDA plays with an assortment of audio/visual instruments, integrating live projected video and audience members into a storybook narrative.

Gretchen Jude

Gretchen revels in new noise. After starting her musical life on a rubberband stretched over two chair legs, she moved on to piano, guitar, shamisen (Japanese banjo), koto (Japanese zither), and iBook. Gretchen has an undying love for the organic viscerality of the human voice.

Michael Peters (Germany)

Boise Naval Base