Electrogals 2010 - Call & Response
All Women - All Electronic
May 16, 2010
Disjecta - 8371 N Interstate Portland Oregon
The concert will showcase female electronic music performers from Portland and the West Coast, featuring synthesists, sonic explorers, deep listeners, circuit benders, and beat manglers. The performances will cover a wide range of styles, from beat-heavy song forms to abstract noise-generated soundscapes. Some of the performances will also include the audience, in ways that will definitely surprise and delight - and no, there won't be any embarrassing sing-alongs. Probably.
About the Electrogals series
Although there is nothing inherently manly about creating or performing electronic music, the female electronic musician is something of a rare bird. Electrogals 2010 will be the fourth in this series of showcases for women who have immersed themselves in this art form.
The first Electrogals show happened in 1995 at Mills College in Oakland, when composer Heather Perkins gathered a group of female electronic musicians for a show at the Mills Concert Hall. In 2004, Heather put on another Electrogals concert as part of the Sound/Craft music series at the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. In the spring of 2008, Heather Perkins, Mary Wright and Christi Denton put on an Electrogals concert at Holocene, filling both stages with an amazing lineup.
All compositions for Electrogals 2010 will be written by Portland composer and performer Heather Perkins, and performed by an all-star roster of female electronic music performers
About Heather Perkins
Heather Perkins is composer, sound designer and Mad Scientist at WaterDog Studio inPortland, where she makes music and sound for love, and for a living. She creates for dance, animation, video games, film, theater, installation, and live performance. She has recently completed a score for Minh Tran's "Kiss," which will premiere January 20th as part of White Bird's 2010 dance season, and is working on a score for Rose Bond's animated installation "Broadsided!", which will be presented in a 10th century castle courtyard in Exeter England February 2010.
Heather's CD "Little Humans," featuring music she's created for dance, theater and film, is out now on Land-O-Newts Records. Her new CD, "Telekinesis Nanette," is due out this year.
Land-O-Newts! Records
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