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THE TAMING OF THE CPU 4.0 FEAT. JOHN C.S. KESTON + KINDOHM + MKR
$8 IN ADVANCE / $10 AT THE DOOR
10:30PM DOORS / 11PM SHOWTIME
21+
VISUALS BY CHRIS LEBLANC AND MICHAEL LUND
Taming of the CPU 4.0 brings together three accomplished electronic musicians with two like minded visual artist to create a futuristic, immersive multi-media experience. Huge sounding hardware synthesis is combined with intricate live coding, and lush laptop arrangements while modular video synthesis and liquid light shows are displayed on a video wall of CRTs synchronized to the music.
JOHN C.S. KESTON
John C. S. Keston (aka Ostraka) is an award winning composer of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music. His work embraces the chaotic ambiguities of environmental and sensorial influences providing context within unpredictable and everyday events. His unconventional compositions convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance, generative techniques, analog & digital synthesis, sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and sound recordings in Pacific (2016). He also composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015) presented at the MNKINO Film Score Fest. He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on Unearthed Music. His latest album, Isosceles (2016) has drawn comparisons to the Stranger Things soundtrack. John has exhibited original work at Northern Spark (MN); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Montreal Jazz Festival; the Burnet Gallery (MN); the In/Out Festival of Digital Performance (NYC); the Eyeo Festival (MN); The INSTINT Festival (MN); Echofluxx (Prague); WMC (Miami); and Moogfest (NC). John is also a professor of interactive media design at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
KINDOHM
Minneapolis-based Mike Hodnick, aka Kindohm, is widely known for his live-coded dancefloor interruptions, wringing algorithmic rhythms and textures from a text editor using the open source software TidalCycles. Combining analog synthesizers and samples, Hodnick's improvised performances encompass an array of styles from glitchy IDM to odd-time techno. In 2016, Kindohm released "RISC Chip", an 8-track LP released on Conditional. Receiving positive criticism on Resident Advisor, Lisa Blanning writes: "Hodnick has a way of teasing inhuman funk out of his evolving patterns. RISC Chip succeeds in escaping its programmer's niche, launching Kindohm's work into the realm of music that exists for its own sake." https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20249 In 2014, Hodnick received the Minnesota Emerging Composers Award from the American Composers Forum, funded by the Jerome Foundation.
MKR
Since 2006 MKR has been writing and performing electronic music in the Twin Cities. Winner of the Minnesota Emerging Composer Award in 2012, his music exists at the intersection of dance music and more ambient and experimental styles. Oscillating between extremes, lush downtempo break beats evolve and yield to breakneck rhythms, melodies, and bass. At times warm, simple, and human and at others cold, digital, and impenetrable, the music of MKR revels in its influences and exposes a broad spectrum of timbres and moods.
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LocationIcehouse (View)
2528 Nicollet Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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