Kind of, sort of:
Thurston Moore,
Kaffe Matthews,
Weird Cookie with Cristiina Carter,
Andy Ex (The EX),
Chris Cog-to-the-burn (THIS TIGHT ROPE),
Donna Huanca y mas y mas y mas
THANK YOU Suzanne, Merce, Berlin, Poland, Ostrava, BALTIMORE AND D.C.
LOOKING FORWARD: France, Zeena @ the Stone and more....
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WINTER:2009
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"About my Lack of Recordings"
I have received a lot of messages asking about where to purchase new music of mine but I am no longer recording my performances to sell music. My performances are video recorded instead for archival purposes and can be seen on my blog mynamelookslikeme for free.
Thank you for your encouragement and understanding.
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MARIA CHAVEZ
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces.
Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna’s Phonofemme Festival 2009.
Having also performed at such internationally acclaimed venues as STEIM (Amsterdam) and Sonoteca (Lima, Peru), she was awarded a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant by New York’s Roulette Intermedium in 2008 and was recently selected to be a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship which is generously offered to young sound artists by The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust.
In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as an artist in residence for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon.
An ambulatory fall season, Chavez found herself performing at San Francisco’s Electronic Music Festival, The International Turntable Orchestra Festival in Berlin, Gdansk and Krakow, Poland, Ostrava, Czech Republic and the NY Sound Festival at CAPC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France.
Beyond the realm of sound, in 2006 Chavez co-founded Houndstooth:Fine
Vintage for Men, a boutique in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that specializes
in men’s vintage clothing and accessories. The store’s visionary, she
spearheaded buying, merchandising, private styling, and services geared
to the fashion, movie, and music industries. As Houndstooth recently closed to physical structural problems with it's location, Chavez has decided to focus on her sound career in lieu of opening a larger store.
Olde skozey fetisch performance newly posted @ YouTube. It was the first ever Noise Pancakes at Pubis Noir (in San Francisco's Mission District). There were three audience members in attendance. Available on the DVD-R: Brutal Sound Effects Volume 1
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
7/24/09
@ Shea Stadium
Best Hits
Little Wing
Sondra O (from Silver Summit)
Luke Perry
20 meadow street, brooklyn
$5-7 donation
be a part of our live studio audience!
GDFX @ COCO 66 @ 66 GREENPOINT AVE 8PM FRIDAY NIGHT (7/31) with XRIN ARMS, SPEAK ONION, DIGIT 216, & INSECT DELI
$5
GOOD FORTUNE & GREAT SUCCESS
7/24/09
@ Shea Stadium
Best Hits
Little Wing
Sondra O (from Silver Summit)
Luke Perry
20 meadow street, brooklyn
$5-7 donation
be a part of our live studio audience!
