Este viernes en La Ruleta tuvimos un especial del grupo tamaulipeco La Función de Repulsa, estuvo en vivo como invitado especial Toño Rotuno, líder del grupo, quien compartio experiencias de parte de su historia.
Antonio Russek’s musical activities have been linked from its beginnings to theatre performance, sound design for art galleries and museums, videoart, and instalations, cinematography, dance, sound sculpture and interactive art.
With more than one hundred compositions on his catalogue, Russek is pioneer of Arte Sonoro, defining experimental music in Mexico.
An electracoustic expert, has colaborated with many artists. In 1979 creates CIIMM (Centro Independiente de Investigaion Musical y Multimedia).
On A Different Nature, we listened to Musica del Desierto, comissioned by the Desert Museum of Coahuila, as well as the composition Ohtzalan, included on the CD electroacoustic music from Latin America.
We ended the show with a performance of Danza Minima for solo dance by Evoé Sotelo, during Fotografest08, a festival of dance, photography, electronic media and video, at La Casona Spencer, Cuernavaca Morelos, Oct. 24th, 2008.
Live Music by Antonio Russek.
Real Time Audio Visuals: José Luis García Nava.
Escenografía e iluminación de Mauricio Ascencio.
PluxKatulah, grabaciones de 1992 al 2001.
Los músicos incluyen a Alquimia, Rodolfo Rendón, Alejandro Sánchez (Decibel), Rubén Moreno, Carlos Alvarado (Vía Láctea, Chac Mool), Germán Bringas, Jesús González (High Fidelity Orchestra), Arturo Romo (Oxomaxoma), and Víctor Méndez.
También escucharemos grabaciones relativamente recientes de Arturo Romo: Personas y Lugares.
Así como al grupo Decada 2, y algo de Tranfiguración (proyecto de Víctor Méndez).
It is with sincere regrets that we inform you that our dear friend and extraordinarily talented sound and visual artist Damian Bisciglia just passed on Tuesday at age 52. He apparently took his own life in a public park in Chatsworth.
He was a founding member of the surreal soundscape group Points of Friction (1981-present), recorded and released solo sound work as Agog, and took part in many many collaborations over the past 30 years.
He leaves behind a great legacy of friendships and large amounts of recorded sound art and truly unique visual art, speaking of the 6000+ photos he took recently of various naturally eroded materials while hiking, strange arrangements of objects and other various abstractions, as he always had the exquisite skill of channelling the fascinating and odd through any number of mediums. Whether it was with mud, paint and found objects, scissors, magazines, trash and glue, hallucinogenic photo manipulations on a computer, or an amplified birdcage tickled with a gigantic comb, Damian was endlessly enthralled by creating. He was a collector of junk materials and built his own instruments and sculptures.
The music of Agog was homemade musique concrete – amazing tape collages. It was really outstanding work that stood above a lot of what was coming out of the cassette culture at that time. Damian’s work was superbly recorded and edited, and lovingly packaged. His own cassettes reached fewer and fewer people over the years as his packaging grew more and more elaborate.
Damian’s music and art remains little heard and known for the most part.
(Edited texts by Eric Lanzillotta, Mitchell Brown, and Tim Alexander).
We will be playing an undigitalized tape untitled Is No Man, on the Broken Flag Label, from 1986, Agog’s only Lp release, Dust is Their Food and Clay Their Meat, on the Agaric Label, as well as his phenomenal “Magnetic Phenomena of all Kinds” cassette from 1987.
A Different Nature thanks Points of Friction members Mitchell Brown, and Tim Alexander for this humble but sincere homage to Damian Bisciglia’s creativity.
