Fire Over Heaven returns after our end of summer break with a record release show of sorts for David Grubbs' new album, Creep Mission. A founding member of seminal post-rock bands Gastr del Sol, Bastro and Squirrel Bait, Grubbs has gone on to collaborate with a veritable who's who of luminaries from the worlds of experimental music, literature and visual art. He has all the while produced a steady stream of excellent solo records, of which Creep Mission is the 14th. Grubbs will perform solo on this bill, joined by two duos, the Canadian sound/poetry team of Jeremy Young and Deanna Radford, and woodwind player/multi-instrumentalist, Robbie Lee, with oud player, Eliot Bates (of Current 93). Please join us to kick off another great season of concerts.

Thursday, Oct. 19th doors 7:30pm / music promptly at 8 / $10 suggested donation

Schedule:
7:30 Doors
8:00 Robbie Lee & Eliot Bates
9:00 Jeremy Young & Deanna Radford
10:00 David Grubbs

|||

David Grubbs
David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording and the forthcoming Now that the audience is assembled (both titles on Duke University Press).

Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 180 releases, the most recent of which is Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks, 2017). In 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London SundayTimes. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with writers Susan Howe and Rick Moody, visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Stephen Prina, and choreographer Jonah Bokaer, and his work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and Loren Connors, and many others. He is a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a contributing editor in music for BOMB Magazine, a member of the Blank Forms board of directors, and director of the Blue Chopsticks record label.
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/david-grubbs
https://davidgrubbs.bandcamp.com/

Jeremy Young & Deanna Radford
Jeremy Young is an American sonic artist and improviser living in Montreal. His creative work includes instrumental and electroacoustic composition for recording and live performance, reel-to-reel tape collage, sound-poetry and audio-visual scoring. His main interests as an artist lie in the analog treatment of surface-based audio (piezo mic'd objects and surfaces, manipulating tape and tone via texture and voltage) and purveying the notion that both the audio signal and the medium on which it is recorded, edited and played back, should equally contribute to the creation of a sonic narrative, an underlying principle of musique concrète. This Autumn, he begins work on an acousmatic project on "sonic mimicry", using processes like foley to artificially recreate field recordings of actual sonic environments. Young has performed and released material throughout Europe, Asia, the US, UK and Canada. In 2014, he was awarded a Media Artists' Assistance Grant by Wave Farm (NYSCA) to create 125 unique artist edition double-sided tape loop pieces towards developing a new model for audience engagement with the sonic arts, housing all the loops online in a freely streamable living archive and commissioning over 120 sound artists to create new work using each singular piece. Visit The Chants Beneath Project here to view the list of participating artists.

Young's main sonic project is a collaborative trio with Ian Temple and Jesse Perlstein called Sontag Shogun that makes use of analog sound treatments and nostalgic solo piano compositions in harmony to depict abstract places in our memory. Sontag Shogun has begun an ongoing collaboration with scent artist Alex Beth to continue diving deep into their exploration of memory and time-space, now alongside live evolving scentscapes in site-specific performative environments. In 2015, Young released his debut duo album with cellist/multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin entitled, A Pulse Passes from Hand to Hand on Chihei Hatakeyama's label White Paddy Mountain, and has since released collaborative albums with Shinya Sugimoto and filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz (Live at Microscope), and Julia Kent (Total Fiction), which also involves a full-length 16mm film counterpart by Paul Clipson. He also performs in duos with pianist Shinya Sugimoto, with spoken word artist Deanna Radford that has featured Alexandre St-Onge and Philippe Vandal, sound-sculptor Janek Schaeffer, and post-Celtic folk violinist Daniel Merrill. Young has improvised and shared the stage with notable artists such as Oren Amarchi, Hauschka, Julia Kent, Aki Onda, Matana Roberts, Greg Fox, Jason Lescalleet, Valerio Tricoli, Helena Espvall, Barn Owl, Sam Shalabi, Alexander Turnquist, Tom Carter, Noveller, Ben Vida, Mountains among many others. These days, besides an almost full-time work load with Sontag Shogun, Young is involved with a guided meditation through sound event series with curator Jann Tomaro in Montreal, he is co-curating an exhibition on graphic notation alongside Marie Douce St.-Jacques, Collectif Blanc and Suoni Per Il Popolo for next year's festival in June 2018, and is readying the publication of a solo CD (The Poetics of Time-Space, 2017) that collects newly commissioned sound works for the Musée d'Éthnographie de Genève making use of historical recordings from the museum's immense Phonothèque archives, issued by Belgian imprint, Silken Tofu.

Stream Shinya Sugimoto + Jeremy Young's LP with Julia Kent, Total Fiction (Phinery, 2017).
Stream Jeremy Young's new solo CD, The Poetics of Time-Space (Silken Tofu, 2017).
Stream Sontag Shogun's new LP, Patterns For Resonant Space (Youngbloods / Ricco Label, 2017).
http://cargocollective.com/jeremyyoung
http://chantsbeneath.net/

Deanna Radford's writing and photos related to sound art, experimental music and literature has appeared in MusicWorks, MUTEKmag, the Suoni Per Il Popolo blog, Signal to Noise, Broken Pencil, .dpi: Feminist Journal of Art & Digital Culture, the Montreal Review of Books, Herizons and Flypaper. She has worked as a member of the G7 Welcoming Committee Records collective, a contributing organizer of Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound, a director of GroundSwell new music series and is a co-founder of erstwhile presentation collective shibui_oto: subtlety in sound with France Jobin and Stéphane Claude. She is interested in language as material and carries her approach as a former programmer of sound art into the domain of poetry. As poet and spoken word artist - she collaborates with Jeremy Young as a duo that includes work with Alexandre St-Onge and Philippe Vandal. She's the curator of the Atwater Poetry Project and is pursuing an MA in English at Concordia University in Montéal.

Robbie Lee & Eliot Bates
First time performance from Robbie Lee (woodwinds) and Eliot Bates (oud), having originally met playing with Baby Dee in The Big Bumblebees. Eliot is a musicologist and member of legendary UK group Current 93 with David Tibet, and has just moved back to the US after several years abroad. Robbie is a woodwind improviser/composer specializing in obscurities like baroque and quarter tone flutes, very low recorders, very high saxophones, and other soundmaking objects. Uncommon acoustic sounds abound!
www.robbielee.com
http://www.eliotbates.com/