Charles Shriner

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    For over a decade, people have gathered together to listen to and perform experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music, to swap gear and ideas, and to find like-minded life-long friends under the umbrella of electro-music.com. These gatherings have fostered an eclectic and diverse community of musicians and makers, improvisers and composers, amateurs and academics. The strangest thing about the electro-music community? That this might be the first time you’ve ever heard of it.

    For the past six years, the annual electro-music festival has been held in Huguenot, NY. As of the last day of 2016’s electro-music festival, the upstate New York days have been uploaded to the archive.

    ELECTRO MUSIC IS MOVING TO THE MIDWEST

    2017 will be the first e-m held in Indianapolis, Indiana. August 4-6 (instead of MEME, the Midwest Electro-Music Experience).
    The Irving Theater will host experimental musicians from the United States and all over the world.
    This year’s lineup includes but is not limited to 44 performances, 70+ musicians, and 5 video artists.

    Irvington is home to a variety of culinary options from handcrafted pizzas to Mexican seafood to caribbean cuisine.
    Additionally Sun King beer and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the show.

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0 Two new Live dRachEmUsiK Releases

  • November 27, 2017
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · dRachEmUsiK · Performance

Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here

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The last 6 years have been all about live improvisation for me. I finally came to the realization I will never take the time to recreate studio versions of the music.
Musically, I’m changing directions and it was important to document the period between 2011-2017. The plan is two release Vol. 3 & 4 in March. The recordings are unedited. Download includes album art, formatted and suitable for CD creation.
The music is free to download. Please consider making a donation.
Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here
As always, thanks for your support!

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1 Week 1 of new dRachEmUsiK music

  • May 19, 2017
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · dRachEmUsiK

Today marks the end of the first week of actual work on the new dRachEmUsiK release. I’ve been contemplating this music and improvising for almost a year and it’s exciting to actually begin the process of bringing it to life.
Right now it’s all about core sound design for the instruments. My primary sources for the sound design are coming from what I call my “textural workstation” (first image below) which consists of four MarSynths, horndog, MFOS Sound Lab, and Koma electroacoustic field kit and my live performance rig (second image). It’s been slow going but that’s to be expected.

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The sound design and instrumentation is particularly challenging for this music because I’m creating the music for real time, multi-speaker performance consisting of 16 discreet channels and 16 speakers. So I’m bouncing back and forth between sound design, composition and experimenting with the arrangement of speakers, routing and instrument placement within the speaker array.
More as things progress. Hope to have some audio examples next week.

Peace

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0 Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis, Oct. 5th

Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis Oct. 5th

  • October 3, 2016
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · dRachEmUsiK · Performance

Bob Bucko Jr. Absolute Endings Tour with dRachEmUsiK and Adam Riviere
Wednesday, October 5th
Playground Productions, 5529 Bonna Ave. Ste 10
Indianapolis, IN 46219
Doors at 6:30
Music 7-10
All Ages, Cover $5.00

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0 Music for the Tacopocalypse

Tacopocalypse - Live improvisations by urbster1, dRachEmUsiK, onewyaness, jmtta

  • September 2, 2016
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · dRachEmUsiK · Performance

 

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SOMEHOW I figured now was a good time to get the Tacopocalypse music out into the universe.
Tacopocalypse was recorded on 5-19-2012 at Bela Dubby in Lakewood, OH. Bela Dubby was a wonderful art, music, food venue that closed the day after this recording. It was replaced by a Taco place. At some point during the night the closing of Bela Dubby was referred to as The Tacopocalypse.
The two tracks on the release are group improvisations done by Aaron Urbanski aka urbster1, Adam Holquist aka onewayness, Charles Shriner aka dRachEmUsiK and Jason Breitigan aka jmtta.
This is a free download.

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New Release: Mirrors to the Bonfire

onewayness + dRachEmUsiK Mirrors to the Bonfire Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel

  • August 29, 2016
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · dRachEmUsiK · MCSD Studio & NetLabel

onewayness + dRachEmUsiK
Mirrors to the Bonfire
Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel
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Mirrors to the Bonfire, the latest collaboration from the critically acclaimed duo of onewayness (Adam Holquist/Erie, PA) and dRachEmUsiK (Charles Shriner/Indianapolis, IN), replaces the exuberance and emotional optimism of their last full-length, 2014’s Immeasurable, with emotional ambiguity and complexity, swapping comfort and joy for unsettling, but ultimately rewarding, drama and melancholy.

Mirrors to the Bonfire is a series of meditations on human feedback and the powers of interpersonal interaction. The three long tracks sculpt a polished narrative of conflict and resolution that cycles in and out of warm nostalgia and dark, uncharted territory. Dark analog drones and electroacoustic concrète clatter give way to extended melodic duo explorations for acoustic guitar & electronic wind instrument.

Mirrors to the Bonfire is available as a physical CD or digital download from onomastic records and MCSD NetLabel
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0 New Release – Urbster1 & dRachEmUsiK

  • February 10, 2016
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · MCSD Studio & NetLabel

The release On December 2nd, 2015, in the USA… by Urbster1 and dRachEmUsik is comprised of four, live, unedited improvisations. The music employs elements of Dark Ambient, Glitch, Drone, Noise and Avant-Jazz.
This music was created two days after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA. While we didn’t specifically set out to create music based on that horrific event, the shootings and related events clearly had an influence on our creative process.

In addition to being available as a download, On December 2nd, 2015… limited edition CDs are available at live performances. Standard edition CDs available from the MCSD NetLabel site.

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0 A Picture of the Sky – Live Improvisations Vol. 3

A Picture of the Sky - Live Improvisations Vol. 3 @onewaynessmusic, @drachemusik

  • January 1, 2016
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · MCSD Studio & NetLabel


A Picture of the Sky – Live Improvisations Vol. 3
, is the final installment of three live releases by critically acclaimed, collaborators onewayness and dRachEmUsiK.
These recordings were made during their Summer 2014 tour in support of their release Immeasurable.

A Picture of the Sky – Live Improvisations Vol. 3 is a collection of three improvisations created during performances at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, St. Louis, MO and The Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, OH. The music includes ambient, drone, glitch and musique concrète.

The previous releases in the series are also available for download.
The Silence is a Lie – Live Improvisations Vol. 1
A Handful of Dust – Live Improvisations Vol 2.

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The Silence is a Lie Vol. 1
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0 Tonight on Music from last Thursday 12-10-2015

  • December 10, 2015
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · MflT playlists

Tonight on radio.electro-music.com
20:00-22:00 ET, 01:00-03:00 GMT (Friday)

Live improvisations by Faux Pas Quartet. Recorded music by Phylum Sinter, Twyndllyngs, remst8 and dRachEmUsiK.
Featuring the release “- -in_progress 2015” by Phylum Sinter

Tune in and Join us in chat!

Playlist 12-10-2015

1. Phylum Sinter. – – in_progress 2015

  1. Gamelmawn v1, 02:46
  2. Harvest, 04:22
  3. Thimble & Lace – live, 04:10
  4. Dao_singh -edit, 04:55
  5. Harvest – take, 05:09
  6. Moarbluntje, 4.20, 03:58

2. Faux Pas Quartet Live Improvisations – about 40 minutes

3. Twyndylyngs – Horgon Fantasy, Live at Electro-Music 2014

  1. Horgon Fantsy, 09:10
  2. New Berlin, 15:23
  3. In Memorium for Kevin Haller, 06:01

4. REMst8 and dRachEmUsiK – Befriending Francis, 17:25

 

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0 Faux Pas Quartet – 3 live Improvisations

  • November 28, 2015
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · Performance

Three live improvisations from 11-24-15

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0 Tonight on Music from last Thursday

  • November 19, 2015
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · MflT playlists

Tonight on radio.electro-music.com
20:00-22:00 ET, 01:00-03:00 GMT (Friday)

Live improvisations by Faux Pas Quartet. Recorded music by Fred Becker & Kirchenkampf. Featuring the release Maximachron by Fred Becker.

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Playlist 11-19-15

1. Faux Pas Quartet, Live Improvisation – about 20 min.

2. Kirchenkampf, Pegasystem – 09:02

3. Kirchenkampf, Dwarf Star Alloy – 09:33

4. Faux Pas Quartet, Live Improvisation – about 25 min.

5. Fred Becker: Maximachron

  1. Dynamism – 07:22
  2. Journey’s Dawn – 05:33
  3. Chromatique – 05:43
  4. Reflecting Pool – 06:48
  5. A Long Sky – 06:52
  6. Natural Resonance – 08:12
  7. Thought Experiment – 14:43

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