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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 IEMG First Friday Concert June 7th

  • June 5, 2013
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · IEMG · Performance

The Historic Irving Theater and Indiana Electro-Music Group
Present a First Friday evening of music and visuals

Live Music: Veronica Pejril, SurrealEstate, dRachEmUsiK
Visual Artists: Kyle Schroeder and Daniel Wood
Video: Joe Howard

When: Friday, June 7th, 7 – 10PM
Where: Irving Theater, 5505 East Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46219
Cost: FREE ($5 suggested donation)
Music starts at 7! Performers will rotate 30 min sets.

June 7th will be the third IEMG concert of 2013 and the tenth in a series of bi-monthly First Friday concerts featuring new and unusual electronic and electroacoustic musicians, visual artists and video from the Indianapolis area as well as featuring musicians and artists from the USA and Canada.
Musical styles include ambient, downtempo, chillout, Berlin school, noise, IDM and experimental.
Musicians will be playing instruments and not playing back recorded music.
Get your Friday night off to a great start with good people, interesting new music, art and video!

FaceBook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/450871138340624

 

SurrealEstate
Surrealestate

Surrealestate is a musical experience that utilizes visual and sonic textures reminiscent of the Old Berlin style of electronic synth music. Styles include upbeat techno, psychill, ambient, and trance. Lighting and stage props are utilized to add to the experience.

 

Kelly Sheets on moogs, seuqencing, and other digital synths, vocals. Bunny Sheets on keyboards, minimoog voyager, vocals. Jim Curry on synth percussion, guitar, hand drums, various moogs, vocals

 

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Veronica Pejril is a composer and multi-keyboardist from Greencastle, Indiana, where she teaches digital musicianship and computer music at DePauw University. An alumna of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios and Princetonís computer music lab, she was an early explorer into the intersections of MIDI and sound synthesis. She continues to explore non-traditional uses of human/computer interfaces for musical expression.

dRachEmUsiK photo by Nikki Smith

Back in Indy after a 3 week East Coast tour for the dRachEmUsiK and onewayness collaboration “The Sound of Thunder”. dRachEmUsiK is the solo project of award winning electronic musician, instrumentalist, sound designer and producer Charles Shriner. The current sound of dRachEmUsiK has been described as “glitch-groove ambient beats with a strong modal jazz influence mixed with micro-tonal improvisations”. Simple melodies swirling in mixed tempos and undulating textures. Dense, eclectic, erotic, evocative, emotional, spontaneous and sometimes noisy.

Indiana electro-music Group

IEMG is an organization made up of experimental electroacoustic and electronic musicians committed to building community and supporting each other through meetings, performances, improvisation sessions, collaborations and workshops.

IEMG is the local chapter of the international electro-music.com community.
www.iemg.info

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0 IEMG First Friday Concert

  • October 29, 2012
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · IEMG · Performance

The Historic Irving Theater and Indiana Electro-Music Group
Present a First Friday evening of music and visuals

 Live Music: SurrealEstate, Faux Pas Quartet, jmtta

Visual Artists: Beth Ann Broadhurst, Joel Yoder, Stephen Crabtree,
Lisa Hay, TeeJay

Video: Joe Howard

When: Friday, November 2nd, 7 – 10PM

Where: Irving Theater, 5505 East Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46219

Cost: FREE ($5 suggested donation)

Music starts at 7! Performers will rotate 30 min sets.

 

November 2nd will be the second IEMG concert since the Midwest Electro-Music Experience and is the eighth in a series of bi-monthly First Friday concerts featuring new and unusual electronic and electroacoustic musicians, visual artists and video from the Indianapolis area as well as featuring musicians and artists from the USA and Canada.

Musical styles include ambient, downtempo, chillout, Berlin school, noise, IDM and experimental. Musicians will be playing instruments and not playing back recorded music.

Get your Friday night off to a great start with good people, interesting new music, art and video!
Poster: http://www.iemg.info/eposter.htmlFacebook Event : http://www.facebook.com/events/187760688026750/

SurrealEstate
http://www.surrealestatemusic.com

Surrealestate is a musical experience that utilizes visual and sonic textures reminiscent of the Old Berlin style of electronic synth music.

Surrealestate was formed five years ago with original members Kelly Sheets, Bunny Sheets, and Randy Schwartz. After Randy’s departure, long time friend and associate Jim Curry has contributed his musical creativity to Surrealestate. Surrealestate evolved from Kelly and Bunny’s collective band experiences which included Gravity Hill and Interstellar Electric Gnomes. Jim Curry has been involved in multiple genres and played with bands with tastes ranging from

Kelly Sheets on moogs, seuqencing, and other digital synths, vocals.
Bunny Sheets on keyboards, minimoog voyager, vocals.
Jim Curry on synth percussion, guitar, hand drums, various moogs, vocals.

Surrealestate enjoys playing Old School Berlin using restored Moog vintage synths and other vintage equipment collected over the years. When required, styles include upbeat techno, psychill, ambient, and trance. Lighting and stage props are occasionally utilized to add to the experience.

Faux Pas Quartet
http://www.fauxpasquartet.com

Faux Pas Quartet is a free form improvisation ensemble whose sole purpose is the spontaneous expression of the unconscious.

The resulting music, quite literally, comes from the same stuff of which dreams are made. Archetypes of the psyche rising unfettered through the medium of the unconscious and becoming manifest in the shared conscious reality. The music is soothing, agitating, floating, rhythmic, funny, scary, sad, angry, melodic and atonal – aka ‘nerd hop.’

Relax, open up and take the time to flow with the music. Above all, give yourself permission to explore the irrational.

Charles Shriner: EWI / soft synths / controllers
Aaron Urbanski: Keyboards / soft synths / controllers
Jen Schmetzer: Vocals / sampler / effects
Duncan Putman: Bass / effects / dogs

jmtta
http://jmtta.bandcamp.com

Jason Breitigan creates delicate, thoughtful, lower-case soundscapes using a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments and found objects. Jason is a regular performer on the streaming radio show “Music from last Thursday”, frequently performs with Faux Pas Quartet and has completed three full length releases.

Indiana electro-music Group

IEMG is an organization made up of experimental electroacoustic and electronic musicians committed to building community and supporting each other through meetings, performances, improvisation sessions, collaborations and workshops.
IEMG is the local chapter of the international electro-music.com community.
www.iemg.info

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0 Concert @ pHresh!

  • October 15, 2012
  • by Charles Shriner
  • · Blog · Performance

Faux Pas Quartet and Surrealestate

Live @ pHresh! Interactive Juice Bar and Cafe

122 Creekside Drive , Kokomo, Indiana

Saturday, Oct. 27th, 8-10pm
All Ages

In July of this year I did a dRachEmUsiK show at pHresh! and had a great time! Kelly and the staff at pHresh! are wonderful people. The food, atmosphere and people are all great. So this time I’m headed back to Kokomo with Faux Pas Quartet and Surrealestate.
pHresh! is less then an hour north of Indianapolis and well worth the short trip so come out on Oct. 27th for good food, good people and good music and video.

Faux Pas Quartet is a free form improvisation ensemble whose sole purpose is the spontaneous expression of the unconscious

 

Surrealestate  is a musical experience that utilizes visual and sonic textures reminiscent of the Old Berlin style of electronic synth music.

 

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