Tag: The Irving Theater
0 Electro-music Festival 2017 is moving to the Midwest!
SAVE THE DATE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! electro-music Festival 2017 is moving to the midwest

SAVE THE DATE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
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.
The Irving Theater
5505 East Washington St
Indianapolis, IN 46219
August 4-6, 2017
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.
Stay tuned for more info as things develop!
0 Tatsuya Nakatani w/ Adam Riviere
IEMG and The Irving Theater Present
Tatsuya Nakatani
w/ Adam Riviere
October 28th, 7-9pm, $10
5505 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN
Facebook Event Page
Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative artist originally from Osaka, Japan.
He has been residing in the USA since 1994 and is currently based in Easton, PA.Since the late 1990s, Mr. Nakatani has released over sixty recordings in the USA and Europe and has performed countless solo percussion concerts through intensive touring. He has also collaborated with hundreds of other artists internationally and presented masterclasses, workshops and lectures across the USA and around the world.
Nakatani’s approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques… which manifest in an intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world.
Adam Riviere, world percussionist, audio engineer and composer boasts over 25 years of experience, 13 published albums and numerous collaborations. Riviere began playing the piano at the age of ten, which led to a love of percussion and throughout the years that followed, he studied more than 30 world instruments. His music sounds as unique as the instruments he plays. Styles he performs and infuses during his performances include Middle Eastern, African, Classical, Celtic, Latin/Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Native American, and Electro Acoustic World Ambient Trance. Riviere’s love for culture and music can be heard in his performances, displaying how different cultures and mediums of music can make one great sound.
0 Tatsuya Nakatani w/ Adam Riviere
IEMG and The Irving Theater Present
Tatsuya Nakatani
w/ Adam Riviere
October 28th, 7-9pm, $10
5505 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN
Facebook Event Page
Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative artist originally from Osaka, Japan.
He has been residing in the USA since 1994 and is currently based in Easton, PA.Since the late 1990s, Mr. Nakatani has released over sixty recordings in the USA and Europe and has performed countless solo percussion concerts through intensive touring. He has also collaborated with hundreds of other artists internationally and presented masterclasses, workshops and lectures across the USA and around the world.
Nakatani’s approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques… which manifest in an intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world.
Adam Riviere, world percussionist, audio engineer and composer boasts over 25 years of experience, 13 published albums and numerous collaborations. Riviere began playing the piano at the age of ten, which led to a love of percussion and throughout the years that followed, he studied more than 30 world instruments. His music sounds as unique as the instruments he plays. Styles he performs and infuses during his performances include Middle Eastern, African, Classical, Celtic, Latin/Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Native American, and Electro Acoustic World Ambient Trance. Riviere’s love for culture and music can be heard in his performances, displaying how different cultures and mediums of music can make one great sound.
0 Today on Music from last Thursday
Today on radio.electro-music.com
15:00-17:00 EDT, 20:00-22:00 GMT
#nerdhop Bleepy, blurpy, glitchy, swirling improvisations by Faux Pas Quartet and recorded music by Klimchak, Adam Holquist, Jason Breitigan and dRachEmUsiK
Tune in and Join us in chat!
Playlist 2-11-14
1. Pas Faux Pas Quartet (Jen, Aaron, Charles)
- Live improvisation from 2-6-14 – 27:52
2. Pas Faux Pas Quartet (Duncan, Aaron, Charles)
live improvisations from 7-11-13
- Slappy – 13:33
- Wonder – 15:16
3. Klimcak, Adam Holquist, Jason Breitigan, Charles Shriner
live improvisation at The Irving Theater 6-29-13 – 50:30
4. dRachEmUsiK live improvisation from 10-4-13 – 10:00
0 IEMG First Friday Concert 10-4-13
The Historic Irving Theater and
Indiana Electro-Music Group
Present a First Friday evening of experimental music and visuals
Live Music:
Joo Won Park – Philadelphia, PA
dREKKa – Bloomington, IN
Earthgirl – Indianapolis, IN
FaceBook Event here
Visual Artists: Kyle Schroeder, Beth Ann Broadhurst
Video: Joe Howard
When: Friday, October 4th, 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.
October 4th will be the 4th IEMG concert of 2013 and the twelfth 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!
0 IEMG First Friday Concert June 7th
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 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
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.
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.
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
0 IEMG First Friday Concert
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.
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
0 Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
“Waves of ambiance and dreamy drones weave into one another to form a spectral web of sound. The music is experimental by design, but easy on the ears…”
–Chad Radford, Creative Loafing Atlanta
Wednesday, June 27th brings the Atlanta based Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel to the Irving Theater in Indianapolis IN. Faux Pas Quartet will be opening.
Doors at 8pm, music starts at 8:30. $5.00 cover.