Table Of The Elements Showcase Tour 2007

Moshe · 11.04.2007, 01:22 AM

TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS SHOWCASE TOUR 2007
Table of the Elements is pleased to announce the commencement of their
Showcase Tour 2007, featuring Collections of Colonies of Bees,
Megafaun, Jon Mueller and Melissa St. Pierre, as well as a Battle of
the Bands in Brooklyn, NY between labels The Social Registry and Table of the
Elements. The tour begins at the Troika Festival in Raleigh-Durham, NC
on November 1st and wraps up in Chicago, IL on November 13th, with the
Battle of the Bands taking place on November 3rd + 4th.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS
The Battle of the Bands will take place on Saturday, November 3rd and
Sunday, November 4th.

Saturday's lineup:

9pm Collections of Colonies of Bees
10pm Paul Duncan
11pm Jonathan Kane's February
12:15am IUD

Sunday's lineup:

8:15pm TK Webb &The Visions
9pm Megafaun
10pm Jon Mueller
11pm Tony Conrad
12:15am Messages

Death by Audio, located at 49 S. 2nd St. between Wythe
and Kent in Brooklyn, NY. Door times for both nights are 7pm. Ticket
prices are $15 per night, with a two-day pass available for $25 at
Other Music and Soundfix. Schedule updates and additional details can
be found at www.myspace.com/tableoftheelements and
www.myspace.com/thesocialregistry. All acts are subject to change
without notice.

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES
Collections of Colonies of Bees sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms
of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant
detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion
propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil
of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD Birds is joyous, epic
minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling – and
as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb.

MEGAFAUN
Megafaun use unkempt lyrical maneuvers alongside traditional Americana
folk instrumentation to produce harmonically overlapping layers that
at once enrapture and confound the listeners. Unnerving percussive
motifs dot the sprawling landscape, sounding the call to arms. In
mellower moments, one can be tricked into feeling emancipated of this
duty, only to discover the trains keep running, the babies keep being
born, warskeep being fought, and sympathy is the only answer in a
convoluted dream of serenity.

JON MUELLER
An internationally recognized percussionist, composer and
free-improvisor; he is a founder of the band Collections of Colonies
of Bees; and he has performed with an array of artists, including Rhys
Chatham,and members of Swans, Wilco, and more. For the past several
years, Mueller has worked with rhythms that come from gong
frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the
surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these
elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort on
Table of the Elements: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold,
all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here;
just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized,
precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the
many forms it has taken over the years, that continually inspires new
philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of
thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes
it and makes it his own.

MELISSA ST. PIERRE
Peppering the strings, hammers, and dampers of the piano with a
variety of objects, protean composer, performer and aural provocateur
Melissa St. Pierre, aka, slaughtermouse, transforms the instrument's
typical timbre and gives it a chance, an opportunity to reveal its
true nature. Add a EHX 2880 and it becomes a looped, layered, locked
extravaganza. In her adroit, gifted hands, the piano becomes not just
a percussion instrument, but 88 percussion instruments, each key a
portal to a new world of sound. Sparkling gamelans chatter; harrowing
voodoo drums call out in the night.

TOUR SCHEDULE
NOV. 1
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Anaturale
Nicky Click
Future Islands
Maple Stave
Push Pull
Hazerai
Megafaun
Melissa St. Pierre
Bull City Headquarters
723 Mangum

NOV. 3 + 4
Brooklyn, NY
Collections of Colonies of Bees (Milw., WI)
Jonathan Kane's February (New York, NY)
TK Webb & the Visions (Brooklyn, NY)
Paul Duncan Band (Brooklyn, NY)
Tony Conrad (Buffalo, NY)
Messages (Brooklyn, NY)
Megafaun (Raleigh, NC)
Jon Mueller (Milw., WI)
IUD (Brooklyn, NY)
+Special Guests
Death by Audio
49 S. 2nd St. between Wythe + Kent
$15 per night

NOV. 5
Cambridge, MA
Collections of Colonies of Bees
Melissa St. Pierre
Beautiful Weekend
Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street
$7

NOV. 8
Detroit, MI
Jon Mueller
Melissa St. Pierre
Bohemian National Home
3009 Tillman
$5-10 sliding scale

NOV. 11
Milwaukee, WI
Jon Mueller
Melissa St. Pierre
Peter J. Woods
UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall
2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
$10

NOV. 13
Chicago, IL
Jon Mueller
Melissa St. Pierre
Elastic Arts
2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl.
$5-10 sliding scale

sonicl · 11.04.2007, 04:52 AM

I'm sure that TOTE must be due to come to London sometime soon... please?

A visit from that NY line-up would be nice.

pokkeherrie · 11.06.2007, 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl

I'm sure that TOTE must be due to come to London sometime soon... please?

There were supposed to be TOTE in the UK and Europe this year, as mentioned here:
http://www.myspace.com/tableoftheelementsfestival4

But it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Maybe in 2008.

11.04.2007, 01:22 AM	#1
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,914	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS SHOWCASE TOUR 2007 Table of the Elements is pleased to announce the commencement of their Showcase Tour 2007, featuring Collections of Colonies of Bees, Megafaun, Jon Mueller and Melissa St. Pierre, as well as a Battle of the Bands in Brooklyn, NY between labels The Social Registry and Table of the Elements. The tour begins at the Troika Festival in Raleigh-Durham, NC on November 1st and wraps up in Chicago, IL on November 13th, with the Battle of the Bands taking place on November 3rd + 4th. BATTLE OF THE BANDS The Battle of the Bands will take place on Saturday, November 3rd and Sunday, November 4th. Saturday's lineup: 9pm Collections of Colonies of Bees 10pm Paul Duncan 11pm Jonathan Kane's February 12:15am IUD Sunday's lineup: 8:15pm TK Webb &The Visions 9pm Megafaun 10pm Jon Mueller 11pm Tony Conrad 12:15am Messages Death by Audio, located at 49 S. 2nd St. between Wythe and Kent in Brooklyn, NY. Door times for both nights are 7pm. Ticket prices are $15 per night, with a two-day pass available for $25 at Other Music and Soundfix. Schedule updates and additional details can be found at www.myspace.com/tableoftheelements and www.myspace.com/thesocialregistry. All acts are subject to change without notice. COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Collections of Colonies of Bees sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD Birds is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling – and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. MEGAFAUN Megafaun use unkempt lyrical maneuvers alongside traditional Americana folk instrumentation to produce harmonically overlapping layers that at once enrapture and confound the listeners. Unnerving percussive motifs dot the sprawling landscape, sounding the call to arms. In mellower moments, one can be tricked into feeling emancipated of this duty, only to discover the trains keep running, the babies keep being born, warskeep being fought, and sympathy is the only answer in a convoluted dream of serenity. JON MUELLER An internationally recognized percussionist, composer and free-improvisor; he is a founder of the band Collections of Colonies of Bees; and he has performed with an array of artists, including Rhys Chatham,and members of Swans, Wilco, and more. For the past several years, Mueller has worked with rhythms that come from gong frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort on Table of the Elements: "Metals" is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the years, that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own. MELISSA ST. PIERRE Peppering the strings, hammers, and dampers of the piano with a variety of objects, protean composer, performer and aural provocateur Melissa St. Pierre, aka, slaughtermouse, transforms the instrument's typical timbre and gives it a chance, an opportunity to reveal its true nature. Add a EHX 2880 and it becomes a looped, layered, locked extravaganza. In her adroit, gifted hands, the piano becomes not just a percussion instrument, but 88 percussion instruments, each key a portal to a new world of sound. Sparkling gamelans chatter; harrowing voodoo drums call out in the night. TOUR SCHEDULE NOV. 1 Raleigh-Durham, NC Anaturale Nicky Click Future Islands Maple Stave Push Pull Hazerai Megafaun Melissa St. Pierre Bull City Headquarters 723 Mangum NOV. 3 + 4 Brooklyn, NY Collections of Colonies of Bees (Milw., WI) Jonathan Kane's February (New York, NY) TK Webb & the Visions (Brooklyn, NY) Paul Duncan Band (Brooklyn, NY) Tony Conrad (Buffalo, NY) Messages (Brooklyn, NY) Megafaun (Raleigh, NC) Jon Mueller (Milw., WI) IUD (Brooklyn, NY) +Special Guests Death by Audio 49 S. 2nd St. between Wythe + Kent $15 per night NOV. 5 Cambridge, MA Collections of Colonies of Bees Melissa St. Pierre Beautiful Weekend Lily Pad 1353 Cambridge Street $7 NOV. 8 Detroit, MI Jon Mueller Melissa St. Pierre Bohemian National Home 3009 Tillman $5-10 sliding scale NOV. 11 Milwaukee, WI Jon Mueller Melissa St. Pierre Peter J. Woods UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. $10 NOV. 13 Chicago, IL Jon Mueller Melissa St. Pierre Elastic Arts 2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl. $5-10 sliding scale
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11.04.2007, 04:52 AM	#2
sonicl invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,527	I'm sure that TOTE must be due to come to London sometime soon... please? A visit from that NY line-up would be nice.
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