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** First night of the summit is tonight ** 07/23/08

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The 7th Annual Edgetone New Music Summit
www.edgetonemusicsummit.org/

July 20 - 26, 2008 - varied times throughout the week

Every year the Edgetone New Music Summit showcases some of the most innovative and pioneering new music that is happening in California and beyond. The Summit’s expanded performance schedule include music and sound from raging free improvisation, electronic manipulation, to harsh noise reflecting an incredible range of genre busting exploration and sonic creativity. In addition, the summit seeks to promote intermedia arts, fostering cross-pollination between music/sound art and experimental flim/ visual arts.


"The Artist Run Label" Lecture/Q&A
7:00 pm FREE
Tuesday July 22, 2008

Location: Pirate Cat Radio Cafe, 2781 21st Street @ Florida, SF
walking distace from 24th Street BART
Saxophonist and producer Rent Romus will talk about the artist run and
operated label. Edgetone Records began in 1991 then dropped from the
radar until ten years later when it bacame the community based label
it is today. Rent will talk about how he created and runs a community
based all artist label. He will compare and contrast the community
model of Edgetone Records with other prevalent model types within the
music industry talking about the ups and downs and workarounds in the
spirit of DIY music production.


SonicLight - July 23rd, 2008, Wednesday

Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm
Performance Starts @ 8:15 pm
The first night of the summit presents improv music combined with
film, video and light ... featuring No More Twist! (sound and light
lie detector), Kwisp (Volumetric Movies: Dioramic Holo-Cinema system),
Thickness/Mono-Layer (cut-up film and sound Power Trio)


SonicExplore - July 24, 2008, Thursday

Q&A Session 7:15-7:30pm, Performances @ 8:15 pm ... this second night
of the summit presents explorative and extended electro-acoustic
sounds, featuring (the) giants of gender (performing works by Kyle
Farrell, Adam Lahm, Sundar Subramanian, and Zachary Zukowski), Birgit
Ulher Trio w/Gino Robair & Tim Perkis (sponsored by The Goethe
Institute) and Shudder (w/special guest from the Netherlands Jorrit
Dijkstra)


SonicPulse - July 25, 2008, Friday

Q&A Session 7:15 -7:30 pm, Performances @ 8:15 pm .... this third
night of the summit focuses on the pulse of improv jazz and
composition, featuring Different Strokes (string duets with Yehudit &
Beth Snellings), C.O.M.A. (CD Release celebration performance of Big
Words), Noertker's Moxie (performing a new suite of music, "La
Naturecanique," to the film loops of David Beck) and GoGo Fight Master
(Saxophonist Aaron Bennett's Power Quartet)


SonicIndustrial - July 26, 2008, Saturday

Doors @ 7:30 pm Performances @ 8:00 pm ... this fourth and final night
of the summit features avant rock, new punk and experimental
industrial sounds, featuring 15 Degrees Below Zero (Industrial
Strength trio featuring Mark Wilson from Conure), Say Bok Gwai (CD
Release celebration performance of CHINK IN THE ARMOR), Mute Socialite
(featuring Moe! Staiano from Moe!kestra! & Sleepytime Guerilla Museum)
and The Late Severa Wires (from New Mexico featuring Carlos
Santistevan from High Mayhem)


Except where noted, all performances at:

Community Music Center
544 Capp St. @ 21st, San Francisco, CA
$12 Gen $6 Stu at the door
Advance Tickets: $10 general only at brown paper tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/33233