Vancouver New Music and Video In/Video Out present
Spectral Space
A new work by Kim Cascone (San Francisco)
10 February 2007
8pm @ Video In (1965 Main Street)
Tickets $15/$10 (students/seniors)
Vancouver New Music and Video In/Video Out are pleased to present Kim Cascone, a pioneer
of ambient electronic music, founder of Silent Records and co-founder of microsound.org.
Cascone performs Spectral Space, a new computer music piece focused on extending density
in audio material. In our age of media-overload the public has adapted to this condition by
enlarging their ability to simultaneously consume multiple streams of information. The trend of
'content density' is evidenced in both visual and musical art-forms such as music-videos,
television advertising, video games and sample-based musics such as hip-hop and electronica.
The omnipresent din of our media culture provides a security blanket for many: when noise is
present, we feel at ease; when it stops, we feel unease. In this paradoxical development of our
cognitive apparatus we are now better able to assimilate more information at one time and
decode its meaning. With Spectral Space Cascone builds a foreground/mid-ground/background
sound-field through which sounds glint, shimmer, collide and implode within the fabric of noise.
Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received his formal training in
electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970s, and in 1976 continued his
studies with Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City. In the 1980s, after moving to
San Francisco and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David
Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. Cascone left the film
industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming
it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the
company in early 1996 to pursue a career as a sound designer and went to work for Thomas
Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. After a two-year stint at
Headspace he worked for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he oversaw sound design using algorithmic synthesis for video games. Since 1984, Kim has released more
than 30 albums of electronic music and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe,
Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury and Pauline Oliveros among others.
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Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list that focuses on issues concerning
digital music and laptop performance (http://www.microsound.org) and has written for Computer
Music Journal (MIT Press), Artbyte Magazine, Contemporary Music Review, Soundcultures and
Parachute Journal.
Single ticket prices are $15 regular and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at
Zulu or Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.ca or 604.280.3311; surcharges may apply). Tickets will
also be available at the door.
Vancouver New Music gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts,
Canadian Heritage through Arts Presentation Canada, Government of Canada’s Youth
Employment Strategy, The Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts
Council and BC Gaming, The City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs, Holiday
Inn Downtown and Tom Lee Music.
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Press kits, photos, interviews and audio / video excerpts – all available.
Media contact: Heather McDermid
Phone: 604.633.0861 · Fax: 604.633.0871 · Email: heather@newmusic.org
Web site: www.newmusic.org
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