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Lafayette Electronic Music Festival : Carbon Diablo Ensemble on April 22 2013

03/22/2023

Saturday April 22 : Starting @ 7PM (2 acts)
Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO

Carbon Diablo Ensemble - Live Cinema Performance

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble performs improvisational musique concrète with interactive visuals. Members include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Live Sampling, Visuals, and Mix.

Performance artist Diablo Montalban, the Master of Audio Disaster, mixes live art through sound collage, drawing inspiration from music, pop culture, and noise. Diablo works spontaneously, creating pieces that are unique for the moment.

In Diablo’s live pop-up performances, he combines multiple sound sources with natural atmospherics — combining, overlapping, reversing, whatever — to create something original, never to be performed the same way again . . . Diablo is obviously influenced by Wayne Coyne’s parking lot experiments. While Wayne’s celebrity is able to attract hundreds, Diablo is often left to his own devices with a handful of quizzical looks for his troubles. . .

Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander - Live Constructed VisualSonics
Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander perform an improvisational mix of generative ambience and camera-based visuals processed and mixed in real-time. Hailing from Pueblo, CO where both teach media-based music and art at the University of Colorado, the duo explore slow-moving sonic motifs that surge and swell through live visual pan/tilt/zoom explorations of intimate environments constructed in tiny terrariums.

LEAF2023: Schedule:

March 10th – April 30th:
Sync Exhibition @ The Collective Gallery

Friday, April 21st, 7pm – FREE:
Rue/Bainbridge @ CMA

Saturday, April 22, 8pm – FREE:
The Carbon Diablo Ensemble @ CMA

Saturday, April 22, 7pm – FREE:
Ryan Wurst & Aaron Alexander @ CMA

Sunday, April 30th, 7pm –
Morton Subotnick and Lillevan @ The Arts Hub: Go here for tickets

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Video from "Frankenstein" performance at Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival

07/13/2023

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban joined forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.

Mark Mosher of CO2E created this short recap of our performance. The venue was completely full, with overflow standing room only audience members in the anteroom and down the stairs!

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LEAF article from the Daily Camera

04/19/2023

Experimental art takes over Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival

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Scream Screen: Noche de Terror with CO2 Ensemble October 29

10/17/2022

SCREAM SCREEN PRESENTS
Noche de Terror
Hosted by Theresa Mercado
Double Feature Saturday, October 29 at 7pm • Cemetery of Terror/Don’t Panic
pre-film performance by Carbon Dioxide Ensemble (CO2E)
With a special Halloween party in the Henderson-Withey Lounge starting at 5:30pm with tricks, treats and prizes for best costume!!

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. Denver 80206

TICKETS and LINKS: https://linktr.ee/CO2E

About the CO2 Ensemble

CO2 Ensemble, a collaboration with Thomas Lundy, Victoria Lundy, and Mark Mosher, is an improvisational musique concrète ensemble performing with copper heart and dry ice, theremin, and live sampling with interactive visuals. In this unique music and multimedia act, Mark uses the Elektron Octatrack dynamic performance sampler and other electronics to live-sample Thomas Lundy as he manipulates a Copper Heart with dry ice and other objects. Victoria Lundy accompanies on theremin and live electronics. The only audio source for Octatrack besides drum samples is the input from the contact mic on the Copper Heart. Mark also provides interactive visuals with live camera input to enhance the experience.

Since 2014, CO2 Ensemble has performed multimedia concerts in and around Denver. We played the long-running Concréte Mixer concert series at the Walnut Room, were the opening act for day 2 of the Denver International Noise Fest, collaborated using graphical scores with the filmmaker Taylor Dunne, and were invited to play a music convocation for the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver performing on stage at the Gates Concert Hall.

CO2E descends from Denver’s Carbon Dioxide Orchestra, a group that performed in the 1990s and early 2000s. An earlier incarnation of the CO2 Orchestra performed in the 1980s.

About Scream Screen
Scream Screen - an ongoing series of films hosted and curated by Theresa Mercado - presents a terrifying trip to Mexico to spotlight two of Mexican gore-master Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most remarkable entries to the horror canon: CEMETERY OF TERROR and DON’T PANIC!

Cemetery Of Terror: The directing debut of Rubén Galindo Jr. (DON’T PANIC, GRAVE ROBBERS), CEMETERY OF TERROR is easily the wildest zombie movie to ever emerge from Mexico! On Halloween night, a group of bored teenagers steal a corpse from the morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery. Once there, they perform a Satanic ritual in an attempt to bring it back to life. Unfortunately, the kids chose the body of a savage serial killer who had just been shot dead by police. Whoops! The group of fun-seeking youngsters unwittingly revive the undead sadist, and only occult expert Dr. Carden (legendary Mexican character actor Hugo Stiglitz) can end the madness! Filled with gratuitous gore effects that would feel right at home in a Fulci film, CEMETERY is non-stop thrills and bloodshed from beginning to end.

Don’t Panic: A bonkers tribute to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET from Mexican horror king Rubén Galindo Jr. (CEMETERY OF TERROR, GRAVE ROBBERS), DON’T PANIC is a surreal and action-packed rager that’s guaranteed to leave audiences awestruck and dumbfounded. It’s Michael’s (Jon Michael Bischof, who also performs the film’s memorable theme song) seventeenth birthday. His friends have decided to surprise him with the ultimate gift: breaking into his house and playing with a Ouija board! But this harmless fun quickly transforms into a supernatural terror, as newly-summoned demon Virgil possesses and murders Michael’s friends! Defying reality at every turn, DON’T PANIC is an awe-inspiring 1980s horror classic, now newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative.

Here's some CO2 Ensemble action from Drone Day 2022:

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New work and updated website for the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble!

07/06/2022

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble is:
Copper heart played with dry ice by Thomas Lundy, live sampled into my Octatrack, along with Victoria Lundy accompanying on Theremin and live electronics.

For more information about our ensemble, go to carbondioxideensemble.com
Here is the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble’s latest performance captured in 4K video with multiple angles with interactive visuals by synthesist Mark Mosher.

This video was originally presented as part of the The Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet 2022 Drone Day celebration.

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Modular Synth Fest July 27

07/23/2019

Mark Mosher (https://markmoshermusic.com/) Thomas Lundy and I will be presenting a short talk at the Modular Synth Fest on July 27:

Theremin, Musique Concrète, and Live Sampling, Oh My!

We will talk about the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and do a short performance

2:30 pm, Colorado Media School

Colorado Modular Synth Society (CMSS) and Luigi’s Modular Supply are putting on an all-day FREE festival celebrating modular synthesis, the people who play them and build them.

The Colorado Modular Synth Festival (CMSF) will have live music and interactive hands-on activities for kids and adults interested in synthesizers and electronic music. This is a great time to hear new music and experiment with new music technology and theories. Come learn and play with the CMSS community.

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Behind the Scenes -- Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at Time + Space Fundraiser for Process/Reversal

04/11/2017

Process Reversal advocates and ensures the viability of film for all.

In a time of discontinued film stocks, disenfranchised cinemas and abandoned laboratories, filmmaking is changing. The old infrastructures have collapsed, giving us a unique opportunity; a chance to reinvent the medium. Process Reversal is an engine for exploring new ways of seeing, new ways of hearing, and new ways of speaking about film. It is the response of a vibrant community of artists and practitioners that are taking on the opportunity and the challenge of a new century for photochemical arts.

Organization

Process Reversal is a federally recognized, tax exempt 501(c)(3 charity, a volunteer-run organization operating on a collective model of sharing duties and responsibilities.

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble played at their fundraiser on Saturday, April 8, 2017.

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Time + Space: A Fundraiser for Process Reversal -- with The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble

03/11/2017

Saturday, April 8 at 7 PM - 11:30 PM

PlatteForum
2400 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado 80205

Come join Process Reversal at our fundraiser kickoff event!

We're raising money to expand our annual operating budget with the ultimate goal of opening a Denver-based, publicly accessible, artist-run film lab. This workspace will provide all the equipment and resources necessary for contemporary artists and filmmakers to create films on film!

More info about our fundraising campaign here...
http://www.processreversal.org/fundraising/

There will be beer, food, live music, and an absurd amount of film projections of all varieties, from installations to performances. You can't beat the sweet sound of actual film running through projectors. It will be an analog film lovers paradise!

Live music by...

Entrancer
The Kevin Costner Suicide Pact
Beatscream
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble Co2E
Erzi

Beer provided by Ratio Beerworks and Odell Brewery!

$10 suggested donation: buy advance tickets here

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CO2E: The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at the March 8 Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup

02/26/2017

Meetup: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7:00 PM
Globe Hall, 4483 Logan Street, Denver, CO

The Modular Synth Lightning Patch Walkthrough - one of the most popular themes from 2016 - is back!
It will be a fun evening where up to 10 modular synth fanatics deconstruct patches before your eyes and ears.
For more info, or if you'd like one of the open slots, reply with a comment on the RSVP page

Musical Performance will be by the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble with members Victoria Lundy (Theremin), Tom Lundy (Copper Heart with Dry Ice), and Mark Mosher (Live Sampling of Copper Heart with Octatrack."

Schedule:
MEETUP 7-9pm
7-7:20 Arrive, get name tag, consider a donation, order food and drink at the front bar. Presenters setup their rigs.Introduce yourself and connect with your fellow synth geeks.
7:20-7:30 Meetup kickoff and announcements.
7:30-8:30 Patch walk-through lightening rounds
8:30-9:00 Intros & Mingle
AFTER-MEETUP (21 and up) 9-10:30pm
9-9:30 Mingling
9:30pm Performance by the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble
10-10:30 Mingling and tear down

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UPDATED LOCATION: CO2E: The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at the 2016 Denver Noise Fest

12/07/2016

Denver Noise Fest 2016
Globe Hall
4483 Logan Street
http://www.globehall.com/

Seventh annual festival

Wednesday December 21 and Thursday December 22
Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1401011-denver-noise-fest-2016-denver/ and http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1401013-denver-noise-fest-2016-denver/

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble are joining the lineup for the 2016 Denver Noise Fest. Thomas Lundy on Copper with Dry Ice, Mark Mosher on Sampling, and Victoria Lundy on Theremin with Reaktor.

For more info on CO2E go to CarbonDioxideEnsemble.com

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Concréte Mixer #6 Featuring Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air

11/23/2016

November 27 / 2pm

Globe Hall

4483 Logan St, Denver, Colorado 80216

$6 /all ages

Concréte Mixer #6
solo and collaborative musique concréte
Featuring Mark Spybey of Dead Voices On Air
Armchair Migraine Journey
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble
Chris Frain
Randall Frazier (orbit service)
Mrs Hardy
Mark Mosher
Rod Tanaka

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
– Pierre Schaeffer

On November 27, several artists from different realms of performance and composition will convene at Globe Hall to present an afternoon of acoustic, analog electronic and digital noises, sound effects and tonal music inspired by the musique concréte form and philosophy.
Please note the EARLY start time. This special edition of Concréte Mixer with doors opening at 2pm will be all ages show. We’re hoping that it will be a chance to listen to some stunning music in a great setting; an island of abstraction and experiment after the frenzy of the Thanksgiving holiday. And there’s Globe Hall’s BBQ!
https://www.zagat.com/r/globe-hall-denver

The Artists:
Spybey started his career in the North-East of England with Zoviet France in the late eighties before moving to Vancouver. It was here that his own project Dead Voices On Air were formed. He has gone onto release 20 albums under that name and continues to perform around the world. Spybey also worked under the name Propeller and was an original member of Download. Spybey was the voice of perhaps their most successful release, “The Eyes of Stanley Pain,” in 1996. After leaving Download he started a series of collaborations, appearing on over 50 albums in a five-year period. Perhaps his most significant honour was being asked to be part of CAN guitarist Michael Karoli’s band Sofortkontakt! and appearing at the Can 30th anniversary shows in 1999. Spybey was a close friend of Karoli prior to his death in 2001 and had toured with him as part of legendary CAN vocalist Damo Suzuki’s Network in 1998, appearing in the acclaimed German TV film by Peter Braatz, “On the Air.” Spybey has recorded and played live with a host of collaborators including Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!) and Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Robert Hampson (Loop/Main), Simon Fisher Turner, members of The Legendary Pink Dots, Mick Harris, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Not Breathing, Orbit Service, Gnome, and Martin Atkins. Most recently Spybey has partnered ex-Zoviet-France founder Robin Storey in Reformed Faction and fellow Download member Phil Western in Beehatch. He has collaborated with film makers, video projectionists, performance artists and dancers. He is currently based in Northumberland, in the U.K.
https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com/

Originally a solo project by a mysterious drone artist from Germany (usually credited on his albums as simply “AMJ”), Armchair Migraine Journey was joined by collaborator Ty Hodson (square_wave, gradenko) full-time since AMJ’s first live appearances in 2013. Other collaborators include friends Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots, The), Scot Solida (Christus And The Cosmonaughts), Pascal Godjikian (La STPO), Niko Potočnjak (Seven That Spells), Peat Bog (Earthmonkey), and Randall Frazier (Orbit Service).

Originally hailing from Baltimore, Chris Frain currently resides in Boulder and creates electronic music inspired by the Radiophonic Workshop, New Wave, and Krautrock. He currently remixed Rodney Cromwell’s “Baby Robot” on the “Fax Machine Breakup” EP released on November 11, 2016 on Happy Robots Records (UK).
https://chrisfrainmusic.bandcamp.com/

Stereo Magic (portal in 13 parts)”, the new studio album by Randall Frazier’s project ORBIT SERVICE to follow up the stunning 2011’s deep, melancholic “A Calm Note From The West” is set for release and a N. American tour September 10, 2016 with The Legendary Pink Dots. Having recently finished a European tour; Orbit Service have produced an even more emotional, sometimes cathartic album of spacy electronics, ambient, drones, collages, almost heart wrenching rhythms, intertwined with Frazier’s spot on vocal delivery and lyrics. This is the kind of album that sucks you in deeper and deeper with every listen. What is next? Another plane of orbits? The album includes contributions from Antenna, Armchair Migraine Journey, Ty Hodson and Dead Voices on Air. File under electronic psychedelia bliss with a dash of good ole loner psych bedroom weirdness.
https://orbitservice.bandcamp.com/

Thomas Lundy has served as curator of the Concréte Mixer series since its beginning. With Victoria Lundy, he revived the copper heart played with dry ice featured in Denver’s Carbon Dioxide Orchestra. Tom is interested in digital signal processing, and the theory of music.

Victoria Lundy has been playing theremin in the Denver experimental/underground scene since the 90s. She was a member of the avant garde Carbon Dioxide Orchestra; is a founding member of Denver’s acclaimed nerd rock band The Inactivists and has appeared all of their 6 CDs and EP, and as a guest player live and in recordings with other local artists. She has performed at the 2011 Denver Noise Festival, 2014 Westword Music Showcase and at the 2013 Denver Post Underground Music Showcase as a guest of ambient project Pythian Whispers. Victoria has appeared at many venues in Denver as well as Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Performing Arts, DU Lamont School of Music, demonstrated the theremin at the World Science Fiction Convention, and has given a presentation on electronic music for Denver.nerdnite.com. She has participated in the Concrete Mixer musique concrete series, and participated in the 2015 Denver Mini Maker Faire demonstrating the theremin. She released a solo recording, Miss American Vampire on Halloween 2015, and has played several solo and collaborative shows in 2016 including a collaboration with vocal performance artist Jaap Blonk. She also currently plays with the The Flux Crew Conduction Ensemble, a twelve piece chamber ensemble that engages in real time collaborative composition. Currently, she’s concentrating on solo ambient work exploring the expressive qualities of the theremin.
http://www.victorialundymusic.com/

Mrs. Hardy is Chris McAvoy, a Boulder based synthesizer enthusiast. Chris spent a decade as an actor in Chicago improvised theater and applies improvisational ideas to his use of samplers, modular synthesizers and cassette tapes. Today’s performance includes samples and composed pieces from a variety of sources, including at least one contribution from his nine year old son, Wil.
More Mrs. Hardy recordings are available via http://soundcloud.com/missushardy and http://mrshardy.bandcamp.com/

Mark Mosher is a sound/visual synthesist & music technologist from Boulder, CO. He has released 3 themed cinematic techno albums, a horror soundscape album, singles, and remixes available on must outlets including iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and CD Baby. He has a soundscape podcast http://www.SonicEncounters.com/podcast.
Mark’s been blogging on synthesis since 2005 at his blog http://ModulateThis.com/ He is the founder of the 500+ member strong Rocky Mountain Synthesizer meetup and hosted over 50 events. His sound design work spans from live theater to factory sounds for commercial instruments. He has written for Recording Magazine, delivered artist talks for Ableton’s University Series at CU, presented at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at George Tech, provided music technology consulting for Keyboard Magazine and for STEM/STEAM schools. He was invited to provide multimedia installations for the Bob Moog Foundation’s Dr. Bob Interactive Sonic Experience as well as for the Denver County Fair.
Select venues where Mark has performed include Gates Concert Hall at the University of Denver, The Dairy Center for the Performing Arts, Electro-Music Festival NY, Electro-Music Festival in Asheville NC, Pacific Northwest Synthfest, Art Institute of Sunnyvale, Midwest Electro-Music Experience, The Microsoft Store, the grand opening of the University of Denver’s Performance Black Box.
Learn more at http://www.MarkMosherMusic.com/

Colorado Native Rod Tanaka began his musical career at the age of 2 when his parents realized he was playing television show themes on his toy piano. They enrolled him in the Yamaha Music method at the age of three. After a year of that, he began formal piano lessons and learned the music theory basics. As time went on he became interested in synthesizers and electronic music, and began to build music devices and Heath kit kinds of projects. He got his first MOOG synthesizer in Jr High School and learned how to play and program it along with learning how to do recording and audio engineering with 2 reel to reel tape recorders. In the 80’s he had discovered Prog Rock and Metal music and took up the guitar, bass and drums so he could record his songs. Having a diverse and wide range of musical influences, from bands like Rush and Van Halen to DEVO as well as listening to Jazz and Fusion styles, it was a never-ending source of interest and inspiration. In the early 80’s he attended Howard Jones’ Humans Lib tour show, it really had an impact, for now music technology was becoming more sophisticated and Howard proved you could make albums and go on tour as a solo act. This led to the 80’s and 90’s where he played in many cover and tribute bands that help him with his songwriting and mastery of the instruments he played. He is also a Photojournalist, primarily Concerts and Celebrity events, where he got to interview and become friends with many major music artists, this provided him and environment to learn about and share ideas with other artists and further helped with songwriting and how to be a better performer.
Rod just recently co-wrote and won the Colorado Music Association’s song of the year for 2016 with. “I Lose My Breath”. Rod participates in many Meetup.com and music related groups and is always finding new projects and opportunities in the music world to embrace.
Contact Rod at: [email protected]

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