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Join us July 18 & 19th, 2024 for Firefly Music, in a livestream from the Fountain Creek Nature Center. Firefly Music utilizes code to turn Colorado’s elusive firefly flashes into sounds, which are paired with live musicians for Fountain Creek’s yearly firefly night hike. This year, we’re excited to be joined by the genius musician and philosopher Roger Green, formerly of The Czars and Porlolo, and currently a professor and author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens. We’re also excited that Victoria Lundy will be joining us again on theremin - Victoria has played with numerous bands since the 1990’s, and her ethereal sounds are the perfect compliment to the magic of the fireflies flashes.
Autumn Light at Lumonics with Victoria Lundy, Mark Mosher, and monoscene
09/11/2023
Autumn Light
Victoria Lundy • Mark Mosher • Monoscene
October 6, 2023, 8 pm
Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery 800 E 73rd Ave Unit 11, Denver, CO 80229
L'automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
― Albert Camus
Three artists conjure the vibrant colors, mellow refracted light, and entrancing blue skies of Autumn in a venue dedicated to sound, sight, and vision. Autumn Light is the first appearance at Lumonics by Victoria Lundy, Mark Mosher, and monoscene. Please join us for a sonic journey of light and sound.
monoscene is an experimental electronic music project by Christoph Scholtes. monoscene employs multiple artistic concepts and sound sources, including modular synthesis, tape loops, acoustic elements, vocals, and field recordings to push creative boundaries of the electronic music genre. Born and raised in Germany, Christoph lives in Colorado and actively participates in the local Colorado music community. His family and the mountains inspire him.
Mark Mosher plays, composes, and improvises original music from experimental cinematic soundscapes to techno using hardware and software synthesizers, samplers, and effects. For Autumn Light, Mark will perform with Percussa AudioCubes and Tenori-On. Mark is acknowledged as a leading practitioner of the Percussa AudioCubes, having developed 9 Box Method and Templates for them.
Victoria Lundy is a noted thereminist who has played in the Denver experimental/underground scene since the 90s. In addition, she performs classic musique concrète, often in collaboration with Mark Mosher and Thomas Lundy in the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble. Currently, she's concentrating on solo ambient work exploring the expressive qualities of the theremin.
Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery is an immersive light sculpture gallery featuring the work of light artists Dorothy and Mel Tanner. Lumonics is an artform that combines light, music, and sculptures to create immersive experiences and is a perfect venue for electronic music.
I will be playing Firefly Music, a collaboration between Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and Ben Coleman
06/30/2023
Firefly Music is a project that Lauri Lynnxe Murphy first started working on over 10 years ago in grad school at The Ohio State University, watching the fireflies come out and wishing that there was a way to share them with her friends in Colorado. Little did she know (as do most Coloradans) that we have fireflies HERE, and their numbers have been growing!
Friday and Saturday (July 7 & 8) please tune in for the world premier on livestream of Firefly Music, streaming from Fountain Creek Nature Center, where the firefly flashes will be transformed into sounds, and accompanied by live musicians. You can watch from the comfort of your home! Lauri is thankful to her collaborator, the incredible Ben Coleman, and excited to hear the collaborations with Victoria Lundy's theremin, and the incomparable Rare Byrd$ featuring Korryne Da'nell Coleman and Kheya Lenay Yeager. Firefly Music was supported by an Insite Fund grant, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, and the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Friday's Livestream featuring Victoria Lundy is here: bit.ly/FireflyMusic1
Saturday's Livestream featuring Rare Byrd$ is here: https://bit.ly/FireflyMusic2
Upcoming events!
04/13/2019
I'm doing a presentation about early electronic music, the theremin, Sam Hoffman and The Day the Earth Stood Still for a SF Film class at University of Denver this week. This is the first theremin-related activity I've done for quite a while. I also will have some shows and music coming up soon. Stay tuned!
Recap: Textures Ambient Showcase, 10/28/18
10/30/2018
The Textures show at Mutiny Information Cafe was great -- good sets and an amazing shadow puppet show by Herpes Hideaway
Herpes Hideaway Puppet show
And Haunted Sound Laboratory
Archives as Muse Exhibit -- theremin performance Oct 27
10/13/2017
What happens when archives and history inspire art? What does it look like? How does it sound, feel, or, even, taste? What is the process behind transforming archival materials into new creations?
Featuring new and inspired work from Colorado artists Esther Hernandez, Nathan Hall, Sarah Fukami, Elyssa Lewis, George Perez, Sarah Walsh, John Lake and Sarah Gjertson who all used archival materials as their muse.
Performances by Esther HZ and Elyssa Lewis at 7:00pm
& again at 8:00p on the 27th.
Archives as Muse After Party on the 26th.
Archives as Muse Exhibit Reception on the 27th.
Exhibit runs October 23rd-29th.
I will be accompanying Esther HZ's performance on theremin at the Oct. 27th reception -- 7pm and 8pm
1112 E 17th Ave, Denver, Colorado 80218
Theremin at 2017 Denver Modernism Show
08/14/2017
I will be doing a presentation/performance entitled "It Came From Outer Space: The Theremin" at 3 pm on Saturday August 26 at the 2017 Denver Modernism Show.
More about The Denver Modernism Show HERE.
THE FLUX CREW CONDUCTION ENSEMBLE : LIVE ON-LINE : 8/1/17
07/18/2017
TUESDAY AUGUST FIRST - 7:00 PM (Mountain Time) - AfterFM - Kabaret
Listen on-line to the live performance or check it after in the archives (KGNU)
THE ART OF CONDUCTION : BOOK RELEASE | Dino J.A. Deane
THE FLUX CREW
Dino J.A. Deane - conductor / live-sampling
Brian Mullins - tenor guitar
Bruce Orr - bassoon
Farrell Lowe - guitar / electronics
Gil Selinger - cello
Mark Harris - alto sax / flute
Markus Hunt - contrabass
Mathew Powelson - contrabass
Paul Mimlitsch - bass-clarinet
Phil Norman - cello
Todd Bilsborough - guitar / electronics
Victoria Lundy - theremin / electronics
Westword: Twelve of Colorado's Greatest Synthesizer Artists
05/09/2017
Colorado has a bevy of great synthesizer artists, and not all of them are producing electronic dance music. We searched far and wide to create a list of synth masters, with a particular focus on people working on the fringes of club culture and pioneering new ways of using their instruments to craft music. Here are twelve of our favorite Colorado synth wizards.
Vote for Me... Westword Music Showcase 2017
04/15/2017
Strangely enough, I've been nominated in the Avant-Garde category in the Westword Music Showcase. If you would like to vote in the poll, go here. Deadline for voting is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, June 25.
Synthesizer Sunday: a Union of Architecture and Sound
04/11/2017
Sunday, April 30 at 12 PM - 3 PM
Denver Performing Arts Complex
Speer Boulevard and Arapahoe St, Denver, Colorado 80204
This exhibition is a part of Building Behavior, the Doors Open Denver 2017 cultural platform. The series of 6 cultural events respond to the psychological and social underpinnings of Denver’s architecture. Like architecture, which starts from basic elements: glass, sand, and stone to create a building, synthesizers start from basic sine waves modulated to produce sound into music. Conceived by DOD Arts & Culture committee member and Public Art Administrator, Rudi Cerri, Syn Sunday is a synthesizer-based open-air concert in which five local musicians will respond to the Denver Performing Art Complex’s Galleria. Each musician will take their employing synthesizers as tools to interpret (or relate to) architectural elements, such as the barrel-vaulted glass roof of the Galleria or the tension between the parking structure and the Theaters.
~Cortney Lane Stell, curator
Program
Dane Terry 12:00 – 12:25 PM
Victoria Lundy 12:30 – 12:55 PM
Mark Mosher 1:00 – 1:25 PM
Chris Frain 1:30 – 1:55 PM
Kuxaan Sum 2:00 – 2: 25 PM
Doors Open Denver is an annual two-day event that provides opportunities for residents and visitors to explore our city, creating meaningful connections to the built environment. Each spring, the Denver Architectural Foundation inspires the community to connect through self-guided or expert-guided (fee-based) tours of our city’s unique spaces, including high-profile, historic, and/or artistic feats of architecture and design. Doors Open Denver tells the story of where Denver is, where it has been, and where it’s going.
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