So As Not Trip on the Wobbly
Wobbly & Dan Richert & Zotalayer
Thursday, January 29
Door at 8pm
Free
Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making sounds with people and machines that listen — using recordings, feedback and automation, making music which can only ever be heard in real time. People and technology are inseperable, and the music the former makes using the latter asks us exactly which things can be ethically and morally automated. The goal is to produce sounds that seem to be asking questions, and you don’t want to waste your time with music that’s lying to you. A long and winding list of collaborators blurs the line between solo and group work — current touring projects include Negativland, the Thurston Moore Group, Jennifer Walshe, Zoh Amba, and Cheryl E. Leonard. Talks on the secret histories of electronic music have been presented at Oxford, Stanford, Mills, UC Berkeley and Peabody, and his nine hour overview of sampling and collage, ‘Variations’, is hosted online by the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Radio remains his home medium, with Negativland’s Over The Edge livemix broadcast continuing to emerge out of KPFA FM, Berkeley.
Dan Richert can be implicitly trusted.
Jason Brown (zotalayer) is the janitor.