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Since 2008, Full Spectrum Records has published the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames, and unique compositional approaches. Stratum – the first truly dedicated showcase of Full Spectrum’s label roster – will highlight a cross-section of voices from their broader community, including performances by Shanna Sordahl, Illusion of Safety, and Lucy Liyou in collaboration with C Sorensen; as well as the live debut of the so-called ‘Full Spectrum House Band,’ Tender Crust (ft. Gretchen Korsmo, Rebecca Hubsher, Carl Ritger, and Andrew Weathers).
Illusion of Safety
IOS presents FLOAT: An appreciation of WATER in all its forms: liquid, vapor, solid. An homage to the magic stuff that makes us and makes our imperiled garden planet. Pure form sounds: water only as source material transformed via sampling, granular synthesis, and processing, eventually becoming less pure with additional sound sources. A program that seeks a sense of transcendence through immersion in the material nature of our being. A synced video and audio multichannel presentation in collaboration with Berkeley experimental film maker & projectionist Laura Varga, providing additional liquid visual delights.
Since 1983, on the labels Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, Korm, Drone, no part of it, and Waystyx Daniel Burke and his conspirators under the Illusion Of Safety banner have traversed over the course of 40+ full length releases almost every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, each unique approach bending and reconstituting the expectations and possibilities of each realm. Plowing through layered field recordings, deeply rumbling tones, and eerie electroacoustic sounds with seamless transitions between cut-and-paste collages and manufactured drones, it’s easy to get lost in the deep passages. It’s a surreal trip mixing outsourced sounds from all over the world and encompassing everything: abstract analogue synthesizer explorations, chaotic digital noise and voltage fluctuations, generating excitement in the bowels of analog equipment, raucous guitar improvisation, rattle and chilling moan of iron sheets, the creaking floorboards, resonances, fluctuations, scraps of samples is in perpetual motion background- Driven with all this by some miracle , the author creates a monumental music, nervous, anxiety-soaked, but at the same time, disturbing & attention-grabbing, creating a powerful hypnotic effect. Performing over 300 live concerts throughout Europe and the states included No Fun 2008, the Wroclaw Industrial Music Festival 2009, Sonic Circuits in 2010, and In collaboration with Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Outside of IOS Burke has collaborated with Jim O’Rourke, Jon Mueller, Randy Greif, Darin Gray, Z’EV, Cheer-Accident, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Bill Horist, and others.
Lucy Liyou & C Sorensen
Lucy Liyou and C Sorensen will perform versions of two tracks they wrote and released together in 2021 along with improvised sections throughout.
C Sorensen (b.1994) is a composer, improviser and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR. C's practice revolves around queerness, activism, anxiety, spontaneity and collectivism. They host a free form collaborative project called "Music is 4 People". C has released solo music with Full Spectrum Records, Mappa Editions and a slew of private press releases under different monikers from the last decade.
Shanna Sordahl
The pieces presented this evening have come from a time of contemplating and developing a practice around the complex workings of the body’s nervous system. Not wanting to see their own highly sensitive nervous system as fundamentally flawed, a sentiment that has often been reinforced, Shanna uses sonic elements as an experiential framework to explore how our nervous system is actually a fine tool that connects us to the world around us. Utilizing a mixture of electronic instruments and amplified cello, Shanna leans into sometimes uncomfortable compositional and performance techniques that emphasize minute sonic details and repetition with variation. With the cello, they employ carefully crafted extended techniques to draw out complex timbres and subtle frequency interactions.
Shanna Sordahl is a sound artist and composer based in the Bay Area. With analog and digital electronics, amplified cello, and multimedia installation as their primary mediums, Shanna uses sound to create spaces that illustrate possibilities of transformation while questioning ingrained patterns of perception. They often subvert traditional approaches to music, utilizing extended and noise-based playing techniques while drawing from studies of diverse musical traditions, empathy building practices, interactions with physical landscapes, and field recordings. With an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, Shanna has worked with a variety of choreographers, composers, and artists including Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations, Wax Poet(s), Trimpin, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Sarah Davachi, and Indira Allegra. They also have a body of solo work and perform in the duo SO AR. www.shannasordahl.net
Tender Crust
Tender Crust is a quartet made up of Gretchen Korsmo, Rebecca Hubsher, Carl Ritger, and Andrew Weathers. In effect the Full Spectrum house band, the group has released two albums on FS, the label operated by Korsmo, Ritger, and Weathers. Their work engages with memory and resonance in improvised and composed contexts.