Occasionally I will participate in the Disquiet Junto SoundCloud group where a set of instructions are provided every Thursday and each participant must produce a 2-5 minute track following those instructions by the following Monday. Below is a SoundCloud set with the tracks I’ve created for the Junto so far.
One of the routines when mail arrives is to check if something is for me, or my fellow travelers of the Weekly, and here’s one I have been thinking about of sending to Jliat. Especially the first two pieces are heavy blasts of noise/feedback/distortion. Usually I would have stopped playing this and put it in a mailer, but I know Soliday’s music a bit, and I was intrigued with the references made on the press text: Pierry Henry, Voice Crack, Jean Claude Eloy, Jerome Noetinger, John Wiese, Olivia Block and modular synthesizers. Perhaps only the latter in those first two tracks. When it comes to noise, Soliday is indeed very heavy, but luckily its not what he does exclusively. A piece like ‘An Obsession With Aerodynamics’ is more spacious modular synth based than pure noise induced. Soliday uses a variety of techniques when it comes to composing music: noise blasts, spacious modular synthesizers, extended sometimes, going almost beyond the threshold of hearing, but then it can cut straight into something very loud and obnoxious, and then it can cut straight out of that, in order to continue with something very soft, like a disparate piece of drone music. You may have guessed it, but this is indeed the kind of noise I like. It is loud, at times, but never too long and Soliday has put some thought in it as to what would work and what not. What doesn’t work is an endless stream of distorted sounds, me thinks. What works is the combination of cracked electronics, loud and soft put together to make a great composition – or nine. Perhaps an hour is a bit long for a release like this, but its a strong debut album anyway. Excellent.
Franz de Waard – Vital Weekly
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
Frank Rosaly
http://www.frankrosaly.com/
Cotton Museum
http://www.tastysoil.com/bands/bands.html
Peter J. Woods
http://experimentalmilwaukee.com/peterjwoods
J. Soliday
http://jsoliday.com
Doors at 9PM
$7
The Burlington
3425 W Fullerton Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
HEADBOGGLE
J. SOLIDAY
QUICKSAILS
BRETT NAUCKE (audio) & ANDY ORTMANN (Video)
Friday, November 9th, 2012
9 PM
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
3rd Floor
Chicago
Las Reglas de Ruina
three hour and thirty three minute Halloween mix… a lot of drone and texture, a bit of black metal, noise, and assorted other things layered and mixed for your listening pleasure
I’m performing two short pieces at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Chicago Dirty New Media Round Robin.
One piece is a trio collaboration with video artists Jon Satrom and Lisa Slodki, and the other is a duo of Lisa Slodki and I.
There will be a pre-event hangout from 4PM to 6PM, and the performances will run from 6PM until 8 PM.
Details:
CHICAGO DIRTY NEW MEDIA
[ROUND ROBIN]
with:
Monica Panzarino
Mogan Higby-Flowers
Square Square
Vaudeo Signal
William Robertson
Aaron Zarzutzki
_∆∆øÑσ.-~máh⌡!îx
Arcanebolt
Felker, Lori
Jason Soliday
jon.satrom
Lisa Slodki
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
at the MCA Garage
4PM [Hang Time]
6PM [Start Time]
September 26th – 28th, 2012
J. Soliday, modular synth, http://www.jsoliday.com
Jon Satrom, video, http://www.jonsatrom.com
September 26th: Milwaukee, WI at The Borg Ward with Beandip
Troubadours From The Future!! The Future!!, Vertonen, Lucky Bone
September 28th: Akron, OH at RCN Cave with Grief Hound, Bezoar,
Fascist Insect, Dolf Lundgren, and Mephitic Husk
September 29th: Detroit, MI at MUG with Cotton Museum and more TBA
MAGIC MISSILE
(first show in three years!}
http://cranksatori.net/magicmissile/
DOG LADY ISLAND
Dog Lady at Enemy 03-30-12 from Crank Satori on Vimeo.
HATE BASEMENT
Hate Basement at Enemy December 12th, 2011 from Crank Satori on Vimeo.
Sunday, September 23rd
9PM
at
THE BURLINGTON
3425 W Fullerton Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.theburlingtonbar.com
Friday, September 14th
KILT
- Bob Bellerue (redglaer, diablo, anarchymoon)
- Raven Chacon (christ with braces, mesa ritual, sicksicksick)
- Sandor Finta (democri$y, wounded head, harassor, bastardised records)
http://halfnormal.com/KILT.html
FOISY/JENDON
-dueling guitars from members of Kwaidan & Locrian
THE SUBTRACTION
-Soliday solo this time around, bass and oscillators
http://snd.sc/gKK0ua
http://snd.sc/Q53lXG
THE GREEN PASTURE HAPPINESS
-Fandino/Labycz/Zarzutzki – modular synths
https://vimeo.com/5807332
9 PM
at
YOUR UNPLEASANT FRIEND
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622