I’ll be in residence in Mexico City from June 6th – July 4th working on a play and a concert planned for August at The Walter’s Art Gallery in Baltimore.

In addition a few nice shows and events here in town, and a few more to be announced..

Saturday, June 11th, 2016, 8pm 
Umbral
Alvaro Obregon 240, Roma

Saturday, June 18th, 12 – 4pm
TECHNE Contact Microphone Workshop with so (r) idad
Workshop details – https://www.facebook.com/events/507445036119760/

Saturday, June 18th, 8pm 
VOLTA
Solo electronic music concert
Espectro Electromagnetico, García Icazbalceta 31

Thursday, June 23
7pm  Primer Depósito, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guanajuato
10pm Bar Antigua

Friday June 24th
8pm Lechón Ilustrado, Guanajuato

https://www.facebook.com/events/1759823364255440/

Sunday, July 3rd
7:15pm
Revillagegido 96 / $40

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Teoqualo
Los Adioses

June 2nd, 2016
Vox Populi 
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319 NORTH 11TH STREET, 3RD FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107
Doors 8:00pm | $7 – $10

Vox Populi presents a night of 16mm film and electronic music with NYC-based filmmaker Fern Silva and Baltimore-based electronic musician Bonnie Jones.

The 16mm program will feature recent films by Silva presented by the artist himself. Jones will perform a solo work for electronics, sine tones, and samples.

About the Artists: Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) uses moving image to produce a sonic and cinematographic language for the hybrid mythologies of globalism. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of film, video, and projection work that has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including the Media City, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, London, Edinburgh, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals, Anthology Film Archive, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cinemateca Boliviana, Museum of Art Lima, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art P.S.1, and Cinema du Reel at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has curated film screenings at venues including the Nightingale Cinema, Gallery 400, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He was listed as one of the Top 25 Filmmakers for the 21st Century in Film Comment Magazine’s Avant-Garde Filmmakers Poll, is the recipient of the Gus Van Sant Award from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival as well as grand prizes from the 2015 Curtas Belo Horizonte and 25FPS Film Festivals. He studied art and cinema at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College. He teaches moving image at Bennington College and is based in Brooklyn, NY. http://www.fernsilva.com/

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. http://www.bonniejones.wordpress.com/

May 12th, 2016
Black Iris Gallery
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321 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220-4218, United States
Doors 7:30pm | $5 – $10

Black Iris presents a night of 16mm film and electronic music with NYC-based filmmaker Fern Silva and Baltimore-based electronic musician Bonnie Jones on May 11th in the gallery.

About the Artists: Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) uses moving image to produce a sonic and cinematographic language for the hybrid mythologies of globalism. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of film, video, and projection work that has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including the Media City, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, London, Edinburgh, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals, Anthology Film Archive, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cinemateca Boliviana, Museum of Art Lima, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art P.S.1, and Cinema du Reel at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has curated film screenings at venues including the Nightingale Cinema, Gallery 400, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He was listed as one of the Top 25 Filmmakers for the 21st Century in Film Comment Magazine’s Avant-Garde Filmmakers Poll, is the recipient of the Gus Van Sant Award from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival as well as grand prizes from the 2015 Curtas Belo Horizonte and 25FPS Film Festivals. He studied art and cinema at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College. He teaches moving image at Bennington College and is based in Brooklyn, NY. http://www.fernsilva.com/

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. http://www.bonniejones.wordpress.com/

May 6th, 2016, 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Fuse Factory
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13 E Tulane Rd – Columbus, OH|
Admission: $10, $15 for 2. Doors open 8pm. BYOB, all ages

I’ll be presenting a solo for May 2016 Frequency Fridays at Fuse Factory in Columbus Ohio.
http://thefusefactory.org/events/may-2016-frequency-fridays/

Also on the bill – Lisa Miralia (OH) + Tim Barnes (KY) + Circuitry Room (OH)

Our May 2016 Frequency Fridays show features improvisational musician Bonnie Jones (MD), experimental electronic musician Lisa Miralia (OH), experimental percussionist Tim Brnes (CMH), and experimental electronic music trio Circuitry Room (OH), whose performance will be accompanied by video works by Columbus filmmakers Matt and Nicolette Swift. Our Frequency Fridays 2015-2016 season is supported by a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

About the performers:

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea, she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read,” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Jones has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Lisa Miralia has been a promoter and performer in the NE Ohio freeform and experimental sound communities since 2003. She composes for and performs in a number of projects both solo (as Baat) and in collaboration with others involving electro-acoustic improv, experimental electronics, noise, drone, and dark ambient sound, and has released several recordings and contributed to multiple collaboration and compilation releases. She will celebrate her 9th anniversary of hosting the Mysterious Black Box radio show on WCSB 89.3fm this year, and was featured in the City/Ruins documentary about the NE Ohio noise and industrial music scenes. Lisa lives in Lakewood, and is grateful for open-minded neighbors who don’t mind the strange musical and anti-musical sounds emanating from her abode.

Tim Barnes is an internationally-known percussionist, electronic musician, and recording producer/engineer who has played and recorded with Sonic Youth, Wilco, Body/Head, Jim O’Rourke, Silver Jews, Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex, The Tower Recordings, The For Carnation, and MV+EE, as well as being featured in countless multiple other settings, from jazz-influenced free-improvisation to full-on rock n’ roll. He is the Artistic Director of Dreamland, and also runs the newly-revived Quakebasket record label (best known for its mid-1990s archival releases of solo work by Angus MacLise, poet and original drummer for the Velvet Underground). A California native, Tim moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2007 from his longtime musical base, New York City.

Circuitry Room is a think tank for audio exploration. The founding members are Andrew Izold, Jeff Chenault and Dan Rockwell. They have been playing together on and off since 1989. Their combination of old-school electronics and high tech digital applications culminate into a wall of sound that is beyond categorization. Based in Ohio, Circuitry Room seek out new forms of expression while maintaining a dark mischievous edge. Their sound is constantly changing and evolving while their “live” sonic improvisations provide a unique and challenging listening experience.

About artists Matt and Nicolette Swift:

Matt Swift is an all-around visual artist living in Columbus, Ohio. His work is not limited to any one medium or mode including photography, painting, video, digital compositions, mixed media and anything else that may be a source of inspiration. With an education in Art History, Film and Media Studies, and Library Science, the majority of his work stems from a deep connection to the historical avant-garde and experimental movements of all art forms. Juxtaposition of styles to find new abstract connections is where most of his work begins. Every piece is scientifically and creatively an experiment with a hypothesis that is tested and either is proven or disproven. What engagement occurs when you mix meditation and action painting to create a wall scroll combining the styles of Jackson Pollock and Zen Buddhist painters? What about the combination of purist structuralist cinematic techniques with the motivations of Norman McLaren’s frame by frame hand etched animations inspired by music? The end result encompasses a documentation of the experiment fit for a postmodern world, updating and educating about the styles of old through the lens of the plethora of information that is at the fingertips of our ever shrinking but also expanding digital world.

Since high school, Columbus video artist Nicolette Swift has been capturing life and creating videos. In 2005 she graduated from The Ohio State University with a double major in Art History and Film and Media Studies. While in her undergrad she discovered a love for working with archival materials. She obtained a Master’s of Library and Information Science with a focus in multi-media access from Kent State University in 2007. Since then she has worked with many individuals as well as The Ohio State University and The West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church to create promotional and educational videos and materials. With the help of her husband and the support of OSU’s Film Studies Program she co-founded The Columbus Moving Image Art Review, which has been holding quarterly hour-long screenings for a year. Currently, her personal projects include avant garde video essays that incorporate found, archival, and cultural materials and turns them into a new video.

 

Tuesday, May 3, 20168:30pm / FREE / public
Cafe Vivian (100 Level Frist Campus Center, Department of Music at Princeton University)

Jessica Meyer (8:30pm)
New York
viola, live looping

RighteousGIRLS (9:30pm)
New York
flute, piano, guitar pedals

Arena Ladridos (10:30pm)
Philadelphia / Baltimore / Austin
sax, electronics, percussion

Arena Ladridos (roughly, “Barking Sand”) is Chris Cogburn (percussion), Bonnie Jones (electronics) and Bhob Rainey (soprano sax). Their eponymous 2010 debut captures the intensity, intimacy, and adventurousness of these strong-minded musicians as they methodically bleed this music into existence.
“Arena Ladridos is an aesthetic delight, an album that invites both overwrought analysis… and passive splendor — which I recommend you experience.” – Matthew Horne, Tiny Mix Tapes
“A sand rose whose heart beats and breathes.” – Héctor Cabrero, Le Son Du Arisli
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As RighteousGIRLS, flutist Gina Izzo and pianist Erika Dohi “rattle speakers and expectations with stop-time razzle, vocal (flute-talk) and electronic (phaser) effects” (NYC Jazz Record) while continually expanding their creative reach by bringing 21st century music to new audiences and commissioning works that root themselves in classical idioms but draw from other genres.
RighteousGIRLS have received awards including a 2015 New Music USA Awards Grant, 3rd place in the 2015 International Songwriting Competition for GIRLS by composer/producer Pascal Le Boeuf, and a 2014 Independent Music Awards Nomination for gathering blue (Best Album) and KARakurENAI (Best Instrumental) by composer/steel-pannist Andy Akiho.
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With playing that is “fierce and lyrical” and music that is “other-worldly” (The Strad), Jessica Meyer proves to be a daring, sophisticated composer and virtuosic soloist in her solo show “Sounds of Being. Inspired by everything from Bach, Brahms, and Blues to Flamenco, Indian Raga, and Appalachian fiddling, Jessica uses a loop pedal to transform her voice and viola into an entire orchestra of emotion to embody a different state of being for each piece: joy, anxiety, anger, bliss, torment, loneliness, and passion.

Hear ye! MATMOS the Peabody & Sherman of musique concrète are joined by BONNIE JONES priestess of the high lonesome tones for a concert of modern electronic music. This is the release party celebrating the arrival of the new Matmos album “Ultimate Care II” on Thrill Jockey Records.

https://www.facebook.com/events/962097347193388/

TECHNE – Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe, presented a paper on their workshops and programs at the ICIT SYMPOSIUM 2016, New Expressions: Women in Music Technology, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine.

Performances featuring Todd Lerew and Bonnie Jones!

at The Red Room
425 E. 31st St
Baltimore, MD 21218
doors at 8:30
show at 9:00
$5-10

Todd Lerew is a Los Angeles-based artist and composer working with invented acoustic instruments, repurposed found objects, and unique preparations of traditional instruments. Much of his work deals with the physical properties of sound and the nature of perception, exploring the use of sound as a plastic medium, and revisiting relationships within a performance environment. Other works examine the effect of isolated elements of indeterminism within mostly-closed systems, and the generation of musical material by deviation from an impossible given task.

Lerew is the inventor of the Quartz Cantabile, which utilizes a principle of thermoacoustics to convert heat into sound, and has presented the instrument at Stanford’s CCRMA, Georgia Tech, the American Musical Instrument Society annual conference, and Machine Project in Los Angeles. He is the founder and curator of Telephone Music, a collaborative music and memory project based on the children’s game of Telephone, the last round of which was released as an exclusive download to subscribers of music magazine The Wire. He has received commissions from So Percussion (New York) and the Now Hear Ensemble (Santa Barbara), in addition to performances by members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), and the Canticum Ostrava choir (Czech Republic).
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

The Late Night Theatre series at Psychic Readings (Baltimore) begins this week with a double bill

Strange Fire
written & directed by Ric Royer, sound by G Lucas Crane
lights by David Crandall, projections by Meredith Moore
safety disclaimer by Cricket Arrison

The Smallest Something Not Quite Nothing
written by Thalia Field, directed by Bonnie Jones
lights by David Crandall

At PSYCHIC READINGS, 219 Park Ave, Baltimore
Wed & Thu, Jan 6 & 7 @ 9pm (doors at 8:15)
$10 (or $8 if you drink a prepared elixer at box office)

ABOUT THE PLAYS:

Strange Fire is a re-enactment of the infamous West Virginia Blessing sermon delivered by charismatic Christian preacher, Rodney Howard-Browne. In 1993, Brown whipped thousands of people who were in attendance into a frenzy through a sermon that consisted mostly of laughter and glossolalia. In Strange Fire, Royer extracts the large sections of the sermon that were delivered in tongues and re-contextualizes the “sacred text” in a hypnotizing, multi-sensory environment where the specific religious apparatus is removed, but the performative aspects of ritual and ecstatic trance are maintained.

The Smallest Something Not Quite Nothing was written by poet, playwright Thalia Field. First published in “PLAY A Journal of Plays” in 2009, this will be the world premier staging of the piece. The play is about how amazingly sad, sexy, and creepy it is to be watched and watching each other all the time in a highly surveilled human society (condition). People watching each other, objects watching each other, all of us and all of our objects trying to touch each other – check each other out, define each other’s shapes.
Two characters, Superstar and Radar, encounter each other and this world amidst war, pop music, celebrity culture and constant bombardment by waves and waves of invisible frequencies.