Telecorps

i am presenting a free jazz/free music/free sounds show at Bantha Tea Bar on Tuesday October 1st 2024 featuring the great BARK CULTURE trio from Philly: Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, John Moran on bass, and Joey Sullivan on drums. you might have heard John Moran and Joey Sullivan when they were here with the great NYC saxophonist Michael Foster.

here's a video of BARK CULTURE in action from 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVrOrTGXNo

the two opening acts will be:

ELSINORE featuring Richard McKita and associates

and the all world total universe debut of

BOYDOZER (me, Jim Lingo, and Greg Pierce)

Jim and i have been threatening to start a band called BOYDOZER for at least a decade. and so it shall be.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1972027129922442

Bark Culture - The Rotunda, Philadelphia 4/18/2023 Bark Culture is a trio based out of Philadelphia led by Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, with John Moran on bass and Joey Sullivan on drums.video: Richard...

Edgar Um Bucholtz recently found an audio cassette in the Telecorps archive containing a recording of three experimental "music" performances that took place at the Turmoil Room on the evening of Saturday February 4th 1995. after messaging some of the people involved with the performances on this evening, we have been able to piece together a recollection of what transpired.

side A of this cassette begins with a short set by Pittsburgh experimental duo LPN (Dave Shim & Edgar Um Bucholtz) performing with a stringed instrument trio called (for this performance) "ex-schick." this string trio consisted of Giulia Loli, Jen Saffron, and Jennifer Geller.

for this performance the string trio played on the first floor of the Turmoil Room and were heard acoustically in that gallery space by the people in that room. microphones or pick ups that were attached to these stringed instruments sent the sounds of these instruments via cables through a hole in the floor down into the basement/main performance space of the Turmoil Room and into a mixer where the sounds were processed using various FX and then amplified loudly by the sound system in that room. reverberations of these processed sounds could be heard upstairs in the first floor gallery during the performance.

on this recording you only hear the processed sounds of the string trio with LPN.

after a two minute break (during which you can hear the smalltalk of the audience in the basement) there is a 16 minute performance by LPN Unlimited Orchestra, a one-off expanded version of LPN that includes an as-yet-unidentified saxophone player.

players on this recording include:

Dave Shim - guitar, electronics
Edgar Um Bucholtz - electronics, cornet, voice
Giulia Loli - stringed instruments
Jen Saffron - violin
Jennifer Geller - violin
?????? - saxophone player

heard speaking in the audience between the two sets are Missy Galore, Gary Anderson, Alisa Dix, and as-yet-unidentified others.

digitization of side A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XB_loXe0kI

side B of this cassette contains a recording of a performance (on the same evening in the basement of the Turmoil Room) by Pittsburgh experimental trio, W+B HEIN. on this occasion they were billed as "W+B HEIN(d) Love Explosion" (or at least this is how they are billed on this cassette.) W+B HEIN was Greg Pierce, Michael Johnsen, and Eric Lipsky. for this performance, guest performers included Edgar Um Bucholtz and as-yet-unidentified others.

heard speaking on the recording are Michael Johnsen, Brian Dean Richmond, Missy Galore, Edgar Um Bucholtz, and others.

digitization of side B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZu1KwCtSBk

The "TURMOIL ROOM"

LPN + Ex-Schick & LPN Unlimited Orchestra live at the Turmoil Room February 4th 1995 this is a digitization of an audio cassette containing a recording of a performance by noise duo LPN (+ Ex-Schick) followed by a performance by noise ensembl...

video documentation of Telecorps' first outdoor gig using a gasoline-powered generator. it was a test for a Telecorps project that happened in November 1991 called Generatour2. this test performance is known as Generanotour1. it occurred on Sunday April 21st 1991. Telecorps was: Oliver Kollar (guitar), Andy Vogt (bass), Sam Ward (drums) and me (non-working computer and vox.) Missy Galore shot the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNC5-NPVQTo

Telecorps "1st Sortie" (April 21st 1991) this is Telecorps on its "1st Sortie." this occurred on Sunday April 21st 1991 on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University at 5182 Margaret Morrison Street i...