Continuum.Puncta

Friday, May 22
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

In a novel collaboration, artist and composer Ted Hayes will combine his languid "function drones" with sonic inventor Steve Litt's "CrudBox," a solenoid-driven percussive sequencer, to create a fully analog performance that juxtaposes fields of continuous tones—the continuum—with sequences of percussive beats—the "puncta."

Ted uses common laboratory equipment—the function generator—with processors from much different contexts, like guitar pedals, as a platform for composing epic, rumbling, aural landscapes. Conducted with the aid of artful and detailed graphic scores, he is interested in developing melodies that are just out of reach of ordinary timeframes, resulting in impressions and visions as opposed to discrete themes and leitmotifs.

Meanwhile, Steve Litt punctuates these fields and spaces with the amplified percussion generated by his CrudBox, a handmade hardware sequencer that strikes small samples of varying materials to produce a panoply of alien sounds.

Ted Hayes performing "You Were Alive": overview... and full recording.
Steve Litt performing with the CrudBox at Exit Art.