Ergo
+
Battery

Thursday, September 24th
Admission: $7, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

Ergo will perform music from their new CD, "multitude, solitude", in celebration of it's release on the stalwart avant-prog label Cuneiform Records. With "multitude, solitude", Ergo has further refined their music of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. In the CD's liner notes media theorist Barry Vacker writes, "Multitude, solitude conveys a future of laconic existentialism, a world where the multitude may be mostly lost, but solitude and individuality can still be found in the voids of the universe, the gaps in the information, the nothingness between the notes."

In attempts to describe their sound critics have compared them to artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Autechre, Sun Ra, Sigur Ros and King Crimson. Ergo is comprised of Brett Sroka on trombone/computer, Carl Maguire on keyboards, Shawn Baltazor on drums, and will be accompanied tonight with interactive video by mulitmedia artist Bryan Teoh.

Preceding Ergo is Battery, the duo of Bryan Teoh (Always Tokyo) on Cello and Electronics and Erik Schoster (He Can Jog) on Lapsteel and Electronics. Eschewing laptops after about a decade of work with digital sound, Battery is in part an attempt to translate a sound world inspired by work in the digital domain to a more physical acoustic setting. An ad hoc assembly of raw cello and bubbling cassette loops meet lapsteel overtones and spidery networks of patch cables, creating ebbs that are at once powerful and brittle.

For more information:
http://www.ergoisaband.com
http://www.myspace.com/ergo
http://www.bryanteoh.com
http://www.hecanjog.com