Notice Recordings Presents: Eternities / Spreaders / Marie Carroll + Zoots Houston / Ugly Bike + Midnight Dental

Notice Recordings Presents:

Eternities (Bob Bellerue/Katie Porter)

Eternities is a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter (Utah) and sound artist Bob Bellerue (NYC).  Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. 

Katie Porter is a clarinetist and curator specializing in experimental music. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music.  Devoted to collaboration, Katie's current projects include, Red Desert Ensemble with percussionist/composer Devin Maxwell, Quartet or Two Duos with James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, and Teerapat Parnmonkol in NYC, Phase to Phase a bass clarinet duo with Lucio Capece in Berlin, Malosma a bass clarinet and bass flute duo with Christine Tavolacci in LA, and Eternities with the noise artist Bob Bellerue in NYC.  She has premiered works by Sarah Hennies, Teodora Stepančić, Andre Cormier, Daniel Goode, John Luther Adams, Yvette Janine Jackson, Manuela Meier, Michael Pisaro, Jurg Frey, Laura Cetilia, Brian Harnetty, Phill Niblock, Carolyn Chen, Patricia Alessandrini, Nomi Epstein, Quentin Tolimieri and Christian Wolff, among many others. 

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 30+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – noise, sound art, experimental music, junk metal percussion, Balinese gamelan, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. Bob’s sound work is focused on multidimensional feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, recordings, and spaces, in combination with electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language. Bob's work has been presented by The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, Roulette Intermedium, MOMA/PS1, Pioneer Works, Experimental Intermedia, Cafe Oto, Fylkingen, EMS, High Zero Festival, the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, LUFF Festival, Akouphene Festival, Sonic Circuits Festival, CEAIT Festival, Cave12, Diapason Sound Gallery, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Oberlin College, the Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, NYU, UCSD, and UCLA.

Scraping droning squeaking noise from Ulster County NY. Singled tape and wet electronic source since 2008.

Marie Carroll is a composer-improvisor, electroacoustic musician, cellist, and koto player based in Providence RI.

Zoots Houston is an improviser of various sorts. He works primarily with misuse and perversion of objects and systems. Virtuosity, volatility, futility, and capability are thought of. Zoots currently lives, works, and plays in Kingston, NY.

Ugly Bike started in 2009, while living at The Silent Barn in Ridgewood, Queens. Inspired by G. Lucas Crane (woods, nonhorse). Ugly Bike has since taken on multiple forms and arrangements. Currently in Kingston, NY - also in the group Uppers, and booking shows w/ Attention Everybody.

Midnight Dental glitch tape synth noise based in Kingston, NY.