Events . Richard Pinhas [of Heldon: France] live with Wume [Baltimore]

Richard Pinhas [of Heldon: France] live with Wume [Baltimore]

Wednesday October 5th 2016

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RICHARD PINHAS [of legendary French progressive rock and electronics ensemble HELDON; plus other ensembles including Video Liszt, Schizo, Schizotrope, et. al.; Cuneiform Records/Bam Balam Records: FRANCE]

http://www.richard-pinhas.com/
http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/pinhas.html

in concert with

WUME [Ehse Records: Baltimore, MD]

http://wume.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/wume

plus an opening performance by
RED EFT TRIO [ Madeleine Campbell - cello, Jim Lingo - synth+tapes and Emily Hawkins - percussion: Pittsburgh, PA]

doors at 9pm
live music by 10pm
over by 1am

$10

ages 21+

brillobox
4104 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA
U.S.A.


RICHARD PINHAS

Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. The pioneering, aggressive music produced by his band Heldon during the 1970s, fusing electronics, guitar and rock, heralded the industrial and techno to come and remains today vital and unsurpassed. The 'Father' of electronic music in France is also recognized as a world-class guitarist whose "diabolical guitar work" (Progression) earns comparisons with Robert Fripp.

Pinhas received a degree in guitar at 17, and a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne, studying under philosopher Gilles Deleuze and writing on time and science fiction. He taught philosophy before abandoning an academic career for Heldon, his 3rd band, whose name derived from Normal Spinrad's writing. Over the course of his subsequent musical career, Pinhas' ongoing philosophical studies and interest in science fiction have fired, infused, and continually renewed his music.

Heldon released 7 groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums between 1974-78. Simultaneous with his Heldon work, Pinhas released 5 solo albums between 1976 and 1982. All of the Heldon and Pinhas recordings from this period have been reissued by Cuneiform, in a major Heldon/Pinhas CD reissue project that the US label began in 1991. Critics have lauded these 20-year old recordings, remarking that Heldon's "trailblazing electronic pathways have rarely been eclipsed even today" (i/e).

Pinhas returned to music with a vengeance in the 1990s after spending much of the 1980s away. Beginning with DWW (1992) on Cuneiform, his numerous 90s releases included projects with Peter Frohmader (Fossil Culture Cuneiform 1999), John Livengood, Scanner, Pascal Comelade, and others, as well as solo works. He also resumed performing.

During the '90s, Pinhas began developing a system of electronic processing to use in performing live solo guitar concerts. Experimenting with tape loops and infinite delays, he expanded, transformed and even transcended the "Frippertronics" technique Fripp used in his work with Eno, and "developed a set of personal parameters that stand on their own legs, his looping strata giving birth to interlocking patterns, chordal waves and even harmonic movements..." [Touching Extremes].

Pinhas also began experimenting in the late 90s with projects using spoken word, first used in his work with Heldon. Spoken by prominent 20th C. visionaries and futurists, including the philosopher Deleuze, science fiction writers Spinrad and Philip K. Dick, and French novelists Maurice Dantec and Chloe Delaume, the words - either taped or live/ real time, in English or French - add another layer of sound, texture and conceptual meaning to Pinhas' rich soundfields.

In 1998, Pinhas formed an on-going project, Schizotrope, with noted cyber-punk author Maurice Dantec that fused guitar, electronics and spoken word from texts by Dantec and Deleuze. Spinrad also played a role. Schizotrope toured and released three CDs, including a live recording on Cuneiform, The Life and Death of Marie Zorn, (2000) which Carbon 14 called: "A totally unique and personal approach to "electronica;"... a veritable deluge of sounds... triumphant music."

In 1999, Pinhas released his first solo CD based solely on guitar and processing systems, De L'Un Et Du Multiple (Spalax). In 2002, Cuneiform released his 2nd, Event and Repetition to widespread acclaim. Critics praised it as one of Pinhas' very best works, a sophisticated and mature manifestation of his experiments with electronically processed guitar and unique interpretation of Frippertronics. In the words of Touching Extremes, "Absolutely deep and rich, this record is a diamond." The BBC described it as "Music that is in flux and stasis at the same time, with an almost sculptural presence, stuffed with overtones and rich textures." The All Music Guide, however, summarized Event and Repetition the best: "...a sporadic but constant thread in Pinhas' music has been his experimentation with guitar feedback, loops and effects boxes, even in the early days of Heldon...Event and Repetitions may well signal the full realization of Pinhas' long-time vision. The drifting, hypnotic patterns of the five pieces on this CD... have a shimmering beauty and depth that seems to suggest a destination at the end of a long journey - and perhaps the beginning of a new journey." - Bill Tilland, All Music Guide

www.richard-pinhas.com


WUME

Wume is April Camlin and Albert Schatz. They live and work in the fair land of Baltimore, Maryland after spending their formative years in Chicago. Their music explores polyrhythmic structures through the lens of kosmische and is in a constant state of evolution and self-reflection. Albert and April began the collaboration as a development of April’s drumming and Albert’s interest in keyboards and synthesis. It became an exercise in pushing their abilities and conjuring vibes. "[Wume] make the complex, the layered, the expansive, the sunnily songlike out of two instruments, on and off, zero and one. That deft synthesis is what makes Wume stand out from the crowd of motorik-driven synth fans these days" (Baltimore City Paper)

www.wumemusic.com


2016 Richard Pinhas + Wume Tour Dates:

Oct 3: New York, NY: Ambient Church ***
Oct 4: New York NY: Trans Pecos
Oct 5: Pittsburgh PA: Brillobox
Oct 7: Detroit MI: Marble Bar
Oct 8: Chicago IL: Elastic Arts
Oct 10: Nashville TN: American Legion
Oct 12: Chapel Hill NC: Night Light
Oct 13: Richmond VA:Strange Matter
Oct 14: Baltimore MD: Metro Gallery
Oct 15: Washington DC: Comet Ping Pong
Oct 20: New Orleans LA: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center ***
Oct 21: Houston, TX: Pews ***
Oct 22: Austin, TX: Farewell Books ***
*** Richard Pinhas Solo

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Tags: Electronic Experimental Noise Post-rock