Thomas Dimuzio (electronics from SF), Freida Abtan, Amby Doosters, Rowan Sullivan at Bantha Tea Bar

Name: Thomas Dimuzio (electronics from SF), Freida Abtan, Amby Doosters, Rowan Sullivan at Bantha Tea Bar
Start: 2025-03-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Bantha Tea Bar

Schedule

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bantha Tea Bar | Pittsburgh, PA

Sat Mar 1 7:30 pm all ages $15 at the door (cash or Paypal)
Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Avenue drinks & light fare available
electronic music legend from San Francisco playing the Buchla
THOMAS DIMUZIO
http://thomasdimuzio.com/
https://thomasdimuzio.bandcamp.com/
with special guests
Freida Abtan
https://freidaabtan.bandcamp.com/
Amby Doosters
https://ambydoosters.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/ambydoosters
and Rowan Sullivan (CMU Music Dept)
THOMAS DIMUZIO
San Francisco-based Thomas Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his visibility. Composer, collaborator, experimental electronic musician, multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, sound
designer and mastering engineer - Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 80s but is still only known to a small circle of electronic music enthusiasts. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything, the BBC has described his work as “brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.”
His music has been released internationally on labels including RéR Megacorp, RRRecords, Asphodel, No Fun Productions, Seeland, Isounderscore, Record Label Records, Yew Recordings, Resipiscent, Odd Size Records, Sonoris, Melon Expander, and on his own label Gench.
Dimuzio’s studio-based releases include his critically acclaimed (All Music Guide Pick) debut LP HEADLOCK and double CD masterwork Sonicism. 2014's Amid Zero Echo "swells up and into four sides of the most immensely practiced drones imaginable" (freq.uk.org) and potent early cassette works detailed on Louden.
Slew and Slew Tew are his compilations of compilation tracks. "This retrospective collection by an important electroacoustic pioneer contains some of his most important work.”
(Computer Music Journal)
His live releases Sutro Transmissions, Mono::Poly, Markoff Process
and Gench Concert Archives aren't just documents of countless solo concerts, but a window into how an artist took the tools of the studio to the stage, turning them into playable instruments.
Fueled by a synergy of musician and machine, Dimuzio’s pioneering and innovative use of live sampling and looping becomes evident across his many live recordings. Blurring
sampling, synthesis and processing, Dimuzio intercepts signal feeds from his collaborators along with wild sources of feedback, modular systems, field recordings, ambient microphones, and more as they are integrated as sound sources within Dimuzio’s live instrument.
Dimuzio’s propensity with the Buchla Electric Music Box and
modular synthesis has pushed his music into new realms as can be heard on his live recent recordings Balance, Sutro Transmissions, LCM, Radiesthesia and in his ever-evolving
Sculpting Electric series.
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As a collaborator, Dimuzio has worked with numerous artists and ensembles such as Dimmer (with Joseph Hammer of LAFMS), Chris Cutler (Henry Cow), Fred Frith, Dan Burke/Illusion of Safety, Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve), Negativland, David Lee Myers (Arcane Device), Matmos, Wobbly, Marcia Bassett, Due Process, 5uu's, Climate Music Project, Tom Cora, Alan Courtis (Reynolds),
ISIS, Mickey Hart, clipping., and Paul Haslinger among many others.
Dimuzio has toured North America and Europe featuring performances at New Music Actuelle Montréal, Festival International de Music Actuelle de Victoriaville, Ultraschall,
Knitting Factory, Tonic, Roulette, The Great American Music Hall, Issue Project Room, The Walker Center for the Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, NorCal NoiseFest, Spring Reverb Festival, Podewil, Kyma International
Sound Symposium, High Zero Festival, Ende Tymes Festival of Liberation and Noise, The Garden of Memory, Outsound New Music Summit, Schindler House, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eventworks, Obscure, The Western Front, Big Sur Experimental
Music Festival, Activating the Medium, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Exploratorium, and Whitney Museum of American Art.��
As a mastering engineer, Dimuzio has worked with independent artists and labels through his own Gench Studios since the early
90s. Included among his numerous clients are Waxwork Records, Matmos, Negativland, Firesign Theatre, ISIS, AMM,
clipping., Jonathan Snipes, Doctor Nerve, Psychic TV3, Xiu Xiu, Devin Hoff, GG Allin, KK Null, Joey P, Fred Frith, Nels Cline, Yuka Honda, Wil Blades, Scott Amendola, and many others. More than one thousand records have been mastered by Dimuzio.
In his work as a sound designer, Dimuzio ha s worked with a number of synthesizer and effects processor manufacturers such as Kurzweil, Lexicon, and OSC to create custom presets and sample libraries, and he has collaborated with Fred Frith and Tom Cora, and the Rova Saxophone Quartet to create sound libraries for Rarefaction and Big Fish Audio. Dimuzio has also plays a key role in the development of Avid’s industry-standard Pro Tools recording and mixing environments.��
Dimuzio produced and hosted 42 episodes of Frequency Modulation Radio, a monthly radio program on KPFA-FM Berkeley which showcased live performances and collaborations of fringe musicians and improvisors from the Bay Area and beyond.
In recent years, Dimuzio has delved deep into working with
the Buchla modular music systems and has bee n presenting immersive spatialized concerts at venues such as The Kanbar Forum at The Exploratorium, Gray Area Center for the Arts, Recombinant Media Labs Don Buchla Memorial Concert, and CCRMA at Stanford.
As the conductor of an electronic symphonic vessel, his new series
Sculpting Electric feeds from electricity as machines take on lifeforms through complex patching of interconnecting systems.
Forthcoming releases include Ready Box, a duo recording with Phillip Greenlief; Cracking The Surface, and an ensembl e with Tom Nunn, David Michalak and Scott Looney,