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Tough Day Tubing, Anastasia Clarke + Logan Visscher

Apr 11, 2014 - Apr 12, 2014
The Spotty Dog Books & Ale

440 Warren St. | Hudson, NY 12534 | 518-671-6006
http://www.thespottydog.com/

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Tough Day Tubing (Al Margolis + Crank Sturgeon + Walter Wright + Steve Norton) and Logan Visscher (World Lines) and Anastasia Clarke (Silent Isle) perform an improvised set. Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be rebroadcast on Wave Farm Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 12:30 p.m. (the day after the show), Sat., April 12, 2014.

Since the Eighties, Al Margolis has earned himself an international reputation as a vanguard for experimental music, running the indie cassette label Sound of Pig Music. Among the label’s diverse and thrilling offerings, you will find numerous releases by Margolis (under the identity: If, Bwana), wherein he explores a plethora of sonic experiments, transforming conventional sounds into uncanny otherness, and even finding ways to distort unconventional distortions. His music has succeeded in fusing ambience with industrial and musique concrete, producing strange soundscapes that are both soothing and unnerving, often at the same time. In the Nineties, Margolis evolved the Sound of Pig label into Pogus Productions, replacing the cassette medium with compact disk technology. His own sonic pursuits have matured too, growing ever stranger and more daring. Puckish experimentalist Crank Sturgeon delights audiences with his anarchic performances, featuring homemade electronics, bizarre costumes, and absurdist antics. Boston-based saxophonist Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 30 years, with a bunch of folks to whom he is deeply and forever in debt. His recent work has taken a turn toward more sound-based concerns and investigations into performance gestalt. His focus is on improvisation, which is filtered through a strongly compositional sensibility. Current projects include Duck That, Grizzler, Symptomatic, Kilter, Metal & Glass Ensemble, Spam, solo performance and duos with Vic Rawlings, Curt Newton, Matt Samolis, Noell Dorsey, Marc Bisson and Katt Hernandez.