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FINITE: Jan Jelinek, David Last, Cullen Miller, Scy1e, and Equilet

We are proud to host this very special event entitled FINITE curated by our former Director of Public Programs, Cullen Miller. Its such a special treat to host Jan Jelinek who is known for producing dozens of top-notch tracks since the late 1990's. Join us for this showcase of incredible music by international and local musicians.
Artists

Jan Jelinek

Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm and The Exposures. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche and has released music on ~scape. His approach is about transformation of sound, about translating parameters of popular music into abstract, reduced and textural electronics. In 1998 he started to release his works under a number of pseudonyms (Farben, Gramm) adapting his primary sampling premise to a surprising range of different sounds. During the following years, Jan Jelinek collaborated with artists like Sarah Morris or German author Thomas Meinecke, played a range of laptop or gadget/modular-synth based live sets, worked with improvisation ensembles from Japanese trio Computer Soup to the Australian jazz formation Triosk, wrote and produced radio-plays/collages for the SWR, created a number of audio-visual performances with video artist Karl Kliem for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others and founded with Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann the improvisation trio Groupshow, which refuses any repertoire or standard performance durations.

David Last

David Last is a sound and visual artist living in San Francisco. Over the last 18 years his work has appeared in a variety of contexts including albums & singles, art installation, film & television soundtracks, animation and handmade books. Last year’s album “Meow Wolf’s Arcade Soundtracks” was a smirking reference to neon-splashed electro-funk aesthetics, and a collaboration with his partner Chelsea Faith Dolan (aka Cherushii), who was lost in the Ghost Ship fire in December. This year, Last has spent his time in the studio they'd shared, creating emotionally charged psychedelic compositions which tend toward rich texture and constantly-shifting harmonic tones. The Gray Area Festival will mark his first performance of this material.

Cullen Miller

Cullen Miller

Cullen Miller is a systems artist, spatial-media designer, and composer. His projects vary in nature but typically fall within the spectrum of media architecture, sound design, installation, composition, and systems design. Reared in Detroit, he relocated to San Francisco pursuing curatorial work with Gray Area, SFCMP, and to teach digital signal processing. He currently spends his days designing and engineering systems architecture. He has released recordings under numerous aliases and organizes the concert series, FINITE. His performances and installations have been exhibited internationally in various museums, galleries, and clubs.

Jeff Lubow

j.lubow / jml / equilet is a producer of experimental art from the Midwest. He studied Emerging Media at KCAI, and Electronic Music composition/performance at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Since attaining his MFA, Jeff has performed in an array of venues throughout the bay area and abroad. His work incorporates rhythmic music, composition, graphics, and computer science. Demarcations between the elements he employs are blurred through his ability to present his ideas through mediums which have great potential for conceptual respiration. Jeff currently works with CNMAT to build tools which aid in computer assisted composition and performance.

Scy1e

Scy1e (‘Sighwonee”) is a new direction for Bay Area electro-acoustic musician Raub Roy, who has been performing since 2005 as Horaflora. His Scy1e project explores the concept coined by John Berndt of relabi, semi- or fully stochastic rhythmic cycles that tend to have an affect of “self erasing pulses”. Field recordings mingle with limping, stately, rhythms, together forming a rich community of sounds. With partner Dianne Lynn, he founded experimental music label Weird Ear Records with the slogan, “The Weird Ear, The Better.”

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