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HzCollective Presents: MegaHz Experimental & Noise Festival
October 11th-12th, 2008

Call For Submissions:

HzCollective Presents: 'MegaHz', a festival of international, touring and local artists presenting experimental, noise & avant garde music and visual media. Taking place between Charlottesville [Saturday October 11th] & Richmond, VA [Sunday October 12th], 'MegaHz' will serve as an opportunity for artists to collaborate, share & present their ideas of improvisation and avant garde composition to the perceptive experimental communities that exist within these two cities.

All experimental, noise, & avant garde musicians interested in participating in this year's festival are encouraged to submit a recording and short bio for consideration. The deadline is August 1st. All submissions will be carefully considered by the HzCollective Festival Committee and notice of acceptance will be sent via email by September 1st.

Due to the D.I.Y. nature of this event (no grants, not-for profit status, etc.) we can promise only a place to crash and nutritional sustenance. So we ask that you come prepared to participate for the purpose of community-building and networking with other artists and enthusiasts. If we collect sufficient funds from the event, we will gladly compensate performers with an equal slice of the door.

Please keep in mind that the two day festivals are in two different cities, both two hours from D.C. and one hour from each other. Be sure to clarify which date(s) your submission is to be considered for.

ATTN: RECORD LABELS! Day Two of the Festival in Richmond, Virginia will play host to a Record Label Expo, so if your record label is interested in tabling merchandise and information during this years event please write: hzcollective@gmail.com

Submit Material (CD & Bio/Press Sheet) To:
(No Mp3's, physical recordings only)

HzCollective
PO BOX 4296
Richmond, VA 23220

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HzCollective is a Virginia based experimental, noise & improvised music collective serving to strengthen the bond between the Richmond and Charlottesville creative arts communities. The collective fosters a local network of experimental artists and enthusiasts by organizing performances and workshops involving local and touring artists from around world.

http://hzcollective.com
email: hzcollective@gmail.com

This video should've been posted last summer - a collaboration of Pinkos with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang in Taichung, Taiwan, 6/16/07 on our Taiwan tour.

Live @ NanoHz No.12 Whole Noise, Charlottesville, VA 5/3/08. This video is shot by Meghan Eckman. This first clip is a collaboration with video artist Chiachi Charlie Chang; The second clip is our trio guitar piece. Enjoy~

NanoHz No. 12: Whole Noise - HzCollective and The Bridge PAI present an evening of organic electronic sound, video, light, improvisations, and food - featuring:

Pinko Communoids (improv trio, CVL) + Chia Chi Charlie Chang (video art, DC/Taipei)
Caustic Castle (no-input, RVA) + Clifford Schwing (sax, RVA)
Conner Lacy + Friends (multimedia performance, CVL)
DJ k00k (records, CVL)

7pm (Sat) May 3, 2008
The Bridge PAI
209 Monticello Road
Charlottesville, VA 22902
suggested donation $5

This evening will begin with a DJ'ed set by DJ k00k and a reception of homemade foodstuffs generously provided by Sonia Hsu and Han-Hua Chang. Live sound-video performances will follow the festivities.

// Caustic Castle //
> listen/video/read: myspace.com/causticcastle
Caustic Castle is Kenneth Yates, also of the duo's Harm Stryker (w/ Constant Mauk) & Insects With Tits (w/ Chefkirk). Kenneth Yates utilizes the no-input mixing technique coupled with live processing using various filters and pedals. With his music usually comes an abstract visual fascination with architecture and is psyhogeographical effects on the human psyche. Inspired by past revolutionary art and social movements like DaDa & the Situationiste Internationale, he struggles to find a parallel between art, sound & social unrest, or just perhaps provide a sort of soundtrack to it all.


// Chia Chi Charlie Chang //
> view: imagecaffeine.net
Chia-chi Charlie Chang, born in Taipei, Taiwan and has lived in Virginia since 2000, is an image artist primarily working with the medium of photography. Inspired by the modern life, particularly the contrast between the urban and suburban lifestyle, sound, and music, she makes art that exudes a sense of the familiar while displaying a vague, uncertain, dreamlike visual experience, and evoking a hidden memory or a fragment of past experiences.


// Conner Lacy + Friends //
Conner Lacy is an interactive artist and composer headed to grad school in the Fall. The performers involved in this set are Cleek Schrey, Maximillian Frantz, and Lanier Sammons who are all Grade A bad asses and can add anything to the piece. The title of the piece is: loom warp weft/loom weft warp/weft loom warp/warp loom weft/warp weft loom/weft warp loom. Cleek Schrey: violin, lunasuit; Maximilian Frantz: glockenspiel, flashlight; Lanier Sammons: guitar, flashlight; Conner Lacy: computer, matches, candles, percussion, chalk.


// DJ k00k //
"DJ.k00k" can usually be heard spinning the apocalyptic stompy music at The Dawning, when he's not terrorizing the flyering boards around town with Charlottesville-centric culture jams. besides a stint at 16 at a Top 40 station (!) and many years working in record stores, he was also involved in starting the weekly goth/industrial night in Richmond known as Sacrosanct. he is always looking to spin events outside that genre as well, as oppurtunities to play the many other kinds of music he loves and archives. his madness may be stalked at: myspace.com/dj_k00k


// Clifford Schwing //
> myspace.com/cliffordschwing
Clifford Schwing (b 1985) Uses the saxophone as a strarting point, base of operations; it is the window that he works through, not the instrument he plays. While previous perfomances have found him using the saxophone in what can be called a "traditional" way, his recent work has been focused on the use of the saxophone as a sound object rather than a musical instrument. This has led to the use of pure feedback created either by the saxophone or the room which the microphone occupies. His recent work wishes to decentralize the self so as to allow a feedback between "performer", "audience", and the actual physical space which they occupy. He has collaborated/performed with: Robert Bryant, Kenneth Yates (Caustic Castle), Jimmy Ghaphery, Tim Harding, Pat Lawrence.


// Pinko Communoids //
> listen/view/read: pinkos.info | myspace.com/pinkocommunoids
Pinko Communoids is an improvisational trio based in Charlottesville, Virginia. The trio consists of Carey Sargent, Kevin Parks, and Wendy Hsu. We create both free and structured improvisations using conventional instruments including guitars, accordions and percussion, found objects, circuits, microphones, and other electronics. We enjoy the quiet interplay of small sounds and often employ a restrained sonic palette of diverse timbres. Though we like occasional loud cathartic noisy workouts, we play at appropriate volumes and always invite our audience to savor our sounds without ear plugs. Our recent explorations have led us to investigate aspects of tuning and timbre and the relationship between the two.

Since forming in 2006, the Pinko Communoids have given over 30 performances both locally and abroad, including a tour of Taiwan's major cities in Summer 2007. We have been on various 804noise showcases, Sonic Circuits, Noise in the System, Technosonics and various other concert series and recently helped curate a series entitled Audio January at The Bridge PAI, in Charlottesville VA.

Pinko Communoids have collaborated with artists including Jonathan Zorn, Kenneth Yates (Caustic Castle), Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (of 12 Dog Cycle), Aurie Hsu, Lee Alter (watercolorist), and Chia Chi Charlie Chang (photographer/videographer).

We aim to bring together community improvisers and noise musicians through organizing performances, workshops, and events with organizations and venues such as WeArts, and The Bridge PAI. We also promote translocal and international exchange through 804noise and HzCollective, organizing shows for touring artists such as Arturas Bumuateinas (Warsaw, Poland), Antanas Jasenka (Lithuania), Cheapmachines (UK), Iris Garrelfs (UK), Jeff Surak/Violet (Washington D.C.), Rachel Thompson (San Diego, CA), Andy Hayleck (Baltimore, MD), Kioku (NewYork, NY), Vslykon (Oakland/Tokyo), aka Dang (Baltimore), Sadjeljko (New York, NY), Harmstryker (Richmond, VA), and others.

For info: hzcollective.com | hzcollective@gmail.com

Check out this video: Pinko Communoids @ Noise in the System III, 11/2/07, CVL



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Live @ Noise in the System III, Charlottesville, VA, 11/2/07:

http://www.pinkos.info/videos.html

HzCollective Presents: Ambient Pancakes 1.26.2008

Pancakes is an event in conjunction with The Bridge's 'Audio January' series, which hopes to bring our community together in a light social atmosphere involving ambient and experimental music both performed live and dj'ed. Enthusiast will be invited to spend the night with artists and musicians, and between performances, have a chance to share their favorite recorded music by signing up during the event for a 30 minute spot where they will then grace the audience with their favorite in ambient and experimental music via cd, mp3 player, or vinyl. The evening will only begin to end when the sun starts to rise and the smell of vegan panacakes melds with the crisp wintry c-ville air.

Saturday January 26th
8:00pm - 9:00am
@ The Bridge
Charlottesville, VA

Perfomers Consist of:

Monolith Zero
Pinko Communoids
Caustic Castle + Eric Eaton
Jonathan Zorn
Layne Garrett
Amrita K Dang
Myo
Birds in the Meadow
Sadjeljko
Vslykon
& more TBA

from c-ville.com [http://c-ville.com/index.php?cat=1990507071409888&ShowArticle_ID=11432910072893234]

Bring in da noise

Noise is often something we either ignore or dislike. We pay little attention to the buzz of the refrigerator and a blast of radio static can be downright painful. But some people love odd noises, and the performers at Noise in the System III, which will take place at McGuffey Art Center on November 2, are those people. Comprising UVA graduate students, the concert will feature a wide array of experimental compositions and installations. The concert itself starts at 8pm, but come between 5 and 7:30pm and check out Peter Traub's demonstration of his upcoming Internet-based sound installation, which will premiere on turbulence.org on November 15. Improvisational noise-experimentalists the Pinko Communoids will also play. Feedback saw them at the first Noise in the System, and we recommend checking out their subtle but intriguing sonic textures.

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The Pinko Communoids will make peculiar experimental sounds at Noise in the System III on November 2.

Lots of my friends and family came out to see us at Sonic Circuits 2007 in DC on 9/8/07. Check out the amazing photos they took!

- photos by Chiachi Charlie Chang of imagecaffeine.net
- photos by Kevin Hsu
- photos by Sonia Hsu

Our Taipei show was recorded and the recording is posted now.

http://io-taipei.mypodcast.com/

Two of the pinkos have finally come back to the US. We had a great time performing and connecting with the people we met in Taiwan. We played in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaghsiung and toured around Taipei and Southern Taiwan a little bit.

There are two batches of pictures--performance and fun. enjoy -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkos/sets