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Welcome to Sound Crawl 2010! In convergence with the St. Paul Art Crawl, this spectacular event should be one not to miss!

Here’s the schedule! And the best part is…..it’s FREE!!

Come support your local art/music scene!

Concert 1

Venue: UBS Forum @ Minnesota

MPR Headquarters is located at 480 Cedar Street in downtown St. Paul. Metered street parking is available—as are parking spaces at the public ramp directly across Cedar street.

7p.m- Ryan Terrel – Rooftop ambience. (live microphone + processing)

7:30 p.m- ACT I: Jeremy Ylvisaker (guitar)
Nathan Brende (laptop)
Oliver Gruden (visuals)

8:30 p.m. ACT II: Chris Cunningham (Guitar)
James Patrick (Laptop)
Jim Weiss (visuals)

Concert 2

Venue: McNally Smith Café (Located Across the street from MPR)
Third Floor, 19 Exchange Street East, St. Pau

Their will be some light hors d’ oeuvres provided at this event!

9 p.m. ACT I: Jesse Pollock (Laptop)
9:30 p.m ACT II: Alec Ness and Chris Sexton (Laptops)

9:45pm – The Eclectic Ensemble
Outdoors, the Farmers Market, Lowertown St. Paul

Concert 3

Venue: Black Dog Café
4th and Broadway, Lowertown, St. Paul

(10 p.m. – 12 a.m.)

ACT I: Beatrix Jar

Beatrix*JAR is a conceptual electronic music duo and couple consisting of sound artists Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR).

Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Pettis and Roske grew up discouraged by the limitations of traditional music pedagogy. They formed Beatrix*JAR in 2004 over a shared attraction to non-traditional musical expression and unique musical instruments.

Over the past six years Beatrix*JAR have traveled extensively spreading the good word of D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) electronics and experimentation with conceptual sound art performances and hands-on Circuit Bending workshops.

Beatrix*JAR have been featured at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego, CA), American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), High Art Museum (Atlanta, GA) and Hammer Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA). The duo has appeared on MAKE TV (PBS) and THINK TV (PBS-Dayton)

ACT II: Caly McMarrow

DON’T FORGET ABOUT MINNEAPOLIS ART ON WHEELS!

10:30 – 12:30: Minneapolis Art on Wheels
Northwest Building, Lowertown, St. Paul

Concert 4

Venue: Studio Z
Nothwestern Building, 275 East 4th Street, St. Paul

* 21+, open bar, no cover. 12am-6am.
LIMITED CAPACITY.

Line-up:
w/visual arts by:

Oliver Grudem

Oliver Grudem is a visual media artist living in South Minneapolis. His work has been featured at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota and the Electric Eyes Festival at the Southern Theater.

*Jim Weiss(visual artist)

12 a.m.- Alec Ness and Chris Sexton

1971 is an experimental electronic music duo comprised of Chris Sexton and Alec Naess. They began collaborating in 2008 and until the start of 2010, had sent tracks exclusively over the internet, while residing in different cities. They recently began performing their music live, and exchanging musical ideas within the performance environment.

Chris Sexton is a producer and musician based out of Minneapolis. Until recently all Chris’ solo electronic work has been studio based. When he saw a opportunity to collaborate and play live with another electronic musician he jumped at the chance. Alec Næss is a composer and writer based out of Minneapolis/St. Paul MN. His work spans genre from string quartet arrangements to breakbeat tracks. Currently, he is attending McNally Smith College of Music.

12:30 a.m.- Keston and Westdal- www.kestwest.com

AudioCoobook.org founder, Keston and Westdal keyboardist, composer, and producer John Keston is a musician and experimental software developer currently based in Minneapolis. This United Kingdom transplant turned Minnesota local creates music under his moniker Ostraka by harnessing the random behaviors of sound objects and electronics into enigmatic compositions that bind chaotic creativity into musical structures.

1:30 a.m.- Tarleton a.k.a. Brett Bullion- www.brettbullion.com, www.tarltonmusic.com

Brett Bullion is a Minneapolis-based drummer, producer and engineer. He got his start in music by drumming and producing for Tiki Obmar (Merck Records), an instrumental band that billed with the likes of Dosh and Happy Apple. Brett currently juggles a busy schedule recording and touring with Tarlton (Afternoon Records), engineering and mixing for Hildur Victoria, drumming live and on records with Dark Dark Dark and various other freelance drumming/recording gigs. Brett grew up on the mid-90s / early-2000s Warp catalog and his instrumental dance project, “Nervous Girls,” is a tribute to that nostalgic inspiration…

2:30 a.m.- Heckadecimal

Minneapolis’ own live action antihero, Heckadecimal continues to blah blah blah with his own brand of machine-ridden not-trance. Robots sing harmony in the land of the damned, while everything exists, ineffable. Bouncy arpeggiators select The Hits Potential, complete with voltage controlled dancers; your fantasy realized.

3:30 a.m.- Timefog (James Patrick and M.Gervais) www.timefog.net

5:00 a.m.- Centrific- Intellephunk