Today is International Strange Music Day

[PGrizzy]

http://www.strangemusic.com/emailpremmix.html

If you're in NYC, check it out!

It's another hot, steamy Monday evening in the city. You've been plug-in away all day and your circuits are fried. Well, we know one place where you can cool your compressors and chill out to some great new music... It's "The Pre-MMiX" at Theaterlab, a benefit party for The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology, happening on August 24th, 2009 at 6:30pm. The Pre-MMiX Party will offer a sampling of the kind of vibrant works we'll feature this October 8-11 at MMiX, and will also serve as a fundraiser for the festival. If you can not make it, and would still like to contribute, you can also make a tax deductible donation HERE.

At the Pre-MMiX, we’ll present special performances by Kathleen Supove (The Exploding Piano), Patrick Grant (sTRANGEmUSIC) and LB (aka Pound): a new duo made up of DJ Scientific (Elan Vytal) & 6-string electronic violinist String Theory (Matt Szemela). Kathy Supove is well-known for displaying her virtuosic and theatrical keyboard skills in her Exploding Piano series, and she's curator of the Music With a View concerts at The Flea Theater. We talked to her earlier this summer about her work with interactive electronics in this bit of audio. Elan Vytal, the boundary-breaking DJ who cut his teeth in the clubs and went on to scratch it up in opera houses and museums, has also appeared on this blog with 6 string violinist, Matt Szemela. He sent along this video which features a cut off Elan and Matt's forthcoming album as the group, LB (Pound). Patrick Grant, creates scores and soundscapes for film, theater and media. Patrick, curator of the MMiX Festival in October, will talk a little bit about the mission, the artists and the technology behind MMiX, and will school ya on some of his "sTRANGE mUSIC" at the Pre-MMiX party.