Billy Gomberg and Anne Guthrie | Richard Kamerman
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A late winter musical selection for you – recordings by Fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg and Anne Guthrie) and Richard Kamerman made in concert just before they left the August 2009 tour as Delicate Sen.
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Billy Gomberg
Billy Gomberg (b 1979, Chicago) is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming, creating electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their abstraction.
Billy has exhibited or performed in New York, Boston, Providence, London, Lisbon, Graz, Zurich and elsewhere. August 2009 saw the successful west coast tour of Delicate Sen, the improvising trio of Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, and Richard Kamerman. A committed improvisor, he performs solo, w/Anne Guthrie (as Fraufraulein), w/Richard Kamerman (sometimes as Other Vultures), trio w/Joshue Ott & Robert Dick, and duo w/Garth Stevenson. Other collaborators include Jan Kees Helms, and Offthesky.
Anne Guthrie
Born 1983 Minneapolis, Minnesota. BA in English and a BMus in Composition, University of Iowa, May 2005. Studied French horn with Jeffrey Agrell, and Composition with Amelia Kaplan, David Gompper, and Lawrence Fritts. Studied composition with Michael Young at Goldsmith’s college in London, Fall 2003. Currently, Anne is the Managing Director of the S.E.M. Ensemble in Brooklyn.
Anne’s sound installations have been exhibited at the International Center in Iowa City. Her acoustic compositions have been performed by the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra and by the S.E.M. Ensemble. Her poetry has been published in 1913: A Journal of Forms, and by Strange Tractor Publications, a free press she co-founded in 2004. As a French horn improviser, she has performed with Edwin Prevost and Mattin of Sakada in Hackney, London, and with the New York Sound Painting Orchestra led by Walter Thompson at several venues in New York City.
Anne’s electronic works focus on field recordings that exploit the natural resonance of unique architectural spaces. These recordings are subject to light filtering processes to further emphasize the resonant frequencies of the space.
Richard Kamerman
The music of New York based percussionist and electrician, Richard Kamerman, is devoted to a very subjective perception of liminal beauty. Rarely performing behind a drum kit, he prefers to explore the percussive behaviors of re-purposed electronics, ranging from computer circuit boards to a system of found mechanical parts – fans, motors, etc – that he has been developing since mid 2006. Room acoustics, microphone/pickup placement, and amplification are all very important to his construction of sound.
