In the Calendar section today, March 8, 2014 of the LA Times, p. D2, is an announcement of the Low End Festival, including Daedelus and his Monome, set for June 14 and 15 at the Echo and Echoplex. They don't seem to be overstating their claim on being for the moment, the only Los Angeles annual, serious, electronic music festival.
Alfred is playing at the interactive component of SXSW, having written the music for this video game which is up for an award tonight, Cheers! This is the video game Alfred composed the soundtrack for:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/21/264557836/swordplay-fighter-nidhogg-revives-arcade-style-competition
Dublab and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles presents Krautrock Classics: A tribute to German Cosmic Music, includes Daedelus “Independence”
Jeff Weiss Music West Coast Sound Bizarre Ride Beat Scene Superstars Who to See at the Inaugural Low End Theory Festival LA Weekly, June 13-19 p. 58, laweekly.com
“For the last eight years, Low End Theory has reigned as LA’s best club for people who hate clubs. The sound system is seismic enough to cause craters. The bookings are eclectic and progressive. The narcotic atmosphere helps lighten the onerous entrance lines in front of the Airliner in Lincoln Heights each Wednesday.
“Low End has thrived by constantly mutating yet staying wary of ephermeral trends. Anchored by the five resident DJs . . . the Petri dish has cultivated gifted young artists of a unique cellular classification. Most lean toward beat music with crushing bass, but experimentation is encouraged and expected.
“The inaugural Low End Theory Festival takes place June 14 and 15 at the Echo and Echoplex; fittingly it runs the gamut from fusion jazz to turntablism, trap. underground hip-hop, ambient and soul.
"Sold out for months, the bill testifies to the collapsed nature of genre divisions.
“ . . .
“Daedelus. The beat scene pioneer helped to forge the freeway linking instrumental hip-hop to dance music. He remains one of L.A.’s most dynamic and unpredictable performers, and its supreme connoisseur of Edwardian. Essential song: The entire Live at Low End Theory album.
“ . . .”
Hello All,
Just wanted to invite everyone to Alfred's *free* show Saturday night (schedule says he's on at 7:30 but he was told 7 pm, so who knows).
In celebration of the opening of Pomona College's new Studio Art Hall, Alfred will be performing with his mechanized moving mirror array "Archimedes" and lots of other curious acts, including:
- A mirrored egg sculpture that is also a steam room for 4-5 people, powered by rocks heated in a mobile pizza oven, with an accompanying cold plunge.
- A photobooth with a wearable hat version of the building – become the building, inside the building.
- Listen to Georgian polyphonic chanting in the glow of the photography darkroom safelight.
- Draw or consume an ever-changing edible still life in the new drawing studio.
- An eight foot tall champagne bottle piñata filled with customized fortune cookies and embedded with a large countdown clock.
http://machineproject.com/pomona-studio-art-hall-opening-celebration/