DIGITAL SHOWCASE
COPA BAR, July 15, 2006
THANK YOU
WELCOME
This project is funded in part by the City of
Austin through the Cultural Arts Division
and by a grant from the Texas Commission
on the Arts.
The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to
engage the public, educate the community, and support artists in the creation, understanding
and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is a bi-monthly event, featuring live
electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social
www.amoda.org
setting.
Austin Free-Net
SCHEDULE
Our Members
AUDIO ARTISTS
Christian Hogue
WeWorkForThem
10:0010:40
The Mysterious H
Pandarosa
Lanneau White
10:4011:20
DJ Cuba
Gooding Jr.
James Sumner
Jetlag
11:2012:10
Kate Simko
Jonathan Coward
Christian Hogue
12:101:10
Ken Gibson
WeWorkForThem
Pandarosa
John Gomi
Jetlag
Lanneau White
Pandarosa
Jonathan Coward
1:101:45
WWW.AMODA.ORG
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen right of stage)
John Gomi
9:0010:00
The AMODA Digital Showcase Director is Todd Simmons. Please send any comments to him at [email protected].
If you wish to contribute visual art, music, or graphic art to a Showcase, please visit our Call for Art page for details at
www.amoda.org/participate/callforart.php.
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen left of stage)
1:452:30
WWW.AMODA.ORG
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen outside)
James Sumner
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AUDIO ARTISTS
FLYER ARTIST
[A]PENDICS.SHUFFLE (Planet-Mu, Tigerbeat6, Trance Syndicate, Orac, Narita / Los Angelas, CA)
KATHRYN SAUCEDA (Austin, TX)
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time
consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can
grasp what’s going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a
surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but don’t expect.
Ken’s first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the
90's Austin indie noise-pop band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a “band” and
Kenneth James
started producing a slew of electronic mishmash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting
Gibson
out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas
band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down
an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno.
In 1997, Ken moved from Austin to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight
Frozen Modules, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years
off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After three years of not
leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD “Random Activities and
Broken Sunsets”, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also
released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer,
Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers), Kenneth James G, and KJ Gibbs. His numerous
releases have come out on labels such as Planet-Mu, Tigerbeat6, Mille Plateaux, Orac, Proptronix, Narita,
Orthlorng Musork, g25, Very Friendly, Adjunct, Shockout, and Resopal...just to name a few.
For this performance, Ken will be playing as [a]pendics.shuffle, which serves as his outlet for dark, infectious,
driving, and glitched house music. His recordings under this alias represent the cutting edge of dance music, and
he has performed live sets of this material all over the world, moving dance floors and twisting minds in the
process.
Currently Ken is living in Echo Park, California and producing a ton of music. He has new releases about to drop on
Friends Of Tommorow, Floppy Funk, Sunset Diskos, Mitek, Mo's Ferry Productions, Hallucination Limited, Adjunct
, Persistancebit, Orac and more. He has also just started his own “computer funk” label with Orac co-founder
Konstantin Gabbro, called Adjunct. www.worldofkennethjamesgibson.com
KATE SIMKO (Traum, Static Discos, Kupei Musika, Chocolate Industries / Chicago, IL)
Kate Simko
Chicago-based pianist and electronic music producer Kate Simko combines her musical
training with a love for electronic music. Kate continually explores a dialogue between her
strongest musical influences--the classical tradition, jazz, and electronic music. First exposed
to electronic music around 1994, in the mid-nineties Kate attended many underground dance
parties in Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis and was blessed to see some of the most classic DJs
and producers perform live on a regular basis. Kate went on to study Music Technology and
Piano at Northwestern University, granting her access to production gear while advancing her
formal musical training. While at the university, Kate also served as the Dance and Hip-Hop
music director of the radio station, WNUR - the largest college radio station in U.S.
Kathryn Sauceda
Kathryn was born in San Antonio, Texas and eventually moved
to San Marcos to attend Texas State University as a
Communication Design major. In December 2001, she received
her BA in Communication Design and moved to Austin. Since
then, Kathryn has worked as a graphic designer at the MexicArte Museum, done freelance multimedia development for TSU
Media Services, and created illustrations for the AustinAmerican Statesman. Bringing to AMODA her background in art
and design, Kathryn is the design advisor for the organization
and director of the AMODA creative team.
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The pair regularly exhibits their work in galleries and festivals. Pandarosa engages an artistic approach towards
their projects, applying this method to both their art practice and professional clientele. Thru this they aim to
break the preconceived idea that design & art cannot co-exist. www.pandarosa.net
CHRISTIAN HOGUE (London, UK)
MOTION GRAPHICS The piece being screened tonight is called
"spiro/nano/dietoms", and it is a 10 minute short film created for Addictive TV's
Mixmasters Series. Every year, the video artists Addictive TV, invite visual artists
and musicians to team up to create short films for their Mixmasters Series (to be
shown on British TV). For the 4th year, Lost In Space's Christian Hogue directs and
animates a film with soundscapes by jesper norda. Created with the realtime
software "TOUCH" from Derivative Inc, and post processed in After Effects, the 10
minute film only took 3 weeks to complete. The composer supplied the final mix as
component tracks which were used to drive various aspects of the realtime cyber
creation while other aspects where performed in realtime to the soundtrack by
Christian.
"spiro/nano/dietoms" was featured in the 2004 DOTMOV Festival in Japan and was included in a book published by
IDN as a collection of the festivals works. Subsequently the film was screened at the opening of the MAF05 the
Thailand Media Art Festival in 2005.
Christian Hogue belongs to the motion graphics design and visual FX company Lost In Space. Throughout his
years working in the visual FX industry, he has earned production credits on numerous films, commercials, and
music videos. He was even involved in the animation of the first computer-generated character in a film, the T1000
of Terminator 2. www.lostinspace.com
LANNEAU WHITE AKA KARL SAPIEN (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
DIGITAL VIDEO Karl Sapien lives mostly in green screen and is composed of
cardboard, strings, vhs tapes, batteries, and meat. Sapien hopes to one day
become energy for the glorious omnibeast.
Reflecting her musical background, Kate's music possesses a unique harmonic, structural and spatial depth. In
2003, Kate released an album on Traum under the name Detalles (with Chilean producer Andres Bucci), and her
piano composition "Rhodes Relejadas" was remixed by Thomas Brinkman and released on Traum in 2004. In 2005
Kate created a remix for Philip Glass, which was released as part of the Glasscuts remix album on his label,
Orange Mountain Music. Kate has new releases coming out on Kupei Musika and Chocolate Industries, both in
Summer 2006.
Throughout her career, Kate has received national and international press in publications such as The Wire, URB,
L.A. Times, e/i magazine, New City, de:Bug and XLR8R. She has performed beside artists such as Michael Mayer,
Magda, Four Tet, Ellen Allien, Oliver Hacke and Ulrich Schnauss. www.katesimko.com
DJ CUBA GOODING JR (Austin, TX)
Take a synthesizer. Add a drum machine. How could it get any better? Robot vocals, that's
how! Welcome to Houston's Dj Cuba Gooding Jr--it's not what you think. Dj Cuba Gooding Jr
once said, "I could never remember a guitar chord for anything." We couldn't agree more.
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr was originally a brothel in Glasgow, and then moved on to become a
well-known hollywood actor, until finally settling into its present home as a new wave electro act. Since then it has been enjoying itself immensely while performing with such acts as
Soviet, Avenue D, She Wants Revenge, VHS or Beta, and Freezepop.
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr enforces a strict dress code at all shows, though the dress code is different for each show. Our advice? Wear anything you like, so long as your outfit includes dancing
shoes. www.myspace.com/djcubagoodingjr
THE MYSTERIOUS H (Austin, TX)
The Mysterious H has been writing 8-bit music since the summer of 2000 when in a feverish
dream he felt his personal bit-depth reduce. Some speculate it was because he was bitten
by a radioactive Intellivision, others blame his strict diet of diodes and transistors, and yet
others still speculate that it was caused by a laboratory accident caused when a game boy
was dropped into a bubbling vat of chemicals. Since that fateful day, the H has been playing
in shows and battles in Austin, Houston, and Dallas. Beyond that nothing is known and
everything remains mysterious. www.themysterioush.net
the Mysterious H
JOHN GOMI (Austin, TX)
John Gomi AKA John Lohse 1972 - Musician, Artist, Designer, & DJ currently celebrating the
15th aniversary of his love affair with electronic music. Traveling the world, John Gomi is
still constantly “searching for the perfect beat.” Focusing as of late on hard electonic &
indie-dance as well as the more pulsing, deep, & minimal excursions, such as vocal NY
meets throbing Berlin.
Maintaining a residence in Austin (with a brief stint in New Orleans) since the early 1990's
John Gomi has been a part of just about every incarnation of the Austin electronic dance
scene, most recently with his monthly party Paparazzi Welcome, Austin' premier disko punk /
John Gomi
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neunew wave dance party with partners in crime Kangaroo Sexxxy & Anti-Social. John Gomi is also currently
devoting most of his artist/musical direction to his own label gomiheartelectric, which has a several upcoming
releases mostly in the minimal techno, deep electro-garage, & disko punk direction. www.johngomi.com
VISUAL ARTISTS
JAMES SUMNER (Atlanta, GA)
DIGITAL VIDEO Self-taught itinerant animator James Sumner has
stunned internets worldwide with his debut film THE GETTY ADDRESS.
Expanding on album of the same name by Dirty Projectors, THE GETTY
ADDRESS chronicles the wanderings of a mythologized Pre-Eagles Don
Henley. As an archetypal wanderer-colonizer figure, Henley voyages
through the ultra-American wilderness, encountering kung-fu cranes,
Neolithic kangaroos, and horrifying Aztec spider gods. Seamfully mixing
high Romantic pathos and violently absurd slapstick, Sumner uses a
combination of hand-drawn and computer animation with greenscreen and
location live-action that is all homebrew, baby. Internet tastemaker
Pitchfork praised it as "sound[ing] better than A Shark's Tale," while Portland Mercury scribe
Adam Gnade more relevantly states "I can't recomment this one enough."
James Sumner was born in Mississippi and has spent the past 8 years statistically smeared
over various cities in I-95 gorge. www.vsanna.com
James Sumner
MOTION GRAPHICS WeWorkForThem is a non-stop art and design studio started by Michael
Cina and Michael Young. Individually they each have changed the face of design, both online
and off. In 2000, they joined forces and opened WeWorkForThem to pursue their passion for
commercial design and art. Since then they have seamlessly produced typography,
trademarks, print, packaging, new media, and broadcast for countless commercial and non
commercial projects. These projects have been awarded, featured and published in a long list
of major publications. Clients such as MTV, ESPN, Mercury Vehicles, and Sci-Fi Channel
continue to come to them for their unique vision. Their typefaces and iconic work can be seen
monthly in magazines such as ESPN, Wired, Architecture Magazine and daily in retail stores
such as Best Buy and Target. WeWorkForThem offers a unique insight and approach to each
project and finds the best solution for any problem. www.weworkforthem.com
WeWorkForThem
PANDAROSA (Melbourne, Australia)
DIGITAL VIDEO Ariel Aguilera & Andrea Benyi are the love children behind
Pandarosa art & design, one of Melbourne’s more experimental design studios.
The group specializes in creating cultural graphics for a diverse range of artistic &
music industry clients.
In more recent times the studio has expanded their visual approach to not only
include graphics, but also outcomes in exhibition, installation, projection, short
film, website animation & interior based projects.
JETLAG (Tokyo, Japan)
DAIDASSO - NIJIIRO NO ARCH, STOP-MOTION ANIMATION This is
promotional video for the band "Arrows". A photograph has hardly been cut
out and placed on the background when it starts walking -- Through the
familiar but slightly strange surroundings of a city, a park, and a forest.
This animation was produced by a complex method of mixing analog and
digital processing as the man's photo and various objects are actually
placed on the eight-meter background and filmed by scrolling gradually,
frame by frame.
JETLAG unit was formed by a group of friends taking the same course at a
Tokyo university in 1999. Though its members change from time to time, it presently consists
of Yoshimi Kawai, Kyu Shibayama, Ai Tanaka, Naoki Nonaka, Fumi Maruo, and Tomomi Motose.
JETLAG
WEWORKFORTHEM (Baltimore, MD)
JETLAG is well-regarded outside Japan, receiving many of its commissions via the Internet
from various countries around the world. As well as movies, it specialises in illustration, web
design, VJing and graphic design. The group's mixture of digital and analog techniques is a
trademark and it regards the storyline of a movie as being as important as its presentation.
Above all, JETLAG tries to express its own original sense of humor. www.jetlag-web.com
The pair has received acclaim for their recent interior decoration work in Denmark, where,
along with a select group of international artists was commissioned to produce artwork for
two guest rooms in the award-winning Hotel Fox Project in Copenhagen.
Other design work from the Pandarosa studio includes identity design Platform artist group
Inc., record artwork for independent label AKA LTD, and catalogue website for Melbourne
jeweller Julia DeVille’s label Disce Mori. (www.discemori.com) They have also created
projects for clients such as Adidas, Puma, Lee, James Richardson Duty Free, Fat4,
Volkswagon, Eventlabs, Die Gestalten Verlag & Euroluce.
Their work will be familiar to many people through their unique illustrations that have
appeared in many Australian magazines including Black & White, Inside, Poster and
Artichoke, as well as international titles including Neomu, Soma, Grafik, Tokion, Icon and
Frame. They have also been featured in various book titles like ‘Wonderland’, ‘Hidden Track’
[DGV], ‘Graphics Alive’ [Victionary] & ‘Dotmov 2004’ [IDN].
Their animation works have been shown in various international animation / film festivals
including DOTMOV (Japan), ONEDOTZERO (UK), CONTRAST (FR) & CRACOW FILM FESTIVAL
(PL).
Ariel Aguilera and
Andrea Benyi
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neunew wave dance party with partners in crime Kangaroo Sexxxy & Anti-Social. John Gomi is also currently
devoting most of his artist/musical direction to his own label gomiheartelectric, which has a several upcoming
releases mostly in the minimal techno, deep electro-garage, & disko punk direction. www.johngomi.com
VISUAL ARTISTS
JAMES SUMNER (Atlanta, GA)
DIGITAL VIDEO Self-taught itinerant animator James Sumner has
stunned internets worldwide with his debut film THE GETTY ADDRESS.
Expanding on album of the same name by Dirty Projectors, THE GETTY
ADDRESS chronicles the wanderings of a mythologized Pre-Eagles Don
Henley. As an archetypal wanderer-colonizer figure, Henley voyages
through the ultra-American wilderness, encountering kung-fu cranes,
Neolithic kangaroos, and horrifying Aztec spider gods. Seamfully mixing
high Romantic pathos and violently absurd slapstick, Sumner uses a
combination of hand-drawn and computer animation with greenscreen and
location live-action that is all homebrew, baby. Internet tastemaker
Pitchfork praised it as "sound[ing] better than A Shark's Tale," while Portland Mercury scribe
Adam Gnade more relevantly states "I can't recomment this one enough."
James Sumner was born in Mississippi and has spent the past 8 years statistically smeared
over various cities in I-95 gorge. www.vsanna.com
James Sumner
MOTION GRAPHICS WeWorkForThem is a non-stop art and design studio started by Michael
Cina and Michael Young. Individually they each have changed the face of design, both online
and off. In 2000, they joined forces and opened WeWorkForThem to pursue their passion for
commercial design and art. Since then they have seamlessly produced typography,
trademarks, print, packaging, new media, and broadcast for countless commercial and non
commercial projects. These projects have been awarded, featured and published in a long list
of major publications. Clients such as MTV, ESPN, Mercury Vehicles, and Sci-Fi Channel
continue to come to them for their unique vision. Their typefaces and iconic work can be seen
monthly in magazines such as ESPN, Wired, Architecture Magazine and daily in retail stores
such as Best Buy and Target. WeWorkForThem offers a unique insight and approach to each
project and finds the best solution for any problem. www.weworkforthem.com
WeWorkForThem
PANDAROSA (Melbourne, Australia)
DIGITAL VIDEO Ariel Aguilera & Andrea Benyi are the love children behind
Pandarosa art & design, one of Melbourne’s more experimental design studios.
The group specializes in creating cultural graphics for a diverse range of artistic &
music industry clients.
In more recent times the studio has expanded their visual approach to not only
include graphics, but also outcomes in exhibition, installation, projection, short
film, website animation & interior based projects.
JETLAG (Tokyo, Japan)
DAIDASSO - NIJIIRO NO ARCH, STOP-MOTION ANIMATION This is
promotional video for the band "Arrows". A photograph has hardly been cut
out and placed on the background when it starts walking -- Through the
familiar but slightly strange surroundings of a city, a park, and a forest.
This animation was produced by a complex method of mixing analog and
digital processing as the man's photo and various objects are actually
placed on the eight-meter background and filmed by scrolling gradually,
frame by frame.
JETLAG unit was formed by a group of friends taking the same course at a
Tokyo university in 1999. Though its members change from time to time, it presently consists
of Yoshimi Kawai, Kyu Shibayama, Ai Tanaka, Naoki Nonaka, Fumi Maruo, and Tomomi Motose.
JETLAG
WEWORKFORTHEM (Baltimore, MD)
JETLAG is well-regarded outside Japan, receiving many of its commissions via the Internet
from various countries around the world. As well as movies, it specialises in illustration, web
design, VJing and graphic design. The group's mixture of digital and analog techniques is a
trademark and it regards the storyline of a movie as being as important as its presentation.
Above all, JETLAG tries to express its own original sense of humor. www.jetlag-web.com
The pair has received acclaim for their recent interior decoration work in Denmark, where,
along with a select group of international artists was commissioned to produce artwork for
two guest rooms in the award-winning Hotel Fox Project in Copenhagen.
Other design work from the Pandarosa studio includes identity design Platform artist group
Inc., record artwork for independent label AKA LTD, and catalogue website for Melbourne
jeweller Julia DeVille’s label Disce Mori. (www.discemori.com) They have also created
projects for clients such as Adidas, Puma, Lee, James Richardson Duty Free, Fat4,
Volkswagon, Eventlabs, Die Gestalten Verlag & Euroluce.
Their work will be familiar to many people through their unique illustrations that have
appeared in many Australian magazines including Black & White, Inside, Poster and
Artichoke, as well as international titles including Neomu, Soma, Grafik, Tokion, Icon and
Frame. They have also been featured in various book titles like ‘Wonderland’, ‘Hidden Track’
[DGV], ‘Graphics Alive’ [Victionary] & ‘Dotmov 2004’ [IDN].
Their animation works have been shown in various international animation / film festivals
including DOTMOV (Japan), ONEDOTZERO (UK), CONTRAST (FR) & CRACOW FILM FESTIVAL
(PL).
Ariel Aguilera and
Andrea Benyi
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The pair regularly exhibits their work in galleries and festivals. Pandarosa engages an artistic approach towards
their projects, applying this method to both their art practice and professional clientele. Thru this they aim to
break the preconceived idea that design & art cannot co-exist. www.pandarosa.net
CHRISTIAN HOGUE (London, UK)
MOTION GRAPHICS The piece being screened tonight is called
"spiro/nano/dietoms", and it is a 10 minute short film created for Addictive TV's
Mixmasters Series. Every year, the video artists Addictive TV, invite visual artists
and musicians to team up to create short films for their Mixmasters Series (to be
shown on British TV). For the 4th year, Lost In Space's Christian Hogue directs and
animates a film with soundscapes by jesper norda. Created with the realtime
software "TOUCH" from Derivative Inc, and post processed in After Effects, the 10
minute film only took 3 weeks to complete. The composer supplied the final mix as
component tracks which were used to drive various aspects of the realtime cyber
creation while other aspects where performed in realtime to the soundtrack by
Christian.
"spiro/nano/dietoms" was featured in the 2004 DOTMOV Festival in Japan and was included in a book published by
IDN as a collection of the festivals works. Subsequently the film was screened at the opening of the MAF05 the
Thailand Media Art Festival in 2005.
Christian Hogue belongs to the motion graphics design and visual FX company Lost In Space. Throughout his
years working in the visual FX industry, he has earned production credits on numerous films, commercials, and
music videos. He was even involved in the animation of the first computer-generated character in a film, the T1000
of Terminator 2. www.lostinspace.com
LANNEAU WHITE AKA KARL SAPIEN (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
DIGITAL VIDEO Karl Sapien lives mostly in green screen and is composed of
cardboard, strings, vhs tapes, batteries, and meat. Sapien hopes to one day
become energy for the glorious omnibeast.
Reflecting her musical background, Kate's music possesses a unique harmonic, structural and spatial depth. In
2003, Kate released an album on Traum under the name Detalles (with Chilean producer Andres Bucci), and her
piano composition "Rhodes Relejadas" was remixed by Thomas Brinkman and released on Traum in 2004. In 2005
Kate created a remix for Philip Glass, which was released as part of the Glasscuts remix album on his label,
Orange Mountain Music. Kate has new releases coming out on Kupei Musika and Chocolate Industries, both in
Summer 2006.
Throughout her career, Kate has received national and international press in publications such as The Wire, URB,
L.A. Times, e/i magazine, New City, de:Bug and XLR8R. She has performed beside artists such as Michael Mayer,
Magda, Four Tet, Ellen Allien, Oliver Hacke and Ulrich Schnauss. www.katesimko.com
DJ CUBA GOODING JR (Austin, TX)
Take a synthesizer. Add a drum machine. How could it get any better? Robot vocals, that's
how! Welcome to Houston's Dj Cuba Gooding Jr--it's not what you think. Dj Cuba Gooding Jr
once said, "I could never remember a guitar chord for anything." We couldn't agree more.
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr was originally a brothel in Glasgow, and then moved on to become a
well-known hollywood actor, until finally settling into its present home as a new wave electro act. Since then it has been enjoying itself immensely while performing with such acts as
Soviet, Avenue D, She Wants Revenge, VHS or Beta, and Freezepop.
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr
Dj Cuba Gooding Jr enforces a strict dress code at all shows, though the dress code is different for each show. Our advice? Wear anything you like, so long as your outfit includes dancing
shoes. www.myspace.com/djcubagoodingjr
THE MYSTERIOUS H (Austin, TX)
The Mysterious H has been writing 8-bit music since the summer of 2000 when in a feverish
dream he felt his personal bit-depth reduce. Some speculate it was because he was bitten
by a radioactive Intellivision, others blame his strict diet of diodes and transistors, and yet
others still speculate that it was caused by a laboratory accident caused when a game boy
was dropped into a bubbling vat of chemicals. Since that fateful day, the H has been playing
in shows and battles in Austin, Houston, and Dallas. Beyond that nothing is known and
everything remains mysterious. www.themysterioush.net
the Mysterious H
JOHN GOMI (Austin, TX)
John Gomi AKA John Lohse 1972 - Musician, Artist, Designer, & DJ currently celebrating the
15th aniversary of his love affair with electronic music. Traveling the world, John Gomi is
still constantly “searching for the perfect beat.” Focusing as of late on hard electonic &
indie-dance as well as the more pulsing, deep, & minimal excursions, such as vocal NY
meets throbing Berlin.
Maintaining a residence in Austin (with a brief stint in New Orleans) since the early 1990's
John Gomi has been a part of just about every incarnation of the Austin electronic dance
scene, most recently with his monthly party Paparazzi Welcome, Austin' premier disko punk /
John Gomi
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AUDIO ARTISTS
FLYER ARTIST
[A]PENDICS.SHUFFLE (Planet-Mu, Tigerbeat6, Trance Syndicate, Orac, Narita / Los Angelas, CA)
KATHRYN SAUCEDA (Austin, TX)
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time
consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can
grasp what’s going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a
surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but don’t expect.
Ken’s first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the
90's Austin indie noise-pop band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a “band” and
Kenneth James
started producing a slew of electronic mishmash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting
Gibson
out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas
band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down
an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno.
In 1997, Ken moved from Austin to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight
Frozen Modules, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years
off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After three years of not
leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD “Random Activities and
Broken Sunsets”, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also
released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer,
Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers), Kenneth James G, and KJ Gibbs. His numerous
releases have come out on labels such as Planet-Mu, Tigerbeat6, Mille Plateaux, Orac, Proptronix, Narita,
Orthlorng Musork, g25, Very Friendly, Adjunct, Shockout, and Resopal...just to name a few.
For this performance, Ken will be playing as [a]pendics.shuffle, which serves as his outlet for dark, infectious,
driving, and glitched house music. His recordings under this alias represent the cutting edge of dance music, and
he has performed live sets of this material all over the world, moving dance floors and twisting minds in the
process.
Currently Ken is living in Echo Park, California and producing a ton of music. He has new releases about to drop on
Friends Of Tommorow, Floppy Funk, Sunset Diskos, Mitek, Mo's Ferry Productions, Hallucination Limited, Adjunct
, Persistancebit, Orac and more. He has also just started his own “computer funk” label with Orac co-founder
Konstantin Gabbro, called Adjunct. www.worldofkennethjamesgibson.com
KATE SIMKO (Traum, Static Discos, Kupei Musika, Chocolate Industries / Chicago, IL)
Kate Simko
Chicago-based pianist and electronic music producer Kate Simko combines her musical
training with a love for electronic music. Kate continually explores a dialogue between her
strongest musical influences--the classical tradition, jazz, and electronic music. First exposed
to electronic music around 1994, in the mid-nineties Kate attended many underground dance
parties in Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis and was blessed to see some of the most classic DJs
and producers perform live on a regular basis. Kate went on to study Music Technology and
Piano at Northwestern University, granting her access to production gear while advancing her
formal musical training. While at the university, Kate also served as the Dance and Hip-Hop
music director of the radio station, WNUR - the largest college radio station in U.S.
Kathryn Sauceda
Kathryn was born in San Antonio, Texas and eventually moved
to San Marcos to attend Texas State University as a
Communication Design major. In December 2001, she received
her BA in Communication Design and moved to Austin. Since
then, Kathryn has worked as a graphic designer at the MexicArte Museum, done freelance multimedia development for TSU
Media Services, and created illustrations for the AustinAmerican Statesman. Bringing to AMODA her background in art
and design, Kathryn is the design advisor for the organization
and director of the AMODA creative team.
DIGITAL SHOWCASE
COPA BAR, July 15, 2006
THANK YOU
WELCOME
This project is funded in part by the City of
Austin through the Cultural Arts Division
and by a grant from the Texas Commission
on the Arts.
The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to
engage the public, educate the community, and support artists in the creation, understanding
and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is a bi-monthly event, featuring live
electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social
www.amoda.org
setting.
Austin Free-Net
SCHEDULE
Our Members
AUDIO ARTISTS
Christian Hogue
WeWorkForThem
10:0010:40
The Mysterious H
Pandarosa
Lanneau White
10:4011:20
DJ Cuba
Gooding Jr.
James Sumner
Jetlag
11:2012:10
Kate Simko
Jonathan Coward
Christian Hogue
12:101:10
Ken Gibson
WeWorkForThem
Pandarosa
John Gomi
Jetlag
Lanneau White
Pandarosa
Jonathan Coward
1:101:45
WWW.AMODA.ORG
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen right of stage)
John Gomi
9:0010:00
The AMODA Digital Showcase Director is Todd Simmons. Please send any comments to him at [email protected].
If you wish to contribute visual art, music, or graphic art to a Showcase, please visit our Call for Art page for details at
www.amoda.org/participate/callforart.php.
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen left of stage)
1:452:30
WWW.AMODA.ORG
VISUAL ARTISTS
(screen outside)
James Sumner