Atom™ (Señor Coconut) Live A/V! w/ Safety Scissors and Cullen Miller

29. Aug, 2011

Logistics:

Date: Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Time: 10pm – 4am
Cost: $20 presale
Location: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
998 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102

Presales

Overview:

If you don’t know him as Atom™, perhaps you know this legend as Señor Coconut, Atom Heart, CMYK, MIDIsport, or as 1/2 of the group Flanger, DATacide, or HAT? Uwe Schmidt is one of the most prolific musicians of the last 20 years. He has been beacon of innovation in the international music scene. He has released over 70 records under various pseudonyms on prestigious labels such as Germany’s Raster Noton and LA-based Nacional Records. We are honored to present to you his San Francisco debut!

In San Francisco, Matthew Patterson Curry needs very little introduction. A long time resident of San Francisco, Safety Scissors has made a quite a name for himself producing some of the era’s defining techno. Twisted with an abstract pop-sensibility, his music always sets the fun meter to 11 and gets the dance floor moving. He has released on some of electronic music’s most esteemed imprints: ~scape, Plug Research, BPitch Control, Carpark, and Context.

Come dance with us late into the night! We have just installed our new 8 channel speaker array and will be displaying some of GAFFTA’s researcher’s live visuals. The rest of the evening’s music will be provided by San Francisco residents Christina Chatfield, Cullen Miller and Atish. This one is not to be missed!

Atom™ – LIVE A/V Set

(Raster-Noton / Nacional Records)

Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart, Atom™, Señor Coconut), is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and aciton (acid-reggaeton) music. Uwe Schmidt is one of the most successful and prolific German electronic music producers from the early 90′s.

Born in Frankfurt, Uwe Schmidt’s early works “Binary” and “Cloned” were released in 1992 under the moniker of Lassigue Bendthaus. These were followed in 1993 by “Datacide II” and “Coeur Atomique”, both released under his most pupular moniker, Atom Heart, and “Experimental Post Techno Swing” under the name of Lisa Carbon.

In 1994, Uwe Schmidt started his own Rather Interesting label to release his own electronic productions under an uncountable array of different monikers (more than 20), including the ones of Datacide, Almost Digital, CMYK, Dr Mueller, Erik Satin, Interactive Music and Ongaku. Throughout all these identities Schmid has approached different styles from dancefloor stuff to trance and ambient. He has developed a successful career as an industrial dance producer, specially referring the works signed as Lassigue Bendthaus.

In 1997, Schmidt moved to Santiago de Chile, South-America, and got influenced by the latin rhythms, producing a set of funny works under the name of Sr. Coconut where he fussioned a latin orchestra with Kraftwerk‘s classics reaching international success. These project includes the albums “El Gran Baile Con Señor Coconut” (1997) and “El Baile Alemán” (2000) as Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto. Uwe Schmidt is also well known for his prolific collaborations with other artists, including Pete Namlook, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell.

Safety Scissors

(~scape / BPitch Control)

In the early stages of Matthew Patterson Curry’s musical adventures he was surrounded by the likes of Kit Clayton, Sutekh, Twerk, Kid 606, and Matmos who provided musical support and inspiration for his first forays into production under his Safety Scissors moniker. In May of 2000 at the very first Mutek Festival, he debuted his singing and electronic music in a live context. The dub-tinged techno pop was culled into Plug Research album Parts Water which received wads of international praise. Subsequent worldwide touring and invitations to well respected festivals soon followed, leading him to his obligatory Berlin stint. With Tainted Lunch, his second full length album, he strayed further from his initial techno roots, defining his own brand of “dork pop”. His non-singer singing was more present and the structures echoed radio friendly tunes enlisting musical help from friends Kevin Blechdom, Francoise Cactus (Stereo Total), and Erlend Øye. He also has lent his talents for numerous remixes of artists in all shapes in sizes (including Matmos, Sketch Show featuring two members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and indie bands like Grizzly Bear and Architecture In Helskinki). During all this he also founded his Proptronix label, releasing acclaimed acts like My Robot Friend and the Pigeon Funk project. Returning to San Francisco eventually he became an audio slave for an Emmy award winning cable network, while he still hung out with his synthesizer friends at night. His record collection shifted from the newer electronic releases to vintage late disco, early house and Italo disco. He’s recently moved all of those records, as well as his synthesizers, to New York where he will wrap up his next album and dj his eclectic record collection for you.

Christina Chatfield

(Beretta Grey)

Christina Chatﬁeld is a techno and house producer and live performer based out of San Francisco, California. She is an avid user of both hardware and software in the studio, with the use of analog synthesizers giving her music a unique, organic sound that is her own. Her live sets have garnered near-unanimous praise, earning her a residency with San Francisco event producer As You Like It. Working under her own name and also the pseudonym Anitserk, she has released on Detroit label Beretta Grey, Klectik Records, and Racecar Productions.

Cullen Miller

(Konque / Igloo-Pop)

San Francisco-based sound artist and composer Cullen Miller synthesizes an abstract hybrid of aleatoric pop, dub, and minimalism. Incorporating original field recordings, heavy use of digital signal processing, vocal hooks, strip club synths, and traditional jazz arrangements, Miller weaves together a musical tapestry that is threaded by clicky pop and techno. His compositional endeavors began by learning double bass and studying contemporary classical and jazz theory under the Netherlands based composer and bassist, Chad Langford. Born in Detroit, Michigan, automated techno culture is deeply embedded in his process and his obsession with experimentation had led to the design custom software applications as performance tools. He is currently developing performances for GAFFTA’s immersive audio environment. Miller performs periodically with his 7 piece electroacoustic ensemble, Santa and under his dub guise, Selande. He has releases on Igloo-Rec (AR), Konque (NYC), and Cunei Media (SF).

Atish

(Tutu Tuesday)

Atish Mehta is a San Francisco-based DJ that loves to dance and make people dance. Combining his diverse taste in music, his natural ability to read a party vibe, his charismatic stage presence, Atish walks the line between a party DJ and a DJ’s DJ. Atish cites Lee Burridge, Danny Howells, and Dan Bell as his biggest DJ influences, and they shine through in his “journey” approach to DJ sets. His taste covers deep house, tech-house, nu-disco, and retro synth jams, and given enough time, he’s not afraid to cover all these genres over the course of a night.

Atish grew up in the Chicago suburbs listening to house music on the radio and playing suzuki-trained violin from age five. Over the years, he played in marching bands, jazz bands, rock bands, and even had a stint as a hip-hop producer. Atish eventually came full circle back to dance music after exploring the rock scene in LA then moving to San Francisco.

Since then, he’s co-founded house-heads, a San Francisco crew focused on throwing underground parties at legendary Compound, and he’s had a hand in throwing parties across the country with listed productions. In the last year, he’s earned a monthly residency at 222 Hyde, had several mixes featured on Proton Radio, started a monthly radio show Deepartures on etn.fm, and become a regular at the Compound. His musical range has led him to open for acts like Lee Burridge, Craig Richards, Guido Schneider, Desyn Masiello, Troy Pierce, and Dyed Soundorom, to name a few. 2011 is a strong year for Atish with several notable appearances including BPM festival in Mexico, listed Tikki party in Miami, and Lovefest in San Francisco…