A chance to see some interesting instruments live.
"Friday, Nov. 4 – Dave Vosh brings “bag of analog tricks” to the Lou!
Dave Vosh
Special guests Dr. Mabuse and Venus Slick
Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 – 8 pm
Floating Laboratories
4528 Ohio [St. Louis]
Admission: $5
HEARding Cats is excited to bring east coast synthesis sensation Dave Vosh to St. Louis for a rare Midwest performance. Vosh has had a lifelong passion for electronic music. After years of toiling in autodidactic obscurity
he summoned-up the courage to contact one of his idols, Karlheinz Sctockhausen, by mail. To his great shock, Maestro Stockhausen not only answered his letter personally but continued the correspondence with Vosh up until his death; offering advice and discussion on all sorts of musical issues. Emboldened by Stockhausen’s attention, Vosh assembled an arsenal of sophisticated electronic instruments and recently decided to take the bushel-basket off his lamp in the active DC/Baltimore avant garde scene. He now performs regularly in the Electric Possible and Sonic Circuits series, as well as at the Red Room, Hexagon, and Pyramid Atlantic. He appeared in the 2008 and 2009 Electro-Music Festivals.
In an unusual appearance on Baltimore’s Rams Head Live stage Vosh’s solo performance was described: 'He comes in, hobbles up to the stage on his cane, opens up a big briefcase of mephistophelesian landscapes, and settles into a chair. Then he takes up his little baton and calmly conducts a tour across the terrible beauty of the vast frozen steppes of Hades. …and when the show is over, he quietly packs it all up and lumbers off into the night.
It’s a hell of an act.'
Dr. Mabuse has become a regular at Floating Labs over the last two years. His talents and iterations are wide-ranging: a synthesist; a bass player; a keyboardist; a composer. Mabuse plays as a solo artist (often on analog synthesizers of his own building and design), and collaborator in various ensembles, including the tory z starbuck project, SANE, and “The Dark Secrets of Dr. Mabuse.” His performances are largely improvisational, and explore both rhythmic and textural concepts at the edges of music. Venus Slick is a painter by trade, a musician by night, and a grifter by day (hence the name “Slick” – careful, she’s liable to steal your wallet!). Her talent on the custom-made, one-of-a-kind analog synthesizer “Il Viaggio di Marconi” is only surpassed by her beauty. She’ll join Vosh for several transmigrations throughout the evening."
