12 Nights Miami: Songs and Algorithms
Friday, January 20, 2011 at 8PM
GAB Studio
105 Northwest 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
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12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art V: Songs and Algorithms
Featuring Corey Dargel with Wil Smith and Tom Hamilton

Joined by Smith on keyboards, Dargel (voice, synthesizers, drum machines) will perform three original song cycles about convicted criminals, sexual incompetents, and wannabe-amputees. Dargel’s deviant characters are portrayed with a sympathetic attention to detail in his song lyrics and by the musical twists and turns he employs as a composer subverting typical song forms. According to Gramophone magazine, “Dargel has no fear of jettisoning formal music elements to emphasize the words, or vice versa, often letting [his] songs veer off in totally unexpected directions.”

After a short break, the celebrated avantgarde electronic musician Tom Hamilton will perform a new work that uses fragments of speech as “oscillators” for a generative system. The speech fragments come from answers he gave to a recorded interview posted on listening-gallery.subtropics.org The presentation of Tom Hamilton is made possible in collaboration with the South Florida Composers Alliance.