Sebastian & Zook -- Saxello and BassCello will be appearing at the Baltimore SDIY, Circuit Bending & 8-bit Festival being held at The Hexagon (former Lo-Fi Social Club)(http://www.hexagonspace.com; http://www.myspace.com/lofisocialclub).

Sebastian & Zook are scheduled to begin at 1PM.

Mike Sebastian (http://mikesebastian.alkem.org/) will be performing on Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet and Saxello. Mr. Sebastian has appeared with such legends as Greg Osby, Peter Kowald and Fugazi's Joe Lally and is a member of the DC Improvisers Collective (http://dcic.alkem.org/) and the Shape Memory Alloy Ensemble (http://monsterisland.alkem.org/shapememoryalloy/).

T. A. Zook (http://www.myspace.com/tazook) will be appearing on bass cello + processors. Mr. Zook is also a member of the Shape Memory Alloy ensemble.

Doors open at noon; Free entry until 7, $10 after that. BYOB & BYOF (bring yer own food) all ages. Also performing: Peter Blasser/Sejayno (http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/ ; http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/sejayno/index.html ; http://www.myspace.com/sejayno ; http://www.citypaper.com/music/review.asp?rid=12204); Carly Ptak (of Nautical Almanac) (http://www.myspace.com/nauticalalmanac ); and The Cheater's Club (from Northampton, Massachusetts) (http://www.myspace.com/thecheatersclub2 ; http://www.thecheatersclub.com/ ). Also scheduled to appear are members of the Baltimore SDIY Ensemble. Scheduled to appear at the 8-bit segment (10 PM - 2 AM) are glomag (http://www.glomag.com/) & bubblyfish (http://www.bubblyfish.com/;; http://www.myspace.com/bubblyfishmusic ) Parking: Charles Street is one-way northbound. About a block south of Hexagon is a brightly-lit, attended parking garage (Theater Parking Incorporated) at 1714 North Charles Street (http://www.daplus.us/ShowPhoto.aspx?abi=3913929CD774CEE9DB97D9380FB6D0215EC9EE226694C5C40B4A0517486CB463&Partner=400240), across from the Everyman Theatre.

Here's the official press release for this event::

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Mark your calendars for this one. September 13th noon-2am.

The Hexagon is calling on all basement tinkerers, circuit board squelchers, gameboy hackers, and voltage controlled cyborgs to gather up their home-built or home-modified electronic noise makers and bring them out to show off at our first annual Synth DIY / Circuit Bending / Chiptunes festival. We will have tables, power supplies, and small amps available for instruments, but anyone with large modular synths other space consuming gear should reserve a space ahead of time by emailing josh@hexagonspace.com. The afternoon event will last from noon until 7pm and is free and open to the public. It will feature performances by local musicians T.A.Zook, The Baltimore SDIY Variable Orchestra, Carly Ptak (of Nautical Almanac), Peter Blasser, and others. At 9pm a crew of 8-bit artists from New York will be bringing the dance party with their hacked gameboy electronic jams. The night will feature Bit Shifter and Nullsleep of the 8-bit Peoples label along with fellow chiptune pioneers Glomag, Bubblyfish, and former Baltimore native noteNdo. To insure complete transcendance into a bit-reduced posthuman existance there will be a multi-projector setup featuring visuals by noteNdo, Voltage Controlled, and No Carrier throughout the night.

SDIY / Circuit Bending Performers:
T. A. Zook
Baltimore SDIY Variable Orchestra
The Cheaters Club
Carly Ptak
Peter Blasser

8-bit Invasion Performers:
Bubblyfish
Glomag
Nullsleep
Bit Shifter
noteNdo

8-bit Invasion Video Artists:
No Carrier
noteNdo
Voltage Controlled

T.A. Zook (myspace. com/tazook):
T.A. Zook is an experimental artist from Arlington, Virginia. He creates analog sound generations with struck bowls, rainsticks, wind instruments and guitars processed through racks of loopers/fx -- an otherworldly ambience that's difficult to describe; once heard, difficult to forget. (http://www. myspace. com/tazook) Think: music from a temple in an extraterrestrial dream, emanating from the aether and enveloping you in some indescribable way. Because of the size of his rig his performances take hours to set up for and are infrequent. For his performance at this event, Mr. Zook will be playing bass cello + processors.

Bubblyfish (bubblyfish. com):

With a background in classical piano, Haeyoung Kim explores the texture of sounds in electronic music. Currently, under the name bubblyfish, she has been creating 8-bit and experimental sound works. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worke as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Haeyoung's work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, PS1, New Museum, Lincoln Center Walter Reed theater, and Kunsthalle Wien. Bubblyfish's album Peripheral v1.2.1 is released on Retinascan Records (http://www. retinascan. de). Her recent cover version of Kraftwerk's 'It's More Fun To Compute' is included on compilation album, 8-Bit Operators, released on Astralwerks. The new self release EP album Too Cute To Kill is available upon a request.

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