Join us for an Evening of live performances in Quadraphonic sound. The performances will be preceded by a free workshop by Michael Bierylo - more info and a link to the workshop's dedicated event page below.

Performances by:
Francisco Botello is a Mexican/American sound artist and educator born and raised in Chula Vista, California. Growing up a dual citizen on the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, their work reflects on the nature of place and belonging. Gathering and composing with field recordings, alongside electronics and computer music tools, they explore questions of identity, ancestry, geography, change, and loss. Recently, they have been experimenting with gestural control and working with immersive, multi-channel sound systems as ways to connect their art more intimately with their body and audience. Their multi-channel work has been showcased at places such as Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and the Portland Art Museum.
http://franciscobotello.com/

Wild Card of Cascadia is a trio from Portland whose immersive, spontaneous music emerges from omnivorous, ever-changing, inquisitive working methods. In search of unexpected discoveries and a continually broadening vocabulary of ideas and sound making approaches, they deploy conceptual prompts, unexpected instrumentation, and game-like challenges. They draw from free improvisation, musique concrete, modern composition, and experimental music influences and processes, and often find playful, challenging sounds that transcend typical tropes of
modern "ambient" and modular synth music. Emphasizing live performance in non-traditional venues over traditional 'band' activities and recordings, Wild Card's two self-released albums are snapshots of the band's evolving working methods and discoveries. Wild Card's membership includes established artists William Selman (Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life), Marcus Fischer (12k), and Paul Dickow (who records as Strategy), but the group's sound is distinct from their individual projects.
https://wildcardofcascadia.bandcamp.com/

Michael Bierylo is an electronic musician based in Boston Massachusetts. He is Chair Emeritus of the Electronic Production and Design Department at Berklee College of Music where he led the development of Berklee’s Electronic Digital Instrument Program, the Electronic Performance Minor and the Creative Coding Minor. Major projects include artist residencies with Suzanne Ciani, Nona Hendryx, Hank Shocklee, Richard Devine, Chagall, Robert Rich, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. He is also active in Berklee Online, Berklee’s online school, where he authors and teaches a course in sound synthesis.
Bierylo has performed throughout the United States as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. As solo electronic artist eMBee, he has performed with laptop computer and modular synthesizers in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow. As an active member of the Audio Engineering Society he has chaired the Electronic Instrument Design and Applications Track at national conventions, bringing together industry innovators such as Dave Smith and Dave Rossum as well as design teams from Moog, Roland and Korg.
https://embee.live/

-Paid Ticketed performance-
"An evening of quadraphonic electronic sound, featuring
performances by:
Francisco Botello, Wild Card, and eMBee"
7:30-9:30 PM
$10 - See dedicated performance page to purchase tickets
(sliding scale and no one turned away for lack of funds - email info@synthlibraryportland.com for a no-charge ticket)
@Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211

-NOTE: Prior to the performance the following will take place-

Intermission
6:30-7:30

Workshop
"Strategies for Developing Live Modular Performances"
https://withfriends.co/event/16693858/strategies_for_developing_live_modular_performances
Friday 9/22/23
5:30-6:30 PM
Free, no ticket necessary
@Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211