Plunderphonics Comes to Columbus with the Evolution Control Committee’s Wheel of Mashup!
When: Saturday, July 18th, 8-10pm
Where: The Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit Street, cols 43202
Cover charge: $10 donation suggested
The Evolution Control Committee, led by Columbus native, music mashup artist, and copyright violation pioneer Mark Gunderson, performs his Wheel of Mashup show at the Wild Goose Creative from 8:00pm – 10:00pm on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 as part of the Fuse Factory’s weekend-long < /marked up> event. Mark Gunderson, aka TradeMark G, has been engaging in “plagiarhythm” since 1986 with his sound and music sample assemblages and steadily building an international reputation on par with other mashup bands and performers such as DJ Spooky, The Tape Beatles, Girl Talk, and Negativland.
Highlighted on renowned geekarati blogs such as Make:, BoingBoing, Hack A Day, and Laughing Squid, The Wheel of Mashup show features audience participation – not unlike the seminal game show Wheel of Fortune – in which audience members spin the Wheel of Mashup’s outer wheel to determine the music and the inner wheel to choose the vocals, which Gunderson cuts and pastes into a new composition on the spot. The show also features the VidiMasher 3000, a giant video screen hacked from two Nintendo Wii controllers that allow Gunderson. to instantaneously mix and mash over 800 color-coded samples on the fly. The audience is treated to a rear-projected screen display that shows the how the music is made though the technology’s inner workings.
In addition to The Wheel of Mashup, the Evolution Control Committee’s other performances include the Thimbletron, a live sampling performance instrument consisting of gloves with sewing thimbles attached to a hacked M-Audio Oxygen8 keyboard, and The Kitchen Of The Future, a musical act consisting of circuit-bent kitchen appliances. A third performance, Reels Of Steel, combines silent movies with a live DJ, spinning an intricately composed soundtrack at breakneck speed.
Prior to moving to San Francisco where he currently resides, Gunderson performed with the band Gaga, billed as Columbus’ answer to industrial-metal bands Crash Worship and Einstuerzende Neubauten.
