The Fuse Factory | Columbus, Ohio

Our January Frequency Fridays show features electronic musician David Morneau (NYC), ambient-electronica group Tone Elevator (CMH), experimental musician Mike Shiflet (CMH), and experimental percussionist Liminal People (Cincy). Date: Friday, January 6 2012. Location: Wild Goose Creative (2491 Summit St. 43202). Admission: $10. Doors open 8pm. Our Frequency Fridays 2011-2012 season is supported by a generous grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

About the performers:

David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre. In his work he endeavors to explore ideas about our culture, issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of music itself. Morneau’s work is characterized by his eclectic interests and collaborative spirit. Described by Molly Sheridan as a “flashing beacon” of inspiration, Morneau’s eclectic output is best exemplified by 60×365, his “ambitious yearlong musical project” for which he composed a new one-minute composition every day. These “miniature compositions include ambient tracks, found sound, instrumental performances, and plenty of loop and sample-based pieces.” Selections from 60×365 have been featured on the Sonoscop festival in Barcelona, Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota, Electronic Music Midwest at Lewis University, in a collaborative dance performance with choreographer Kristin Hapke at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, Washington, and on Jon Nelson’s Some Assembly Required. Morneau’s current ambitious composition, Love Songs Project, is a collaboration with eleven poets that combines Shakespeare’s sonnets with contemporary poetry in genre-crossing songs. Each song is composed in a manner that allows for easy adaptation, allowing him to create multiple arrangements for a wider range of performance options.

Tone Elevator was formed in 2008 and consists of Karen Kreutzfeld, Luckydog, and Adam “A/DM” McKinley, who later joined in 2010. All three members have had extensive musical backgrounds and use a variety of electronic keyboards, sound modules, and guitars to create dark ambient sounds and sonically meandering noises.

Described as a “pink haze of layered drone-goo, wrapped in static”, Mike Shiflet’s music crosses boundaries between ambient, drone, and beat-based noise. His performance technique involves a combination of several analog noise generators with Macintosh computer and software, usually resulting in a mix of rich drones and fluttering, frequency-jumping noises. In addition to recording as a solo artist, he has been involved in a variety of groups ranging from the violin-led improv group Burning Star Core and the laptop duo Scenic Railroads to performance troupe Noumena and cathartic sludge/noise band Sword Heaven. For a number of years, Mike ran GMBY Records (known as Gameboy before legal threats from Nintendo) and released exactly 100 albums by improv and noise artists from across the globe. His most recent self-released album is “http://www.michaelshiflet.com/shop/llanos.html”>Llanos.

Liminal People (formerly known as Unfound Man) has been making more-or-less musical noises alone or in various obscure southern midwest and northern southeast bands for over a quarter-century. He is primarily a drummer and percussionist of minimal training, as well as a self-taught bassist, keyboardist, and occasional vocalist. Groups he has worked with over the years include: Mexican Pig Torture, Burning Giraffe, Toys Don’t Hate, Dionysian Tapestry, Death Hippy, And Siamese Urbain, Bulbous, Involution, Metanoia, Neato Torpedo, Chivalrous Dogs, Mystic Dub Star, Maybe, Subaudition, and Woodsprites. The songs on his first solo CD, Liminal Transfers, released 2010 by Sothis Medias, represent material recorded 2001-2010.