Simon Wickham-Smith & Jonathan Way in store May 28th
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
JONATHAN WAY
THURSDAY, MAY 28th, 2009
7:00 PM
Simon Wickham-Smith is an English musician who has been pumping out great records for a good two decades now. Ranging from noisy and droney to more delicate acoustic improvisations, his work has covered a wide range. Mostly in collaboration with Richard Youngs, Simon has released a large number of classic CDs and LPs through labels such as No Fans, VHF, Majora, Forced Exposure, Fourth Dimension, Ignivomous, PseudoArcana, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Insignificant and Pogus. They still record together, however less frequently now and more of Simon’s recent recordings have been solos. On top of all this, Simon was a Buddhist monk in the Karma Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and has lately been busy with translation Mongolian literature into English. You can find out a lot more about him here:
http://www.myspace.com/simonwickhamsmith
From what I gather, Simon will be providing a nice drone for his in store performance at Dissonant Plane.
Also playing a short set this night will be Jonathan Way. Like Simon, Jonathan is also a translator of Asian texts as well as a sound artist. So it should come as no surprise that the two became friends when Simon relocated to Seattle. Jonathan is probably best known for playing with the Seattle Phonographers Union. Nonetheless, he has also had a CDR released by Greg Davis’ Autumn Records and a track on the “phonography.org 7″ compilation. For this solo performance he will be mixing recordings of snow, brush and trees and combining them with the sounds of small improvisations.