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New Album Release!

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New Album released August 4th on Unseen Worlds!

“The through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.”

From Boom Kat:

Stuffed with revelatory wonders spanning fifty years of Stone’s decimated compositions, the followup to installations in 2016 & ’18 offers the broadest overview of work by a true maverick in his field. Injecting humour and playfulness to an often unyielding framework, Stone is responsible for some of computer music’s wittiest and playfully psychoactive work, bar none. This set scrolls right back to his earliest work circa 1972 at CalArts, under Morton Subotnick and James Tenney, and brings us bang up to date with his tekkerz in 2022, dilating the purview of previous instalments for the wildest, and arguably best, primer to his vital avant-garde side-spins on pop, Latin, folk, and experimental musics.

It all begins with a practice stemming from his graduate job at CalArts, when he systematically preserved to tape some 10,000 vinyl records ranging from Renaissance music to early electronics and global folk styles, where he effectively developed a process of pause-button editing foreshadowing hip hop. Also influenced by his studies of electro-acoustic music and the possibilities of computer memory as prototypical samplers, his music can be heard as an innovative sort of meta-archiving, and the through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.

Whether working with the laborious techniques of early computers, as on 1972’s uncannily future-proofed ‘Three Confusongs’ or smearing the vocals of Stefan Weiser (aka Z’Ev) into Roland Kayn-esque drones in ‘Ryouund Thygizunz’, or beyond the speed-of-thought algorithms of contemporary CPU’s in the trio of 2022 works, including the AI-alike sea shanty ‘Kustaa’, the effortlessness of Stone’s work is belied by very crafty mechanics and concept under the hood. And the way which he can truly tease out a sample before fully revealing its source simply never ceases to leave us reeling, as with the transformation of ‘Flint’s’ from Ace of Base like airport reggae lilt to a Max/MSP gobbled ‘Barbie Girl’, or indeed with his V/Vm-meets-Paul DeMarinis-like dissection of Queen’s in ‘Moranguk’.

September 12 18h00 Tokyo Shimo-Kitazawa Japan Shimo Kitazawa SPREAD

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Tuesday 18h00 September 12 2023
Please join Carl for his last performance in Japan for 2023. This event is 無政府Dystopia (Anarchy Dystopia) and will feature Carl’s solo performance as the headline act.
Also on the bill will be
koeosaeme 
Dana Ollestad
Tetsuya Fukada
DJ
Gideo
0
Sporte D
sanjugoban 
puq-o 
atom 
DANCE
Tomoshi Shioya

Lights by sanjugoban
Visuals by atom
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Artists:

2500¥+1D

Shimo Kitazawa SPREAD
Kitazawa 2-12-6 Setagaya-ku Tokyo
東京都世田谷区北沢2-12-6 リバーストーンビルB1F03-6413-8550
Map (English) at here
spread@toos.co.jp
Twitter: _spread_

October 6 7PM Queens NY Trans-Pecos

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Friday 11PM October 7 2023
Carl performs at Trans-Pecos in Queens, an event produced and hosted by Bonzo, a music collective and curatorial project that does releases as well as live shows. He’ll do a solo set featuring a lot of music never before heard in New York, and maybe some music from his latest release on Unseen Worlds.

Artists:

$22

Buy Tickets Online

Trans-Pecos
9-15 WYCKOFF AVE, 11 Weirfield St #16
Queens, NY 11385

general@thetranspecos.com
WEB: https://www.thetranspecos.com/
WEB: https://www.facebook.com/transpecos.ny
IG: #bonzoparty
Twitter: @thetranspecos

October 14 open 7PM start 7:30PM Winnipeg Canada Room 201 at the Forks send+receive Festival

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Photo: Billie Wheeler

Saturday open 7PM start 7:30PM October 14 2023
Carl performs at the 25th send + receive festival in Winnipeg Canada. This performance will feature his trio SENILE FELINES (Stone + Ned Rothenberg, winds and Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum) which debuted at the 2023 Big Ears Festival. The trio’s first Canadian appearance!

Artists:

$20 donation/no one turned away for lack of funds

Room 201 at the Forks
1 Forks Market Road (Second floor)

WEB: https://sendandreceive.org/v25-october-14th-2023/

October 15 Open 7PM Start 7:30PM Winnipeg Canada Room 201 at the Forks send+receive Festival

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Sunday Open 7PM Start 7:30PM October 15 2023
Carl’s solo performance as part of the great send+receive Festival in Winnipeg. Also on the bill: Princess Dasha, Savant Flaneur and Joseph Kalturnyk .

$20 donation/no one turned away for lack of funds

Room 201 at the Forks
1 Forks Market Road

send.director@gmail.com
IG: #send.receive
Twitter: sendreceivefest

October 17 Open 8:00 PM Start 9:00PM Chicago IL Empty Bottle

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Venue, at Red Bull Sound Select, at Empty Bottle in Chicago, USA, on February 20, 2016 // Bryan Allen Lamb / Red Bull Sound Select / Content Pool // P-20170222-00050 // Usage for editorial use only // Please go to www.redbullcontentpool.com for further information. //


Tuesday Open 8:00PM Start 9:00PM October 17 2023
Carl returns to Chicago after a four year absence – this time he’ll be at one of the most stalwart of institutions in the area – The Empty Bottle. In addition to a solo set from Carl, the evening will also feature appearance by Mukqs and Mrs Hands. You will want to be there!

Artists:

$16

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Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
+1 773-276-3600
emptybottle@emptybottle.com
WEB: https://www.emptybottle.com/

FB:https://www.facebook.com/events/s/carl-stone-mukqs-mrs-hands/652503266938247/

November 9 time tba Los Angeles CA 2220 Arts & Archives

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Thursday time tba November 9 2023
Day 1 of Carl’s three-day residency at 2220 Arts & Archives in Los Angeles Filipinotown. The residency features Carl’s solo work as well as some of his collaborative projects Day 1 features a presentation of HORIZONTAL BOUNDRIES a live soundtrack performance accompanying the film by Pat O’Neil. Also on the evening, Senile Felines, Carl’s new trio project with Ned Rothenberg (winds) and Soo Yeon Lyuh (haegeum). ) In the upstairs viewing room, the venue will also be featuring films by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto to which Carl has done soundtracks, including Kappa, featuring Mike Kelly as well as a continuously running ice and stone installation by sculptor Mineko Grimmer. More details coming soon!

Artists:

2220 Arts & Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

IG: #2220arts
Twitter: 2220Arts

November 10 time tba Los Angeles CA 2220 Arts & Archives

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Friday time tba November 10 2023
Day 2 of Carl’s three-day residency at 2220 Arts & Archives in Los Angeles Filipinotown. The residency features Carl’s solo work as well as some of his collaborative projects. Day 2 features Carl’s solo performance, a presentation of Adam Beckett’s Evolution of the Red Star, and early soundtrack for a film by the pioneer animator Adam Beckett. Also on the program, LUBAO, his duo collaboration with LAFMS stalwart Joseph Hammer. In the upstairs viewing room, the venue will also be featuring films by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto to which Carl has done soundtracks, including Kappa, featuring Mike Kelly as well as a continuously running ice and stone installation by sculptor Mineko Grimmer. More details coming soon!

Artists:

2220 Arts & Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

IG: #2220arts
Twitter: 2220Arts

November 11 time tba Los Angeles CA 2220 Arts & Archives

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Saturday time tba November 11 2023
Day 3 of Carl’s three-day residency at 2220 Arts & Archives in Los Angeles Filipinotown. The residency features Carl’s solo work as well as some of his collaborative projects. Day 3 features Carl’s solo performance, Gloria Chenge performing some of Carl’s compositions for solo piano, and a duet with Carl joining American guitarist and loopmaster Dustin Wong ( Ponytail / Ecstatic Sunshine) In the upstairs viewing room, the venue will also be featuring films by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto to which Carl has done soundtracks, including Kappa, featuring Mike Kelly as well as a continuously running ice and stone installation by sculptor Mineko Grimmer. More details coming soon!

Artists:

2220 Arts & Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

IG: #2220arts
Twitter: 2220Arts

November 17 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Friday time tba November 17 2023
The first of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. for this concert Carl performs a solo composition, followed by a duo with the estimable pianist Sarah Cahill, and then a trio performance featuring Carl with Ned Rothenberg and Paul Dresher. Also on the evening will be the first live performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s They Will Take My Island, a string octet about the life of Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan, world and American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

November 19 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Sunday time tba November 19 2023
The second of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. For this concert the festival moves to Gray Area, in San Francisco’s Mission District. the evening features the world premiere of Carl Stone‘s Re:gendo. Stone will perform live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo combined with his unique take on music from Japan as well as other parts of Asia. The music shares the immersive space with multi-channel video using specially commissioned drone footage shot over Tokyo. Featured as part of the performance will be Japanese vocalist Akaihirume.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

December 2 time tba Boston MA Non-Event

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Saturday time tba December 2 2023
Carl returns to Boston after an eight year absence. Details on this performance, sponsored and produced by Non-Event, the Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of experimental, abstract, improvised, and adventurous music from New England and around the world.
More information about this evening will be available soon.

WEB: https://www.nonevent.org/
IG: #noneventseries
Twitter: nonevent

December 8 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Friday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 8 2023
The first of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the first night the special guests include Senile Felines (Carl Stone (electronics), Ned Rothenberg (winds)+ Soo Yeon Lyuh (haegeum)) and
MIN Xiao-Fen (voice, pipa)

More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc

December 9 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Saturday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 9 2023
The second of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the second night the special guests include Matthew Sargent, Todd Reynolds, Elliot Sharp, MIN Xiao-Fen and Booker Stardrum.
More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc

July 10 2PM everywhere NTS Radio

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Monday 2PM July 10 2023
Carl joins DJ Silvia Kastel for the July edition of her monthly radio show, listenable anywhere and everywhere via the ‘net. Previews of the newest album, due for release August 4th will be heard! The programme will be available after the live broadcast via the NTS archive.

NTS Radio
https://www.nts.live/radio

WEB: https://www.nts.live/radio

July 13-15 8 PM London UK Cafe Oto

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Thursday 8 PM July 13 2023
CARL STONE AT 70
THREE-DAY RESIDENCY @ CAFE OTO, LONDON JULY 13-15
w/ guests Scanner, Vicki Bennett, Miki Yui, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Silvia Kastel, Emily Bick from The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music, Bradford Bailey from The Hum.
Music, interviews, panel talks, DJs and more!

Artists:

3-day Pass: £20 (Members), £32 (non-member advance).

Buy Tickets Online

Cafe Oto
18–22 Ashwin street, Dalston London E8 3DL

Map (English) at here
WEB: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/carl-stone-at-70-three-day-residency/