Wednesday November 20 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Perhaps best known as host of Star’s End (WXPN's renowned radio program of spacemusic dreamscapes) and as coordinator of The Gatherings (Philadelphia's premiere concert series of innovative music), Chuck van Zyl has also been making his own unique style of Electronic Music since 1983. Using a variety of modern analog synthesizers, and operating at an emotional and enthusiastic pitch, Chuck van Zyl realizes music that possesses as much the buzz  and crackle of electricity as it does the frigid depths of space. Throughout his live sets Chuck van Zyl pushes and pulls, expands and contracts his music, and manages to establish an engaging contour through various scenarios and scenes - to attain a rare unity. Offering vivid synthesized sonorities the music's appeal lies in its minimalist values, and in this musician's ability to create an uncommonly intimate and absorbing listening experience. Anyone in love with Spacemusic and its very specific poetry will want to hear his work in concert.

Daniel Klag recently released Facsimile, his second album for Soap Library and tenth album to date. Recorded over the course of two years in small, intimate spaces — hotel rooms, train cars, a cozy Manhattan apartment — Facsimile is an audio diary for the digital age, composed on a laptop using portable instruments such as battery-powered synths and samplers interspersed with field recordings sourced from East Coast hiking trips spanning Acadia to Asheville.

Danielle Nia is a Philadelphia based and Berklee-trained jazz composer and performer, whose love for electronic music and experimental sound has always been a driving force in her creative journey. Initially trained as an acoustic instrumentalist, Danielle draws inspiration from electronic music legends like Wendy Carlos, Vangelis, Manami Matsumae, and Suzanne Ciani. Her extensive experience with keyboard synthesizers, computer-based composition, combined with her skills as a computer programmer and her experiments with circuit bending, has led her to the world of modular synthesizers. Here, she beautifully merges the intricate complexities of electronics with her desire to express delicate beauty through sound. 

Null Phi Infinity is an interdisciplinary artist and musician interested in generative processes and how complex behavior can emerge from simple systems. Visually they create geometric forms distorted or glitched by more complex organic processes to create hybrid audio reactive works to enhance the audio experience. 

Using field recordings, modular synths, and guitar drones, Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (Tangent Universes) creates immersive compositions from her Mid-Atlantic context exploring collective memory in nature. She is a contributing writer at Tape Op magazine, and co-organizer of Sound Scene, hosted annually at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Carolyn curates the Singles Series with Las Vegas label Mystery Circles, where she also contributes to editorial. She is a member of hydrophonic experimental project Wooder.