Top night featuring one of America’s finest modular synth composer/performers Mark Cetilia of Providence. Completing the night will be Mind on Fire’s genii Jason Charney and James Young.

James and Jason may need no intro to Baltimoreans – virtuosi in their fields: composers extraordinaire but also fabulous improvisors and we’ll see that side to them on this evening. Charney on flute+ electronics, Young on bassoon + electronics.

Cetilia is a legendary pedagogue of the Rhode Island art schools – shaping and warping many young minds with noise, sound art and deep synth knowledge. He’s had his work featured previously in our Diffusion Festival – now see/hear him live and experience a truly adept and thoughtful synth performer.

Marks Bio:

Mark Cetilia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice exists at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past two decades, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields for their monumental sound installation Callspace, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.”

Cetilia’s work has been screened / installed at the ICA (London, UK), O’ (Milan, IT), Oboro (Montréal, QC), R.K. Projects (Providence, RI), and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed widely on festivals such as Borealis (Bergen, NO), SFEMF (San Francisco, CA),  ICMC (Ljubljana, SI), and Woodstockhausen (Bloomville, NY), and at venues such as Café OTO (London, UK), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich, CH), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), LACE (Los Angeles, CA), Roulette (New York, NY), Goethe-Institut (Boston, MA), Sound of Mu (Oslo, NO), and Electronic Church (Berlin).
Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a variety of musicians and artists including Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, Attila Faravelli, Kadet Kuhne, and Eric Wong. His sound works have been published by MORE Records, YDLMIER, Lacryphagy, Interval, Radical Matters, Dragon’s Eye, IYNGES, and the Estuary Ltd. imprint, which he runs with his partner Laura Cetilia. He lives and works in Providence, RI, where he teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.
http://mark.cetilia.org/

Event location:

425 e 31st ST