(re)connect is electric.kitchen’s evening of experimental electronic music and visuals exploring reconnecting after two years of isolation for performing artists. The whole evening connects its parts into a journey, newly traveled every night.

Artists

Mark Lentczner works with electronic sonic elements - analog synthesizers, sampled sounds, drum boxes, handmade electronics, effects boxes - using them in ways that skirts the line between recognizable musical forms, and journeys in sonic space. The music is all conceived for live performance, using many different ways to interact with electronics, building on the energy of live creation with an audience.

Bill Waitroski uses modular video synthesis and video feedback to create abstract visual interpretations of the hidden energy fields that surround us. The live performed visuals expose a secret, subtle, sometimes unruly world, lying just outside our normal field of perception.

Guest Musicians

Casual Decay is the expansive ambient project of Portland resident Jon Nasrallah. Modular synthesizers, keyboards, field recordings, and effects create generative soundscapes inspired by the complex emergent systems of natural life from microscopic to ecological scales.

Chantal deFelice is a passionate autodidact with penchant for science, literature, history and travel. She manipulates material gathered from these sources of learning into tangible or experiential art: alternating between performing live video projections, composing audio soundscapes, and creating paintings on wood or ink drawings on paper.

Demetrius Patin creates music in layered patterns of polyrhythms, lush echos, and chewy distortion; this sound is meant to move you. If not physically, then emotionally. With hints of classical, jazz, and progressive rock the sound is unique, beautiful and driving.

Ellingson lives in Spokane, Washinton where he creates both visual art and music. His experimental electroacoustic music for live performance makes use of sequencers, small desktop synths, keyboard, wind and foot controllers. And real saxophones.

WabiSabi (DB Pawlan) performs ambient soundscapes and textures featuring percussive and melodic elements. Much of his work incorporates Asian-influenced inspiration, manifesting itself in the dichotomy of the Japanese notions of wabi and sabi.

Woke-Ass Messiah (Karl Benedek) lives in Eugene, Oregon. He makes music using a modular synth and a small family of semi-modular desktop synths. His focus is on building playable patches for live performance. His influences include kosmische drones, drifting vaporscapes, industrial squelch, chaos, and psychedelia.