February 16, 2007

AIDAN BAKER :: experimental guitar / ambient / drones

MIKRONESIA :: dense glitch / ambient with live DSP processing

THE GREAT QUENTINI :: homemade instruments / performance art

AIDAN BAKER is a writer and musician based in Toronto, Canada, active as a solo artist and with the groups Nadja and ARC. He is the author of three books of poetry and has released numerous recordings with such labels as Drone Records, Alien8 Recordings, Gears of Sand, and Die Stadt Musik.

MIKRONESIA is a Philadelphia-based producer, composer and musician. Since 1999 he has been playing in clubs, parties and galleries around the city both as a keyboardist and as a laptop based performer and DJ. From 2000-2003 he was the leader, producer and keyboardist for the Philly based live electronica ensemble Robots in Disguise. Post-Robots, Mikronesia has been doing free lance production and performance, concentrating on lending his ambient and glitch skills to artists from all musical genres.

THE GREAT QUENTINI is a performance artist and a sculptor who makes costumes and musical sculptures out of found materials. He has shows in which he wears costumes, plays these musical sculptures, and tells humorous stories; acting out the parts that defy words. These stories are often from his life experience and these performances are like that of no other stage dweller.