Matt Davignon and Kristin Miltner -  2011 Summer Tour

Tuesday, August 9th, 8:30 pm, free
La Crosse, WI:
Cavalier Lounge
114 5th Ave N
Admission is free, but please donate to the tour or buy a CD

Wednesday, August 10th, 8:00 pm, free
Milwaukee, WI:
Audible Electricity at Shampoo Horn
For Address, please RSVP at http://audible.luvsound.org/
Matt Davignon/Kristin Miltner duo
Wilhelm Matthies (homemade string instruments)
Meg Karls (solo violin)
Admission is free, but please donate to the tour or buy a CD

Friday, August 12th, 7:00 pm, $5
Indianapolis, IN:
Outsound Festival
at Service Center for Contemporary Culture and Community
3919 Lafayette Rd.
Matt Davignon solo
Kristin Miltner solo
Jordan Munson
Shedding
DMA

Saturday, August 13th, 9:00 pm, donation
Toledo, OH:
Robinwood Concert House
2564 Robinwood Ave
Matt Davignon solo
Kristin Miltner solo
Five Dollar Ferrari

Sunday, August 14th, 8pm $7
Chicago IL:
Elastic Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl.
Baker/Zerang (piano, percussion)
Kristin Miltner solo
Matt Davignon solo
The Green Pasture Happiness(Brian Labycz, Dan Fandiño, Aaron Zarzutzki - modular synthesizers)

Photo by Peter Kaars

Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient drum-machinist  living in Oakland, California. Originally born in Western Massachusetts, he spent  musically formative years in Northern California, tinkering with tools such as lo-fi samplers, cassette tapes, household objects, 4-track compositions, extensive chains of guitar effects, prepared instruments, and field recordings. These explorations fuel and inform his current work, which most frequently involves processing the sounds of a drum machine in real-time with various electronic devices. Characteristics of his music include a focus on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections, with a focus on evoking biological systems. Matt has released 3 cds with this setup, the most recent of which is "Living Things" on Edgetone Records, released in 2010. Matt also co-produces the Luggage Store Gallery Experimental Music series in San Francisco, and has produced odd concerts such as the San Francisco Found Objects Festival and Droneshift. www.ribosomemusic.com

Kristin Miltner is a composer, video and installation artist, and sound designer living in Oakland, California. She most often performs music live with versions of her custom software. She has designed this to scan sound files and live input, allowing her to instantly restructure the sounds into sequenced arrays of units of varying lengths. This scanning idea is like imagining a giant octopus in a long thin hallway with continuous windows on each side. One can touch both sides of the hallway with one�s fingertips (if one is an octopus). The length of the hallway is infinite. So the octopus runs up and down the hallway opening and closing windows, letting a little bit of water in here and there, but never stops moving back and forth, and some windows stay open for longer than others. But there�s a rhythm to it; it�s an efficient octopus. The ocean is the sound source, the hallway and octopus are the scanners, the windows determine what gets in, and the octopus�s rhythm is the sequencing mechanism. Her debut solo recording, "Grains", can be found at www.praemedia.com, and her latest release, "Music for Dreaming and Playing", can be found here: http://asthmatickitty.com/music-for-dreaming-and-playing

Kristin Miltner Samples can be found here
http://soundcloud.com/kristin-miltner

Matt Davignon mp3s
1) Coral (6.33mb)
2) There once was an accident here (6.77mb)
3) Mold (7.64 mb)
4) Ricochet Robot (4.29mb)
5) Badge (5.09 mb)
6) Blind Cave Tetra (4.90mb)
7) Electric Fence (5.81 mb)

Our tech needs:
--Stereo PA system, with inputs for mono 1/4" cables  (for Matt) or XLR or TRS cables (for Kristin)
--Small table for Kristin
--Chairs
 
 

Some nice things people have said:

Kristin:
"At some distant point in a much-distant future, something like this will be used to filter through the airwaves of an arboretum on Venus....Miltner is able to conjure strikingly visual compositions" - Groovemine

Kristin:
"improvised fragments of words/phrases, accented with other sounds and noises, entwining and piling them on top of one another to create a strata of richly textured music." - Earlabs.org

 Matt:
"Davignon coaxes a shifting, kaleidoscopic ecosystem from his chosen black box." - Chris Sharp, The WIRE 

 Matt:
"sometimes spare and crackling, alternately taking turns into what 70s kraut rock may have sounded like to dolphins � fragile and gorgeous and stubbornly weird." - San Francisco Bay Guardian

 Matt:
" Building on subliminal movement, "Living Things" sees Davignon applying the organic sounds he has discovered to create mood and texture as unexpected as its source." - Connexion Bizarre

Contact Information:
Email: mattdavignon@gmail.com & miltnerunit@gmail.com
Phone: 510-268-8213