Nada Presents: Shedding / Mykola Haleta / Lee Noble / Pooch Karton
An evening of experimental electronic music featuring Louisville-based sonic explorer Shedding and acousmatic pattern virtuoso Mykola Haleta. Lee Noble’s folk influenced electronics and Pooch Karton’s splintered rhythms kick off the night.
Shedding works primarily with hardware synthesis, but has employed computer, harmonium, acoustic guitar, voice, field recordings, and sample collage to compose a varied, but deeply focused catalog of music. In their own words: “I’ve recently been interested in building layers of intentional chaos and exploring perceptions of order and the natural human tendency to seek and find patterns within that sound. There is a deliberate contrast between the controlled chaos simulating the natural world and the synthetic sounds I’m working with.” Shedding has released music on Traced Objects, Fluf, Superpang, and Obsolete Staircase, among others.
Mykola Haleta is an artist, educator, graphic designer, pattern designer and independent image researcher based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Mykola’s work utilizes improvisation, mathematics and rule sets in the development of new pattern systems, textiles, typography, performance and sound design. His visual vernacular stems from an entanglement of cybernetic systems, diatoms, apophenia (pareidolia), B-movie (raw) special effects, combinatorics (graph theory), Anthropod design, microchip design and crystallography. Textile patterning, graphic design and Op-Art converge with his personal lexicon of techniques, systems and processes which is evident across his sound, performance and visual work.
https://www.michaelmykolahaleta.com/
Lee Noble is a composer and artist whose audio work has focused on the in-between places of music forms, where synthesizer composition and folk traditions start to meet. He is designer and co-founder of the label imprint No Kings, runs Night Club gallery in St. Paul, and has has performed at venues and festivals throughout the US, Europe, and Japan including Sonihouse (Nara), MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary (Los Angeles), the Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival (Chicago), Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh), Rewire Festival (Den Haag), and Issue Project Room (Brooklyn). His music has been released by Muzan Editions, Pale Blue Records, Bathetic Records, Hands in the Dark, Patient Sounds, and Moon Glyph among others. His gallery show Lurkers is currently at Dreamsong through October 26th
Pooch Karton is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Minneapolis. Through recordings, performance, and installation, Pooch Karton explores the multivalent nature of sound with an ever shifting set of interests and strategies. Pooch Karton has released work on Dream Disc and Nada (which he co-runs). In 2019, he co-founded InSitu - Festival for Electronic Music and Sound Art in Minneapolis.