Experimental Music in Miami

What do bells made out of sliced gas tanks, a thunderstorm, a vibrating cell phone, a trombone, Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," a viola, a VST plug-in called Ambience, analog synthesizer modules, ping-pong balls, pianos, and drum machines have in common? They all involve sound, and will be utilized in some form or another at the Experimental Music Weekend of the Subtropics Biennial in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 27, 28, and March 1 in The Auditorium, on the campus of Miami Beach Senior High.
Produced by iSAW, the weekend will showcase performance-based work by some of the most celebrated proponents of experimental music and sound art in the United States, including Fluxus artists Alison Knowles, Long Tube composer Brenda Hutchinson, Compositional Linguistics minstrel Chris Mann, composer/research scientist David Dunn, sound installation artists Russell Frehling and Steve Peters, improvisational artist Jim Staley, intermedia pioneer composer Phill Niblock, and scholar and director of the Society for Ethnomusicology Steve Stuempfle.
My inside source tells me that festival artistic director, composer and sound artist Gustavo Matamoros will be performing on the 27 at 6:00 p.m. as part of the Fishtank Ensemble. Look for me there!
By Necee Regis, Globe correspondent

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