the finite state machine presents:
LENGTHENING HORIZON
an evening of electronic music

featuring:
    turner of wheels
    Weirding Module
    the You Me Color Band
    Shane Whitbread

9 PM, Saturday January 29th
le Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent
4 dollars or PWYC

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turner of wheels
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t.o.w. uses popular alternative music structures and found vocals to explore the tendency of the human brain to find meaning in chaos, deities in your breakfast burrito, and the whispers of ghosts in static. shane turner lives in Montreal where he participates in various electronic, improvised and electroacoustic music projects.

http://www.notype.com/drones/bio.e/turnerofwheels_/

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Weirding Module
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Weirding Module is former Wolf Eyes housemate and Awesome Color (Ecstatic Peace Records) bassist, Michael T’s, solo project made during every available moment of time when he’s not skateboarding or vegan cooking.

The music is a heady delay-drenched mix of synthesizers and samples, heavily influenced by repetition (Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, Throbbing Gristle, et. al.) and seasoned with some Tangerine Dream and dub reggae elements.

Weirding Module’s first release was an American Tapes bootleg cassette for the No Fun Festival (NYC) in 2004. Other releases have followed on T’s own Senseless Empire label, Ozonokids (Spain), Night People (US), Scumbag Relations (US), Silver Ghosts (Netherlands) and Faux Pas (US).

Weirding Module has toured the US East Coast and the Canadian Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as well as tours in Europe and South America.

http://www.myspace.com/weirdingmodulemusic

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The You Me Colour Band
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joshua bastien plays solo as midwifery and with wasted nymph and selfish implosions. katherine kline plays in dreamcatcher. in the you me colour band, josh and katherine play around with human and machine circuitry, voice, tape, synth, to create channels for momentary psychosensory dedifferentiation.

http://myspace.com/theyoumecolourband

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Shane Whitbread
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I can trace the genesis of this project back to about 1995. 2 factors started it….a summer job leading to me getting my first multi-second delay pedal with hold capabilities [a dod dfx94 4 second digital delay that cost me the low price of $260 cdn at that point] and cassette four-track, and my friend Dave playing Brian Eno’s “Discrete Music” for me, which opened me up to the idea of shorter looped melodic ideas that come and go as the performer sees fit. Honestly, beyond some attempts to expand on that in the live atmosphere ending in a variety of failures it is still very much rooted in exactly what it started with. A love of melody and space. The disassociation that comes from stacking melodic movements on top of each other, stripping it down,a down, and rearranging it in real time.

The core is as it always has been in regard to tools used. Electric Guitar, multiple samplers, delay and reverb pedals, and vague ideas that come out through record and jamming that I integrate into live improvisation. Other tools have come and gone, but in the end it always is rooted in those sort of sounds and those kind of ideas. I generally stick to using the sound basis of an electric guitar as I am most comfortable with that instrument and know how to manipulate it best, but synths have come and gone and I have performed with just synths a few times to varying degrees of success.”

http://www.myspace.com/fivewayssound