ASEUM 2009 + Ear 2 Eye Festival

SABAW MEDIA ART KITCHEN
in cooperation with
MULTIMEDIJSKI KIBLA and ASIA-EUROPE FOUNDATION (ASEF)
present

ASEUM 2009
Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium
+
EAR 2 EYE FESTIVAL
Festival for experimental music and related visual art
21-25 JULY 2009
Various Venues
Manila, Philippines

FIVE [5] DAYS OF: Concerts / Conferences / Workshops / Open Fora / Discussions /
Research / Networking / Panels / Synaesthetics / Showcases / Video screenings /
Lectures / Asia Europe Policy Meetings / Parties / Intoxication and Relief


PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Angelo Vermeulen [BE]
Brian O’Reilly [US]
Christiaan Cruz [US]
Chloé Cramer [CH]
Darren Moore [AU]
Diego Maranan [PH/CA]
Emma Oto [GB/JP]
Erick Calilan [PH]
Frauke Frech [DE]
House of Natural Fiber [ID]
Kim Xupei [CN]
Jerneja Rebernak [SI/SG]
Malek Lopez [PH]
Mari Keski-Korsu [FI]
Mannet Villariba [PH]
Manuel Schmalstieg [CH]
Noel De Brackinghe [PH]
Lirio Salvador [PH]
Paula Vélez [CO]
Peter Tomaz-Dobrilla [SI]
Rick Bahague [PH]
Tad Ermitano [PH]
Tengal [PH]
Tim O’Dwyer [AU]
Vanini Belarmino [DE/PH]
Visual Pond [PH]

LIVE PERFORMERS

Aether9
Angelo Suarez
Armor
Arvie Bartolome
Autoceremony
Blend:er
Brian O’ Reilly / Darren Moore duo
Caliph8
Costantino Zicarelli
DJ Drumlander
DRIP
Edsel Abesames
Eggboy
Elemento
Etniktronika
Gangan Ensemble
INC
Inconnu ictu
Iron Egg
Jon Romero
Mannet Villariba
Minister MarkZero
Mitch Garcia
Nyangbinghi
Rubber Inc
Sgt. Vez
Tad Ermitano
Tengal
Terraformer
Tim O’Dwyer
Ugong


VENUES

JULY 21: Kick-off Party
7:00 PM Gweilos Bar, Makati

JULY 22
2:30 PM University of the Philippines- Diliman
7:00 PM Green Papaya Art Projects

JULY 23
1:30 PM De La Salle University-Dasmariñ as
7:00 PM Espasyo Siningdikato

JULY 24
1:30 PM De La Salle University- Benilde SDA (School of Design and Arts)
7:00 PM Penguin Café

JULY 25: Closing Ceremonies
5:00 PM Mogwai Cinematheque, Cubao X


website: http://aseum09.tk/
contact: sabawmediahub@ gmail.com


In partnership with:
Green Papaya Art Projects· Media Arts Manila· House of Natural Fiber (HONF)· Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition (EXIST)· Visual Pond Artspace, Inc· TAOINC· Computer Professional’s Union (CPU)· Biomodd [LBA2]· Un.Plug UP Linux User’s Group· UP Asterisk· Sweetspot Studios· Expansions· Aether9

Supported by:
Internet Café Association of Imus Inc · Choppa · Cubao X · Mogwai Cinematheque · Stonehouse Hotel · Ginebra Premium Gin · GeiserMaclang Marketing Communications Inc. · Joe and Bob’s Inihaw City · International Open Source Network · DLSU-CSB School for Design and Arts · DLSU-D (College of Science) · Lasalle School of Arts Singapore · G.ho.st Inc · Belarmino & Partners · ZENSORS · Philippine Society of IT Educators · N3krozoft Ltd.

Media Partners:
Uno Magazine · NU 107.5 · RJUR 105.9 · Circuit Magazine · Juice.ph · Click the City · PinoyCentric · Status Magazine · Flippish Advocacy Photographers · Artepinas · Metapixel Media and Design · YOCARD

ASEUM 2009 + Ear 2 Eye Festival is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation as a follow-up project of the Asia-Europe Art Camp New Media Series.

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ASEUM: 1st International New Media Art Festival in the Philippines

ASEUM: The 1st International New Media Art Festival in the Philippines

On July 21-25, 2009, SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) in cooperation with KIBLA MMC (Slovenia) and the Asia-Europe Foundation brings together the largest delegation of new media artists for ASEUM - the first international new media art festival in the Philippines – that kicks off 6:00PM at Gweilos, Makati for everyone to experience what new media art is.

Fostering a Culture of Knowledge-Sharing
"The festival aims to become a catalyst for a cultural, educational, and technological exchange on emerging new media art practices in South East Asia and Europe," says Tengal, festival organizer for ASEUM "But more importantly to try and shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies."

This is why ASEUM has partnered with several top universities such as the University of the Philippines-Diliman, De La Salle University-Dasmariñas and DLSU-CSB School of Design and Arts that actively support the development and growth of new media art.

Leading new and inter media art practitioners, researchers, curators and producers from all over the globe such as Peter Tomaz Dobrila [si], Jerneja Rebernak [si/sg], Emma Oto [jp/gb], Aether9 [global], Tad Ermitano [ph], Malek Lopez [ph], Angelo Vermeulen [be], Diego Maranan [ph], Brian O’ Reilly [us], Rick Bahague [ph], Lirio Salvador [ph], Visual Pond [ph], Tim O' Dwyer [au], Darren Moore [au], Vanini Belarmino [de/ph], and Noel de Brakinghe [ph] will hold lectures, workshops and discussions among the most versed of Filipino students in new media art to encourage them to pursue degrees in such field.

Topics such as Open Source Advocacy, Technology and Cultural Practices, Open Structures and Remote Real time Storytelling, Intersections of Art, Ecology, Gaming and Advocacy, Data Visualization: Making meaning in an Info-rich World, Computer music and video in a live setting, Media and the Creation Process, Sound Mapping: Circuit Bending, Pure Data: Practical Programming for Sound Art, Video Art and Experimental Moving Image, Electroacoustic improvisation, Mono- Multi- and Inter-Media, The Value of Exchange in Creative Interdisciplinary and Cross-Border Collaborations, and Why Numbers Make Sounds: Basic Introduction to Patching and Audio Synthesis using Max/Msp will be covered.

A Transformative Sound Experience
Change the way you perceive sound with five nights of rapid electrofringe experimentation on sound and moving image with VJing, intermedia performances, cutting-edge experimental music and related visual arts at ASEUM’s Ear2Eye Program.

“The E2E program wraps up the night with exciting performances from local and foreign guests,” says Tengal “Take this opportunity to be exposed to live improvised experimentations on sound and moving images while sipping a beer or two.”

Catch performances by Iron Egg, Rubber Inc, Caliph8 , Gangan Ensemble, Inconnu ictu, Tengal, Aether9, Elemento, Ugong, Blend:er, Minister Zero, DJ Drumlander, Sgt. Vez, Edsel Abesamis, Tad Ermitano, Mannet Villariba, Drip, Eggboy, Autoceremony, Etniktronika, Angelo Suarez, Costantino Zicarelli, Nyangbinghi, and Terraformer at Gweilos, Green Papaya, Penguin Café and Mogwai Cinematheque.

ASEUM is a project by SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) in cooperation with Multimedia Center KIBLA (Slovenia) and is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation as a follow-up project of the Asia-Europe Art Camp New Media series. For more information on festival fees, schedule, and guests email sabawmediahub@gmail.com or call/SMS +639166188191 and visit the ASEUM website at http://aseum.tk.

This event is brought to you by with partnership of Media Arts Manila, House of Natural Fiber (HONF), Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition (EXIST), Visual Pond Artspace, Inc, TAOINC, Computer Professional’s Union (CPU), Biomodd [LBA2] Un.Plug UP Linux User’s Group, UP Asterisk, Sweetspot Studios, Expansions, Aether9; with the support of UNO Magazine, Status Magazine, Circuit, Advocacy Photographers, PinoyCentric, Metapixel, YOCard, Juice.ph, Flippish, Click the City, UR 105.9, NU 107, Stonehouse Hotel, ICAII, Ginebra Premium Gin, Philippine Society of IT Educators and International Open Source Network, Belarmino & Partners, N3krozoft Ltd.

MORE INFO ON: http://aseum09.tk/

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Extended Open Call for Participants: ASEUM Symposium

Extended Open Call for Participants: ASEUM Symposium
Deadline extended until July 8,2009, Wednesday

ASEUM is an international network of new media art practitioners pushing for cultural, educational, and technological exchange on emerging new media art practices in South East Asia and Europe. Initiated by SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) and Multimedia Center KIBLA (Slovenia), ASEUM hopes to draw attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture through various symposia, workshops, and collaborative endeavors.

Discussions on interactive design, networked cultures, the burgeoning open source software movements, interactivity, data visualization, bio-technology, DIY electronics, open-source hardware,computer/electronic music, and sound and video art are among the few topics that will be tackled by some of the most recognized artists working on new media art and technology in Europe and Asia.

This year's symposium is slated to run from July 21-25, 2009 in Manila, Philippines and is open to all artists, software programmers, engineers, scientists, students, DIY hobbyists, and art enthusiasts. The symposium will feature new media artists from Europe and Asia through a series of interactive sessions, open fora, live audio-video
performances and presentations in top universities and renowned artist-run spaces in Metro Manila.

*Please note that the hands-on workshop labs on graphical programming languages Pure Data and DIY sound devices using Arduino can only accommodate a limited number of participants.

To be considered for participation, please submit a 1-2 paragraph essay (not more than 300 words) stating your purposes in joining, including how you can contribute to the symposium given your specialization or field of work. Please also submit your full contact details along with the essay on or before July 8, 2009 to sabawmediahub@gmail.com or contact 09209053421.

Complete details regarding symposium venues, speakers, performers, presentation topics, and program flow available upon request; email eisajocson@yahoo. com.

ASEUM is sponsored by ASIA-EUROPE FOUNDATION as part of the Follow Up Project (FUP) of the 5th-6th Art Camp New Media and the Mini Summit on New Media Art policy & practice.

Feel free to disseminate this information to your blogs, websites, emails, and to interested parties.

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SINEMUSIKALYE - Massive New Media Audio-Video Concert

SINEMUSIKALYE
7pm, 14 March 2008, Friday / Remedios Circle, Malate,
Manila

The Cinema Committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts presents Sinemusikalye on 14 March, Friday, at 7 pm in Remedios Circle, Malate, with a massive new media audio-visual concert curated
by Tengal with SABAW Art Projects.

For the Sinemusikalye program, three projectors and three screens will be combined to make an expansive panoramic view; while the country's best sound artists, electronic musicians, and instrumentalistswil l perform live music at Remedios Circle, Malate in this never before attempted performance of this scale.

The multi-channel projection of video images and panoramic images by Lyle Sacris and Mark Mijares, will be controlled and manipulated live by video artists,Tad Ermitano and Blums Borres (courtesy of New Media Arts Manila). The main performances will include electronica pioneers Malek Lopez and Caliph 8 scoring Mowelfund animation films in three movements; while Tengal and The Gangan Orchestra (composed of 16 of the best local improvising sound artists, electronic djs and musicians) will be performing Tad Ermitano's video graphic score with algorithms by Tengal as part of the GANGAN SERIES; and will culminate the evening with a full-orchestral sonic blast combined with the panoramic videos manipulated live by Tad Ermitano. Also performing are seminal new media artists, Elemento and The Children of Cathode Ray who will also be scoring animation films by underground legend, Roxlee, as well as a film by Tad Ermitano. The new generation of electronic musicians, Moon Fear Moon and Trojan Whores will also perform their unique brand of sound deconstruction alongside video deconstruction by
Blums Borres.

At the beginning of the festivities, filmmaker John Torres will be screening the three-screen version of his feature film, Years When I was a Child Outside. Previously premiered at the Berlin Forum, in Berlinale international film festival, this will its Philippine premiere. The film will be accompanied with a live score by the Makiling Ensemble.

Videos by

Lyle Sacris

Mark Mijares

John Torres

Tad Ermitano

Roxlee

Mowelfund Film Institute animators

Music by:

Moon Fear Moon

Malek Lopez with Caliph 8

Elemento

Trojan Whores

Children of Cathode Ray

Makiling Ensemble

Gangan Orchestra:

Ria Munoz (laptop, electronics)

Arvie Bartolome (guitar)

Tengal (drums, objects, electronics, conductor)

Erick Calilan (various Asian instruments, gongs,
electronics)

Lirio Salvador (electronics)

Inconnu Ictu (electronics)

Anthony Morris (alto sax)

Atchoo Ilagan (drums)

Mikey Abola (bass)

Anto Bautista (guitar)

Caliph 8 (turntables, Akai mpc sampler)

Supreme Fist (turntables)

Kim Feliz (Koto)

Surprise Player X (trombone)

Surprise Player Y(trumpet)

National Commission for Culture and the Arts
SABAW
Visual Pond Art Projects
New Media Arts Manila
Sweetspot Studios
Mowelfund Film Institute

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S.A.B.A.W. Presents Happy Tengal Day!

S.A.B.A.W. Presents
“Happy Tengal Day”

When: July 24, 2007, 6pm (Performances start at exactly 8pm onwards)
Where: Mag:net Café -- Bonifacio High Street, The Fort Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila.

On Tuesday (July 24), there will be an ultimate art happening on Mag:net Café the Fort FOR FREE ENTRANCE. An exhibit opening by 9 foreign artists, Tengal will be premiering a new piece for a music ensemble, releasing a new album, and celebrating his birthday. Who is this Tengal anyway? [Go here for details: www.tengal.multiply.com, www.myspace.com/tengal]

Starting at 6pm, Mag:net will be having a BIG exhibit opening entitled "THE GALLEON TRADE" by 9 foreign artists. Galleon Trade is a series of international arts exchange projects, focusing on the Philippines, Mexico, and California. Taking the historic Acapulco-Manila galleon route as its metaphor of origin, these exhibitions seek to create new routes of cultural exchange along old routes of commerce and trade. [More info on their site: http://www.galleontrade.org/]

Afterwards, there will be a sound art/experimental music performance by an ensemble composed of 9 sound artists at 8pm. Drawing inspiration from Kotekan (Balinese Gamelan interlocking style), free improvisation, musical chairs, mathematics (combinatorics, number theory, motzkin numbers, etc) and a personal fascination/ obsession with the number 9, Tengal will be premiering a new time-based piece for 9 improvising sound artists.

The number 9 has been a fascinating number throughout history in: literature (Dante's The Divine Comedy has 9 circles of hell and 9 spheres of heaven), superstition (when reducing the number 666 – according to some to be the number of the Devil – with the number 9 all the way, you get 18, and by further reducing 18, you get the number 9), popular culture (Beatles’ Revolution 9), astronomy (before 2006 there were 9 planets in the solar system), religion (important Buddhist rituals usually involve 9 monks), and in classical music – the curse of the 9th refers to the superstition that a composer who writes a ninth symphony will die soon. Beethoven was the first.

According to Tengal:
“The piece is basically an organic rotation of 9 individuals interacting with each other thru
time-restraints.

The rules are simple:
1) Each player plays for 9 minutes only, then stops and waits for another 9 minutes before they
resume playing.
2) Each player should play 3 minutes apart.
3) They do this for 90 minutes. However, during the 87th minute, everyone has played four times –
and to keep the rotation going, everyone will be playing 20 seconds apart from each other during
the last 3 minutes"

Although it might sound as if it’s more a math problem than an actual performance, Tengal suggests that “the aim of each performer is to collaborate, interlock sound textures with other performers and make the totality of the ensemble’s sound organic as possible. The idea is to make the ensemble sound really organic as sounds evolve, intertwine, interlock, change and move forward every 3 minutes or so.”

The ensemble dubbed as “The Motzkin Gangan Ensemble” [in math, Motzkin numbers enumerate various combinatorial objects; and Gangan is a Japanese onomatopoeia which can mean a clanging sound, or a headache, or a ringing in your ears – Tengal himself is a sufferer of Vertigo] will be conducted by video artist Tad Ermitano (who also helped in developing the concept of the piece).

THE PERFORMERS:

Blums Borres (electric guitar)
Inconnu ictu (Alesis Airsynth)
Lirio Salvador (Sandata – home-made electronic instrument)
Ria Munoz (contact mics, found objects, Kaos Pad)
Caliph 8 (Akai MPC sampler)
Erick Calilan (circuit bent electronic devices)
Jonjie Ayson (Sandata electronic bass)
Blend:er (Roland Sh-101 synthesizer)
Tengal (drumset, hangdrum, kulintang, interactive computer)

CONDUCTOR: Tad Ermitano

Afterwards, there will be party and music by some of Manila’s finest music groups in celebration
of Tengal’s (born Earl Drilon) birthday!!! It is HAPPY TENGAL DAY (or Happy T-day for brevity)!!!

Bands will be performing right after "The Motzkin Gangan Ensemble":

Arvie Bartolome
Hilera
Severo
The Brockas
Pinikpikan

AND FINALLY,
Tengal will be releasing a new album entitled “CINEMA FOR THE EAR”, an anthology of soundtracks for independent films since 2005 to 2007.

Tengal has been scoring, acting, and designing sound for independent films since 2005;
particularly for the cinema of independent filmmakers: Lav Diaz (Heremias), Khavn dela Cruz (Idol, Bahag Kings, 3 days of Darkness), John Torres (Todo Todo Teros), and Raya Martin (Autohystoria, Long Live Philippine Cinema).

The songs in this album are from two Khavn dela Cruz feature films: “Three Days of Darkness” – a biblical campy lesbian horror flick that could convince atheists to go back to religion; and
“Idol: Hero/Villain” – a B-movie extraordinaire, a meta-action/ comedy film that’s also a musical, and according to Tengal, “one of the worst films I’ve ever seen; but definitely the best 90 minutes of my life… it’s so bad, its good!”

The finest in ambient screams, hybrid samba surf, drunken blues organ solos, freak-out free jazz
trips, over-the-top dub mambo, devious bossa J-pop arrangements, demented ambient Americana, super heroic surf guitars, sleazy 70s porn funk, moronic samples, industrial monster movies, karaoke vomit, and 30-minute sound design pieces of erotic aural torture.

This eclectic compilation of his cinematic music displays the full range of his talents and the
sick depths of his mind. CINEMA FOR THE EAR, listened as an album without the visuals, suggests a twisted and vivid narrative drama.

The limited edition known as the “Ka Elmo Edition” is limited to less than 20 copies, and will be
sold during the event.

ENTRANCE IS FREE. BRING EVERYONE. E – V – E – R – Y – O – N – E.

For album orders and reservations, questions and feedback please contact:
Tengal: Call 0920.6045559 or Email tengald@gmail. com for more details.

S.A.B.A.W. is a sound art collective and record label that represents a cross-section of sound
artists, performance artists, contemporary musician-composers and is dedicated to promoting and releasing the best in avant-garde, experimental and noise music in the Philippines.

www.sabaw.tk
www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/sabaw

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Sabaw Presents The Arvie Bartolome Experience

S.A.B.A.W. Presents
"THE ARVIE BARTOLOME EXPERIENCE"
WHEN: June 22, 2007, 9pm
WHERE: Mag:net Café, Katipunan
AGCOR Building (In front of Mirriam College)
335 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City
http://www.magnet. com.ph/
ADMISSION: 100 Php

S.A.B.A.W. will be releasing Arvie Bartolome's debut album, "HEAD EGO", a four-part anthology album of Arvie's work from 1998 until 2007. S.A.B.A.W. will also be releasing his latest album, "MY SHOEGAZING EXPERIENCE", which is a conceptual "pseudo-shoegazing" recording (read on), so absurd and ridiculous that only Arvie could have thought of it. Arvie is one of the country's unrecognized geniuses in the music scene, a silent outsider musician, a practicing sound engineer, and a clinically schizophrenic. Relatively unknown in his own country's local music scene, Arvie has been making music for more than a decade. He describes his music as vague and cryptic as "been some 14 years of music for me. Dived into several genres in the process and somehow made quite a mess with my taste." Arvie has been suffering from Schizophrenia since 2002. His work is highly idiosyncratic and unconventional that it often displays its own internal logic - straddling the thin line between absurd insanity and genius.

During the event there will be live performances by local sound artists, video artists and musicians.

PERFORMERS:
Blums Borres (on video) vs Inconnu ictu
Elemento + Ugong
Pow Martinez + Sharam Kiyoumarsi
Ria Munoz + Atchoo Ilagan
The Loveteam
ARVIE BARTOLOME (Main Act)

BLUMS BORRES is a time-based media artist who experiements with sound, video, and animation. He has a BA in Multimedia Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He took major subjects in 3D animation and minor subjects in sound composition. Currently, he is the technical director of the computer graphics department of Toei Animation Philippines and is addicted to the online MMORPG game, Rappelz.

ELEMENTO is the brainchild of experimental multi-media artist Lirio Salvador. Lirio Salvador, a native of the Philippines has created a number of experimental instruments based on his own concept of ethno-industrial art/music. His band Elemento produces oriental industrial noises and experimental music using his own instruments that include strings, electronics, winds and percussion.

Inconnu is Latin for "unknown person", while ictu means "a stroke or a blow" and when combined the meaning can be described to the person behind INCONNU ICTU. His fixation with a plethora of analog electronic devices and being infamous for playing "too loud" has earned him the title as "The Philippine Merzbow".

Conceptual + Sound + Science + Philosophy + Experimentation + Tradition = UGONG

POW MARTINEZ is a practicing visual artist and sound artist. He used to play with Ria Muñoz in a sound art duo, Nasal Police. SHARAM KIYOUMARSI is a guitarist from legendary underground grindcore metal band, L.O.C. (Loss of Control). The two have been collaborating recently and will perform their own brand of "drone doom" on album launching.

RIA MUÑOZ first worked with another sound artist Pow Martinez as the duo Nasal Police, doing sounds for most of the performances and dance projects by contemporary dancer Donna Miranda at CCP, notably for the WIFI project and for series of Anatomy Projects at Green Papaya. ATCHOO ILAGAN is a drummer, most notably for the band of "wonder girls", Wake Up Your Seatmate. The two had performed together once on Ria's solo album, Sough, and will pair up on a live performance on
the 22nd.

THE LOVE TEAM consists of Julius Valledor as frontman and guitars, Mister Puppy on lead guitar, Nick Lazaro on drums, and Diego Abad on bass and according to them they don't know what the hell they're doing.

THE ALBUMS:

HEAD EGO is comprised of his old cassette music dating back from 1998, where its alienating sounds, forlorn melodies, and demented disco beats, drove him mad, that he destroyed all existing copies of the music, smashed his computer and his head on the wall after four years where his first schizophrenic breakdown occurred. According to Arvie, "the music was a hinting of my psychosis" I was somewhat singing to things that are inexistent." HEAD EGO, he claims was "made out of deluded thoughts and feelings- that I had this habit for delusion unconsciously? kind of thought that I knew exactly what I was? and that found its way to a great disillusion? " Having all existing copies of HEAD EGO destroyed, only after FIVE years, a cassette copy was unearthed from a friend whom he had given a copy, years ago.

Being a four-part anthology, the album consists of the "infamous lost cassette tapes", with fairly recent various EPs: "Dysfunctional Noose", "It's pathetic but it's true" and "My Schizophrenic Love Story" whereas he claims that "My Schizophrenic Love Story emphasized expression of being in a severe state of erotomania." The album draws influences (to the point of twisted imitation) from NIN, Aphex Twin, John Zorn, Slint, Marilyn Manson, and My Bloody Valentine, among others. HEAD EGO is presented like a broken puzzle where the pieces do not fit. Although the songs are arranged chronologically, they can also be played at random, making each listen a new discovery. HEAD EGO is a physical manifestation of his mental breakdown and his attempts to redeem his sanity. It is his most personal album yet.

MY SHOEGAZING EXPERIENCE is a concept album that plays with the shoegazing genre and it also presents the "lighter and playful side" of Arvie Bartolome. Its concept is so absurd and ridiculous that it has become one of the most original ideas this year so far. The concept: consists of an imaginary recording session wherein he had at his disposal, more than a dozen stomp boxes (guitar effects), a couple of drum machines, stacks of huge amplifiers all miked and hooked into a multi-track recorder and subsequently gets all the equipment destroyed and toasted due to extreme levels and voltage overdrive. In real life, he was only equipped with a small old Macintosh computer, a few music software demos (notably Guitar Rig 2 demo) and his trusty Fender Stratocaster and an insane amount of creativity and concentration to be able to record thru the whole thing in two 15-minute takes without readily hearing the result of what he was recording! Amazingly, he emulates all the "destruction" he has done with his imaginary equipment the unwanted noises, the crackling of electricity, the muddy recorded sounds due to popping wires, to the sound of burning amps; and is skillfully able to make the recording melodically and aurally interesting.

"Shoegazing" is a genre of alternative rock in UK and coined by the Brit music press because the musicians in these bands maintained a motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while playing their instruments, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes. Therefore, My Shoegazing Experience is "pseudo-shoegazing" because he never even sets an eye on his feet during the album's creative process. All the eleven tracks in this album chronologically tell the tale of Arvie's "Shoegazing Experience", and it also includes two bonus tracks that are soon to be "sleeper hits".


ALL ALBUMS COMPILED AND PRODUCED BY TENGAL.
ALL ALBUMS ARE LIMITED TO A FEW COPIES ONLY!
For album orders and reservations, questions and feedback please contact:
Tengal: Call 0920.6045559 or Email tengald@gmail.com for more details.

S.A.B.A.W. is a sound art collective and record label that represents a cross-section of sound artists, performance artists, contemporary musician-composers and is dedicated to promoting and releasing the best in avant-garde, experimental and noise music in the Philippines.
www.sabaw.tk
www.groups.yahoo. com/groups/sabaw

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