NEWS
Now that websites are old hat, I have a new web site. On this web site I have combined my activities in sound music listening explorations and my visual works including photography, painting, poetry,postcarding and writing. And for the first time some I've included links for friends interested in purchasing music either from the labels who support my work or directly from me. Enjoy.
Concerts, installations, and screenings curated by Gen Ken Montgomery featuring: Arcane Device, Benton Bainbridge, Charles Cohen, Chester Hawkins, CHOP SHOP, Chris Penalosa, Conrad Schnitzler, Daren Ho, Enchantress of Bioluminosity, G. Lucas Crane, Gen Ken, If, Bwana, J. Surak, Jeanne Liotta, Kevin Beasley, Lary 7, Mariano Airialdi, Modular Slideshow, Naval Cassidy, Ryder Cooley, The Sons of God, Tommy Birchett & Unguent. More information at: http://www.generationsunlimited.net
August 4 – September 1, 2013 - Opening reception August 4, from 4-6pm
Open hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Generator is the brainchild of New York based artist Gen Ken Montgomery. Known as “New York’s first sound art gallery”, Generator existed in the East Village and then Chelsea from 1989-1992. Content (cassettes, records, art, lamination, etc) from the original Generator will exist in Audio Visual Arts over the course of the this show. Gen Ken Montgomery will be holding down the shop each Saturday and Sunday through September 1. Content will be available for purchase, performances will take place, sounds will be heard.
Performance details to come
www.audiovisualarts.org/news
Saturday July 27, 2013 172 Allen Street, East Village 7PM Free
I'll laminate some pages from Adam's essay. Adam is also a musician and carpenter and he collaborated with me on Moon Raga last year at The Stone. He's a man with great ideas and a good sense of humor. Stop by if you are in the neighborhood and have listen.
Check out his book here
www.akpress.org/therevolutionwillbehilarious.html
8 Track Magic & CONtinuation CONcert tribute to Conrad Schnitzler with Conrad’s long-time friend Wolfgang Seidel
Ausland, Berlin, Germany, Wed May 1, 2013
Ausland, Berlin
Sarsen Circle
Sarsen Circle on Touch I was a member of an ensemble that performed at Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 2012 celebrating the 30th anniversary of the UK music publisher Touch. This concert, conducted by Mike Harding features some of my favorite composers including Phillip Jeck, James Thirwell, Marcus Davidson and Lary 7. The Sarsen Circle, named after Stonehenge’s best known features also features Brian Turner, Dave Knapik and Andrea, The Enchantress of Bioluminosity.
Gen Ken "Postcards" Double LP released October 12, 2012 by Vinyl on Demand
Gen Ken performances in New York, September 13 and 16, 2012
Touch 30th anniversary at Experimental Intermedia
In September 2012 Touch will present a series of events at ISSUE Project Room, Anthology Film Archives and Experimental Intermedia in NYC, celebrating the publisher’s 30th anniversary. On Sunday Sep 16 2012 the “Touch Ensemble” will perform at Phill Niblock‘s space Experimental intermedia in a concert conducted by one of Touch’s Mike Harding. The Touch Ensemble for this evening will consist of JG Thirlwell, Philip Jeck, Ken Montgomery, The Enchantress of Bioluminosity, Marcus Davidson, Lary 7, and Dave Knapik.
Gen Ken performs 8-Track Magic at Issue Project Room opening for Phillip Jeck and Ted Reiderer on Thursday September 13 at 8pm. Concert is part of the Touch 30th Anniversary celebrations in New York City.
Conversation between Gen Ken and Touch founder Mike Harding here: http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/features-interviews
Wednesday September 5th at 9am
In celebration of John Cage's 100th Birthday Celebration Gen Ken will
perform Jon Cage's 4'33" at The Bhakti Center in the East Village, New
York City
The Bhakti Center's address is 25 1st Avenue (The concert will be in the back room on the 3rd Floor) This concert is part of Global 4'33" organized by The World Listening Project
March 17, 2012 8pm - Tribute to Conrad Schnitzler
"Gen" Ken Montgomery will conduct 5.5.85, an 8-channel "Cassette
CONcert" composed by Conrad Schnitzler.
Cassette CONcert are boxed sets of cassettes that Schnitzler composed
with the intent that others could perform and listen to his CONcerts
without his presence.
This was the first CONcert given to Montgomery by Conrad in 1985.
Montgomery traveled extensively conducting this and other octophonic
CONcerts by live mixing the
cassettes through whatever speaker set-ups he could find on the fly.
Harvestworks - 596 Broadway, New York City
Admission-FREE
Sunday February 19 @8pm - First Gen Ken Concert in 2012
Moon Ragas - Gen Ken live with VERY SPECIAL guest Adam Krause (from
Milwawkee)
Transmissions from far away planets and cities of sound. The
Enchantress of Bioluminosity might add some moon shine to the sounds
too!
The Stone
New York City - corner of Ave C and 2nd Street East Village
Curated by Al Margolis - Pogus
Admission-$10
October 28 - Gen Ken performs Live at Tone Deaf 10
The Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston Ontario
Tone
Deaf 10
Sunday October 30 - Mischief Nite 8pm - Gen Ken live with
VERY SPECIAL guests
I will be re-interpreting DRONESKIPCLICKLOOP from Ponderfloorsample
using real musicians!
The Stone-corner of Ave C and 2nd Street East Village
Curated by Phill Niblock XI records
Gen Ken Montgomery conducts the Droneskipclickloop quartet featuring:
Sean Meehan, Michael Evans, Lary Seven, Leif Elggren and
Andrea, the Enchantress of Bioluminsoity
Admission-$10
I've heard that an excerpt from my sound work "ICEBREAKER", featuring the sound of an amplified ice crushing machine from the 50s, has been included in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Looking at Music 3.0. February 16 - June 6, 2011 @ MOMA
Looking at Music 3.0, curated by Barbara London, explores the influence of muic on contemporary art practices, focusing on New York in the 1980s and 1990s .View the PDFI am of a member of the Lazy Anarchists and we were featured, or maybe we performed, in an exhibition in Slovakia recently. The invitation is in Czech so I'm not sure of the details or the name of the gallery - but the title od the exhibition is "you will recognize it when you will get older". Here is the announcement. I was too lazy to go but I'm sure it was fun.
Gen Ken & Equipment, the first cassette I produced in 1981, has been featured by the infamous musicologist Tony Coulter, on WFMU's Beware of the Blog blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/12/blogpost-27.html
New release - A cassette! Remember those? "Termites" produced by Banned Productions in California is available for $5. It features sounds I recorded in Pennsylvania in a wood shed but also sounds of a bike ride in Belieze. Package comes with an amazing photograph of a termite home in Namibia captured by one of my favorite artists - Uschi Huber. www.bannedproduction.com/genken.html
Birds & Machines has been listed on a TOP TEN blog. Wow! That's all I have to say.
2010 Highlights: my ArtDetox Tour in Europe Art Detox Tour Eleven cities in ten days and NO ART MADE!
Hear:
1/f Noise | Smoothing Out The Press on Touch Radio - www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_46_ken_montgomery.html
1/f Noise - While teaching sound art in Cincinnati Ohio's art school DAAP, Montgomery organized sonic tours of the Ceramics Department. The audience was blindfolded and led one by one down 8 flights of stairs into a series of listening stations where ventilators, burning kilns and other machinery were in use (2008).Smoothing Out The Press was composed using the Sound of Sanding from the Crest Hardware Show plus recordings made at Ben Owen's Middle Press in Brooklyn while printing the Ministry of Lamination's Almost Blank Notebook letterpress edition (2007)
An interview/conversation with David Weinstein about my new CD Birds + Machines (1980-1989) & more - ARTonAIR.org
The new CD, Birds + Machines (1980-1989), is compiled from
compositions which in hindsight I find to be quite musical.
More details about that in the liner notes! Available on Pogus
Productions - www.pogus.com
You can buy it hear! If you want, you can buy a copy directly from me
too! (Then you get something extra!)
See:
A few postcards and my WE CLIP stamp were in the show I Will Cut ThrU at
Heimbold Visual Arts Center
Sarah Lawrence College
A have a few remaining laminations from the set of 10
laminations "Ceiling Non-Concealers" that were embedded in the Crest
Hardware Art Show in Williamsburg, - www.creathardwareshow.com
I'm selling them $4.39 each.
AND a areminder the CASSETTE release of mine called ELm ELm Elm
from experimental music label XV Paröwek in Poland - can be bought by PayPal for - ONLY $6 postage included!
Very specially packaged in an edition of 50.
GenCon Duets letterpress CD project from GD Stereo still available too!
I apologize for delays in mailing clippings because my WE CLIP rubber stamp is at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah lawrence College so I have to go there to use it. Oh, the inconvenience of art.
My "we Clip" stamp and some postcards are in the exhibition
I Will Cut ThrU"
Heimbold Visual Arts Center
Sarah Lawrence College