Serial band-starter Maurice Rickard has been performing live since 2001. He's done performances of guitar-and-PowerBook-based ambient electroacoustic improvisation under several different project names, ending up on the Circuits of Steel compilation, as well as participating in the 2003 Circuits of Steel tour of the Midwest. There he played to as many as 230 people in Austin, Texas, and as few as four in St. Louis. He's played shows in New York, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Cleveland, and elsewhere. In town, he ran an electronic music performance series at Club Cafe (Wired Mondays) in 2003, instituted the annual Open Mic Jandek Cover Night (November 5 at Kiva Han), and founded the Internet-based store and label onezeromusic.com.
He's collaborated with Unfinished Symphonies and Mr. & Mr$ Funky, formed two duos--the Stem Cell Liberation Front with drummer Ryan Sigesmund and the Unindicted Co-Conspirators with accordionist/performance artist Steve Pellegrino, and most recently collaborated with trance shakuhachi/singing bowls duo Life In Balance. He's performed at several events around town with Mr. Pellegrino's Dragging the Stone ensemble, as part of the ongoing Drywall performance series. He is also a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble, having joined for the recording and performance (2004 and 2006) of Branca's Symphony No. 13 ("Hallucination City"), which is slated for release...eventually by Bang On A Can's Cantaloupe Music.
Maurice is currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Here at onezero we're counting down to election day, so here's another Bush-based piece to clear out the sample backlog before they become obsolete. I'd been trying to get a good performance of this piece since February, and going through my show at the Eye this past summer, I realized that I finally did have one. So here you go; knock yourself out.
"Scimitar Dance (for Steffi Brüninghaus)" single, released 09/21/2004
It has indeed been a while since I've released something. This track, recorded live on June 19, 2004, is one of those tracks I just can't stop listening to, so I'm putting it out. My friend Steffi is a belly dancer, and we'd talked about collaborating on something. So I did this piece for her dance recital, and it went a lot better than we expected. The dance itself was quite dramatic--she included the titular sword in her dance, balancing it on her head, and ending the dance with a drop--the sword still balanced. Very impressive. And the music went well enough that I'm working on doing more music for dance.
It's an election year, so I'm unable to restrain myself. This piece was recorded live at my Re:PULSE show on January 27, 2004. I've edited five minutes out of the original performance, so it's distilled to extra strength. You'll experience plunderphonic political satire, dark ambient drones, and even some fractured IDM breakbeats. (I've updated the free sample to be more representative of the track, too.)
This track is in three sections: in the first, the speech samples are all condensed from recent speeches, extracting instances (and surrounding phrases) of the terms "Iraq," "America," "Terror," etc. The second section is a bit freer with the samples and includes some phrases edited together, and the last section builds on the instrumental aspects of the second.
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