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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Laptop and Lapsteel Sunday, May 11, 2008, 2pm $5 Members/ $6 General Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee Thomas Gaudynski & Christopher Burns music event Mother's Day Special: Mother's get in FREE! Laptop and Lapsteel: digital and analog duos by Christopher Burns and Thomas Gaudynski—laptops, guitars, voice, and video projections. Burns and Gaudynski employ their experience with contemporary composition, free improvisation, and electronic music to create real-time compositions, sample mashups, and electoacoustic adventures fusing past, present, and future. Christopher Burns makes laptop music which expresses an energeticgestural language through gritty, rough-hewn sonic materials. His recent pieces emphasize polyphony and simultaneity, and are produced with a variety of custom software instruments. Christopher is also an avid archaeologist of electroacoustic music, performing new digital realizations of classic music by composers including John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He teaches composition and music technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and co-curates the sfSound concert series in San Francisco. Thomas Gaudynski has been creating music, sound art, music/theatre, and performing electro-acoustic improvisations since the mid-1970's. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he has performed throughout the United States and Canada and has worked extensively with Diana David and Paul Gaudynski as DG&G during the 1980s and with Steve Nelson-Raney and Hal Rammel as Audiotrope since 1997. He has also performed with Jean-Paul Curtay, Scott Fields, Malcolm Goldstein, Peter Kowald, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra, Michael Lytle, Jon Mueller, Matt Turner, Gary Verkade, and others. He works with electric guitar, electric violin, guitar-driven synthesizer, laptop, feedback, voice, and prerecorded sounds mixed live during performance. He employs various sampling and recording and manipulation technologies in the creation of his recorded compositions.

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