Loda at Gallery :: Nov 20th, 2009, 6PM – 3AM
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Loda at Gallery
Nov 20th, 2009, 6PM – 3AM
1115 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
3 blocks from the Silver Spring Red Line stop
$15 or free with MGFest Inspiration Pass, Register to Attend
Loda is about redefining definitions of who, where and what we are by creating an uplifting environment for lovers of electronic music and artistic environments. We strive to bring artists that have never played in DC in an effort to showcase our community, broaden our musical palette and understanding of the larger EDM landscape. The depth and breadth of quality electronic music right now is nothing short of incredible. Coupled with the explosion of digital arts and the rise of the creative class, there's no other time we'd rather be alive and doing what we do.
Featuring
Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb)
Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) began playing jazz influenced guitar before reaching the age of attending school. Without any proper musical training, his awkward style of inverted guitar playing and composition knew few restrictions and eventually panned out into full blown albums recorded on tape machines in his bedroom in the mid 1990’s. Being a one man band, Jordan grew quite fond of electronic instruments, which for a period of a few years dominated his compositions as he gained worldwide notoriety as an avant-garde electronic musician using the name “The Flashbulb”. In more recent years (and 30-something album releases later), Jordan has focused his efforts on writing more cinematic pieces and using an instrumental style closer to his roots. On the other side of releasing music and touring, Jordan has become a sought after film and television composer, most notably writing for Dove’s viral “Evolution” campaign, and branding trademark melodies for companies such as General Mills and Toyota. These two worlds have merged in his hugely successful album “Soundtrack To A Vacant Life”, which is one of the first albums in the genre of cinematic music to receive mainstream attention without being attached to a feature film. Benn Jordan is a signed artist represented as The Flashbulb via the multimedia label known as Psymbolic.
Featuring
VJ Shantell Martin
Martin was last year voted among the world’s top 10 VJs by DJ Magazine and has become a much sought-after performer in Tokyo, London, and New York since her appearance on the Japanese club scene a few years ago.
Shantell will also be teaching a workshop on Sunday
Featuring
Aligning Minds
Aligning Minds is the unique collaboration of producers Daniel Merrill and Michael Folk, who use sound to achieve a mutual vision. Ethereal and dubby, uplifting and haunting, their music winds its way through the imaginative souls of its listeners, offering a deep exploration of mood and emotional atmosphere. Focused on unifying electronic music through diverse influence, their sound fuses elements of genres like downtempo, dubstep, breakbeat and idm, but without the need for formulaic restrictions. Through both studio work and live performances, Aligning Minds have been gaining interest and support from all over the global spectrum of electronic music. Intent on reaching a musical standpoint of balance and harmony between stylistic ideas, they move forward as a musical force with an ethic of positive growth and change. Daniel Merrill and Michael Folk are signed artists represented as Aligning Minds via the multimedia label known as Psymbolic.
Featuring Preston Poe
Preston Poe is a video sculptor/ sound artist, professor, and director/curator of The Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University. Preston's interactive sound platform, Somnambutable was included in "Music to My Eyes" at the F.U.E.L. Collection in Philadelphia. He participated in Conflux with a performance project on the subject of Woody Guthrie's life and music. Video projects have been included in Merge Visual and Vertical Hold.
Additional Artists to be announced.
Past headliners include: Kid Koala, Eskimo, and Sam Burns.
July Loda was featured on the Washington Post.
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