Electro-Music 2007
Cheltenham Art Center
Cheltenham, PA
Saturday, June 2, 2007
5:15 - 6:00 pm
http://event.electro-music.com/
http://www.cheltenhamarts.org/


"Sound Paintings"
Improvisational Space Music
Sunday June 10, 2007, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
New Hope Arts Building
2 Stockton Avenue
New Hope, PA

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Brainstatik
New Jersey-based Brainstatik is best known for their completely-
improvised live concerts, where they perform long-form jams combining
ambient, world, progressive rock, and space music, liberally shifting
and mixing genres within each piece. Every song is a spontaneous
exploration of diverse musical themes, with nothing rehearsed or
planned beforehand, so Brainstatik always sounds completely different
each time they play.

Brainstatik has been together for 12 years and performs smaller shows
in galleries as a duo or trio, and in larger concerts with the
current full lineup of six members. Everyone in Brainstatik is a
certified electronic gear junkie, each choosing from a huge sonic
palette from which to make sounds. Armed with this complex musical
toybox, guitars can sound like drums, keyboards can make guitar
sounds, and drums can play keyboards, which often can confound
audience members (and sound engineers) who can't quite tell who's
playing what part. Brainstatik's current lineup of multi-
instrumentalists includes founding members Robert Burger and Ken
Palmer, along with Mike Hunter, Glenn Robitaille, Jim Silvestri and
George Mahlberg.

The music heard at their live shows is always organic, with each
piece constantly evolving and morphing into something new.
Brainstatik can sound ethereal and quiet, complex and orchestral, or
experimental and edgy. The resulting performance often sounds
rehearsed and composed, but in reality the band has no explanation
for where the music takes them at any live show... it all just
happens at that moment, almost beyond their control. The risk of a
creative "train wreck" is always there, but the members of
Brainstatik thrive on taking their music right to the edge every time
they perform. They'd be quickly bored doing it any other way.
www.brainstatik.com