Mayakara, the avant guard acoustic/electronic duo consisting of Bill
Fieger (Stares to Nowhere/Obilvious Solitude) and Mike Hunter
(Ombient/Brainstatik) will be performing live on WPRB's "Nocturnal
Transmission with Dr. Cosmo" tonight in the 11 o'clock hour.

The set will consist of Bill on Lunatar, Balaleka, Koto and 12 string
guitar and Mike on Synthesizers and process tonalities.

You can tune in at 103.3FM in NJ or at http://www.wprb.com on the web.

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 ( 7 - 9pm )

Brainstatik will perform a multi-media presentation of Sounds & Sights
of The Vibrating Universe


An evening of improvisational progressive space music and psychedelic
light show at

The Arts Café at NEW HOPE ARTS
2 Stockton Avenue, NNew Hope, PA 18938
215·862·9606 www.newhopearts.org


admission: $10

http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

http://www.nabble.com/(amb)-Saturday:-electro-music-chamber-orchestra-in-Princeton-td14297737.htm

http://billfox.blogspot.com/

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

Brainstatik will perform a free concert of improvisational Holiday
Music from Outer Space


Sunday, December 17
2:00 –  4:00 p.m.
New Hope Arts
corner of Bridge and Stockton Streets upstairs
New Hope, PA.

Ken Palmer • synthesizer
Robert Burger • guitar and guitar-synthesizer
Mike Hunter • guitar, loop-guitar
Glenn Robitaille • drums
Jim Silvestri • bass
George Mahlberg • stick
Cyndee Lee Rule • violin

For more information, call New Hope Arts at 215-862-9606

http://www.myspace/brainstatik
http:/www.brainstaik.com

Brainstatik will once again be playing live improvisational music on
the air, on WPRB 103.3 FM on Friday July 21, from about 10:00 PM to ???

Every performance by NJ's premiere deep improv ensemble is as unique
as an aural snowflake or musical fingerprint. If transcendent musical
surprises intrigue you, then indulge yourself on this very special
evening.

Not within the circle of WPRB's airwaves? No problem!   You'll be able
to experience all the streaming audio of the show from
http://www.wprb.com/listen.html

Brainstatik is:

   Ken Palmer (keyboards/synths)
   Rob Burger (electric guitar/synth guitar)
   Mike Hunter (Warr guitar/electric guitar)
   Glenn Robitaille (percussion)
   George Mahlberg (Chapman Stick Bass/sitar/Theremin)
   Jim Silvestri (bass)

http://www.brainstatik.com/

http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/noctrans.html

Gate to Moonbase Alpha (GTMBA)
   3rd Fridays
   8pm SHARP
   Free for all ages
   At The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Phila.
http://www.therotunda.org

   Featured this month (listed in random order):
   Ombient
   Brainstatik
   Stares to Nowhere
   Autobahn (featuring Ace Paradise, Warren Seddon and Jeff Mitchell)

BIOS (listed in random order)

    OMBIENT is the moniker under which Mike Hunter performs his
completely improvised ambient/drone music. Mike started his musical
career playing his fathers electric bass through an old analog tape
delay making strange and disturbing space/mood music. He later
continued on to study the classical guitar before moving into the
progressive rock genre.  Once he discovered the more modern
equivalent of that old analog tape delay, Ombient was born.Ombient's
ambient/drone music, being of a live improvisational nature, is
representative of the feeling of the moment in which it is performed
and of the subtle feedback between the audience and the performer.
It features guitar, processed and layered using digital looping
equipment enabling a single guitar to produce symphonic levels of
density. Ombient is joined for this performance by guest guitarist
and long time friend Mike Courter bringing new and interesting
melodic elements to the Ombient sound. Mike Courter is an
accomplished guitarist and songwriter from Central NJ.

   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. 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.

    STARES TO NOWHERE is a collaboration between Bill Fieger and
Heather Lind, both multi-instrumental artists who have been playing
together Since April 1999. Their Collaboration has evolved from
simply getting together and making music, to a CD, website, and tons
of unreleased material. Although 15 years of age separate them, the
chemistry between the two is unreal, resulting in a music that is
magic. Bill primarily plays synthesizer, while Heather plays
electric and acoustic guitars, drums and electric organ, they both
play a number of other instruments including but not limited to
Mandolin, Zither, Steel Guitar, Flute and Percussions. They make use
of sound, organic and otherwise in their music, much like Edgar
Varies and Pink Floyd. The music of Stares to Nowhere is composed,
preformed and produced by the duo and is highly improvisational in
nature. Described by many listeners as a soundtrack to a movie that
doesn't exist. Their music is ambient, experimental, electronic,
tribal and at times unpredictable, reaching from the ancient past
out towards the distant stars.

    ACE PARADISE is currently a Freelance DJ, Musician, Remixer,
Recording Artist and Producer, specializing in the production of
Electronic Music. He enjoys working and collaborating with other DJs
and musicians to preserve and promote many genre of Electronic
Music. Ace approaches Electronic Performance, from the angle of his
many years spent as a DJ.  He has developed his own technique for
combining and mixing an eight channel programmable sequencer and two
synthesizers, using two DJ mixers and a Master effects controller.
This technique has enabled Ace to simultaneously combine, up to 10
different elements, Live, creating a spectacular and unforgettable
sound. Ace Paradise is currently working on a new group
collaboration titled, (Autobahn ) , with long time friends and band
mates, Warren Seddon and Jeff Mitchell. Together these musicians
have assembled a new CD due for release very soon, titled Ace
Paradise & Autobahn - Stratosphere. They will be performing out in
the local Philadelphia area soon, so be sure to keep an eye out for
them. It will be a performance not to be missed.

Brainstatik to Perform in Philadelphia, New Hope, and  Cheltenham, PA

Stockton, NJ  (April 13, 2006) -- The instrumental progressive rock
band Brainstatik has  announced its upcoming spring performances. On
Friday, April 21, starting at 8  p.m., Brainstatik will perform at
the free monthly Gate to Moonbase Alpha  concert series at The
Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. in Philadelphia.  During this  eclectic
night of spacemusic, Brainstatik will be joined by The Ace Paradise
Project, Stares to Nowhere, and Ombient.

Brainstatik will also perform  'Sound Paintings', two full hours of
all new improvisational spacemusic on  Sunday, May 7 from 2:00 -
4:00 p.m. at the New  Hope Arts  Building, corner of Bridge and
Stockton  Streets (upstairs) in New  Hope, PA. There is no
admission fee.

Brainstatik will be participating in the Electro-Music  2006
Festival, an amazing 3-day gathering of electronic music fans at
the  Cheltenham Arts Center in Cheltenham, PA. Brainstatik's live
performance will take  place in the theater on June 4, 2006 from
3:15 - 4:00 p.m.  Details and  ticket info can be found at
event.electro-music.com.

Brainstatik features  Stockton, NJ guitarist Robert Burger on guitar
and guitar-synthesizer.  Burger's solo project "The Gak Omek"
recently released  a second album, The Return of the All-Powerful
Light Beings (Fossil Records), a follow up to the first CD, Alien
Eye.  Described as a progressive rock interpretation of ancient and
modern mysteries, the 'Return of the All-Powerful Light Beings' is
one of the most imaginative new offerings in the progressive rock
(prog rock) style. Burger's style has been compared to Robert Fripp,
Steve Hackett, David Torn, and Pat Metheny. The new CD takes
cerebral music to a new level by incorporating majestic guitar
playing, electronic percussion, and cosmic synth sounds. The Return
of the All-Powerful Light Beings was voted  one of the Top 20
Progressive Rock Albums of 2004 by Progressive Soundscapes  Radio,
Sea of  Tranquility, Nucleus, and  Radio Gnome.

Mike Hunter of Trenton, NJ  plays the 12-string Warr touch guitar
and 6-string electric with South Jersey based Irish
traditional/Celtic rock group The Stone Soup Band, as well as his
solo ambient drone music under the "Ombient" moniker. His music has
been described as ambient like the random symmetry of wind chimes,
the sound of vehicles moving on some far distant highway, and the
warm hum of high tension power lines.

Glenn Robitaille, a resident of  Dunellen, NJ plays acoustic and
electronic drums.  Glenn's style includes a love for odd time
signatures, time  changes, polyrhythms, and the pallet of sounds
available through electronic  drums. In previous lives he played
drums for Solar Circus, The Callipygian Blues  Band, and Gangster
Clairvoyants.

Jim Silvestri of Wood-Ridge, NJ has been playing bass for 30
years.  Jim started his musical career with the classic rock band
Rushlight  in the late 70s.  He also appeared with The John Michel
Orchestra, The  Stardreamers, The All Star Jazz Orchestra and was a
founding member of the  progressive rock band Ghosts on the Skyline.

George Mahlberg lives in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia, PA. When
not installing and training users of editorial publishing systems,
he hosts a weekly radio program, Nocturnal Transmissions, on WPRB-FM
103.3 in Princeton, or can be found simply sitting under the stars
and pondering the vastness of the Cosmos. A multi-instrumentalist,
George  performs on a Chapman Stick Bass, sitar, Theremin, and his
venerable BC Rich  Eagle bass.

Brainstatik co-founder Ken Palmer, an art director at  Bloomberg and
resident of Crosswicks, NJ plays synthesizers and serves as
recording  engineer for the band's music. He is the founder and host
of the Cosmic  Coffeehouse (www.cosmiccoffeehouse.org), a bi-monthly
event in that showcases  unique local musicians. He previously
played keyboards and guitar in the bands  E. Echo-K and Liquid Idiot.

Robert J. Burger and Ken Palmer formed  Brainstatik in 1995. For the
past eleven years they've recorded and performed  completely
improvised and spontaneously composed instrumental music. Their
sound  has been influenced by everything from progressive rock,
electronic, and  world/ethnic music. For more information, visit
www.brainstatik.com.

Gate to Moonbase Alpha

"Sound Paintings"

Electro-Music 2006

 brainstatik:

www.brainstatik.com

Brainstatik will perform 

      "Soundtracks for Artworks"

Sunday, January 29, 2006
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

New Hope Arts Council Building
corner of Bridge St. and Stockton St.
New Hope PA

 Brainstatik . improvisational electroworldambientspacemusic

Ken Palmer - synthesizers
Robert Burger (The Gak Omek) - guitar, guitar-synth
Mike Hunter (Ombient) - guitar, loop-guitar
Glenn Robitaille - drums
Jim Silvestri - bass
George Mahlberg (Dr. Cosmo) - stick

On Friday, October 28 Brainstatik will once again perform on Dr.
Cosmo's annual homage to the innovative genius of production, Orson
Welles.  This year, the script is placed in the Waring Blender of
Audio Confabulation and the results will be, well, out of this world
(or simply out of your mind.

It will start about 10:00 PM, and can be heard on 103.3 FM.  To hear
it online, please go to http://www.wprb.com and click on the LISTEN
NOW link.

For more detail, please go to
http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/noctrans.html

Brainstatik will be appearing on May 20th on the Nocturnal
Transmissions show on WBRB (103.3 FM, Princeton NJ).  With fresh
material from their overworked craniums, NJ's premier space group
makes their 7th appearance on NocTrans. Dig deeper into the mind of
Brainstatik by visiting their web site at
http://www.brainstatik.com/bsindex.html.

Brainstatik consists of

Ken Palmer (keyboards/effects)
Rob Burger (guitar/synth guitar)
Glenn Robitaille (drums)
Jim Silvestri (bass)
Mike Hunter (12-string Warr guitar/loops)

The broadcast starts at 10:00 PM.  For further information, go to
http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/noctrans.html

For audio from the Feb 13, 2004 show, go to
http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/2004/0213.html

Ok, I really posted this so yahoo wouldn't delete the group because
it is inactive.

We are always looking for more gigs! If you know of any
coffeehouses, cafés, art galleries, festivals, or other events that
might be receptive to the band's unique music, pass the info along!

For more information on Brainstatik, please go to

     http://www.brainstatik.com/bsindex.html

Glenn

Brainstatik reunites with Doctor Cosmo for his annual presentation
of The War of the Worlds radio show, live on WPRB-FM 103.3 in
Princeton at 10pm.

Details can be found at:

     http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/noctrans.html


     Dr. Cosmo; Esq. (Theremin/sitar/percussion)
     Ken Palmer (keyboards/effects)
     Rob Burger (guitar/synth guitar)
     Glenn Robitaille (drums)
     Jim Silvestri (bass)
     Mike Hunter (12-string Warr guitar/loops)

Dr. Cosmo's annual tribute to the infamous 1938 Mercury Theater on
the Air broadcast offers something different this year. Special
guests will be reading the original Howard Koch radio drama whilst
NJ's Brainstatik, will perform live in Studio B.Please join us for a
Halloween night of Olde Tyme Radio Magick.

This Saturday Statik Flux will be performing improvised instrumental
soundtracks at the Cosmic Coffee House in Crosswicks NJ.

Details / directions can be found at

     http://www.brainstatik.com/coffeehouse.html

Statik Flux consists of Glenn Robitaille, Jim Silvestri and Ken
Palmer of Brainstatik.

Rob Burger, member of Brainstatik, has just release the second CD
for his solo project "Gak Omek".  Here is the formal announcment....

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Subject:  New CD by The Gak Omek Released

The new CD by The Gak Omek - Return of the All-Powerful Light
Beings - an instrumental progressive rock interpretation of ancient
and modern mysteries has

been released and is available from:
CDBaby.com - http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gakomek2
Fossil Records - http://www.fossilrecords.net/
The Gak Omek - http://www.thegakomek.com

Thanks,
Robert Burger
The Gak Omek
http://www.thegakomek.com

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Here is a review of the CD:


http://www.proggnosis.com/MUSIC_DBCDInfo.asp?txtCDID=13722

brainstatik Live in Concert!!!!!!   June 19th

Brainstatik will return to Crosswicks for its fifth annual
performance there on June 19th. As always, the show will be
different from previous years: this time the band moves upstairs to
the main stage of the Crosswicks Community House, so there will be
plenty of room, both for the audience and the expanded 5-piece band.
The two set show starts at 8pm. The band will be playing with full
stage lighting effects and multimedia projections too! And it's
FREE!

A PDF of the flyer is available at
http://www.brainstatik.com/BrainPoster.pdf

Directions to the Crosswicks Community House can be found at
http://www.brainstatik.com/crosswicks.html

Brainstatik is available to bring it's electic brand of music to an
art gallery, coffee house, or lease breaking party near you.
Brainstatik's instrumental music is highly adaptable to
video/theater/movie soundtracks.  The band takes great pride in it's
ability to interpret any mood into music virtually on cue.

Brainstatik will be performing at the Philadelphia Electronic Art
And Music Festival this Sunday, May 2.

The Venue:

The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

The PEMA Festival web page is at
http://www.pemafest.fkon.com/index.html

We are currently scheduled to go on at 7:00 on Sunday (May 2), but
as this is a festival the schedule may slip.  The festival is from
noon to midnight, Saturday and Sunday.  Get there a earlier to check
out Ombient!

SUNDAY, MAY 2
6:15-7PM-OMBIENT (solo project of Mike Hunter, member of Brainstatik)
7PM-7:45PM-BRAINSTATIK

The Brainstatik web page is http://www.brainstatik.com/bsindex.html

MP3s and photos from our February performance on WPRB are available
at http://www.doctorcosmo.com/wprb/2004/0213.html

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