Walker Art Center
Minneapolis

Saturday, November 6, 8 pm
$14 ($7 Walker and ACF members and Intermedia Arts partners)
Walker Auditorium
Tickets: 612.375.7622

This cross-country sampler sampling offers three generations of the nation's electronic-music innovators. Carl Stone (San Francisco), hailed by the Village Voice as "one of the best composers working in the country today," has been creating captivating acoustic soundscapes since the early 1970s. He was one of the first to link complex computer-based composition with the irreverent pop sensibility of electronica.

Sampler instrumentalist David Shea (New York/Brussels) has collaborated with many of the leading figures in New York's new-music circles, beginning in the 1980s with the hip-hop/house scene, and has developed a broad, arresting spectrum of electronic and sampler-based compositions. He performs his Satyricon, which includes a video backdrop, and other works. He will be composing the audio environs for the upcoming Walker exhibition Let's Entertain, which opens February 2, 2000.

Jake Mandell's (Minneapolis) deep soundscapes draw at will from electronic dance music, film scores, and classical compositions. When playing live--using only his laptop and a custom-written software environment--Mandell wrenches beats, sounds, and melodies into enjoyably contorted fragments.