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2024 Ecotonus Midwest tour
2024-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | IL
ECOTONUS
a new composition by Edward Breitweiser
for ARP-2500 synthesizers and computer
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Sunday, 11/17. St. Louis, MO at Synoptic Frequencies with Maria Chavez + Christopher Douthitt
Saturday, 11/23. Bloomington, IL at pt.fwd with Christopher Douthitt + Gabe Raines + Oxherding
Saturday, 12/14. Chicago, IL at Elastic Arts with Choir Siren + Liz Flood + Hunter Whitaker-Morrow
ABOUT
Using the works of pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue (b. 1932) as a point of departure, Ecotonus draws from improvisations that I recorded on the ARP-2500 that was custom-built in 1971 for the Electronic Music & Recording Studio at Washington University. The 2500 was Radigue’s primary instrument and is known for its uniquely noisy “matrix switch” design, which can result in quirky, unstable interaction between sounds. While improvising, I sought simple sounds that would behave unpredictably and evolve into unexpected complexity through the beauty of this rare machine.
Drawing inspiration from Radigue’s concept of “music-as-transition” and the water-based, self-scaling structure of her OCCAM series of compositions, Ecotonus (from the word “ecotone”, a transitional area between two ecosystems) follows the transitions between two recently-discovered features throughout the Universe: the “gravitational basins of attraction” that draw matter together similarly to water systems on Earth and their counterpart, the empty, foam-like voids that remain after matter is gone. These two dynamics – filament and void – ultimately structure all matter in the Universe, enabling life to form (and, much later, to discover these dynamics among the cosmos).
BIO
Edward Breitweiser is an Illinois-based artist, musician, electronic instrument builder, and writer who creates moments of sonic life. Spanning improvised and composed music, electronic instrument design, installations, and non-profit administration, Breitweiser’s projects embrace the contrasts between ecology and technology, solo and collective, clarity and density, DIY and infrastructure, stasis and surprise, simplicity and complexity. Breitweiser founded and serves as Director of pt.fwd, a contemporary music and sonic arts performance series featuring new work by local and regional artists in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
🌐 www.edwardbreitweiser.com 🌐

Slow Dog album release at Tritriangle
2024-04-26 20:00 - 21:00 | Tritriangle, Chicago
Slow Dog is a fun new project by me and my bb Swim Ignorant Fire. When we were on tour supporting his album with the No Below Editions
crew last year, we kept talking about a stripped-down, raw style reflecting the minimal, drone, ambient, and country music we’d been absorbing on the road. Then, we were waiting to play in Madison, WI and witnessed the slowest dog we’d ever seen. And the rest is history.
We’ll be in Chicago at Tritriangle on Friday, April 27 for an album release party with many friends. Hope to see you there! 🐶
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Long ago, a dog was so slow that the world had no choice but to stop and wait. That dog is still walking, unafraid of the path ahead. When he howls, charred drones and snarling textures growl back.
Slow Dog is Stephen Holliger (synthesizers) and Edward Breitweiser (synthesizers and electronics). No leashes, no masters.
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(Howls at the moon)
@breachingstaticmedia and @nobelow.editions present a night of murky noise exploration and wonder in Chicago. Featuring artists from both labels at TriTriangle.
This will be our first performance celebrating the release and we hope to see you there!
🔺️ FRI_APR_26 🔺️
Slow Dog 🐕 @_slow_dog__
duo of @swimignorantfire and @ed.breitweiser album release
Brutal Shift (IA)
Alex from Boar, new dark ambient project.
Ghouls Teeth
@rushfalknor duo with release available on breaching static.
Yea Big + Tatsu Aoki
@stefenrobinson and @basserlive have their first duo album coming out on FPE Records this May. @fperecs
🔺️
Friday
April 26th
8pm
$10_15
Reposted from @_slow_dog__

Edward Breitweiser at Beluga Press Gallery
2024-04-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Beluga Press Gallery, 313 N. Main St., Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States

No Below Editions album release show
2024-02-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois Arts Station, 101 E. Vernon Ave, Normal, IL, 61701, United States

Edward Breitweiser 2023 Summer Tour
2023-07-08 08:00 - 17:00 | IL
🌐 Midwest tour dates! 🌐
To celebrate the launch of No Below Editions , we’re hitting the road!
No Below co-founders Stephen Holliger (Swim Ignorant Fire), Edward Breitweiser, and Stefen Robinson (Yea Big) will be coming to a city near you! After a quartet set with Michael Carlson (Son-of-Karl) at Make Music Normal festival on Friday, 6/24, we’ll be swinging through Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri. We hope to see you on the road! 👋
6.24 Normal, IL @ Make Music Normal
Breitweiser + Swim Ignorant Fire + Yea Big + Son-of-Karl, performing in a quartet as “Big Bright Karl Fire”
6.25 Oak Park, IL @ Compound Yellow
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire, Allen Moore
6.26 Iowa City, IA @ Public Space One
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire, Haunter, birdlabs
6.28 Dubuque, IA @ Monk’s Kaffee Pub
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire, Lather, Bob Bucko, ILYGH, Brutal Shift
6.29 Madison, WI @ Common Sage
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire, Eric Miller
6.30 Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tox
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire + Yea Big, Lazy Hex
7.01 St. Louis, MO @ Pop’s Blue Moon
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire + Yea Big, Negative Spaces & Freaky Steve
7.02 Columbia, MO @ PDM
Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire + Yea Big, Full Clips Emptied @emptiedclips
7.03 Champaign, IL @ Rose Bowl Tavern
Breitweiser + Swim Ignorant Fire + Yea Big + Jason Finkelman. Presented by The Improvisers Exchange.
Come say hi! See you soon! 🗺️

Big Bright Karl Fire @ Make Music Normal (Normal, IL)
2023-06-25 18:00 | IL

Big Bright Karl & The Labrarians: Live at Cometogetherspace
2023-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Cometogetherspace, 212 N Roosevelt Ave, Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States

Dronesgiving 2022
2022-11-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Cometogetherspace, 212 N Roosevelt Ave, Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States

Yea Big, James Mauck, Briar Darling, Edward Breitweiser: Solo & Quartet @ The Rec Club
2022-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Recreation Club, 117 N. Market St., Urbana, IL, 61820, United States

Tatsu Aoki, Yea Big, Matthew Smith, and Edward Breitweiser @ Cometogetherspace
2022-08-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Cometogetherspace, 212 N Roosevelt Ave, Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States

Loose & Big Bright Karl @ nightshop
2022-08-07 19:30 - 21:00 | nightshop, 517 N. Main St., Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States

NON:op + pt.fwd present "Six Words" (world premier)
2022-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 | McLean County Museum of History, 200 N. East St., Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States
On Friday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m., NON:op Open Opera Works, pt.fwd, and the McLean County Museum of History are pleased to co-host the premier performance Six Words, a newly-commissioned musical work by Edward Breitweiser. The event will be presented at the Museum, and is free and open to the public.
Using archival research, community dialogue, and collaborative music-making, Six Words will engage directly with Central Illinois residents to reflect on our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Six Words will take the McLean County Museum of History’s COVID-19: The McLean County Experience as a starting point to ask local residents about their pandemic experiences, and to preserve them for future generations.
Breitweiser will collaborate with local non-profits and youth organizations—including the McLean county Museum of History and pt.fwd—to create a communal space for telling and hearing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Bloomington-Normal area. These diverse experiences will be shared in a concert-length public performance at the Museum of History, featuring music and words by area residents who contributed to the project.

pt.fwd presents NCHS Experimental Ensemble ft. Edward Breitweiser
2022-05-13 08:00 - 17:00 | McLean County Museum of History, 200 N. East St., Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States
On Friday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m., pt.fwd and the McLean County Museum of History are pleased to co-host the debut performance of Bloomington-Normal’s most exciting new music group, the Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble, with special guest Edward Breitweiser. The event will be presented in the Museum’s first floor rotunda, and is free and open to the public.
The Ensemble is lead by Stefen Robinson and Zachary Sargent, both teachers at NCHS who also perform with the group. Eleven students make up the group, and together with their teachers, they “make adventurous music….” Student members include Matthew Beigie on cello, Cooper Jeb on piano, Lilly McClelland on bass guitar and trumpet, Ibrahim Muftee on electric guitar, John Nguyen on electric mandolin, Stefani Nguyen on bells and harmonium, Ram Paramatmuni on radio and record player, Audrie Schuller on violin, and Krishiv Sreejith on flute. Robinson performs on bass clarinet and percussion, and Sargent plays alto saxophone.
Selections for the performance will include Otomo Yoshihide’s arrangement of Eric Dolphy’s “Serene”, and their own arrangement of “Early Grave” by The Contortionist. The program will conclude with their arrangement of Curtis Mayfield’s “Think”. In between those songs, improvisations by smaller groups within the larger ensemble will be featured.
Illinois-based artist, musician, and writer Edward Breitweiser will be joining the Ensemble as a guest artist, performing on synthesizer and electronics.

Yea Big + Edward Breitweiser @ Cometogetherspace
2021-09-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Cometogetherspace, 212 N Roosevelt Ave, Bloomington, IL, 61701, United States
