SoundNOW Contemporary Music Festival: Javelinas & Meghan Yost
Free
- Meghan Yost, viola
- Scott Burland, theremin
- Ryan P. Taylor, synthesizer & guitar
Atlanta's only contemporary music festival, SoundNOW, celebrates their 8th year of proudly presenting amazing New Music with performances from some of the city's best and brightest contemporary musicians. Spanning seven nights, the festival will feature twelve ensembles/acts with a wide variety of music.
Tonight's concert features Javelinas and Meghan Yost, viola. Javelinas will perform minimalist / ambient music for your apocalyptic meditations, presenting a time-based graphic score titled Counting Cards (2025). Randomly selected playing cards will direct the performers to different sections of the score and determine timing.
Recordings: https://javelinas-atl.bandcamp.com/
Live performance: https://youtu.be/PIUskbGibv4
In studio: https://youtu.be/hrgoGuauyAc
About Javelinas
Javelinas create improvised drone and soundscape music that is at times symphonic, at other times cacophonous. Scott Burland uses the theremin as a voice unto itself, and as a controller for synthesis and sound processing techniques. Ryan P. Taylor looks for accidental audio with guitars and electronics. They pursue an aesthetic that's part BBC Radiophonics Workshop, part Edgard Varèse on a turntable in the next room.
It is written that John Cage wanted sounds to follow one another in a free, artless sequence, without harmonic glue. Javelinas embrace that idea while allowing and welcoming the potential appearance of the complete opposite.
https://linktr.ee/javelinasAbout SoundNOW Festival
SoundNOW is a festival dedicated to showcasing the best of the contemporary classical music scene in Atlanta!
https://www.atlantasoundnowfestival.com/About Scott Burland, theremin
Scott Burland was born in Massachusetts in 1962 and currently resides in Atlanta. He is a third generation pharmacist and plays theremin in Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel.
About Ryan P. Taylor, synthesizer & guitar
Ryan P. Taylor is an experimentally-minded guitarist / synthesist who, while working in electronic and noise music, has always been drawn to the music of the American South as a foundation for exploration. He’s played for a wide range of Atlanta bands and songwriters while also being active in improvisational and experimental performance. He currently plays with Blackfox, Rat Mass, and Javelinas.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM7P-4gkTnBN6d18DmAxQbg