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Generator at Sediment Arts Richmond Virginia

5/29/2018

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Generator was in residence at Sediment Arts in Richmond Virginia October 6-29, 2017. For the opening we occupied the store front to create a Generator RVA POPUP store featuring cassettes by anyone who sent us a cassette plus some selections from the Generator Archive.
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There was an octophonic sound system modeled after the one at Generator from 1989-1992. Four cassette players were output to 8 speakers - so 4 stereo pairs. This was the preferred way Conrad Schnitzler liked to have his Cassette CONcerts performed.  A six hour recording of Conrad Schnitzler’s first visit to Generator in October of 1989 also played  continuously in the background.
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Three founders of Generations Unlimited – Gen Ken Montgomery, Conrad Schnitzler, David Prescott
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Generator was re-incarnated at AVA in 2012 and Generations Unlimited was re-launched in 2015 with encouragement and support of Sean Julian and Crystal Penalosa and with the blessings of David Prescott. We produced a C-110 cassette called Generator Twenty-Seven Years Later, a C-110 cassette was released for the Generator RVA show at Sediment Arts in 2016.  It features current voices and sounds from nearly 50 artists who were at Generator or involved with Generator through the post 27 years ago.

Generator Twenty-Seven Years Later is available at Generation Unlimited.
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In addition to showcasing and playing tapes from the International Cassette Network, Generator was a hub for the local creative community to perform and hang out reading zines and listening to sounds and music. In that spirit Generator RVA invited performances by local Richmond artists  and international artists calling in remotely using the incoming phone line which was connected to speakers in the space. There were performances by Sean Julian, Chris Penalosa, Tommy Birchett, Will O’Donavan, Ben Scott, Fred McGann, Elizabeth  Nall and Stephen Vitiello; multi-channel channel sound works by Conrad Schnitzler, Gen Ken Montgomery, Rod Summers, Nigel Ayers and DJ Olive; live remote audio-only phone-in performances by Gregory Whitehead, Rod Summers, Dylan Nyoukis, Sam Ashley, Anna Homler, GX Jupiter Larsen, Steve Dalachinsky, BLACKHUMOUR, small cruel party and Cm von Hausswolff & Leif Elggren.
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The audio from this month of great listening experiences has been meticulously documented by Sediment Arts at the Bandcamp link below.
A special thanks to Claire Zitrow for inviting me to Richmond. And a heartfelt thanks to Dana Ollestad for recording, assembling and posting this wonderful audio document of Generator RVA @ Sediment Arts.
5 Comments
Frank
5/29/2018 23:39:22

That was a very interesting introduction! You put a smile on my face... Thank you!
It's the first time I heard about Lamination Rituals... (still so much to learn and so little time)

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C. Goff III link
5/30/2018 00:05:22

At last, the Generator has appeared! I was unaware of the SEDIMENT collection of performance recordings from your recent extravaganza, Mr. Montgomery -- it appears a lengthy listen is in order for me. I have been proudly and regularly wearing my Panasonic t-shirt -- Fast Forward!

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William Davison link
5/30/2018 00:12:30

Hey, Gen Ken! Nice to see you here! This looks like a really great show. Wish I could have experienced it.

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Rafael González
5/30/2018 04:04:43

Welcome Ken! I love seeing you at EC! Thanks for the great article!

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Chris Phinney
5/30/2018 08:58:17

Welcome to EC Ken!!!

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    Gen Ken Montgomery


    I have been making my own homemade experimental music since 1981.

    I was an active participant in the 1980s Cassette Culture scene, and I operated Generations Unlimited with David Prescott and Conrad Schnitzler, and recorded solo as Gen Ken & Equipment, and in a duo with KMZ and Vision of Control.

    From 1989 to 1992 I ran Generator, a gallery, music shop, performance space and hangout for fringe culture and lovers of sound, noise and music and in 1994 I started A.T.M.O.T.W. (Art is Throwing Money Out The Window) which has kept me busy and smiling ever since.

    In the last 36 or so years I have recorded, produced and released and not released too many recordings for me to keep track of, and I’ve performed with too many people to list here (really I’m just too lazy to try to remember them all).

    I also love lamination. I perform Lamination Rituals as Egnekn, The Minister of Lamination in the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.

    I’m a fan of haphazard collage and I design covers for LPs, CDs, Cassettes and 8-Tracks using Instant Art and Instant Covers technology. I also love postcards and have been sending them to friends for as long as I can remember using We Clip technology. I have been working on a website called Everybody Loves Postcards since 2009 and expect to have it functional one day soon.

     I am greatly indebted to the pioneer of home-taping—Conrad Schnitzler, who I met by exchanging music through the post, and have been lovingly dedicated to organizing events celebrating his life and work under the name
    CON-Mythology
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    since his passing in 2011.

    Something is Happening! 

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