4012 Walnut St. The Rotunda, Carrere and Hastings, 1911The Philadelphia Ambient Consortium has been organizing performances for close to three years now. Our first show was the epic Stupid Robot spectacle at the Astrocade featuring a multitude of bands and djs from all over the map of Philadelphia ambient and intelligent electronic music. A year later, we organized the Sonic Logos extravaganza at the First Unitarian Church. Since October 1999 we've been putting on a show almost every month with funding and support from the University of Pennsylvania. 

This funding is due in part to the exciting excavations taking place underneath and nearby the Rotunda. The so-called gate or portal to "moonbase alpha" was in fact a working port of exit to the ill fated mining colony on Phobos. The gate to "moonbase bravo," on Deimos was never uncovered, but we are hopeful that clues to the second gate will be unearthed at our excavation.

The gate, while not operational, is thought to have responded to certain sonic resonances which triggered the appropriate trans-dimensional jaunting mechanism as outlined in Bester (1956). The University humours us musicians by granting us one night a month to experiment within the radius of the Gate, and see if we can trigger the jaunt ourselves. It hasn't happened yet but its been entertaining and a positive experience for everyone, the exoarchaelogists, day-laborers, engineers, and of course, us artists. Please stop by to our next Gate to Moonbase Alpha performance! 


Gate to Moonbase Alpha
April 27, 2001 Sonna, Emit Peels, Akash, the Verso Ensemble, Theater of the Mind, and the Great Quentini
March 23, 2001 Temple of Bon Matin, Tara Burke, Arco Flute Foundation, Steven Curtin, and the Great Quentini
February 16, 2001 Eltro, Deuce Machina (Agent A and Pete Losafa), Demonophonic, Kneel, Ben Morgan and Rob Munsch, and the Great Quentini
December 15, 2000 Meisha, Seaweed Soup, Overdrive Date Master, Invasion of Time (Paul Mimlitsch and Jim Speer), and the Great Quentini
November 3, 2000 Saul Stokes, and the Inzec Tour: Alphatronic, Bigeneric, Octorock and Fingernail
October 21, 2000 Ben Morgan, Collette Carter, Transient, and the Great Quentini
September 22, 2000 Sporangia and Charles Cohen, Will Schofield, Dev79, The Great Quentini, and Slipping into Sublimnity
May 19, 2000 Blink Blink, Octorock, and the Vermillions
February 18, 2000 Submit WKDU CD Release Party: Westside Hi-fi and Alfredo deMatis, Mall, Seaweed Soup, Mall, and Tremolo with John Schenk
December 17, 1999 Chuck Van Zyl and the Ministry of Inside Things, Saul Stokes, and Music for Isolation Tanks
November 19, 1999 Charles Cohen, Flowchart, Hoopty Heaven, and room treatments by Andrew Eisenberg
October 15, 1999 Unsound, Dominick Zappa, and Perfect pieces of Fruit
Sonic Logos
February 7th, 1999 Flowchart, Fingernail, Paul "Woz" Woznicki, John Phillips, Dave Champion, Unsound, Ian Nagoski, the Azusa Plane, Charles Cohen, and Elliott Levin
Stupid Robot
January 3, 1998 Flowchart, Charles Cohen, Laris and Jack, Crasta, Chuck Van Zyl, Argo, Spaceling, and Mr. Roper