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GATE TO MOONBASE ALPHA
Slipping into Sublimnity, Sporangia, Dev79, Will Schofield
at the Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St. FRI SEPT 22 8PM

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Good news to everyone who came to the Gate to Moon Base Alpha last winter/spring and was wondering
if the series would continue. The Alpha Gate performances will continue this Fall, and the first
show is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd 8PM!!! Slipping into Sublimnity, Sporangia, Dev79, and Will
Schofield will be making and playing music ambient and psychedelic. This event will be totally free
and a potluck so bring food and drinks to share! 

The Gate to Moon Base Alpha is a place for Philadelphia and international artists to play
ambient/experimental/space music live. Liberated from the expectations of club and bar
performances, artists from experimental DJs to neo-classical ensembles to tape loopers to
psychedelic post-rock and space musicians perform hour long sets with the freedom their mind
expanding music really demands. The mission of the series is also to help break down the walls
separating many of us in our sub-genres and cliques, inevitably categories mediating us from the
immediate wonder of the music itself.  

In last year's season we heard Flowchart, David Talento, Hoopty Heaven, Ted Casterline's Perfect
Pieces of Fruit, Unsound, Dominick Zappa, Mall, Tremolo, Blink Blink, Octorock, Saul Stokes, the
Vermillions, Chuck Van Zyl and the Ministry of Inside Things, and many others who performed to a
womderfully open minded audience at the Rotunda (4012 Walnut Street). 

Highlighting the premier of season two will be Philadelphia's ambient, improvisational and
psychedelic ensemble: Slipping into Sublimnity. Slipping comprises long time dj John Schenk (on the
korg and turntables), Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Gloria Justen, Schwa and Yanni Papadopoulos
(of Stinking Lizavetta) on the synth-guitar, and Jesse Beuhler on the sequencer and synthesizer.
(Ben Morgan who regularly appears with sitar, effects pedals and mixer will unfortunately be missed
this show). Slipping into Sublimnity can regularly be heard at the 700 Club every 2nd and 4th
Tuesday evening and lately has begun appearing at larger venues. At the Gate to  Moon Base Alpha,
Slipping will be performing both their signature improvisational layered mixes as well as new
original compositions. 

Returning briefly to Greater Philadelphia from his new habitation in Massachusets and off the heals
of a Princeton gig, Sporangia will be happily returning to West Philadelphia. If you attended the
December 1998 Star's End Gathering with Saul Stokes, you were also treated to a brilliant set by
Sporangia (aka Leisure Muffin) with Charles Cohen. High speed internet users can listen to a stream
of that performance by clicking here.  

According to Sporangia <spore@gwi.net> "we are a
worldwide leisure mason sonic manipulation unit exploring the outer reaches of rednecktronika,
generika, insect-hop, meepy-floop, regressive haus, lite trance, dumb and bass, flake-beat, Quee-Z
listening and incredibly strange music.  This is electronic music that thinks outside of the
machines, and the existing genres." Dig it.  http://www.gwi.net/~spore/ 

Also performing will be Dev79 (excursion@iname.com). Gair
has been making music for 12 years and has worked with a handful of bands as well as contributing
music to various film soundtracks. His mission as dev79 is "to bring the darker electronic
sounds of London and other European areas to the American East Coast." According to Gair
"the focus of dev79 's talents mostly lie in the genres of dark trip hop and tech step-drum n'
bass."  

Two of Gair's tracks have made marks on mp3.com's hip hop charts. Both of these songs can be found
on his new release - Exponential Edge, containing nine tracks of a dark hop nature. With a tech
step EP and another dark hop album both nearly completed dev79 is currently looking for a wider and
more beneficial avenue for their releases to be marketed. With his Gate performance we hope to
help. 

DJing between sets and schooling us with a musical tour of the history of instrumental psychedlic
music will be former music director of UPenn's Pi Lam, Will Schofield. Well schooled in the history
of obscure and famous psychedelians, Will will be DJing his trippiest favorites. 

all of this and more will take place Friday, September 22nd at the ROTUNDA (4012 Walnut Street).
Admission is free to all ages. This event is a potluck so bring food and drinks to share. Some
refreshments will be sold  to raise money. Donations are certainly appreciated to help make this
series even stronger. 

Gate to Moon Base Alpha is a project of the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium and the Foundation, a
community arts and education project sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania. The Alpha Gate
series is organized by Consortium members and supported by volunteer contributions, monetary
donations, and a modest budget from UPenn. If you'd like to help out or join the Consortium, please
visit our website: http://simpletone.com and read our mission
statement.

Please send this announcement to anyone who you think would be interested.