Sunday May 18 • Music Gallery Presents
KTL
with guests Németh + Sleep Research Facility
Part of VTO eight

Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door
Advance tickets available at Rotate This (620 Queen W.) and www.ticketweb.ca

VTO 008, the Toronto outpost of activity affiliated with the 25th annual FIMAV in Victoriaville, Quebec, concludes May 18 with an evening of harsh yet minimal electronics — and guitar.

KTL
Stephen O’Malley — guitar
Peter Rehberg — electronics

This new collaboration takes place in the parallel worlds of extreme computer music and doom metal. KTL is New York’s Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate, Burning Witch) and Vienna’s Peter Rehberg (a.k.a. Pita). The collaboration came about as the two were working on a theatre production by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled “Kindertotenlieder,” which premiered in Brest, France, in February 2007. So far KTL has produced three releases, for labels such as Thrill Jockey and Editions Mego. This is their first Toronto appearance, destined to be as legendary as the smoke-filled Sunn O))) performance of 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTL

Németh is Stefan Németh, a Viennese electronic musician, member of Radian and Lokai and the co-founder of Mosz Records. Film is his first solo album, developed out of his years of work creating soundscapes for experimental filmmakers and installation artists, but it was only after years of creating this work that he had the idea to repurpose it for an album under his own name. Since 2001, Németh has been working with the creators of short films and experimental videos, most intended for special film festival programs. He had long considered releasing music as a solo artist, and eventually Németh realized that the music he was making for those films was just what he wanted to be making as a solo musician, but just putting the music on a CD would not have been the proper way to do it. When these pieces were created, Németh was working on a variety of projects, each of them with its own life and intent, always with the music being created to serve the movie, as opposed to creating a single album where his process could have been more linear. His idea for Film was to take this material and re-structure and develop these soundtracks into autonomous pieces of music, while keeping the cinematic spirit alive. Technically, Film is a blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, where it is often difficult to distinguish between real and generated sounds, and similarly combines free and conventional forms. The electronics function just as any other instrument, and are almost solely analogue synths. There are digitally generated sounds, but only from genuinely digital processes, and not replicas or recreations of the analogue world. http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=102277

Sleep Research Facility
As a relatively new voice in Toronto's electronic music scene, Kevin Doherty's Sleep Research Facility explores a hazy grey area where unintended and accidental frequencies congeal into resonating layers of harmonic “non-music,” suitable for active or passive listening, depending on circumstances. Taking into consideration the needs of the sleepy listener, SRF seeks to present this noise in a sort of play-me-quiet mode aiming to create an aural experience which guides the mind through gentle misdirection rather than forcing its attention, allowing individuals to drift in their own diversified thoughts. http://www.resonance-net.com/