Telecorps Presents

02/12/2025

tomorrow Thursday February 13th at brillobox

Thursday Nite!!! 8pm!! $10!!!
Flackside/Liquidimages/Gina Gory/Purple Berries/ Edgar Um!!!

10/23/2024

i had a blast playing vinyl record tracks back2back with Eric Yeschke [Dark Money, Expensive S**t, et. al.] at Spirit this past Monday night before, between, and after live performances by OSEES & IGUANA DEATH CULT. it was an amazing night. excellent performances by all. thanks to our pal Paul Quattrone for asking us! and thanks to the staff of Spirit!

here's what i played:

Prince Far I - Nuclear Weapon (1983/2024)
Armando Sciascia - Circuito Chisuso (1970/2009)
Total Control - See More Glass (2011)
Can - Millionenspiel (1969/2012)
Azimüth - Melô Dos Dois Bicudos (1975/2015)
Fugi - Mary, Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip (1969/1997)
The Mystic Moods - Cosmic Sea (1973)
La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata - Ciudad Perdida (1971/2001)
Joe Meah – Dee Mmaa Pe (2021)
Swell Maps - Let's Build A Car (1980/1989)
Hawkwind - Silver Machine (1972/1986)
El Khat - Ya Raiyat (2019)
Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness (1989)
ZZ Top - Snappy Kakkie (1976)
Horace Andy - Cuss Cuss (1982/2003)
James Brown - Just Enough Room For Storage (1971/2019)
Marshall Tucker Band - I'll Be Loving You (1978)

On-U Sound Records
Far Out Recordings
Batov Records
El Khat القات
Steve Poindexter
ANALOG AFRICA
CAN - Spoon Records
Iron lung Records

09/26/2024

there's an exciting event coming up on Thursday October 10th that i helped make happen for the The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust: a live performance on for vinyl turntables by Peruvian-born/NYC-based abstract turntablist/sound artist/DJ Maria Chavez at Wood Street Galleries. this event is FREE and open to the public.

a short video from a few years ago showing Maria Chávez in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruDZM-mrTpA

i will be playing an opening set using vinyl records starting at 7pm.

Maria Chávez will perform starting around 9pm.

full Pittsburgh event info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1166360567787174

many thanks to Anastasia James for collaborating with me on this show. many thanks as well to Freida Abtan, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Carnegie Mellon School of Music, and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for partnering on this Maria Chavez visit to Pittsburgh.

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Join us on Thursday October 10th at Wood Street Galleries for a performance by Maria Chávez—a NYC-based, Lima-born abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ internationally known for her groundbreaking techniques. Coincidence, chance, and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sound and marble sculpture, visual art, and book objects. Her large scale sound & multi-media installations along with other works have been shown at the Getty Museum, the JUDD Foundation, Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany and HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel) amongst many other institutions around the world. Chávez, the only abstract turntablist in the world who performs with the rare RAKE Double Needle, brings her inimitable style to Pittsburgh for a truly unique experience where she will perform using 4 turntables.

📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
🕗 Time: 7 PM – 10PM (Doors open at 7pm)
📍 Location: Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh

🌟DJ Edgar Um will will play vinyl records before the performance

🌟Chávez will perform at 9PM

FREE and Open to the Public.

This performance is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and organized by Edgar Um Bucholtz with special thanks to The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

For 30 years, Wood Street Galleries has been a vital platform for innovative and experimental art, offering unique exhibitions and boundary pushing programs that engage the local community.

Abstract turntablist Maria Chavez makes sound art that evokes the unconscious: quicksilver changes in timbre, random beeps and burbles, words out of nowhere....

09/24/2024

$15 advance tickets on sale now:
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/tcrps-prsnts/thomas-lehn-tiziana-bertoncini-2024

09/18/2024

and now it can be revealed... Thursday October 3rd 2024 at the brillobox in Pittsburgh: THOMAS LEHN & TIZIANA BERTONCINI [analog synthesizer and violin duo from Germany/Austria] performing live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2-hkxaxAI

facebook event page here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1238235160651259

with CHIFFCHAFF TRIO [Trē Abalos/Caleb Gamble/Ricki Weidenhof] & BRIAN RIORDAN [audiovisual feedback synthesis]

7:30pm
21+

$15 advance
$20 at the door
no one turned away for lack of funds

Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Ricki Weidenhof
Trē Seguritan Abalos
Brian Riordan

First Free Improvisationfestival in Southtyrol curated by Peter|||KOMPRIPIOTR|||Holzknecht of the label LaGrind Noire. Video by Luana Julia Carp.

09/12/2024

tonight Thursday September 12th 2024 at Spirit: NYC electro-songstress MARY JANE DUNPHE performs live! opening up will be A LOW ROSE TRELLIS of Pittsburgh. plus vinyl & digital selections by EDGAR UM. doors open at 7pm. 21+

"Fix Me" by Mary Jane DunpheListen to "Fix Me" and "Seasons" Now: https://music.subpop.com/spsc_maryjanedunpheMary Jane Dunphe: Bandcamp: https://maryjanedun...

09/05/2024

i am presenting a free jazz/free music/free sounds show at Bantha Tea Bar on Tuesday October 1st 2024 featuring the great BARK CULTURE trio from Philly: Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, John Moran on bass, and Joey Sullivan on drums. you might have heard John Moran and Joey Sullivan when they were here with the great NYC saxophonist Michael Foster.

here's a video of BARK CULTURE in action from 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVrOrTGXNo

the two opening acts will be:

ELSINORE featuring Richard McKita and associates

and the all world total universe debut of

BOYDOZER (me, Jim Lingo, and Greg Pierce)

Jim and i have been threatening to start a band called BOYDOZER for at least a decade. and so it shall be.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1972027129922442

Bark Culture is a trio based out of Philadelphia led by Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, with John Moran on bass and Joey Sullivan on drums.video: Richard...

08/19/2024

local news update: i, Edgar Um, will be playing vinyl records at Tina's Bar in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh this Monday August 19th 2024 from 7pm to 11pm (or a maybe bit later.) admission is FREE. ages 21 and up. "R U 21?"

i'll be playing jazz, funk, latin stuff, weird disco, African, krautrock, Arabic stuff, reggae/dub, darkwave, et. al.

stop by, have a delicious cocktail, and say hello!

From Amsterdam, Novak cover

08/15/2024

pre-orders are available now for this upcoming 400+ page tome on the last 60 years of Pittsburgh's "Underground Art Scene" compiled by Sheila Ali.

Pittsburgh’s Avant-Garde: 60 Years Inside the Underground Art Scene features the work of 64 well-established artists with strong ties to the city of Pittsburgh . The story of Pittsburgh’s avant-garde is told through images of artworks, interviews with artists, essays by art critics, and artist a...

07/22/2024

cool interview with LUCAS ABELA [formerly known as JUSTICE YELDHAM] from 6 years ago on SBS Australia. this will give you an idea of what you're in for this Sunday July 28th 2024 when he performs at Sprezzatura in Millvale.

tickets are on sale here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/tcrps-prsnts/lucas-abela-gorgina-pgh

there will be tickets available at the door as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6_VNd96Jk

Lucas Abela Jen Saffron

A musical instrument like no other. Justice Yeldham plays cut glass with his mouth. Marty Smiley meets the artist who puts flesh and blood on the line for mu...