Evolution Control Committee: Live Infringement: The Thimbletron - Saturday
  Saturday, July 26
2:30 - 3:15 pm
NPi Hanna Stage
8:45 - 9:30 pm
All Go Signs Performance Area
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Evolution Control Committee(San Francisco, CA) Mad geniuses or copyright criminals? For over 20 years, The Evolution Control Committee has been making musical copyright violations, playing their custom-built Thimbletron, and polishing their own music genre (“Mashup”) with a reputation for party-science performances that are not to be missed! About the Live Infringement: the ThimbletronKnown for its body of work involving sampling and audio collage, The Evolution Control Committee (ECC) has repeatedly grappled with the legal risks of copyright violation, as well as the challenge of performing sampled work in a compelling way. In 2000, with the design of a live sampling instrument, “The Thimbletron” (assembled from ordinary sewing thimbles, recycled electronics, and custom computer programming), The ECC crafted a category-defying solution to some of these challenges, given the Thimbletron’s tangible aesthetic and the band’s knack for experimental performances. About the Evolution Control CommitteeTradeMark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) is a musician and artist perhaps best known as the founder of the band The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC), in 1986. He is also a culture jammer, equipment designer, software designer, and organizer. The ECC is best known for its copyright-challenging stance, using found sounds to create new musical works at the risk of copyright violation. This made the band the target of a cease-and-desist order from CBS for sampling newscaster Dan Rather, but also earned The ECC credit for creating the “Mash-Up” genre of music (also called “Bastard Pop”). TradeMark can take credit for those and all other ECC projects, including the development and construction of the Thimbletron, the 2003 nationwide release of the “Plagiarhythm Nation v.2.0” CD (which charted #1 in LA, NYC, San Francisco, and put the word “Plagiarhythm” in the Macmillan dictionary), and acquiring and managing the 10,000-record-strong ECC media arcives. Over its full history, The ECC has produced 16 full-length albums, a videotape, 2 seven-inch records, and even an 8-track tape and a wax cylinder recording. The band has appeared on air form CNN to C-SPAN and in print from Spin to US News & World Report. The ECC and TradeMark’s other bands have given nearly 1,000 live performances at festivals, concert halls, bars, and galleries in the US, Australia, Germany, Holland, England, France, and beyond. TradeMark is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Media Arts, and was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He has also given lectures and panel discussions at the University of San Francisco, University of Oregon, and festivals in Barcelona Spain, Utrekt Holland, and Sydney Australia.
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