2008 Equinox - Solstice Encanti Performances

Firefly marks a special time of year for me - it's the romantic climax of my performance calender two summers in a row. This year's Firefly, residing in the woods of Vermont over July 4th weekend (in such a beautiful place that my heart will break to leave), I will be performing a three-screen surround sound dance/healing set with Zebbler at 3am on Saturday night. I am extremely looking forward to the penultimate epicness that will insue on that weekend! The experience of Firefly is exceptionally refreshing and overall wonderful.

The first half of 2xx8 has been magical.
These were some of my favorite events ever...

Past Shows from the last EQUINOX to SOLSTICE 2008 sun cycle:

February 2 - MIT Madness Cambridge, MA
February 9 - Private Event Boston, MA
February 17 - New Haven, CT
February 23 - Lynn, MA
February 24 - Dover, NH
March 8 - The Good Life Boston, MA
April 4 - Private Event Boston, MA
April 26 - Private Event Boston, MA
May 1 - Mass Art POZA center auditorium Boston, MA
May 2 - Private Event Boston, MA
May 3 - MIT Stata Center Cambridge, MA
May 3 - Steer Roast Cambridge, MA
May 9 - Global Grooves Berkeley, CA
May 30 - Axiom Gallery Boston, MA
June 6 - Private Event Boston, MA
June 7 - Trophy Bar Brooklyn, NYC
June 16 - Live on WZBC 90.3FM Boston, MA

Quantum Tekno Dojo Disco Glitchin Dance Party

Boston's phattest underground party at the most mind-bending undisclosed location in preparation for Firefly 2008...
...was a huge success!!!

pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/professorpious/sets/72157605538969950/

Here's who made it happen:

SMGU
http://www.smgu.org/

vermin street
www.myspace.com/verminstreet
http://www.verminstreet.com

DJs:
memory9: http://www.myspace.com/gadisassoon
assembler: http://www.myspace.com/assemblerdnb
dabu: http://www.myspace.com/ghttoblastr
encanti: http://www.myspace.com/bencantil
jeff mission: http://www.myspace.com/jeffmission
pandai'a: http://www.myspace.com/himillsy
so so gutter: http://www.myspace.com/sosogutter
vinyl blight: http://www.myspace.com/vinylblight
zyler: http://www.myspace.com/damnandblast

VJs/lighting:
bonk: http://www.myspace.com/vjbonk
chris korda: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/whorld/
jeff mission: http://www.myspace.com/jeffmission
sean stevens: http://www.seanstevens.com/
zebbler: http://www.myspace.com/zebbler

chill room:
metacymatic: http://www.myspace.com/norajean_ , http://www.myspace.com/damnandblast


LEAVE NO TREEZ!

See you at Firefly 2008 this fourth of July!

B

what is GLITCH ?

Glitch is exactly what you need it to be
exactly when you didn't expect it to be what you wanted it to be.

But these definitions are also true:

glitch (noun)
1. A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations.
2. A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
3. Astronomy A sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star.

Wiki Glitch and you get a poorly-cited article that says that glitch is "is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers."

Glitch! is also a funky movie with playboy playmates that I've never seen. It looks really weird though so someones got to rent that and tell me how it is.


But we all know best...

Glitch is a boston-based video production collective.

These guys are teh amazing. Check em out... I am hugely in to collaborating with these people and I consider many of them among the most talented visual artists I've ever heard of. Click on their "technology" tab to see some amazing lasers that Sean Stevens built (i scored the video). Of course you can also link to Zebbler from there too, and preview some great large-scale stuff we've been working on as well. Jeff Mission, Sean Faherty, and Jen Rosselli are some of the other

amazing artists that are a part of the group- all worth checking out a sweet fix of eyepleasure!

To me personally, Glitch is a artform that relies on micro-repetious time phrasings and the aesthetic of technology exploitation or failure.

In my music, glitch essentially a sound that is repeated, distorted, or changed with varying levels of complexity at high speeds, usually conforming of rhythmic and harmonic context.

CONTEXT is the key ingredient to making a good glitch. It's an amazing acheivement when a moment in time is repeated so quickly that the time it represents breaks free of it's linearity. This is the asthetic to making an artform and instrument of high-speed looping techniques.

Here's a really great article on context and sound selection that applies to making glitch, as well as all electronic music: The Affect of Selection in Digital Sound Art

Welcome to Access Encanti

Hello. My name is Ben Cantil, aka Encanti.

This painfully typical -looking blog will now serve as a home of information and media feed for content and productions that I am involved with. Welcome to my antenna!

I am a producer of audio-related multimedia content. My production catalog features original multi-genre electronic music, as well as several excellent collaberations I am involved with. Originally from Kenai, Alaska, I currently live in Boston, taking residence with the local digital arts community, and performing live electronic music on a regular basis as Encanti.

Here is some music I've compiled for your immediate enjoyment, with a link to a wider catalog coming soon:

Psychedelic Chill Overdose Mashup Mix (2008) bootleg bastard pop live performance

Joanna Newsom Emily Timestretch Remix (2008) bootleg

Healing Ritual (2007) unmastered internet version

Heavy Death Unblinking (2007) unmastered internet version

My Heart Is Blindness (2007) unmastered internet version

Information (2007) unmastered internet version


Dubbed the Zebbler Encanti Experience, my most recent work has been a performance/production collaberation between myself and Zebbler. We have had a busy schedule this year making content for wide-screen surround-sound events, as well as a Modern Dance Ballet that premiered at the Mass Art Poza Auditorium last month. Here are some of our postings on youtube:

Zebbler Encanti Experience (end of Come Home)

Come Home theme performance by Zebbler Encanti Experience

VJ Zebbler, Infected Mushroom and Alex Grey - A Boston show

Zen & Bebbler (Britney Spears Hit Me Baby One More Time)


The omnineural network of the collective consciousness directly connects me to several other entities that support my existence. Here are some links to some other companies, record labels, and communities that I am associated with:

Vermin Street Records - Encanti's "What Is The Answer?" will appear this year on the compilation Vermin Street Vol I.

Fight The Scene Records - Encanti's "Anchorage" appears on the compilation Fight The Scene VS. Norotek (2008).

Subcltr - international private arts and media society created by Memory9 and Redivider.

Spank My Glitch Up - arts collective and theme camp associated with the Firefly burner festival.

Metacymatic - hyperdimensionally underground Boston music and event producers

SoniVox - published my sample collections, Bent Circuits (2007) and Anatomy (2008).


I will be adding more content soon!

Enjoy!

B