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David First and Keenan Lawler Performance and Live Webcast Thursday May 20 9:00 pm ET >From Artswatch in Louisville, KY LOUISVILLE, KY -- Composer/guitarist David First will perform "A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House Part 2" for 13 drone paths guitar/synth controller and tonal fool. Visuals by Patricia Smith. First has written, "I am attempting through my music to charge the atmosphere with a directly physical presence, to disturb balances and re-focus attentions through the manipulation of subtle vibrational quantities, to play the tune for the dance between disorientation and total clarity, reconciling the unchecked senses with the logic games of the higher intellect. My ultimate wish is to transport an audience to the realm of pure feeling--to a state where all conflicting ideologies reach an harmonic concordance." Jon Pareles wrote in THE NEW YORK TIMES, "Strange things can happen in the spaces between the steps of the Western chromatic scale.....David First used finely calibrated pitch combinations to make the whole gallery throb and buzz and shimmer with invisible turbulence." The room is set spinning, careening and flying into a whirling dervish of tone and vibrational resonance. Sound swoops into the very fiber of the listener's being, and soars up the spine, directly into the cerebral cortex. Keenan Lawler, composer/improviser, will open the show performing music based on his new release on Konstant: "The Ghost of a Plane of Air." It features his acclaimed work on prepared, bowed and electronically-manipulated National Steel Resonator Guitar. Always seeking to expand beyond the boundaries of convention into a place of freedom where anything might happen, as a means of process Lawler takes this unlikely instrument so rich with tradition into an arena whereby it becomes a transmutable sound source -almost, in effect, a new instrument unto itself. The webcast will be displayed at www.konstant.com Webcast provided by Shadowcast Networks, www.shadowcast.com.