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THIS SUNDAY: De Benedictis & Hennegan and Wostheinrich at the Soundscapes Concert Series



Sunday, October 2, the Soundscapes Concert Series returns to the Nazareth Center for the Arts with two great acts; Dean De Benedictis & Vic Hennegan (California) and Bernhard Wostheinrich (Germany).

DEAN DE BENEDICTIS: Dean's music is the result of his will to tie an essential common thread together between opposing genres and mentalities as well as draw from them a natural sense of emotion, expanse and mystery. This Southern California-based visual and conceptual artist, known as Surface 10, has always utilized his interest in a variety of styles and cultures to enrich the quality of his musical expression.

VIC HENNEGAN: An artist and a spiritualist, Hennegan contemplates the state of humanity through his music. Hennegan’s instinctive hand creates techno-trance and ambient music in a wildly fun, uplifting spiritual experience that will take your soul on a journey to the center of ecstasy. His music emanates a unique warmth which moves the listener to a state of euphoria.

BERNHARD WOSTHEINRICH: Bernhard leads his own solo project "The Redundant Rocker." His main collaborator is Markus Reuter (in CENTROZOON) and he has also worked with Ian Boddy, Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock, No-Man singer Tim Bowness, Thorsten Niestrath, and Synapscape's Philipp Münch.

Bernhard elicits meaning from abstraction in electronic music and painting. He has studied graphic design and has created an eclectic body of work in both graphics and music. Using a compositional approach akin to his work as a visual artist, Bernhard usually begins by improvising abstract sonic structures which are subsequently developed into an increasingly detailed aural picture.

Bernhard is a composer, painter, graphic designer, performer, small town bohemian, failed control freak, and, finally, even a record label owner in Germany. His projects and albums have been released on a variety of labels and span different fields of electronic and ambient music. In about 1987, he began to intensely experiment with his own sounds and tunes after finding out that drawing and painting simply weren’t enough to adequately express himself. Bernhard sought something that would have a more “performing” approach. Inspired by the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten and other informal and experimental music, he finally began to work in a very personal way to compose and record some early tapes. The rest, as they say, is history.

Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert is at 8:00 pm. The concert is free. Donations are requested to support the musician and to enable the Nazareth Center for the Arts to pay operating expenses. The NCA is located at 30 Belvidere Street, Nazareth, PA 18064 just off of Route 191 on the southwest corner of Belvidere Street and South Spruce Street. Check the NCA site for parking information.

The Soundscapes Concert Series is the concert companion to the Galactic Travels radio program on WDIY-FM and to Thought Radio on WMUH-FM and presents electronic music to the Lehigh Valley. This is the concert series that presented Robert Rich (California), vidnaObmana (Belgium), The Ministry of Inside Things (Philadelphia), Richard Lainhart (New York), Orbital Decay (Quakertown), Mark Jenkins (UK), Modulator ESP (UK), Mikronesia (Philadelphia), The Tangent Project (Philadelphia), Chuck Van Zyl (Philadelphia), Technicolor Travel Agency (Poconos), and Twyndyllyngs (Lehigh Valley) to local audiences.

The SCS:
http://soundscapes.us

Get a little taste of the concert tonight on GALACTIC TRAVELS.

Tonight at 11 pm EDT/GMT-4 on Galactic Travels, I'll conclude the month-long Special Focus on Robert Carty. The Featured CD at Midnight will be "Starlight Volume 2" by Robert Carty on Deep Sky Music. Details are at the Special Focus page at:http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2011/focus.html#sep

In the first part of the show, Dean De Benedictis and Vic Hennegan return to WDIY to play a live, in-studio concert. They will be playing at the next Soundscapes Concert Series on October 2.

Galactic Travels is an electronic, ambient, and space music show that airs each Thursday at 11:04 pm on WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, 93.9 FM in Easton and Phillipsburg, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, on the internet, and in High Definition Radio at 88.1 FM. Listen at http://wdiy.org/listen on the internet.