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

[Bill Fox]

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.