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LA:
Give It To Me - a turquoise storefront: Corey Fogel Performs
tell friends and loved ones, come by in evenings, afternoons, browse, stare, walk away
Give It To Me - a turquoise storefront
Corey will be installed in the front window of Machine for a week,
performing the music of Busta Rhymes. Here are some additional words
from Mr Fogel:
1) A really long concert
corey fogel: drums, keyboard, vocals, glockenspiel, musical arrangement, asbestos-repellent jumpsuit, rainbow pillow case,
backdrop, blue tape.
http://www.machineproject.com/coreyfogel/giveittome/index.php
Washington, D.C.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FORUM resident new music ensemble
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FORUM
Sunday, September 18, 2005
The Contemporary Music Forum invites you to join us for the first concert of our 2005 ~ 2006 season
Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium
The concert will begin at 4:30 pm
The Contemporary Music Forum opens its exciting 2005/2006 season with a world
premire by Jeffrey Mumford of an expanding distance of multiple voices for
CMF violinist Lina Bahn.
Jeffrey writes: "an expanding distance of multiple voices is a
set of variations for solo violin celebrating the virtuosity and
extraordinary intelligence of violinist Lina Bahn. It was commissioned by a
Washington, D.C. based consortium consisting of Pamela Johnson, Kathryn Judd,
Philip Berlin and Otho Eskin to whom I am tremendously grateful."
The concert also includes George Perles Critical Moments from 1996,
described as music at once delicate and thorny, by turns rigorously contrapuntal
and breezily atmospheric." (NY Times, 2002); Ricochet by New York composer Adam Silverman
and the exuberant riprap by Eric Moe.
Audrey Andrist, piano
Tickets are $15 for Contemporary Music Forum and Corcoran Gallery of Art members, $20 for general admission.
Season tickets are $50 for CMF and CGA members and $70 for the public.
Tickets may be reserved in advance by calling the Corcorans Office of Public Programs at 202.639.1770, fax 202.639.1822 or visit www.corcoran.org and click on the calendar to purchase tickets online. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.
Due to limited parking in the area, please consider Metro or taxi.
LA:
FroZini, The WhatClub? & Music Epicenter are throwing a fund raiser event for New Orleans relief at Fais Do-Do in Los Angeles.
September 22nd @ Fais Do-Do.
The doors will open at 8pm and you will once again be swept away by the love, music, poetry and passion that made the WhatClub? such a special place.
Like always this will be a great night of artistry with some incredible music from:
Thursday, September 22
Directions: Fais Do-Do is at the corner of Cloverdale and Adams Blvd., midway between
Fairfax Ave. and La Brea Ave. (One block south of the 10 Fwy). From the 10 Fwy, take La Brea South exit, Turn right onto Adams Blvd, pass a few blocks and Fais Do-Do is on your right!
LOS ANGELES, CA:
A listing of experimental and exploratory music performances in the
Los Angeles area
Week of: 9/10 - 9/17, 2005
TONIGHT:
* EAST LOFT (PRIVATE - DOWNTOWN LA) (Sat, 9/10) -- 9:00 pm - 7:00 am
Room 1: hard.techno.detroit.acid.electro
Room 2: idm.exp.electro.minimal.soundscapes
- Richard Devine
Live Video Experiments: bijrez
Call for directions on 9/10: 323.525.5652
WEEKLY SERIES:
* EAR ORCHARD, CLUB TROPICAL (Mon, 9/12) -- 8:30 pm
* CRYPTONIGHT, CLUB TROPICAL (Thu, 9/15) -- 8:00 pm
ADDITIONAL EVENTS:
* IL CORRAL (Sun, 9/11) -- 9:00 pm
* BRIDGES HALL OF MUSIC, CLAREMONT (Sun, 9/11) -- 3:00 pm
* WILLIAMS AUDITORIUM, GETTY CENTER (Fri, 9/16) -- 7:30 pm
* IL CORRAL (Fri, 9/16) -- 9:00 pm
LA:
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE at the new LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
THE GRAND OPENING OF THE
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE
ARCHITECT: ANTHONY LUMSDEN
San Francisco, CA:
Pamela Z
2948 16th Street
www.pamelaz.com/wunderkabinet.html
Wunderkabinet is a new experimental multi-media opera developed by composer/performer Pamela Z in collaboration with cellist/composer Matthew Brubeck and media artist Christina McPhee. Scored for voice & electronics, cello & electronics, & video, the piece is inspired by and based on the exhibits displayed at the enchanting and renowned Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Wunderkabinet premieres this month with a two-week run at The LAB Gallery in San Francisco.
The boundary between reality and imagination is blurred as Wunderkabinet's central character "Alice May Williams" makes her strange and magical journey in search of the scientists of the Mount Wilson Observatory to whom she has been sending abundant correspondence, only to find herself in a strange cabinet of curiosities where she eventually becomes a docent.
The music of Wunderkabinet is performed by Pamela Z (voice and live electronic processing) and Matthew Brubeck (cello & electronics, and a multi-layered set (largely comprised of projected images created by Christina McFee) evoking the dark yet radiant focus of the museum dioramas forms the backdrop for this evocative experience. The score (composed by Pamela Z and cellist Matt Brubeck) utilizes bowed and plucked strings, sampled found objects, and a wide range of vocal work ranging from operatic bel canto to experimental extended vocal techniques and spoken text. The libretto is derived from passages of actual descriptive texts from the Museum of Jurassic Technology's exhibitions and stories inspired by them.
About the Artists:
Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing and sampling technology. Processing her live voice through "MAX MSP" software on a PowerBook, she creates solo works that combine operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, and sampled concrte sounds. These sounds are triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth, which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures.
Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including: Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center in New York; the Interlink Festival in Japan; Other Minds in San Francisco; and Pina Bausch Tanztheater's 25 Jahre Fest in Wuppertal, Germany. She has composed, recorded and performed original scores for choreographers and for film/video artists, and has done vocal work for other composers (including Charles Amirkhanian and Henry Brant). Her large-scale, multi-media performance works, Parts of Speech, Gaijin and Voci, have been presented at Theater Artaud and ODC Theater in San Francisco, and at the Kitchen in New York. She has had audio works included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Erzbischfliches Dizesanmuseum in Cologne, and the Dakar Biennale in Senegal. She has also been presented at the San Jose Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio in New York and at La Biennale di Venezia in Italy.
Ms. Z has been commissioned to compose works for new music chamber ensembles: the Bang On A Can Allstars; Ethel, the California E.A.R. Unit; the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; and the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra. Since 1986, she has been producing "Z Programs", an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has been featured along with that of other experimental artists in various genres. She has done collaborative work with Jeanne Finley + John Muse, Miya Masaoka, Donald Swearingen, The Qube Chix, Zakros New Music Theatre, and has performed with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Pamela is the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Guggenheim Fellowship, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts; the Creative Capital Fund; the ASCAP Music Award; and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has a solo CD on Starkland which the WIRE (UK) refers to as "Sheer genius from the most gifted and enterprising vocalist/composer/audio artist in the US since the heyday of Joan La Barbara and Mededith Monk". www.pamelaz.com
Matt Brubeck is a composer/performer specializing in improvisation on the cello. Classically trained, with a Master's in cello performance from Yale, Matt is at ease in multiple genres and has taken his cello improvisation skills into diverse musical territories. During his many years in the San Francisco area, Matt performed with a variety of jazz, improv, and new music artists including Pamela Z, John Schott, Ralph Carney, Myles Boisen, and Scott Amendola. He founded Oranj Symphonette, which recorded two CD's for Rykodisc and went on to play many of the major jazz festivals, including Toronto, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, and Monterey. Matt worked for several years as composer and cellist/bassist with the San Francisco based Club Foot Orchestra, contributing to scores for film and television. In the pop/rock world, his eclectic adventures include touring with the Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, and the Indigo Girls, as well as performing and/or recording with Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Jonathan Richman, and others. Matt has continued to play classical cello and was a member of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2003. Under the adventurous direction of Maestro Kent Nagano, Matt enjoyed performing the traditional repertoire, as well as the works of many new music composers. His "Concerto Grosso for Two Improvising Soloists and Orchestra" (featuring violinist Carla Kihlstedt and Matt on cello) was premiered in 2003 at the BSO's Under Construction series for emerging composers. Currently Matt resides near Toronto, where he teaches cello, improvisation, and leads the New Music Ensemble at York University. Matt is actively involved in Toronto's vibrant music community, playing with a wide range of jazz and improvisational artists such as David Mott, Anne Bourne, Kevin Breit, Jesse Stewart, Marilyn Lerner, David Buchbinder, and David Braid, among others. (And, yes he is the tallest son of Dave.)
Christina McPhee is a Los Angeles-born new media and installation artist who's technological landscapes engage strange ambiguities at the interface of art and science. Her performances, video and net art have been included in exhibitions, festivals and electronic media archives around the world, including Cornell University Electronic Media Archive, chairetmetal (Montreal), Cinemateque/Video Channel (Koln), Rhizome Artbase(New York) , Cybersonica/Convergence at the ICA New Media Center, London, California Museum of Photography, back_up/Lounge|lab at Bauhaus-University Weimar, and Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC, COSIGN 2004 at the University of Split, Croatia, FILE Sao Paulo 2002 , and Digital Arts and Culture 2003 at RMIT Melbourne, especially for her online and installation project naxsmash. She writes on phenomenology, trauma and memory in electronic art and architecture, most recently in book print with "Net Baroque" in Life in the Ruins: A CTheory Reader", edited by Marilouise and Arthur Kroker (2004) and online with "Aphasia/Parrhesia" for drunkenboat(2005). Online, CTheory also features Slipstreaming the Cyborg, an interview with the artist with Rome-based Francesca De Nicolo. Current multimedia work queries seismic memory in digital chromogenic prints, video and live data based net art, in the Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries (2005). Created with text contributions from Jeremy Hight and web programming design from Sindee Nakatani, the live data work, based on current and archived ground motion values in collision, is part of the Whitney Museum of American Art, new media seriesArtport, and can also be reached at www.carrizoparkfielddiaries.net. McPhee's videos from the Carrizo Parkfield Diaries will travel to Carnegie Mellon University's Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, as part of Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art October 14 - December 11, 2005. In December 2005, she will be a visiting artist at HUMlab, University of Umea, Sweden. www.christinamcphee.net
LA:
Jim McAuley Performances
Dear New Music Cognoscenti,
I am pleased to announce three upcoming l.a.-area performances celebrating the release of "GONGFARMER 18", my new CD of acoustic guitar improvisations (review below). Best of all, the shows are absolutely FREE--you're guaranteed to get more than you paid for!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 7pm:
Jim McAuley
The Folly Bowl
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2pm
Jim McAuley in-store performance at:
PooBah Records
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 7pm:
Jim McAuley
Open Gate Series
REVIEWS:
"...genuinely evocative and refreshingly cliche-bashing work." --Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times (concert review)
JIM MCAULEY - Gongfarmer 18 (Nine Winds)
"Half-composed music - or structured free forms, if you will - is probably what I like best when listening to solo acoustic guitar. Besides owning a dexterity which could silence many pretenders, Jim McAuley has an unique gift of transforming his imagination and dreams into untarnished grace; he's capable of putting your heart in full-resonance mode with delicate ornaments and evocative counterpoints and arpeggios then, all at once, he mutates his machine into an Eastern instrument through string detuning, a trick he performs pretty easily despite the fact he does it while playing the tune! Atonality and romanticism - minus the sugar - are both present, too (listen to the succession of "1+2" and "Nika's waltz") but great news also comes from Jim's use of the 12-string, as he is the first guitarist I've heard in a long time trying to tame this beast without sounding like a Ralph Towner clone. At the end of this record you feel a little more optimist and somehow relaxed - and that speaks volumes." ---Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes.com/.
NYC:
CCi brings you
for the forward thinking...
Box office: 212-663-1967
Program on Monday Sep 12 at 8:30pm:
more at
SERIES DETAILS:
Serial Underground at The Cornelia Street Cafe
Serial Underground 2005
12 september 2005 at 8:30 pm
Where: Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC)
Box office: 212.663.1967 (advance purchase discount available)
ComposersCollaborative inc's (CCi) Serial Underground introduces new multidisciplinary concert theater collaborations the second Monday of the month at the legendary Cornelia Street Caf, NYC. Doors open at 8:30 pm.
Composer/pianist Jed Distler (CCi artistic director) opens the September 12th evening with his own The Anthem atWoodstock(1996) for piano, a salvo to Jimi Hendrix's historic performance.
You might notice a political thread in our September 12 program directed by Arnold Barkus. David Lovett's lighting design adds glitz to the underground experience.
As of 1998 "the ever imaginative ComposersCollaborative" (Time Out) has presented such new music fare as the Solo Flights and Non Sequitur
festivals. Launched in the fall of 2004, Serial Underground presents multidisciplinary collaborations between composers, playwrights, directors,
spoken word artists. Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes Serial Underground, CCi's monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia
Street Cafe "Informal performances of concert works were part of the musical ecology, and to some extent part of the ecology of urban night life
as well. That tradition lasted into the 20th century, when ... "serious music" reserved the concert hall as its home, and jazz (and later other popular forms) took its place at street level. ... Composers Collaborative and its inventive artistic director, the composer and pianist Jed Distler,
have decided that this [lost] intimacy [between listeners and performers] is worth recapturing."
The Cornelia Street Caf has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Upstairs there is a beautiful oak bar, and 3 dining rooms. And there is a real kitchen, which garners much acclaim such as the 1998 Village Arts Award for "inspired cuisine."
about the Serial Underground artists on September 12, 2005 program:
Artistic Director of ComposersCollaborative, composer/pianist Jed Distler is developing a concert theater work, Everbest, Virgil, with director Arnold
Barkus for premiere at the Krannert Center of the University of Illinois. Jed is also collaborating with playwright Ed Schmidt (The Last Supper) on The Gold Standard, a piano theater work about a slightly disgruntled pianist. Highlights of the past season include solo performances in NYC at Joe's Pub and with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at BAM, and a commission from Symphony Space for their Wall-to-Wall Sondheim. For the full scope of Jed's musical life, visit Composers Collaborative inc.
Pianist and composer David Hanlon is a member of the Anechoic and Tactus Contemporary Ensembles, with whom he has performed as a soloist and ensemble member in works such as Rzewski's De Profundis, Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, Xenakis's Palimpsest, and the American premiere of Michael Gordon's Decasia. He has also played with Newband in Harry Partch's Oedipus, the first staged production of the work since its first performance. David regularly travels to Egypt to perform recitals of classical, contemporary, and improvised works and to study Arabic music on the oud. A trained actor and director, David takes particular delight in participating in theatrical performances and writing theatrical music. He graduated from Wesleyan with a double major in Classics and Music and earned his Masters at Manhattan School of Music.
"...An exceptionally sensitive pianist" (Gramophone), Jenny Lin has earned a growing reputation for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence. Her performances have taken her to Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, MoMA, Whitney Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, BAM Next Wave Festival, Flanders Festival, Divonne Festival, Festival Ars Musica, with orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Contrechamps, and Elliott Sharp's Orchestra Carbon. Jenny's latest album "Preludes to a Revolution" on the Grammy-winning Hnssler Classic features Russian Piano Preludes from 1905-1922. Scheduled for release in 2005/6 are CDs for Hnssler, Koch Records, and AEON.
A veteran of the European touring scene, lighting designer David Lovett worked for the Almeida Theatre in London; designed pieces for Scottish Opera, Attic Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, The Matrix Ensemble; realized John Cage's installation piece Essay in Barcelona and a tour of Cage's Europeras 3 & 4. For the Aldeburgh Festival, he lit the world premiere of John Tavener's Mary of Egypt, and re-lit Robert Wilson's Hamletmachine on the European tour. David has been on board with CCi since 2002.
Walt Christopher Stickney was born August 30, 1944. He received a B.A. in English and comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His books include To Night: Little David On Mouth-Harp, Cover My Souls, one and five minute pose-pomes, The Bethesda Preludes, and How To Live With An Actor. He has performed widely in Europe and the United States. He received an award from The National Endowment for the Arts and several awards from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities including the 1st individual grant award.
Contact Celia Cooke (212-663-1967) for program updates and press information.
Composers Collaborative inc.
Silver Spring, MD:
Forest Song, a month-long exhibit by Marilyn Banner
This is an invitation to Forest Song, a month-long exhibit I will have at the hip new art space in Silver Spring, Space 7:10, 963 Bonifant St. I will be showing small intimate collage/mixed media pieces from a large body of work inspired by a trip to Costa Rica. Many of the works at Space 7:10 have never been shown before, and are priced at unusually friendly prices, many well under $100!
Works from this series are in more than 20 collections, including those of the Ambassador and the Cultural Minister of Costa Rica, as well as the Sheppard Pratt Collection in Baltimore.
My intention in all the work is to express the beauty, delicacy, and mystery I felt in the rainforests of Costa Rica. It often seemed that the forest had a "sound," or a song, one that required our listening, on the deepest level.
Many of us want to "save the planet" now. Perhaps the first step is to get quiet and focused enough to notice what we HAVE here, and to love it. Then we can think about what "care" would mean. I want this work to function as a reminder to the parts of us that need reminding or reflection of the beauty and mystery of our earth.
If you want to own a bit of this work, now is the time.
Opening: Tuesday September 13, 6-9 pm, at Space 7:10 (in Kefa Caf), 963 Bonifant Street, in downtown Silver Spring. Come to the reception (part of the famous Silver Spring Artwalk), or visit during regular business hours, M-F 7 am-6 pm, Saturday 8 am-5 pm.
Kefa Cafe is just a couple feet from the corner of Georgia Ave and Bonifant St. Also, within one-half block of the caf are restaurants with food from Cameroon (Roger Miller's), Burmese (Mandalay), Thai (Thai Derm), Indian (Bombay Gaylord), Chinese (Tian Palace) and old-style American, in the oldest operated bar in Silver Spring, an erstwhile speakeasy during Prohibition (it is said), the Quarry House. So make a night of it!
Hope to see you there!
About the Progressive Artwalk:
Where: Gateway's Heliport Gallery 8001 Kennett St. Suite 3, Los Arrieros 7926 Georgia Ave., Alchemy 8025 Georgia Ave., Pyramid Atlantic and Kari Minnick 8230 Georgia Ave., Space 7:10 963 Bonifant St.
When: 9/13/05: Groups depart from the Heliport at 6:30pm and 7:30pm. Event is from 6-9pm.
Valencia, CA
Villa Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 @ 8:00 p.m.
venue adress:
This concert is co-sponsored by Cal-Arts.
Born 1979, Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and artist based in Berlin. His work includes music for saxophone, computer and synthesizers and installations with sound, infrasound and modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces. He has given concerts throughout Europe, North America and Asia, both solo and together with artists such as Phill Niblock, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, Borbetomagus, Gert-Jan Prins, Keith Rowe and Alvin Lucier. His installations have been presented in galleries and museums in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Turin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Osaka. Influenced more by experimental and electroacoustic practices than (free) jazz, Ankersmit focuses on exploring the timbral extremes of the saxophone. His electronic music is constructed from swarms of electro-mechanical micro-events with an acute sense for detail and intensity.
West LA:
Ellen Burr flute recital
hello all!
Local flutist and Yamaha Performing Artist, Ellen Burr performs an early afternoon concert of lovely flute melodies and inspiring ensemble with pianist Tali Tadmor. Works by Telemann, Chopin, Rorem, Godard, Clarke & Bracey.
Steinway Hall at Fields Piano 12121 Pico Blvd. (at Bundy). W.L.A. 90064
Tickets $10 in advance/$12 at the door (check or cash only)
hope to see you there!!
LA:
OrkestRova:: John Coltrane's Electric Ascension
Gig alert...
I'm performing with the Rova Saxaphone Quartet performing a version of Coltrane's Ascension at the end of the month.
here's the details. hope to see you there.
OrkestRova:: John Coltrane's Electric Ascension
Nels Cline electric guitar, fix
and Rova Saxophone Quartet: saxophones
REDCAT
Box Office:
LA:
The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die
LUCKMAN GALLERY
announces
MARNIE WEBER's
Saturday, October 22, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
(Immediately following the Artist's Reception at the Luckman Gallery)
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University, Los Angeles announces the premier presentation of "The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die," an original multi-media work by Marnie Weber featuring live performances, music and visuals by the artist and cast. Weber's first performance in Los Angeles since 1998, this special one-night only event takes place Saturday, October 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Luckman Intimate Theatre immediately following the Artist's Reception in the adjacent Luckman Gallery from 6-8:00 p.m.
"The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die" is an exhilarating descent into the half-trance, half-dreamstate of Marnie Weber's subterranean, subconscious-smitten world. Presented in multi-media surround, the performance invokes a waking reverie, a unique and extraordinary visual and aural experience. Vividly populated by ashen-faced girlish songsters and their hybrid animal consorts, and framed by a projected backdrop of swirling seasons and sweetly apocalyptic landscapes, "Marnie World" exists as antidote to the quotidian ills of runaway Disneyfication in serving up a sensory as well as thought-provoking feast for the eyes and ears.
"The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die" is a modern opera depicting the saga of five adolescent girl ghosts and their failed rock musical. According to Weber, "I thought of it as girls who were killed in their prime, and then they felt they wanted to come back and express things they weren't able to express. And so they decide to put on this musical. But they're so unaware of the way the world works that they find this abandoned opera house, and they put up posters all over town, and then nobody comes - because they're dead, and nobody can see the posters - or them. But the animals can, because the animals have special intuitions, as we all know." [LA Weekly, Aug. 12-18]
The performance features a floor-to-ceiling digital projection of the artist's newest video of the same title, along with a blend of live instruments, electronic music and vocals interwoven to create the rock-opera soundtrack, culminating in an otherworldly a cappella finale. Cast are slated to wear Weber's signature one-of-a-kind handmade costumes, many of which can also be viewed in the artist's five-year survey exhibition at the adjacent Luckman Gallery. About the artist: Marnie Weber was born in 1959, attended the University of Southern California in the late 1970s and received her BA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981. Weber's first public persona was as a member of the art-rock band the Party Boys, and eventually as a solo performer in clubs and art venues locally and internationally. In the early 1980s she began making collages, which she segued into multi-media installations in the 1990s that were also intertwined with her continuing performance work. Appearing with either a cast of characters or by herself in highly idiosyncratic and imaginative installations and performances, Weber delivers atmospheres and events that more often seem like magic residues from her own elaborate dreamscape.
Venue: Luckman Intimate Theatre
Tickets: 10.00 general admission.
"The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die" is presented in association with SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) luckmanarts.org or www.calstatela.edu (maps)
Public Information: (323) 343-6604 or luckmangallery@gmail.com
Senouillac, FRANCE:
Joseph Nechvatal
An Art Exhibition at Chateau de Linardie
Opening: September 4th at 5pm.
The artist Joseph Nechvatal has used the computer for twenty years to create his computer-robotic assisted acrylic paintings and electronic installations. To do so he has subjected his image compositions to custom computer virus programs. From 1991-1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2001 he extended that artistic research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration with the programmer Stphane Sikora of the collective music2eye.
The dominant hermaphroditic visual form seen throughout CONTAMINATION is created through the computational morphing of testicles, ovaries, female breasts, and the buttocks of both sexes. CONTAMINATION was chosen by the artist for the title of this exhibition for a very specific reason. Through the utilization of digital-robotics, the paintings on view hold in suspension aesthetic moments preserved from real-time computer viral attacks which the artist performed using the most recent version of his custom viral software. This C++ based software, developed with the programmer Stephane Sikora, launches unpredictable progressive real-time virus operations that live off and transform its image hosts hosts created by the artist using a blend of digital-photography, computer graphic maneuvers and externalized computer code. These real-time viral attacks fall into the category of artificial life (A-Life); that is into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems.
With CONTAMINATION artificial life viruses are modeled to be autonomous agents living in/off the hermaphroditic image. These Contamination attacks simulate a population of active viruses functioning as an analogy of a viral biological system. The host for the viruses are the digital files on which the computer-robotic assisted paintings in CONTAMINATION are based. Among the different techniques used here are models that result from embodied artificial intelligence and the paradigm of genetic programming.
Dr. Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) University of Wales College, Newport, UK. Dr. Nechvatal presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA) and at Stevens Institute of Technology.
His Home Page is at: www.nechvatal.net
Chateau de Linardie is in Senouillac - near Toulouse France
Admission is Free
Various Cities:
Peter Reginato: upcoming art shows
Dear Friends,
I have the pleasure to announce that I am now represented in Europe by White8 Gallery, located in Villach, Austria. I will be having a solo show at the gallery in the summer of 2006.
November 10, 2005, is the opening for my solo show at the Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida. I am also in several group shows this summer. The Fells Conservancy, located in New Hampshire, is sponsoring a group show titled "Gateway to Sculpture", July 2nd through October 10th, in which I am represented by one large and two small sculptures. You can see, more of my work in the ACA Gallery summer group show Summer Salad at ACA Gallery in Chelsea, June 18th to August 19th.
I hope some of you can make it to one of the shows. And as always, you can see more of my sculptures on my website, www.peterreginato.com. Also, links to the gallery websites are below.
White8 Gallery: www.white8.at
Elaine Baker Gallery: www.elainebakergallery.com
The Fells Conservancy: www.thefells.org
ACA Gallery: www.acagalleries.com
Best Regards,
60 Greene Street
Pasadena, CA:
NewTown Presents Whose/Who's California: Golden State x10
Date & Time:
Location:
Admission: Free
Contact: Richard Amromin at (626)398-9278 or email at newtownart@charter.net
Featured Artists:
Whose/Who's California: Golden State x 10 is the finale of NewTown's series exploring California artists' views of their home state. Perhaps saying more about our state than we wish to know, Sandow Birk's ironically idyllic paintings of California prisons and Ben Sakoguchi's Manzanar series both commemorate, in their own way, the Golden State's propensity for incarcerating its citizens. Cheri Gaulke's installation explores the status of women in our state, while Dana Lovell probes our seemingly endless penchant for residential transience.New installations and sculptural works addressing "Californianess', in its numerous guises, are being prepared by Gilbert Lujan (Magu), Michael Guccione, LaMonte Westmoreland, Suzanne Siegel and Clement Hanami, artists all too rarely seen in Southern California, while The Dark Bob returns to the gallery scene with his "viewer" sculptures and watercolors.
The opening night party includes a special appearance by the legendary Double Naught Spy Car. "DOUBLE NAUGHT SPY CAR sprang into existence in the 20th century to provide the soundtrack for the approaching meltdown of civilization. In sweat drenched shows harkening back to 50's jazz clubs, the stinging Stratocaster of Marcus Watkins, the Telecaster and spooky steel of Paul Lacques, the nihilist/classicist bass of Marc Doten, and the all knowing unyielding drums of Joe Berardi beguile, bewilder, bait, and beatify their audience--no pesky vocals or lyrics to water down the twang and throb."
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT NEWTOWN, please visit www.newtownart.org.
San Francisco, CA:
A new yet unnamed Quartet, Pablo Calogero Trio, and Industrial Jazz Group at Club Tropical
The Ear Orchard Monday Music Series provides you with a special Sunday night music festival to celebrate two years of music at Club Tropical.
Sunday September 25, 2005
A new yet unnamed Quartet with
&
Pablo Calogero Trio
&
Industrial Jazz Group
Cover: $10, $5 for students and former "Jazz on a Monday Vibe" patrons
Food info: Fine Salvadoran alimentary sustenance is offered by Club Tropical. Please eat!
All ages admitted.
For more information on the series, check out the "Ear Orchard Mondays" section on the web site: srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=1012773&s=32763779
Club Tropical is located at 8641 W.Washington Blvd., Culver City CA 90232
For directions, click here.
Westchester, CA:
Larry Karush performs The Wheel, a large-scale solo piano comprovisation
Dear Friends -
I will be performing "The Wheel", a large-scale solo piano comprovisation, on 9/30 at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The second half of the concert is a wonderful piece, "Requiem" for gamelan orchestra and voices, by my friend, composer Paul Humphreys. This special event is part of the World Festival of Sacred Music, taking place in LA from Sept 17-Oct 2.
Details on the concert are below (I recommend making reservationss); the Festival website is www.festivalofsacredmusic.org
Date: Friday, September 30, 2005
Ticket price(s): $15 general; $12 students and seniors
I look forward to seeing you there,
Kensington, MD:
Washington Musica Viva 05-06 season opening performance!
Dear Friends of Washington Musica Viva,
We are getting ready for the 05-06 season! Saturday night October 1 at 7:30 pm will be our first performance. It will happen at WMV's home base, BannerArts, 4233C Howard Avenue, Kensington MD 20895 (see recent Gazette feature).
BannerArts is the unique, intimate, exciting concert venue/art studio/warehouse in the West Howard Antiques District of Kensington, where intermissions are as high energy as the performances.
The October 1 program features Holly Bass, poet and performance artist. (See a video of her Kennedy Center performance with the late Keter Betts, and a recent Washington Post feature). Ben Redwine, clarinet, June Huang, violin, and Carl Banner, piano will perform Libby Larsen's jazzy Slang Trio and Charles Ives' Largo (Blue Danube/American the Beautiful). Gary Poster, bass, will sing Lament by George Walker, Riding to Town by Thomas Kerr, Alta Quies, by Maurice Saylor, and the "Don Quixote' songs of Jacques Ibert. Carl Banner will perform a Suite based on African-American folk music by John Wesley Work III. Can we fit in a dynamite 20 minute intermission with food and drink? Absolutely!
Encouraged by our recent survey, we are raising our ticket prices: Admission is $25 at the door and $20 in advance (send check to WMV, 9925 Dickens Ave, Bethesda MD 20814 postmarked by September 28). For those for whom this is a particular burden, there will be discounted tickets available - call 301-493-5729 to inquire about these. We are not meaning to turn anyone away, just pay our bills!
visit our websites and check out the MP3s!
High Point & Raleigh, NC:
North Carolina Shakespeare Festival
North Carolina Shakespeare Festival Tickets on Sale
HIGH POINT Single tickets and subscriptions go on sale Tuesday, July 5 for The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival MainStage season of performances in High Point and in Raleigh, and A Christmas Carol performances in High Point and in Winston-Salem. Groups of ten or more may order tickets at a discount directly from NCSF. Details, special programs and ticketing options are posted at www.ncshakes.org and are available by request of The Festivals Quarto newsletter, also posted on the web site.
NCSF stages Shakespeares Julius Caesar and As You Like It us in repertory at the High Point Theatre (220 E. Commerce Avenue) from September 2 to October 1; and, brings both productions to Raleigh for a one week residency at the Fletcher Theater, BTI Center (1 E. South Street) from October 4 to 9. In addition to 22 public performances, NCSF will present 13 weekday morning matinees, exclusively for school and senior groups at deep discounts.
Special programs available by advance reservation through NCSF are Elizabeths Bard Weekend in High Point, exploring the topic Women in Shakespeare; and, five Saturday afternoon Classics in Context seminars, exploring production histories of both Shakespearean plays.
NCSF follows the 29th MainStage season with its beloved presentation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, December 2 to 13 at the High Point Theatre and December 16 to 18 at the NCSA Stevens Center in Winston-Salem (405 W. Fourth Street). In addition to 12 public performances, The Festival will offer 10 weekday morning matinees exclusively for school and senior groups.
Single tickets and subscriptions to NCSFs 2005 MainStage performances in High Point, Julius Caesar and As You Like It (September 2October 1), and single tickets to all December performances of A Christmas Carol, may be purchased through the High Point Theatre Box Office in person or by calling 336-887-3001, MondayFriday, Noon5:00pm. Single tickets may also be purchased online at www.highpointtheatre.com.
Single tickets to NCSFs MainStage performances in Raleigh, Julius Caesar and As You Like It (October 4-9), may be purchased through any Ticketmaster outlet, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 919-834-4000, 24 hours/day; or, in person through the BTI Center Box Office, MondayFriday, 9:00am5:30pm.
Group orders of 10 or more tickets to NCSFs MainStage and A Christmas Carol performances, including public performances in High Point, Raleigh and Winston-Salem; and, all SchoolFest and SeniorFest 10:00am weekday matinees, may be made through the NCSF Sales Office at 336-841-2273, x226, or by e-mailing sales@ncshakes.org. Paid reservations for Elizabeths Bard Weekend, and free-of-charge reservations for Classics in Context seminars may also be made through the NCSF Sales Office.
For complete details on The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival 2005 season of performances and special programs, visit the NCSF web site at www.ncshakes.org; or, request a July Quarto newsletter, by contacting NCSF via e-mail, sales@ncshakes.org, or fax, 336-841-8627.
NYC:
World Music Institute and Thomas Buckner present:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2005 8PM
Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht
Yasunao Tone
Merkin Concert Hall - 129 W. 67th Street
Interpretations, the series which features leading names in contemporary music and multi-media, will begin its 17th season on Thursday, September 15th with a two-part concert featuring the flute and piano duo of Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht, and mixed-media artist Yasunao Tone. Dick, the undisputed master of extended techniques for the flute, exploits the full range of flutes, from the contrabass flute to piccolo, including his striking invention, the Glissando Headjoint; Schlicht, who has performed improvised music, jazz, new music and world music in North America, Europe, and Australia, integrates an extensive vocabulary of inside-the-piano sonorities into her imaginative playing. Their program will feature original works and improvisations. Tone, who has been active in the Fluxus movement since the early 1960s, recently won the prestigious Ars Electronica Golden Nica prize. He will perform the New York premiere of his Paramedia Centripetal (2005) for laptop computer w/ Max/MSP and motion detector sensors in an 8-channel surround sound environment.
Robert Dick, improviser, composer, author, teacher and inventor, is a leading performer of new music for flute. He is known worldwide not only for his mastery of the flute, but for redefining it. He has performed his music - rooted in free improvisation, new jazz and classical music, new and old - throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has released numerous solo recordings and performed and recorded with New Winds, Tambastics, Oscura Luminosa, the Soldier String Quartet, the A.D.D. Trio, King Chubby, Paul Giger, Jaron Lanier, Randy Raine-Reush and Barry Guy, Mari Kimura, Steve Gorn and others. His pedagogical works, including the book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, are considered the standard bearers in their field. Since the early 1990s Emerson Musical Instruments has produced the Robert Dick Model bass flute. Dick is presently collaborating with Brannen Brothers Flutemakers, the leading maker of fine flutes worldwide, in the production of his invention, the Glissando Headjoint, which does for the flute what the whammy bar does for the electric guitar. Dick currently resides in New York City where he teaches flute privately and at New York University.
Pianist/composer Ursel Schlicht has written compositions and arrangements for small and large ensembles, music for dance-theater, and improvisational scores for silent films. Recently she performed at the Symposium fr Aktuelle Musik in Germany; the Guelph Jazz Festival; the Festival for Creative Music in Seattle; Jazz Festival Kassel; the International Improvisers Meeting in Monterrey, Mexico; and the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival. Her current projects include her Ex Tempore ensemble, which features artists from Europe, India, Eritrea, Mali, Afghanistan, and the US; a duo with Reuben Radding; a duo with Melbourne saxophonist Adam Simmons; a quartet with Radding, Simmons, and John Hollenbeck; a sextet with Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Tomas Ulrich, Ken Filiano and Klaus Kugel; and a duo with actress Ute Kaiser. She also plays with the Laura Andel Orchestra. Schlicht has released five CDs as leader and several new recordings are currently in preparation. She holds a doctorate from the University of Hamburg for her dissertation, Its Gotta Be Music First - On the Impact, Perception and Working Situation of Women Jazz Musicians (Coda, Germany, 2000). She is currently teaching at Ramapo College, New Jersey.
Yasunao Tone, born in Tokyo in 1935, was one of the first Japanese artists active in composing "events" and improvisational music. Primarily a composer, he has worked in many media, creating pieces for electronics, computer systems, film, radio and television, as well as environmental art. During the sixties he was an organizer and participant in many important music and performance groups in Japan, including Group Ongaku (which he formed in 1960), Hi-Red Center, and Team Random (the first computer art group organized in Japan). Since coming to the US in 1972, he has composed numerous scores for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; performed solo concerts at the Kitchen, the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Roulette, P.S.1, and the Guggenheim Museum SOHO; and participated in many Fluxus concerts. In the past three decades he has designed musical compositions based on post-structuralist theories and audio-visual materials compiled with ancient Oriental texts and musical sounds generated by electronic means. One of these works, Geography and Music , was part of the Cunningham Dance Company repertory between 1979 and 1986. His work has been part of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk's Hrspiel Festival in Cologne; the Audio Art Festival at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Fluxus Exhibition at the Venice Biennale; retrospective Fluxus shows at the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; group shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil; the Central Fluxus Festival in Utrecht; and the Ars Electronica Festival.
This program is made possible in part with public funds made available by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Additional funding is provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
Upcoming Interpretations concerts include:
October 6 - Steve Lacy: Sound Legacy, a tribute concert
SAN FRANCISCO:
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
Meridian Gallery
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
This concert series celebrates new, traditional and world music through monthly
performances. The Spring 2005 concerts take place on the second Wednesday
February, March, and April, in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery. The
series is devoted to the memory of Heather Leinss, one of Meridian Gallery's
first teen interns. Concerts for the 2005-2006 season will be announced later
in the spring.
www.meridiangallery.org/MGMusic.htm
NEW YORK CITY:
ARTS ELECTRIC 10th Season
EMF is planning a lively and varied series of events in New York during its 10th anniversary season, including concerts, workshops, encounters, and installations. All events, with time, location, admission, and other details, are listed at Arts Electric as dates are confirmed: www.emf10.org/
ARTS ELECTRIC
FEATURED EVENT:
Project RITE II
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Diamanda Galas: Defixiones, Orders from the Dead
Zach Poff and N.B.Aldrich: The Observational Soundscape
The Kitchen High Line Block Party
And more ...
Pauline Oliveros with Roscoe Mitchell at the Guelph Jazz Festival
And more ...
JOIN US!
CHICAGO:
Lampo
Friends,
Lampo is pleased to announce its Fall 2005 schedule. Details below.
- Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler (Sept 10)
All events at 2116 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Fall 2005
THOMAS LEHN AND MARCUS SCHMICKLER
Lehn (analog synthesizer) and Schmickler (digital synthesizer and computer)
perform together in Chicago for the first time. Two heavyweights from
Cologne, they are. Agog and gaga, Lampo is.
Thomas Lehn (b. 1958) has been working as a performer, interpreter, composer
and improviser since the early 80s. In addition to his duo with Schmickler,
ensemble work includes Gerry Hemingway, Gnter Christmann, Eugene
Chadbourne, Paul Lovens, Raymond Strid, and trio Konk Pack with Tim
Hodgkinson and Roger Turner.
Marcus Schmickler (b. 1968) has been involved with numerous projects,
including the seminal group Kontakta. As a solo artist, he has created
important works such as Wabi Sabi, Sator Rotas and Param, as well as three
CDs under the name Pluramon. While rooted in electronic music, he also has
a background in contemporary composition, having studied under Stockhausen
collaborator Johannes Fritsch. Schmickler also has worked in the house and
techno scenes, both on his own and with musicians such as Thomas Brinkmann
and Cristian Vogel.
KEITH ROWE
Solo Rowe -- an evening of improv from the famed British tabletop guitarist
and radio manipulator.
In the mid 60s, Keith Rowe (b. 1940, Plymouth) began to develop his own
idiosyncratic guitar technique, setting the instrument flat on a table and
preparing it with various tools: transistor radio, contact microphones,
pedals, bows, springs, mini handheld fans and various metal scraps. He is
co-founder (and former member) of the groundbreaking collective AMM, and
current all-star in MIMEO (the 12-piece Music in Movement Electronic
Orchestra, which also includes Lehn and Schmickler).
JESSICA RYLAN
Jessica Rylan (aka Can;t) overlays voice and DIY electronics to make music
"as warm and direct as an autumn campfire." Here, she calls forth swishy and
fluttery sounds from the Natural Synthesizer, one of her recently completed
homemade synths. Think: tree branches waving in the wind or frogs croaking.
Spin: "New Secret" (RRR) her superb picture disc and so-called noise album.
Jessica Rylan (b. 1974, London) is a sound artist and electronic musician
who lives and performs in the Boston area, where she grew up. The main
focus of her work has been the design and construction of modular
synthesizers that use analog electronic circuits. She uses her synthesizers
in installations at galleries (LIST Gallery for Visual Arts at MIT, the
Boston Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College) and also in her
high-energy musical performances.
STEPHAN MATHIEU
For his Chicago debut, Mathieu will present "Radioland," a suite of
computer-processed live AM radio, accompanied by a fast, random video
flicker of 256 colors.
Stephan Mathieu (b. 1967, Saarbruecken) spent the 90s in Berlin as an
improviser playing drums. In 1998 he made a radical switch to the digital
domain. A composer, performer and installation artist, Mathieu has created
sound installation works for the cultural heritage monument Volklinger
Hutte, Germany, and elsewhere and has released more than 10 albums for
labels such as Orthlorng Musork, Ritornell, Lucky Kitchen and Fallt, both
solo and in collaboration with Ekkehard Ehlers, among others. He also
teaches Digital Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design HBKSaar,
Saarbruecken, and has worked as a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of
Arts, Gteberg, the Bauhaus University, Weimar and the Merz-Akademie in
Stuttgart, Germany.
ALESSANDRO BOSETTI
Bosetti, in his first local performance, presents solo work for voice and
electronics.
He also will premiere "Scena Muta," a project that he will complete in the
days immediately preceding his Lampo concert. For this new work, Bosetti
will make video portraits of Chicagoans listening to his short compositions
with headphones, after which he will destroy the music. Only the video
document of people listening, and the incidental sounds they make while
listening, will remain.
Alessandro Bosetti (b. 1973, Milan) is a composer, soprano saxophonist and
sound artist. He is interested in the musicality of spoken words and
different aspects of spoken communication, often employing field research
and interviews to gather material for his abstract text-sound compositions.
As a saxophonist, he has developed an original extended technique.
Collaborators include Michel Doneda, Axel Doerner, Annette Krebs and Andrea
Neumann.
BECOME A LAMPO MEMBER:
CULVER CITY, California:
EAR ORCHARD MONDAYS
Club Tropical
Salvadoran Food and Full Bar available
CULVER CITY, California:
CryptoNight at Club Tropical in Culver City
Cryptonight -- featuring jazz and improvised music
Date: Every Thursday Time: 8:00 PM
Club Tropical, 8641 Washington Blvd. Culver City
New York City:
TONIC events 2005!
This month at Tonic:
TONIC
Recently Posted and Ongoing
INTERNET:
Siberian traibride improvisation project
Hi, all...
you can follow me through Siberia with my improvisation project here
the mobicast:
or the live radio from the train:
all best,
INTERNET:
BINARY KATWALK
Binarykatwalk announces the launch of its first edition.
Binarykatwalk.net
Binary Katwalk is an on-line New Media exhibition focusing on work that is experimental
and would benefit from this non-traditional exhibition space. The goal
of the site is to unify works over time into one expanding and unified
exhibition as opposed to specific exhibitions that open and then close or
go to a secondary archive. It is co-curated by Jeremy Hight and Sindee
Nakatani.
Come to Binary Katwalk to see the work of 5 strong artists from very
different points in the spectrum of New Media.
AGRICLOA DE COLOGNE, OLIVER DYENS, BJORN WANGEN, LISA TAO, CATHY DAVIES, OLIVER DYENS
INTERNET:
Mediatopia.2 fresh! @ mediatopia.net
Mediatopia.2 fresh! assembles an exciting mix of recent net-based work by adiverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh, networkedinterfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the internet, as playground,platform or paintbrush. Mediatopia.net is a recurring network mediated culturespace for art, technology and writing. We still believe in networked culture. Mediatopia.net
Jessica Ivins
Produced by Adhocarts.org, a non-profit arts organization
Curated by Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mediatopia.2 fresh!
Artists create art in cyberspace, but can you hang it on a wall?
Mediatopia.2 fresh! assembles an exciting mix of recent net-based work by a diverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh, networked interfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the Internet, both as creative medium and as a channel to share and distribute their output. The Internet, with its network functionality and potential for user interaction, is their creative playground: a form to manipulate and a means of social or political expression. Mediatopia.2 fresh! is a net-based opportunity for artists to gain exposure for their culture work. Mediatopia.2 fresh! is produced by Adhocarts.org, a non-profit media-arts organization. Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg worked together to curate a program from recent work submitted internationally that uses the Internet as a playground, platform or paintbrush.
Jessica Ivan's Retrotype historically traces female representation in video games through an interface that allows the participant to personalize and question the object of their gaze. Do you live in East L.A. and long to live closer to celebrities in a gated community? Carlos Katastrofsky performs Neighborhood and Area Research for you, so you can discover who your IP address neighbors are in cyberspace. On the Internet, distance is collapsed as ideologues are brought closer together. Michael Takeo Magruder's
Together these disparate works signify the production, both singularly and collaboratively, of persons whose concerns go beyond the instance of capital and reach outward to the cultural center of what digital media can mean for human expression and communication. Their work is a mirror before us that traces both our success and failure: together and separate in the network. These words may wish to provide an overview or representation of their work, but fail to provide the one thing these artists considered as they created their work- your interaction. This interaction forms a means to destabilize the relation of the author or creator, bringing in the user as an active director or participant in the process.
Artist's work created for the Internet poses problems for persons, museums or galleries who would collect and display it. Internet Art is not easily installed in these traditional spaces, and although digital information does not degrade, the technology that expresses it is constantly changing and upgrading. Software evolves, computers and their operating systems change, as well as progressive modifications to the human-computer interface, making it difficult to collect and archive this kind of work. Net-based art is ephemeral under these circumstances.
Artists who create "net.art,' have another problem at hand as well. How do you create value for something that is distributed on a network and available to anyone with a computer and connection? Historically, most art, aside from live performance, is based upon its being a one-of-a-kind object that maintains or even gains value as a collected piece. This makes raising funds for or selling this work a difficult proposition. Rachel Greene, author of Internet Art, writes, "Internet Art has less to do with objects of social prestige, and little, at least currently, to do with the cosmopolitan art businesses that thrive in New York, Cologne, London and other culture capitals.' These limitations have given artists who work with the Internet a kind of freedom and revelry of exploration, as well as a particular tool for cultural and institutional critique. Many artists see the Internet as a cause to really challenge fundamental elements of humanity: identity, methods of communication, technology, politics and the institution. These artists understand that people expanded by the Internet all over the world, are brought together in cyberspace.
The Internet was launched in 1989 by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. As the use of the Internet grew, so did a community of artists who began to utilize it as a creative medium by the mid 1990s. Some of the early practitioners of Internet Art were Post-Communist East Europeans and organizations like the Ljudmila Media Center in Slovenia, supported by George Soros's Open Society Institute. Much of the practice of Internet Art also saw support in media arts festivals in Europe during this time. Internet Art has grown over the years as the Internet has seen increased use and is now getting more recognition from the traditional formats of museums and galleries.
Artists will continue to participate in the social uses of new technology. They will take part in future network technologies and cultures, where the Internet will be augmented by shared virtual space. People on the network will come together in synthetic worlds to create, communicate and recreate. This is already occurring in online multi-player games and environments like Second Life (http://secondlife.com), which include their own economies. Objects and land can be bought and sold and complex social transactions take place in these ephemeral, digital realms that exist on servers. Some artists, such as Chris Burke, are hacking online multi-user games for other purposes, such as a talk show in game space (http://www.thisspartanlife.com).
Artists have a long history of socially relevant communication from within the culture they are steeped. Mediatopia.net and its supporting organization, Adhocarts, offer perspective to this process in the continually shifting phenomena of cyberspace. Mediatopia.net is produced by Adhocarts (http://adhocarts.org), which sponsors a variety of expressions that fall on the lines of interconnecting disciplines, theories, technologies and cultures. Adhocarts.org is a non-profit collaboration supporting arts and culture by producing avenues for creative expression and thought both online and off. Adhocarts.org was founded in 2000 and exists as a catalyst for work that uses technology and hypermedia, such as net.art, installation, digital video, writing and live art.
We still believe in net-based culture.Mediatopia.net
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INTERNET & LIVE LOCATIONS:
Le placard's 8th edition, non-stop three month streaming headphone festival
Le Placard is a headphone concert festival, playing with concentration, intimacy, time warp, and teleportation. This year it goes on for 97 days non stop, in different cities.
Get more info: www.leplacard.org/.
INTERNET:
The Invisible Guy
is online now!
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Cyber-Surfers:
This is to let you know that my latest and current project, The Invisible Guy, is now officially online. Over three years in the making (and still in progress), it consists of lots and lots of music - surf tunes, humorous songs, a couple of tangos, and some demented anachronistic pop stylings not easy to describe - and for every number a scene (delivered in prose, I'm afraid; no flash cartoons or videos. You have to enjoy a good read).
These will be uploaded every Friday for the next 40 to 50 weeks, much like a serial novel. So to enjoy the full ride you'll have to keep coming back. It's cumulative though; once up there, every episode will be permanently available and accessible any time.
You are invited to get your first glimpse of The Invisible Guy right now at the above URL. Listen to the theme song, meet the gorgeous but wicked Zipper Ripper, and learn a bit of trivia.
This is a free online entertainment from the Leisure Planet.
(By the way, view it in Netscape if you can. Some stuff doesn't look right otherwise, and I'm not sure why.)
Thanks,
INTERNET:
bentstrings radio
Hello friends,
I want to let you know of an internet radio station that I have
started. It is called
bentstrings radio at
www.live365.com/stations/martinherman
When you get there, simply click on the listen icon for bentstrings radio.
It is live streaming internet radio, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It
requires a cable modem or faster connection.
The station invites listeners to bend ears and minds and listen to
music that includes such composers as John Adams, Steve Reich, Gyorgy
Ligeti, Gerard Grisey, Frank Zappa, Lou Harrison, William Houston,
Evan Ziporyn, Joshua Fried, Eve Beglarian, Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros, Cort
Lippe, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Arthur Jarvinen, Iva Bittova, Ivo
Medek, Miroslav Pudlak, Astor Piazzola, Conlon Nancarrow, Shaun
Naidoo, Carolyn Bremer, Robin Cox, Pauline Oliveros, Steven Mackey,
Nick Didkovsky, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can Allstars, Autechre, and
more...!
I will be expanding playlists and am interested in your input.
My interest is in curating playlists to explore unusual or
infrequently considered nodes of contact among currently active
composers. Please drop in and have a listen.
And please pass the word to anyone you think might be interested.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
Bentstrings radio is a legal live365.com station and pays royalties to the artists programmed.
INTERNET:
The Memory Theater, an iPod opera
Plugged ~ In
18 April 2005
Dear Friends,
I wanted to let you know that we have just launched The Memory Theater, an iPod opera.
Serialized as 49 playlists between April 10, 2005 and February 24, 2007, The Memory Theater is a retelling of Cathedral's 5 moments through the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
The Fanfare (Program 1) has begun, and the Prologue will begin on April 24.
Featuring the pan-genre global collective Cathedral Band, The Chronicler, and the voices from the web, The Memory Theater is crafted especially for the sound world of the iPod.
I hope you'll be able to join Nora and me as we begin this new chapter in the Cathedral story.
Best wishes to all,
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As a podcast:
1] download free podcast receiver software.
On the web:
Need more help? visit our FAQs at
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INTERNET:
Viralnet.net is now online!
Viralnet is a productive nexus: critique, archive, art space and journal.
It intends to raise questions and provoke assumptions about culture,
media, politics and the arts.
Working with international social critics, media theorists, writers,
curators and artists, it is an online space that will grow and mutate as
it delivers material for these post-digital, post-democratic times. As
human experience becomes more mediated, we will highlight alternative
pathways into future thought and art making.
Produced by the Center for Integrated Media and the MFA Writing Program at
CalArts, Viralnet offers a series of commissioned online projects, essays
and interviews with a view toward articulating new concepts and working
strategies developed by contemporary intermedia artists, writers and
theorists. Tom Leeser, Director of the Center for Integrated Media,
says Viralnet is set up to look at digital media in relation to
culture, politics and the arts. The computer and the Internet have
expanded far beyond the boundaries of an exclusive digital domain,
allowing a transformation from novelty to the familiar," he says. "As with
radio at the beginning of the 20th century, digital technology has entered
a state of flux, going from an object of privilege to a common and
everyday ubiquitous appliance. This will have creative, social and
political ramifications that we are only beginning to
experience and understand."
Some of the contributors to this release of Viralnet include; social
critic and author, Norman Klein, new media theorist and author, Lisa
Nakamura, Kitchen curator and author, Christina Yang, artists, Perry
Hoberman and Sara Roberts.
You can find Viralnet at viralnet.net
INTERNET:
Iridian Radio
If you want to hear provocative "new music" that really is new, or at least created in the
last couple of decades, then check out Iridian Radio. You'll hear music of artists such as
John Adams, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Tan Dun, Kronos Quartet, Meredith
Monk, Steve Reich, and many more.
Not only is Iridian Radio's broadcast quality and programming unique to internet
streaming broadcasts, but the station home page also provides further info on the artists
and purchasing links for their recordings. This is a free service -no fees or subscriptions
needed to listen.
If you think Iridian Radio is an important outlet for this music, please forward the station
info to others that might be interested.
Iridian Radio is a fully legal Live365.com station and pays royalties to the artists
programmed.
INTERNET:
DRIFT Radio: from New Media Scotland
To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT website at www.mediascot.org/drift
New Media Scotland
INTERNET:
New American Radio Website Project
New American Radio
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce its
redesigned, updated and expanded NEW AMERICAN RADIO (NAR) website that
includes full-length radio art programs by American and European
artists. Currently available are works by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple,
Diamanda Galas, Sheila Davies, Suzan-Lori Parks, Gregory Whitehead and
others. Additional programs will be added to the site in the coming months.
A weekly series distributed to public radio stations nationwide from
1987-1998, NEW AMERICAN RADIO includes over 300 original works
commissioned from such artists as Pauline Oliveros, Rachel Rosenthal,
Christian Marclay, Alvin Curran, and Carl Hancock Rux. During its 15
years of broadcast life, NAR became known-nationally and
internationally as the principal source of radio experimentation in
America, ranking with such high-profile international programs as ABC
Australia's The Listening Room. Its works, which won numerous prizes
in competitions worldwide, were aired throughout North America, Europe
and Australia. Although now off-air, NAR enjoys an active afterlife on
the Internet, where full-length programs, audio excerpts, scripts and
other artist writings are available.
An amazing cultural mirror of its time, both in regard to the issues it
dealt with and the techniques and strategies used by its artists, NEW
AMERICAN RADIO is also being archived in the World Music Archive at
Wesleyan University, CT, where it will be accessible both on location
and on-line to students, educators, artists, scholars, and the general
public. The archive is made possible by grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, please contact Helen Thorington at
newradio@turbulence.org
INTERNET:
Spongefork Radio
Spongefork Radio
INTERNET:
Intercontinental spontaneous jam session
New artwork by Icelandic artist Pall Thayer, the Intercontinental
spontaneous jam session is now open and accessible at
www.this.is/pallit/isjs
This piece explores abstract imagery created via a musical interface to
combine the inherently abstract qualities of music with randomness and
multi-user interactivity to create a truly abstract image that contains
no references to the physical world.
Pall Thayer
INTERNET:
ARTPORT from the Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org/artport -- read more !!!
INTERNET & NORTHWESTERN University:
Home, an interactive, navigable web work, contains the work of 17
artists
Home, an interactive, navigable web work, contains the work of 17
artists. These include: a screenwriter, a photographer, a set
designer, film and video makers, and sound and computer artists. Each
has a unique perspective on the meaning of home, this most universal
and basic of necessities.
Primary collaborators Drew Browning and Annette Barbier will be at
the Block Museum at Northwestern University to demonstrate and talk
about the work during the following times:
on Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 12-5 PM
Home is permanently on line via the Block web site at:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/art_tech/virtual.html
For directions, see:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/welcome/directions.html
The development of Home was supported by a grant from the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University.
Contributing artists from the Northwestern community include: Dave
Tolchinsky, Michelle Citron, Sam Ball, David Downs, Rives Collins, Linda
Gates, Dan Brintz.
INTERNET:
Post Media Network
Michele Thursz, the former Director of Moving Image Gallery, is proud to
present her latest project the Post Media Network:
The network operates as a physical and virtual structure composed of
editorial, curatorial, and artists projects that stresses the different
perspectives and uses of the electronic and computer-based mediums.
Post Media is an action demonstrating the continuous evolution of the term
and uses of media. The network promotes actions of collaboration,
representation and market utilization of all media.
The Network
Portfolios showcase the artists on the network, the digital studio and the
marketable physical and virtual objects.
Represented artists:
Developed by Claire Barliant (senior editor of artbyte), Dialogue
features conversations with the artists to reveal their history
and process.
The archives document the on going exhibitions and events
presented or affiliated with all past and present network participants.
Director: Michele Thursz
"All data is created equal" -- Arcangel
INTERNET:
Announcing the Launch of the Website for:
"Re: Duchamp Traveling Exhibition"
La Biennale di Venezia:
49th International Exhibition of Art--
Concomitant Exhibitions
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
"The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition is a project that has been evolving
over time. It has traveled to various cities in Germany, Poland, Chile and
Israel, as well as New York City. It is the ongoing work of Abraham Lubelski,
and incorporates the work of over 250 other artists, including Nam June Paik,
Dennis Oppenheim, Carl Andre, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taylor Mead, Larry
Weiner, David Humphrey, Inka Essenhigh....
The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale* is an
installation of clotheslines from which artwork is hung.** The idea for this
installation is derived from Marcel Duchamp's infamous benefit exhibition
organized on the Premises of the Coordinating Council of French Relief
Societies, 451 Madison Avenue, New York, October 14th - November 7th, 1942,
in which he criss-crossed the entire gallery with one mile of string. This
entanglement, which the public had to negotiate when they came to view the
art, stood as a metaphor for the difficulties encountered in attempting to
understand modern art.
The current exhibition uses this Duchampian metaphor to point to connectivity
as much as any difficulty that might hinder an appreciation of art in the
digital age---art whose nature may be partially or completely ephemeral,
time-based, or immaterial, and which might be conveyed digitally or housed
virtually. Re: Duchamp celebrates the process of visual sampling in a world
where the line between original and copy has been blurred, and the medium is
the readymade.
** Participating artists were asked to e-mail their submissions as digital
files. These were printed out, placed in plastic sleeves and brought to
Venice for installation. Hung from criss-crossing lengths of string at the
Church of S. Maria Ausiliatrice, they resemble so many Tibetan prayer flags,
the wind and the Web conveying and disseminating their messages.
* At the 49th Venice Biennale, the Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition forms
part of the Markers Project, which involves organizations in Venice including
the Peggy Gugghenheim Collection, the Biennale Arti Visive, and the
Municipality of Venice itself."
[--notes, Joy Garnett]
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MARK AMERIKA, DANIEL GARCIA ANDUJAR, DOUGLAS DAVIS, CHRISTOPH DRAEGER, PETER
FEND, JOY GARNETT, PAUL GARRIN, KEN GOLDBERG, WANG GONGXIN, MARINA GRZINIC &
AINA SMID, WENDA GU, INGO GUNTHER, LIANG-MEI HUANG, JON IPPOLITO, EDUARDO
KAC, OLGA KISSELEVA, TINA LAPORTA, JENNY MARKETOU, MARCELLO MAZZELLA, PAUL D.
MILLER aka DJ SPOOKY, MTAA, OLU OGUIBE, ANDRES SERRANO,
HANI RASHID (ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTS), MARK TRIBE & KERRY TRIBE
Curated by: CRISTINE WANG
http://www.tribes.org/dystopia
For More Information contact: Cristine Wang tel:
917.318.0081
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
Festivals, Contests, Conferences, Programs, Airtime Submissions Requested!
Neoteric announces a competition for original compositions for bassoon,
horn, and cello. Up to three winners will be chosen: First Prize (one
winner, $400) and Honorable Mention (one or two winners, each to
receive$150). All winning entries will be performed by Neoteric on a
faculty recital at Southern Illinois University.
Neoteric reserves the right not to name any winner. Neoteric may perform
non-prize-winning submissions. An archive recording of all works chosen for
performance will be provided. Each work should be 10 minutes in length or
less. Please include score (preferably computer generated) and parts.
Deadline for submission: 6 January 2006 (postmark). Entries received by 1
November 2005 may also be considered for additional performances in the USA
and Canada.
For submissions or queries, please contact:
Eric Lenz
INTERACTIVE FUTURES 06: Audio Visions
CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, PERFORMANCES, & INSTALLATIONS
INTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media
art as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology.
The theme of this year's event is Audio Visions. IF06 will explore new
forms of audio-based media art from a diverse body of artists, theorists,
and sound practitioners. Sound poetry, web-based audio and multimedia,
mobile audio performance, new forms of music theatre, synaesthetic
performance, hybrid forms, sound-based installation, video and sound, and
environmental sound are all of interest to Audio Visions.
The proliferation of audio technologies, audio-visual collaboration, and
hybrid forms of live performance in the new millennium is striking. Audio
artists are exploring the areas of mobility, virtuality, performance, and
audience interaction from an experimental point-of-view. Audio Visions
invites scholars, sound-artists, and performers of all stripes to submit
paper, panel, performance or installation proposals in one of the three
following categories.
1. "Sound and Vision" lecture and panel series - Scholars, artists,
and practitioners working in audio or audio-visual-based new media are
encouraged to submit proposals for IF06. We are interested in a broad
range of audio including: computational, interactive or generative audio;
the creation of digital audio tools; synchronization between sound and
visuals; performative art that explores language, voice and body;
streaming radio and mobile sound works. Presentations should be, in part,
demonstrative. We recognize that sound art is evolving and that categories
have become increasingly irrelevant - we encourage proposals that push the
boundaries of the traditional conference paper.
2. "Earshot" performance series "Earshot" is seeking experimental
audio-based performances that challenge assumptions about audio forms and
performance conventions. Avant-garde, post-avant-garde, techno,
electro-acoustic, synaesthetic production, liminal art and hybrid
performance are all within our desired range. "Earshot" is primarily
interested in new types of electronic audio-visual performance as well as
models for audience participation in sound works. "Earshot" will run
performances at Open Space for each night of IF06.
3. "Tangible Frequencies" installations We are interested in audio
installation works that consider site, space, vision, volume and
perception and how physical location 'matters' to the reception of audio
frequencies. IF06 has identified areas within Open Space Gallery to
function as controlled locations for sound installations.* We welcome
proposals that respond to the particular characteristics of these
locations through their acknowledgement of private and/or public space and
use. Installations may provide audio continuity to the existing locations,
or respond as intervention and critique.
INTERACTIVE FUTURES is part of the Victoria Independent Film and Video
Festival and applicants are encouraged to check the Festival website for
more information on the broader program.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS
Greg Hermanovic of Derivative software is a visionary
software-engineer involved in the creation of real-time visual tools. In
2003 he received an Academy Award for the pioneering of modeling in the
film industry with PRISMS and Houdini. Greg coordinated the realtime
animation at SIGGRAPH 98's Interactive Dance Club, and directed special
effects for Michael Snow's Corpus Callosum. Derivative's Touch software, a
range of tactile interfaces, brings advanced realtime animation tools to a
diverse cross-section of artists, including Richie Hawtin and Rush. Greg
will perform live visuals with Toronto-based DJ Tom Kuo.
Tom Kuo uses a grounding in techno to pursue a varied range of
precise electronic strains. Tom was recently named one of Toronto's Top
Ten DJs by NOW magazine.
Atau Tanaka is known for his work in interactive music, including
performances with biosignal gesture systems. He has conducted research at
IRCAM in Paris and was Artistic Ambassador of Apple Computer Europe. His
work with sensor-based musical instruments and network audio installations
have received prizes and support from Ars Electronica, the Fraunhofer
Institute, the Japan Foundation, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation. His
current research at Sony CSL Paris focuses on harnessing collective
musical creativity on mobile devices.
Jrg Gutknecht is a computer scientist with a passion for new
hybrid art forms. He has actively participated in culturally-oriented
"wearable computing" projects, including "Instant Gain in Grace" (motion
tracking of a Butoh dancer), "Going Publik" (distributed orchestra based
on mobile electronic scoring), and "On the Sixth Day" (multi-channel video
system for interactive storytelling). Together with Sound Artist, Art
Clay, he organizes the Digital Art Weeks which offers performances and
provides courses in the areas of computer-aided art and music.
Art Clay is a specialist in the performance of self-created works
with the use of inter-media, and has appeared at international festivals.
Recently, his work has focused on large-scale performative music-theater
works and public art spectacles using mobile devices.
Jim Andrews publishes vispo.com. It is the centre of his work as a
visual poet, audio artist, programmer, and critic. His work in interactive
audio and word-based web media has been published and shown widely in such
venues as rhizome.org, turbulence.org, and the trAce Online Writing
Centre. Since 1999, he has been creating interactive audio at
vispo.com/vismu.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
INTERACTIVE FUTURES is interested in artistic and theoretical work that
relates to audio performance, production and hybrid forms.
Papers, Panels, and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs,
video tapes, games, web-sites, etc. and should be 45-minutes in length.
Proposed artwork for exhibition may take the form of performances
("Earshot"), installations ("Tangible Frequencies"), or audio-related
screenings ("Earshot" or "Tangible Frequencies").
Applications should not exceed 500 words. Applicants should
indicate one of the three festival categories in the subject of the
message. Please include a 200 word max bio.
All proposals must be submitted in text only format either as an
attachment or within the body of the email message.
Please present examples of your work as a URL to a web-site.
If your presentation requires specific technologies please
describe your needs in detail.
Proposals should be submitted electronically to ONE of the following persons:
"Sound and Vision" lecture and panel series - Randy Adams
runran@runran.net
"Earshot" performance series - Steve Gibson sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca
"Tangible Frequencies" installations - Julie Andreyev lic@telus.net
* SPECIAL NOTE FOR INSTALLATION ARTISTS APPLYING TO "TANGIBLE FREQUENCIES':
Open Space has the following areas available to install sound installations:
A floor plan for Open Space can be downloaded at
www.openspace.ca/img/floorplan.pdf
Please indicate a preference for one of the above areas in your proposal.
Artists should keep in mind that Open Space is a shared space and
therefore low volume will be required. Other venues may be organized by
special arrangement if louder volume is required.
FUNDING
INTERACTIVE FUTURES does not have funding for travel or accommodation.
Presenters and artists are expected to apply for travel funding from their
home institutions and/or granting bodies. INTERACTIVE FUTURES is applying
for funding for performance and installation artists exhibiting at Open
Space. If this funding is obtained, performance and installation artists
will receive a modest fee according to CARFAC (http://www.carfac.ca/)
regulations.
All presenters and artists will be given a pass to all INTERACTIVE FUTURES
events and will have access to the "Hospitality Suite' at the Festival
hotel (food and drinks). All presenters and artists will be eligible for
the conference rate at Festival Hotels (between $40-110 per night).
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Friday, September 23, 2005.
Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before
October 7, 2005.
EQUIPMENT ACCESS
Laurel Point Inn Presentations
The following equipment will be made available for all presenters:
Mac computer with Monitor, keyboard, DVD/CD-ROM drive.
Open Space Performances and Installations
The following equipment is available for artists at Open Space. Artists
should be aware that equipment will have to be shared and therefore should
not propose to use all of the below devices simultaneously. Installations
and performances should be easy to set-up and take down. Wherever possible
artists should apply their own technology.
2 Data/Video Projectors.
For a full list of resources available at Open Space go to:
www.openspace.ca/space/resources.htm
CONTACTS:
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival Director:
INTERACTIVE FUTURES Co-Curators:
Steve Gibson sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca
INTERACTIVE FUTURES Paper Editor:
OPEN SPACE New Music:
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival:
University of Minnesota School of Music, Noel Zahler, Director
CALL FOR COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, and PRESENTERS
The University of Minnesota School of Music is proud to present the 2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, February 22-26. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and at the Walker Center for Art, Minneapolis. Now in its fourth year, the Spark Festival showcases the newest groundbreaking works of digital music and art. Last year's festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Philippe Manoury and DJ Spooky. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented papers relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 2,000 people.
Spark invites submissions of works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.
Spark also invites submission of scholarly papers on technical and aesthetic subjects related to the creation of new media art and music. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://spark.cla.umn.edu/archive.html for a PDF copy of the Spark 2005 proceedings and program.
MUSIC SUBMISSIONS
2. "Club" works: Experimental electronic performances in a "club- style" venue. Performers of various styles will be considered, including those influenced by IDM, hip-hop, glitch, jazz, and etc. Selected performers will be given sets of 15-30 minutes. Performance venue will accommodate stereo sound and video.
3. Installations: [See "Art Works" below]
4. Music with video [See "Art Works' below]
ART WORKS
2. Radio: Spark Radio is a new addition for the 2006 festival, initiated and curated by Abinadi Meza, a Minneapolis-based artist. Submissions for Spark Radio may include sound art, samplism, field recordings, turntablism, pirate radio, sonic deconstructions, and other transmissions. Please submit on CD or CD-ROM.
3. Video: Experimental video works will be screened at multiple Spark events. Videos featuring digital music compositions (two-channel or Dolby 5.1) are welcome, but this is not required. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of twelve minutes or less are encouraged. Please submit on DVD or VHS (NTSC).
4. Theater/Dance: A number of theatrical and dance works incorporating new technologies will be programmed at Spark 2006, with a special interest in shorter works that can be integrated into programs with music and video works. In addition, although not confirmed as of this writing, we hope to produce at least one performance in a dance theater with video projection and an Internet 2 connection. Please include performance venue and technical requirements with submissions.
PAPERS
Standard submissions should consist of a two-page abstract with bibliography. Short length submissions should submit a 1-2 paragraph abstract with bibliography. Camera-ready papers will be due on November 1, 2005.
Individuals may submit a maximum of one paper and one lecture/ demonstration, and these will be submitted online. More information about the submission process will be available soon on the Spark 2006 website when the online submission procedure has been activated. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Regarding music and other performance works: Performing resources will be drawn from the University of Minnesota, although applicants are welcome to provide their own performers if desired. More information about available performers will be posted on a href="http://spark.cla.umn.edu/">spark.cla.umn.edu/
Composers and artists whose works are selected for inclusion are strongly encouraged to attend the festival. Scholars whose papers or demonstrations are accepted will be required to attend Spark to deliver their presentation.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Submission deadline is September 30 (postmark). More information and the online submissions procedure will be posted soon on the Spark 2006 website at a href="http://spark.cla.umn.edu/">spark.cla.umn.edu/
Douglas Geers
Corey Fogel
September 12 - 18th
Reception Friday September 16th 8-10pm
2) An algorithm that will not yield the potato salad even if all the
motions of preparing the salad are performed as if the potatoes were
there.
3) A dutiful assemblage of things associated by the color Turquoise.
4) A reverse Turing Test.
resident new music ensemble at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
1973 ~ 2006
Corcoran Gallery of Art
17th Street and New York Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC.
reception to follow in the Atrium of the Corcoran Gallery
Lina Bahn, violin
Marcio Botelho, 'cello
Carole Bean, flute & piccolo
Barry Dove, percussion
Lura Johnson, piano
David Jones, clarinet
James Stern, violin & viola
www.musicepicenter.com
Josh Thomson
Sam Sparro (& his band)
Chris Falson & The Oxygen Thieves
Renata Youngblood
Justin Catalino
Our own Poet Laureate: Toni Gilyard
David J (The original Bauhauser!) and his Cabaret!
And passionate live painting by Tom Clark (To be auctioned off that night!)
Please spread the word and lets make this a HUGE night!
8:00pm
Caf-Club Fais Do-Do is located at: 5257 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016
Ph: 323 954 8080
www.faisdodo.com
Interface 13.0/DROID - 3-year anniversary
- Adam X
- Matt Nee
- Drumcell
- Acid Circus
- Subversive,
- Tyler H. vs Elizabitch
- RD
- Eliot Lipp
- Daedelus *special hardware set*
- Andrew Kelley
www.droidbehavior.com
- Cory Wright Trio
www.bananabreadrecords.com/concerts.php
www.consaborclubtropical.com/
- Anna Homler/Steuart Liebig
- Dottie Grossman/Michael Vlatkovich
www.obstacle.com/crypto/cryptonight/
- Francisco Meirino aka phroq
- BELSS: Gust Burns, Bryan Eubanks, Leif Sundstrom, Andrew Lafkas,
Cameron Stevens
- Kraig Grady
- Kendall, Ortega, Bellerue and Young
www.halfnormal.com/ilcorral/
- Celliola: Cynthia Fogg, Tom Flaherty, Genevieve Lee, Frank Stemper
(Abigail Al-Doory, Evan Chambers, Tom Flaherty, Liam Staskawicz,
Frank Stemper, Eric Moe, Mark Winges)
tomflahertymusic.com/Celliola/
- Kamau Daaood, David Ornette Cherry
310-440-7300, www.getty.edu
bmc media music: 626-794-8558, barbaramcc@earthlink.net
- Sharon Cheslow
- Albert Ortega + Maile Colbert
- Wanda Gala + Bob Bellerue
- Obstacle Corpse
- Impregnable
www.halfnormal.com/ilcorral/
LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
203 S. LOS ANGELES ST.
DOWNTOWN L.A.
SEPTEMBER 2005
20 foot wide installation in lobby of twenty transparent color photo images on marble
6 ft x 4 ft canvas banner in Community Room
(in collaboration with Matthew Brubeck and Christina McPhee)
WUNDERKABINET
at The LAB
San Francisco, CA 94103
p: 415.864.8855
Thursdays-Saturdays, September 8-10, 15-17, 2005
doors open 7:30 pm performance at 8 pm
$10-$20 sliding scale admission
Andy Sykora
The Philabosians
1601 Loma Alta Dr.
Altadena
Info + directions: thephilabosains.com
2636 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena
poobah.com
Will Salmon/Alex Cline
Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
2225 Colorado Blvd.
Eagle Rock
info: (310)391-3777
Serial Underground
at The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street)
$10 cover + $5 food/drink ticket available through SEP 11
and
for the incredibly well off...
$15 cover + $5 food/drink ticket available AFTER SEP 11
Jenny Lin plays music of the avant-garde from her upcoming CD
David Hanlon performs De Profundis by Frederic Rzewski
Christopher Stickney reads from his critically acclaimed War Reports
Jed Distler plays his Anthem at Woodstock (1996)
w. director Arnold Barkus and lighting designer David Lovett
directions at
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Sep 12
Oct 10
Nov 14
Dec 12
brought to you by Composers Collaborative inc.
on the 2nd Monday of the month at Cornelia Street Caf
When: the second Monday of every month at 8:30 pm
How: By subway 1, 9 train to Sheridan Square or A, C, E, F, V train to West 4th Street
Admission at the door: $15 cover + $5 food/drink minimum
Online tickets at www.TicketWeb.com
Author Christopher Stickney, nominee for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 2005, reads from his War Reports &Selected Pomes.
Pianist Jenny Lin performs music of the Eastern European avant-garde and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov from herupcoming release on Hanssler Classics.
Frederic Rzewski's powerful piano work with Oscar Wilde's eponymous text, De Profundis, gets a compellinginterpretation by David Hanlon.
Filmmaker and theater director Arnold Barkus has directed two feature films and numerous theater pieces. His most recent feature, funded by Canal Plus, Tempte Dans Un Verre d'Eau was theatrically released in France, and in festivals worldwide. The DeMarco Foundation opened the door for his first theater work, for which, he directed an original piece at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has been based in New York for the past 3 years, where he has directed two Theater Ten Thousand productions: The Gndiges Frulein by Tennessee Williams at the Ohio Theater -- In Theater Magazine "pick of the week" and Honey and Boyd, at Present Company Theatorium.
cordially invites you to a
Concert and Radio Interview
with Villa Aurora Composer-in-Residence
Thomas Ankersmit
Cal-Arts - Roy O. Disney Hall
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355-2397
(310) 454-4231
www.calarts.edu/
here's a head's up on a classical flute concert of mine that I'm self producing.
Sun., Sept. 25 at 1:30.
I know that everyone is VERY busy, so mark you calendars before you schedule anything else.
here's the press release:
For location & venue details; 310-207-2400
For more information & tickets: 310-392-5944 or ellenburr@aol.com
all the best,
Best
Los Angeles Project: 9/30 and 10/1/2005
Fred Frith electric bass
Jeff Gauthier - violin, fx
Earl Harvin percussion
Ronit Kirchman violin, electronics
Tom Recchion - Records, CDs, computer, electronics and things.
Mark Trayle electronics
Bruce Ackley soprano
Steve Adams alto
Larry Ochs tenor
Jon Raskin baritone
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
213.237.2800
fax: 213.680.1320
Cal State L.A.
a one-night special premiere presentation of a new modern, surreal opera performed by the artist and cast.
"The Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die"
5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Please visit or call the Luckman Box Office: (323) 343-6600
Contamination
September 4th October 16th
Open to the public Thursdays-Sundays from 2:30 7pm
and other times by special request
Tel: 33 5 63 81 59 29
Email: chateau.linardie@wanadoo.fr
New York City NY 10012
212-925-9787
peter@peterreginato.com
www.peterreginato.com
Special Opening Night Performance by Double Naught Spy Car
Opening: September 24, 2005, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Sunday, Noon to 5:00 PM
Armory Center for the Arts
Mezzanine Gallery
145 N. Raymond, Pasadena
Sandow Birk
Cheri Gaulke
Michael Guccione
Clement Hanami
Dana Lovell
Gilbert Lujan (Magu)
Ben Sakoguchi
Suzanne Siegel
The Dark Bob
LaMonte Westmoreland
6pm @ Club Tropical
Oliver Newell: bass
Matt Mayhall: drums
Robert Jacobson: guitar
Ryan Perez Daple: woodwinds
Band line up TBD
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Sacred Heart Chapel at Loyola Marymount University
Address: One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Ticket info: (310) 338-5386 -or- www.lmu.edu
Larry
www.LarryKarush.com
www.dcmusicaviva.org
www.marilynbanner.com
2005 Single Tickets & Subscriptions Beginning July 5th.
Interpretations | 17th season
New works and improvisations for flutes and piano
Paramedia Centripetal (2005) for laptop with motion detector sensors
Box Office (212) 501-3330 Concert info (212) 627-0990
$10 / $7 or TDF/V
November 10 - Earl Howard & soNu
December 1 - Wadada Leo Smith & Alan Kushan
February 2 - Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble / Gamelan Son of Lion
February 23 - Anti-Social Music / sfSound Group
March 30 - Brian Schober / Steve Swell
April 27 - Thomas Buckner
May 11 - Jennifer Hymer / Anne LeBaron
545 Sutter (between Mason and Powell)
San Francisco
www.meridiangallery.org
September 2005 update:
In and Around New York City
Saturday, September 10, 8pm
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street
www.emfproductions.org/year0506/rite1.html
Thursday, September 8 and Saturday, September 10, 8pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, 3 Spruce Street
www.diamandagalas.com/defixiones/defixiones.htm
www.ticketcentral.com
Through September 16th
Cooper Union, 8th Street and Astor Place
mailto:nbaldrich@earthlink.net
Saturday, September 17, 12 noon - 6pm
West 19th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues, Rain or Shine, FREE
www.thekitchen.org
www.pamelaz.com
Friday, September 9
The sanctuary of St. George's Anglican Church, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
www.guelphjazzfestival.com
www.arts-electric.org/cgi-bin/aecal_search.pl?keywords=worldevent
Information about becoming an EMF Subscriber or EMF10 Partner or Patron is available online ...
- Keith Rowe (Oct 1)
- Jessica Rylan (Oct 22)
- Stephan Mathieu (Nov 19)
- Alessandro Bosetti (Dec 10)
9 p.m. Admission open to all ages.
Info at www.lampo.org
Sept 10 9 pm 6ODUM
Oct 1 9 pm 6ODUM
Oct 22 9pm 6ODUM
Nov 19 9pm 6ODUM
Dec 10 9pm 6ODUM
Support experimental music. There are three membership levels with benefits
for you, including free admissions, a limited edition T-shirt and early
program announcements.
8641 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City CA 90232
$5 entry
For more information: www.sensoundmusic.com/jazzonamondayvibe.html
Contact: 310-287-1918
8PM Thursday nights
All Ages - $10 for adults, $5 for students
please visit www.tonicnyc.com for details and schedule updates.
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501 / www.tonicnyc.com
ONLINE ART & MUSIC
www.kiasma.fi/transsiberia
trans-siberianradio.org
Associate Dean, Instructor of Harp & Improvisation CalArts School of Music
shoko.calarts.edu/~susie
www.summerharpcourse.com
Carlos Katastrofsky
Michael Takeo Magruder
Jillian Mcdonald
Mike Mike
Carrie Paterson
Christina Ray and Dave Mandl
Geoffrey Thomas
Lara Bank
Aerostatic and Andrew Bucksbarg
August 10th, 2005
Andrew Bucksbarg
Assistant Professor of Telecommunications
Indiana University
1229 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5501 USA
812-219-5310
Abucksba@indiana.edu
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and Friday, Sept. 28 from 6:30 - 8 PM with a gallery talk at 7:15 PM.
Cory Arcangel, Betty Beaumont, Carlos Casado, Andy Deck,
Jody Elff, Angie Eng, Fakeshop, Katrin Grotepass, Yael Kanarek,
Willy Le Maitre & Eric Rosenveig, Golan Levin, Michael Mandiberg,
Kevin & Jennifer McCoy, Yucef Merhi, Sally Minker, Joseph Nechvatal,
Michael Rees, Carlos Zanni, screaMachine and net.ephemera (Mark Tribe).
Design: Ray Canapini
Dialogue: By Claire Barliant
Intern: Seraphina Tisch
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SUBMISSIONS
Assistant Professor of Cello and Music Theory
Southern Illinois University School of Music
Mailcode 4302
Carbondale, IL 62901
lenz@siu.edu
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival - http://www.vifvf.com/
Co-sponsored by Open Space Artist-Run Centre - http://www.openspace.ca/
Parallel event Digital Art Weeks, Summer 2006, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/Group/Front
Conference hotel - Laurel Point Inn - http://www.laurelpoint.com/
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Thurs Jan. 26 - Sun. Jan. 29, 2006.
Parallel gallery (opens onto the street)
Bathrooms (2)
Back Stairs (opens onto the back alley)
Main gallery (low volume or headphones only)
Data/Video Projector.
VHS Player.
Sound system with amp and two speakers.
Wireless high-speed internet access.
VHS Player.
DVD Player.
3-4 Macintosh computers.
Sound system with amp, 16-channel mixing board, mics, and four speakers.
Cable modem internet connection.
Kathy Kay director@vifvf.com
Julie Andreyev lic@telus.net
Randy Adams runran@runran.net
Tina Pearson newmusic@openspace.ca
Mailing Address - PO Box 8419, Victoria, BC, V8W3S1, Canada.
Office Address - 808 View Street, Victoria, BC, V8W1K2, Canada.
Tel: (250)389.0444. Fax: (250)389.0406. E mail: festival@vifvf.com
Announces
2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
Douglas Geers, Director
West Bank Arts Quarter, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus
February 22-26
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2005 (postmark)
Music submissions will be accepted in four categories:
1. Concert works: Electroacoustic works with and without performers. Performance venues will accommodate 2-8 channel works and works with video. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of fifteen minutes or less are encouraged. Note that Spark 2006 will feature guest performers Maja Cerar (violin) and Brian Sacawa (saxophone). Works written for solo violin and solo saxophone with digital music and/or images are especially welcome. Other instruments will be available, and details on available performing forces will be posted on the Spark website with the submission forms.
Submissions will be accepted in three categories:
1. Installations and gallery works: A number of installation and gallery exhibitions will be mounted in various spaces on the UMN campus, including the Weisman Art Museum. Please include technical and space requirements with submission. Installations may be physical objects, video and/or sound projections, or combinations thereof. Artists may be required to provide some or all of necessary technology to mount installations.
Technical papers, lecture/demonstration, and workshop submissions that deal with topics relating to creating arts and music with new technology are encouraged, including intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history.
Paper and lecture/demonstration submissions will be accepted in two categories:
Standard length: Twenty-minute presentation, allowing for five minutes of Q/A.
Short length: A feature unique to the Spark festival is Symposium Fast Forward, a presentation of five to ten-minute presentations followed by five to ten minutes of Q/A. The idea of Symposium Fast Forward is to create a venue where ideas and projects may be presented succinctly with time following for discussion and brainstorming. Both students and professionals are encouraged to submit presentations of this type.
Applicants are invited to submit one work per category in up to three categories for consideration. All applicants must complete an online submission form on the Spark Festival website and include their submission number(s) with any physical media sent via postal mail. The submissions website will be at spark.cla.umn.edu/ submissions.html and will be activated in late July. More details about the submission process will be available on the Spark 2006 website when the online submission procedure has been activated.
Selected works will be announced by November 1, and travel and accommodations information will be posted on a href="http://spark.cla.umn.edu/">spark.cla.umn.edu/
Assistant Professor, Music Composition
Director, Electronic Music Studios