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LA:
LA Flute Quartet UNZIPPED
"...the LA Flute Quartet seems poised to become the "Kronos" of the flute!"
Martin Perlich, Program Director, KCSN-FM
LAFQ Unzipped
Performing in the beautiful acoustic of Zipper Hall, LAFQ continues to unzip the traditional concept of a flute quartet by presenting an original and eclectic program for multiple flutes. This musical offering spotlights California composers, with the LA premiere of Jeffrey Millers's 'Up in the Air', written for the ensemble with the help of the Composers Inc. Series in San Francisco, and 'Laissez le voler' by UCLA's Sheridon Stokes, which the LAFQ performed at the National Flute Convention last year to great acclaim. Both Miller and Stokes will be in attendance at the concert to talk about their music, along with KUSC's Charles Andrews, who has transcribed one of Mozart's great string quartets for the ensemble. Other works in the program offer passion, drama and serenity, from the Eugene Bozza's beautiful 'Summer Day on the Mountain', to our own rendition of Bernstein's West Side Story Medley.
BOZZA - Jour D'ete a la Montagne
Los Angeles Flute Quartet has made great strides for new music and the flute, using repertoire from different periods, and performances with great stylistic and color contrast. The ensemble continues to stretch the boundaries of creativity through stimulating experimentation, and has gone well beyond commonly known extended techniques. LAFQ has become an envoy for California composers, winning awards, commissioning many new works, and continuing to champion the flute family as emissary for new chamber music. Their CD 'Above and Beyond' continues to be played in radio stations across the country, including WNYC's 'New Sounds' and our local stations KMZT, KUSC and KCRW.
Members: Lisa-Maree Amos, Kirsten Joel, Eileen Holt Helwig, Peter Sheridan
San Francisco:
Roberta Piket w Billy Mintz, Ratzo Harris @ Chez Hanny, Oct 15
Roberta Piket Trio featuring
Since pianist/composer Roberta Piket returned to her native New York,
the New England Conservatory graduate has played and recorded with Dave
Liebman, Rufus Reid, Michael Formanek, Lionel Hampton, Elliot Zigmund,
Mickey Roker, Rich Perry, Billy Hart, Jeff Williams, and Harvie S. She
has twice been a featured guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, on
National Public Radio, as well as performing with Ms McPartland in
concert at the Eastman School of Music. Roberta placed second in the
1993 International Thelonious Monk-BMI Composers' Competition.
Roberta's Trio has toured Japan (performing twelve nights at the Blue
Note Club in Fukuoka) as well as the Midwest and New England. Roberta
has also performed her music at venues such as the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C. for the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, the
Texaco-New York (Knitting Factory) Jazz Festival, the Blue Note Club in
New York, and the Museum of Modern Art. Roberta's recordings have earned rave reviews in JazzTimes, downbeat, the Washington Post, Piano & Keyboard, and Jazziz, as well as other
publications. She has held master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Rutgers
University, Cal Arts, Duke University, the Northwestern University
Composers' Colloquium, and many others in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
This is her second performance at Chez Hanny with this trio.
In an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years, drummer Billy
Mintz has played with some of the biggest names in the jazz and pop
worlds. Mr. Mintz was born in Queens, New York in 1947. By the age of 15 he was
firmly entrenched in several of the show bands of the Catskill Mountain
resorts, and as his musicianship developed he would eventually tour
with jazz artists such as Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mose
Allison, Mark Murphy, Kim Richmond and Bobby Shew.
At the same time, his credentials grew in the pop arena, leading to
tours with Juliette Prowse, James Darren, Gloria Gaynor, and a stint
with the show band for the Merv Griffin Show.
In 1986, Mr. Mintz toured Japan with the Los Angeles Symphonic Jazz
Orchestra (having relocated to Los Angeles in 1981). In 1988 he toured
Europe with saxophone great Charles Lloyd, and from 1989 to 1995 he
performed with the Alan Broadbent Trio. Mr. Mintz appears on records by the following artists, among others:
Bill Perkins/James Clay Quintet, Vinny Golia, Harold Danko, Eddie
Daniels, Bobby Shew, Bob Magnusson and Bruce Fowler.
In recent years, Mr. Mintz has taken on new roles as a bandleader and a
composer, performing his own compositions with various ensembles. He
also performs solo drumset concerts with increasing frequency.
Bassist Ratzo B. Harris has recorded with Mose Allison, Denny Zeitlin,
Kenny Werner, Tom Rainey, Joe Lovano, Mark Feldman, Eric Friedlander,
Connie Crothers, Gary Bartz, Randy Brecker, Vincent Herring, David
Darling, Paul McCandless, Jane Ira Bloom, John Scofield, and Paul
Motian, and performed frequently with Joe Henderson, John Handy,
Charles Lloyd, Jon Hendricks, Ted Curson, Tim Berne, Betty Carter,
Helen Merrill, Les Paul, Joanne Brackeen, and Jim Pepper.
Although he just earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Music from the
City University system of New York, he has been active as an educator,
and has taught at Purdue University, Indiana University, University of
Massachusetts, Berklee College, New England Conservatory, Rotterdam
Conservatory, University of Ludwigsburg, the Music High Schools of
Wurztburg and Cologne, the New School for Social Research, the
Manhattan School of Music and New York University.
The Time: All concerts begin at 4:00 PM (Please be prompt to avoid interrupting the performance!)
New Home Page!!!: www.chezhanny.com
Washington, DC:
Dear Friends of Washington Musica Viva,
On Thursday October 19 at 7:30 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic
www.mzv.cz/wwwo/?zu=washington presents another unique and
exciting concert in Washington Musica Viva's "Czech Music Series": at
the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom St NW,
Washington DC 20008. Admission $20. With complimentary coffee and
kolaches by the Embassy's chef! Reservations: 202-274-9100 x167.
Information 202-274-9105.
"Three Czech-Americans" - features music of three Czech emigrants to the
United States: Jaroslav Jezek, Vaclav Nelhybel, and Bohuslav Martinu; as
well as a famous visitor to the US, Antonin Dvorak; and a native, our
own Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton.
Jaroslav Jezek, "the father of Czech jazz," composed his famous "V+W"
cabaret music for the 1930's anti-fascist Prague Liberated Theatre. This
performance is the premiere of the English language adaptation of his
"V+W" songs, arranged for tenor and jazz band by Maurice Saylor. Also on
the program is music for brass instruments by Vaclav Nelhybel, Martinu's
Sonatina for clarinet and piano, a Mazurka by Dvorak, and some American
jazz of the kind that inspired Jezek and Martinu by Ferdinand "Jelly
Roll" Morton.
The performers are Jeffery Peterson, tenor, Ben Redwine, clarinet, Linda
Smith, violin, Brian Strawley, trumpet, Rhonda Buckley, saxophone, Joel
Borrelli-Boudreau, trombone, Anthony Valerio, french horn, Blair Goins,
tuba, Harold Summey, drums, and Carl Banner, piano.
LA:
*NewTown Presents
/Speak/See/*
Six Virtuosi of the Spoken Word
*Friday, October 20, 2006, 7:30 PM
*Event Summary*
In 2005, NewTown commissioned six outstanding experimental animators and
six poets to create six new collaborative works ranging in subject from
political activism to sexuality, aging and patriotism. The resulting
works, along with other new work by the twelve virtuosi of words and
images will premiere on October 20.
*The Artists*
Hollywood:
CryptoNight venue change
Cryptonight -- featuring jazz and improvised music
Now at:
Barnsdall Gallery Theater
***Friday, October 20, 2006 8:30PM - Matthew Shipp Solo Piano**
****Please note that the venue for this concert has changed to the
Barnsdall Gallery Theater in Hollywood, from The Club Tropical in Culver
City. The Club Tropical is now closed.*
Matthew Shipp hasn't played in L.A. for 4 years. We're honored to have
him perform solo piano music for Cryptonight's penultimate event. Please
note that this concert is on a Friday night, and begins at 8:30 PM.
With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp creates
music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first
became known in the early '90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware
Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates. He has played most often
with Ware bandmate and bassist William Parker, and has recorded a number
of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell
to violinist Matt Maneri. Through his range of live and recorded
performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp has come to be
regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music.
Special price for this event is $15 General Admission, and $5 for students.
NYC:
Sacred Cow, music and dance: Michael Sakamoto & Amy Knoles @ Roulette
Hey folks if you're anywhere near Manhattan next Saturday I hope you can make this, sorry for the spam!
-- Amy Knoles
Sacred Cow, music and dance work choreographed and performed by Michael Sakamoto with original music on live electronic percussion by Mixamalist composer Amy Knoles, explores the historic, socio-cultural, and personal issues underlying numerous sacred and profane music and dance forms from both Western and Eastern societies.
photographs: Richard Hines
Modern Butoh dancer/choreographer Michael Sakamoto and I will be performing our new work Sacred Cow ("Butoh Soldier in the war of life"- LA Times) Saturday October 21 @ Roulette in NYC. Fall events are at The New Roulette Performance Space - 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Performances begin at 8:30pm. Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
Admission: $15 / Location One, Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10
Roulette members: free.
LA TIMES REVIEW
"Particularly impressive was "Sacred Cow," Michael Sakamoto's audacious 20-minute butoh solo set to the seductive sounds of Amy Knoles, performed live by the composer on computer and keyboard, her mallet-swinging as riveting to watch as to hear. Sakamoto, shedding an array of Carry Kim's breakaway attire, alternated from loose-limbed gangliness to frozen-faced smiley dude.
With shredded pantaloons and oddball hat, Sakamoto was a soldier in the war of life. Fluttering under white tulle, he became a gawky caped crusader, a Ginza flapper. Haughty, Sakamoto unleashed his ponytail into a swirling flamenco flip, Knoles thumping with sticks a la Ginger Baker; together their volcanic eruptions created a perfect bravura blend."
LA:
The hop-frog kollectiv presents:
hop-frog's drum jester devotional
C.O.T.A.
C.O.T.A. was formed around 1989 by Jon and Salomeh Auchterlonie. With a focus
on education, we left Lost Angeles and set course to the Bay Area in 1991 to
attend C.C.A.C. and U.C. Berkeley respectively. Here we continued our work
creating outdoor autonomous zones and had no interest in the commodification of
such experiences. Inspired by intense outdoor and ritual experiences, C.O.T.A.
is a vessel for creating trance states and ritual, combined with an interest in
deep ecology and new mythology. Through sound as a transmitter, we seek to
convey very intense and powerful experiences recovered during excursions into
the wilds. Much of the artwork we use is a direct result of such infused
states—as an attempt to convey some mythological or archetypal idea or
experience. It is music for a return to the garden or a post-urban way of
life.
In 1994 we self-published our first release "Terra-ist" and began performing
material live throughout the Western U.S. on a number of small tours. In 1995, we
performed as part of Ian Read's Fire and Ice here in California. C.O.T.A.
published "Ta'wil" in 1997, through Charnel Music, known for Crash Worship and
fine noize works, and gained acclaimed notoriety for this release as a "ritual
masterpiece." Surviving the dot-com boom, we returned to Los Angeles in 2000 where
we formed Sonick Sorcery. Thanks to Markus Wolff of Crash Worhip/Waldteufel
infamy, we began publishing through Germany's legendary Tesco Organisation in 2002
with the release of "Marches and Meditations" and a subsequent reclaiming of
"Ta'wil" again in 2004. Look out! We have another release locked and loaded, so
duck and cover!
Hop-frog's drum jester devotional is the brainchild of one of the founding members
of the hop-frog kollectiv, e.loi, aka Jeremy Morelock and features core members of
the hop-frog kollectiv. DJD is sure to send you into a trance w/ their
midi-eastern, oriental broken beats mixed with post punk and dub. After several
vinyl and CDR releases this will be DJD's first full length CD release for the
album "Bets Ov Vol.1" on URCK RECORDS.
URCK Records, www.urckrecords.com - underevolution
NYC:
Music With a View @ The Flea
MUSIC WITH A VIEW @ THE FLEA 2006/2007
The Flea Theater is delighted to inaugurate, in the 2006/2007 season, a music series devoted to the discovery of new, fresh sound created and performed by contemporary musicians. After five years as Artist in Residence, The Flea has invited Kathleen Supové to launch and curate the series. Music With a View @ The Flea will feature works in progress by emerging and/or mid-career composers followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience, curated by performer Kathleen Supové and special guests. Each evening, two composers will have the opportunity to share 30 minutes of their work.
The dates for Music With a View @ The Flea are:
Moday, October 9 @ 7pm
Monday, November 6 @ 7pm
Sunday, January 7 @ 3pm*
Monday, February 5 @ 7pm
Monday, April 9 @ 7pm
Monday, May 7 @ 7pm
*Please note that the Sunday Music With a View @ The Flea matineehas been designated our "family friendly" event and is meant to be work that is fast-paced, full of activity and some visual interest, and strange and quirky in a good way.
www.theflea.org/musicbytes/index.htm
Liverpool, ENGLAND:
INVITATIONS TO TRANSVOYEUR PROGRAMME AND EVENTS
You are cordially invited to the following events under Transvoyeur Programme 2006.
The first of the events is the Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006 at the View
Two Gallery (Mathew Street, Liverpool, England) this Friday 29 September 2006 from
5.30 pm.
We hope to see you there?
Please forward this invitation onto interested parties? Thank you.
With regards
Event (1)
Transvoyeur Associate Exhibition: Gene Culture 2006
Event (2):
NYC:
Performance at Roulette
ROULETTE, $15, 8:30pm
Cambridge, MA:
The Callithumpian Consort
The Callithumpian Consort returns to the front lines of avant-garde sound
with its EXPERIMENT SERIES at the new Inman Square performance space "The
Lily Pad" (formerly the site of the Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St. in
Cambridge). Once a month, on a Friday, new, uncharted worlds at the
frontiers of free improvisation and the avant-garde will be trespassed and
ruined for future generations.
The series was founded in March 2004 to present concerts that explore the
crossroads between composition and improvisation in an informal atmosphere
conducive to the enjoyment of both aficionados of creative music and the
first-time listener. Each concert is produced by New England Conservatory's
Callithumpian Consort, an eclectic contemporary music ensemble led by
pianist/NEC professor Stephen Drury, with support from the Massachusetts
Cultural and Cambridge Arts Councils. The series is co-curated by
improvising multi-instrumentalist Jorrit Dijkstra, who will invite special
guests to join the Callithumpian Consort in exploring different
improvisation strategies.
Friday, October 20:
With an environmental performance of the complete FOLIO, the groundbreaking
masterwork of open form composition
Friday November 10:
Friday, December 8:
Suggested Donations
The Lily Pad (old Zeitgeist Gallery location),
www.callithumpian.org
Funded by the Cambridge Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council
US TOUR & NYC:
JON FRIEDMAN
SONGS OF ANDY FRIEDMAN
ANDY FRIEDMAN, NEW YORKER CARTOONIST-TURNED-KING OF ART COUNTRY RELEASES
FIRST STUDIO ALBUM, TAKEN MAN WITH HELP FROM FRIENDS KETCH SECOR, PAUL
CURRERI, MELISSA FERRICK, JEFFREY FOUCAULT, KRIS DELMHORST AND OTHERS
CITY SALVAGE RECORDS - STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2006
Jon Friedman, the creator/producer of The Rejection Show and younger brother
of Andy Friedman hosts a unique, fun CD release event/party/tribute night to
celebrate the release of Andys first studio album, Taken Man!
10 DIFFERENT BANDS EACH PLAYING A DIFFERENT SONG FROM THE NEW ALBUM!!
WELCOME WAGON
SONGS OF ANDY FRIEDMAN
www.tremendousrabbit.com
The Brooklyn-based visual artist, songwriter, and iconoclast performer Andy
Friedman has made a name for himself over the last five years as a
genre-bending 'erudite redneck (BOSTON GLOBE), 'winning over audiences
(NEW YORKER) with projections of his visual works to accompany his original
story-songs and talking blues onstage. This fall, however, Friedman hits the
road in support of his first studio album, Taken Man (City Salvage Records),
by leaving the visuals at home. Backed by his stellar four-piece ensemble
The Other Failures‹featuring Greg McMullen (Chris Whitley, Greg Dulli) on
pedal steel‹the artist and his energetic band will place Taken Mans
ambitious new songs about art, wanderlust, and love at center-stage.
Produced by longtime crony, songwriter/guitarist, and label-mate Paul
Curreri, the songs on Taken Man are well-crafted, insightful, and starkly
unique. This makes sense coming from an artist who is also a regularly
published New Yorker cartoonist. The sound is something in between classic
country and art-school indie. Friedman calls it 'Art-Country, but one
might also describe the music as Indie-Roadhouse. Paul Demko of the
Minneapolis City Pages refers to Friedman as 'The King of Art Country. The
songs are brave‹exploring issues and aspects of art, marriage, infidelity
and wanderlust to great effect. In addition to Curreri, the CDs special
guests include Old Crow Medicine Shows Ketch Secor, Melissa Ferrick,
Jeffrey Foucault, Devon Sproule, Natalia Zukerman, and Kris Delmhorst.
When Andy Friedman first took to the stage and to the road in 2002 he was,
ostensibly, a visual artist and performance-poet with a spoken-word
slideshow. Projecting his paintings, drawings, and photographs to accompany
a seemingly extemporaneous series of grumbled rants and poems written by the
artist‹Friedman set out to explore the ways that a painter could connect
with an audience in the seedy, low-lit, social environs of the rock clubs
and roadside taverns. He called his pictures 'songs that you look at, and
considered his spoken poems to be the lyrics to his visual music.
Alternative newsweeklies across the USA unanimously praised Friedman for his
spirit and wit, calling him the 'next big thing (EUGENE WEEKLY) with 'the
coolest live show to come around in a long time (GOOD TIMES) and describing
the artist as 'the Johnny Cash of painting. . .an iconoclast who is quietly
(but radically) changing what it means to be a visual artist in this day and
age (CONNECT SAVANNAH).
Although he never played an instrument or sang a note in his life, in
interviews Friedman aligned himself to pre-war country blues musicians like
Jesse Fuller and West Village folkies like Dave Van Ronk rather than to the
visual artists working the contemporary art scene. He endlessly referred to
his visual works as songs, while preferring to classify his two art
chapbooks as 'albums rather than books. During the winter of 2004 his
musical interests came to a head, and Friedman began to explore the ways he
could incorporate music (that you listen to) into his live shows.
Using Hank Williams 'Luke The Drifter records as a model, Friedman
incorporated folkie-country instrumental compositions beneath his spoken
verse and alongside his projections. Initially finding his musicians on
street-corners and pubs from city to city each day while on tour, Friedman
eventually formed his own traveling band, The Other Failures, which he named
for his first book of pencil drawings and poetry, Drawings & Other Failures.
His first CD, Live at the Bowery Poetry Club, was recorded live in July 2005
and interprets the spoken poems and monologues from his first years on the
road as country-tinged compositions performed live with his band. Released
in the winter of 2006, the artist half-jokingly refers to his first CD as a
'book of pictures you can listen to in the albums liner notes.
On Taken Man, set for an October 17 release on City Salvage Records, the
artist delivers edgy, insightful, and at times agitated lyrics with a voice
that seems like its been singing forever. In fact, it has, but only
recently has Friedman worked to let it surface. With a hollow-body Gretsch
strapped around his shoulder, a gutteral growl that fronts one of the
tightest, most energetic bands on the growing Brooklyn Country scene, and a
collection of songs that reflect the artists 'deeply American identity
(CVILLE WEEKLY), the ever-challenging Andy Friedman has reinvented himself
again, this time in the image of the musician and songwriter that brought
him to the road in the first place.
ANDY FRIEDMAN October 2006 Tour Dates:
For press kit, interview request, or more information contact City Salvage
Records: publicity@CitySalvageRecords.com or (347) 661-1567 or Jon Friedman at
jon@rejectionshow.com
Thank you!
Tour:
Pamela Z Events in CA, Chicago, NYC, Russsia
Dear Livingroom Folks,
Just wanted to share with you some exciting upcoming events spanning
from California to Chicago to New York to Russia! Lot's of major
touring performance events in the land of Z this Fall!
In less than a week, I leave for Russia (my first time there!) to
give performances of my solo works in the Long Arms Festival in St.
Petersburg (Sept 27) and the Aposizia Festival in Moscow (Sept 29).
Then, I return to the States to give the Los Angeles premiere of my
one-act opera "Wunderkabinet" at REDCAT (Oct 12-15)! This is the
piece I created last year in collaboration with Composer/Cellist Matt
Brubeck and video artist Christina McPhee. This engagement is very
exciting for two reasons: One: it is my first chance to play at
REDCAT, the gorgeous, adventurous theatre and arts center located in
a beautiful, shiny Frank Gehry edifice in downtown Los Angeles. Two:
LA is the home of the famed Museum of Jurassic Technology, which was
the inspiration for Wunderkabinet, so it will be magical to perform
the piece there. If you will be in the area, scroll down for
specifics on the time, and address.
In November, I'll be performing my performance work "Voci" at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre in Chicago (Nov 5) as part of the
Chicago Humanities Festival. "Voci", my solo work exploring many
facets of voice, involves multiple channels of video projections by
Jeanne Finley + John Muse and a beautiful lighting design by Elaine
Buckholtz. It will be my first opportunity to perform a large-scale,
multi-media performance in Chicago.
And Finally, I'll be performing as a member of Vijay Iyer and Mike
Ladd's company in their modern oratorio "Still Life With Commentator"
(about mass media in time of war) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(Dec 6-10) as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival in New York.
Hope to perhaps see you at one of these events!
Cheers,
Pamela
Read on for specific details on all these events.
September 27, 2006
September 29, 2006
October 12-15, 2006
November 5, 2006
December 6-10, 2006
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK:
A Secret Service: Art compulsion concealment
Opening Hatton Gallery Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Artists: Sophie Calle, Roberto Cuoghi, Gedewon, Henry Darger, Susan
Hiller, Teching Hsieh, Katarzyna Josefowicz, Joachim Koester and Adrian
Dannatt, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Lombardi, Mike Nelson, Kurt
Schwitters, The Speculatice Archive, Jeffrey Vallance, Oskar Voll.
Curated by Richard Grayson
The human fascination with secrets is explored in A Secret Service:
Art, Compulsion, Concealment, a new exhibition organised by Hayward Gallery Touring in collaboration with the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University.
The exhibition explores the work of 15 international artists and groups
whose practices centre on the creation of secret worlds or the exposure
of hidden facts and images. It includes key figures of Modern art,
established and emerging contemporary artists and 'outsiders'. Together
they address numerous aspects of secrecy: magic, alchemy, sexuality,
dreams, religion, political conspiracy, assumed identity and the covert
workings of the State.
The exhibition has particular reference to Kurt Schwitters, whose final
creation, the Merzbarn is now permanently installed at the Hatton
Gallery. The Merzbarn 1947-48 is among the rare surviving examples of
Schwitters' four Merzbuildings - complex, architectural constructions
created from refuse and found objects. During Schwitters' lifetime the
Merzbuildings were seen only by his most trusted friends, today they
remain confounding riddles. A Secret Service presents rarely seen
documentation of the Merzbuildings in conjunction with a specially
commissioned new work by Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson.
The exhibition explores the work of 'outsiders' and those operating
beyond the mainstream. It includes a substantial presentation of work
by the reclusive Chicago janitor Henry Darger whose immense body of
watercolour illustrations for the fantasy novel In the Realms of the
Unreal came to light only at the very end of his life.
A Secret Service is curated by artist and curator, Richard Grayson. His
recent exhibitions include Intelligence, 2005 and Messiah, 2004 at
Matt's Gallery, London. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale
in 2002 and Arts and Humanities Research Fellow at the University of
Newcastle 2003 - 6.
A fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays by Roger Cardinal, Clare
Carolin and Richard Grayson will accompany the exhibition. It is
distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.
Tour Details:
www.hayward.org.uk/touring_future_detail.asp?i=274
LA:
Perfomance, Art @ Dangerous Curve
California Redemption Value:
Emily Hay, flutes and vocals
Anna Homler, vocalist
Rick Potts, multi-instrumentalist
at Dangerous Curve
Saturday, October 21, 2006
1020 East Fourth Place
California Redemption Value, on Saturday, October 21, 2006 at Dangerous Curve, features three shufflings of various local experimental
musicians. These Californians will give you real value, and maybe even a little
redemption---well in line with our spiritual avant garde mission.
Vocalist/flutist/pianist Emily Hay
The concert starts at 8:00 p.m. and costs $10.00. We're located at 1020 East Fourth
Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts,
#102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (the bridge on the LA River side of
downtown) two on/off ramps. See our website dangerouscurve.org for
directions, pictures, and updates.
Upcoming Dangerous Curve events:
November 4: Team Up with Tatsuya Nakatani: Chris Heenan, reeds, Jeremy Drake,
guitar, Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion. Plus David Rothbaum, solo, on analog
synthesizer, and Mitchell Brown, solo, on electronics.
More good things being added by the moment. Check dangerouscurve.org for
updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.
Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los
Angeles. It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance,
experimental art and music, and installations. The gallery supports visionary
established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and
one-person shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the
curve.
A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, Kate Bartolo
of The Kor Group, and others listed on our sponsor page. Because of their and your
generous support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging
artists and educating the commmunity about high-quality art.
Chicago:
Lampo fall schedule
Friends,
Lampo fall schedule and blurbs below ...
Skull Defekts - Sept 30
2116 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Questions? Or to become a Lampo member: www.lampo.org
To make sure your Lampo emails are delivered to your Inbox, please add
info@lampo.org to your address book, your contacts or your safe list.
SKULL DEFEKTS
Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall, two gentlemen from Gothenburg,
premiere new solo works and a duo project made especially for this Lampo
concert -- their U.S. debut and only North American appearance.
Rylander and Nordwall formed the Skull Defekts in early 2005. Their common
interest in the power of sound gave birth to a double-headed beast where
noise met intense and monotonous rock. Since then, their experiments have
reached a form of deep feedbacking and drone magic. Noted recordings
include "Open the Gates of Mimer" with Lasse Marhaug and "Yes I Am Your
Angel," a new split LP (gorgeous milky white vinyl, yes, you must have it)
with Wolf Eyes.
Anticipate warm, disturbing electronic tones, feedback, distortion and
deliriousness. Heavily rhythmic, the music rides a consistent beat
throughout, as new sounds emerge in and around the pulse of the music.
Together they'll create "The Sound of Defekt Skulls and Intense Cranium
Contact (Feedbacking Gothenburg and Chicago)." Nordwall and Rylander will
mix found sounds from Gothenburg with new sonic material collected in
Chicago. Here, they'll treat these sounds live and blend them into a
defekt skull cranium contact session.
Also on the program, Nordwall does a rare solo performance of "I Am The
Fire." And Rylander presents his new work, "Power Model X (Motherboard
Drone with Live Treatment)." In the latter, conceived as installation and
live concert, he uses 11 small mixers and The Henrik Rylander Feedback
Unit -- all connected to a large audio mixer -- where each of the mixers
is modified with an audio cable from input to output.
Henrik Rylander (b. 1966, Malmö, Sweden) is an artist, composer and
photographer. He has performed in several important festivals and venues,
including the Stockholm New Music Festival (2006), Impakt Festival
(Utrecht, Holland, 2005), GAS (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2005), Arhus (Denmark,
2005), Sonar Festival, (Barcelona, Spain, 2004) and multiple performances
at Fylkingen in Stockholm. Additionally, he has made nine solo exhibitions
of his installation work, including shows at Fargfabriken in Stockholm, as
well as several shows throughout Gothenburg. Rylander has received
numerous awards and recognition for his work, including STIM (The Swedish
Performing Rights Society) grant (2005), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
(2001), and The Robert Frank Scholarship (1998). He performs in a trio
with Pan Sonic, and as part of the improv jazz project Space Is The Place
with Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Lasse Marhaug, David Stackenas and
Paal Nilssen-Love. Rylander also is known for being the drummer and
co-founder of the rock combo Union Carbide Productions (1986-1993). In
1992 Union Carbide Productions recorded their last album "Swing" with
Steve Albini in Chicago. Rylander lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Joachim Nordwall (b. 1975, Karlskrona, Sweden), the Idealist, began
experimenting in sound as a young boy. In 1987, he formed the Alvars
Orkester with Jan Svensson in Johannishus, a small village in the
south-east of Sweden. Alvars, which mixes electronic sound with interests
in psychic broadcasting and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena), was
particularly active within the independent music scene of the 80s and 90s,
releasing works in Sweden through the Borft Records label. After a brief
hiatus, the group has recently (Jan. 2006) released the "Interference"
album on London's Ash International label, showcasing their superb analog
sound experiments. From 1998-2005, he was part of the avant punk rock trio
Kid Commando, a band that toured Europe several times. Also in 1998, he
founded the iDEAL Organization as a platform for his ongoing work as an
artist, label owner and festival organizer. Nordwall has collaborated with
many artists, including Henrik Rylander, Keith Rowe, Leif Elggren and Mats
Gustafsson. He lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
With support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation
FLORIAN HECKER
Drop-dead digital disorientation, duh! Vienna-based Hecker presents a new
6-channel computer piece, structured and organized by an artificial neural
network -- an electronic model based on the neural structure of the brain,
or if you prefer, a computing system that can learn on its own. Hecker
breaks it down, explaining the network will be "educated by my practice in
'doing' live electronic music, and once functioning, creates music in 'the
style of me.'"
With software engineer Tommi Keranen, he's developed an artificial neural
network that controls the many software instruments he's been using over
the last seven years. In concert, sound is diffused manually (Hecker) and
by computer (artificial Hecker).
Florian Hecker (b. 1975, Augsburg, Germany) has been working with computer
music independently and in collaboration with other artists such as
Russell Haswell, Peter Rehberg, Oswald Berthold, Marcus Schmickler and
Yasunao Tone since 1996. His works emphasize the connections between
recent developments and historical trends in computer music and related
technology. Often working closely with software engineers and scientists,
his recent productions incorporate psychoacoustic effects that disorient
spatial perception. His full-length solo recording, "Sun Pandamonium,"
received the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003.
Hecker has given numerous international solo audio presentations,
including La Biennale di Venezia, 49th International Exhibition of Art,
Venice 2001; Royal Festival Hall, London 2002; Documenta11, Kulturbahnhof,
Kassel 2002; Centre Pompidou, Paris 2002; ICMC 2002, Gothenburg 2002 and
Ars Electronica, Linz 2003. He also works closely with visual artists,
including Angela Bulloch, Carsten Holler, Florian Pumhosl and Cerith Wyn
Evans. Together with Russell Haswell, he is currently working on a CD with
material recorded early 2004 during their research with the UPIC system at
the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris. He
lives in Vienna.
Florian Hecker performed at Lampo in November 2002. Together he and
Yasunao Tone premiered "Palimpsest," in the duo's first U.S. appearance.
Hecker also presented his solo work "Stocha Acid Vlook."
MARK TRAYLE AND DAVID BEHRMAN
Mark Trayle and David Behrman share this concert at Lampo. Trayle and
Behrman first met at Mills College in 1980; although a generation apart,
they have collaborated on music projects in California and Berlin. Among
his other accomplishments, Trayle was a pioneer in the translation of
early pieces of analog electronic music into the software environments
that first became available at the end of the 20th century. Among these
was Behrman's 1968 piece, "Runthrough." The evening will feature solo work
by both musicians as well as collaborations.
Trayle will present selections from two works. "Domestic Intelligence" is
sonic data mining. Bits and bytes are extracted from the laptop, from the
Internet, and maybe even the audience's credit cards, then looped,
mangled, twisted and reassembled into something like music. "Saturation"
explores the possibilities of feedback softcircuits ... no-input laptop
music always on the verge of collapse.
Behrman will perform "Acoustica," a new piece in which the borderlines
between acoustic music and computer-generated sound are blurred.
"Acoustica" makes use of the capabilities of current-day laptop computers
to handle high-quality acoustic sound, recorded live and on the spot or
beforehand, in multiple layers and channels simultaneously; to process
them in various simple or sophisticated ways; and to combine them with
computer-generated sounds of different varieties. The piece moves linearly
through a number of sections in which different themes are pursued and
different events unfold. Behrman is looking for the places, somewhere
midway across the spectrum from fixed composition at one extreme to free
improvisation at the other, where performers in a particular
personally-designed, software-based situation will be most comfortable and
most energized.
Some elements in "Acoustica" go back 35 years when the work Behrman and
his friends were doing consisted sometimes of building homemade analog and
hybrid analog / digital synthesizers and of playing them in live
performances. The homemade equipment of those days had characteristics
resulting from odd limitations. Some of those odd limitations have
attracted his curiosity again lately.
Mark Trayle (b. 1955, San Jose, Calif.) works in a variety of media
including live electronic music, installations, improvisation and
compositions for chamber ensembles. In the mid-80s he was among a group of
young California composers who pioneered the use of personal computers in
music. Trayle helped found computer network band The Hub (1985-1996) with
John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scott Gresham-Lancaster and Phil
Stone. The Hub, now playing again after a ten year hiatus, was one of the
first ensembles to investigate computer networks as a medium for musical
composition and performance.
Trayle has performed and exhibited at experimental music and new media
venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including recent
appearances at t-u-b-e, DEAF ‘04, Resistance Fluctuations, net_condition,
Pro Musica Nova, Format5, and Inventionen 2004. His music has been
performed by Champs D'Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene, Kammerensemble Neue
Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. Recent collaborators include Boris
Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, Toshi Nakamura, Wadada Leo Smith, and
the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Trayle has recorded for the Artifact,
Atavistic, CRI, Inial, Los Angeles River, Elektra/Nonesuch, and Tzadik
labels.
David Behrman (b. 1937, Salzburg) has been active as a composer and artist
since the 1960s and has created many works for performance as well as
sound installations. Most of his music has involved homemade electronics
and computer-controlled music systems that operate interactively with
collaborating performers.
In 1966, he founded the Sonic Arts Union with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier
and Gordon Mumma. Working at Columbia Records in the late 60s, he produced
the "Music of Our Time" series of new music recordings, which presented
works by Cage, Oliveros, Lucier, Reich, Riley, Pousseur and other
influential composers. From 1970-76 he worked as a composer/performer for
the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was commissioned to write several
pieces. He received a D.A.A.D. fellowship in 1988-89 and an Individuals
Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in 1994.
Behrman lives in New York.
David Behrman performed at Lampo in September 2003 -- his first Chicago
concert in more than 30 years. He presented "Homemade Synthesizer Music
with Sliding Pitches" and a new version of "QS/RL" made for cellist Fred
Lonberg-Holm.
JESSICA RYLAN
Something new from JR ... synthesizer blurpage and campfire vocals ...
mysteries nested like Russian dolls ... homemade and heart-wrenching.
Masters of the Ellipsis, we are.
Rylan (b. 1974, London) is a sound artist and electronic musician who
lives and works in the Boston area. She builds analog synthesizers, which
she uses for sound installations at galleries (LIST Visual Art Center at
MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Bard College) and also in her high
energy musical performances. Her recordings are available on RRRecords and
Ultra Eczema, as well as her own IRFP label. In 2005, Rylan was named
Research Affiliate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT to
study chaotic synthesizer design. She has lectured at Bard College,
Boston University, Harvard and Smith College.
Jessica Rylan and her Natural Synthesizer first appeared at Lampo in
October 2005.
UK:
Instal is a festival of underground music
13, 14, 15 October 06
Instal is a festival of underground music. Not mainstream or indie music - underground music. It's not about the Next Big Thing; it's an alternative to big things. Instal is the largest, best-attended and most exciting underground music festival in the UK, and is curated and produced for the Arches by Arika.
This year the festival will build on previous successes by commissioning original performances from and showcasing the best of international, national and Scottish underground music. In order to do this, we're expanding the festival to include a third stage, which will form the focal point of the festival later in the evening and will showcase the best up-and-coming Scottish and UK underground musicians.
We're interested in music that's made because individuals want to say something about themselves, the world around them or simply to investigate the form of music itself, without worrying about what scene they might fit into, or about sounding like someone else.
There are people all over the world making this kind of music; it's an underground community has nothing to do with connoisseurship or elitism, and everything to do with self-expression. We've handcrafted a programme and an atmosphere in which we hope this community feels real and open to anybody, where the connection between the artist, the work and the audience is direct and democratic.
Friday 13 Oct
Saturday 14 Oct
Sunday 15 Oct
Instal 06 – complete programme of events
Friday 13 Oct
Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan
Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet
Oshiri Penpenz
Saturday 14 Oct
Lee Patterson
Steve Baczkowski + Ravi Padmanabha
Bohman Brothers
Lethe
Keiji Haino + Tony Conrad
Jazkamer
Sunday 15 Oct
Tetsuya Umeda
Arrington de Dionyso
Sachiko
Eye Contact
Kuwayama / Kijima
Maryanne Amacher
UK PLATFORM
WORKSHOPS
Arika champion underground music, film and art and also produce Kill Your Timid Notion, Music Lovers' Field Companion and recently, Resonant Spaces.
www.arika.org
Instal is supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Funds, PRS Foundation, Glasgow City Council, Youth Music Initiative, Japan Foundation
San Francisco:
upcoming sfSound events @ ODC
Monday, November 11, 2006, 8 pm
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LA:
"No Point Takes Up Space" sculpture by Sky Burchard
an Experimental Exhibition and Live Art/Visual Art Performance Space
Voted 5th Most Popular Art Gallery
Exhibit Dates
Wednesday through Saturday
The exhibition opening celebration
1020 East Fourth Place
Los Angeles, CA, August 28, 2006 - Ever wanted to live inside a video game? Now you can at Dangerous Curve, at Sky Bur chard's "No Point Takes Up Space" sculpture exhibit. Step inside the mind of a great artist/hacker. The exhibition celebration is on Saturday, September 16, 2006, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Live art and music TBA, with the usual great vegan food prepared by our master vegan chef, John Saslow. The exhibit is up until October 21, 2006. See ourwebsite for directions, pictures, and updates.
We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps.
Burchard writes that he "was intensely analytic" as a child. He didn't just play with toys---he "would find their seams, test their strength, take them apart, put them back together, and exaggerate the way they were intended to be used." As with Richard Feynmann, the famous physicist, he has always been interested in how things are made, how they work. "Now I take things apart as I consume them," he writes. "I cannot throughly enjoy something if I am not taking it apart as it is coming together in front of me." He deconstructs movies as he watches them, video games as he plays them. "Avid gamers know that the best way to beat a game is to see what is behind the surface, behind the graphics and the narrative, down to the code," he writes. In fact, that is how Burchard makes art, going "about living, analyzing things, consuming them, poking holes in them while appreciating them."
This show highlights one leg of Burchard's multifarious output: his video game environments. He prefers light games to horror ones. His "Emerald Hill Zone/Act 2" is a 10-foot-long 3D version of the grass in the "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" game. He played the game when he was a child and always wanted to be inside it. In the game, we see the 2D version of the grass. Burchard "imagines" the 3D version of it, opting not for a relief, but a full-blown 3D version. He imports the image into Flash, makes a 3D template for it in Maya, snaps to grid to get measurements for cutting the parts out of EPS foam, cuts the foam, paints it, and assembles the pieces. He works bottom-up, building up works from small pieces. Nevertheless, Burchard learned from his employer Yutaka Sone not to get too detailed.
Burchard makes his "Blue Set" furniture pieces from the "Animal Crossing" game with texture maps on polystyrene, with more foam. They depict the way the game's objects are built out of 2D elements to appear 3D. He extrapolates the inner workings of various computer applications to sculpture fabrication. For instance, he noted that when one flips an image in computer graphics, one reverses the image rows, but if one "flips" each pixel-high row, one gets the same image. In "upside-down chair," he slices an IKEA children's chair horizontally, turns each slice upside down, and reassembles the chair with each slice in its respective position horizontally. The result is a chair that is globally right-side-up, but locally upside-down.
Burchard holds a BFA from UCLA and an MFA from USC. He's been seen in numerous group exhibits at such places as Black Dragon Society, Bowie Van Valen, Raid Projects, Shenandoah House, and Akiyoshidai in Japan.
Come see this beautiful show and be transported into worlds you never thought you'd visit.
Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los Angeles. It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance, experimental art and music, and installations. The gallery supports visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and one-person shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the curve.
A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, Kate Bartolo of The Kor Group, and others listed on our sponsor page. Because of their and your generous support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging artists and educating the commmunity about high-quality art.
Berkeley, CA:
CalPerformances presents Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Saturday October 14, 2pm
Zellerbach Hall A
$20/$26/$32
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2006/world_stage/gsj.php
Directed: Ellen Sebastian Chang
Gamelan Sekar Jaya,the San Francisco Bay Area's
world-renowned Balinese performing arts troupe, will premiere "Kali
Yuga", a contemporary dance drama.
Interpreted by the renowned Javanese poet Goenawan Mohamad, the
stories are drawn from the ancient Mahabharata epic. Though the
stories come from the stock dance drama fodder, note that this show
far transcends ultra-orthodox Balinese performing arts traditionalism.
These performances *will* sell out, so get your tickets beforehand.
Sightlines event
Saturday October 14, 7.00 - 7.30pm
Zellerbach Hall A
FREE to all event ticket holders
Oakland, CA:
Paintings of Made Moja from Batuan in south central Bali
A show featuring the AA MM AA ZZ II NN GG (!!!)
paintings of Made Moja from Batuan in south central Bali.
Desa Arts
www.desaarts.com
510 595 1669
Eagle Rock, CA:
Open Gate Theatre
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
NYC:
MidAmerica Productions presents Carnegie Hall Concert Series and Weill Recital Hall Chamber Music Series
Visit the website for details!
Weill Recital Hall Chamber Music Series
NYC:
World Music Institute & Thomas Buckner present
2006-2007 season schedule:
November 9, 2006 – Merkin Concert Hall
January 17-21, 2007 – LaMaMa E.T.C.
February 8, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hallv
FLUX Quartet
March 8, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall
April 12, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall
Thursday May 10, 2007 – Asia Society
Monday May 21, 2007 - Zankel Hall
Programs subject to change.
NYC:
Big Bang--A NEW SERIES AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
SUCH AND SUCH PRODUCTIONS and CORNELIA STREET CAFE present
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and W. 4th)
LA:
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE at the new LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE
ARCHITECT: ANTHONY LUMSDEN
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.
www.meridiangallery.org/MGMusic.htm
NEW YORK CITY:
ARTS ELECTRIC 11th 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/
JOIN US!
New York City:
TONIC events 2006!
This month at Tonic:
TONIC
Recently Posted and Ongoing
INTERNET:
The Rejection Show
Like the show itself, the new website will be a display of a variety of
rejected material from rejected cartoons, rejected short films, rejected
greeting cards, rejected TV pilots, videos clips, personal rejections,
essays, literary work, and more as well as continue to share unique insights
to the process of gaining acceptance from those who wield power. Rejected
material submissions open to anyone, anywhere.
Created and produced by writer and comedian, Jon Friedman, The Rejection
Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected and "turned down"
material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and human beings whom
display their creative "failures" live on stage.
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 a diverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh, networked interfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the internet, as playground, platform or paintbrush. Mediatopia.net is a recurring network mediated culture space 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!
The Kronos Quartet-in collaboration with Carnegie Hall, Pop Montréal, the
Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center, and the
American Music Center-is pleased to announce the launch of the fourth
Kronos: Under 30 Project, a program through which musicians under 30 years
of age are selected to create new music for the Kronos Quartet. The members
of Kronos will personally review the applications and select 1 musician to
whom the group feels artistically committed. Together, Carnegie Hall, Pop
Montréal, and Kronos will then jointly commission the selected composer to
write a new piece of music for Kronos. The Lucas Artists Programs at the
Montalvo Arts Center will host the composer during a multi-week residency in
the Saratoga Hills in Northern California, providing the composer a
supportive environment for creative work. The commissioned composer will
join Kronos in San Francisco, CA, to prepare the new piece, and will travel
to Carnegie Hall and to Pop Montréal for Kronos' performances of the work.
Please note: If you have applied to the Kronos: Under 30 Project in the
past, please read the following guidelines carefully, as they have changed.
We do not hold over applications from previous years, but we encourage you
to re-apply with your latest work. Applicant must be under 30 years of age
as of October 16, 2006, and can be of any nationality. Applicant must be
able to agree, if selected, to create a new work and provide written music
to Kronos no later than November 16, 2007. The selected composer will
receive a commission for a new work in the amount of $5000. (Commission fee
includes the creation of score, parts, any other necessary performance
materials.) The length of the new piece will be determined in discussion
with Kronos, but will be in the range of 10-20 minutes. The composer will
also receive travel and accommodations for an initial meeting with Kronos,
location and date to be determined; travel and accommodations for a
multi-week residency at the Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts
Center; travel and accommodations for a residency with Kronos in San
Francisco to rehearse the new piece; travel and accommodations for the world
premiere of the new piece in concert in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on
February 22, 2008; travel and accommodations for the Canadian premiere of
the new piece in concert at Pop Montreal in October, 2008. Submit the
following materials together in one package: (1) a completed, signed
application form, available for download from the website below (please type
or print legibly, as it is important that we be able to contact you with any
questions); (2) 5 copies of a CD containing at least 2 pieces of music that
are indicative of the breadth of your recent work, regardless of
instrumentation (include at least 1 complete work; additional material can
be excerpts; we encourage you to present your most recent work first; no
preference will be given to composers who submit recordings of string
quartets; we suggest you keep the CD under 30 minutes; label the CDs clearly
with your name, the names and timings of the pieces, and the instruments and
names of the performers; MIDI or computer realizations are acceptable; CDs
are strongly preferred, but cassettes are acceptable in exceptional
circumstances; and (3) a note about your music; please include a brief note
that you have written about your own music-it should not be a review or
commentary by someone else (for example, you might write about a specific
piece, like a concert program note, or you could choose to write a more
general note about what you hope to achieve artistically through your music;
(4) 2 copies of your bio or resume, about your musical background; (5)
Optional: other work samples, such as written scores or videos (DVD
preferred), if they provide extra insight into your work. All materials must
be clearly labeled with your name and title of the work. Please do not send
any original materials, as they will not be returned. Incomplete, illegible,
and/or late submissions will not be considered. The selected composer will
be announced on the Kronos Quartet website, http://www.kronosquartet.org, no
later than March 15, 2007. Send your application package to:
"Medical/Arts", an Open Call from NewTown About Medical Arts Title:"MEDICAL/ARTS" Deadline for Submissions: NOVEMBER 1, 2006 Working with regional doctors and medical facilities, “Medical/Arts” will explore the medical arts and sciences from artists’ perspectives and, conversely, the aesthetics of medical practice, equipment and materials from the perspective of doctors and other practitioners. Medical/Arts will explore the relationships between artistic and medical world views. How do artists view the medical practice, science and artifacts? In what ways do medical practitioners find aesthetics manifest in their field? Where are the commonalities? Where the divergences? NewTown will explore this topic with two different shows: A gallery-based show, opening late March/early April, 2007, will provide 8 to 10 artists an opportunity to create works exploring the world of medicine. A like number of medical practitioners will be engaged to bring their aesthetic perceptions of their field into the gallery format. It should be noted, however, as the curatorial process unfolds, NewTown is prepared to adapt its format to accept the most engaging and provocative works (e.g. a doctor who is also an artist with work relating to the medical practice, or vice versa). Can My Work Be Critical of Medical Practices? Will Existing Work Be Considered or Must it be New? PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS You must include a CLEAR WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PROPOSED WORK, along with how it addresses the theme of the show. This should be no more than one page long. It can be only a couple sentences if that does the job. Just a tip that the panel is more likely to be annoyed than impressed by a long-winded treatise. For visual arts, A SKETCH OR OTHER REPRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSED PIECE will be required. REPRESENTATIVE WORK SAMPLE(S) demonstrating your ability to complete the project are required. Although work samples employing similar skills to those needed to complete your project are always helpful, we both understand and encourage you to take new directions and risks. If this is the case, please try to send us materials that show a variety of skills, both conceptually and technically. Work samples may be provided in the following formats.
MILLER - Up in the Air *LA premiere
MOZART - Quartet K.464 transcribed by Charles Andrews
TURINA - The Bullfighters Prayer (La Oracion del Torero)
STOKES - Laissez le voler
BERNSTEIN - West Side Story Medley arr. by Mark Lathan
Event: Los Angeles Flute Quartet concert 'Unzipped'
When: Saturday, October 14th, 7:30pm
Where: Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School,
200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.zipperhall.com
Information: 310-649-0690
Tickets: $25/$20 available online or at the door
Online Ticket Sales
www.LosAngelesFluteQuartet.com
Billy Mintz and Ratzo Harris
Sunday October 15, 2006 4:00 PM
$20 Donation Requested
www.robertajazz.com
www.billymintz.com
www.ratzobharris.com/
The Place: 145 Fillmore (x Waller) in San Francisco 94117. (1 block South of Haight St.)
Directions:www.chezhanny.com/directions.html
The Food/Drink: Potluck. Please bring food and drink to share.
$$$: All money collected goes to the musicians. Cash only please.
Seating: First come, first served. Doors open at 3:30 PM.
Transportation: Muni lines 22, N, J, 6, 71, and 72 all run within a block of here. Please allow time for parking.
Reservations: Email reservations strongly recommended!
The Phone: 415/552-2729 (but please read this message first!)
Volunteers: Help with cleaning up and putting away chairs is always appreciated.
New Email Address!!!: jazz@chezhanny.com
Six Masters of Experimental Animation
Six Collaborative World Premieres
Wells Fargo Theater at The Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles 90027 **(Directions below)
Admission: $12.00 or $6.00 for NewTown Members
**Phone: (626)398-9278
e-mail: info@newtownarts.org
www.newtownarts.org*
Steve Belfer, animator and Pat Payne, spoken word
Alyssa Sherwood, animator and Dorian Merina, spoken word
Nick Fox-Gieg, animator and Jeffrey McDaniel, spoken word
Christine Panushka, animator and Beto Araiza, spoken word
Lewis Klahr, animator and Rachel Kann, spoken word
Sheila M. Sofian, animator and Harryette Mullen, spoken word
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA
Contact: 310-287-1918
October 20, 2006 - 8:30 PM
All Ages - $15 for adults, $5 for students
NOW is the time to create
The third annual New Original Works Festival adds L.A.-inspired theater and music to the performance mix.
By Victoria Looseleaf
Special to The Times
July 22, 2006
RECORD RELEASE PARTY
with
C.O.T.A. & PIGHEART
FREE CDs FOR ALL PATRONS
DUNG MUMMY @ il corral
Saturday October 28th, 2006 @ 9:30PM - $5 suggested donation
664 no. heliotrope dr (just south of melrose ), los angeles , ca 90004 562-209-0896
www.sonicksorcery.com
hop-frog kollectiv online:
www.hop-frog.com mp3s
www.myspace.com/themastermusiciansofhopfrog
www.myspace.com/refrigeratormothers
www.myspace.com/hopfrogsdrumjesterdevotional
Curated by Kathleen Supové
Moderator: Corey Dargel
Cornelius Dufallo
Jesse Krakow
Amy Kohn
Moderator: Neil Rolnick
Gene Pritsker
Adam Fisher
Kamala Sankaram
This is Family Sunday!v
Bring the kids!
Moderator: Preston Stahly
Nick Didkovsky
Joshua Fried
Ritsu Katsumata
Moderator: Nick Didkovsky
Lisa Karrer
Hans Tammen
Moderator: TBA
Molly Thompson
Jane Rigler
Douglas Cuomo
Moderator: Scott Johnson
Tamar Muskal
Guillermo Brown
Eleanor Sandresky
Venue: The Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery, 73 St Mary's Road, Garston, Liverpool, England.
Artists: Jonathan Aldous, Sigal Avni, Jan Bennett, Ken Byers, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti,
Kim Fielding, June Kingsbury, Carrie Reichardt, Andrew Taylor and Kai-Oi Jay Yung.
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 10 October 2006 - Sunday 29 October 2006
Opening times: Monday and Sunday closed.
Tuesday – Saturday, 1.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Private View
Thursday 12 October 2006
7.00 pm – 9.00 pm.
Contact details:
Transvoyeur UK
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (UK Projects Co-ordinator)
Mobile: +44(0)7944733576
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.transvoyeur.co.uk
The Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery
Alex Corina (Artist/Curator)
Mobile: +44(0)7763388509
E-mail: info@culturalvillage.co.uk
Website: www.culturalvillage.co.uk
Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006 - Part (2)
Venue: View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool, L2 6RE, England.
Artists: Sassu Antonio, Jeimy Marisol Martínez Galavíz, Jo Gough and Emma Sweeney,
Invigilation Revenge (June Hobson and Etal), Wendalena Kaye, Tony Knox, Mandy
LaRomero, George Lund, Tommy McHugh, Ernesto Sarezale, Rita Says, Catherine Shea
('Kitty'), Ross Sutherland and Etal, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Lisa Jane Wrigley, Suzy
Walker – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Kai-Oi Jay Yung and
Neil Campbell.
Friday 29 September 2006, 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Kai-Oi Jay Yung and Neil Campbell, Mandy LaRomero, Catherine Shea (‘Kitty’) and
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Friday 06 October 2006, 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Sassu Antonio, Jeimy Marisol Martínez Galavíz, Tony Knox, Ernesto Sarezale and Lisa
Jane Wrigley.
Friday 20 October 2006, 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
George Lund, Rita Says, Suzy Walker – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in
Paris and Jo Gough and Emma Sweeney.
Friday 27 October 2006, 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Wendalena Kaye, Tommy McHugh, Ross Sutherland and Etal and Invigilation Revenge
(June Hobson and Etal).
The New Roulette Performance Space - 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
For more information go to
EXPERIMENT SERIES
Exploring the crossroads between composition and improvisation in an
informal setting.
Earle Brown 80th Birthday Celebration
Joe Morris' Callithumprov
The legendary improvisor will lead his strategies in a large ensemble with
Callithumpian members and guests
Luciano Berio: Sequenza Sequence
The great solo works for trombone, viola, piano, cello, flute, harp
Advance: $7, call (617) 497-0823
Door: $10
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02139
All shows start at 7pm
www.jorritdijkstra.com
(The Rejection Show, NYC Beard & Moustache Championships)
PRESENTS:
TAKEN MAN
CD RELEASE/TRIBUTE EVENT
PRODUCED & HOSTED BY
JON FRIEDMAN
PERFORMING LIVE OCTOBER 17th at MO PITKINS HOUSE OF SATISFACTION:
THE DEFIBULATORS
DAVE CIERI
PAUL CURRERI
DEVON SPROULE
BARRY ROBERTS
KARA SUZANNE
DUTCHESS
DAVID GATES
STUCKEY & MURRAY
ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES
ŒTAKEN MAN CD RELEASE/TRIBUTE EVENT
Produced & Hosted by Jon Friedman
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
OCTOBER 17 @ 9PM - $6
34 Avenue A (2nd and 3rd St.)
Call or visit the Mo Pitkin's box office at (212) 777-5660F or V to Second
Ave.
www.andyfriedman.net
www.citysalvagerecords
Fri 9/29: Hanks Saloon (Brooklyn, NY)
Tues 10/17 Mo Pitkins - CD Release/Tribute Event (New York, NY)
Wed 10/18: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (Charlottesville, VA)
Fri 10/20: Hunter-Gatherer (Columbia, SC)
Sat 10/21: Sentient Bean (Savannah, GA)
Tue 10/24: University of Montevallo (Montevallo, AL)
Wed 10/25: Two Stick (Oxford, MS)
Thu 10/26: Springwater Supper Club (Nashville, TN)
Fri 10/27: Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
Jon Friedman
'Failure is fun!
www.myspace.com/jonfriedman
www.tremendousrabbit.com
www.rejectionshow.com
Pamela Z
Composer/Performer
www.pamelaz.com
Pamela Z at the Long Arms Festival
DOM Cultural Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia
longarms.ru/en/
Pamela Z at the International Musical Forum Apositsia
Theater on Mokhovaya, Moscow, Russia
www.aposition.org/e_v/ap_2006_e.htm
Pamela Z in "Wunderkabinet"
(with Alex Kelly on Cello and Electronics)
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street/ Los Angeles, CA 213.237.2800
Score by Pamela Z & Matthew Brubeck w/ Video by Christina McPhee
www.pamelaz.com/wunderkabinet.html
redcat.org/season/0607/mus/z.php
Pamela Z in "Voci"
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue / Chicago, IL
Chicago Humanities Festival
www.mcachicago.org/performances/perf_detail.php?id=99
"Still Life with Commentator"
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue / Brooklyn, NY
BAM Next Wave Festival
www.bam.org/events/07STIL/07STIL.aspx
opening: Friday 15 September. 6pm - 8pm
16 September - 11 November
A Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
16 September - 11 November 2006
Hatton Gallery Newcastle
27 January - 15 April 2007
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill
5 May - 29 July 2007
Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
Some California Experimental Musicians
Carey Fosse, guitarist<
Michael Intriere, cellist
Drew Lesso, harmonist
Spencer Savage, naive player
an Experimental Exhibition and Performance/Live Art Space
8:00 p.m.
$10.00
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Florian Hecker - Oct 21
Mark Trayle and David Behrman - Nov 4
Jessica Rylan - Nov 18
All events 9 p.m. Admission open to all ages.
SEPT 30 9PM
OCT 21
NOV 4
NOV 18
3 day pass £35/£28 | 2 day pass £26/£20| Friday pass £12/£8| Sat/Sun pass £16/£12
box office: 0870 240 7528
Blood Stereo + Ludo Mich
Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan
Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet
Oshiri Penpenz
Lee Patterson
Steve Baczkowski + Ravi Padmanabha
Bohman Brothers
Lethe
Keiji Haino + Tony Conrad
Jazkamer
Tetsuya Umeda
Arrington de Dionyso
Sachiko
Eye Contact
Kuwayama / Kijima
Maryanne Amacher
artist information over
Blood Stereo + Ludo Mich
Blood Stereo is the collaborative project of the family man of the UK noise underground, Dylan Nyoukis, and his partner Karen Constance; linchpins in the noise scene, they're also astutely aware of 20th century avant thought, subsuming electro-acoustics and sound poetry into their sound. Ludo Mich is a musician/ poet, performance artist and Fluxus associate best known (if at all) for the series of hysterical 60's / 70's films. Instal aims to join the dots between current developments and previous generation's pioneers, this collaboration does just that. A UK premiere
Indebted to '60s minimalists like LaMonte Young, Pauline Oliveros and Phil Niblock, Fullman has spend 20 years developing her Long Stringed Instrument, a unique construction involving tens of wires strung in tension over great distances (she'll take up a whole 40m arch at Instal!). For this specially commissioned performance, Ellen has written a piece for herself and drummer Sean Meehan, who has over 15 years gradually pared down his kit to a single snare drum, conjuring sustained pitches with extraordinary purity of timbre by laying cymbals on the drumhead and gently exciting the surfaces with rosined dowels. We think he's one of the most interesting improvising drummers in world. A world premiere.
The Boston duo Nmperign - soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley - are motivated by an intense determination to take their instruments beyond all obvious limits, far outwith the reaches of free jazz or European improvisation. Their collaborative CD with Lescalleet, (the result of 7 years of playing together live) is one of the best releases of 06, Lescalleet drawing a healthy dose of piercing noise from the two horn players as he reworks them live through tape loops and processing. Again, this is a UK premiere
Hailing from the Kansai scum rock scene (which also recently spawned Afrirampo), Oshiri Penpenz have exploded the Japanese underground with the same sort of ingeniously sloppy No Wave that made Pussy Galore so vital; a rickety clatter filled with hoarse, shouted vocals, scattered drum shots, and sharp, percussive guitar scrapings. They come to the UK with a wild reputation as the best live band in Japan right now: “most violent rock action in Japan” was how JOJO of Hijokaidan described them to me, and he would know. This is their first ever show outside of Japan.
Patterson has an incredible ear for the tiniest of sounds, setting up processes that make the minute real and understandable. Whether that's the use of tiny mics to amplify the energy released by the burning of seeds and nuts, the ever-changing drone of sparklers or the dynamic pops and bursts of glass bottles as they cool, his work is always both visually intriguing and sonically charming.
Baczkowski is one of the premiere free improvisers in the US at the moment, a wild and levelling bass sax player who has collaborated with a host of kindred spirits including Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty. His best work to date has been with Ravi Padmanabha, a Buffalo-based percussionist able to shift between sub-continental drifts, almost rhythm and blues, to full-on pounding clatter. A UK premiere.
Quintessentially British, and with the air of a pair of crazed lab technicians, the Bohman Brothers are the creators of a unique and impure experimental music. Traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation can be detected, but ultimately the whole is greater and more arcane than the sum of its parts. Their tabletop instrumentation - full of fans, empty bottles, locally found junk, springs and Chinese take away menus - is a sight to behold.
Lethe is the solo project of Kiyoharu Kuwayama, one of the most startling young musicians in Japan today, his music marked by a profound interest in spaces both musical and physical. For his solo performance at Instal, Kuwayama has constructed 4 steel tables, which once heated by a single candle until searingly hot he then plays by rubbing dry ice across the table top, causing a caustic metallic drone to engulf the space: unlike any musical performance you'll see this year. A UK premiere.
Haino is without a doubt one of the most coruscating and urgent performers in music today with a catalogue of intensely realized conceptions, stretching far beyond the rock canon, each encompassing great dynamic range, numbing power and devastating emotional depth. Tony Conrad is a master of the exceptionally gradual surprise: his work (in the early days of the Velvet Underground, with the Theatre of Eternal Music, his legendary side with Faust and his own staggering layered violin works, which sound most like a fleet of B52s preparing for launch) marks him out as one of the true pioneers of avant thought. This is the first time they have played together in public.
'Metal Music Machine' is the new Jazkamer line-up - a leather-caked supergroup formed around Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, expanded to include members of Black Metal heroes Enslaved and Manngard. It collides grindcore, extreme doom, 80's thrash and Glenn Branca-like black metal into a seething hulk of pulsating vitriol that is oddly nowhere near as savage as that description sounds. This is the first time this line up have played live.
Umeda works with self-built instruments to set up feedback environments within a space. His charmingly homemade speaker orchestras, with tweeters replacing the blades on domestic fans, produce densely evolving drones that change as you move around the space, and seem at times to be emanating from between your ears.
Working across circular breathing bass clarinet, wild throat singing, and the psychedelic use of a singing copper kettle and jaw harp, De Dionyso's Breath of Fire LP is one of the most startling free recordings of the century to date. His live performances are by all accounts shamanic - the Wire's Brian Morton said “De Dionyso doesn't so much shape a performance as let the spirit descend on him haphazardly”. This is his first ever show in the UK.
A member of Japanese psychedelic rock group Overhang Party and VAVA KITORA, Sachiko's first solo album you never atone for is one of the best debuts in years, a collection of wordless, floating star fields that at times remind you of liturgical chant, and at others explode into ferocious Patty Waters-style vocal hysteria. This is her first solo performance outside Japan.
Raw, live, avant-garde jazz: music that soars and uplifts and ignores all boundaries. Trumpeter and bass clarinetist Matt Lavelle is rewriting the rules for the trumpet with a scale that includes nondiatonic (western) notes, giving his music a unique richness. In Eye Contact, he's joined by Matt Heyner (of No Neck Blues Band and the legendary underground jazz cabal TEST) and Ryan Sawyer on drums. Heyner is an amazing bassist, highly intuitive and lyrical, with a wealth of influences, including flamenco and heavy metal. Sawyer is exciting as well, his kit propelling the music with both delicate stickwork and full-out cooking. A UK premiere
Kiyoharu Kuwayama and Rina Kijima are formidable players, and so well attuned to each other that their improvisations cannot be distinguished from highly complex compositions. With a particular interest in ambient sound, and locations that inspire improvisation, that can be worked with, they take advantage of the natural reverb of each location (under a bridge at night, an abandoned warehouse), and changing their position in it while playing create beautiful and charged performances. UK premiere
Maryanne is interested in sound. Not necessarily air-born sound, but structural-born sound, sound that rattles buildings but also the inner workings of your head and body. A friend of mine told me that when he visited one of her performed installations in New York, he walked through the space and felt as though the sounds he was hearing were somehow slowing him down, as if he were walking through sonic tar. He turned to explain this to his companion and as he opened his mouth, a sound that was not being created anywhere in the room came out of his mouth. The cavities in his skull were resonating and creating a shifting tone that wasn't present otherwise, but which Maryanne had composed her piece to utilize. When he closed his mouth, it stopped. Maryanne's work is complex, theoretically rigorous and yet utterly human and physical, perplexing yet engaging. This is her first ever performance in Scotland.
As mentioned above, the festival will also present a platform to some of the best young acts from the UK each night. This is still being finalised, but will hopefully include Usurper, Wounded Knee, Hockyfrilla, Kylie Minoise, NOMA, Opaque, Ben Reynolds, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Red Kites and Jazzfinger.
In addition, we're also planning a series of talks and workshops, including a 2 week residency from the most interesting music education practitioner in the USA, David Dove, at Platform, the new arts centre for Easterhouse. David's workshops for children and young adults are designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
‘enabling some of the most exciting creativity the country has seen' - The Scotsman
Featuring a solo electronics performance and ensemble music by Bay Area stalwart John Bischoff.
surveying american ideas and traditions of experimental music,
performance art, live electronic music, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation.
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Composed: Wayne Vitale, I Made Arnawa
Sound Design: Jay Cloidt
Lighting: Elaine Buckholtz
Featuring: I Dewa Putu Berata, Tjokorda Istri Putra Padmini, I Ketut Rina
Pre-performance talk by director Wayne Vitale and visiting artists
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Interpretations | 18th season
Roscoe Mitchell / Connie Crothers
Robert Ashley's Concrete
Joseph Kubera plays Michael Byron / Tom Hamilton
Thomas Buckner, baritone
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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,
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Date of Shows: SPRING, 2007
Disciplines: ALL VISUAL, MEDIA AND PERFORMATIVE ARTS
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Honoraria: VISUAL ARTS, MINIMUM $300 per work: PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ARTS, CASES BY CASE
A show, possibly two, of media and performance art exploring artists’ perceptions of medicine. Formats may include media art, spoken word, music, dance, performance art and others. Additionally, NewTown will work with the medical professionals to present film and video materials they feel incorporate or express, whether intentionally or by their nature, extra-scientific, aesthetic qualities.
"Medical/Arts" is a parallel exploration of two of our species more noble pursuits; the need to cure the body of disease and palliate physical pain and the need to express our thoughts and feeling through the arts. Given that context, it becomes obvious that NewTown’s intent is to explore, rather than attack. Within that framework, however, works that are critical of medical practices will be considered without prejudice. The major criteria used in curation of these works will be the degree to which the critique opens a dialog on the subject. In other words, a “faith-based” attack will probably not be favorably viewed.
With only very special exceptions, works should have been produced after 2003 and new work would be wonderful. We are leaving a little wiggle room for works that are of outstanding artistic merit and are absolutely perfect for this show. What’s life without a wiggle?
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VIDEOTAPE that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or cued to a desired 6 minute section.