now: [eluxe-beta] this week, weekend, and more! (lots!!!)
Tom Ritchford
From: obl...@gmail.com <obl...@gmail.com>
Dear all,
Lots of things happening this week!!
First, Share on this upcoming Sunday, Dec 10th, will have two feat.
guest sets: Street Fighter (an improvisational ballet) by Yonatan Niv,
Zachary Seldess (sound), and Andy Graydon (visuals), starting around 9
p.m.(or 9:30 p.m.), and also Andre Gonçalves (from Lisbon, Portugal)
w/ Katherine Liberovskaya, starting around 10:30 p.m.
We are back in normal hours (7 p.m. and after.)
We are also happy to welcome students from NYU lead by John King,
who'll visit us for fun time! (early hours 7-9, I heard... but am
hoping that they'd manage to hang out for 'Street Fighter' set!! It'll
be fun:)
Be assured that we are now located at Reboot Bar/Restaurant, 37 Ave. A
(E. 2nd & 3rd sts.) - scroll down for more info at event #10.
Huge amount of many great things are happening this week, too!
Wrap up yourself and hop around town!!
Wishing you a great week, weekend and beyond!
Keiko U. (o.blaat)
http://obla.at
http://myspace.com/oblaat (firefox onlly)
http://share.dj
******now, the event list here***************
1) (from aki onda) - re-post
A London-based improvisor/composer Steve Beresford makes his rare visit
to
New York!
Wednesday, December 6
Steve Beresford with Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch and Aki Onda
at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn
8:00 p.m., $10
www.issueprojectroom.org
Steve Beresford is a British musician. He has played a variety of
instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a
wide
variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a
wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation,
but
has also written music for film and television and has been involved
with a
number of pop music groups.
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of
prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and
Han
Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians,
including
The Slits and The Flying Lizards.
On this special occasion, Beresford will improvise with Marc Ribot,
Shelley
Hirsch and Aki Onda.
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2) (from koosil-ja) - multi-dates!
Koosil-ja
Dance without Bodies
Dec 6-9 (Wed-Sat) 8pm
Tickets $12
Drawing on her performance work with The Wooster Group and the ideas of
philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, choreographer Koosil-ja
presents a new dance work built around two simultaneous, yet spatially
disconnected solos that question the fundamental role of "presence" in
performance and allude to an understanding of the "self" as a subject
always in process. Created in collaboration with dancer Melissa F.
Guerrero, Benton-C Bainbridge (video), and Geoff Matters (music, video,
and software design), Koosil-ja's "live processing" performance
method requires the dancers to synthesize, in real-time, the action
depicted in multiple videos and then to generate, from these randomly
combined sources, new movement that is neither pure improvisation nor
set choreography, yielding unique results each evening.
Dance without Bodies is made possible with support from the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program and The Fund for
Creative Communities, the Greenwall Foundation, Experimental Television
Center Presentation Fund and Finishing Fund, Meet The Composer Creative
Connections, The Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts,
The American Music Center Live Music for Dance program, and The
Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund.
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with sponsorship
support from Altria Group, Inc., with generous grants from The Harkness
Foundation for Dance and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
http://dancekk.com/
http://thekitchen.org/
http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/?address=512+w+19th+st,+NYC,+NY
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3) (from pamela z + okkyung lee) - re-post - multi-dates!
Life with Commentator
New York PREMIERE:
December 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2006
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival
"We are all journalists, Cell-photo-ing smoke .... Running from
fire"
The fiercely creative composer - pianist Vijay IYER, post-hip-hop poet
Mike C. LADD and Ibrahim QURAISHI have teamed up to create an explosive
oratorio, darkly lyrical, cross-media in its approach to the role of
modern warfare and its inevitable relationship to mass media, while
attempting to address our historical hunger for unspeakable, unending
and ongoing tragedies. In Still Life With Commentator, the post-9/11
surveillance culture is prismatically refracted into multiple distinct
narratives.
Performed by an immensely innovative team, Pamela Z, a San
Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist will work primarily
with voice, live electronic processing while sampling interactive
technology. Palina JÓNSDÓTTIR, one of Iceland's most innovative and
acclaimed actresses joins Still Life with Masayasu NAKANISHI, a
Japanese actor living in New York whose credits include films with Dan
Ackroyd, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Josh Hartnet to
name a few. Guillermo E. BROWN, an incredible multidisciplinary
performer joins Still Life with his voice & auxiliary electronic
percussions. Walid BREIDI, a Paris based French/Lebanese sound and
digital artist specializing in computer-assisted musical compositions
and interactive installations, has created three interactive censor
processing panels. Guitarist Liberty ELLMAN with Korean-born cellist
Okkyung LEE are part of the orchestral foundations of Still Life. The
production and video design team include: J. Ryan GRAVES (production
manager), Robert PYZOCHA (set design), Stephen ARNOLD (lighting), the
award winning film maker Prashant BHARGAVA, Sebastien DERENONCOURT and
Aron DEYO with Vladimir PETKOVIC and Mustafa SAMDANI.
Tickets: http://bam.org/events/07STIL/07STIL.aspx
Visit the new website designed by Ron Kiley:
http://still-life.intoxarts.org
contact: i...@ibrahimquraishi.org // www.bam.org
More information:
http://ibrahimquraishi.org // http://5streams.org //
http://faimdesiecle.org
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4) (from zach layton)
Hi...just wanted to send out some info about the monkeytown benefit
this thursday at 9...It's going to be held at this polish disco called
Cafe Europa in Greenpoint. I'll actually be doing a performance with
the fantastic percussionist Christine Bard at the Issue Project Room
earlier in the night, but will be heading over to the benefit
afterwards...should be a great party for a great cause for an
absolutely great venue. Hope to see you there.
Thursday Evening, December 7, at 8:00 pm
Issue Project Room presents:
Christine Bard and The Bridge Ensemble
Rhythm is a Celstial Storehouse
Zach Layton -- Laptop and Guitar
Nora Balaban -- Timbila (percussion instrument from Mozambique)
Jim Pugliese -- Drums and Percussion
Christine Bard -- Drums and Timbila
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5) (from katherine liberovskaya + ursula )
Diapason, gallery for sound and intermedia presents...
Thursday December 7th
8:30pm
OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason
Live sets by:
- Bill Etra (live visuals) with James Herring (music)
- LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) visuals and music on handmade
audio/video synthesizers
Invited artist:
- Anton Marini
Suggested donation:
$ 7
OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different
ways
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features
two
different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a
set
with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are
followed
by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of
green
tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or
related
fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as
to
create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide
different
perspectives on the present and the future.
Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer
About the artists:
Bill Etra
Bill Etra is the co-inventor (with Steve Rutt) of the Rutt/Etra Video
Synthesizer (early seventies) and a Live Video pioneer. Bill is a
founding
member of The Kitchen. Recent projects include work on "The New
Machine", an
advanced digital video synthesizer that gives the artist "total
plasticity
of image" in real time. Mr. Etra has held several patents, some include
developments for 3-D television and text-based (versus time-code based)
editing of video. Visit www.etra.com for more details.
James Herring (Planet Sounds)
Creating percussive soundscapes and musical compositions primarily
using
custom built Kalimbas (African Thumb Piano), mixed with computer based
digital synthesized processing.
LoVid
LoVid is Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Using homemade electronic
devices and
DIY sculptural instruments, LoVid overwhelms the senses with new media
in
their performances, videos, objects, and installations. LoVid has
toured
the US and Europe extensively performing, exhibiting, and lecturing at
The
Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, The Butler Institute of American
Art ,
Evolution Festival, FACT, The Kitchen, Chicago Art Institute, Kansas
City
Art Institute, University of Wisconsin, Futuresonic Festival, Upgrade
OK,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Underground Film Festival, The
Happy
Lion, and Institute of Contemporary Art London among many others.
LoVid is
currently artist in residence at Stevens Institute of Technology, has
been
artist in residence at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, iEAR, and Alfred
University,
has received grants and awards from Experimental TV Center, NYSCA, and
Greenwall Foundation, and is a free103Point9 transmission artist. In
February 2007 LoVid will be exhibiting a new installation at the
Neuberger
Museum of Art.
Anton Marini
Anton Marini (Aka Vade) is a New York based video engineer and new
media programmer specializing in video and 3D systems for post
production, visual effects and realtime systems. His work explores
both designing software environments and systems for realtime
performance as well as aesthetics for abstract visual communication.
Anton Marini is a frequent collaborator at Share (http://share.dj),
and has participated in events such as Anyware, Share Montreal,
Eyewash, Rake, Share @ The Kitchen, as well as leading several
workshops in new media programming environments.
Diapason
1026 6th Avenue, 2S
New York NY 10018
(212) 719-4393
http://www.diapasongallery.org
Avenue of the Americas between 38th and 39th Streets,
two blocks south of Bryant Park.
Subways: 1, 2, 3, 9, B, D, F, Q, N, R, W to Times Square/42nd Street
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6) (from Zach Layton, Nick Hallett, Adam Kendall, and others)
THURSDAY DEC. 7
MONKEY TOWN HOLIDAY PARTY
A Benefit for Monkey Town
LIVE,
in his only New York appearance for 2006,
MY ROBOT FRIEND
the "crackpot genius" of
DYNASTY HANDBAG
just added, special guest...
GOLAN LEVIN
NO ORDINARY MONKEY DJs
Lightshow by LUKE DUBOIS, ADAM KENDALL, RAY SWEETEN among others
emceed by NICKLCAT
Monkey Town t-shirts and gift cards will be on sale.
"We want to thank our patrons for your incredible support over the
past few months by throwing the kind of party you would only expect
from Monkey Town. Earlier this autumn, we were threatened with the
real possibility of having to close our doors, but the efforts of the
New York artists community have kept us afloat. We are not out of the
red yet. With winter's dawning, we envision a prosperous future at
Monkey Town, and want to celebrate it with you."--Monkey Town HQ
MY ROBOT FRIEND
My Robot Friend is the over-the-top project of Howard Robot, whose
live performances mesmerize with quirky technopop, computer
animations, general "new media" topsy-turveydom, and his legendary
costume, an interactive suit of blinking and whirring L.E.D. lights
and electroluminescent wire. A musical homage to new wave acts like
Devo, his records have charted in Germany, he has been short-listed in
Rolling Stone magazine, and his song "We're the Pet Shop Boys" was
actually covered by the Pet Shop Boys (and more recently/absurdly,
Robbie Williams!). Playing out social stereotypes of robots, My Robot
Friend humorously enables his audience to consider how technology
interacts with human emotion as evoked in popular song: alienation,
angst, and most importantly, love.
http://www.myrobotfriend.com
GOLAN LEVIN
Golan Levin is an artist and inventor of technologies that push the
boundaries of expression in new media, fully exploring the synesthetic
potential of time based art to unleash his audience's imagination.
http://www.flong.com
DYNASTY HANDBAG
The one-woman tour-de-force performance of Jibz Cameron, who takes the
most absurd banalities of life and exaggerates them into a
side-splitting philosophic rant involving music, video, as well as an
aerobics routine or two...
http://www.dynastyhandbag.com
NO ORDINARY MONKEY
Phil South, Anton Esteban and friends are known for their
extraordinary disco speakeasys in the Financial District, sunday tea
parties along the East River, and a mindblowing set at PS1's Warm Up
last summer.
http://www.noordinarymonkey.com/
EVENT DETAILS
MONKEY TOWN HOLIDAY PARTY
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
9 pm (doors open at 8:30)
at EUROPA, Polish-American Discothèque in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
98-104 Meserole Ave. (corner of Manhattan Ave.)
G train to Nassau
18+
Tickets, sliding scale $12-20
http://www.europaclub.com
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=23304&page=1#44746
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7) (from jaiko suzuki)
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BIRd : Eri ShOjI
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8) (from Michael Evans) - multi-dates!
> Hi Friends,
> I hope you can join Susan and me for our latest piece of lunacy. Over the last few years, we've developed our own low-tech, slapstick vocabulary with an accidental, found-object quality that people seem to love. Look forward to seeing you there.
> Best,
> Michael
PS : I f anyone tried to go on to the Chocolate Factory's website,
we are sincerely sorry to have misguided you. Their correct website
address is : www.chocolatefactorytheatre.org.
>
>
>>
>> The Chocolate Factory's Fresh Meat Festival
>> presents
>> Michael Evans and Susan Hefner
>> in the premiere of
>> Cymbalic Logicians
>> Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8 at 8:00PM
>> at The Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue, LIC
>> (one stop from Grand Central on the 7 train)
>> tickets $10 www.theatermania.com (212) 352-3101 or at the door
> for more info, see www.chocolatefactorytheatre.org or call 718 482-7069
>>
>> Structured improvisation pushing the boundaries of dancer and
musician in an environment of 50 cymbals. Video by Nelson Simon.
>> Cymbalic Logicians is 30 minutes long and is first on a program
with Liz Sargent and Joe Randazzo.
>>
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9) (from kyle lapidus)
this saturday Dec. 9 is La Superette, where you can get wonderful
artist
made items and gifts. in addition to the merch there's a great free
and
open to the public performance program I curated (thanks to ETC for
support) and workshops through this year's La Superette partner,
Eyebeam's Holiday Hackshop. all details are below in this message and
on
line at lasuperette.org where you can also browse the catalog to think
of
gift ideas. also, thursday night Dec. 7, LoVid will perform at
Diapason
with Bill Etra. details for that event, Optosonic Tea, are included
below the La Superette announcement.
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LA SUPERETTE 2006
IN ASSOCIATION WITH EYEBEAM'S HOLIDAY HACKSHOP '06
SATURDAY DECEMBER 9th - 12:00 TO 10:00 PM
EYEBEAM - 540 WEST 21st STREET - NEW YORK, NY 10011
This year LA SUPERETTE comes to Chelsea, where artists will showcase
original, handmade gifts (ranging from $1-$100) including recycled
accessories, multifunctional stuffed animals, artist publications,
funky house wares, and homemade clothes, with a special focus on
"hacks," the custom configuration of pre-existing hardware or
software. LA SUPERETTE is an annual art market where professional and
amateur artists and craftsmen present and sell their creations to a
wide range of visitors. LA SUPERETTE is a collaborative project
seeking to enhance the dialog between artists and their audience,
placing art in the middle of daily life. This year LA SUPERETTE joins
EYEBEAM in conjunction with HOLIDAY HACKSHOP '06, a DIY tech-workshop
featuring activities from circuit-bending to laser-cutting in a festive
atmosphere.
LA SUPERETTE is conceived and organized as a place for artists to meet
and collaborate on a specific project. A catalog zine is published,
which distributes contact information of all participating artists, a
web catalog is hosted at WWW.LASUPERETTE.ORG, and a video catalog is
produced and screened at the event. LA SUPERETTE 2005 included more
than 100 artists and attracted thousands of visitors and shoppers.
DIY merchandise has been a part of the music world for years through
micro labels and zine culture. Today's proliferation of
interdisciplinary artists and multi-media collectives is concomitant
with an increase of visual artists producing merchandise and multiples.
Many of these artists act as cultural hackers, re-appropriating
history, media, science, and other elements of contemporary life for
their work. They share a growing need to reconnect and to distribute,
so they make t-shirts that look like their paintings or web sites, join
a knitting circle in Brooklyn to rediscover craft, or paint elaborate
packaging for their self-recorded albums. With an emphasis on the
handmade, homemade, and loved, these pursuits help modulate a digitally
reproducible society and give an alternative to mainstream standards.
LA SUPERETTE 2006 will feature an installation by Jake Borndal and Kate
Scherer and in addition to the sale there will be live video, music and
puppet performances, organized by Kyle Lapidus, by a range of artists
utilizing unique moving image techniques and a low-tech hacking
methodology. Employing everything from hacked tape decks and custom
light synthesizers to modified walkie talkies and biofeedback
microcontrollers, performances include 1/3 v. 2 [c.h.i.a.k.i (Chiaki
Watanabe) with Phillip Schulze + Sylvia Mincewicz], Gunung Sari
(Stanley Ruiz + Nick Lesley), NoteNdo (Jeff Donaldson) with Taigaa!,
Jason Zeh, Daniel Vatsky, Chris Jordan, Ben Fino-Radin & Caroline
Charuk, Zach Layton, Neg-Fi, Eiliyas, Daniel Vatsky & DJ Rhizome.
In the spirit of this year's event, many of the artists use unique
moving image techniques and low-tech hacking methodology. Stick around
all day, and you will witness everything from hacked tape decks and
custom light synthesizers to modified walkie talkies and biofeedback
microcontrollers.
*Special thanks to Kyle Lapidus for his curatorial and organizational
prowess.
LA SUPERETTE 2006 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
** 12:30pm ** Daniel Vatsky & DJ Rhizome ** skyvat.net **
downunderground.org/dig
** 1:30pm ** NoteNdo with Taigaa! ** myspace.com/taigaa
** 2:30pm ** 1/3 v. 2 (c.h.i.a.k.i. Watanabe/Schulze/Mincewicz) **
nicknack.org
** 3:30pm ** Chris Jordan ** seej.net
** 4:30pm ** Ben Fino-Radin & Caroline Charuk ** benjaminter.net **
carolinecharuk.net
** 5:30pm ** Zach Layton ** zachlaytonindustries.com
** 6:30pm ** Gunung Sari ** gunungsari.blogspot.com
** 7:30pm ** Jason Zeh
** 8:30pm ** Eiliyas ** myspace.com/eiliyas
** 9:15pm ** Neg-Fi ** myspace.com/negfi
LA SUPERETTE was founded in 1998 in Paris, France by Tali Hinkis, Marie
Daubert and Tracy Rolling while in school at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
In 2001, Hinkis, a multidisciplinary artist, moved to New York City and
began producing the event here. In New York, LA SUPERETTE continues to
successfully distribute the work of many artists from Europe and North
America to a wide audience.
At HOLIDAY HACKSOP 2006, just in time for holiday gift-giving season,
EYEBEAM will be transformed into Santa's tech-workshop with a day full
of artist-led fabrication sessions followed by a holiday party at the
end of the day. At their little North Pole in Chelsea, participants
create their own fun, affordable, custom DIY gifts including Solar
Powered Noisemakers, LED Ornaments, laser cut stencils, and
personalized holiday songs and portraits.
EYEBEAM engages cultural dialogue at the intersection of the arts and
sciences. Its goal is to forge an understanding of the relatedness of
these practices, which are becoming increasingly significant engines of
cultural production.
* LA SUPERETTE is made possible with support from the FOUNDATION FOR
CONTEMPORARY ARTS' Emergency Grant and the EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION
CENTER'S (ETC) Presentation Fund. The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER
(ETC) is supported by THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (NYSCA)
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: WWW.LASUPERETTE.ORG and WWW.EYEBEAM.ORG
CONTACT TALI HINKIS (LA SUPERETTE): LASUP...@GMAIL.COM
OR PERRY LOWE (EYEBEAM): PE...@EYEBEAM.ORG
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10) (from Share) - now at Reboot, 37 Ave. A!!! - late starting at 8
p.m.
this week.
Share is located at our new home, Reboot'!!!!!!
Reboot bar/restaurant is located only 9 blks down from Mundial.
http://share.dj/share
located at 37 Ave A bet E. 2nd and 3rd Sts. (west side of the ave -
there is no clear sign for this bar, and it used to be known as 'Two
Boots pizza restaurant' but do not confuse with the take-out pizzaria
at the eastside corner. It is on westside, and between E. 2nd & 3rd
sts.)
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=370
'Reboot' bar/restaurant at 37 Ave A bet E. 2nd and 3rd Sts. (west side
of the ave)
SHARE on sunday
-greetings from SHARE,
come to hang with good friends!
come to jam!
come to have a drink!
come to chill!
come to see/hear....
oh and... i keep forgetting to tell you... SHARE is always 100% FREE!!
------share on Sunday, Dec. 10th, Share @Reboot, 37 Ave. A (between
E. 2nd x 3rd sts.), E. Village, NYC.
stop by anytime between 7 pm - late!
Featured guest sets for Dec. 10th, 2006
Sun. 12/10 @Reboot:
Street Fighter (an improvisational ballet)
Max/MSP programming, music composition & performance: Yonatan Niv,
Zachary Seldess
Realtime visual manipulation: Andy Graydon, starting around 9 p.m.,
Street Fighter (an improvisational ballet) is an ongoing collaboration
between Yonatan Niv, Zachary Seldess (sound), and Andy Graydon
(visuals). Using the Max/MSP programming environment, Zachary and Yoni
have linked their own composed, sampled, and processed sound worlds
with the 2D game environment of the 90's arcade game classic, Street
Fighter.
In realizing the work, Zachary and Yoni use game controllers to
simultaneously improvise music and play the game (i.e. fight each
other). The game's fighting avatars are treated as musical instruments,
the game's environment as improvisational space. Each character's
fighting actions (punching, kicking, etc.) elicits a corresponding
musical response; Sound is further processed and panned based on the
character's more peaceful actions within the 2D space (crouching,
jumping, flipping, walking, etc.). Adding a visual element to the
improvisation, Andy runs the game's screenshot through a myriad set of
processes, the result of which is fed back to the fighters. Mostly,
Yoni and Zachary perceive the work in a chamber music context
(non-violent?) -- they do, however, descend from time to time into the
use of brute force. This is a necessary evil indeed, as the piece
cannot end until someone dies.
At play in this work is the conflict/tension of various dichotomies
(real or fabricated): music and sound effect, chamber piece and video
game, ensemble and choreography. The aesthetic results of the work
vary, depending... On the one hand we encounter two new instruments
(possibly one massive instrument) that possess ingrained dramatic
responses to their every musical gesture. (Imagine a marimba slithering
two feet to the left every time middle C is struck). And on the other
hand we may simply encounter the well-known characters of the game with
newly ingrained musical responses to their every dramatic gesture.
and also...
Andre Gonçalves (from Lisbon, Portugal) w/ Katherine Liberovskaya
starting around 10:30 p.m.
Andre Gonçalves is back to Share! Portuguese sound artist, Andre
Gonçalves will make a brief visit to NYC, and make a return apperance
at Share. For this special performance, he will collaborate with visual
artist, Katherine Liberovskaya.
http://www.ctrl.tk
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Of course!... audio/visual openjam will take place before/between/after
the featured sets!!!
Please feel free to join in &/or simply hang out with
AUDIO/VISUAL OPENJAM all through the night!!
Bring your own gear/instrument/equipment to join in!!
Bring yr sweetheart, bring yr sweet'n'cozy vibe, bring yr...self!
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Please find SHARE at our new home, Reboot'!!!!!!
no cover as always been!!
upcoming guests & announcement (artists' info on http://share.dj/share)
Sun. 12/17 - All-Night Openjam!! (unless someone books a set;) @Reboot
Sun. 12/24 - Reboot closed - Share takes a week-off!!
Sun. 12/31 @Reboot:
Share's first official New Year's Eve party!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Plan
ahead! Get ready to Share!!
feat. guest (so far) include: The Sperm Whale
Mon-Tues 1/29-1/30/07 Share-mobile in Berlin as a part of
ClubTransmediale 2007
more TBC re: Share-mobile in Budapest in Mar. 07!!
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(what is SHARE?)
SHARE is an organization dedicated to fostering open and spontaneous
collaborations between audio and video artists, and providing the
necessary infrastructure to support this community. SHARE accomplishes
this through a weekly free event, special large-scale events held in
various cities, and a strong Internet presence. SHARE operates on an
open and free philosophy, making our events as broadly accessible as
possible and releasing software and media under open licensing schemes.
More info can be found at http://share.dj
also...
Share in Montreal, Canada - http://www.videographe.qc.ca/share/
Share in Wiesbaden, Germany -
http://www.friends-of-tracking-data.org/share.htm
Share in San Diego - http://www.memeshift.com/sharesd/
Share in Los Angeles - http://share.la-va.org/
Share in Stavanger, Norway - (no website yet)
Share.outpost in Melbourne, Australia -
http://www.shareoutpost.org/index.html
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11) (from GüespaFilms)
..........Ultraspective...........
The Premiere night includes:
Music videos: Dorit Chrysler, Services, Titan, Sonido Lasser Draker,
Jacinto Canek (on location at Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio by Gelitin) and
more.....
Short fiction films by: Dama Margx, Ricardo Mehedff, Dmitry Rozin,
Alfredo Hubard....
Experimental by Maria Petschnig, Elizabeth Fraller, Andre Amparo,
Bradley Eros
Animation: Alex Budovsky
Documentary Francisca Caporali
&
The night will continues with DJ/VJ Non-Stop until the alcohol
evaporates.
USSR & Global premium cinematic songs. Short format & loud.
Musica crossover and covers to make you laugh like a Hyena.
Curated by Dama Margx
Monkeytown http://monkeytownhq.com
Sunday, December 10
Admission: $0.00 (Free)
Showtimes: 8pm until late
reservations are recommended
718 3841369
Directions:
>From the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd. Monkey Town is halfway
down the block on the left.
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on-going) (from e-flux list)
ANNIE RATTI
EVAPORATED SEA
CURATED BY IWONA BLAZWICK
17 November - 16 December, 2006
WHITE BOX
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
t: 212.714.2347
http://www.whiteboxny.org
White Box is pleased to present Annie Ratti's site-specific
installation Evaporated Sea. Annie Ratti's installation radically
alters White Box's seemingly archeological space by filling it with
crystalline sea salt, challenging visitors to revise the parameters by
which they view art and overturning any preconceptions they had about
what constitutes an exhibition space. The floor is encrusted in salt
and viewers experience the floating feeling of the sea by walking along
the elevated wooden deck, allowing people to view the installation from
its center. Eric Satie's music combined with video images further
enhances a receptive environment.
Annie Ratti's Evaporated Sea is a kind of composite psychological
window reflecting the appearance, disappearance, and the reincarnation
of memories attached to social complexities. The rotational video
images projected on three different walls of White Box are her own
version of Red Balloon in New York City reminiscent of French filmmaker
Lamorisse's 1956 classic. In Ratti's film, a lonely red balloon
randomly soars through a forest of buildings in Manhattan, past Central
Park and Times Square, down into China Town, with a train crossing the
Brooklyn Bridge in which an anonymous crowd rides the wind like a free
soul. The city filled with burdens and agonies appears symbolically
touched by the sight of the red balloon and finally seems to arrive at
the land of tranquility. Annie Ratti has produced her video with
Canadian cinematographer Christopher Walters.
Annie Ratti has been working with video, photography, installation, and
literary essays to question and rethink the contemporary human and
urban conflicts, states of uncertainty, and unexpected perceptual
cracks born out of perpetual comings and goings from her native country
of Italy to France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Catalogue
Internationally known art publisher Charta will publish a 120-page book
on Annie Ratti's work, including Evaporated Sea. The book includes
essays written by Iwona Blazwick, Eleanor Heartney, Giorgio Verzotti,
Lea Vergine, Alex Farquharson, and a conversation between Annie Ratti
and Cesare Pietroiusti. The book signing will be held at White Box
6-8pm on December 14th, 2006.
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Sorry for the usual 'oops'!
Roulette has sent in their winter schedule. Phill Niblock's
Experimental Intermedia also will hit its winter season starting next
Wednesday.
So, here they are. Please put them together with the one I just sent
out.
See you at one of those things I hope.... (I have so much stuff piled
up... so will try.)
Keiko U. (o.blaat)
http://obla.at
http://myspace.com/oblaat (firefox onlly)
http://share.dj
******now, the event list here***************
added-1) (from roulette) - multi-dates!
ROULETTE
Fall Concerts 2006
20 Greene St. (between Canal and Grand) 2 blocks west of Broadway
8:30 PM $15 at the Door
Location One, Harvestworks, DTW members
students, seniors: $10
Reservations: 212.219.8242
Roulette members free
www.roulette.org www.location1.org
Interviews with the Artists at Roulette's new Blog!..
http://www.roulette.org/blog/index.php
also..check out.. http://myspace.com/rouletteintermedium
Thursday, Dec. 7th
Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg presents new works for quintet and
pieces from his recent CD, 'the door, the hat, the chair, the fact'
(Cryptogramophone). The recording and tonight's program feature a set
of compositions dedicated to Steve Lacy, with whom Goldberg studied and
worked closely. Dubbed "one of the greatest clarinetists I've ever
heard" by John Zorn, Goldberg's New Klezmer Trio "kicked open the
door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music" (San
Francisco Chronicle). He currently works with the Tin Hat Trio, the
Myra Melford Quintet and the trio, Plays Monk. A leading figure in
"Radical Jewish Music", Goldberg has played with everyone from
George Lewis to Masada to Alvin Curran. Tonight with Carla Kihlstedt
(violin), Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Ches
Smith (drums).
Friday, Dec. 8th
Christopher McIyntyre
Composer and trombonist Christopher McIntyre has been developing a
number of large ensemble projects in the past few years, both as a
leader and collaborator. Several of them will fill Roulette's stage
this evening, including TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks. A
thread that carries through each group is both technical and spiritual:
mapping the space between composition and improvisation. Tonight's
program offers a full evening of this repertoire, as well as new works
commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation. Performed by an
impressive array of new music's heaviest-hitters, including Joan La
Barbara, Cornelius Dufallo, Miguel Frasconi, Peter Evans and Nate
Wooley.
Sat, Dec. 9th
Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht
Flutist/composer Robert Dick and internationally acclaimed pianist
Ursel Schlicht, "...two virtuosi whose talent for stretching their
instruments and minds allows them to paint with more colors and
textures than flute and piano have any right to expect," (Gene Santoro)
present an evening of music that integrates composition and
improvisation and radically expands the sound world and expressive
possibilities of flute and piano, featuring piccolo to contrabass flute
with inside & out piano. Schlicht has played improvised music, jazz,
new music and world music throughout Europe, the Americas and
Australia, and has recorded extensively. Robert Dick, improviser,
composer, author, teacher and inventor is known worldwide for
redefining the flute, creating revolutionary visions of its musical
role. Please visit http://www.robertdick.net &
http://www.urselschlicht.com
Sun, Dec. 10
Jennifer Choi, Marco Capelli & Vongku Pak
The adventurous and unrelentingly innovative violinist Jennifer Choi,
known for her soulful and direct interpretations of classical new music
and for her improvisations in the Susie Ibarra Trio, plays alongside
the imaginative, ultra-dexterous Marco Cappelli (Extreme Guitar
Project) and fuses their virtuosic string playing with the dynamic folk
rhythms of Vongku Pak (Korean drums) in composed and improvised
collaborations. Choi breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo
violin, chamber music and creative improvisation. She has performed and
recorded over fifty new compositions and has taken her traditional
training at Juilliard to her groundbreaking collaborations with John
Zorn, Ikue Mori, Leo Wadada Smith, Erik Friedlander and others. Check
out: http://www.jenniferchoi.com , http://www.marcocappelli.com &
http://www.koreandrum.org
Mon, Dec. 11
Aaron Siegel & Chris Peck
Aaron Siegel and Chris Peck present two new works for a large ensemble
that includes untrained musicians and self-described "non-artists".
Siegel and Peck share a penchant for unconventional acoustic sound
sources, from plastic recorders and undisciplined singing to resonant
metals and ceramic bowls. From such elements, they craft methodical,
process-based compositions that unfold over time. Check out:
http://www.aaronsiegel.net and http://www.intermittenmusic.com
Next Week:
Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman,
Joel Harrison's The Wheel, and Jim Staley, Ikue Mori & John Zorn!!
see http://www.roulette.org/events/ for more details
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added-2) (from phill niblock) - multi-dates!
Experimental Intermedia
The Thirty-third Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street,
The
Thirty-eighth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia,
the
Thirty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not
least,
The Seventeenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, curator
December 2006
Giles Thomas and Patries Wichers Wednesday 13
Respectively the guitarist and vocalist from Bateau Lavoir, Antwerp,
have
been working on a side project together; the approach remains -
no-repertoire, improvised music; both musicians started working with
delays
but recent development has seen a shift from delays to fixed
instruments;
listen at http://www.bateaulavoir.org/tw.html
Andreas Weixler & Se-Lien Chuang Friday 15
A concert of computer music, video and interactive audiovisual
improvisation; the 25th anniversary of Atelier Avant Austria/ the 10th
anniversary of artistic cooperation between Weixler-Chuang;
http://avant.mur.at/concerts/ei06/index.html - in collaboration with
the
Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, support by the province government
of
Styria and province government of Upper Austria, comission of SKE Fonds
Andrea Parkins Sunday 17
Electro multi-instrumentalist Andrea Parkins is a sound artist,
composer
and improvising musician who also makes and/or arranges objects, images
and
(sometimes) words; she will perform solo pieces for electronically
processed accordion and MAX processed sampling (merging analog
electronics
with treatments by "Rube Goldberg," a live generative processing
instrument), writing a fractured yet fluid sonic language as she
releases
awkward electronic disruptions, dislocation-inspired samples and noisy
feedback into a rising flow of accordion sonority
Yasunao Tone Monday 18
Zeena Parkins joins the concert cum launch party in celebration of the
release of "Yasunao Tone - Noise Media Language" (Errant Bodies Press)
-
given the release of the book will not be ready for the concert date a
mock-up version of the book will be shown at the concert, and
introduced
through a video work by the editor Brandon LaBelle; the concert will
consist of Tone's new piece for Parkins, Origin of Geometry: An
Introduction, based on the text of Husserl/Derrida, and a duo
performance
by Tone and Parkins; the book - with contributions by Robert Ashley,
Dasha
Dekleva, William Marotti, Federico Marulanda Rey, and Achim Wollscheid,
and
an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist; "Yasunao Tone -
Noise
Media Language" is an indispensable monograph on this enigmatic artist
Maria Blondeel Tuesday 19
48 minutes; a steady sound accompanying an almost empty, steady image
on
the screen; sonic video made in a driving car - the recordings where
shot
during the Argos Festival 2004 that took place in Brussels on the R20;
a
track has Dreaming / Rethinking and Transfiguring the Sites and Sounds
of
Brussels'. (Argos/(K-RAA-K)3); http://www.mariablondeel.org
Phill Niblock 6pm until midnight, Thursday 21
So what's new?- with six hours of music and film/video, who can tell?;
6pm
until 12am of the longest night of the year (what's to do for the rest
of
the night?)
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts,
the
Aaron Copland Fund For Music, The Amphion Foundation, and the Phaedrus
Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 $4.99
212 431 5127, 212 431 6430 9pm, except the 21st
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
Sorry again. I've left off two, and another one came in... and I
happened to be in the mood of putting 'em together and send out yet
another emailing since they are both this week.
I'll promiss that there won't be another one.
wishing you an exciting week!
Keiko U. (o.blaat)
http://obla.at
http://myspace.com/oblaat (firefox onlly)
http://share.dj
******'additional' continues... ***************
added-3) (from ann adachi)
glaciers and more in bushwick wed 12/6 10pm
at Goodbye Blue Mondays
1087 broadway in brooklyn, new york (bushwick) J train to Kosciusko St.
or
M or Z to Myrtle Ave
set i
glaciers glaciers
ann adachi - flute
grundik kasyansky - feedback
gregory reynolds - alto sax
set ii
grundik kasyansky - feedback
alban bailly - guitar/accordian
set iii
ayako kurakake - dance
erika hassan - dance
shige moriya - live video
ninni morgia - guitar
grundik kasyansky - feedback
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added-4) (from john goist)
UPCOMING EVENT!:
On Friday December 8th, 2006 at 10pm:
"THE NEU SOUNDTRACK"
CIRCA 1981: The Anticipated Future
"Dystopianism, New Wave, Plastic and Video.
The Future We Saw Told through sounds, beats, bits, video souvenirs,
heavy plastic, long black gloves, multiple Bladerunning kickdrums and
pulsing Gigolo snares. "
THE LINEUP:
GOISTRON
Goistron is a gigantic reactive automaton built by an ancient and
extinct alien race to serve as a guardian and sentry to several nearby
galaxies including our own Milky Way. Lost to the destruction of
Spanish Conquistadors is the Mayan prophesy depicting his arrival in
our planet's skies before the decade is out.
Performing with laptop and video, the "Goistron" sentry is armed and
ready for loading operational program, "Rendezvous: positioning for
initial confrontation".
parenthesis
a sound essentially, but existing in both video and sound in
performance and installation settings as an interactive and
ambient-reactive installation. Otherwise known as ( ), PARENTHESIS uses
laptop, video, monitors, screens and speakers to create a variety of
sound, image, and interactive work. PARENTHESIS was one of the 1999
recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of
the Arts (NYFA). " "An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a
surrounding influence: a tint. " - eno
*Stella Indigo
A lone urban Womanique known for sashaying through the city with her
keyboard(s) on her back, sending feminine bleepy signals that make all
cabbies stand at attention awaiting the rhythm of her Fendi heels on
the sidewalk. She scats about the next hipbone street scene she will
crash with her smooth doomsaying-lyrics about the human lonely
brain-trap destiny. Does she reveal secret faith in urban connection in
her dystopian bittersweet synth sounds? Using piano, synths and other
keyboards, Stella is influenced by early jazz, classical, and
early-20th century modern composers.
*not her real name
THE DETAILS:
Collective:Unconscious
Presents:
The SUBTONES of CONSCIOUS TIME
A NEW Music Series
Curated by Nicole Zaray
The Second Friday of Every Month
10 pm
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Collective:Unconscious
279 Church St.,NY NY 10013
$12 in advance / $15 at the door
212.254.5277
http://www.theatermania.com
for Reservations and Info
From theatermania.com: 'Subtones of Conscious Time' is a new monthly
music series curated by Nicole Zaray. Each month's theme recalls
various paradigm shifts within popular musical history, from baroque to
bleepy to bebop and electro-acoustica, only to stitch them back
together as a colossal Frankenstein-esque night of genre-bending
performance! Zaray researches and hones each month's theme, and gathers
crème de la crème Borough-based musicians to bring it all to life.
This
is a never-before-seen cornucopia of fresh talent and bizarre musical
bents.'
The Subtones of Conscious Time music series is made possible, in part,
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with funds from the September 11th
Fund and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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added-5) (from japan society) - dec. 9th program is sold-out.
Tzadik Label Music Series ~ New Voices from Japan II: Power of the New
Japanese Woman
Curated by John Zorn
Friday, December 8, 7:30pm
This second installment in the exciting new music series curated by
John Zorn presents four of the most cutting-edge female artists in the
Japanese new music scene over two evenings. Friday it's Afrirampo &
ni-hao, Saturday features Yuka Honda & Miho Hatori.
Opening Night: Friday, December 8
Two wild girl bands take over: the raw energy and punk-noise-influenced
guitar-drum duo Afrirampo; and the color-coded pop-punk-rock trio (two
basses and drums) ni-hao!, with all three girls singing in complex
contrapuntal arrangements filled with looping riffs and unexpected
twists. Both bands are composed of women in their 20s; their energetic
performances involving elaborate stage shows, costumes and puppets
provide a glimpse into Japan's latest scene in new rock music.
333 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212.832.1155 Box Office: 212.715.1258
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=546236439&id_performance=329461945
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