The second of 2 nights of eclectic audio visual exploration in June programmed by david Linton at the Firehouse Space...
246 Frost Street East Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.thefirehousespace.org/
Friday June 15th:
1. Gil Arno - sound and image
2. Jeff Donaldson - solo AV feedback performance
3. Fair Use Duo - Luke Dubois, Matthew Ostrowski
4. David Linton: Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System "60 Hz Raga" w/ special guests David Watson & Alex Waterman
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Gil Arno - - mpld was born in Italy and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores areas where sound and image overlap, and is often constructed with found objects and found sound.
In the mpld project he utilizes two old modified slide projectors to create performances in which static images become pulsating and fade continuously into one another. The projector's mechanical sounds are tapped and manipulated to reveal their musical potential.
Gill's other activities include performances with the New York Phonographers, installations at experimental music events and publishing books, recordings and other multiples.
He has performed in North America and Europe, either solo or in collaboration with many artists including Andy Graydon, Barry Weisblat, Ben Owen, Bruce Tovsky, Christian Marclay's dj Trio, dj Olive, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Richard Garet, Sawako and Toshio Kajiwara.
http://www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld/home/home.html
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Jeff Donaldson is an audio/visual artist who has been working with feedback systems since the late 1980s. At the beginning of the new millennium, Donaldson began applying the concept of feedback to video game systems, transforming them into generative audio/visual instruments. Since publishing his video work online, Donaldson has exhibited internationally as well as helped to pioneer the fields of video bending and glitch aesthetics.
http://notendo.com/
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Brock Monroe is a multimedia artist working mainly in the intersection of improvisatory projections to live music. As a solo artist and in conjunction with the Mighty Robot A/V Squad, his visuals have appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, The New Museum, All Tomorrow’s Parties UK, PS1, and Secret Project Robot among others. He has been a member of The Joshua Light Show since 2007.
http://www.lightandstagedesign.com/shows.html
Nick Hallett has been described in one issue of Time Out New York as “ever-compelling vocalist composer” and “invaluable curator of arts programming.” His career is a hybrid of composing, performing, and producing dynamic, sometimes-indescribable culture across media and genre. Trained at Oberlin in vocal performance and linguistics, Hallett’s approach is rooted in music, but fully ventures into new media, live cinema, performance and art.
His original opera, a collaboration with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10 (based on her video serial), played at The Kitchen and New Museum of Contemporary Art, and begins to tour nationally in Fall 2011. Hallett held the New Museum’s first RE:NEW RE:PLAY artist residency in May 2009, creating a four-part series connecting the voice to multimedia ritual. His work was included in the 2007 and 2009 Performa biennials, including a commission for futurist ‘noise-intoners’ in a concert at Town Hall. Hallett’s catalog of original songs has been recognized at Joe’s Pub—The Nick Hallett Songbook (2008) and Man in the Matriarchy (2009) among others—performed by esteemed interpreters of the craft. He has been the music director of Earl Dax’s Weimar New York cabaret series, while he concertizes newer work at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, Le Poisson Rouge and The Stone, alongside other contexts—Calder Foundation and Poetry Project recently. Hallett’s electroacoustic music has found its way into the soundtracks of films by A.L. Steiner/A.K. Burns, Matt Wolf, Joshua Thorson, and Tara Mateik among others.
After organizing a concert for the Joshua Light Show at The Kitchen in 2007, Hallett became its music director and producer, collaborating with founder, multimedia artist Joshua White to contextualize his pioneering approach to live cinema for contemporary audiences. Most recently, Hallett composed original music for the project in a 360-degree, fulldome presentation at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. As a vocalist, Hallett has performed in the operas of Anthony Braxton, Susie Ibarra, and Matthew Welch, among others, while independently pursuing new interpretations of pioneering experimental vocal work by Meredith Monk and Karlheinz Stockhausen (the latter with vocal group Magic Names). His shared interest in the music of Arthur Russell with cellist Alex Waterman has seen multiple concerts, including appearances at The Kitchen and Le Poisson Rouge produced with Wordless Music, leading to further collaboration with many of the musicians who worked with Russell in the 1970s and 80s.
With Zach Layton, Hallett co-directs the Darmstadt new music series at ISSUE Project Room, which has been called “a provocative tweak” by the New York Times for its commitment to presenting rarely heard works from the experimental music canon and its annual performance of Terry Riley’s In C, often finding itself on multiple end-of-year ‘best-of’ lists, including the New York Times and NPR. From 2000 to 2003, he led the band Plantains, a new wave-cabaret act incorporating electronic music and video, collaborating with Ray Sweeten and Seth Kirby, among others. A “Career Retrospective” of this work was released in 2010 on the I, Absentee label.
http://www.harknessav.org/
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Fair Use is a New York-based trio founded in 2005 by musicians Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski and video artist R. Luke DuBois, based on the use of cinema as raw materials for experimental live performance. A typical Fair Use performance consists of the trio performing one or more culturally significant films live in their entirety in a condensed time frame. Each performance uses the picture and soundtrack of the film as the sole materials for an improvised set, which interrogates our cinematic memories through frenetic audio and visual processing and re-narration of the cinematic object. As their performances unfold, the trio evokes their own memories and impressions of the film as a highly subjective lens, for example by focusing on iconic moments in the films and lingering on them, or massively collapsing long sequences into mere seconds. Fair Use looks at our accelerating culture through the electronic performance and remixing of cinema, presenting classic films through time compression and audio and visual manipulation.
http://lukedubois.com/
http://www.ostrowski.info/
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David Linton is a Time based multiple media artist traveling the vectors of sound, subculture, and signal flow. He has been active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for over 30 years. Originally a percussionist, David has created sound, music, and something in between, for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since his arrival in NY at the end of 1970's. By the later 80's - after a good deal of percussion work along side other musicians: Lee Ranaldo, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp among others - he was equally known for his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances as well as his soundscore productions. His 1986 solo Lp "Orchesography" was an unlikely collusion of street beats, early sampling tek, and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's he had retired from performing in the live electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities that this new 'compressed' format suggested. Throughout the 90's Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and/or production of event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996) and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present). From 2001 Linton's fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic sound and visual artists assumed the form of a live experimental television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television (2001-2004) - for which he was producer/director - and occasional performer. In 2004 David embarked upon his present course with the launch of his solo audio-visual project: the Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System.
With his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" (2004) Linton aims to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space. He employs an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual "medicine show" emerges where subject and object blur.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch/featured
Thematically David likes to consider that within the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America...
The 60 Hz Raga project is an ongoing series of collaborative improvisations with a shifting group of select musical specialists who tune to a 60Hz Tonic to enact a harmonic system in relation to the carrier wave of Linton's video feedback system.
On these two occasions the esteemed guests will be:
June 1st :
David First - Guitar
http://www.davidfirst.com/bio.html
Sam Hillmer - Tenor Sax
http://www.zzzsss.com/
June 15th:
David Watson - highland bagpipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Watson_%28musician%29
Alex waterman - violincello
http://www.alexwaterman.com/about
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The Firehouse Space is a relatively new venue just now extending it's programming to include performative multi-media so it's important that we support this expansion as a community since - as we all know - there are precious few places suitable for and supportive of live Audio Visual performance.
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We will be asking for $9.99 donation at the door but please don't allow this expense to discourage you from attending...
we will be existentially adaptable to a 'pay what you can' policy when it's clear that is what's required... etc>>>
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