David Weinstein is a composer and multimedia artist whose musical and site-specific installation works often juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings and noise. As a keyboardist Weinstein has recorded and performed in collaboration with musicians including Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Rhys Chatham and many others from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. His own group, Impossible Music, performs using sound effects as musical material. Weinstein also makes theatrical, installation and site-specific multimedia pieces for which he received two NEA grants. He is also expert in computer assisted audio and animation including streaming and interactive media. He participated in a long collaboration with the live video performance group, The Pool, and his work with the artist Doris Vila on animated, multi-user, multi-screen, responsive installations won a Jury Prize at Ars Electronica in 2002.
Born in Chicago in 1954, David Weinstein studied music composition at the University of Illinois with Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano. From 1979 to 1994 he co-directed the vigorous downtown New York experimental music space Roulette. He has taught music at Yale, CUNY, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has worked as a consultant for companies from MTV to Morgan Stanley and many adventurous non-profit music organizations. Currently he is Director of Public Programs at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center and runs the museum’s Web radio station WPS1.org. He has lived in Brooklyn since 1979.
Richard Garet (b. 1972) is a sound and video artist that lives and works in New York. With regards to sound art Richard Garet is principally interested in the investigation of aural phenomena, environment, spatial listening, structure, process, and materiality. He utilizes analog and digital recording devices for capturing aural material. However, all his sound pieces are worked and completed within the digital environment. Richard Garet’s work begins from the idea that the ear is the primary instrument and listening is the activity that establishes it all; especially choices and the function of the work. Any other tool, device, or mechanism is transitory, replaceable, and subject to change, therefore it cannot be ultimate or adopted permanently. For Garet sound is listening and composing is the organization of sound. Sonic construction emerges within the interconnections of the ear and the mind and the awareness of space and time. Garet’s work proposes that the listener engage with the work principally in a mode of active listening. His most common aural materials are unaltered, as well as, processed field recordings, and synthetic sounds. Presently he approaches sound work as an artist-composer experimenting within the ranges of electro acoustic, electronic music, and sound art installations. Additionally, he works within the parameters of live performances to temporal-in-space performance-installations. Garet’s performances possess all the qualities of his compositions. Each presentation is distinct and may be approached as improvisation, pre-prepared systematic setting, or collaboration with another artist/s.
Richard Garet has collaborated in the past with artists Andy Graydon, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, Gil Sanson, and Andre Goncalves through the EA collective. He has also collaborated with Brendan Murray, Shimpei Takeda, Sawako, Chica Ijima, Bruce Tovsky, Bruce Mcclure, Adam Kendall, Jeremy Slater, Peter Eudenbach, Wolfgang Von Stürmer, Zimoun, Zach Layton, and Aaron Kadoch.
His aural works have been released by the Austrian label NON VISUAL OBJECTS in 07/2007 with • Extract: Portraits of Sound Artists–22 various artists: Book and Double CD cat# nvo_11, in 12/2006 with • Intrinsic Motion–CD (Solo) cat# nvo _008, and in 10/2005 with • TERRITORIUM–CD (Compiler) cat# nvo_004. In 2008 Richard Garet has lined up a series of upcoming releases such as • L’avenir” (solo) — WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS - NYC, USA, • V-P V-F is V-N 7″ compilation series, 7001 — WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS - NYC, USA, • Four (solo) / Double CD — AND/OAR - Seattle, Washington, USA, • Antonioni: Trilogy & Epilogue (compilation) — AND/OAR - Seattle, Washington, USA, • Winter (Solo) / DVD Audio Surround 4.0 — Leerraum, Switzerland and a collaborative release • Of Distance, Richard Garet and Brendan Murray, UNFRAMED RECORDINGS, NYC, USA. Richard Garet’s collaborative past releases include • Balancing Act with Controlled Dynamics / EA (collective) 2006 — WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS - NYC, USA, and the 03/2008 online release • Balancing Act with Controlled Dynamics: Take Two / EA (collective) CON-V, Madrid, Spain. For additional info visit: www.richardgaret.com