Stephan Moore and Madeleine Gallagher will perform a series of compositions in sound and image using analog equipment (tape and film) as part of the source. This work is about starting over and reexamining the beginning influences so that new ideas can take flight. The images created for this project were made with the Oxberry animation stand, the optical printer and hand painted 35. Transferred to video, the films will be manipulated live. The audio aspect of these compositions stems from Stephan’s desire to use bolder colors, exploring overlapping rhythmic patterns and harmonic progression from the perspective of the more nuanced textural pieces he has made in recent years. Stephan’s music meets Madeleine’s visuals in the realm of patterns of dots and lines.
Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers on the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of
musicians, live-video artists, and dancers.
Madeleine Gallagher is an artist formally trained as a painter and a sculptor, and for the past ten years has been working with video in a variety of ways, mostly in the realm of experimental single channel video and multimedia installation. She uses her work to explore and deconstruct physical, visual and aural sensation, endurance, perceptual thresholds and phenomenology. Since 2004 she has been experimenting with different methods of live video performance. She has grown tired of computers and this summer she began working with film for the first time. She has a fondness for small animals, electronic music and video synthesis.
Ranging from raga to raucous, Curtis Bahn and Dean Sharp will explore electronic/acoustic grooves and sonic landscapes for percussion, sensor-extended sitar and dilruba (an Indian cello-like instrument).
Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser who specializes in live interactive electronic performance. His music has been presented at venues including Lincoln Center, India International Centre - Delhi, Sadler’s Wells - London, Palais Garnier - Paris, Grand Theatre de la Ville - Luxembourg, Gammage Hall - Tempe AZ, Colourscape - England, the Monaco Dance Forum, as well as numerous festivals, academic conferences and small clubs. Curtis recently completed a major residency project entitled “Motione,” combining interactive dance and graphics with the work of Choreographer Trisha Brown and Visual Artists Paul Kaiser, Marc Downey and Shelly Eshkar at Arizona State University Arts Media and Engineering Program. He has released recordings of live electronic performance on his extended string bass including “R!g,” available on the EMF label, a duo recording entitled “./swank” with Dan Trueman on the cycling 74 label, and a DVD with Trueman, Pauline Oliveros and Tomie Hahn on the Deep Listening label. Currently Curtis is studying Indian music with the American Bansuri virtuoso and composer Steve Gorn, and applying his studies to both traditional Hindustani musical performance, and extended performance
interfaces for the Dilruba and the Sitar.
Dean Sharp has played and/or recorded with an array of creative artists as diverse as Moby, Brad Mehldau, Stephen Vitiello, Elliott Sharp, Joe Lovano, John Stubblefield, Liz Gorrill (aka Kazzrie Jaxen), jazz legend Hugh Brodie, Tony Levin, Mark Ribot, Steve Swallow, Carter Burwell, David Arner and Jane Siberry. He has written and recorded with notorious loop-miester David Torn (SPLaTTeRCeLL project), colead his own ensembles….earmight (w/ Dean Jones, David Hofstra, Russ Johnson and Ken Mcgloin) and trio loCo (w/ Marc Dzuiba and studioStu)….and is presently the creative catalyst for::SONic 150 (trio w/ trumpet notebender Russ Johnson and bass wizard Michael Bisio), scribbleScrabbLe (duo w/ videographer Thomas Moore), 3:2:1 (w/ Ken Mcgloin and Russ Johnson) and sanDwich (w/ fellow percussionist Harvey Sorgen and mystery “third person du jour’!)
As a producer/remixer, sharp’s sonic palette has no boundaries. He has ‘pushed the envelope’ for a wide variety of projects including records with Indian flutist Steve Gorn, cellist Stephanie Winters, klezmer/world artist Zoe B Zak, bassist Steve Rust’s PULSAR and indie faves Louise Taylor and Stoneboat…. all the while continuing to be active in the soundscape world of art installations (w/ Stephen Vitiello), film/videography (Nam June Paik, Tom Moore) and jingle scoring. Sharp has played a vital role in the recordings and live performances of such innovative singer/songwriters as Rachael Sage, Greg Brown, Donna Lewis, MIMI (goese), Noe Venable and Jill Sobule and is on call for Todd Sickafoose’s Blood Orange.
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