Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Seijiro Murayama
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests: Seijiro Murayama
Seijiro collaborated, in particular, with Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Keiji Haino, KK Null between 1980 and 1998. Since 99, he works in France.
His actual collaboraters:
Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric La Casa, Tim Blechmann, Klaus Filip, Axel Dörner, Eric Cordier, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tsunoda Toshiya, Off-cells with Taku Unami, Uta Kawasaki, Takahiro Kawaguchi …
For his second visit of usa since 82, he will play solo with a snare drum and a cymbal (amplified with air and contact microphones). Some meetings with american improvisers are also programmed:Jason Roebke, Greg Kelly, Eli Keszler, Jason Brogan…
Url:
http://seijiro.murayama.name
Selective discography:
ANP “Absolut Null Punkt” <CD> [Important] USA 2004
“They Stood Around and Watched” with Michael Northam
<mini CD> [Universalinternational] France 2004
“Suture” with Eric Cordier <CDR> (no label) France 2004
ANP “Metacompound” <CD> [Important] USA 2006
“Hatari Atsalei” with Lionel Marchetti<CD> [Intransitive Recordings] USA 2008
“Le Bruit du Toit” with Jean-Luc Guionnet <CD> [Xing Wu Records] Malaysia 2008
“Moriendo Renascor” with Michael Northam <CD> [Xing Wu Records] Malaysia 2008
“Noite” with Jean-Luc Guionnet,Ernesto Rodriques,Guilherme Rodrigues <CD> [Creative Source Recordings] Portugal 2009
“Ready’n” with Masafumi Ezaki, Kazushige Kinoshita <CD> [Tenseless music] Japan 2009
“Space and place” with soundworm <CD> [Improvised Music From Japan] Japan 2009
“Supercedure” with Eric La Casa <CD> [Hibari Music] Japan 2009
“4 pieces with a snare drum” (solo) <CD> [Petit Label] France 2009
“Solos” (solo) <CD> [Zerojardin] France 2009
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=659
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
9pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – In the Munch Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
What is Share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share will take place in the Munch Room tonight. The Munch Room is located on the first floor of The (OA) Can Factory.
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Stephan Moore
What is share?SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
9pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests:
Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Many of his performances and installation artworks make use of large, multi-channel arrays of his Hemisphere speakers. He performs regularly with Scott Smallwood in the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught college-level courses in composition, sound art and electronic music at several schools. He is currently the Sound Engineer and Music Coordinator of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and one of its core musicians.
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=652
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – In the Munch Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share will take place in the Munch Room tonight. The Munch Room is located on the first floor of The (OA) Can Factory.
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free open audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guest Carver Audin
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest -
Carver Audain (b 1981) is a New York-based sound artist who has been creating music since 2001. Materially, he produces works using guitar, electronics, field recordings, organ, and other assorted sources. Strategically, he uses improvisational tactics to integrate a variety of pre-recorded and pre-arranged material with his live playing through the use of controlled feedback and situation-specific spontaneous composition. Sonically, he produces an array of textured sound fields with slow-shifting harmonies that both merge with and transform their physical surroundings.
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=640
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free open audio & video jam – featured guests WALK-PASA-BOUGE & Pink Twins
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests -
- WALK – PASA – BOUGE is visually designed to expand and refract literary texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into a seamless theatrical whole between all performers. The show is partly improvised, fusing electronic music with visuals created using both traditional techniques and digital technologies. Using highly unique and unusual setups, the visual artists may be following the music or creating a separate line of parallel play with the aerialist, to be viewed by the multi-tasking mind of the 21st century viewer.
Artists:
Laia Cabrera (visual artist and independent film-maker from Spain, based in New York)
Maite San Juan (aerial artist and actress from Barcelona, based in Brussels)
Isabelle Duverger (photographer and designer from Paris based in NY)
Brice Malahude ( musician and sound designer from Paris, based in Brussels)WALK-PASA-BOUGE:
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=641
- Pink Twins
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the Pink Twins”
Pink Twins is a duo of visual artists and electronic musicians, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen, based in Helsinki, Finland. Active as Pink Twins since 1997, Pink Twins have shown their works in exhibitions and festivals on all continents and performed audiovisual live shows through Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia.
Pink Twins’ videos work on the crossing of visual art and music. Their computer-treated imagery focus on human perception, its functionality and limits. Pink Twins build a tissue of connections between their sound work and their visual work, attempting to intimately join mundane fragments usually disjoint. They work from fragments of images, sounds and sensations which our daily life is subjected to and break them down into small particles to reunite them once again in audacious chaotic constructions.
For their live performances Pink Twins incorporate live electronic music and a live mix of video works. The music of Pink Twins is based on improvised live sound processing of concrete and electronic sounds, noises and musical elements. The mix of live sound and video projections creates a hyperactive, constantly changing and extremely detailed experience of time and space.
http://www.pinktwins.com
http://share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=637
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – all night free open audio & video jam
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=628
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guests Le Code (Yoann Trellu with Sibin Vassilev)
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s feature guest is Le Code (Yoann Trellu with Sibin Vassilev)
Le Code is a live-generated digital painting. Le Code should be perceived as an abstract movie, not as a concert with visuals.
The painting emerges from artistic and aesthetic choices:
- Only horizontal and vertical should be used in terms of graphic elements.
- Only plain colors should be used.
This is revealed by colored lines and rectangles.
- At times, an external element comes to disrupt the order, appearing as a dramatic event.
Le Code is a visual and poetic language.
The subject is an attempt to give a depiction of Life on a graphic level.
Or the creation of digital sonic paintings that might induce it.
The graphic evolution can be almost undetectable, or very fast and sequenced.
This alludes to memory, the perception of time, and the notion of evolution.
The basis to Le Code is a program developed by Yoann Trellu on Max/MSP/Jitter. This software uses audio signals to generate visuals and interact with them. The interaction sound/image, although it is “physical” and mandatory, isn’t the substance of this project: the software uses the audio signal to function but its aim isn’t its visualization.
The music is normally played by Mangrove Kipling but for this session in ShareDJ, the music will played by Sibin Vassilev
Yoann Trellu is a french multi-disciplinary video artist established in Berlin since 2003.
Since 10 years he worked with numerous musicians and performers in France, Germany and USA.
Main dance collaborations: Motion-Lab, Wire Monkey Dance (USA), Howard Katz, Post Theater, Ten Pen Chi (Berlin)
More informations on http://www.keyframed.org
Sibin Vassilev grew up in Berlin and Sofia. He was a member of Rag Dolls, a famous Bulgarian rock-band. In the nineties he turned his attention and focus to computer music. He composed and produced soundscapes, among others for the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. He created various sound installations. From 2003 onwards he composed soundtracks for movies and theater productions.
More informations on http://www.semantics-of-sound.com
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Share @ Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
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SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
Samita Sinha
Samita Sinha - Photo: Paula Court
Vocalist and sound artist Samita Sinha creates her sound from a palette of Hindustani music, electronics, and text in several languages (Hindi, Urdu, Brajh, Mandarin, Spanish, English, recombinations therein, and imaginary language). After intensive vocal study with Alka Deo Marulkar and Shiv Shankar Pandey in India, she developed a unique sound with her group Kaash (documented on their record, Seep), toured internationally with performance poet Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state, and performed with jazz ensembles including Marc Cary’s FOCUS and Sunny Jain Collective. She also performs and records with ANATOMY, an electronic music project with Marc Cary. She has received awards from the Fulbright Foundation, Urban Artists Initiative, Queens Council on the Arts, and Millay Colony for the Arts. She studied Literature and Cultural Criticism at Yale, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Bard College.
Michael Gira + Wooden Wand
Special Event with Rooftop Films (Stars Like Fleas @ 8:30 & Stay the Same Never Change @ 9:00)
Buy Tickets for both events $20
See information below
Show starts @ 6:00 Doors @ 5:30
Michael Gira (Angels Of Light / Swans)
Michael Gira founded the seminal NYC band Swans in 1982. Quickly infamous for their punishing, brutal and repetitive onslaughts of sound, extreme volume levels, and the self-abusing, abject shouts and growls of Gira’s sloganeering vocals, Swans gradually transformed over 15 years, ultimately venturing into harsh mechanical proto-industrial rock, to sprawling shifts of texture and perspective (see the bucolic atmospheric folk idles and martial stomps of their much heralded Children of God double LP from 1987), to gentle acoustic-based songs, and finally on to their ultimate statement, Soundtracks For The Blind (1997) which somehow incorporated all of these elements at once, across well over 2 hours of music in one album. At this point, Gira called it quits after 15 years of relentless touring and productivity, and disbanded Swans. Since 1999 Gira has released his music under the name Angels Of Light. He writes the songs for Angels Of Light on acoustic guitar and orchestrates them using a shifting cadre of musicians, employing a wide variety of instrumentation such as strings, wind, brass, electric guitars, electronics and choral vocals. The songs are often eccentric and extreme, in keeping with Gira’s love of soundtrack music. Though nominally more traditional than Swans, Angels Of Light is often just as hard hitting through different means. The most recent album by Angels Of Light is We Are Him. Though Angels Of Light recordings are often elaborately orchestrated, Gira has recently chosen to tour exclusively solo, using acoustic guitar and voice. The performances are raw, to the point, and emotionally powerful. When not recording, writing music, or touring, Gira spends his time producing and releasing music through his label Young God Records. He’s been responsible of late for such notable talents as Devendra Banhart, Lisa Germano, Akron/Family, Fire On Fire, and most recently, Larkin Grimm. In early 2009 Young God will release the YGR debut by the acclaimed composer/guitarist James Blackshaw.
TIME OUT NY/ CONCERT PREVIEW (excerpt) 2008, by Jordan Mamone:
” Armed with only an acoustic guitar and a commanding baritone, Michael Gira
could make mincemeat out of the most “extreme” metal and punk bands. His
heavy-handed strumming and clear, virile voice—not to mention his impeccable, neatly pressed appearance—lend ample gravitas to even his prettiest folk ballads. (Lyrics like “When you open your mouth you’re too stupid to scream” will seduce misanthropes who dig Thomas Bernhard novels rather than pixies who worship Joanna Newsom CDs.)…’ It’s heartening to see that Gira, the erstwhile East Village confrontationist, now in his early fifties and living upstate, has reached one more peak in his long, unpredictable career. ”
TIME OUT LONDON / CONCERT PREVIEW 2007, by Sophie Harris
“No-one – but no-one – does menace like Michael Gira. Not Liars, not Black Dice, not Selfish Cunt or indeed any of today’s confrontational young bucks. None of the bands that Gira has influenced, in his thirty-odd (and they are odd) years making music comes close to the
darkness that bubbles so deliciously through his music. But then, Gira’s life story so far is nothing short of extraordinary.
A ‘difficult’ child (born to difficult parents), he ran away from home at 14, ended up at a kibbutz in Israel, selling drugs and his own blood on the streets, in jail, and then working in a copper mine. His father eventually tracked him down through Interpol, and Gira was shipped back to California to go to high school. He dropped out, and by the time he arrived in New York in ‘81, Gira describes himself as ‘boiling over with non-specific rage’.
Enter then, Swans, legendarily the Loudest Band Ever. To this day, rock nerds’ faces light up as they remember the inter-crowd injury/vomiting/deafness that characterised the art rockers’ live shows; Gira would be physically pummelled by the drone, hurling himself at the ground repeatedly, knocking out teeth in the process (it rather puts Richie Manic’s ‘4 Real’ to shame).
But musically, there’s so much more to Gira than these shock-horror stories. Perhaps what is most surprising is that in his years as Angels Of Light, Gira has produced a series of mesmerically beautiful records, often boasting a shimmering delicacy. As a child, before all
the craziness happened, Gira used to listen to Disney and Burle Ives records, and this world of fantasy and fairytale saturates his latest album ‘We Are Him’ (it’s notable too, that Gira and his wife Siobhan Duffy ‘discovered’ Devendra Banhart and produced his first, gnarly
folk records on Gira’s Young God label, now also home to Akron/Family).
A huge, handsome man, Gira now sports immaculate suits, braces, and a Stetson onstage, booming out songs with the assuredness of an old-fashioned preacher. The darkness Gira deals in today is far subtler than those early days – just don’t doubt for a second that you’ll be left breathless.”
WOODEN WAND
In addition to running the Polyamory label with Tovah O’Rourke, James Toth was the leader of New York-based avant-garde/freak folk ensemble Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice. Taking the first part of that name as his own — and occasionally billing himself as “Wooden Wand Jehovah” — Toth gathered at one point or another O’Rourke (who also comprised Dead Machines with her husband, Wolf Eyes’ John Olson), Satya Sai, Glucas Crane, Steven the Harvester, and Heidi Diehl. There were others, too — the Vanishing Voice lineup shifted as much as its members’ various aliases. The sounds the group made were fluid, too, incorporating everything from the ’60s mysticism of Donovan and Van Morrison to free jazz, /p>
oise rock, folk raditionals, and the entire Silt Breeze catalog. Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice released numerous CD-R and vinyl recordings into the indie folk/experimental underground during the early 2000s; they were also responsible for relatively more conventional releases like 2003’s Xiao (Destijl, later reissued by Troubleman Unlimited), 2004’s Sunset Sleeves (Weird Forest), and Buck Dharma, issued in September 2005 through 5 Rue Christine. That same year Toth released Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg simply as Wooden Wand. The recording’s skeletal folk structures and evocative lyrics garnered quite a bit of positive press, especially in the wake of Devendra Banhart’s success. The band released two albums in 2006, Gipsy Freedom and Second Attention. 2007 saw the release of James and the Quiet, followed in 2009 by Hard Knox, a collection of demo and home recordings under the moniker Wand.
~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Buy Tickers For Both Events: $20
STAY THE SAME NEVER CHANGE
FREE SANGRIA RECEPTION AFTER FILMS
WATCH THE TRAILER
STAY THE SAME NEVER CHANGE (Laurel Nakadate | New York | 93 min.)
Artist/filmmaker Laurel Nakadate’s weird and delightful first feature film, Stay the Same Never Change, is a raw, audacious effort that burns with originality and honesty. Starring amateur actors in Kansas City, and filmed in their real homes, Stay the Same Never Change is a film that is as much visual fact as narrative fiction about American heartland folk and the lives they live while wanting more. A nonlinear yarn that skips among various vignettes depicting the solitary existence of distantly connected young women, Nakadate’s film exudes a warm sense of humor as it peers into the loneliness of the girls and their desperate attempts to find affection. From a pining tween who turns to her sewing machine for creature comforts to a young woman obsessed with polar bears and Oprah, Nakadate’s characters reveal quiet lives brimming with anguish and desire, but also a fascinating ingenuity. Awkward moments of absurdity and small ruptures in their lives offer opportunities for these girls to create a new world or stretch for what is just beyond their reach. You do not have to hail from the heartland to connect with the infectious appeal of Stay the Same Never Change. If you’ve ever been a tween and pined for life and love, you will cringe with powerful personal recognition as you witness the seemingly psychotic lives of these girls.
Venue: On the roof of the Old American Can Factory
Address: 232 3RD St. @ 3rd Ave. (Gowanus/ Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Directions: F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union Ave.
Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents music by Stars Like Fleas
9:00PM: Film
11:00PM–12:30AM: Reception in courtyard including free sangria courtesy of Carlo Rossi
C. Spencer Yeh + John Wiese
C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1975, moved to the US in 1980; studied radio/television/film at Northwestern University, and is now based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeh is active both as a solo and collaborative artist, as well as with his primary project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh is focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. As a sound artist/composer, Yeh works with all aspects available surrounding a work, aurally and physically, as elements key to the cumulative experience. He is concerned not only with the sensual aspects of ’sound organization,’ but the gestural qualities as well. Yeh has collaborated with a deep and ever-growing list of artists and groups, including Tony Conrad, New Humans with Vito Acconci, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Amy Granat with Jutta Koether, Okkyung Lee, John Wiese, Don Dietrich and Ben Hall (as The New Monuments), Prurient, and Jandek. He has performed at festivals and venues such as Sonar, FIMAV at Victoriaville, Frieze Arts Fair, No Fun Fest, NADA Art Fair, High Zero, the 24 Hour Drone People at Fylkingen, The Kitchen, ZKM Karlsruhe, and has also exhibited visual art, sound, and video works internationally. http://www.myspace.com/cspenceryeh
John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California.
His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work
with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Evan Parker,
Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core).
He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and
Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet
including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States
alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist
Nico Vascellari. More information can be found at www.john-wiese.com.
Lesley Flanigan + Connie Beckley
Speaker Synth is a kinetic, sculptural instrument built by Lesley Flanigan to play the sounds of speaker feedback. Her performances with these instruments are a process of sculpting noise to make music as she samples sounds from her voice and feedback to create a pallet of melodies and rhythms. The interplay of feedback and voice takes metaphors of noise as material, instrumentation as form, and amplification as communication to build a performance of new electronic music originating entirely from human voice and speaker feedback.
Speaker Synth can be performed as a musical instrument and arranged in various configurations to create immersive sound works from spatial soundscapes to electronic music compositions. These installations and/or performances reveal a sculptural process shaping noise to make sound. The main components of Speaker Synth are amplifying circuits between a piezoelectric microphone and speaker, on/off control, volume, and the hands of the performer. Additional controls include switches that communicate with a computer to allow for remote sampling of sounds and sequencing of on/off states during an installation or performance, and create the sense that the speakers have a life of their own. With these basic elements, a wide range of speaker feedback tones and rhythms can be “sculpted”. Speaker Synth has been presented and performed at numerous clubs, conferences, and art venues including Exit Art (NYC), Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral (NYC), The Bent Festivals (NYC and LA), and Monkey Town (Brooklyn); and will be featured in the 2nd edition of Nicolas Collins’ “Hardware Hacking: The Art of Handmade Electronic Music.”
Connie Beckley
“…Connie Beckley is a composer and performance artist of distinct individuality; her work is suffused with a cool methodology that can clarify emotion or confound it … [her] performances occupy that elusive but powerful nether world between theater and music– a form of small scaled but intense lyric drama that may some day soon blossom into full-dress opera.”
– John Rockwell, New York Times
Connie Beckley continues to occupy the above mentioned nether world. And the work has blossomed. Her special talent of composing music that illuminates her original texts by way of abstract visual ideas has become more theatrical in nature, yet no less thoughtful. This was 
apparent in her work entitled The Aquarium: A Meditation on Life in the City, premiered at Lincoln Center Festival 97. Her current work, “from: a masque in seven inventions,” while existential in its thinking, further emphasizes Ms. Beckley’s strong roots in art and music.
Ms. Beckley’s interdisciplinary sensibility was forged with her appearance as a singer and actor in the 1976 seminal production of Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. As a classically trained composer and visual artist who had been told she had to choose between art and music, she rejected the choice and experimented with sound installations in conjunction with sculpture and performance. She coined the term “temporal sculpture” to distinguish her work from the more stage-oriented works of other performance artists.
For instance, in Spiral Cloud 1986, while a pianist played a theme and variations on a baby grand piano in an open field, surrounded by a tethered spiral of black helium balloons, she gradually released the balloons to form an evolving and rising spiral.
In The Funeral of Jan Palach, 1990, based on the dreamy, tragic poem by David Shapiro, singers became living sculptures within a set consisting mainly of light, one of her preferred materials.
Ms. Beckley has presented her work in both commercial and public cultural institutions throughout Europe and North America, including the New Music America Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Paris Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art. Reviews and articles appear in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, Arts, Artforum, Tel Quel, Flash Art, and Art Press. Her musical composition from The Aquarium, initially released by Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria, has been re-released in New York by Composers Recordings, Inc.
Vocal workshop with Joan La Barbara
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt are thrilled to host a vocal masterclass with Joan La Barbara.
click here to watch a video of a mini-masterclass via New Music Box
JOAN LA BARBARA’s career as a composer/performer/soundartist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries in developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques: multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her “signature sounds”. Creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology, her awards in the U.S. and Europe include the 2008 Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center; 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition; DAAD Artist-in-Residency in Berlin and 7 National Endowment for the Arts fellowships: Music Composition, Opera/Music Theatre, Inter-Arts, Recording (2), Solo Recitalist and Visual Arts; ISCM International Jury Award; Akustische International Competition Award; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Collaboration Award of NY Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media; Meet The Composer and ASCAP Awards. Numerous commissions for concert, theatre and radioworks, including: “in the dreamtime” and “Klangbild Köln” for WestDeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne; “Dragons on the Wall”, a music score commissioned by Mary Flagler Cary Trust and “Calligraphy II/Shadows” for voice and Chinese instruments, both for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; choral work “to hear the wind roar” for Gregg Smith Singers, I Cantori and the Center for Contemporary Arts/Santa Fe,; “Events in the Elsewhere” from “The Misfortune of the Immortals”, funded by Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace; “Awakenings” for chamber ensemble, from the University of Iowa Center for New Music; “l’albero dalle foglie azzurre” (tree of blue leaves) for solo oboe and tape, commissioned by The Saint Louis Symphony, and “A Trail of Indeterminate Light” for cellist who sings. “73 Poems”, her collaborative work with text artist Kenneth Goldsmith, was included in “The American Century Part II: SoundWorks” at The Whitney Museum of American Art. “Messa di Voce”, an interactive media work, in collaboration with Jaap Blonk, Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, premiered at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria on September 7, 2003 and was awarded Honorary Mention in the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. Live Music for Dance commissions include “Landscape over Zero” (2004-05 for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company), “Fleeting Thoughts” (2005-06 for Jane Comfort & Company), and “Desert Myths/Isle of Dunes”(premiered at NJPAC April 29, 2006 featuring Ne(x)tworks and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company). “Atmos” for flute and sonic atmosphere, commissioned by Meet The Composer/NYSFM, premiered March 2008 at Symphony Space, performed by Margaret Lancaster; recording will be released on New World Records in 2009. In 2007-08, La Barbara received a NYSCA Music Composition award to compose a new spoken word opera, “An American Rendition”, in collaboration with choreographer/theater artist Jane Comfort, which premiered September 2008 at Duke Theatre, NYC. La Barbara is currently composing a new opera.
La Barbara has collaborated with artists including Lita Albuquerque, Cathey Billian, Melody Sumner Carnahan, Judy Chicago, Ed Emshwiller, Kenneth Goldsmith, Peter Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Steina, Woody Vasulka and Lawrence Weiner. In the early part of her career, she performed and recorded with Steve Reich, Philip Glass and jazz artists Jim Hall, Hubert Laws, Enrico Rava and arranger Don Sebesky, developing her own unique vocal/instrumental sound. She has premiered landmark compositions written for her by noted American composers, including Morton Subotnick’s chamber opera “Jacob’s Room” for American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia and MANCA, Nice, his media poems “Hungers” for Los Angeles Festival and Ars Electronica, Linz and “Intimate Immensity” for the Lincoln Center Festival; the title role in Robert Ashley’s opera “Now Eleanor’s Idea” at Festival d’Avignon and BAM’s Next Wave Festival, “Balseros” for Miami Grand Opera, “Dust” in Yokohama and NYC, “Celestial Excursions” for MaerzMusic Berlin and NYC, and “Concrete”for La Mama E.T.C. in NYC; Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” at Festival d’Avignon; Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices”; Steve Reich’ “Drumming” at New York’s Town Hall and John Cage’s“Solo for Voice 45” with “Atlas Eclipticalis” and “Winter Music” at Festival de La Rochelle, France. Her collaboration with Judy Chicago, “Prologue to The Book of Knowing … (and) of Overthrowing” was performed at the First New York International Festival of the Arts and Telluride’s Composer-to-Composer Festivals.
In addition to the internationally-acclaimed “Three Voices for Joan La Barbara by Morton Feldman” (New Albion NA018), “Joan La Barbara Singing through John Cage” (New Albion NA035) and “Joan La Barbara/Sound Paintings” (Lovely Music LCD 3001), she has recorded for A&M Horizon, Centaur, Deutsche Grammophon, Elektra-Nonesuch, Mode, Music & Arts, MusicMasters, Musical Heritage, Newport Classic, New World, Sony, Virgin, Voyager and Wergo. “Voice is the Original Instrument”, La Barbara’s seminal works from the 70’s, was released March 2003, as a 2-cd set (Lovely Music LCD3003-2) and hailed as one ofThe Wire’s 10 best reissues of the year. “ShamanSong” (New World Records 80545-2) includes her compositions “ShamanSong”, “Calligraphy II/Shadows” and “ROTHKO”, a sound painting inspired by the Rothko Chapel. Her collaboration with visual/text artist Kenneth Goldsmith, “73 Poems”, is an edition of prints, book and cd produced by Permanent Press and Lovely Music Ltd (LCD 3002). “The Time Is Now” a compilation of music composed to texts by Melody Sumner Carnahan, includes La Barbara’s works: “de profundis: out of the depths, a sign” and “A Different Train” (Frog Peak FP006). Recording projects as singer and/or producer include “Only: Works for Voice and Instruments” by Morton Feldman” (New Albion NA085); “Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns” (New Albion), “John Cage at Summerstage with Joan La Barbara, Leonard Stein and William Winant”, Cage’s final concert performance on July 23, 1992 in NYC’s Central Park (Music & Arts CD-875); “Centering – the music of Earle Brown” (Newport Classics npd 85631). La Barbara is featured on two new Earle Brown cd releases: “Folio and Four Systems” (Tzadik TZ 8028) and “Tracer”, with her ensemble Ne(x)tworks, on Mode Records, as well as Robert Ashley’s “Now Eleanor’s Idea”, “Your Money My Life Good-Bye” and “Dust” (Lovely Music).
Her works have been choreographed by John Alleyne for Ballet British Columbia, Nai-Ni Chen, Jane Comfort, Martha Curtis, Catherine Kerr, Martha Scott, and she performed her music with Merce Cunningham for a 1976 “Events” evening. Filmscores include “Anima” (Elizabeth Harris Productions); a score for voice with electronics for Steve Finkin’s “Signing Alphabet” animation to assist hearing children in learning to communicate with the deaf, broadcast worldwide since 1977 for “Children’s Television Workshop/Sesame Street”; and music for films by Richard Blau, Monica Gazzo, Amy Kravitz, Elyse Rosenberg, Steven Subotnick and Harvey Wang, and for video works by Susanna Carlisle. “Immersion”, an underwater dance film by Jodi Kaplan featuring La Barbara’s music was shown at the 1999 “New Directors/New Films” Festival at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. La Barbara also composed and performed the “Angel Voice” for actress Emmannuelle Béart in the feature film “Date with an Angel”, performed the “Alien Newborn Vocals” for “Alien: Resurrection” and was vocal soloist on the John Frizzell musical soundscore for “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer”.
Educated at Syracuse and New York Universities and Tanglewood/Berkshire Music Center, studying voice with Helen Boatwright, Phyllis Curtin and Marian Szekely-Freschl, she learned her compositional tools as an apprentice with the numerous composers with whom she has worked for three decades. La Barbara served on the faculties of California Institute of the Arts, Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, The College of Santa Fe, The University of New Mexico, as guest lecturer at Princeton University Autumn/Winter 2006-07, and recently joined the Composition Faculty of New York University’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professionals, as well as maintaining a private studio in New York City. She served as Vice President of the American Music Center in New York; co-Artistic Director of the New Music America Festival in Los Angeles; was Contributing Editor for Musical America/High Fidelity (1977-87) and Schwann/Opus magazines, and, from 1989-2002, produced and co-hosted “Other Voices, Other Sounds,”a weekly radio program focusing on contemporary classical music. She serves on the Board of Directors of MATA-Young Composers Now!, and is Vice President of the Electronic Music Foundation.
La Barbara was Artistic Director of the multi-year Carnegie Hall series, “When Morty met John”, and Artistic Director, Curator and Host of “Insights”, a series of encounters with distinguished composers for The American Music Center. In 2005 she produced a series of radio programs for NPS in Holland, “Sonic Lives”, which has met with critical acclaim.
La Barbara has been awarded the American Music Center’s 2008 Letter of Distinction for significant contributions to the field of contemporary American music. Joan La Barbara is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP and is a member of The American Music Center, SAG, AFTRA and AEA. For press quotes, photos and additional information see
http://www.joanlabarbara.com
Bing and Ruth + Elodie Lauten
Formed in 2006 by Brooklyn based composer and pianist David Moore, ambient chamber band Bing and Ruth utilizes a large number of traditional acoustic instruments to craft expansive soundscapes and quiet microtonal textures. With clarinets, voices, cellos, bass, percussion, and piano, the group calls upon a family of experienced musicians and improvisers who ably interpret Moore’s slow-developing, visceral compositions. Recent performances for the ensemble include a pair of shows for New York’s Wordless Music Series; sharing the stage with Icelandic super-band Mum and British minimalist composer Max Richter.
http://www.myspace.com/bingandruth
Composer Elodie Lauten’s musical oeuvre includes many electronic and electro-acoustic pieces, as well as chamber and orchestral music. Lauten’s landmarks are unique neo-operas – some of which she has directed – evolving or deconstructing the classic form: The Death of Don Juan (1985), Existence (1991), The Deus Ex Machina Cycle (1997), Orfreo (2004) and Waking in New York (1999), which appeared on a list of the most influential works of the last three decades.
Lauten’s music has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, AFMM, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The current discography includes 27 titles to-date, released on Lovely Music, O.O. Discs, Point/Polygram, New Tone (Italy), 4-Tay, Tellus, Nonsequitur, Capstone, Frog Peak, Pitch, Studio 21 and Unseen Worlds.
No stranger to visual and media arts, Lauten has had solo, collaborative and group gallery showings in New York and Boston including sound installations, drawings, as well as computer-based art and animation.
In 2008 Lauten’s music was featured in the Seattle Chamber Players’ Classics of Downtown program along with major names in the industry, curated by critics Alex Ross and Kyle Gann.
Lauten received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and The Music Liberty Initiative. Lauten has taught on the composition faculty at New York University. She currently teaches music technology at NYC Tech. She is a regular contributor to the classical music internet publication Sequenza21. With 20 years of experience as a producer of both recordings and live events, she is currently the artistic director for Lower East Side Performing Arts. She is a writer/publisher member of ASCAP.
Ann Adachi + Marie Evelyn + Nick Lesley + Todd Merrill
Ann Adachi is a flutist, pianist and multi-media performer, working with sound, the moving image, and performance. Compositions involve through-composed music for one or more acoustic instruments, and in some pieces, interaction with video and light as sculptural and environmental element. Ann is a member of the Eidolon Ensemble which performs original compositions monthly in New York. Education includes Berklee College of Music (B.M.), and Massachusetts College of Art (course work).
Marie Evelyn is an extended vocalist and interdisciplinary artist. She works with amplified and unamplified extended voice rooted in mimicry and reenactment. She is the founder of Analogous, for which she directs several sound-based projects. Her work has been reviewed in The Wire, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Marie holds a B.A. in Mathematics and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University.
Nick Lesley is a musician and video artist. He primarily plays improvised drums and interactive electronics (analog or laptop). His drumming style is in the realm of “free-improvisation” but infused with the distinct hardcore-punk he grew up with in San Diego. On any instrument, he focuses on allowing space and creating energy and drama in an improvised performance. Nick holds an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College, and a BA in Media Arts from U.C. San Diego.
Todd Merrill
From a young age, Todd Merrell has been fascinated with the continuum connecting melody, harmony, timbre, tempo and dynamic. These ambiguities form the nexus of his work.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1967, he spent his early years in isolated, remote areas of New England and New Mexico, and found deeply human connections through radio transmissions, and inspiration from music synthesis. In 1978 he discovered the imperceptible environment of electromagnetic radiation that shortwave radio and processing can capture, and transform into an immersive, musical environment. In 1991 he began exploring the musical possibilities of this world in a collaboration with Patrick Jordan. The result was ‘SWR’, a two movement work that was performed several times in Chicago, and on WBEZ National Public Radio. Composer Lou Mallozzi, of the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, wrote in P-Form Magazine:
“It soon becomes clear that the focus of the work is not on acheiving any particular musical moment, but on the ephemerality of sonic transformation itself. Unlike compositions that utilize radio in part for its referential or signifying qualities, SWR is more in the minimalist tradition of relying on the primacy of the material itself. The work is a celebration of the radio as material and of the belief that minutiae and limited systems can yield rich results. But it is also a celebration of the rich, ragged, unstable thickness of analog sound in a world anesthetized by the crisp and clean precision of digital audio.”
He has since developed these techniques, incorporating the melody, harmony and timbre blurring possibilities of granular synthesis and other contemporary electronic compositional methods, to create a larger, more sonically, visually and emotionally evocative world, with an emphasis on live performance, and the thrilling contingency and danger that such site- and time- specifically dependent work produces. Along with several current solo projects, he continues to work with like-minded musicians and sound artists, and completed a project with Aidan Baker, who joined him in 2004 on a mini-tour of the Northeastern United States.
Todd Merrell studied music composition and voice at Berklee College of Music, and with James Sellars of The Hartt School. A 2008 New Boston Fund Individual Artist Fellowship recipient, AIRtime resident artist and transmission artist at free103point9, his work has been performed by many ensembles, including Chicago A Capella, Jan Williams Percussion Ensemble and The New York Festival of Song. He has contributed live and recorded work to festivals and exhibitions throughout the world, from MACBA (Barcelona) to The New Museum (New York), and Orange 94.0 (Vienna) to The New American Art Union (Portland, Oregon, USA). His work has been reviewed in The Wire, Signal To Noise, and The New Art Examiner, and he has been interviewed for Monitoring Times, as well as WBEZ and WFMT in Chicago, East Village Radio in New York, and WWUH in Hartford. He has performed at many venues, including The Guggenheim Museum, The Stone, Issue Project Room, Knitting Factory, and HotHouse, collaborated with BT, Aidan Baker, and bassist Robert Black, and recorded for the Whirlybird, Dreamland, Archive, Mode and Mille Plateaux labels. He makes his home in Connecticut, New York, and the rest of the world.
Emily Manzo & Daisy Press perform Erik Satie’s SOCRATE + VEXATIONS for Toy Pianos
Emily Manzo & Daisy Press perform Erik Satie’s SOCRATE + Flux Quartet
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a special performance of Erik Satie’s masterpiece, “Socrate” based on the life and death of Socrates, featuring a libretto by Jean Cocteau, performed by soprano Daisy Press and pianist Emily Manzo.
A specialist in the field of contemporary music, Daisy Press, vocalist, was born into a performing family as the daughter of two musicians. In addition to her solo and ensemble vocal work, she also plays the violin and guitar and has appeared as an actor in an upcoming Adam Goldberg independent film. Most recently, she was praised by the New York Times for her “winning subtlety and understatement” in her rendition of George Crumb’s new folk-based song cycle “Unto the Hills” at Miller Theater with the acclaimed group So Percussion. Previously, she has sung with them the works of Steve Reich, including “Music for 18 Musicians” and “Drumming,” which she has also performed as a guest artist at Juilliard.
Additional credits include being the featured soloist for the New York premiere of Phillipe Leroux’s “Voi(rex)” at Miller Theater alongside IRCAM; “Apparition” by George Crumb at the Bang on a Can Marathon, where Ms. Press was for two years singer-in-residence; “Attila-Joszef Fragments” by Kurtag at Symphony Space; and excerpts, with the composer in attendance, for Elliot Carter’s “Of Challenge and of Love.” She has also appeared in Ireland with the Argento Ensemble in Earl Kim’s “Exercises en Route” and was hailed for her “calm naturalness” by The New York Times for her performance of early and late Webern song cycles.
Ms. Press has performed Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices” (the studio recording of which is soon to be released) and has appeared with the renowned VOX vocal ensemble. She is currently on faculty at Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Masters degree. She also holds academic degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford University, and she has studied voice in the studios of Trish McCaffrey and Hilda Harris, and North Indian ragas with Michael Harrison.
VEXATIONS for toy pianos
with
Andrea LaRose (antisocial music)
Barry London (from Oneida)
Nick Hallett
Tom Chiu
Katie Young
Emily Manzo
Shelley Hirsch & Aki Onda with Ursula Scherrer
Shelly Hirsch
Going as far back as her childhood, Hirsch relentlessly mines her life experiences, concocting brilliant collage-like reminiscences that are alternately, and sometimes simultaneously, disquieting and euphoric. Embracing archetypal personas —, she weaves their reinvented essences into the maze of associations conjured by her alchemical compositions. Investigating immediate consciousness, memory consciousness, and image-making consciousness, she becomes a producer of sonic images, recycling the discarded and the strange. Her remarkably unfettered access to the motherlode of automatism enhances her gift of spontaneous ingenuity.
anne lebaron from: “Surrealism in Postmodern Music
Aki Onda
Aki Onda is a self-taught electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in NewYork. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.
The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer’s work reminds one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own stories. She transforms landscapes into serene, abstract portraits of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see then the feeling they leave behind.Scherrer is a Swiss video artist living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and museums internationally. Scherrer has worked with the composers/musicians Shelley Hirsch, Michelle Nagai, Kato Hideki, Flo Kaufmann, Domenico Sciajno, Michael J. Schumacher, Monya Pletsch, among others, in the creation of video and sound installations, live performances and single-channel videos. Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic Tea, a series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sounds.
http://www.ursulascherrer.com
