Past Events

Raha Raissnia & Aki Onda: As If Someone Erased Outlines

the Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, NYC

Onda, Raissnia and Doron Sadja perform with paintings, film/slide projectors, tape recorders, tube amps... Projecting 16mm film and slides onto the black surface of oil paints, Raissnia creates a deepened sense of immersion in an alien landscape, while Onda's soundscapes challenge the boundaries of the picture plane.

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MATA Interval: Owen Weaver

Actors Fund: 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Percussionist Owen Weaver presents works for found objects, intensified and complemented by electronics and non-musical artistic disciplines. New works from Ian Dicke, Lisa Coons, Steven Snowden, and Christopher Cerrone, plus collaborations with Tigue Percussion Trio, dancer Rosalyn Nasky and photographer Lucas Foglia.

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Lubomyr Melnyk

First Unitarian Congregational Society, 116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn

Composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is the pioneer of Continuous Music— a piano technique he has developed since the 70s. Using extremely rapid notes and note-series to create a tapestry of sound, Continuous Muisic is based in the innovations of the minimalist composers, with its roots deeply planted in harmony.

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SANDY BENEFIT: Ed Osborn, "Albedo Prospect"

bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC

Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fundraiser! Ed Osborn's "Albedo Prospect" is video installation considering the polar imaginary and its characteristic spatial and geographic disorientation. Projected as a video triptych, the work is a study of glacial landscapes in the Svalbard archipelago with 8 channel sound.

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Sébastien Roux: Inevitable Music

REVERSE, 28 Frost Street, Brooklyn (Williamsburg)

Over the last few years, Sébastien Roux has worked with the principle of translation, using a pre-existent artworks as scores for a new works. For his installation at REVERSE, Roux presents a 9-channel collection of pieces based on Sol LeWitt's wall drawings.

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Hunter Hunt-Hendrix: OIOION

Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, NYC

For his final performance of the 2012 AIR series, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix will present selections from the ever-in-progress libretto for the opera "OIOION", including the poem "Stations of the Arkwork", which follows in the wake of his controversial 2009 essay "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism".

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Reza Negarestani & Florian Hecker: The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the Universal

Abrons’ Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, New York

Chimeras are integrated bodies that synthesize incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, finding common ground, or reducing one to the other. In this performance Florian Hecker uses psychoacoustics to compose such creatures from readings of a libretto by Reza Negarestani.

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Mind Over Mirrors + Miguel Gutierrez

Actors Fund: 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Mind Over Mirrors, AKA harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly, performs with dancer and musician Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation and detritus as Sabotage and The Powerful People, this evening marks their first duo performance in eight years.

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Mind Over Mirrors with Zelienople + The Ashcan Orchestra

Actors Fund: 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Hailing from Chicago, Zelienople have been etching out a place for themselves in the Windy City for fourteen years. In a rare New York appearance Zelienople teams up with Mind Over Mirrors to perform a live soundtrack to Donald Prokop’s film Gone. P. Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra open the evening.

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Evan Calder Williams

Artists Space: Books & Talks, 55 Walker St. NYC

"In the Wan Light of Napalm and Moon" presents new research into the intersection of two old and ever-renewing histories: horror and capital. A collaboration w/ Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe AKA Lichens and an armoire, Williams sketches a secret hell of production and circulation, inspired by a Restoration Hardware catalog.

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Swedish Energies: EMS in NYC - Night 1

Clemente Soto Velez, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC

The first night of Swedish Energies features Christine Ödlund, Mats Lindström, Vinyl Terror & Horror with guest JG Thirlwell, Rolf Enström, and a duo performance by Aki Onda, and Lise-Lotte Norelius.

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Swedish Energies: EMS in NYC - Night 2

Clemente Soto Velez, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC

The second night of Swedish Energies includes Anastasia Ax, Erik Bünger, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Trepaneringsritualen, The Gagmen featuring Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young, and Joachim Nordwall, as well as a film by Lars Siltberg.

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