Live video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. A garden of digital improvisational delights, a cross between music for silent film, a surrealist appetizer and a magic act.
Angie Eng - Live camera, video effects, object manipulation
Okkyung Lee - Cello
Satoshi Takeishi - drums, percussion
Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance. In 1993 she moved to New York City and became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene with The Poool a live video performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999. She has collaborated with artists/musicians: Ron Anderson, Vincent Epplay, Yuko Fujiyama, Jon Giles, Andy Grayton, Jason Kao Hwang, Simon Hostettler, Jessica Higgins, Hoppy Kamiyama, Gabriel Latessa, Zach Layton, Jarryd Lowder, Thierry Madiot, Matthew Ostrowski, Jean Jacques Palix, Zeena Parkins, Ludovic Poulet, Liminal Projects, Kyoko Kitamura, David Linton, Geoff Matters, Ikue Mori, Karine Saporta, Jane Scarpantoni, Peter Scherer, Jim Staley, Yumiko Tanaka, Keiko Uenishi, Nancy Meli Walker , David Weinstein. Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Experimental Intermedia, and Roulette. She has received numerous grants and commissions: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts, Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV Center. She recently relocated to Paris in 2008.
After being in music schools from age of 3 to 25, Korean cellist/improviser/composer, Okkyung Lee, finally found her artistic freedom in New York’s Lower East Side where she moved in 2000. Her performances have been featured in festivals: Whitney biennial 2006, BAM Next Wave Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Time Based Arts Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion Festival, International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Sons d’Hiver Festival, Kontra.com Festival, Moers Festival, Taktlos Festival, La Biennale di Venezia and Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2008. She has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Laurie Anderson, Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Dresser, Fred Frith, John Hollenbeck, Vijay Iyer, Lindha Kallerdahl, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Billy Martin, Miya Masaoka, Min Xiao-fen, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Larry Ochs, Jim O’rourke, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, Skuli Sverrisson, Spencer Yeah and John Zorn.
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. In Columbia, he combined traditional, jazz and classical music with composer Francisco Zumaque. In 1987 he produced “Morning Ride” for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. In NYC since 1991, he has collaborated with: Ray Barretto, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Erik Friedlander and Pablo Ziegler. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.