1st Annual HOWL! Festival August 21- 26
AUGUST 21
ELLIOTT SHARP
Elliott Sharp returns to the Project Room with new selections from “The Velocity Of Hue,” a collection of pieces performed on acoustic guitar as well as acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer.
AUGUST 24
Readings: KIMIKO HAHN & JOHN WEIR
Kimiko Hahn is the author of six collections of poetry that include The Artist’s Daughter (W.W. Norton), Mosquito and Ant (W.W. Norton), The Unbearable Heart (Kaya), and Earshot (Hanging Loose). She has received an American Book Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts and The New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently Hahn is a professor at Queen’s College/CUNY and resides in Brooklyn, New York.
John Weir is the author of the award-winning novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, and writes for Rolling Stone, New York, and other magazines. He will read from his forthcoming second novel.
AUGUST 25
REBECCA MOORE & THE PREVETION OF BLINDNESS plus Video Visuals by Harvey Stein
A site-specific, all-women string quartet to perform an evening of song and instrumentals.
Moore is currently at work on her third CD, to be released in the Oracles series on John Zorn’s Tzadik record label.
AUGUST 26
THE SUPREME INDIFFERENCE + GERRY MILES + CONVOLUTION
THE SUPREME INDIFFERENCE premeire performance with Alan Licht (vocal), Kim Gordon (instruments), Jim O’Rourke (instruments), Chris Corsano (drums).
GERRY MILES has existed since the early 90s but has only performed in public once before. A CD of a collaboration between Gerry Miles and Japanese musician Keiji Haino was released in 1996 on Atavistic records. The group inlcudes Lucy Hamilton aka Connie Burg (bass clarinet, guitar), founding member of the legendary No Wave band Mars, one of the four bands on the landmark No New York LP produced by Brian Eno, along with Melissa Weaver (keyboards), Tim Barnes (percussion) and guest Alan Licht.
CONVOLUTION is the new electro-visual expression of Mark Cunningham (trumpet, electronics), former member of Mars, Don King and Raeo, and Barcelona-based visual artist Silvia Mestres (guitar, vocal).