04/13 @ 8:00pm - Daniel Perlin + Christina Wheeler with Vernon Reid, Danny Blume & Benton C Bainbridge

Christina Wheeler

Vocalist, electronic musician, composer and songwriter Christina Wheeler’s musical explorations have included forays in techno, house, 2-step, drum and bass, breakbeat, soul, dance hall, dub, world music, ambient, free jazz and improvisational forms. A native of Los Angeles, California, Ms. Wheeler graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Manhattan School of Music. She has performed and recorded internationally in collaboration with a variety of artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vernon Reid, John Cale, Chaka Khan, PM Dawn, Ravi Coltrane Talvin Singh, Mocky, Jamie Lidell, Swayzak, Jan Jelinek, Modeselektor, Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium, Airborn Audio), DJ Olive, Marc Ribot, Chris Whitley, Zeena Parkins, John Carter, Fred Hopkins, Andrea Parkins, Yappac, Dolibox and Ripperton. Her work with David Byrne included international tours and television appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, and PBS’s Sessions at West 54th Street series, and her own music was featured on MTV’s electronic music program AMP. At Lincoln Center, Ms. Wheeler premiered Randall Woolf’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing, a composition for voice, string quartet, tape and turntables with custom acetates, and the New York Underground Film Festival commissioned a new score from her and DJ Olive for the 1927 Japanese silent classic, A Page of Madness. She was featured on the New York episode of Tvframes, produced by Citytv, Toronto, Canada, and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Re: Destruction

Performance by Daniel Perlin

Re:destruction is a sound and video performance created by smashing a computer with a sledge hammer. It is the fourth piece in a series entitled Work by the artist and sound designer Daniel Perlin.

In re:destruction, a computer is smashed, using a sledge hammer, producing a sound as well as video work. The hammer and the computer are microphoned, sampled, amplified and played as instruments in real time.

Like the preceding pieces in the series, re:destruction is created by a single real-time sample of the sound of the act of labor, mixed with the real-time use of the tool upon objects. In re:destruction, there is the addition of projected color video.

The Work series attempts to examine the implications of sound, noise and music in the processes of the building of physical structures. The fourth performance piece in the series, re: destruction will be performed at Issue Project Room, Broolyn, and dovetails with re: drill performed at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council gallery, re:construction 1 performed at Studio X and re:construction 2 P.S.1, New York.