04/22 @ 8:00pm - {R}ake

Kamran Sadeghi

{R} A K E

{A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video}

THURSDAY APRIL 22

8pm

{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.

Giles Hendrix (Video) and Richard Lainhart (Music)
Kamran Sadeghi (A/V)
Bradford Reed (Music) and Ursula Scherrer (Video)

Performer info:

GILES HENDRIX

Giles Hendrix produces and mixes media for the internet, live performances,
and installations with a focus on the aesthetics of the the screen and
information. Find him at twitter.com/gileshendrix,
facebook.com/gileshendrix, and gesturemedia.tv. http://www.gesturemedia.tv

RICHARD LAINHART

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author – a
digital artisan who works with sonic, visual, and textual data. Since
childhood, he’s been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames
and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with
machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images
that are as beautiful as he can make them. His compositions have been
performed in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and recordings of
his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records,
Electroshock, Tobira Records, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. Besides
performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David
Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among
many others. Lainhart’s animations and short films have been shown at
festivals in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and online. Examples of
his music and digital artworks may be found at his website,
http://www.otownmedia.com, and his short films are available at
http://www.vimeo.com/rlainhart.

At {R}ake, Lainhart will be performing realtime improvised electroacoustic
music on his Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken
Continuum 3-dimensional keyboard.

KAMRAN SADEGHI

Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist, composer, and performer who
creates sensory environments at the intersection of sound, light, acoustics,
and technology. Sadeghi draws from these elements to accentuate time and
space, and to play with the awareness that can materialize between their
physical properties and the human perception. Sadeghi’s work has received
critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire Magazine, Signal To Noise,
e/i and several international online publications. Sadeghi’s performances,
collaborations and installations have been experienced at the Henry Art
Gallery (Seattle), ICA (Boston), Diapason Gallery (New York), 4Culture
(Seattle), Staalplaat (Berlin), Decibel Festival (Seattle), DTW (New York),
Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), RAM (Rome), SICMF (Seoul) and others.
http://www.kamransadeghi.com

BRADFORD REED

Bradford Reed never fails to entertain and inspire. This Brooklyn, NY based
composer, performer and producer fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the
pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction. The
pencilina is an electric ten stringed collision of the hammer dulcimer,
slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types. It is
struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide sonic
palette. Many have enjoyed Reed’s frequent street performances and club
dates. http://pencilina.com

URSULA SCHERRER

The poetic quality of Scherrer’s work reminds one of moving paintings,
drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own
stories, transforming a landscape into a serene, abstract portrait of
rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see
then the feeling they leave behind. http://www.ursulascherrer.com