Vital Vox: Takadimi duo, Audrey Chen, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, & Magic Names
Program includes: Takadimi duo (Lori Cotler with Glen Velez); Untitled for 2010 by Audrey Chen; Present, Past and Future Sees by Sasha Bogdanowitsch; and Gisburg’s The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Songs performed by Magic Names.
VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This three day festival is in its 2nd annual appearance; it premiered in 2009 at Teatro IATI in the East Village. VITAL VOX (www.vitalvoxfestival.com) celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States. With international influences springing from such countries and regions as Taiwan, East Timor, Slovakia, Africa, South India, and more; genres ranging from jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, “noise” music, and abstract solo opera; and themes ranging from “maintaining one’s composure,” to cinematographic music theater inspired by life, films and death of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, VITAL VOX has wide ranging scope and appeal.
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Vital Vox: Jen Shyu, Nat Baldwin, Sabrina Lastman, & Chris Mann
Program includes: Inner Chapters performed by Jen Shyu; Songs for Double Bass and Voice by Nat Baldwin; River of Painted Birds by Sabrina Lastman; and The Art of the Diff by Chris Mann. VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This three day festival is in its 2nd annual appearance; it premiered in 2009 at Teatro IATI in the East Village. VITAL VOX (www.vitalvoxfestival.com) celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States. With international influences springing from such countries and regions as Taiwan, East Timor, Slovakia, Africa, South India, and more; genres ranging from jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, “noise” music, and abstract solo opera; and themes ranging from “maintaining one’s composure,” to cinematographic music theater inspired by life, films and death of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, VITAL VOX has wide ranging scope and appeal.
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SOLD OUT MATA Interval 4.1: Gabriel Kahane
MATA Interval 4.1 is sold out! Tickets will not be sold at the door.
Songs written, commissioned for and performed by Gabriel Kahane
A set of brand-new, hot-off-the-press songs written expressly for singer/pianist/songwriter/composer Gabriel Kahane to perform. Composers include Timo Andres, Andrew Norman, Yotam Haber, Joseph Hallman, Chris Thile, Shara Worden, Paola Prestini, Brett Banducci, and Ted Hearne. The evening will also include a set of works written by Mr. Kahane himself, including the world premiere of a new work. These world premiere works were generously commissioned by Linda and Stuart Nelson.
Kahane will also sing and perform Scuhmann’s song cycle Dichterliebe from the piano, offering an innovative and personal interpretation of this extraordinary piece.
Artist-in-Residence: Richard Garet presents AREAL
AREAL (2010)
A new work by Artist-in-Residence Richard Garet
Interdisciplinary artist Richard Garet will be presenting AREAL, a new work for active listening, with further emphasis on physical reception by utilizing light and fog to activate ISSUE Project Room’s environment. This presentation anticipates the publication of Richard Garet’s AREAL by the West Coast media label 23Five Incorporated. It is not only the first time that this composition has been presented, but also the starting point for this performance installation. Garet will fill ISSUE Project Room’s performance area with fog, and an overhead projector will display colored light and activate the atmospheric space by changing color dynamics over time. The projector will direct light to the floor, creating a cone of light. The visitors will find themselves inside of the work actively listening and viewing. This piece will emphasize the experiential, the sensorial, and the active-reception of the body and mind. AREAL, as a composition, is a work that focuses on surfaces, gestures, differences, and distances among material and its phenomenology. It focuses on activating and amplifying expressive sonic manifestations of electromagnetic waves utilizing radio technology. All sounds used to make this piece emerged from interacting with objects, exciters, and extended techniques to activate sounds within the perimeter of the working table space. The outcome emerged from physical modulations and from establishing relationships that simulate social and spatial interactivity in the form of conversation, where what is voiced out is the result of colliding effects that are vacuumed by electromagnetic receivers from within the atmosphere of the working area.
Title: AREAL
Duration: 53′
Year: 2010
Richard Garet serves as ISSUE Project Room’s Artist-in-Residence October through December 2010. Garet’s works interweave multiple media including moving image, sound, live performances, and photography. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance.
Established in 2006, ISSUE’s AIR program provides emerging artists with a 3-month residency including rehearsal space, production, curatorial, and pr/marketing support to create new works, reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience. ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Jerome Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.
Loren Connors + High Aura’d + Tom Carter + Barn Owl
Loren Connors – Best known as a composer and improviser, Connors has issued over 50 guitar records on his own imprints (Daggett, St. Joan, Black Label) since the late 1970s and over two dozen on other labels across the globe. He has recorded under the names Guitar Roberts, Loren Mattei, Loren MazzaCane Connors and other variations. Connors’ singular adaptation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds. Outside of Connors’ three decades of solo work, he has collaborated with Suzanne Langille, Jim O’Rourke, Darin Gray, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Keiji Haino, San Agustin, Jandek and many others, as well as leading the group Haunted House.
High Aura’d – John Kolodij (Electric 6 string, Acoustic 6 string, Lap steel, Octave 12, harmonica) and Todd Bowser (Baritone guitar, Electric bass) came together like so many modern romances – united by Craigslist and mutual friends. Forged in the outer rings of Boston in 2009, High Aura’d was born of a mutual respect for what had come before and a longing for a timely future. Influenced as much by Richard Serra and Robert Smithson as Loren Connors and Lichens, they set foot on a path of enlightenment through self exploration and innovation; trying to capture space, time, and raw emotion.
Tom Carter – Carter augments rudimentary guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. He has managed to forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined proficiency. Best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. His solo work covers a vast territory, but latter-day sightings show him to be concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, with heaps of psychedelic melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise and drone bands.
Barn Owl – Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006. The next four years, the two gradually sculpted a vast collection of hazy desert sky meditations–a mixture between devotional ragas and dusty stomp with atmosphere and production that references shoegaze and black metal influences. In addition to having put out several releases on labels such as Root Strata, Digitalis, Not Not Fun, and Blackest Rainbow, the band also has a collaboration album called Barn Owl and the Infinite Strings Ensemble on Important Records in the works. Ancestral Star will be available as a CD and an LP with download and the band will be touring in support of the record this fall on the East Coast and early next year in Europe.
Philippe Petit with Crash Course in Science
Philippe Petit – Petit is interested in soundtracks; he uses a computer to build up electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machine he likes to move various glasses, or percussive objects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds. A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, Petit has celebrated his 25th year of sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp.
For this concert, he’ll be performing with Amber Brien (percussion), Robert Pepper (violin/machines), Bianca Bibiloni (guitar), Rich Johnson (trumpet), and Marco Oppedisano (guitar).
Crash Course in Science (CCIS) has developed a completely unique sound some call tight ‘ minimal synth electro techno body wave’ . The band began when art school students Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny became intrigued by punk music and performance art. They began to experiment with crude electronics and off beat writing, and the raw homemade electronic sounds they created became the vocabulary of the band’ s music. CCIS released “ Cakes in the Home” a seven inch vinyl single on Go Go Records in 1979, followed by the twelve inch “ Signals From Pier Thirteen” in 1981. The latter contained the club hits “ Cardboard Lamb” and “ Flying Turns” . At that time CCIS performed in clubs and galleries in New York City and Philadelphia, including Hurrah, The Hot Club, and CBGB. Several appearances on the cult television show “ The Uncle Floyd Show” increased their visibility in the early ‘ 80’ s. In 2007 and 2009 CCIS released twelve inch singles on Terence Fixmer’ s labels “ Planete Rouge” and “ Jupiter” in France. These two singles feature the tracks “ Cardboard Lamb” and “ Flying Turns” and contain remixes by Vitalic, David Carretta, Terence Fixmer, Danton Eeprom, and the band themselves. Vinyl On Demand Records in Germany released the “ Crash Course in Science” box set in the fall of 2009 which contained their debut album “ Near Marineland,” as well as an album of live recordings and re-pressings of previous singles, plus bonus tracks. Since the release of the box set, CCIS has performed several concerts in Europe including Bimfest 2009 in Antwerp and the Rewind–mini-Fest in Gent in 2010, accompanied by original producer John Wicks and Andrea Beeman, The Enchantress of Bioluminosity.
Minor Musics: Finland – Kemialliset Ystävät
ISSUE’s third installment of Minor Musics: Finland features a rare live Kemialliset Ystävät performance with New York collaborators. Kemialliset Ystävät is an ever-changing group of free-form pilots who have been sending murky audio clouds from their basement in Tampere, Finland, to the people of the world since 1995. They work in short, spooling instrumentals, building layers of simple repetitive riffs into laminal mudcakes and weaving ghosts of noise songs into huge tunnels of drone. They utilize a wide spectrum of moldy acoustic instruments and almost broken electronics to create their joyful blasts but the recording studio itself might be their single most important instrument. Kemialliset Ystävät discography includes CDs, vinyl records, cassettes and lathe cuts on Fonal, Fusetron, Beta-Lactam Ring, Lal Lal Lal, Jewelled Antler, Celebrate Psi Phenomenom and other revolutionary labels around the world. Members of Kemialliset Ystävät are involved with other projects such as The Anaksimandros, Avarus, Islaja, Kiila, Es and Päivänsäde.
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Vital Vox: Corey Dargel, Samita Sinha, C Spencer Yeh, & Joan La Barbara
Program includes: Hold Yourself Together by Corey Dargel; Cipher by Samita Sinha; Improvisations 11-12-10 by C Spencer Yeh; and Gatekeeper by Joan La Barbara.
VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This three day festival is in its 2nd annual appearance; it premiered in 2009 at Teatro IATI in the East Village. VITAL VOX (www.vitalvoxfestival.com) celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States. With international influences springing from such countries and regions as Taiwan, East Timor, Slovakia, Africa, South India, and more; genres ranging from jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, “noise” music, and abstract solo opera; and themes ranging from “maintaining one’s composure,” to cinematographic music theater inspired by life, films and death of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, VITAL VOX has wide ranging scope and appeal.
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Theoretical Music: UT + Talk Normal
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Ut
Ut returns for its first U.S. concert since 1991. Sprung from the downtown No Wave scene, Ut (Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham, Sally Young) originated in New York City in December 1978. They were joined by filmmaker Karen Achenbach in February 1979 before resuming as a three-piece with the original members in May 1980. Migrating to London in ’81, they released records on their own label, Out Records, and then on Blast First/Mute. Ut played what was thought to be their last gig in Paris in March 1990; their next performance was an announced set in London in July 2010. “The raw power and sheer drive of Ut is quite straightforward and unmistakable. This is a true threatening guitar band.” (New York Rocker)
Talk Normal
Since their lightning-strike first appearance, Brooklyn-based noise duo Talk Normal’s sound has stormed upward and outward, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls, and marching orders. Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register started Talk Normal in 2007, and Rare Book Room released their debut, Sugarland, in 2009.
Theoretical Music: Two panel discussions focusing on the crossing of the New York art and music scenes
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Robert Longo: Untitled (drawing for Glenn Branca Album Cover), from the series Men in the Cities, 1981 Graphite and charcoal on paper 60 x 60 inches/152.4 x 152.4 cm Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Panel One
Director Beth B, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, contemporary artist Dan Graham, artist/critic John Miller, painter/singer/musician Taro Suzuki, moderated by Branden W. Joseph.
Panel Two
Fashion designer/guitarist Nina Canal, writer/archivist Byron Coley, founder of Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) Peter Gordon, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, author Neb Sublette, moderated by David Grubbs.
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Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983
An event organized by Branden W. Joseph and David Grubbs for ISSUE Project Room
November 3-5, 2010
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
The last several years have been witness to an increasing number of exhibitions, books, and archival audio releases representing New York art, music, and underground cinema from the years that hinge the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, the traveling retrospective Dan Graham: Beyond, Thurston Moore and Byron Coley’s No Wave: Post-Punk, Underground, New York, 1976-1980, Marc Masters’ No Wave, Tim Lawrence’s Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992, and the DVD release of Ericka Beckman’s 135 Grand Street New York 1979 all speak to a growing interest in historicizing this period of multidisciplinary ferment.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Theoretical Music: Rome ’78 – Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker and Artist, James Nares
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Rome ’78 (1978, 90 minutes, dir. James Nares)
Starring Patti Astor, James Chance, Bradley Field, David McDermott, Eric Mitchell, Lance Loud, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Anya Phillips, and Pat Place, among others.
British-born artist James Nares has lived and worked in New York for more than three decades. He is known both as a painter and as a filmmaker, and his films were the subject of a 2008 retrospective at Anthology Film Archives. Jim Jarmusch described Nares’s films as “luminous jewels scattered in the dirt—as varied and striking as his paintings, his photographs, and his train of thought.” As a painter, Nares uses his mastery of the balance between spontaneity and control to create a single elegant stroke that pulsates with energy, relating to Franz Kline as well as to the cartoon brushstrokes of Roy Lichtenstein. As a musician, Nares played with the Contortions and the Del-Byzanteens.
The Propensity of Sound: New and historic works with Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue & Laurie Spiegel
This coming weekend, ISSUE will be hosting a series dedicated to the works of Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue & Laurie Spiegel. The compositional practices of each of these distinguished composers reflect an organic physical relationship with the natural properties of sound production. Through an extended engagement with new forms of electronic technology, the works of Oliveros, Radigue and Spiegel exhibit innovative and intuitive processes that rethink concepts of musical perception and redefine the traditionally hierarchical roles of performer/listener, professional/amateur, and musician/non-musician.
The subtle but wide-reaching impact of their pioneering works remains critically underexamined. Despite these artists’ development in parallel motion to the widely celebrated careers of composers such as La Monte Young and Philip Glass, the artistic trajectories of these three women remain largely underexposed and the inherent distinctions of their works from the male-dominated classification of minimalism remain underemphasized. Through a series of talks, rare performances, and premieres, “The Propensity of Sound” will begin a dialogue aiming to redress aspects of the distorted historical narrative of music after 1960, highlighting the essential contributions and wholly unique approaches to sound production developed by these women composers.
The program will include five events, including a special performance at ISSUE’s future home at 110 Livingston (entrance at 22 Boerum Place).
The Propensity of Sound festival is presented, in part, through generous support from The Barbara Lee Family Foundation and from CHORA, a project of the Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation led by Artist and Foundation Director Lauren Bon. CHORA aims to support the intangibles that precede creativity.
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Now playing in the sonic bed: “I of IV” by Pauline Oliveros & “Kailasha” by Eliane Radigue
In celebration of the upcoming series Propensity of Sound, we’ve invited the artists to create or adapt pieces for Kaffe Matthews’ sonic bed. For September 15–25, come experience Pauline Oliveros’ “I of IV,” and for September 26–October 15 hear Eliane Radigue’s “Kailisha,” from her Trilogie de la mort (remixed by Kaffe Matthews). All pieces have been facilitated by Philip White.
The sonic bed will be open Tuesday through Friday 12–4 and, when possible, before shows from 7:30–8:30.
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Carver Audain
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest is Carver Audain
Carver Audain (b 1981) is a sound artist who focuses on creating immersive sonic environments. He produces work comprised of pre-recorded instrumental and environmental recordings, resulting in an array of textured fields. In live performances he integrates a variety of pre-recorded source material as well as sounds of the physical space for the use of spontaneous arrangement, live sculpting, and sampling. He has presented works at venues such as The Red Room,
Zebulon, Pyramid Atlantic, and ISSUE Project Room, and has performed as a part of the Sonic Circuits Festival, and the Floating Points Festival. In 2009, he was the recipient of ISSUE Project Room’s Emerging Composer’s Commission grant care of the Greenwall Foundation.
He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=712
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Lars Graugaard
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest is Lars Graugaard
Lars Graugaard is active in a variety of musical areas. He has a strong academic background with a degree in flute performance from The Royal Academy of Music in Denmark and a PhD from Oxford Brookes University in interactive music. His background is in a mix of musical styles, and he has always been active in music creation. He has composed more than 140 score pieces, and he was composer-in-residence for two-and-a-half years at Odense Symphony Orchestra.
As a performer he has given concerts all over the world, and when the flute was his principal instrument he recorded CDs with the music of his contemporaries as well as classical composers such as J. S. Bach, Boccherini, Spohr, Beethoven, Rossini, Reger etc. In recent years he has truned to the computer, developing it as a highly sophisticated performance vehicle in interactive or generative music. There is at times a strong eclecticism in his music, always dependent on the circumstances of its usage.
When he performers laptop music he often uses the alias Lars from Mars. Releases under this alias have been coming out on the online netlabel Pueblo Nuevo, and several of the tracks exist with videos as well for unreleased tracks. This music is characterized by an often very strong grounding in rhythms combined with at times quite abstract sound-worlds. Performances are always in realtime with use of procedures written into custom max/msp code for algorithmic rendering of the basic musical ideas and sectional development.
Many of these ideas come from research into aspects of music that account for generally perceived emotional content music. Sometimes performances are realtime improvisations with instrumental performers skilled in free improvisation, and the richness of these activities in combination provides a continuous development in research and theory and their application in composition, performance and programming.
Lars Graugaard has been professor of interactive music at Carl-Nielsen-Academy-of-Music and was a teacher for five years at Aalborg Universty’s Medialogy department. He has participated and directed several research projects, and holds several trusted positions in various international organizations in the field of music. He is part of the re-new forum for digital art.
… links:
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=692
http://l–l.dk
http://www.myspace.com/larsandmars
…& latest netrelease:
http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/marsism.htm
…assorted vids w. this material:
http://www.vimeo.com/12081269
http://www.vimeo.com/12077296
http://www.vimeo.com/13035024
…+ more assorted stuff:
http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/add.htm
http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/psychoacoustic-evergreens.htm
…and then some ‘out-there’ stuff:
http://www.vimeo.com/10694000
http://www.vimeo.com/10691492
…as well as a Harvestworks presentation I’ll be doing in November:
http://www.harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=381:new-instruments-for-improvisation-and-experimental-approaches&catid=3:newsflash
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Bit-Tuner
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest is Bit-Tuner
bit-tuner, born and raised in st.gallen (switzerland), lives and works in zurich (switzerland) (http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=705)
since 1997, bit-tuner producing music and beats with computer, mpc, synthesizer, bassguitar and a lot of analog effects. he likes to work with samples from old vinyl records, and in recent times with self-recorded sounds and field recordings. the musical results are heavyweight beats, punching basslines, dark atmospheres and melodies, and noisy soundscapes.
he also composes music and does sounddesign for dancetheatre productions. he works with the dancecompany at theater st.gallen, cie. sans filtre, zürich, compagnie buffpapier, st. gallen.. in the recent past he also composes soundtracks for shortmovies. for example “vandalen” from simon steuri and “bipolar” from gabriela betschart.
with swiss rapper ‘göldin’ he dropped four albums, and a remix-ep as göldin & bit-tuner on quiet records/zurich.
further collaborations: with sensational from wordsound recordings/nyc, bleubird from endemik music/miami, sole from anticon/california, and many others..
bit-tuner’s 4 track instrumental-ep “aspects” was released 2004 by local_form records/st.gallen, and his first solo-album “toxin” was released in 2008 by umbruch recordings/hamburg. in december 2009 his second full-lenght album “low-speed detonation” was released on CD/LP by trepok rec./zurich.
Links:
http://www.bit-tuner.net
http://www.myspace.com/bittuner
http://www.soundcloud.com/bit-tuner
http://www.trepok.com
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bit-Tuner
http://www.quiet.ch/sensational
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guests 1) Tuna Pase and 2) Borisov/Nosova & Loriot
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest is Tuna Pase
1) TUNA PASE, flute. voice, laptop, Turkey/Istanbul
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=704
Tuna Pase is a musician based in Istanbul. Her areas of interest are electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, ethnomusicology, sound engineering and sound design. She plays flute, percussion and sings. She draws her musical inspiration from Istanbul, Jerusalem, Eastern hemisphere, nature, poetry, photography, street art and daydreaming. She performs her electroacoustic compositions in an improvised manner, where she “re-composes” them live using the elements that build those compositions. She is also an academician, teaching ethnomusicology and music technology. She loves inspiring children through workshops on sound and music.
She has played and attended projects and workshops in Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Italy ) and Turkey. High Zero will be her first appearance in the US.
She has been composing under the moniker “outoftune” and brings them together under the conceptual name “Discotheque Sounds From The Cemetery”. The name “outoftune” is inspired by her ethnomusicology advisor Robert Reigle, when he told her that she was outoftune after her first ever classical music performance in front of an audience.
http://myspace.com/outoftunefortuna
http://soundcloud.com/tunapase
Tuna Pase appears courtesy of the High Zero Foundation in Baltimore (www.highzero.org).
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2) Alexei Borisov/Olga Nosova (Rus) and Frantz Loriot (France)
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=708
Moscow-based improvisers Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova bring their highly idiosyncratic music to the US, touching on elements of noise, sound art, and spoken word, using electronics, guitar, and percussion.
For tonight’s special occasion, the duo will be joined by Frantz Loriot w/ violin and electronics, to form a rare trio.
Borisov/Nosova duo was formed in Moscow (RF), april 2009.
Music components: free improvized, live electronics, noise, electroacoustic, spoken word, tape music etc.
The duo collaborates with different musicians, sound artists, video-artists and poets from different countries: Anton Nikkila (Finland), Dave Phillips (Switzerland), Matthieu Werchowsky (France), Dora Bleu (Canada), Thomas Buckner (USA), Tom Smith (USA), Edyta Fil (Poland), Kim_Nasung (Poland), Ilya Belorukov (Russia), Fear Konstruktor (Russia), Sergei Letov (Russia), Volga (Russia), Rafal Mazur (Poland), Alexei Rafiev (Russia), Nikita Tsymbal (Russia) and more….
Produces music for silent movies (“The 11th” by Dziga Vertov), art exhibitions and multi-media events.
International events and festivals: The 10th Anniversary of GEZ21 (St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009), Spektro fest (Istanbul, Turkey 2009), joint tour with Dora Bleu in Russia, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, Borisov/Nosova/Belorukov/Nasung Tour in Poland 2009, Salvador Dali art exhibition at Inartis Gallery (Moscow, Russia 2009), live at Staalplaat record store in Berlin, concerts in Ljubljana, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Hannover and more…
Releases: “Istanbul Kebap” (Live at Spektro 2009) (net-album by www.top-40.org) “No No Music” (net-album by www.kroogi.com – 2010)
CD-R releases by Bornos produkt: “Selected works, vol. 1″ (2009) “Selected works, vol 2″ (2010) “Live recordings” (2009-2010) “Grundig” (2010)
CD: “Elektrokooperativ” (Industrial Culture, UK 2010)
http://myspace.com/borisovnosova
Frantz Loriot
French-Japanese violist/violinist F.L. was brought to improvisation by Régis Huby, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips, David S. Ware and Marc Ducret. He currently performs solo as well as in various ensembles ranging from rock to contemporary music by way of improvisation and electronics, both in NY and abroad. He contributed to multidisciplinary projects connected to poetry, cinema/video and dance with different companies in Paris. Frantz played in numerous bands and alongside many musicians. He released several CDs on different indie labels. Frantz shares his time between Brooklyn, New York and Europe.
http://www.myspace.com/frantzloriotmusic
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guests François Martig and Julien Bayle
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guests are François Martig and Julien Bayle (2 different sets)
- François Martig
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=700
The Landscape is the center of my artwork; it’s a mirror of our society, economy, politics. “Unattractive” landscapes attract me, so I decided to walk in industrial areas, close motorways where the pedestrian didn’t have his own place. Emotions during these walks are the starting point of my music.
Wiels BXL – Strasbourg_mediatheque_Malraux Supercharged V12 Modellmotor w/ Philippe Petitgenêt; Watch this space – La Plate-Forme « La plage », Dunkerque (F); Happy New Ears Festival w/Els Viaene, Kortrijk (BE); Mattin + Mono-Mono, espace Gantner (F); Sentiers Rouges, Luxembourg; Noise-ette, Ososphere and Contemporary art museum of Strasbourg (F), Citysonics Mons (B); European Sound Delta (B); L’instant n’en finit pas, FRAC Lorraine; Radiophonic Festival, Chapelle des Brigittines Brussels; Bad Boys / Bad girls, Mestna Gallery Ljubljana w/ Jasa Mrvlje (SLO); Amorph’06 MUU Gallery Helsinki; Electroacoustic Music Night, Theaterhaus Stuttgart; Nuit Bleue les Salines Royales d’Arc et Senans (F); Zeppelin sound festival CCCB Barcelona
- Julien Bayle
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=701
Born in 1976, Julien Bayle is a composer, sound designer, coder, engineer, media installation designer and music performer.
He floats inside ambient and drone soundscapes and can be found inside dub techno too.
He uses a lot of technology and teaches courses about max/msp/jitter environment, Ableton Live & max for live’s addon.
He loves electronic hardware and used to create hard & soft interfaces between things.
He built his own midi controller to control his Ableton Live’s liveset during musical live performance: the protodeck controller. He delivered all schematics, firmwares etc on his website because he wanted it as an inspiring open-source project.
He releases music & performs live as protofuse and under his own name too.
He’s actually designing a controller as he has many and high skills in hardware & software interface design and because a lot of people asks him to make that for them.
He drives his own french company Design the Media which provides courses/training about max/msp/jitter and max for live & consulting about hardware and software interface based on Arduino, Midibox or other environment.
He helps people to design their own futuristic tools for artistic expression. He can really add value to installation project as he crossed network, computer science and programming fields in some previous lifes. He provides interactive workshop around Arduino, processing, midibox and technology.
1990-2000 –> music creation w/ Cubase, Soundforge & different synth and rythm machines
Since 2000 –> exclusive use of computer as source of synthesis, sampling and sequencing
Since 2005 –> use of Ableton Live & max/msp/jitter ; use of electronic boards Arduino & Wiring
2009 –> design & making of protodeck controller & private beta-tester for max for live
2010 –> book project around max/msp & max for live, controller design and some music live performances
his websites:
http://julienbayle.net (the man)
http://protofuse.net (the artist)
http://designthemedia.com (the services)
his music:
http://soundcloud.com/protofuse
his data flows & feed:
http://twitter.com/protofuse
http://www.facebook.com/julien.bayle
http://www.lastfm.fr/user/protofuse
http://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienbaylethereal
his protodeck controller:
http://julienbayle.net/protodeck
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org
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