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 guests are 1) Bubblyfish and 2) Kale Elk.

1) Haeyoung Kim aka Bubblyfish performs her latest performance ‘Moori‘.

Set starts at 8:30PM

Moori

Moori is an interactive audience participatory audio-visual performance. By incorporating Apple’s smart device such as a iPhone, iPod, and iPad’s dynamic interface and Mrmr OSC controller, and SMS, users share their thoughts to a proposed question by a performer. The result is a collaboration among performer and audience members, a real-time audio-visual composition and a dramatic narrative.

2) Kale Elk

Set starts at 9:30PM

Kale Elk, a freely improvising duo with Elizabeth Kosack on piano and Kyungmi Lee on flute presents a Rebirthday Ceremony. They will be performing rites of transformation in a harmonious masked mass. Come help us celebrate!

Kale Elk would like to dedicate this set to Suzanne Fiol.

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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

On Structure is a sound-centric performance duo featuring Jessie Marino and Natacha Diels. The
New York based ensemble uses improvised and composed
Sounds {and the fluctuation of these sounds} to brew
Transferable art pieces which may
Ravage the realms of the performer, audience or space itself.
Uncovering the hidden motions of sound, freeing
Compositions from the fluorescence of the concert expectation.
Topsy-turvy.
Use of lasers, wigs, electronics, cellosandflutes;
Repurposing life experiences for music glitches and muscle twitches.
Eclipse boundaries of the stage.

Queen of the South

“lattices, networks, labyrinths, flows, currents, rotations, bridges, streams, beams, heaps, eddies, dunes, honeycombs, imbrications, cells, textures, turbulences, vortices, layers, figure-eights, lemniscates, spirals, rings, rivulets, trees…”

The above is a non-exhaustive list of the possible visual images to be created through sound and image by loadbang (Alejandro Acierto, Jeffrey Gavett, Andy Kozar, William Lang), Pygmy Jerboa (Ivan Naranjo, Maria Stankova) and Zach Layton (video), as they join forces for a performance of Alvin Lucier’s “The Queen of the South” (1972), an exploration of the visual manifestation of sound. The amplified and transformed sound of instruments voices and electronics will be played through drivers attached to flat responsive surfaces like metal plates, on which “materials suitable for making visible the effects of sound” will be strewn.

Lucier’s classic text score designates neither the sonic materials nor the form of the piece, but instead their visual results as created by fluids or sand vibrated by plates. All of the musical decisions being made are for the purpose of making visual images and patterns via the vibrations in the strewn materials, which are filmed in fixed close-up positions so that the audience and players may see them.

ON Structure

In “Strange Song Cycle” ON Structure (Jessie Marino and Natacha Diels) is joined by vocalist/composers Kate Soper (Wet Ink) and Maria Stankova (Pygmy Jerboa) for an hour long cycle of spectacles and song. These works question the use of language as an effective means of communication and refurbishes traditional song forms, by scrambling words with noise, light, shadow, objects, and implied motion. Works by Natacha Diels, Kate Soper and Maria Stankova.

The Darmstadt Institute is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Dedalus Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council

What is share?

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 Jasmina Maschina (Australia – Staubgold/Monika Enterprise)
Jasmina Maschina’s folk soundscapes transport you into her unique world of electronics and song.

Firmly rooted in experimental electronics with an equal dedication to song, composition and free, improvised music, Jasmina Maschina melds the most simple and innocent chord progressions of time-honoured folk music with breathtakingly beautiful noise to create the sensation of tingling on both the skin and mind.

Based on her personal style of gentle guitar picking and a noisenik’s attraction to repetition, drone and inventiveness, her songs are capable at any moment of erupting into intoxicating noise, seducing you into her otherworldly sounds.

Jasmina recorded and produced her acclaimed debut solo album, ‘The Demolition Series’, in 2008, for the German label Staubgold. Following extensive touring throughout Europe, China and Australia in 2010,
Jasmina Maschina released the inaugural ‘City Splits: #1 Berlin’ with golden diskó ship on Gudrun Gut’s label Monika Enterprise.

Live, Jasmina teams up with multi instrumentalist Theresa Stroetges (golden diskó ship) to perform hauntingly beautiful variations of her songs. Fragile layers of sound swirl magnificently around your ears binding the overpass between sensuality and stoicism, ephemera and the sublime, hesitation and intoxication.

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RELEASES

City Splits: #1 Berlin, (split LP with golden diskó ship) Monika Enterprise 65 LP/CD (2010)
The Demolition Series, Staubgold 86 CD/LP/DDL (2008)

compilations:
Asleep(minit variation), Klangbad Festival Sampler. (2009)
Story, Spex Magazine Compilation (2008)

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LINKS

http://www.facebook.com/l/da5dcecm_Oxt82VYc1WYNTrs25A;www.myspace.com/jasminemaschine
http://www.facebook.com/l/da5dcQP3Mx1fSFgY3bAKiVyIooQ;jasminemoniqueguffond.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/l/da5dcZo4wTPpFzpZhX0dxzX1lAA;www.myspace.com/citysplits

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PRESS

‘Superb debut album of beautiful folk guitar music from Berlin based Maschina, better known perhaps as one half of experimental electronic outfit Minit. This is straight-ahead folk filtered through an imaginative electro-prism that knocks Cat Power into a cocked hat.’
- Dominic Al-Badri – Kansai Time Out

‘Really and truly there are no low points or filler tracks here, the songs, changing pace and instrumental colouring through out are always consistent in songwriting flare, harmonic homing and rich, accomplished and soothing playing. I can see this appealing to anyone and everyone and not just folk fans as the Demolition Series is a collection of great tuneful, well written and conceived tracks, performed with great passion, feeling and depth. One of the high points of this year and surly the debut album of the year’
- Roger Batty, Musique Machine

‘As the album develops, Maschina’s history with Minit manifests itself; that group’s affinity for repetition, drone, and alterations of a pygmy sort informs and strengthens these songs. Inasmuch as these inclinations refresh the timbral palette, they also affirm a consistency of tone that pays off handsomely. In setting off on this path and discovering something so deeply personal, Maschina has accessed a sublime form that is well beyond herself.’

http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=740

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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

For her first Artist-in-Residence performance at ISSUE Project Room, Okkyung Lee will collaborate with Tom Rainey (percussion), Liberty Ellman (guitar) and Skuli Sverrisson (bass).

Cellist and improviser Okkyung Lee is a 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence. A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, Korean traditional and pop music, and noise with extended techniques to create her unique blend of music. She has received a composer commission from New York State Council on the Arts (2007) and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (2010).

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, to 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, the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund, 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.

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB) is a close-knit group of amateur and professional musicians coming together to explore the breadth of the string repertoire, from the concertos of Bach to the latest experimental works by emerging composers. The orchestra also seeks out unique collaborative projects with other like-minded performance organizations, including ISSUE Project Room, American Opera Projects, and Hellgate Harmonie.

Founded in 2007 by violinist and conductor Eli Spindel, the SOB has quickly become an integral part of Brooklyn’s growing musical community. Based at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights, the ensemble also presents an annual summer concert in Fort Greene Park, and holds regular chamber recitals around the Borough. For more information, please visit www.thesob.org

György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Barrett, Sylvano Bussoti are among those who have used this technique in their works dedicated to her. Collaborating significantly over years with radicals, Dick Raaijmakers, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi, she has also worked closely with Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation.

Based in Amsterdam, Frances-Marie Uitti tours as soloist extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in such festivals as the Biennale Di Venezia, Strasbourg Festival, Gulbenkian Festival Ars Musica, Holland Festival and for radios and televisions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. She premeired cello concerti dedicated to her By Per Norgaard, Jonathan Harvey and will give the first performance of the cello concerto of William Jeths in 2000. Peter Nelson is writing a work for her with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Canadian composer Rodney Sharman is also composing a cello concerto for her.

She collaborates with pianist Rolf Hind, classical pianist Alwin Bar, Dutch filmmakers Frank Scheffer and Frans Zwaartjes, avantgarde guitarist Elliott Sharp, accordionist Pauline Oliveros, DJ Scanner, DJ Low, and Stephen Vitiello and video master Ferenc van Damme.

Her compositons can be heard on ECM records, Cryptogrammophone, JdKrecords, Seraphin, Etcetera, and BVHaast.

The University of California Press has commissioned a 60,000 word book from her on Contemporary Cello Techniques. A massive treatise on the state of the art of cello and performance techniques from the Kodaly Sonata until the present, it is now in the finishing stages.Her treatise New Frontiers, was also published in the Cambridge Companion to the Cello, Cambridge University Press and for Muzik Texte, Koln, and Arcana, the collected writings of composers edited by John Zorn.

Ms Uitti has collaborated with pianists Ursula Oppens and Robert Levin in classical repertory and with Rolf Hind and Yvar Mikhashoff in contemporary literature. She appeared in Frank Scheffer’s film on Elliott Carter with Ms Oppens. Also, she has worked with Irvine Arditti, Stefano Scodanibbio, Sasha Gavrilov, and members of the Ensemble Modern.

As a pedagogue, Frances-Marie Uitti has given lectures and master classes at practically all the major European conservatories (Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen, Royal Conservatorium Den Haag, Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam, Royal Conservatory Brussels, Santa Cecilia Roma, Hochschule fur Musik in Koln, Hochschule Basle etc) and many music schools in the USA (see added list). She has been ongoing Guest Professor at Rotterdam Conservatory. In 1997 she distinguished herself with a Regents Professor at the University of California San Diego. The following year she gave seminars at the University of California at Berkeley and at Stanford. In 1998 she shared teaching with Anner Bijlsma and Ralph Kirschbaum at the International Cello Festival in Aarhus. In 1999 she was invited to Mills College to give lectures and masterclasses as well as teach contemporary techniques. For many summers, she has taught at the Dartington International Chamber music Festival as well as being professor of cello at Darmstadt International Summer Festival. In 2002-2003 she was invited as Guest Professor at Oberlin Conservatory teaching classical cello repertory and chamber music.

Ms Uitti has also given masterclasses at The Juilliard School of Music, Yale University, Northwestern University in 2003. She has been invited for a Fromm Foundation residency at Harvard University in the season 2003/04.

Ms. Uitti is frequently invited to sit on the juries for the International Symposium of Composers Meeting (ISCM Festival), as well as the Gaudeamus Competition for Composers and Gaudeamus Performers Competition held annually in Amsterdam.

Recordings:

ECM records, Wergo, CRI, Mode, HatHut, Raretone, Cramps, JdKrecordings, BVHaast, Etcetera, Cryptogramophone.

Ms. Uitti will perform works by Lisa Bielawa, Gyorgy Kurtag, Rocco Di Pietro, Huang Ruo, John Cage and original works.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.

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