Table of the Elements – The Copernicium Festival:
May 12-14 at ISSUE Project Room
Image from Robert Longo's Pictures for Music (1979), to be shown alongside Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio
Jonathan Kane’s February, Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio, Stephen O’Malley, Zeena Parkins, Films by Robert Longo, Tyler Hubby, & Tony Conrad
May 12 – 14, 2011
Since 1993 the record label Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise, intending nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century, and beyond. Its projects have focused on musicians whose light shimmers outside the frames of convention, and comprise a vital contemporary archive of experimental, minimalist, improvised and outsider musics.
Climax Golden Twins + Pigeons
Pigeons
Pigeons are a duo. They live in Bronx, NY. They have recent releases on Blackdirt, Olde English Spelling Bee, The Curatorial Club and Soft Abuse.
Climax Golden Twins
Climax Golden Twins is a Seattle, WA based experimental collage outfit originally consisting of Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor, and later Scott Colburn, who joined the group in 1996. The group’s earliest material was recorded in 1993, but wasn’t released until their 1996 album, Imperial Household Orchestra. Early CGT albums, such as Climax Golden Hiss (1995) and the aforementioned Imperial Houshold Orchestra (1996), offer a glimpse into their unique world of lo-fi collage — organic, acoustic instruments mixed with found sounds, electronics, and clips of sampled exotica. Their later CD, Locations (1998), focuses on voice and found sound, while Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds (Anomalous, 2000) is a studio album that returns to their earlier formula with random noise-punk interludes, dreamyscapes and acoustics mixed with field recordings.
Electric Temple Presents: Drone Marathon
Electric Temple will present a day long musical event focusing on contemporary performers working with long sustained tones and sounds. The program will feature 6 musicians curating segments of the event. Audience members will receive wristbands, and will be free to come and go as they please.
The First Annual Drone Marathon will be a true exercise and experience curated by contemporary and past performers working with long sustained tones over extended durations of time. Modeled after the theories of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, John Cage, and other experimental forefathers, the drone marathon is a living sound installation, built for those to meditate on an experience much like that of La Monte Young’s Dream House, Maryanne Amacher’s “Music for Sound Joined Rooms,” and the patience-testing performances of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Come join us for a communal experience in the world of drone and meditation.
The event will take place from 2 p.m. – midnight, and the schedule is as follows:
Ancient Ocean/Tom Carter/Century Plants – 2pm
Noveller/Shahin Motia (Oneida) duo – 3:30pm
Kyle Bobby Dunn (Solo) 4:30pm
Phill Niblock – 6pm
Tony Conrad – 8pm
Marcia Bassett (with Margarida Garcia, Aki Onda, & Barry Weisblat) – 10pm
Share – all night free audio & video jam – In the Munch Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
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 will take place in the Munch Room tonight. The Munch Room is located on the first floor of The (OA) Can Factory.
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 Jan Trutzschler von Falkenstein
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 Jan Trutzschler von Falkenstein
Jan T. is a composer and media artist with an affinity to software design.
His work often focuses on one material or subject, which he sets in different contexts and perspectives. The sound material he uses can be described as having an organic character with a tendency of being noisy and crispy. And there are playful elements in his music, which explore the boundaries of synthetic and concrete sound, digital and mechanic approaches.
He performs solo with SuperCollider and Snyderphonics’ Manta interface, writes music for instruments and computer and creates sonic installations.
Since 2002 he has been an active SuperCollider (SC) developer, which resulted in many contributions to the software and the organization of the second international SuperCollider Symposium in The Hague in 2007.
In 2008 he founded TeaTracks for the creation of mobile applications, which released Gliss in 2009. Gliss is a tilt controlled and performance
oriented sequencer, which lets you draw music and sounds on the iPhone/iPad.
http://teatracks.com/gliss
http://falkenst.com
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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 – In the Munch Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
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 —
Share will take place in the Munch Room tonight. The Munch Room is located on the first floor of The (OA) Can Factory.
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 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 —
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 – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guests Le Code (Yoann Trellu with Sibin Vassilev)
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 feature guest is Le Code (Yoann Trellu with Sibin Vassilev)
Le Code is a live-generated digital painting. Le Code should be perceived as an abstract movie, not as a concert with visuals.
The painting emerges from artistic and aesthetic choices:
- Only horizontal and vertical should be used in terms of graphic elements.
- Only plain colors should be used.
This is revealed by colored lines and rectangles.
- At times, an external element comes to disrupt the order, appearing as a dramatic event.
Le Code is a visual and poetic language.
The subject is an attempt to give a depiction of Life on a graphic level.
Or the creation of digital sonic paintings that might induce it.
The graphic evolution can be almost undetectable, or very fast and sequenced.
This alludes to memory, the perception of time, and the notion of evolution.
The basis to Le Code is a program developed by Yoann Trellu on Max/MSP/Jitter. This software uses audio signals to generate visuals and interact with them. The interaction sound/image, although it is “physical” and mandatory, isn’t the substance of this project: the software uses the audio signal to function but its aim isn’t its visualization.
The music is normally played by Mangrove Kipling but for this session in ShareDJ, the music will played by Sibin Vassilev
Yoann Trellu is a french multi-disciplinary video artist established in Berlin since 2003.
Since 10 years he worked with numerous musicians and performers in France, Germany and USA.
Main dance collaborations: Motion-Lab, Wire Monkey Dance (USA), Howard Katz, Post Theater, Ten Pen Chi (Berlin)
More informations on http://www.keyframed.org
Sibin Vassilev grew up in Berlin and Sofia. He was a member of Rag Dolls, a famous Bulgarian rock-band. In the nineties he turned his attention and focus to computer music. He composed and produced soundscapes, among others for the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. He created various sound installations. From 2003 onwards he composed soundtracks for movies and theater productions.
More informations on http://www.semantics-of-sound.com
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=612
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!!
Share – all night free open audio & video jam
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 —
Share @ Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=579
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
ISSUE Project Room’s Artist In Residence: Duane Pitre *
Duane Pitre (originally from New Orleans) is a Brooklyn-based, avant-garde composer and performer. His current works explore both chaos and discipline—and the relationship that exists between the two. Pitre primarily works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonally, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships.
Composing primarily for acoustic and electro-acoustic instrumentation, Pitre has scored works for large String/Wind Ensembles, String Quintet, his own Bowed Harmonic-Guitar Ensemble, solo performers, among other instrument configurations. In 2008 Pitre started exploring simple electronic sounds and their role in a dualistic relationship with acoustic instruments, as well as utilizing them in his recent “tape” pieces.
Pitre has releases on Important Records, Trome Records, NNA, and Quiet Design, among others. He has appeared on compilations with artists such as Keith Rowe (AMM), Sir Richard Bishop, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jandek, Sebastien Roux, and Thierry Muller/Ilitch. He recently curated and contributed a track to an upcoming Just Intonation compilation (Important Records), alongside Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman, Michael Harrison, Greg Davis, Charles Curtis, and others.
Pitre has presented his works in NYC at such spaces as Roulette, The Stone, Phillips de Pury & Co., St. Marks Church, The Knitting Factory, and ISSUE Project Room (where he will be Artist in Resident for spring 2009). He has also performed in other cities across the U.S., as well as in Europe at Les Voûtes (Paris), St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church (London), and in Bristol, U.K.
In 2009, Pitre is planning more performances (national and abroad), a variety of releases, recording sessions, new works, and further exploration of electronic sound material.
the holy experiment + corridors + ateleia
January 11, 2008
The Holy Experiment + Byron Westbrook
Byron Westbrook is a sound/intermedia artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work involves performance of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on redistributing energy distilled from sound and light. In solo performances under the nameCORRIDORS, a system of multiple amplifiers is used in conjunction with PA speakers to create a dynamic space within a space using sound and video projection. He has also collaborated with Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Chatham, Glenn Branca and Jonathan Kane. Releases are forthcoming in 2008 for both Corridors and Essentialist.
www.byronwestbrook.com
www.myspace.com/corridors
The Holy Experiment is the solo performance of Brooke Hamre Gillespie, who was born in Ely, Minnesota in 1979. She plays bells, Tibetan singing bowls, suling flutes, recorders, electric violin, electric guitar, and uses her voice to navigate the new worlds created through the sounds. Gillespie writes. “My work is intended to reach not only those in the immediate area who listen, but consciousness is given to the sounds and vibrations produced with insight into the idea that all vibration is interactive and that every sound created eventually makes its way through the cosmos…”
Ateleia is Brooklyn resident James Elliott. His music combines crystalline pulse with submerged aquatic drones and subtle ghost melodies, evoking the grand echo of “My Bloody Valentine” and the long-standing tradition of psychedelic minimalism while informed by contemporary electronic music. “Hypnotically gorgeous…” – Jon Dale, Stylus Magazine
8 pm $10
tony conrad + m.v. carbon
January 03, 2008
If Tony Conrad’s powerful sound has its roots in “minimalism”, M.V. Carbon’s music introduces a more contemporary but equally aggressive practice. Meeting as they do with violin and cello above a unifying drone, Conrad and Carbon explode the space we normally think of in connection with string quartets, waltz music, and country fiddlin’. Chaotic parameters are bent and rigorously sculpted using techniques that have been revealed through enduring experimentation. Their tangles of sounds incite a tumbling clash of traditions. The interplay of their approaches reflects the split personality of today’s listeners, who want to discover the thrill of music in a rich sonic imbroglio.
mv carbon
8 pm $10
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