Andrea Parkins performs TRANSITS OF VENUS, an electro-acoustic exploration based on a rare (but recently observed) celestial phenomenon. TOV features Parkins' electronically-processed accordion, laptop sampling and electronic keyboards. It merges digital and analog electronics with treatments by 'Rube Goldberg', a MAX/MSP generative audio-processing instrument.
http://www.andreaparkins.comFor this show at Monkeytown, MonkeyFish will be utilizing images from the four elements, placing and processing them within the cyclical nature of the life pulse and the passing of time.
Elsa Vieira (a.k.a. MonkeyFish) - Film.Video.Live Visual Processing Elsa divides her time and work between New York and Lisbon. Currently, as MonkeyFish, she is exploring multiple modes of visual communication, primarily through 16mm film, digital video and live visual processing using coded language and movement, and how they affect, and are affected by, the nervous system. In addition to her own work, Elsa is deeply involved in bringing new media and digital art to the global community as part of her vision for RogueWaves, a company she founded in 2002, and incorporated as a non-profit in 2007, the goal of which is the furthering and evolution of counter-current, revolutionary ideas around the world through artistic experimentation and/or collaboration. In July of 2007, in collaboration with Ana Carvalho of VJ Theory.net (which recently published Elsa's paper on Ideology In The Digital Underground), she organized a one-day VJing and Realtime AudioVisual event in Lisbon called Abertura, the first ever event of it's kind in Portugal, now scheduled to become an annual event. Sometime in the near future, Elsa plans to bring SHARE, a collective, and weekly multimedia event with which she is involved as one of many volunteer organizers and administrators, to Portugal as part of her vision for RogueWaves.
http://www.monkeyfishfilms.netSatoshi Takeishi (percussion and electronics) and Shoko Nagai (pianos, keyboards and electronics) perform improvisational electro-acoustic music. They develop and explore their ideas over the course of set, creating environments ranging from ambient textures to melodic passages to intense sonic abstractions. Satoshi and Shoko are two of {R}ake's curators.
http://home.earthlink.net/~takeishi/Peter Kirn creates improvised, meditative visuals through synthesis, original footage, and deconstructed public domain ephemera. He alternatively moonlights as a musician, composer, video artist, and media artist.
http://www.peterkirn.com