{R} A K E
November 8, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
Set 1 - vade - Video {+}{–}
Set 1 - Vortex - Music {+}{–}
Vortex -- Satoshi 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.
Vortex Set 2 - MonkeyFish - Video {+}{–}
For 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.net Set 2 - tau - Music {+}{–}
Set 3 - Billy Gomberg - Video {+}{–}
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Set 3 - David Velez - Music {+}{–}
September 13, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
This month's show features Giles Hendrix's post-modern/data-inspired video, the 3D video drawings of Josh Ott, Paul Amitai's laptop-based experimental electronics, Red Chair's collaborative electronic-audio/ambient-video, and the electro-acoustic trio of Yoni Niv (laptop), Josh Sinton (baritone sax), and David Grubbs (harmonium).
Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video {+}{–}
Set 1 - Paul Amitai - Music {+}{–}
Set 2 - Yoni Niv, Josh Sinton and David Grubbs - Music {+}{–}
{R}ake is the trio's first time playing together. David Grubbs will play the harmonium while Yoni Niv visits live processing upon Josh Sinton's baritone sax.
Josh Sinton (Baritone Sax) has shared the stage with the musicians Steve Lacy, Jim Black and Vernon Reid, the dancers Julia Mayer and Ginger Farley, among many others. He currently leads the bands holus-Bolus and Ideal Bread, and is also a member of the electro-acoustic trio Blivton and the band Heather and the Barbarians.
David Grubbs (Harmonium) has released nine solo albums and played in numerous groups, including Gastr del Sol and the Red Krayola. He is currently completing the soundtrack for Anthony McCall's film installation, 'Leaving.' He teaches courses in radio and sound art at Brooklyn College and was once called 'le plus Français des Américains' in Libération.
Yoni Niv (Live Electronics) is currently pursuing his PhD in Music Composition and Theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. His works have been presented in many venues including Tel Aviv Museum, the Chelsea Art Museum, Thalia Theatre, Brooklyn International Electro Acoustic Festival and Felicja Blumental Music Center.
Set 2 - Joshue Ott - Video {+}{–}
Joshue Ott is a multi-disciplined media artist and designer. Performing with superDraw, his custom built visual software instrument, Ott bends lines and movements - creating improvised hand drawn forms which rest in a comfortable space between minimalism, psychedelica and curious simplicity. With the subdued use of color amidst stark black and white, Ott's visual work complements music perfectly, highlighting contrast and maneuvering through moment driven change. By taking advantage of the immediacy of on the spot art, made outside the computer, and transferred through it, Ott is able to unite the worlds of the physical and digital to make a perfect union of human control and computer fueled chance.
http://superdraw.intervalstudios.com Set 3 - Red Chair (Jeremy Slater and Patrick Todd) - A/V {+}{–}
The Red Chair : is Jeremy Slater and Patrick Todd
Patrick Todd is a sound artist who works primarily with electronic noises to create compositions that border the familiar worlds of ambient atmospheric music and specific events more akin to Foley artists. He explores the various textural qualities that are specific to granular synthesizers and are usually relegated to our modern age backround soundscape by bringing them forward and putting them into order. Coming from a visual backround with a masters degree in fine art, installation, he is acutely aware of the power in sound to alter our perceptions of the world around us. He has been working in New York for 10 years and continues to build alliances through organizing events, most notably 'Flow' in collaboration with Jeremy Slater, an event that explores the noisier elements in sound.
Jeremy Slater : Otherwise known as ( ), Jeremy is an aritst who works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally.
http://www.parenthesismedia.com http://www.jeremyslater.net http://myspace.com/fromtheredchair
July 25, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
We are cleverly calling this month's show 'Video and Something Else'. We're featuring three video artists doing live-camera manipulations of three non-video artists. 99Hooker will manipulate the light-table explorations of Brock Monroe; Andy Graydon will manipulate the real-time film and celluloid manipulations of Bradley Eros; and Holly Daggers will manipulate the movements of dancer Eric Dunlap.
Joining all three acts is the electro-acoustic trio of Satoshi Takeishi (objects, elecronics, strings), Sean Smith (laptop) and Nate Wooley (trumpet).
Set 1 - Holly Daggers and Eric Dunlap - Video/Dance {+}{–}
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Set 2 - Andy Graydon and Bradley Eros - Video/Film {+}{–}
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Set 3 - 99Hooker and Brock Monroe - Video/Object Manipulation {+}{–}
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All Night - Satoshi Takeishi, Sean Smith and Nate Wooley - Music {+}{–}
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May 17, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
This month, {R}ake is pleased to feature performers who haven't yet played the series and some alumni who haven't played in a long time. Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim) explores the sounds of magnetic-fields and 8-bit Gameboys with video-artist Alessandro Imperato; Zach Layton presents a self-contained video-audio set, with 3D video interacting with and generating abstract laptop sounds; and Christian Pincock, Andrew Demirjian and Jane Rigler present a collaborative set of Demirjian's video combined with laptop-manipulated electronics, flute and video-based found-sounds.
Set 1 - Andrew Demirjian - Video {+}{–}
Andrew Demirjian is a multi-media artist whose work focuses on the relationship between the aural and the visual. His time based pieces feature a heightened attention to sound that challenges the traditional dominance of the visual in the film medium. For Rake, he will be using video as a musical instrument in an improvisational, collaborative performance with Christian Pincock.
http://www.andrewdemirjian.com Set 1 - Christian Pincock and Jane Rigler - Music {+}{–}
Set 2 - Zach Layton - A/V {+}{–}
Zach Layton is a composer, curator and new media artist based in new york with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental music, biomimicry and contemporary architectural practice. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns.
Zach's work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and he has performed experimental electronic music and exhibited at Eyebeam, Sculpture Center, Diapason, Issue Project Room, Bushwick Arts Project, St. Mark's Ontological Hysterical Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Monkeytown, and many other venues in New York and Europe. He also is the curator of Brooklyn's monthly experimental music series 'darmstadt: classics of the avant garde', which features leading local and international composers and improvisers. Zach has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation and the Jerome Foundation and is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
http://www.zachlaytonindustries.com Set 3 - Alessandro Imperato - Video {+}{–}
Alessandro is a professor of computer art at the Savannah College of Art and design. He has performed regularly as a real-time video artist (VJ) in clubs and galleries for the last four years. Partnerships include the guitarist Richard Leo Johnson, DJ Icey and he performed for the Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble) benefit.
Set 3 - Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim) - Music {+}{–}
Inspired by a monochrome painting by Park Seo Bo, Bubblyfish will explore different colors of the sound-spectrum produced by the magnetic field of electronic devices and the lushness of Gameboy-generated 8-bit sound.
http://www.bubblyfish.com
March 28, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
This month features {R}ake newcomers with {R}ake alumni. Brian Moran and Matt Hannfin pair their analog-electronics, bent-circuits and drums with Chika's audio-reactive video; the VJ-tinged Lady Firefly plays with laptop-music partner Dok; and Satoshi Takeishi joins his percussion setup with the Endangered Guitar of Hans Tammen, interacting with the live-camera distortions and manipulations of Adam Kendall.
Set 1 - Chika - Video {+}{–}
Set 1 - Brian Moran and Matt Hannafin - Music {+}{–}
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Set 2 - Lady Firefly and Dok - A/V {+}{–}
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Set 3 - Satoshi Takeishi, Hans Tammen and Adam Kendall - A/V {+}{–}
An eager listener described a recent performance of Takeishi and Tammen as 'One of the most human, musical electro-acoustic shows heard in a long time. Sublime and dynamic.'
Satoshi Takeishi performs every possible kind of music he can get hands on, using all kinds of percussion instruments and drum sets. His long time obsession with computer and experimental electronic music has been gradually influencing the way he interacts with his instruments.
Hans Tammen's ENDANGERED GUITAR is a journey through the land of unending sonic operations and an infinite index of metals. A mix of formal awareness and improvisation produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds. Like yanked out tape measures violently squished against the strings to turn out tortured noise scrapings and bizarre textures; but also spektral processing to create quiet pulses and gentle atmospheres.
Videoist Adam Kendall brings his live camera and custom Jitter applications. Working with multilayered video processing and distortion, he'll process images of Satoshi, Hans and their instruments in real-time, creating an interactive, improvisational a/v trio.
Satoshi Takeishi Hans Tammen Adam Kendall
January 11, 2007
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{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians integrating their mediums in exploratory ways.
This month features David Linton's analog electronics and old-school video; Lilt Marathon's array of electronics, found sounds, and turntables with Richard Garet's minimalist digital video; and CJ's time- and space-horizon video topics with the electro-acoustic flute/antique-autoharp improvisations of Jane Rigler and Shoko Nagai.
We're pleased to land back at Monkey Town, particularly because it means they're still in business. They still need the support, so try to come out -- If not for {R}ake, then whatever else looks good.
Set 1 - Richard Garet - Video {+}{–}
Richard Garet is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. He explores the communicational, affective, and the sensory aspects of the various mediums he utilizes, their constant intrusion on our senses, and how they affect our perception. Even though his work suits the standard gallery environment, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of these forms are different explorations of the ways in which his work exposes the visitors to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception. He currently lives and work in Queens, New York.
http://www.ruccas.org/index.php?Richard%20Garet Set 1 - Lilt Marathon - Music {+}{–}
Lilt Marathon is Brian Thrash and Joe Ruster.
We started working on improvisational electro acoustical sound projects in the autumn of 1999 in Detroit USA. A typical setup consists of Joe using vinyl records and loop based MiniDisc or CD recordings with minimal processing equipment, usually a mixing board with 3-band EQ and pan. Brian uses a combination of edited and looped field recordings, live source, or analog wave forms as base sounds, which may be further processed through various effects and sound processors that are hardware or software based.
The foundation of any given set that we perform are the limits that we give to ourselves as parameters. We each choose several sources and tools, set a timeframe and theme, then build from there. We do not follow a particular formula; the piece generally evolves out of the setting and framework of the project at hand. The sound that evolves as we perform is a tandem effort of providing a point of departure for the other, letting go at the right moment and preparing to respond at the appropriate moment.
Set 2 - CJ - Video {+}{–}
Set 2 - Jane Rigler and Shoko Nagai - Music {+}{–}
Shoko Nagai (Vortex, Butch Morris, Miho Hatori) and Jane Rigler (La Pinchula, Relay~NYC) are accomplished improvisers using both acoustic and electronic elements in their performances. For this show, Jane will process her Flute in real-time via laptop and Shoko will perform with a 100 year old Autoharp and effect pedals.
Jane Rigler Shoko Nagai Set 3 - David Linton - A/V {+}{–}
David Linton entered the downtown NY experimental music scene through the art punk garage door at the tail end of the 1970's. Initially - on drums - he performed and recorded with Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, as well as his own collaborative band Interference - among others...
From here he moved - on one hand - to electro-acoustic improvisation and live solo performance on his own customized proto electronic drum kit... and - on the other - into sound score design for dance and theater - producing dozens of works in this vein between the mid 80's & mid 90's. Notable among these are his scores for The Wooster Group & for choreographers Karole Armitage & Stephen Petronio.
By the early 1990's, somewhat bored and disillusioned with the conventions of the Improv, Indie Rock , and Post Modern Dance scenes to which he had contributed for years, David was drawn to embrace Techno and the emergent 'Immersive' movement in electronic music and digital media. This in turn led to a focus on venue/audience development & 'event design' in the course of advocating the new popular modes of realtime audio and visual performance demonstrated in catalytic events like SoundLab (host), Unitygain (organizer/curator), & Unitygain Television (producer/director).
Linton's most recent solo audio-visual performance work with 'The Bicameral Research Sound and Projection System' brings things full circle drawing on his over 25 years of experience in the multi media arts to mark the reaffirmation of the pre-eminent organic values embodied in realtime analog processes in the worlds of sound and visual media.
http://www.unitygain.org/