Set 1 - Dan Iglesia - Video {+}{–}
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Set 1 - Radio Wonderland (Joshua Fried) - Music {+}{–}
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Set 2 - Chika - Video {+}{–}
Set 2 - 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.
http://www.myspace.com/liltmarathonsound
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Set 3 - WvS - Music {+}{–}
Set 1 - Lady Firefly - Video {+}{–}
Set 1 - Satoshi Takeishi and Adam Kendall - Music {+}{–}
Set 2 - Jeremiah Cymerman and Shoko Nagai - Music {+}{–}
Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born May 4th, 1980 in log cabin in North Georgia. Since 2002 Cymerman has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City's most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Anthology Film Archives, Washington Square Church, and The Tank, among many others. Described by Time Out New York as 'one of downtown's most inventive and resourceful composer-performers' Cymerman has performed with a wide range of contemporary artists including Jessica Pavone, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. 'Butch' Morris, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others.
With a foot deeply rooted in the avant-garde tradition of downtown New York and an interest in exploring new methods for clarinet performance, Cymerman has developed a highly personal language of extended clarinet techniques which are often augmented by a customized analog electronics set-up. After several self-released hand-made cd's, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, 'Big Exploitation', on Solponticello Records, a record that found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide. In April of 2008 Tzadik Records will release his newest cd, 'In Memory of the Labyrinth System', a series compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing.
Shoko Nagai is an experimental and jazz multi-keyboardist. On her own or with her duo VORTEX (with Satoshi Takeishi), she explores the possibility of sound sculpting through 20th century music, free improvisation and real-time audio processing. By extracting, magnifying and modifying the past musical event, she makes the 'passing of time' a visual experience.
Shoko Nagai
Set 3 - dual-blur - A/V {+}{–}
Rui Pereira (rux) : dual-blur
Rui Pereira (rux) is an interaction-media-artist-researcher-creative-student-boy from Portugal currently living and studying in NYC. His works range from media errors to media control and interfaces, cross-modal perception and live visuals creation, interaction design and other electronic and digital absurdities. has performed live-visuals since 2000 for jungle-techno-noise-kitsch-pop-punk parties and festivals in Portugal, Spain, UK and US under various id's and started developping his own home-made interfaces (Loop-R) in 2004. Loop-r has been presented at FILE'06 (Sao Paulo), was demo'ed at NIME'07(New York) and featured (along with its author interview) at VJKungFu.tv, the portal for DIY visual artists.By 2007 he finished his new interface (looop-r) and is exploring it mixing-cutting-sequencing-scratching audio-video loops in realtime city-mashup performances as dual-blur.
Rux keeps studying and playing with technology and people at his master's program at ITP- NYU, lately he has been interested innon-sense interaction objects, parasites made of code and human powered sequencing machinery.
http://www.rux-werx-here.net/
Set 1 - DJ Olive - Music {+}{–}
DJ Olive was raised in Boston, Nova Scotia, Trinidad, Rhode Island and Australia. he cofounded Lalalandia Entertainment Research Corporation. Lalalandia made many of the most memorable Brooklyn warehouse after- hours environments of the '90s. Multipolyomni and We(tm) are two notable projects he created . We(tm)'s '97 release 'as is' can be considered a classic. We(tm) opened for the Orb at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. They went on to tour europe and were featured at Barcelona's Sonar festival in '99. He has always enjoyed improvising with musicians performing with such stars as Luc Ferrari, Marc Ribot, Kim Gordon, Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, Jim O'Rourke, Yuka Honda, Alan Vega, Khan & Walker, Thurston Moore, Soulslinger, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Jah Wobble, Mike Watt, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, Lee Ranaldo and many more, proving his talent as a musician using turntables. He has founded two record labels. With Toshio Kajiwara he founded Phonomena Audio Arts & Multiples, and with James Healy he started The Agriculture, a record label for Brooklyn dubby beats. when In 2003, after many years of collaborating with musicians, live and on recordings. When Olive's released his debut solo CD, 'Bodega', an ass shaking continuous mix tape of rough down home dub dance party beats, it was considered ground breaking. He followed it up with a much loved live cd, 'Live in Tasmania'. Room40, from Brisbane has put out his 'Buoy' and 'Sleep' compositions, 60-min voyages of beat-less warmth Olive call's 'sleeping pills'. He has been included in many exhibitions including: Treble, Brooklyn Sculpture Center 2004, City Sonics 2004, Mons, Venice Biennale 2003, Whitney Biennial 2002 and 2008, Bit Streams at the Whitney 2001. He continues to make tracks in his Brooklyn studio, Skin Tone Riddles when he's not playing somewhere like Tasmania.
http://www.djOlive.com http://www.myspace.com/theAudioJanitor
Dan Winckler is a performer, visualist and educator. He has performed at MenschMeerMedien Festival 2007 (Bremen, DE), SubTonic, {R}ake, EyeWash, Eyebeam, the Tank, ISEA 2006, and with many artists including Benton-C Bainbridge, Lance Blisters, Koosil-ja, and Grisha Coleman. He is a core member of SHARE (http://share.dj), a non-profit organization that hosts collaborative audio/visual jams in New York and other cities around the world. More information can be found at danwinckler.com.
http://www.danwinckler.com
audrey chen is a chinese-american musician and performance artist born outside of chicago in 1976. using the cello, voice and analog electronics, chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques, without processing or effects. a large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. her performance work incorporates sound, movement and visual/sculptural concepts. her recent solo works are comprised of improvisations with emphasis on the voice, hearkening back to song, noise and melody. combustible. acrid. sweet. pitted full and potentially beautiful...
chen also performs in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. some current projects include duos with phil minton, frédéric blondy, katt hernandez, nate wooley and the baltimore-based quintet, Trockeneis with andy hayleck, dan breen, catherine pancake and paul neidhardt. chen has performed in europe, russia, australia, new zealand, china, japan, taiwan and the USA. She is currently based in Baltimore, MD USA where she is member of the red room and high zero collective, an on-going series and international festival devoted to experimental improvised music.
http://www.myspace.com/audreychen
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
Based in Philadelphia, Charles Cohen, has been composing and performing electronic music since 1971. He specializes in collaborative, cross disciplinary projects with theater, dance, music, and media artists, and is singularly interested in live performance and improvisation. His instrument is the Buchla Music Easel, an extremely rare integrated analog performance instrument obtained from synth pioneer Don Buchla in 1976.
In regards to his work, he states, 'Atmosphere, landscape, and traveling, are what my sounds are about. Collaboration and exploration are what my process is about. The simple intent is sharing my favorite pastime with others.'
http://www.voicenet.com/~ccohen
New York-based multidisciplinary artist Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisations, often performed live and projected in large scale. Working from hand-drawn forms which he then manipulates with superDraw, a software instrument of his own design, Ott composes evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance. He performs frequently with musicians, sympathetically translating sound to vision to yield immersive multisensory experiences that are at once immediate and synergistic. Ott's work has recently been featured in exhibitions at Paris's Le Cube, the Playgrounds Audiovisual Art Festival in the Netherlands (2007), and the 2006 Ars Electronica Animation Festival. He has performed at Live Cinema Nights: Silver Lake Film Festival, in Los Angeles; as part of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival; and at venues throughout New York City, including Carnegie Hall and the Knitting Factory.
http://superdraw.intervalstudios.com