Set 1 - Richard Garet - Video {+}{–}
Richard Garet is a sound and visual artist that currently lives and works in New York, USA. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings' relationship with both artificial and natural environments. Garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. Additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, function, and form.
His video works investigates the possibilities found in today’s technology to create moving image. These works examine process, color, motion, digital glitches, RGB phenomena, afterimage, and the sensory gaps between the eye and the mind. The techniques employed to compose the work intend to push the boundaries of digital moving image and emphasize the media, digital permutations, and software processing as a pure and fundamental artistic gesture.
http://www.richardgaret.com Set 1 - Eric Lyon (laptop) and Christof Knoche (alto sax and electronics) - Music {+}{–}
Eric Lyon a composer and computer music researcher working at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen's University Belfast. For this performance, he will cycle stable and unstable rhythms, enhance Christof's performance, and build sonic landscapes from it.
Christof Knoche (New York) – Alto Saxophone - is active as a performer and composer in the fields of Jazz and Experimental Music as well as collaborations with dancers and visual/video artists since the late 1980s. Becoming an integral part of the New York music scene since moving there in 1997, he has worked, recorded and/or performed with Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Albert Mangelsdorff, Butch Morris, Art Baron, Nahawa Doumbia, Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Tuvenian Throat Singers Huun Huur Tu, Miles Okazaki, The New York Voices, HKM+, Miguel Zenon, Maceo Parker...
In this performance at {R}ake he will function in two ways - as an acoustic improviser and as a trigger for Eric Lyon's computer based software instruments.
Eric Lyon Christof Knoche Set 2 - Billy Gomberg - Video {+}{–}
Billy Gomberg is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming, creating electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their abstraction. His visual practice explores near stasis and lo-fi materials improvised in real-time, passing through impressionistic video textures and digital haze.
Billy has exhibited or performed in New York, Boston, Providence, London, Lisbon, Graz, Zurich and elsewhere. August 2009 saw the successful west coast tour of Delicate Sen, the improvising trio of Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, and Richard Kamerman (as Delicate Sen). A committed improvisor, he performs solo, w/Anne Guthrie (as Fraufraulein), w/Richard Kamerman (sometimes as Other Vultures), trio w/Joshue Ott & Robert Dick, and duo w/Garth Stevenson. Other collaborators include Jan Kees Helms, and Offthesky.
http://fraufraulein.com/billy Set 2 - Iron Dog (Sarah Bernstein and Stuart Popejoy) - Music {+}{–}
Iron Dog (Sarah Bernstein – violin/processing, Stuart Popejoy – bass guitar/effects) create electronic soundscapes, shifting distorted textures, freely synthesized, this and other worlds.
http://www.irondogmusic.com Set 3 - Color is Luxury (Charles Cohen and hair_loss) - Music {+}{–}
the Color Is Luxury sound is always improvisational, changing and evolving, ranging from very dense and harsh to minimal and ambient, beats to spacey, based on their mood at the time and the atmosphere of the space they're playing in. Regardless of the situation, they manage to come up with something special.
Charles plays a Buchla Music Easel, a rare analog performance instrument he acquired from master synth maker Don Buchla in 1976. he performs regularly in Philly with various folks on the techno, noise, jazz and new music scenes.
hair_loss plays a variety of esoteric and mainstream effects pedals and devices, which he wires up differently for each show, thus always keeping Charles guessing.
http://www.voicenet.com/~ccohen Set 3 - Dan Winckler - 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 1 - Adam Kendall - Video {+}{–}
Videoist and musician Adam Kendall explores multimedia improvisation and composition through his own work and the A/V series he curates. Solo or with other artists, he approaches live video as dynamically as traditional performance arts, and he approaches composed video with a clear sense of form and counterpoint. Adam runs {R}ake with Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi.
http://www.hellbender.org Set 2 - Ursula Scherrer - Video {+}{–}
The poetic quality of Scherrer's work reminds one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own stories, transforming a landscape into a serene, abstract portrait of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see then the feeling they leave behind.
http://www.ursulascherrer.com Set 2 - David Watson - Music {+}{–}
Over the past ten years, David Watson has deconstructed and reconstructed the highland bagpipe. With CD releases on Avant, Ecstatic Peace, Kraak and XI and a stellar cast of fellow travelers-Lee Ranaldo, Shelley Hirsch and Christian Marclay- he continues to explore the past and future of this sonic device. This collaboration with Ursula Sherrer is their first.
Set 3 - Lesley Flanigan and R. Luke DuBois - A/V {+}{–}
Set 1 - Joshue Ott - Video {+}{–}
New York-based visualist Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisations, performed live and projected in large scale. Working from hand-drawn forms manipulated in real-time with superDraw, a software instrument of his own design, Ott composes evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance, delivered with an inescapably human touch. Supple yet digital, ephemeral but instantly memorable, Ott renders sound into vision, yielding an immersive multi-sensory experience that is at once immediate and synergistic, a unique visual narrative born in the moment.
Performing with musicians from all genres between classical and avant-electronica, Ott's visuals have been featured at Communikey, Mutek, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Yuri's Night Bay Area, Le Cube (Paris), the Playgrounds Audiovisual Art Festival (Netherlands), and the 2006 Ars Electronica Animation Festival. He has performed with the American Composer's Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; as part of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival; and frequently at venues throughout New York City, including Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, the Knitting Factory, and the Stone. Upcoming performances are scheduled at MASS MoCA and the Plateaux Festival in Poland.
http://superdraw.intervalstudios.com Set 1 - Yoni Niv and Peter Evans - Music {+}{–}
Brooklyn based composer and sound artist YONI NIV is currently pursuing his PhD in Music Composition and Theory at New York University. As a composer, Yoni has collaborated with artists in many mediums including film, dance and theater. His works were presented internationally at venues such as Tel Aviv Museum, the Chelsea Art Museum, Thalia Theatre, Merkin Hall, Goethe Institute, Cologne Film Festival, NY Mix Film Festival and Vdance Festival. He regularly performs in the New York metropolitan and explores cross-cultural, urban musical practices in collaboration with local and international artists. He is the co-founder and curator of 'De Facto', a series committed to the promotion of experimental music.
Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in classical trumpet. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to broaden the expressive range of his chosen instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of players and composers. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet, Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), duo with trumpeter Nate Wooley, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance.
Set 2 - Kato Hideki - Music {+}{–}
Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born composer/bassist/multi-instrumentalist, who lives in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo piece 'Turbulent Zone' for electric bass with prime number tuning; 'Tremolo of Joy' for his band with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney & Calvin Weston. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei and Ursula Scherrer. As a bassit, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Michael Schumacher, John Zorn and among many others. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery.
http://www.katohideki.com/ Set 2 - Max Nova - Video {+}{–}
Max Nova, film director and cinematographer, is co-founder and CEO of Dawn of Man Productions, a Brooklyn based film production company. Nova's VJ work, which will be seen at RAKE, includes exclusively original footage. He has performed at many venues including: Phoenix Asylum - Boulder, Galapagos Art Space - Dumbo, Grace Exhibition Space- Bushwick, Art Awake - Rochester, Sin Sin / Leopard Lounge - Manhattan, and Project One - San Francisco.
www.dawnofmanproductions.com Set 3 - David Linton: The Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System - A/V {+}{–}
David Linton (born Newburgh NY 1956) is a Time based multiple media artist traveling the vectors of sound, subculture, and signal flow. He has been active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for nearly 30 years.
Originally a percussionist, David created sound, music, and something in between, for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since his arrival in NY at the end of 1970's. By the later 80's - after a good deal of percussion work along side other musicians: Lee Ranaldo, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp among others - he was equally known for his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances as well as his soundscore productions.
His 1986 solo Lp 'Orchesography' was an unlikely collision of street beats, early sampling tek, and theatrical post modernism.By the early 90's he had retired from performing in the live electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities that this new 'compressed' format suggested. Throughout the 90's Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and/or production of event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996) and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present).
From 2001 Linton's fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic sound and visual artists assumed the form of a live experimental television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television (2001-2004) - for which he was producer/director - and occasional performer.In 2004 David embarked upon his present course with the launch of his solo audio-visual project: the Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System.
With his 'Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System' (2004) Linton aims to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space.
He employs an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual 'medicine show' emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider that within the course of the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America...
http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch
Set 1 - Joshua Goldberg - Video {+}{–}
Set 1 - Christof Knoche and Satoshi Takeishi - Music {+}{–}
Set 2 - DRAW (Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs) - A/V {+}{–}
DRAW, founded in 2007, is a multimedia audio-visual collaboration between Michael J. Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs. DRAW creates multi- channel multi-projection large-scale works in performances and installations. DRAW's architectonic sound-image-scapes utilize found and new footage, field recordings, analog synthesizers, DSP, and A/V processing tools.DRAW's compositions form the basis for improvisations involving processed video, algorithmically generated sound and live musicians. Through experimentation and dialogue, they explore in depth the relation between sound and image.
http://www.drawnyc.com Set 3 - Geoff Gersh and Charles Cohen - Music {+}{–}
Charles Cohen (analog Buchla Music Easel) and Geoff Gersh (electric guitar) have been improvising together since 1993. They create pieces that weave in and out of rhythmic textures and ambient grooves. Charles 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. Geoff explores the sonic boundaries of the electric guitar with and with out the aide of electronic devices and found objects.
Charles Cohen Geoff Gersh Set 3 - Jennifer Stock - Video {+}{–}
Jennifer Stock is a composer and audiovisual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She creates software to coordinate soundand image for live performance, creating altered visual landscapes that integrate instrumental performance, foundsounds, and video. Recent New York performances include the Roulette Concert Series, the Music with a View Series atthe Flea Theatre, the Electronic Music Foundation's Lab Productions Concert Series, and the New Composer'sSeries at White Box Gallery, as well as sets at the Stone, Monkeytown, the Knitting Factory, Galapagos, the Tank,and the Chelsea Art Museum. She holds a B.A. in Music and English from Yale, and is a Chancellor's Fellow atthe CUNY Graduate Center in New York, where she studies with Morton Subotnick.
http//www.soundbookone.com