Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video {+}{–}
Giles Hendrix produces and mixes media for the internet, live performances, and installations with a focus on the aesthetics of the the screen and information. Find him at twitter.com/gileshendrix, facebook.com/gileshendrix, and gesturemedia.tv.
http://www.gesturemedia.tv
Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author - a digital artisan who works with sonic, visual, and textual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. His compositions have been performed in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, Electroshock, Tobira Records, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and online. Examples of his music and digital artworks may be found at his website, http://www.otownmedia.com, and his short films are available at http://www.vimeo.com/rlainhart.
At {R}ake, Lainhart will be performing realtime improvised electroacoustic music on his Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken Continuum 3-dimensional keyboard.
http://www.otownmedia.com
Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist, composer, and performer who creates sensory environments at the intersection of sound, light, acoustics, and technology. Sadeghi draws from these elements to accentuate time and space, and to play with the awareness that can materialize between their physical properties and the human perception. Sadeghi's work has received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire Magazine, Signal To Noise, e/i and several international online publications. Sadeghi’s performances, collaborations and installations have been experienced at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), ICA (Boston), Diapason Gallery (New York), 4Culture (Seattle), Staalplaat (Berlin), Decibel Festival (Seattle), DTW (New York), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), RAM (Rome), SICMF (Seoul) and others.
http://www.kamransadeghi.com
Bradford Reed never fails to entertain and inspire. This Brooklyn, NY based composer, performer and producer fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction. The pencilina is an electric ten stringed collision of the hammer dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types. It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide sonic palette. Many have enjoyed Reed's frequent street performances and club dates.
http://pencilina.com
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