Saturday, March 17th, 2012 5pm A mini OptoSonic Tea festival
Featuring live sets by: ⁃ LoVid (live visuals and sound) ⁃ David Linton (live visuals/audio) ⁃ Brock Monroe (live visuals) with Nick Hallett (sound) ⁃ Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) with Gill Arno (sound) Invited respondents/moderators: - Adam Kendall - Michael J. Schumacher Suggested donation: $ 7 Outpost Artists Resources 1665 Norman St Ridgewood, NY 11385 L train @ Halsey St. stop (Coming from Manhattan, cross Wyckoff Ave and take a left on Norman St) http://outpostedit.org/ (718) 599-2385 OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future. Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer About the artists: Gill Arnò is a sound artist, performer and visual artist. In his work he engages sound and light as well as notions of memory, presence and time in complex constructions and performances. He is known as an improviser and as a phonographer, as well as for his intermedia project "mpld", in which he plays sequences of modified found slides while processing and amplifying the projectors' mechanical sounds. Arnò was born in Italy and moved to NY in 1997. He runs the experimental label Unframed and hosts the performance series Fotofono in his Brooklyn apartment and studio. Collaborators in past and present projects include Aki Onda, Andrew Lafkas, Ben Owen, Bruce McClure, Bryan Eubanks, Daniel Neumann and Richard Garet. He has performed at Experimental Intermedia (NY), The Stone (NY), Diapason Gallery (NY), Seattle Improvised Music Festival, No Idea Festival (Austin), Images Festival (Toronto), Courtisane Festival (Gent), Link (Bologna), Staalplaat WS (Berlin), WORM (Rotterdam). www.fotofono.net www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld www.unframedrecordings.net Nick Hallett is a composer, vocalist, and cultural producer. His new media opera with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10, was performed at The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA TBA Festival, and continues to tour nationally through 2013. Hallett’s work was included in Performa’s 2007 and 2009 biennials. He is the co-director of the Darmstadt music series, currently held at ISSUE Project Room. After organizing the first performance of the current incarnation of Joshua Light Show in 2007, Hallett became its music director and producer. Recently, he composed music for the project's fulldome son-et-lumière at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History. Hallett and Monroe collaborated on "Voice + Light Systems," a four-part residency connecting vocal music and multimedia ritual at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in May, 2009. Adam Kendall is a videoist and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He treats video as a medium capable of detailed, structured composition and dynamic, improvisational performances. Adam regularly performs and screens pieces solo and in various collaborations, including the multimedia project Toys’ Opera, and has recently presented or performed at SEAMUS 2011 (Miami, FL), ICMC 2010 (Stony Brook, NY), The Stone (NYC), Contour Editions (Online), and Diapason Gallery (NYC). 2012 includes projects with the new-music ensembles Le Train Bleu (NYC) and Fuse (DC). He has organized a/v performance series and workshops, including {R}ake, and is a software developer who incorporates his own programming in his work. http://www.hellbender.org Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers and sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, David First and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarté, Shelley Hirsch, Anne Wellmer, Margarida Garcia, Anthony Coleman, Micheal Delia, André Gonçalves, Matt Pass, Audrey Chen, murmer, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom Hamilton, among others. She is also involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) and the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in NYC. www.liberovskaya.net 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 30 years. Originally a percussionist, David has created sound, music, and something in between, for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since his arrival in NY at the tail 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 for the Wooster Group & choreographers Karole Armitage & Steven Petronio among many others. His 1986 solo Lp "Orchesography" was an unlikely collusion of street beats, early sampling tek, and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's he had retired from performing on drums in the live electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities 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 multimedia event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996) and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present). In the later 90's David was a key participant in Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods multimedia improvisation Performance project "Crash Landing" performing live electronics on stage in early outings in Leuvan, Vienna and Paris . 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 analog 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 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... Since the onset of the Bicameral project david performs extensively at home and abroad... his most recent project - an installation room at the Clocktower Gallery entitled "The Cortical Degausser" has perhaps relocated the Live Cinema proclivities of his work away from performance into a new dimension of relational space... http://bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch http://bicameral.multiply.com/ http://www.unitygain.org/ LoVid is the art duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. LoVid explores translation and decay of natural, electrical, and biological systems. Working together since 2001, LoVid produces works that are playful as well as aggressive, combining hand-made and machine produced craft, DIY electro-engineering, textile, video, and noise. LoVid has performed and exhibited at Museum of Moving Image (NY), Lampo (Graham Foundation), International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA, Aurora Picture Show, PS1, Evolution Festival (Leeds) Anthology Film Archives, The Kitchen, Mixed Greens Gallery, Rua Red (Dublin), Netherland Media Art Institute, The Science Gallery (Ireland), Real Art Ways, Urbis, (UK), The Jewish Museum (NY), The Butler Institute for American Art, The Neuberger Museum, The New Museum, and ICA London, among many others. LoVid has been artist in residence at STEIM, Diapason, Smack Mellon, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, free103point9, and Alfred University, and has received fellowships and grants from rhizome.org, Franklin Furnace, The Netherland America Foundation, NYFA, LMCC, Experimental TV Center, NYSCA, turbulence.org, and Greenwall Foundation. Brock Monroe is a multimedia artist working mainly in the intersection of improvisatory projections to live music. As a solo artist and in conjunction with the Joshua Light Show and Mighty Robot A/V Squad, he has appeared at Transmediale (DE), Lincoln Center, Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Netmage (IT), All Tomorrow’s Parties (UK), MoMA/PS1, and Secret Project Robot among others. The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer's work reminds one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own stories. She transforms spaces and landscapes into serene, abstract portraits of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see then the feeling they leave behind. Scherrer is a Swiss artist living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and museums internationally. Scherrer has worked with the composers/musicians Shelley Hirsch, Michelle Nagai, Kato Hideki, Flo Kaufmann, David Watson, Thomas Ankersmit, Brian Chase, Domenico Sciajno, Michael J. Schumacher, among others, in the creation of video and sound installations, live performances and single-channel videos. She has collaborated with the choreographer Liz Gerring as well as the light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert. Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic Tea, a series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sounds. http://www.ursulascherrer.com Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in NYC. He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, making computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. In their realization, Schumacher uses multiple speaker configurations that relate the sounds of the installation to the architecture of the exhibition space. Architectural and acoustical considerations thereby become basic structural elements. Schumacher was recently the Edgard Varèse guest professor at Berlin’s Technical University. While in Europe he had exhibitions at Q02 in Brussels, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg and at Ultraschall Festival in Berlin. Recent publications include a shared LP (with Jerome Noetinger) released by Entr’acte of London and a CD, “Weave” also on Entr’acte. XI Records has published a DVD set of five sound installations as computer applications, playable on up to eight speakers, which may be installed on a computer to create sound environments in the home. Schumacher’s latest project is the band “Else” with Timur Yusef, drums, Peter Knoll, guitar and Nisi Jacobs, bass. www.michaeljschumacher.com www.diapasongallery.org This Optosonic Tea event is funded by an Arts Council of the Southern Fingerlakes Electronic Media and Film grant (supported by NYSCA) through Outpost Artists Resources. for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit: http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
