----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- BRINK presents Bruce Tovsky and Matt Davignon
Wednesday, December 28 9:30pm $15 ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- BRINK: Other-Minded Music, a monthly concert series by Other Minds, presents performances by New York visual/sound artist Bruce Tovsky, and Oakland-based experimental musician Matt Davignon. Tovsky will perform his most recent video/sound piece ETHER, which premiered at 106BLDG30 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in June 2005, and has been playing in international festivals from São Paulo to Seoul. The sound from ETHER was also featured recently in the BBC4 radio documentary "Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher," a provocative and disturbing look at shortwave numbers stations. With evocative sound and visual elements, ETHER aims to create an immersive environment of data decay. Images crackle and distort, merging in and out of video noise. The hiss and hum of sound thousands of miles away fills the room; snatches of music and voices decompose into static. In a darkened room, the video diptych is projected on a flat white wall as the only illumination. In addition, Tovsky and Davignon will perform two improvisational pieces together, one initiated by each artist. Both will draw on recently accumulated materials, and neither artist will know before the performance what the other has at hand. Tovsky will also incorporate recent video work that he has assembled for this event. Bruce Tovsky <http://www.skeletonhome.com> earned his MFA degree in Multimedia (Film, Video, Sound, Performance and Installation Art) from Rutgers University in 1979. He began showing video across the USA, Europe, and Japan in the early 1980's, and his work is in the collections of The Kitchen and The New York Library Donnell Library Center. He embarked on a diverse career as an audio engineer/producer (Liquid Liquid, Lydia Lunch, Karen Finley, Foetus) and video editor/ designer of commercials and music videos. For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations, often in collaboration with sound artist John Hudak, in a variety of spaces around New York City, including Diapason, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, and his own installation space 106BLDG30 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Since 1993, Matt Davignon <www.ribosomemusic.com> has developed a unique style of music which focuses on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Combining acoustic and electronic elements, he attempts to create dynamic, biological music from seemingly limited source material. Since 2004--after spending time focusing individually on bass guitar, live sound collage, consumer- grade electronics, prepared acoustic guitar, real-time sampling/ looping, experimental turntablism, and field recording--he has been working almost exclusively with a drum machine. Rather than using it as a rhythm device, he plays the pads manually while processing the sounds through an array of effects devices and samplers, improvising music composed of organic-sounding textures, hums, gurgles and crackles. Davignon is also active in organizing experimental and unusual music performances in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to being responsible for such events as The San Francisco Found Objects Festival and Sound/Shift Oakland, and helping to launch the Field Effects series, he is one of the curators for the Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series. ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street San Francisco http://www.hemlocktavern.com Between Post and Sutter, one block east of Van Ness Avenue. ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-934-8134 http://www.otherminds.org ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small businesses Copyright (c) 2005 Laughing Squid. All rights reserved.
