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Sunday, January
27
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
AUDIO + VIDEO PERFORMANCES:
AL MARGOLIS + MICHAEL DELIA (sound)
+ KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA (visuals)
SAM PLUTA (sound and visuals)
BEN MANLEY (sound) + URSULA
SCHERRER (visuals)
Special video guests MONKEYFISH and MAGENTA INTERIORS
ABOUT FLOW:
...experimenting with noise, sound, and image...flow brings you
closer
to the edge of dreams than you would normally find yourself in
a
waking state. flow provides you with continual sound and vision
with
stimulating textures leaving you satisfied, yet craving for
more...flow consists of performances throughout the evening with
a
stream of sound and video performed live—enjoy flow...
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
AL MARGOLIS has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette
underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, co-founder
of experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the
name
If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly
spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented
composition. Currently Margolis is label manager for Deep Listening,
XI Records, and Mutable Music; plays bass guitar in the legendary
punk/post-punk band Styrenes; and continues his work as If, Bwana.
He
has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan
Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam
Bohman, Ellen
Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger,
David
First, and Dave Prescott, among others. He recently performed
in
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl and Nihzny Novgorod as part
of
"Experimental Intermedia in Russia". His "It Never
Rains in Mexico", a
commission by WDR Koln was aired in December 2007.
MICHAEL DELIA creates and performs with home-made musical instruments.
A contemporary "Bricoleur" Delia looks to extract sounds
from most any space
and situation. Working with found objects and architectural structures
he
combines traditional instrument making with everyday common objects.
He has
worked with various dance and theater groups in New York and
Europe and in
solo music performances with his home-made instruments and sculptures.
He
also performs regularly with the prague-based group The Forgotten
Orchestra
of Dreamland and Orloj Snivcu in both Prague and the US. He is
currently
living between NYC and Prague.
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/sound artists, notably
Phill
Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Hitoshi Kojo, Zanana, and David
Watson. Since
2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation
with
numerous live new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia,
Barry
Weisblat, o.blaat, murmer, André Gonçalves, Monique
Buzzarté, Anthony
Coleman, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Alessandro Bosetti,
Audrey Chen,
Marina Rosenfeld, Anne Wellmer, among others. In addition to
her art
practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming
and
organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio
XX in Montreal
(programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace
Vidéographe, Montreal and Experimental Intermedia, NY
(Screen Compositions
2005, 2006, 2007) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula
Scherrer
at Diapason in NYC.
SAM PLUTA is a New York City based composer and improviser working
in
the fields of acoustic and
electronic music. His work has been commissioned and premiered
by many notable
performers and ensembles including: RIOT Trio, Dave Eggar, Ha-Yang
Kim, Prism
Saxophone Quartet and Teresa McCollough. As a founding member
of the
microtonal drone and noise band Glissando Bin Laden, he has focused
in recent
years in fusing the worlds of acoustic and electronic instruments
through
improvisation. Also interested in the world of electronic non-pop,
his analog synth
band exclusiveOr recently recorded and released their first album.
Sam's music is
released on quiet design, Seamus, and Vox Novus labels.
Composer and experimenter BEN MANLEY explores the natural variability
of wind, amplified small vibrations, and resonant objects to
generate
dynamic musical environments. Sound sources may include fans,
large
bass drums, radio interference from light bulb filaments, and
the
rebroadcasting of spaced microphones onto the live acoustic space.
Manley has worked extensively in noncommercial music and audio
in New
York City since 1986. He has presented solo performances and
installations of light and sound across the country and overseas.
Manley has collaborated with Sean G. Meehan, Connie Crothers,
Jim
Staley, Dan Evans Farkas, Jens Brand, Linda Austin, the Manley
Family
Trio, and has appeared with Composers Inside Electronics at the
Lincoln Center and with Essential Music and the Downtown Ensemble.
He
has installed realizations of works by Alvin Lucier, including
The
Queen of the South and Music on a Long Thin Wire, at Studio Five
Beekman, Greenwich House Music School, Subtropics 18, and MFA,
Boston.
As a curator, Manley has presented festivals of experimental music at
the Jack Tilton Gallery and elsewhere including House Mix: 19 Pianos,
19 Improvisers & 19 Microphones (a collective performance/recording/playback
event), Electro-Whammy (w/ Ron Kuivila,
Ben Manley, Matt Rogalsky), and say YES! to experimental music (w/
Jens Brand, Dan Evans Farkas, Ben Manley, Phill Niblock). As an audio
engineer for concert events, Manley has recorded over 1,000
performances in more than 200 NYC venues and serves as technical
consultant to arts organizations, recording studios, architects, and
visual/media artists.
URSULA SCHERRER
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.
Ursula Scherrer is a swiss video artist living in New York City.
Her
installations and live video performances have been shown in
festivals, galleries and museums internationally.
She has worked with composers/musicians such as Michelle Nagai,
Marina
Rosenfeld, Monya Pletsch, Kato Hideki, Michael J. Schumacher,
Andrea
Valle, Flo Kaufmann, Tetsu Inoue among others, in the creation
of
video and sound installations and live performances.
Scherrer is part of the international artist group BIWAK which
meets
annually in isolated locations to focus on art - BIWAK's first
public
appearances with 'BIWAK kocht' at the Kunstraum Engländerbau,
Vaduz/Liechtenstein, and the Kunsthalle Wattwil in 2007.
Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic
Tea, a series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with
live
sounds. They toured in Europe with OptoSonic Tea on the Road
in
Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia and Italy.
Scherrer's work has been shown at the New York Video Festival
2004,
BAC 36th International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum
of
Art, at the Chelsea Art Museum, the d.u.m.b.o art festival 2005,
Experimental Intermedia, Diapason, Roulette, Issue Project Room
and
Engine 27 in New York, at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin,
Dissonanze Festival in Rome, Live!iXem 2007 in Palermo, O'artoteca,
Milan, 9e Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais Geneve,
Tesla, Berlin, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne, Kunstraum im
Walcheturm, Zürich, Plug-in, Basel, Point Jaune Museum,
St. Gallen, 8
Gallery Cafe de Asis, Panama City, The Red House, Center for
Culture
and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Media Test Wall / MIT List
Visual
Arts Center, Cambridge, Strange Attractors II, 2nd International
Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art, St. Paul, Virginia Film
Fest,
GAIe Gates etal., Brooklyn, Red Room, Baltimore, Silk Mill in
Union
City, Experimental Intermedia Gent, among others.
http://www.ursulascherrer.com
MAGENTA INTERIOR uses all possible colours of the chromatic palette,
all genders between feminine and masculine and emotions of her
heart
in the stories she tells. These stories are most of the time
texts,
but lately they are also visuals. Magenta is inspired by popular
and
secular ways of passing knowledge, through story telling. She
writes
stories that are neither prose nor poetry, but spoken words written
with rimes. The visual performances are improvised and the result
is
surprising for the audience as much as it is for the performer.
http://www.visual-agency.net/magenta_interior
MONKEYFISH (Elsa Vieira) divides her time and work between New
York
and Lisbon. Currently, she is exploring multiple modes of visual
communication, primarily through 16mm film, digital video and
live
visual processing using coded language and movement, and how
they
affect, and are affected by, the nervous system. In addition
to her
own work, Elsa is deeply involved in bringing new media and digital
art to the global community as part of her vision for RogueWaves,
a
company she founded in 2002, and incorporated as a non-profit
in 2007,
the goal of which is the furthering and evolution of counter-current,
revolutionary ideas around the world through artistic experimentation
and/or collaboration. http://monkeyfishfilms.net
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