Paul Amitai & Lady Firefly +
Bosque Nuboso & Benton-C Bainbridge

Monday, February 16
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8pm
reservations are recommended

Using cut-out bin vinyl samples and urban nature video, Paul Amitai & Lady Firefly take the familiar and transform it into something unexpected and sublime. With the typical tools of live VJ/DJ performance (laptop, turntables, CDJs, effects), the duo finds a way to spin unconventional experimental narratives out of inspired collective improvisation. Lady Firefly's lush, painterly visuals work in perfect harmony with the dub-inspired soundscapes of Paul Amitai, as their live set often shifts through a variety of moods - from sparse, sun-dappled textures to thick sheets of distortion and deep, watery rhythmic pulses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3Dtx3r68g

Paul Amitai is a New York-based visual and sound artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Amitai also performs electronic and improvised music in clubs and alternative spaces internationally.
http://www.myspace.com/paulamitai
http://www.paul-amitai.com

These days, Brooklyn's own VJ Lady Firefly (aka Zarah Cabañas) has been busy creating space and mood altering visuals inspired by the wintry forests, newspaper cutouts, and the here and now of her travels. Working once again with Paul Amitai's musical spells, this duo is everything you might expect in an extended lucid dream.

http://www.fireflylab.com
http://www.vimeo.com/ladyfirefly

Benton-C Bainbridge is a video artist using custom digital, analog and optical systems to make movies, installations and live visual performances. For this performance Benton-C will show Super 8 movies from the thawing Cold War era.

http://www.benton-c.com

Benton-C will be accompanied by Bosque Nuboso, a New York-based jazz-inflected guitar + electronics duo.