Dramatis Personae: Duets

photographs by Doug Glass and Jason Yung

Sunday, March 1
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8pm
reservations are recommended

Duet-inspired experimental, audiovisual, noise/rock/improv performances centered around guitars, drums, animation, video, photographs and sound for the camera.

Scott Ettin (photographs)
Jordan N. Mamone (guitar) and Tamara Yadao (video)
Trevor Bajus (guitar/visuals) and Alex Minott (drums/visuals)
Jeremy D. Slater and Tamara Yadao (guitar, sound and video)
Rajanikanth Tanikella (drums/visuals) and Jason Yung (guitar/visuals)

Scott A. Ettin has been working as a fine art photographer for the past 20 years. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Brazil, the Middle East and Brooklyn, recording the sites, sound and landmarks that make each place unique. Scott works in a variety of media, from high end digital acquisition to 35mm, medium format and Polaroid to record the moment and tell the story. He recently finished his first book on Jet Blue's new Terminal 5, documenting the original TWA terminal designed by Eero Saarinen before Jet Blue rebranded it. In addition, he photographed Jet Blue wide body jets landing at JFK as part of the project.

Jordan N. Mamone is a New York-based guitarist, vocalist, bassist and writer. Since 1994 he has fronted numerous lineups of the sporadically active (currently hibernating) noise-rock power trio Alger Hiss, with whom he has recorded a pair of LP/CDs (Settings for Nudes and Graft Vs. Host) and several tracks for compilation albums. In 2004 he joined two former members of the esteemed Finnish underground band Circle; adopting the name Lee Miller, this group released a heavy, loosely conceptual disc, written in the Arctic and funded partly by the government of Pori, Finland, about stoicism, mental instability, and modern Lappish culture. Mamone has also collaborated with a host of other international musicians and artists--among them, YBO2, Jonas Mekas, NAM, Juozas Milasius, Sax-Mafia, Tamara Yadao, and Rummy--in the United States, Lithuania and Japan. You've been warned.

Travor Bajus creates music under the name Bathysphere (with Alex Minott) that crawls along at double digit tempos. As a member of Hayseed, Volley, Skycam and Eiffel Tower, he has shared the stage with Luna, Poster Children, Longwave, Ted Leo, Clem Snide, Rainer Maria, New Roman Times, Head Like A Kite, and The National. He is also a digital artist who has worked with Jim Jarmusch, Darren Aronofsky, and John Cameron Mitchell.

Alex Minott is a painter, printmaker, photographer and electronic musician as well as a player of drums and keyboards in Bathysphere. He has dabbled in medical illustration, production design, and acted in small independent films, all to no avail. He still makes his living selling fossils, bones, insects, and scientific and aesthetic specimens to enthusiasts and collectors from around the world.

Jeremy D. Slater is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally.

Rajanikanth Tanikella and Jason Yung are arts-and-scientists living in Princeton and Brooklyn, doing musical business as Twin Keys. For this occasion, they have prepared some animations to accompany two songs: "Loop Angels", a celebration of the examined life, paired with "Amnesia", a lament about the necessary departure from a previous life.

Tamara Yadao is a multimedia performance artist who abstracts recorded expressions of the body to investigate formal relationships between movement, sound, noise and electronic media. Pieces are purposed for the single channel, multi-channel performance installation and live performance. Her work has been screened/performed at the Brooklyn Museum, Dixon Place, the Kitchen, Knitting Factory NY and Symphony Space.