Thursday, March
27
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Sound sculptor Sawako joins local inter-media artist Byron Westbrook and Texan Loren Dent for a night of dynamics for ear and eye.
About Sawako
Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, subtle fragments in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. She is interested in the soundscape and the media scape of digital era, and her activities are making bridge between public and private, virtual and actual world.
Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR(USA) and Anticipate (USA). She had collaborated with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, RF, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Radiosonde, among others. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig.
She has performed internationally as an audio and/or visual artist in MUTEK (Canada): Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, Starbucks Salon, BAP Festival (NYC); Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC); Glade Festival, Resonance FM, ICA (UK); Batofar (Paris); m12(Berlin); Offsite, Super Delux, Bullets, Apple Store (Japan). In 2006, she was awarded a Jerome Foundation grant to create a commissioned work for Roulette.
Her work has been featured in The Wire (UK), Blow Up (Italy), Improvised Music from Japan (Japan), NY Art (US), e/i magazine (US), DEBUG (Germany), Go MAG (Spain), GAFFA (Denmark) among others.
Sawako obtained a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University where she studied Networked Expression, Physical Computing, Post Linear Narrative and Audio/Visual Studies. She received a B.A. from Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC, Japan.
Born in Nagoya, Japan, studying the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child.
http://www.troncolon.com
http://www.myspace.com/sawako
About Corridors (Byron Westbrook)
Byron Westbrook is a sound/intermedia artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work involves performance of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on redistributing energy distilled from sound and light. In solo performances under the name CORRIDORS, a system of multiple amplifiers is used in conjunction with PA speakers to create a dynamic space within a space using sound and video projection. He has also collaborated with Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Chatham, Glenn Branca and Jonathan Kane. Releases are forthcoming in early 2008 for both Corridors and Essentialist.
http://www.byronwestbrook.com
http://www.myspace.com/corridors
About Loren Dent
Loren Dent is an Austin-based aural architect, musician, and producer. His solo efforts incorporate humming static and chasmal feedback meticulously assembled into a warm, " joyous drone." Loren composes his work with the use of sampling, processed guitar, field recordings and live string arrangements to build dense layers of sound that test the border between acoustic and digital. Though Loren's work is often compared to the likes of Fennesz and William
Basinski, his most recent release, "Empires and Milk," gained international praise for its original approach to the ambient genre. Loren has performed with a range of notable artists, including Brian McBride of Stars of the Lid and members of the New Music Coop. He is currently finalizing his 2008 release, "Anthropology."
http://www.contractkillersrecords.com/lorendent
http://www.myspace.com/lorendentmusic
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