Corridors + Ben Vida, Siebren Versteeg, Natalie LeBrecht, Deborah Johnson

Wednesday, May 27
Admission: $5
Showtime: 8pm
reservations are recommended

Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORSinvolve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Sawako, Stefan Tcherepnin, Lichens, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, James Blackshaw, Anette Krebs, and Soft Circle, among many others. He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, ParisLondonWestNile, Les Voûtes (FR), Issue Project Room, Institute of Intermedia (CZ), Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre and Jonathan Kane. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium and is currently the technical coordinator at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

http://www.myspace.com/corridors

"To call Byron Westbrook a composer of breathtakingly beautiful ambient pieces and drone works is reasonably accurate but painfully reductive; Westbrook, whose work under the name Corridors has involved acoustic instruments, field recordings, spatialized playback and lighting, is the kind of artist for whom the old, mostly disused term intermedia was coined." — TimeOut New York

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Ben Vida, Natalie Lebrecht, Siebren Versteeg and Deborah Johnson will perform a piece for analog synthesizer, voice, gates and images.

Deborah Johnson
Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations, is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer. She spends the majority of her time as a traveling video performer, having designed visuals and sets for music groups such as M. Ward, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Chocolat & Akito, Calexico, and Lambchop. When home, she produces web, print, animation and video projects for a wide range of folks.

She has exhibited worldwide in both group and solo shows. In January of 2008 she collaborated with Truckstop Media’s Braden King and musician Shahzad Ismaily on an installation and performance as part of the Sundance Festival's New Frontiers on Main. In August 2008, She was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts' Digital Media Residency, where she worked and performed with German audio / visual artist Carsten Nicolai.

Deborah is also Visiting Professor of 4D Design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She will be pursuing a Masters of Science in Integrated Digital Media at NYU Polytechnic in the Fall of 2009.

http://www.candystations.com
http://www.vimeo.com/candystations

Siebren Versteeg
Siebren Versteeg is a media artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited worldwide and is currently represented by the Max Protech Gallery in New York.

He is working in a new language for digital media, transforming computer art towards a fully developed medium for conceptually based works that are capable of creating a dialogue with other kinds of artistic media and ideas. He combines popular culture with elements of film, photography, and painting, and uses computer technology to integrate live, real-time information from television and internet sources into his work. Often implicating himself and the viewer, he examines the extensive availability and proliferation of information-ranging from the associated press to online diaries to live television. - Julie Windholm Rodriguez MCA Chicago

Siebren is currently a HARP artist in residence at Hallwalls.

http://www.siebrenversteeg.com

Ben Vida
Ben Vida has been writing, recording and releasing records for over ten years, both with such bands as Town and Country, Singer and DRMWPN as well as solo under the name Bird Show. He has released records with many labels including Thrill Jockey, Drag City and Kranky and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.

2008 brings the release of Untitled, the third album under the Bird Show moniker. Joining the group for this outing are Greg Davis, Robert AA Lowe, Michael Zerang and Adam Vida. Upcoming projects include works for solo analog synthesizer and the first Bird Show Band release featuring Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Dan Bitney and John Herndon.

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/singer.html
http://www.kranky.net/artists/birdshow.html