DRAW + Alex Waterman + Bruce Andrews

Thursday, September 18
Admission: $10, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended

TWOS, THREES, AND FOURS
An Evening of Mixt Media Messages

L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poet, BRUCE ANDREWS, cellist ALEX WATERMAN and DRAW...

will orbit one another in shifting constellations for lookers, listeners, and diners, honoring MonkeyTown's unique space.

Interspersed with anachronistic shorts by Jim Otis and Ken Jacobs...

ALEX WATERMAN is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. Alex has worked with musicians such as Robert Ashley, Richard Barrett, Helmut Lachenmann, Keith Rowe, Marina Rosenfeld, Anthony Coleman, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, Gerry Hemingway, David Watson, Chris Mann, Alison Knowles, Thomas Meadowcroft, and Michael Finnissy.

BRUCE ANDREWS has maintained a consistently uncompromising position at the most radical extreme of the literary avant-garde. He is a central figure in what has become known as Language Writing, the major innovative movement in U.S. poetry in recent decades.
He has published poetry, performance scores and literary theory widely, and has been frequently anthologized and the subject of numerous critical articles in recent years (including a panel at the Modern Language Association convention, 'Bruce Andrews and the Social Politics of the Avant-Garde'). He co-edited the journal L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E and The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E Book with Charles Bernstein, which sought to emphasize the type of work that has made Andrews's own texts so distinctive.

DRAW is Michael Schumacher [sound] and Nisi Jacobs [video]. DRAW's compositions form the basis for improvisations involving processed video, algorithmically generated sound and live musicians. Through experimentation and dialogue, they explore in depth the relation between sound and image. Their practice involves a number of strategies, such as coupling specific sound and image sequences, using multi-channel setups for video and sound, role-switching, and exploring notational techniques.

LINKS:
www.alexwaterman.com
www.DRAWnyc.com
www.drawtoy.com
www.michaeljschumacher.com
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/andrews/
www.starspangledtodeath.com