Tony Oursler's Synesthesia project features interviews with
incredibly influential figures from the experimental rock
and art underground of the late 1970's and 80's, from pre-punk
innovators to post-punk icons, from industrial and avant-garde
music to noise bands and No Wave. Originally included as
one element of Oursler and Mike Kelley’s multimedia
installation The Poetics Project, these conversations provide
fascinating insights and first hand accounts from a pivotal
period in underground music. A different selection of works
from this groundbreaking interview series will be presented
every Thursday in December.
Thursday 12/8: 7:30 pm, $7 Synesthesia:
Lydia Lunch, 1997-2001, 25:57 min
Lydia Lunch has been an important figure in New York's downtown
art and music scene since the late 1970s, when she led such
seminal No Wave bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and
8 Eyed Spy. Since then she has been widely acclaimed for
her writing, spoken word projects, and performances in experimental
films.
Synesthesia:
Glenn Branca, 1997-2001, 37 min
Glenn Branca emerged from New York's No Wave scene in the
late 1970s, composing and performing radical guitar music
with his bands The Static and Theoretical Girls. A rock
iconoclast and avant-garde composer, he began orchestrating
experimental symphonies of massed guitars and percussion
for the Glenn Branca Ensemble in the 1980s, and continues
to compose and perform.
Synesthesia:
Kim Gordon, 1997-2001, 20:15 min
Kim Gordon is bass player and vocalist for the experimental
rock group Sonic Youth, a visual artist, and the founder
of the clothing line X-girl. She has also played in the
bands The Supreme Indifference, Free Kitten, and The Lucky
Sperms. Her feminist lyrics, which address issues such as
rape, eating disorders, and gender stereotypes, and her
support of women musicians, have influenced a new generation
of artists and musicians.
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Thursday 12/8: 10 pm, $7 Synesthesia:
Thurston Moore, 1997-2001, 30 min
Thurston Moore got his start as a musician in the late 1970s,
playing in Glenn Branca's massed guitar ensembles, and went
on to co-found the experimental rock group Sonic Youth,
which continues to record today. A central figure in the
New York music community, Moore's activities include the
promotion of younger artists (including, famously, Nirvana),
the management of his own record label, and a vigorous writing
career that encompasses poetry as well as criticism.
Synesthesia:
Alan Vega, 1997-2001, 55:40 min
Alan Vega, one half of the influential pre-punk synthesizer/drum
machine duo Suicide (with Martin Rev), helped pioneer electronic
music in the early 1970s. Vega, who began his career in
New York as an artist known for light sculptures, also ran
an art space that was a meeting ground for some of the most
important artists in the underground New York art and music
scenes.
Produced by Tony Oursler. Questions: Tony Oursler, Mike
Kelley, David West, Linda Post. Camera: Linda Post and Tony
Oursler. Editing: Tony Oursler and Elizabeth Kading.
Full December Schedule:
Thursday 12/1:
7:30 pm: David Byrne
10 pm: Arto Lindsay and Dan Graham
Thursday 12/8:
7:30 pm: Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, and Kim Gordon
10 pm: Thurston Moore and Alan Vega
Thursday 12/15:
7:30 pm: Arto Lindsay and Dan Graham
10 pm: Genesis P-Orridge
Thursday 12/22:
7:30 pm: David Byrne
10 pm: Thurston Moore and Alan Vega
Thursday 12/29:
7:30 pm: Genesis P-Orridge
10 pm: Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, and Kim Gordon
EAI Presents is programmed by Josh Kline.
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