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Friday, April 13
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are quite recommended
Through some bizarro twist of scheduling mishap/fate we feature
not ONE, but TWO shows this evening at each seating.
First up: Take-Away
Shows/Concerts A Emporter
When Vincent
Moon (aka Mathieu Saura) walked into Monkey Town last
summer to tape a session with Stars
Like Fleas, the mood in our space immediately changed,
quite in spite of the massive drinking that ensued.
Mathieu started this project a little over a year ago and it has
since blossomed into a tour de force de France de Estats Unis.
This is much more intimate and real than "MTV Unplugged".
Bands play acoustically wherever they happen to be that day or
night and the sound fidelity is always superb. He has released
42 concerts so far, including Au Revoir Simone, Elysian Fields,
Arcade Fire, Doveman, Xiu Xiu, Grizzly Bear, and Stuart Staples
(Tindersticks); as well as dozens of lesser known French bands
that are a lot less lesser known after they encounter Mathieu.
We are very excited and proud to host Mr. Moon/Saura.
Checkout his site for a preview:
http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows/
Secondly: EyeWash:
Femme Fatale
Holly Daggers just
returned from Miami where she remixed fashion models for Vogue
Eyewear, and most recently performed a retro-lightshow for Page
McConnell of Phish for the launch of his solo album and tour.
After a year researching the visual legacies of Busby Berkeley,
Florenz Ziegfeld, and Edith Head, tonight Holly will pour shots
from a toxic cocktail of gold diggers, divas, and difficult dames,
mashing Hollywood musicals with science fiction, mythology, and
burlesque!
Zarah Cabañas
(a.k.a. Lady Firefly) is a video artist and VJ based in Brooklyn.
Her videos and live mixes are subtle and dreamy, finding the ethereal
qualities within the everyday. These days, she improvises her
“electrorganic” live video mixes and exhibits her
pieces all over New York City; and internationally in Barcelona,
Sydney, Montreal, and most recently at Moscow’s Territoria
Festival with electronic musician Tonearm. But tonight, she is
playing with EyeWash’s original audio source, Zemi17, back
in Brooklyn after living in Indonesia 2004 – 2006. Zemi’s
focus from experimental electronic music shifted to studying Gamelan
and regional Indonesian folk music. In the recent months since
returning Zemi has performed and produced experimental music as
“Orkestra Jangkrik dan Gamelan Listrik Aneh” (The
Cicada Orchestra and Strange electric ensemble of strikeable instruments)
and has expanded the Zemi17 genre into a unique fusion of minimal
techno made with gong samples and snips of insect field recordings
and has recently composed for the video sculpture of Disney Nasa
Borg, new dance work by Erin Ellen Kelly and is working with video
artist Jeanne Angel on a multi channel audio video installation.
Check out his myspace at http://myspace.com/zemi17
Katherine Liberovskaya and David
Watson present Bagpipe Varitations, uncustomary
perspectives on bagpipe sound with Watson’s unconventional
approach to the traditional instrument in responsive dialogue
with offbeat perspectives on the instrument itself and its player
with Katherine Liberovskaya’s multiple live camera JITTER/MAX/MSP
set-up enabling her to mix and process the cameras’ points
of view with pre-recorded moving images in real time. Katherine
is a video and media artist based in Montreal and New York City.
She has been working predominantly in experimental video since
the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel
videos and video installation works, some of which have earned
awards and mentions in Europe and North America. Her works have
been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events
around the world. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently
been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media
art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator
1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal
and Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006,
2007) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NY. David
Watson is a new music performer who works with the Highland bagpipe,
a traditional instrument he has pioneered as a vehicle for new
music. His work draws on traditional material, experimental improvisation,
contemporary minimilist works and live processing via MAX/ MSP.
EyeWash
is an event where VJs and Video artists perform live-mix video,
present audio visual performances in collaboration with Audio
artists, workshop performance involving video and technology.
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