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Saturday, November
10
Admission: $8, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30pm
reservations
are recommended
A live interactive performance, with videos by Yu Chen Chiu and
Pedro Reis, and music by Pei Shan Kao.
Yu-Chen Chiu is a multimedia artist and photographer. She works
with formats of experimental videos, interactive public installation
and mobile public art. The themes in her works deal with themes
of human psychological experiences such as alienation, urban
loneliness and identity and human interactivity within technology.
Grow up in Taipei, Taiwan. She came to New York City, USA in
2001 in perusing her masters' studies in communications studies.
In 2006, she received an M.P.S degree in Interactive Telecommunications
Program at New York University. Her interactive installations
include "Bubbles of the Note" a sound visualization
installation; "CellWish" a visual-mobile public installation; "StoryCatcher," an
interactive narrative installation and her video works has been
screening internationally, such as U.S, Italy, France, Germany,
Slovenia, Poland and China.
You can view her work at http://www.yuchenvideology.com
Pedro Reis Born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1975,
he currently lives and works at New York, as a programmer. Starting
out as a self-taught artist, he started developing
Visual Arts projects in 2003,
mainly in Photography but also in Video (since 2004). At the
present moment he's collaborating with the multimedia artist
Pei-Shan Kao, in New York, and often collaborates with the
musician Draftank. His work was presented in magazines (Portugal,
Turkey
and USA), some festivals (Mascavado, Outfest, Amsterdam Film
Experience, and the upcoming Atlantic Waves 2007, in London),
group show exhibitions (at Estufa Fria,
with
MEF) and in several web collaborating projects. He questions
and researches through Images the relationship between the individual
and the surrounding urban environment; the decay and error; people's
migrations on space and time and other issues regarding Urbanity.
Pei Shan Kao is a Taiwanese-born multimedia
expressionist who graduated from Berklee College of Music in
2005. She has received
numerous awards such as the Roland Scholarship (2004), Berklee
North America Scholarship (2000-2005), got accepted to E. Stanton
Audio Recording/Audio Recording Institute from Aspen Music Festival
and School in 2007. She has studied flute with Matt Marvuglio,
Robert Dick and George Garzone; music synthesis with, Dr. Richard
Boulanger, Neil Leonard, David Doms. She also studied composition
and jazz composition with Dr. Dinu Ghezzo, Bob Pilkington. Currently
she is presuming her master degree at New York University.
You
can hear her work at http://www.peishankaomusic.com
Kai-Fan Cheng, a native Taiwanese, plays the
acoustic bass. Currently a student at Berklee
College
of Music, she has studied with Whit Browne, Barry Smith, Greg
Mooter, David Clark and John Stein and had numerous performances
at Berklee Performance
Center and Harvard Sanders Theater.
Giacomo Merega, an Italian bassist and composer,
has just moved to NYC from Boston, where he studied at Berklee
and then at The New
England Conservatory. His first album, featuring guitarist icon
David Tronzo, is coming out this fall on Creative Nation Music.
His list of current collaborations includes Bryan Baker, Dave
Fiuczynski, Dave Tronzo, Ran Blake, Zilzala and The Bloody Heads.
Akihiro Nishiguchi began playing the saxophone at age
12 at his junior high school in Japan. He took private lessons
with Hiroshi Ozone
for 5 years since he was 18 years old. Since 2000, he started
to perform with his own band in Japan. In 2003, he received a
scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music. At Berklee, he
was studying with George Garzone, Frank Tiberi, Joe Lovano, Hal
Crook. In addition, he was a member of the Berklee Concert Jazz
Orchestra. He performed with Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Manhattan
Jazz Orchestra, Grep Hopkins, Phil Wilson, Makoto Ozone, Jimmy
Heath. Moreover, he has performed at prestigious Jazz festivals
and places, such as the Phoenix Jazz Festival (Japan), Caramoor
Jazz Festival (New York), Swing 46 (New York), Blues Alley Jazz
Festival (Washington DC), Casa De La Musica (Ecuador), Cleopatra’s
Needle (New York), Ryle’s (Boston), Wally’s Jazz
Club (Boston), Le Club Jazz (Kyoto), Satin Doll (Kobe), and others.
Yuki Kanesaka, Keyboardist, Producer, has been
playing the piano since the age of 4 and has
been performing professionally in Japan since the age of 18.
After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2004, he has
played with artists such as John Blaskwell, Kenwood Dennard,
Darren Barrett, Giovanni Hidalgo, and George Duke.
Robert C Kelly has an extensive and diverse career as
a drummer/percussionist. His musical scope spans the genres of
Latin jazz, orchestral,
liturgical music, spoken word-poetry, musical healing and modern
dance. He has collaborated and performed with prominent choreographers,
directors, such as Ann Reinking of Fosse and Chicago, Michael
Grife of Rent, Baba Chuck Davis, Stanley Berke, actors Blythe
Danner, Bill Irwin, Stephen Collins, and Jack Gilpin. He has
World premiered Re-Collections by Harold Farberman, and 'The
Charm' by Michael Udow. He has toured the United States, Canada,
and Europe. His Broadway and Off Broadway credits include 'Les
Miserables', 'Aint Misbehavin', 'Infertility...the Musical That's
Hard to Conceive', Duke Ellington 'Song Book', 'Fame', and 'A
Good Swift Kick'. Mr. Kelly has received his formal training
with Ronald Gould, Principal Percussionist of the New York City
Ballet Orchestra. He received his Bachelor of Music from The
Hartt School of Music while studying with Alexander Lepak, and
holds a Master of Arts from New York University, while studying
with Jonathan Haas. Mr. Kelly has also served as Percussion faculty
at New York University.
Wei Fang Su graduated from the National Taiwan Normal
University majoring in piano, with minors in
the violin and the Erhu, a two-stringed traditional Chinese instrument.
Wei Fang considers teaching music as one of her most important
careers.
Having more
and more
students getting high scores in NYSSMA and the British Royal
Exam, makes her
and students fall more in love with music. Besides teaching,
she likes to work in different fields to see different things.
Wei
Fang
now is working hard to upgrade to a bigger world.
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