Last minute posting: I’ll be performing an impromptu piece tonight at The Tank as part of Scale of Sound as curated by the wonderful Leslie Flanagan. I’ll be dancing silently with a stranger. I go on around 11PM. $5.oo cover. You should come! From the description:
Amplification is magnification. Using voice, feedback installations, live soldering, piccolo, modular synths, photography, musical instruments and more, performers will play with amplification to change our perception of sound. Big sound, little sound, and everything in between.
For those of you who came to see my “performance” last week at LEMURplex (to whom I owe you that $5 cover charge), I am delighted to be able to show you some of what should have happened. Out of context at least. Marlon Barrios Solano over at dance-tech.net was nice enough to conduct an interview with me about the stuff I do. He’s got some documentation from the actual LEMUR show and I’ve also sent him some rehearsal stuff I shot so you can at least get a sense of what never happened. The video is below
I’ve skipped town for New Orleans this week, but if you haven’t, then I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather and…May I suggest going for a walk in Central Park? Maybe buying some roasted peaunuts from a street vendor? Or even possibly riding your bike to a gallery or two? If you decide to do any of the above, may I suggest swinging by Wook & Lattuada gallery on 36th steet between 5th and 6th Avenue. Michael Delgaudio and I are a part of a group show there called BLUE CHIPS. We’ve installed an interactive piece called SingleChannel. The opening, (which I’ll have to miss) is this Tuesday, May 13th from 6 - 8 PM. I’m not sure who the other artists are or what they are showing, but you might as well go for the free wine, Michael’s company, and the most expensive and complicated light bulb in Manhattan. More information below:
It’s the end of April, which means my time with the musical robots of LEMURplex is at an end. To celebrate I’m saving the last dance for THIS FRIDAY NIGHT May 2nd at 8:00 PM at LEMURplex in Brooklyn. I’ll be performing some disjointed technopromtendobluesical numbers and telling a tale of love, life, and loss, which together make up the work in love progress called ALLMYPERFORMANCEAREBELONGTOYOU1ø>3 is a Work in Progress. It’s a triptych quadtych really. To those interested, the set list includes songs by Mungo Jerry, The Bangles, and STYX, just to name a few. Here’s a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny preview:
It’s all going down at LEMURplex in Brooklyn on 3rd Ave. between 9th and 10th Streets: (map) Bar Tano is a hip joint right next door that were bound to grab a drink at after the show so come even if you come late.
more info below.
Take the F/M/R to 4th Ave. and walk one block down either 9th or 10th St. to 3rd Ave. LEMURplex is on 3rd Ave. between 9th & 10th Sts. Or, take the F/G to Smith & 9th Sts. and walk two blocks up 9th. Cross and then turn right onto 3rd Ave.
April ReSiDeNt show: Friday, May 2ndFeaturing new works by Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Schneider and Simon Morris
Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist and improviser-composer from an eclectic musical background. As singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using custom sound processing of voice and other instruments. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org) and has collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supové and Hans Tammen, among others and done sound design and programming for Jin Hi Kim, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on In-situ, and was featured vocalist on José Halac’s CD “Dance of 1000 Heads” (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles.
Dafna’s residency will involve dynamically controlled algorithmic improvisation and live audio processing, using vocal cues and controls to trigger and manipulate LEMUR robots.
Andrew Schneider is a multimedia designer and performer whose work investigates human/technological interdependence. He is the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company, BigPictureGroup. His solo performance work has been seen at P.S.122, Monkeytown, The Prelude Festival, and The Tank. His multimedia devices have been featured in Art Review, Wired, TimeOut NY, Maker Faire, SIGGRAPH, Dorkbot, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured internationally and is slated to be featured in the next Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. His latest projects include Experimental Devices for Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently working with The Wooster Group. (http://andrewjs.com)
Doing musical theatre with robots used to be Andrew’s standard joke answer to the question “So what do you want to do with your life?” Finally, a life-long dream comes true. He plans to start with a dance number, interfacing his movements with the robots via custom-built wearable controllers.
Born in New York City, Simon Morris (US/France) is a new media artist exploring urban landscapes, new musical interfaces and skateboarding. Investigating new forms of musical expression, his work examines technology and its role as a socially engaged art practice. He has conducted live performances at Eyebeam, NYC, the Article Biennale 2006 in Stavanger, Norway, the KiasmaMuseum in Helsinki, Finland and the Barker Theatre in Turku, Finland.
Simon is planning an interactive musical performance orchestrated by the movements of three skateboards.
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