From damon at zucasa.com Mon May 28 17:49:09 2007 From: damon at zucasa.com (Damon Holzborn) Date: Mon May 28 17:50:15 2007 Subject: [cmc-announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?CMC_F=FCn_Night_=234?= Message-ID: Announcing the fourth installment of CMC F?n Night! Thursday, May 31th, 8PM, FREE Computer Music Center at Columbia University, Prentis Hall, 632 W 125th Street, 3rd Floor http://www.music.columbia.edu/cmc/ Featuring: Jamie Allen Aki Sasamoto with Arturo Vidich and Anne Wellmer Damon Holzborn More info below. See you there? ------------------------------ Jamie Allen Jamie Allen makes interactive art and sound makers with his head and hands. He thinks technology can allow us to circumvent and reinvent traditional, commercial and hierarchical relationships to art and performance. His work in design, music, performance and public art creates physical relationships between people and media. circuitMusic is a platform for improvisational audio circuit building with raw op amp components. It is live audio circuit construction, signals laid bare and musical experimentation at its most unpredictable. The performance interface consists of the audio circuitry and breadboards, and is about a desire to find electronic music's equivalent of banging two stones together. I have performed variations on this idea at other shows in NYC and abroad over the past 5 years or so. More recently this piece has evolved into a dialog between DJ culture and experimental electronic music traditions. That is, I play and mix these circuits much like a DJ would. There is an often unspoken commonality in the histories of late 20th century electronic music performers and seminal turntable and DJ artists. Both cultures are based around the routing of musical signals as a creative act, and both are preoccupied with the "mis-use" of musical and technological artifacts. http://heavyside.net/ --------------- Aki Sasamoto with Arturo Vidich and Anne Wellmer Aki, Arturo, and Anne will improvise together like good old days with AAA memory. Videos, words, everyday objects, and bodies will fly around in the space. Aki Sasamoto is a performer, sculptor, and generally curious being. She is interested in everyday gestures on nothing and everything. Her improvisational system creates feedback, responding to sound, objects, and moving bodies. She is a member of lower lights collective and has worked with Jeffrey Schiff in sculpture, Eiko & Koma, Koosil-ja Hwang, Hari Krishnan, Clarinda Mac Low, and Yvone Meier in dance, and with Renegade Runner, a Danish feminist group. She completed an MFA degree in visual arts at Columbia University just this May. Arturo Vidich makes off-the-wall performances and lives in New York. Recently he returned from a three-month artist residency at The Red Stables in Dublin, Ireland. Currently he is continuing his Horror Project, an ongoing inter-media investigation into the dark side of human nature, and fear of the animal within. Vidich is working on a New York City version of an Irish-born initiative called the Genesis Project, which provides space and time free of charge for performing artists and artists of related disciplines. His writing has been published in two issues of the Movement Research Performance Journal. Anne Wellmer is a composer, performer, singer, and sound artist. She studied electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT/USA. Her works include sonic environments for performances, sound installations, live music for dance and theater, radio art, music theater pieces, network projects, and improvisation with electronics. Anne Wellmer lives and works in The Hague and in Berlin. --------------- Damon Holzborn Damon Holzborn is an improviser and composer working primarily with electronics. His performances make the familiar unrecognizable, manipulating sound sources such as guitar and field recordings with custom instruments, traditional effects and interactive processes. Currently pursuing his doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University, Holzborn has presented his work in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, South Africa and Japan and has collaborated with many innovative musicians and dancers. http://www.damonholzborn.com http://www.trummerflora.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/cmc-announcements/attachments/20070528/c3e0a409/attachment-0001.html