Nicolas Collins returns to his old home-town for the premiere presentation of rev. 3.0 of his "Trombone-Propelled Electronics" (the original having been run over by a taxi at Schipol Airport, while its replacement chose to retire Garbo-ishly.) Live signal processing with a telltale whiff of the old Victrola. With Kato Hideki

Friday June 17
mpld- prepared and processed slide projectors.

The photoacoustic continuum of mpld's projection slowly flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory's subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep carving out each one from the other. The mechanical sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack. Color, density, texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to the distorted enlargement of a magnifying glass.

mpld is Gill Arno's mixed media performance and installation project. Born in Milan (Italy), Gill studied art and typography before moving to NYC in 1997. He has been since then designing record covers and art directing small record labels, as well as creating multi-dimensional environments as part of mixed media experimental events and parties.

http://m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld
http://m-i-c-r-o.net/gill

Combining her interests in graphic notation, unconventional instrumental techniques, live musical performance and video, Marina Rosenfeld's new project will generate a composition from an animated video projection-as-score. Rosenfeld's previous work has included large-scale, multi-player performance works she calls orchestras--'the emotional orchestra', 'the sheer frost orchestra'-- and video projections fabricated from original silent Super-8 footage. The new work will bring together elements from both these previous bodies of work, proposing yet another possible strategy for linking the visual and aural experience, for both audience and player.

David Behrman will perform two quiet multi-channel pieces, "Acoustica," for small wind and stringed instruments, and "View Finder," a music / video sound installation here presented in a solo performance version. Both pieces have elements going back to the 20th century and both make use of recent digital arts techniques.

Memobile is a new media interactive performance by David Weinstein and Angie Eng that explores the transition of one's perception from a static life to a nomadic one. Interactive video and sound via Jitter/MAX/SP is used to recreate the poetics of mobility in this multi-projection project. From a library of sounds and images, Weinstein and Eng improvise within a score that evoke emotions inspired by journeys. Landscapes both imaginary and real pan across the screens constructed by experimental architects, Liminal Projects.

dL will present 2 new works - one a solo audio visual work - the other a collaborative
realtime improvisational AV duet with video artist Chiaki Watanabe:

"Stroboscopy: GODBOX 101" is a solo AV performance investigating the perceptual effects triggered by the manipulation of the barest sonic and visual elements - across the stereo audio visual field in realtime:  
A pair of sine tone generators coupled with a pair of stroboscopic lamps will be employed to demonstrate and perhaps unlock some of the secrets encoded in the residual bicameral structure of human physiology as it pertains to audio visual perception and resulting states of consciousness.

With so much emphasis -in recent years -on the technological tools of reproductive media in the digital (and now perhaps 'post' digital) era - we offer the modest proposal that perhaps - in aesthetic/cultural terms - we may actually have explored relatively little new perceptual territory in the past 40 (400 or 4000?) years.  So we think it might be worthwhile at this point in time to re consider some of the raw elements of audio visual perception itself. (don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful - this is the only job i have at the moment... :~) anyway : this exercise is being enacted as the result of having recently read:

"Chapel of Extreme Experience - A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine"(2003) by John Geiger  - Soft Skull Press

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (1976) by Julian Jaynes - Houghton Mifflin Co.

Either of these works - particularly the Jaynes - if you've never read it - has a good deal more to offer on these subjects than this performance will - but we promise to make every effort not to waste your time.

* "Chiaki/Linton Untitled Improvisation #_ "( whatever number this performance will be by the time mid June rolls around)

This past February Chiaki Watanabe & David Linton began a series of collaborative realtime audio-visual performances around NYC venues which will continue through the spring & culminate in this performance @ Roulette Mixology '05 in June.

While Chiaki’s and David’s respective sensibilities are born of very different developmental paths and ‘generational’ proclivities their collaborative process has settled upon a very solid commonality in relationship to the processes and ‘elemental’ materials of their relative respective foci – namely: sound modulated abstract graphic animation - and hand manipulated electronically regenerative sound – and the cross-talk between them.  Both artists are presently committed to working from concentratedly curtailed pallets of basic material elements at the input stage to make the clearest common vocabulary available for extended fluid realtime conversations in abstract audio and visual expression.

* note (We haven't yet been able to form a mutual consensus on a title for this ongoing work.
David has suggested 'Drastik Plastix' for it's dual reference to a) Chiaki's frantic yet fluid graphic animation style and b) to the low budget ebay trophy digital drum boxes he
has been 'circuit bending' and employing in recent sets.  Chiaki favors 'Lotex Plastix' I think as a reference to her masterful affinity with low resolution video software.  (I believe either of these is probably quite a mouthful for any native Japanese speaker.)  David personally doesn't care for the low tek association hierarchically speaking... - so welcome to "Untitled Improvisation #_")

Ah it's a collaborative world after all.

Saturday June 25
Koosil-ja

Geoff Matters and koosil-ja will perform the first stage of the exploration of a dance and mixed media work, Dance Without Body, which is a study of the chapter, “Body Without Organs” from the book “Mille Plateaux” by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. For Mixology Festival, they will perform “live processing,” one of three main components of the work, in which koosil-ja dances following multiple self-prepared video source materials. The system is created as a tool to produce dance while abstracting herself from significances and subjectifications. Geoff will perform live video and sound score using a customized software environment conceptually relevant to the work.

The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.

Sunday June 26
Aki Onda

"Something which wasn't Said"

Aki Onda, a composer and photographer, makes autobiographical works which imprints his personal memories. "Something which wasn't Said" is an audio-visual piece, which he calls Cinemage (image for cinema, or homage for cinema). It's composed of slide projection of still photo images and improvised music. What we experience in his work is immersing ourselves in a kinematic state which transcends both reality and imagination mutually. Sensual and hypnotic, words are not necessary. On this occasion, Alan Licht and Loren Conners play guitar along with Aki Onda's visual images.