Kurt Ralske

KURT RALSKE will show a series of video experiments involving dimensional remapping. In these Atemporal Etudes, the sequential becomes simultaneous, objects at rest appear in motion, mov-ing objects appear to be at rest ... and something amazing and unexpected is revealed about time and our relation to it. Ralske has performed and exhibited at venues throughout the world, including the Guggen-heim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kurt Ralske is a NYC-based video artist, composer, and programmer who uses technology to research time and the atemporal. He works in a variety of practices, including improvised audio visual performance, in installations, in digital print media, and in software art. His work is created exclusively with his own custom software, written in C/C++ and Java. He has performed and exhibited at museums, galleries, and theaters throughout Europe, Canada, and the US, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. The New York Times has praised his "compelling, ingenious alliance of sound and motion" and "technological wizardry."

"Atemporal Etudes" : A series of video experiments involving dimesional remapping. What if time was a space? What if space expressed itself as an action unfolding over time? In these "Atemporal Etudes", events that occurred sequentially appear simultaneously. Objects at rest appear in motion, and moving objects appear to be at rest. There are distortions of geometry and impossible types
of motion, but more importantly something is revealed about time and our relation to it.

David and Gisela Gamper
See Hear Now: Visible Music

“… enwrapped in a womb of sound and imagery penetrating my whole being…” – audience comment. David & Gisela Gamper's See Hear Now (www.seehearnow.org) is a real-time music and video collaboration that merges the sonic and the visible into a transcendent experience. See Hear Now premiered in 1999 and has performed widely. For this live improvised performance at Location One, the Gampers create a unique installation using projectors, mirrors, fabric and speakers.

See Hear Now is a real-time music and video collaboration that seeks to merge the sonic and the visible, and to transport the performers and audience to a transcendent experience. In their individual work, the artists are fascinated by sounds and images from nature and life. To create his live improvisations, David begins with the acoustic sounds he draws from his piano, small instruments and found objects. When he expands them through live electronic transformations they retain the power of natural sound. Originally a photographer, Gisela has extended her image making into video.  Her imagery reveals how movement and rhythm create our world. With a system David developed, Gisela performs her imagery with the same immediacy as David performs his music. Using projectors, mirrors, fabric and speakers, the Gampers surround the audience with video and music to create an immersing environment.

See Hear Now premiered in upstate New York in 1999 and over the following year performed around the eastern US, including the Knitting Factory and Roulette in New York City. In a series of loft installations, the Gampers have explored alternative ways of immersing both audience and performers. Many of these performances included guest artists and in 2001, joined by sound artist Stuart Dempster, See Hear Now brought this intimate format to a two week residency at the Jack Straw Media Gallery in Seattle. RouletteTV produced a performance which was first broadcast in 2003. The duo was featured in Brooklyn College’s Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2003, the 2004 SOUNDPlay festival in Toronto and in Juilliard’s 2005 Beyond the Machine festival in New York City. They released their DVD in 2005. This year’s installations include a lecture and performance at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign.

http://www.seehearnow.org

Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat)

Based in Brooklyn, sound artist, composer, core member of SHARE (http://share.dj), Keiko performs a US premiere of her first audio-visual piece 'Der Blinde'(The Blind Man), initially commissioned and presented by Der Ohrenzeuge/veza.klingt.org festival, Kleylehof, Austria in June, 2005. The piece was made based on a short story with the same name written by Elias Canetti in his book "Ear Witness: 50 Characters".  The remote slide projector sensor device was created with a great help by Mark Wise at Harvestworks. Note to 'Der Blinde': I will create a 'slide show' by The Blind Man (Der Blinde) who obsessively travels to document images without acknowledging. Images without notions. Everything is in rectangular shape. They signify 'memory never consumed' which can be described as 'Empty memory', however, it is not at all 'No memory'. His full of 'The Memory' would actually be consumed by 'others' (invitees to his 'slide show'). He has whole other memory (the ones he never consciously collect) which will never sync with his 'Empty memory' (which he is obsessed to collect.) You are invited to consume both of his 'Memories - unsynched'. Welcome to the 'slide show'! Check out: http://obla.at

Ron Kuivila and Ed Tomney

"Sophisticated Filters"

An ongoing collaborative project involving a live performance/installation by composers Ron Kuivila and Ed Tomney.

An evening length composition in three sections entitled "Filtering 6-14" will be performed. Components of this performance will entail live control of software, electro-acoustic sculptures, a customized enclosure/sculpture designed to conduct live foley-art operations and vintage modular synthesis (EMS Synthi).

In the concert multiple media, (physical and electroacoustic sound sources, archival audio recordings, foley art, analog synthesis and customized software) are used to produce an enormous variety of sounds that are nearly, but not quite identical. Attempting to produce identical sonic character with different media yields subtle differences in timbre and texture unattainable within any one medium. This project involves the live performance of an original composition that also designates improvisational elements and responses as moment-form reactions to timbral clusters and gestures. This affords a unique realization and interpretation every time the composition
is performed.

Benton-C Bainbridge and Evidence

"Landscaping" by Evidence (Stephan Moore & Scott Smallwood) and Benton-C

Landscaping is a live audio/visual performance in which Evidence and Benton-C  reconstitute their experience of specific locations as improvised electronic 'landscapes'.  Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood and Benton-C Bainbridge visit sites with cameras and microphones to capture sights and sounds as raw material for cinematic collage. Each performance of Landscaping is essentially different, reflecting both Evidence and Benton-C's interplay as improvisers and the shifting memories of their individual experiences of the original landscapes.

Bainbridge has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Whitney, MOMA, Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), Uplink Factory (Tokyo), American Museum of the Moving Image, The Kitchen, Transcinema (San Francisco), STEIM (Amsterdam), Metafort d'Aubervilliers (Paris), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Vidarte (Mexico City), and Hotwired (World Wide Web)

Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV with FUEVOZ, a company he cofounded with V Owen Bush.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT SEASON

Amy Knoles-CANCELLED

Sacred Cow combines the unique talents of new media performer/composer Amy Knoles with butoh dance theater and media artist Michael Sakamoto in an exploration of sacred and profane music and dance through the ages. South Asian chant, European gypsy rhythms, hip-hop and much more are all turned on their proverbial heads in a performance environment combining high-tech soundscapes and primal expressionism, where everything and nothing is sacred.

Amy Knoles, is a composer/performer who tours globally performing computer assisted live electronic music with percussion controllers and linear/interactive video.  Her work has been described as being of "frightening beauty, fascinating, complex" -N.P.R.  A "Los Angeles' new music Luminary, infinitely variable, infinitely fascinating" - Los Angeles Times.  Amy  is the recipient of the 2005 American Composers Forum Subito Grant 2005, the Durfee Grant - 2003,  "UNESCO International Prize for the Performing Arts - 2000",  the 1999-2000 "Indiviual Artist Fellowship" Award from C.O.L.A. , the  2001 Lester Horton Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for Dance", and  she was the 1996 ASCAP Foundation " Composer-in-Residence at the Music Center of Los Angeles", recently created a sound environment for the J. Paul Getty Museums' walking tour, and is the composer for Collage Dance Theater. Co founder of the California E.A.R. Unit now @ REDCAT, has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Kronos Quartet, Pierre Boulez, Rachel Rosenthal, NatPlast (with Marek Choloniewski), Squint, Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, The Bang On A Can All Stars, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Collage Dance Theater, Basso Bongo, and Squint performing with live electronics and interactive video.  And has worked with John Cage, Elliott Carter, Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen, Don Preston, Frank Zappa, Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Tod Machover, Flea, Quincy Jones, and many others.

Amy has recorded nearly 30 CD's of new music and is proud to announce the release of her solo recordings "Men in the Cities" and  2 x 10 x 10 x 10 + 1",  on the Echograph Label.

MICHAEL SAKAMOTO (Writer, Director, Choreographer, Performer) is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist whose works combining theater, dance, music, media and visual art display a truly unique breadth of technique and versatility. His ensemble and solo works have toured to San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Santa Fe, festivals in France and Mexico as well as venues throughout Southern California.

Fusing Eastern and Western influences, intense, minimalist imagery, historical depth and absurd humor, he creates global, multilingual experiences to evoke a benevolent multiculturalism. Sakamoto's works question popular culture, media and common notions of authenticity and knowledge and blend complex structures through abstract, iconic texts.
Sakamoto's work ranges from witty comic repartee, pop pastiche and B-movie caricature to poeticism and subversive kitsch in multiple languages. Sakamoto is also one of the most innovative dancers to emerge from butoh in recent years. His installation, graphics, media and photo works have been exhibited at Documenta, Siggraph and throughout the Los Angeles area, including at The Getty Center, Skirball Cultural Center, 18th Street Arts Center and numerous galleries.

Jim Staley & David First - Live Visuals by Ikue Mori

Standstill

Mori, who is well known for her electronic percussion, has in recent years added image to her work, using MAX-JITTER to process image and sound simultaneously. Tonight, she will work exclusively in the visual realm. Staley and First will stick to the acoustic and electro-acoustic realm. The three are bastions of the downtown arts scene and among them hold decades of experience improvising together.

Jim Staley, trombonist and composer, works primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz. He has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians, including Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Simone Forti, Ikue Mori, Davey Williams, Shelley Hirsch, Phoebe Legere, John Zorn and many others. Staley¹s recording projects include Blind Pursuits with Phoebe Legere and Borah Bergman; Mumbo Jumbo, different trio combinations with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Samm Bennett, Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and John Zorn; Jim Staley's Don
Giovanni, with Mori, Davey Williams, Zeena Parkins and Tenko, plus several more. Staley has recorded with Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp's ensemble Carbon, and for John Zorn on several records including, Spillane, The Big Gundown, Cobra, The Little Lieutenant of the Living God (Weill/Zorn) and several others.  Staley also performs and records with the Tone Road Ramblers, a collaborative chamber-improv ensemble, together since 1981.

"The next big thing in guitar gods," (Time Out New York) David First has had a pretty eclectic musical career. He has played guitar with renowned jazz innovator/pianist Cecil Taylor and the rock band Television¹s Richard Lloyd. He has created electronic music at Princeton University and led a Mummer¹s String Band in bicentennial parades. He has played in raucous, drunken bar bands and in concert halls with classical ensembles. As a composer he has created everything from finely crafted pop songs to long, severely minimalist soundscapes. First is known for his dense, mesmerizing drone structures as well as his intense and highly unusual, minimalist approach to
the guitar. Recent projects include a Notekillers CD on Thurston Moore¹s Ecstatic Peace label and an audio/video performance and cyber-based project called Operation:Kracpot that explores First¹s investigations into brainwave manipulation and the Earth¹s electromagnetic field. The New York Times calls First "a fascinating artist with a singular technique", and the Village Voice, "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young."

Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70s. During this time, she developed her unique method of performing improvisations with drum machines that eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer. She has since collaborated with many avant-garde performers including Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Mark Tomkin's Dance Company, Joey Baron, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith, and John Zorn. She is a receipient of the Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music Award of Distinction. She has worked with the band with Dave Douglas's ³Witness Freakin" ensemble and John Zorn's Electric Masada. Current working groups include Mephista with Sylvie Courvoisier
and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O¹Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, a Trio with Haco and Aki Onda, and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.