Kato Hideki - Tremolo Of Joy

Kato Hideki : bass
Marco Cappelli : electric guitar
Briggan Krauss : reeds
Calvin Weston : drums

Tremolo of Joy is a hybrid band utilizing old & new musical elements. The music is shaped around the imaginative melodies of Kato Hideki. The group builds on this foundation with tools like canon (delay), counterpoint (reverse), human loops and live electronics. The result is combines chamber music syntax with the rhythmic excitement of rock 'n’ roll. Tremolo of Joy: the vocal cry of Native Americans prior to a hunt or fight.

Bassist Kato Hideki is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith. Kato leads Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro and Omni with Nakamura Toshimaru and Akiyama Tetsuji. His collaborations include an electro-acoustic duo with James Fei and a multi-media project with Nicolas Collins.

Marco Cappelli is a classically trained guitarist. His solo CD, Extreme Guitar Project, was released on Mode Records in 2006. He is also a member of the Napolitan Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Dissonanzen.

Saxophonist Briggan Krauss has performed with John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz and Bill Frisell and is a founding member of Steven Berstein's Sex Mob. Other collaborations include Systems with Raha Raissnia.

Calvin Weston is a Philadelphia based drummer who has worked with Ornette Coleman & Prime Time, James Blood Ulmer, Lounge Lizards, Marc Ribot and many others. He collaborates with Billy Martin as a duo and also plays in Eyvind Kang's Dying Gound with Kato Hideki. Most recently he is active performing with his own group Big Tree.

Phoebe Legere - SISTERS and BROTHERS

Scot Hornick: bass; Joakim: percussion, drums & samples; Phoebe Legere: piano, accordion, spoons, native flute, buffalo drum, sneakers & visuals

BROTHER AFRICA and SISTER AMERICA meet a FINE WHITE MAN

Phoebe Legere’s new band, Sisters and Brothers, takes ancient chants and then goes way outside, incorporating West African shamanic drumming and many exotic percussion instruments from Africa and Native America with invented instruments (Phoebe’s Rap Shoes and The Atonal Paintbrush) and the Spoons, a classic French Canadian Instrument. For tonight’s show, they present Brother Africa and Sister America meet a Fine While Man, an evening-length piece in which Phoebe and Joakim perform environmentally, combining marching, dancing and trance music with video projections of paintings and animation, texts and gestures and dances reminiscent of indigenous honey bees and other pollinators…

Joakim graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Biology. He then returned to his native Ghana, where he is known as a Drum Master.

Scot Hornick has a Masters Degree in Jazz from NYU and currently leads the Bass Ensemble at NYU. Following his love of all music, Scot has performed everything from jazz (traditional, big band, standards, modern, improv based), to heavy metal, country, classical, rockabilly, theater and Latin, to blues and swing, and with singer/songwriters of all types. Currently you can see and hear Scot performing with the Mike MacAllister Trio, The Semi-Finalists, Dave Gross Band, Dennis Gruenling and Jump Time, Gina Fox Band and Gina Sicilia Band as well as in many other groups as a freelance bassist.

Phoebe Legere is a composer of Native American and French Canadian descent. She currently is studying composition at Juilliard. An influential member of New York City’s downtown performance scene in the 1980s and 90s, during the past decade Legere has increasingly focused her energy on interdisciplinary new media, ranging from virtual musical theater to experimental forms. A dynamic performer on piano, accordion and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range and free-for-all approach to mixing jazz, cabaret, and rock, Legere initially earned renown as a songwriter with hundreds of songs in all genres, and was signed to Epic/Sony Records. Demonstrating Legere’s mastery of diverse contemporary musical forms, she had eight weeks of sold out shows at The Ballroom in 1993, where she performed original songs and blues, French Chansons and Native American chants … and then opened up for David Bowie on a national tour. She has performed at the Chicago Cultural Center, Carnegie Hall, the China Club, Aspen Opera House, Freddy’s Supper Club, The Hong Kong Jazz Club, Philadelphia Art Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Opera House, Symphony Space and the Nairobi Casino in Africa.

Recently, Legere has been Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA department and at the University of Victoria Graduate School of Engineering and Music. She presented her Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for music and art improvisation, in a lecture/performance at IRCAM's Resonances Aux Festival in 2004 and at STEIM electronic music foundation in 2006. She has built a second pair of her Rap Shoes for Dan Dubno at CBS News. He demonstrated the shoes at Adidas Salomon in May 2006.

Shoko Nagai

New York based composer/pianist Shoko Nagai's grant commissioned project "EPHEMERAL" explores the essence of Japanese traditional music, such as Gagaku (the oldest classical music in Japan) and the sound of Nohgaku (abstract theater) with the elements of the contemporary western music, experimental electronic music and improvisations. Her compositions with its use of multiple textures and the open sense of time evokes another realm of time and place. She will be joined by Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi, clarinet, bass clarinet), Jennifer Choi (violin), Reuben Radding (bass) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics).

Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai moved to New York City in 1999 and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Buch Morris,Tom Rainy, Cuong Vu, Ikue Mori, Roy Champbell, Satoshi Takeishi, Trevor Dunn, Matana Roberts, Daniel Carter to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Tonic, The stone, Location One,Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert. Nagai released her first CD "Two levels Crossing" in 2000, 2nd CD "VORTEX" in 2002, 3rd. CD "Vsoon" in 2003. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998) in Germany (Moers Jazz Festival 2006), Japan, Switzerland, Israel and United States. In 2005, she received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project 2005 Grant for a project in which seven jazz artists compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots, and formed a new project "Ephemeral" with Ned Rothenberg (Shakuhachi, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Jennifer Choi (Violin), Stomu Takeishi (E.Bass), Satoshi Takeishi( Japanese percussion, electronics). Her most recent project is"Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with Satoshi Takeishi on electronics. They scored music for a full feature Japanese film called"Star Fish Hotel" (directed by John Williams) which is to be released in 2007 world wide.

http://www22.ocn.ne.jp/~hot-jazz

Guy De Bievre - Very Slow Disco Suite - for three melody instruments and computer

Peter Zummo: trombone, J.D. Parran: reeds, Guy De Bievre: guitar & lap steel.
 
The Very Slow Disco Suite is the newest in a series of works researching extreme time stretching of popular music formats. Extreme time stretching allows the musicians to explore the music in both horizontal and vertical manners, as the harmonic progressions are almost frozen. Whereas the previous work, Bending the Tonic, relied on the standard blues idiom, The V.S.D.S. sounds disco depths. The musicians play against a synthesized backdrop, which contains the main reference to disco. Each of them is given a microcontroller, which both conducts the processing of their sonic output and, based on the sound happening in the room, indicates to them which part of the score to perform.

Guy writes: “The Very Slow Disco Suite is, as the title states, a musical exploration of extremely slowed down disco music. I found that slowing down (preferably simple) musical events causes otherwise very discrete properties to emerge. The essence of disco music is a very rigorous binary beat, running at a speed of approximately 120 BPM. But that quality vanishes when you slow the tempo down to 20 BPM or less and other harmonic and melodic aspects take over instead. Three musicians and a microcontroller are the explorers of the material that runs as a backing track. The microcontroller is hereby the central arranger. It is in charge of a number of things: it tells the musicians which segment of the score to play, it decides when and how or not to process the sound of a particular instrument and it decides which of the 4 accompanying voices will be heard or not. To make these decisions it gathers information from the music being played. The microcontroller appears to be very talented, but also very unreliable, sometimes shy and stubborn, at times very stimulating or frustrating. Very human in a sense, thus that I came to consider it as the 4th albeit slightly autistic member of a quartet.”

Guy De Bièvre (b. Brussels, 1961) is a composer, musician, arranger, sound designer and sound art curator. As a composer/performer he focuses on experiments that combine computer, live electronics, acoustics and standard arrangement formats. He had works commissioned and/or performed by musicians such as Guy Klucevsek, Seth Josel, Anne La Berge, The Bozza Mansion Project, Annette Sachs, Zivatar Trio and various local and international organizations. As a performer next to his works, he has collaborated with various composers and musicians such as Phill Niblock, Anne La Berge, Tom Hamilton, Ensemble Champ d’Action and Peter Zummo. He curates the Earwitness sound art series at the CCNOA space in Brussels. After having worked for various contemporary and experimental music related organizations (e.g. the Logos Foundation and the IPEM) and completing a two year research term at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, he now freelances in various outfits and trades.

A stirring multi-instrumentalist, J.D. Parran plays a wide range of clarinets from soprano to contralto, as well as sopranino, bass and tenor saxophone, flute and others. He's recorded with Leroy Jenkins, Hamiett Bluiett, John Lindberg, Peter Brotzmann and the group Company which included Derek Bailey, Jon Corbett, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir, Evan Parker, Vinko Globokar and Joelle Leandre.

Peter Zummo is, in order: musician, trombonist, composer, band leader, producer, organizer and engineer. He has performed his works for solo trombone and ensemble worldwide. His work emerges from the contemporary classical tradition with a strong element of individuality and iconoclasm. Zummo explores this tradition in combination with or in juxtaposition to the so-called minimal, downtown, jazz, world music, ambient, avant-garde, folk and rock styles. He has pioneered new approaches to, and uses for extended instrumental technique on the trombone and also uses the valve trombone, didjeridu, euphonium, computers, synthesizers and other electronics in his music. His playing is characterized by a multitude of voices, many the result of non-standard muting, but many more as aspects of open playing, also with voice and lip multiphonics, and singing as well--producing some of the most engaging "new music" to come out of New York in the last twenty years. Plastics, both as mutes and horns, play a role. Zummo's compositions are built on melodic and rhythmic fragments, which are presented as lists to like-minded musicians who then pursue ensemble at the boundaries of common and extended practice.

ROULETTE & DIXON PLACE PRESENT:

WARNING: NOT FOR BROADWAY - the ticket purchasing pages for WNFB only http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/2393

Dixon Place's popular annual festival of new musical theater and opera works, curated by Michelle Feldman, presents first showings that re-think compositional and theatrical structure, overturn dramaturgical convention, defy gender/race/sexual classifications, expand the possibilities of audience involvement, and generally redefine the musical theater genre. Each year, over a dozen creators are selected to bring their newest, riskiest material to the supportive, nurturing atmosphere of this downtown festival...

TONIGHT: info http://www.dixonplace.org/wnfb/nfb2006

ROULETTE & DIXON PLACE PRESENT:

WARNING: NOT FOR BROADWAY - the ticket purchasing pages for WNFB only http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/2393

Dixon Place's popular annual festival of new musical theater and opera works, curated by Michelle Feldman, presents first showings that re-think compositional and theatrical structure, overturn dramaturgical convention, defy gender/race/sexual classifications, expand the possibilities of audience involvement, and generally redefine the musical theater genre. Each year, over a dozen creators are selected to bring their newest, riskiest material to the supportive, nurturing atmosphere of this downtown festival...

TONIGHT: info http://www.dixonplace.org/wnfb/nfb2006

ROULETTE & DIXON PLACE PRESENT:

WARNING: NOT FOR BROADWAY - the ticket purchasing pages for WNFB only http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/2393

Dixon Place's popular annual festival of new musical theater and opera works, curated by Michelle Feldman, presents first showings that re-think compositional and theatrical structure, overturn dramaturgical convention, defy gender/race/sexual classifications, expand the possibilities of audience involvement, and generally redefine the musical theater genre. Each year, over a dozen creators are selected to bring their newest, riskiest material to the supportive, nurturing atmosphere of this downtown festival...

TONIGHT: info http://www.dixonplace.org/wnfb/nfb2006

Allan Jaffe, Earl Howard & Gerry Hemingway

Allan Jaffe will join forces with electronic composer/saxophonist EARL HOWARD and drummer GERRY HEMINGWAY to present a concert of original compositions and improvisations.  Featured in the evening’s performances will be a collaboration utilizing Howard’s pioneering, interactive electronic processing tecniques on the acoustic guitar and drums, combining these instruments’ natural sounds with his own imaginative aural perceptions.  Also on the program will be a solo guitar piece, as well as several acoustic duets and trios.

ALLAN JAFFE’S career as a guitarist and composer has spanned a wide range of musical forms, from jazz, blues, and funk, to opera, music theater, and the art song.  As a guitarist, he has toured the United States and Europe, playing with great improvisors such a Julius Hemphill and Anthony Davis, as well as with funk artists James Brown and Maceo Parker.  His ten-year collaboration with the avant/funk group Slickaphonics, which also featured Mark Helias and Ray Anderson, resulted in five CDs, concerts, and televeision appearances throughout Europe and the U.S.  As a composer, he has written numerous art songs for guitar and voice.  His collaborations with librettist Deborah Atherton have produced a music theater work, Carmilla, an adaptation of the 19th century vampire story bu J.S. LeFanu,  and their opera, Mary Shelley, which had its premiere at The Ethical Culture Society in New York City in May, 2002, as well as a Songs of the City, a work in progress.  Allan as been a pioneer in the contemporary guitar rag.  His book Ragtime Guitar, a collection of his original rags along with his arrangements of classic piano rags, was published by Hal Leonard Publications in September, 2004.

Earl Howard, saxophonist and composer, has been expanding his instrument’s boundaries since the 1970s. A frequent performer at the Knitting Factory, Howard later shifted his focus towards live electronics, electronic tape music and chamber music for electronics and acoustic instruments. His work is a mixture of composition, improvisation and chance, and frequently is composed for and performed by musicians from the jazz tradition, such as Anthony Davis and Gerry Hemingway.

Gerry Hemingway has been making a living as a composer and performer of solo and ensemble music since 1974. He has led numerous groups, most recently his quartet with Ellery Eskelin, Ray Anderson and Mark Dresser as well collaborative groups with Mark Helias & Ray Anderson (BassDrumBone), Reggie Workman & Miya Masaoka (Brew), Marilyn Crispell & Barry Guy (CGH trio) and many others. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral work, including Terrains, a concerto for percussionist and orchestra commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony. He recently completed a two-year recording project for the German label, between the lines, entitled Songs.

Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt plays songs for violin and voice: songs of her own writing, songs written by friends (among them, Lisa Bielawa and Jorge Liderman) and perhaps songs written by enemies... atonal songs, one-chord songs, tunefull songs and toneless songs.

Carla Kihlstedt is active both as a composer and a violinist. She is a founding member of both Tin Hat Trio (an accordion-violin-guitar trio, whose two CDs are out on Capitol’s Angel/EMI Records) and of the art-rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Most recently, Carla is working on a solo project, Two Foot Yard, using both her violin and her voice simultaneously. She was one of three singers in the band Charming Hostess for six years.

Though she has strayed far from where she was planted, Kihlstedt has strong roots in classical music. She studied at the Peabody, San Francisco, and Oberlin Conservatories of Music. She has become an influential musical voice in the San Francisco Bay Area since moving there eight years ago, exploring the range of her instrument in many other settings. Carla has performed as a violinist in the past year with pianist Awadagin Pratt and clarinetist Don Byron. She is a frequent performer with Ear Play, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

She recently was commissioned to write a piece for the Bang on a Can All Stars group. Last year she was a featured soloist on the MATA festival in New York and was commissioned by Merkin Hall to write and perform a duo for clarinetist David Krakauer as part of their emerging composer series, Zoom: Composers Close-Up. She has contributed to the recordings of Tom Waits, Mr. Bungle and the Grassy Knoll. Her solo CD for the Tzadik label was released in 2003. Carla has always been very interested by the influence that music, theater and movement have on one another. She has worked extensively with choreographers, including Jo Kreiter and her company Flyaway Productions, Eleni Drogaris and Shinichi Momo Koga/inkBoat.

Lisle Ellis - Audible Means

Audible Means is Lisle Ellis's designation for his new performing ensemble which, since its inception early this year, has been comprised of a mixed membership of both veteran musicians and rising star newcomers from the fields of mainstream jazz and new and improvised music. This evening’s concert will feature Ellis on bass and circuitry; Ellery Eskelin (saxophone) and Erik Deutsch (keyboards.) The performance highlights new compositions and arrangements by Ellis and reflects his exploration for rhythm without set boundaries yet possessing distinct edges.

There will be a free Lisle Ellis CD, Sound On Survival, for the first 30 audience members.

Lisle Ellis is a multifaceted creator whose work reflects his interests in music, visual art, computers/technology and community. One Final Note describes his playing as “truly remarkable in its beauty, intensity, and energy.”

As a composer and improviser-bassist his oeuvre spans three decades and two countries and has brought him international recognition as an artist with an exceptional vision. Critics consider him to possess an important voice and to have made a significant contribution to the field of experimental music. Recent years have also brought him attention as a creator of computer/electronic music and as a visual artist.

He is the 1986 winner and first recipient of Canada's prestigious Frederick Stone Award, given annually to a musician for integrity and innovation. Ellis also has been active in the experimental music scenes in California. Currently living in New York City, Ellis leads his Audible Means, whose music reflects his interest in electronic music and its applications in improvisational contexts and works toward developing an electro-acoustic architecture he calls string-circuitry-confluence.

Erik Deutsch
Pianist, composer, arranger, teacher producer Erik Deutsch was born in Washington D.C. in 1976. When his family relocated to Nashville in 1982, Erik began Suzuki piano studies at Vanderbilt University and now holds a degree in piano performance from Colorado University. For the past year and a half he has been a resident of Brooklyn, arriving in New York after a decade in Colorado.

Erik also has had the pleasure of working with James Blood Ulmer, Jenny Scheinman, Jessica Lurie, Ron Miles and Charlie Hunter, among others.

Erik leads his own group County Road X, which he formed in 2001. CRX performs cinematic-Americana music (imagine a Stanley Kubrick/Sergio Leone double-feature with an electric Miles Davis soundtrack) and recently was featured at the 2005 Telluride Jazz Festival.

Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1959 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from Towson University in Baltimore. He has been living and working in New York for over twenty years and has been one of the most sought after sidemen and consistently innovative leaders to emerge from the New York scene of the past two decades.
 
Eskelin's recordings as a leader and co-leader (there are currently twenty) have been named in Best of the Year critics' polls in the New York Times, the Village Voice and major jazz magazines in the US and abroad. He also appears on over forty recordings as a side person. DownBeat Magazine named Eskelin as one of the 25 Rising Stars for the Future in its January 2000 issue ("...young players who not only insure the music's survival but promise to take it to the next level") as well as including him in the "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" category of their Annual Critics Poll in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Eskelin was also a nominee for the prestigious Jazzpar award in 2003.

CHILDREN'S CONCERT - 2-3 PM

Dan Evans Farkas

Dan Evans Farkas will present a participatory, circus-side-show-like concert for children aged pre-school through 3rd grade. Dan makes musical instruments out of hacked electronic devices and children’s toys. Circuits, cables, lights, playthings, clocks and speakers all combine into a carnival-esque conglomerate that takes on a life of its own. From these invented sonic creatures, Dan draws out sounds both powerful and gentle that will surprise, amaze, entertain and astonish.
 
SEE the snake pit of interconnected modified children's toys!  HEAR the disembodied groans from the hidden lives of light and playthings!  FEEL the sounds of feedback coursing through the big top!  And don't worry, sideshows always need participants!  BE AMAZED that all of this and more will happen inside an hour's time!
 
Dan has been presenting his music since 1990 in and around New York City and Europe. As an electronic musician, he's performed solo and also with Ben Manley and Jens Brand at venues such as Experimental Intermedia, Roulette Intermedium, Amica Bunker, The Kitchen, Diapason Sound Art Gallery, The Knitting Factory and Jack Tilton Gallery. In the past few years, he's been working with choreographers Chris Ferris, Sally Gross, Laurie MacFarlane, Carol Nolte, Ruben Ornelas, Sally Silvers and Laura Shapiro
 
Reservations strongly suggested: 212.219.8242

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Mike Skinner

Mike Skinner’s series of 8 Track Attacks uses multiple sound sources, including portable 8 track players from the 60s and 70s (for which he records custom cassettes as well as using found tapes), quadrophonic 8 track systems, tape loops, short wave radio, bowed percussion, space echo, electric and effected cello and effected vocal loops to create dense landscapes of sound.

Joining Mike will be cellist and composer Gretta Cohn whose untraditional but beautiful approach to the instrument became a trademark of her former band, Cursive, and of performances and recordings with Bright Eyes, Charles Atlas and Bodies Rise.

Mike Skinner is a composer, producer and writer working with a wide cross section of New York's art stars, indie rockers, noise bands, art filmmakers, fashion designers, video artists, transsexuals, and choreographers. Mike has worked within the dance and performance art community for several years. He began by composing extended pieces for Isabel Gotzkowsky's seasons at the Joyce SoHo and the Pace Theatre, both produced by long time collaborator Chris Bracco. In 2003 he performed at the NY Improv Festival with Jeremy Wade, a fruitful collaboration that continued February 2006 at Jeremy's widely acclaimed Dance Theatre Workshop showing. He regularly tours the USA and Europe drumming for Kevin Devine and Black Moustache, and has just finished recording Kevin’s next album in Los Angeles for their first album on Capitol records.

WPS1.org featured Mike during the Venice Biennale this past year and currently includes his work in the first of PS1's podcasts. His involvement with PS1 continued with a performance at the museum on Easter 2006. Four of his scores are hosted on WPS1.org

He is writing a second album with Spencer Product for Black Moustache, and has recently collaborated with Justin Lowe, Michael Portnoy and English Kills.  Mike also began recording his own album in April and has worked with Gunny Scarfo, CEO of Allentium, to create custom software for a web based music installation, to be launched publicly in the fall.

Mike has created sound for installations with Ugo Rondinone, Justin Lowe and James Drake as well as producing his own at Monkeytown, PS1, Southfirst Gallery, Alona Kagan, and Diapason Gallery.

Noa Guy

Drops of Consciousness – part one by Noa Guy - with Alon Leventon – sound artist Kim Spiegler &  Lio Spiegler – film artists.
http://noaguy.blogspot.com/

Using her still photography and pre-recorded string quartet as a point of departure, composer– performer Noa Guy collaborates with friends in a journey exploring the edges of audio-visual information processing. This performance examines the emotional reaction to an image of sound and silence, of light and darkness, of being and not being.

Noa Guy’s works include pieces for solo voice to symphonic orchestra as well as multimedia work and music for film and the theatre. This is her first concert after being injured in a car accident 13 years ago.

Guy studied music theory in the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and composition and electronic music in Berlin. A recipient of several international prizes, she worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen for four years. For three years she performed with American and Dutch composers in concerts of live electronic improvisation. In 1993, she suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident. The process of recovery opened new doors, which led to her active interest in neuroscience, psychology and painting and her search for the temporarily lost land of music. This performance is a break of 13 years of silence.

Producer, pianist and composer Alon Leventon came to the US in 2001 from his native Israel. He has since worked on numerous projects ranging from electronic and pop music, to acoustic jazz to experimental avant-garde music. Alon has been featured on films, radio, TV and many albums both as a producer and performer and as one half of the duo The Bursers.  

Lio Spiegler is an Israeli filmmaker living and working in NY. Lio started his career as copywriter in a TBWA affiliated agency in Israel where he's written and creatively directed dozens of radio and TV commercials. In the late 90s Lio moved to NY and after receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, he became head of the Creative Strategy Department at ink&co branding & advertising. In the past few years, Lio's attention was devoted to film and TV. In 2003 he wrote and directed "Rattlesnakes & Heatwaves," which opened the HOWL! Film Festival. In 2004 he produced and directed a pilot for a half-scripted-half-reality-half-baked cooking show. In 2005 Lio traveled to Sri Lanka to interview Sir Arthur C. Clarke for a feature length docudrama. Early this year, he produced a viral campaign for GenSpec Vitamins and shot and edited a short film for the Tribeca Film Institute and Abas Kiarostami. Limiko Films, the company he founded, is now developing a news drama series for NBC. 

Kim Spiegler was born in Israel. She received her Associate Degree in Communications from the Open University in Tel-Aviv and developed her production skills while working as Assistant Producer at a TBWA affiliated ad agency. In 2000 Kim moved to the US and expanded her alternative vocabulary while working with the J. Mandle Performance Group. In 2006 she graduated from Hunter's film department, while working as Associate Producer at Tamouz Media. “Hijacked!,” which she helped produce, recently aired on PBS. Kim was an ambassador of the TriBeCa Film Institute's exchange program in Marrakech, in collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Abas Kiarostami. She just has finished working on “In the Name of the Victims,” a TV documentary for channel 10 in Israel. She is one of the founders of Limiko Films.