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NNeng
The intermedia band Nneng creates live audio and video improvisations of
spectacular beauty and intensity. The trio first met in the summer of 1997
at Manhattan's Bar XVI and the improvising group grew from their initial jams.
On this Roulette TV videotape, they perform two contrasting works "Electronic
4 Food (A Good Hair Piece)" and the stark composition "VC". Vidicians Benton
Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker focus small cameras on a wide variety of
found objects (human hair, puffballs, chains of metallic and organic
materials, slinkys, bugs, etc.) and incorporate the oscilloscope patterns of
waveforms from Brian Moran's analog synthesizers and sampled sound. In their
post-performance interview, Walker describes her early stain-glass and cast
glass sculptures using broadcast TV as a light source. Bainbridge speaks of
his efforts to "accelerate the loop from inspiration to creation". Moran
describes how his early punk performances led to his current electronic
improvisations, and the group as a whole relate their non-narrative textures
to classical visual art. Click
here to view clip.
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