modular systems August 22nd 2006 from 3-5pm
i8u | bernhard gal
CKUT – from 3-5pm
tune in for a live radio performance.
film soundtrack composer, sound / installation artist, curator
Audio abstractions (Aa) August 20th 2006
i8u | bernhard gal | Érick d’Orion
Une soirée audio à la Chambre blanche
Québec, 6 août 2006 — La première édition des soirées Audio abstractions (Aa) aura lieu à Québec, le 20 août à 20h, à la Chambre blanche.
Fondateur et directeur artistique du défunt collectif de diffusion MACHINES : abstractions sonores électroniques, l’artiste de Québec Érick d’Orion présentera une nouvelle série d’évènements sonores basée sur la recherche, l’expérimentation et la découverte de nouvelles sphères audio, principalement électroniques, effectuées par des artistes établis ou en début de carrière.
Pour la première édition des soirées Aa, c’est au 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est, que les amateurs d’art audio et de nouvelles musiques se rendront pour découvrir le travail de l’artiste montréalaise i8u, de l’Autrichien Gal et de l’instigateur de l’évènement, Érick d’Orion. Lors de cette soirée, on pourra entendre les propositions solos des trois artistes ainsi qu’une improvisation collective.
Ce sera la première visite à Québec de l’artiste viennois Gal. Reconnu mondialement, son travail audio évolue dans les sphères de l’électroacoustique, du fieldrecording et de l’ambiant. Certaines de ces œuvres sont présentées en concert; d’autres constituent des installations; d’autres, enfin, peuvent être admirées dans des expositions. ( http://www.bernhardgal.com )
France Jobin (i8u) est une artiste qui travaille autant l’art Web, l’installation et l’art audio que la musique électronique. Elle a participé aux plus prestigieux festivals de création : SEND + RECEIVE (Winnipeg, 2003/2005), le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Mutek (Montréal, 2001/2004/2005) Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), Club Transmediale (Berlin, 2004), le Toronto’s Images independent film festival et la Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique 06. Ses œuvres ont été exposées au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. ( http://www.i8u.com/ )
Musicien autodidacte, artiste audio et compositeur résidant à Québec depuis 1993, Érick d’Orion concentre en grande partie ses recherches audio sur le « maximalisme numérique », effectuant un travail qui se rapproche étroitement du noize, de la musique concrète et, curieusement, du free jazz et de l’électroacoustique! Il a travaillé avec un nombre considérable d’artistes et sur de nombreux projets qui l’ont amené dans plusieurs régions du Canada et dans plusieurs pays.
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Audio abstractions
Dimanche 20 août, 20 h
Chambre blanche, 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est
10 $
TEXTURES_03: Jan 28th 2006 – 9pm
i8u | tomas phillips
with Clonal Machina
from San Francisco
Textures is a series of deep-listening events held on the last Saturday of each month at Pharmacie Esperanza. These salon-style concerts focus mainly on live performances of ambient, noise, improv and experimental music in a comfortable and intimate setting.
Two Montreal debuts at our Textures concert series. First up will be the ambient stylings of Clonal Machina, who has recently relocated from San Francisco. The second performance of the evening will be the first live collaboration between I8U and Tomas Phillips, in anticipation of their upcoming release Anther on petite sono.
La Salle D’Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza)
5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur)
Montreal, QC
Silent Music, Secret Noise
An evening of live performance featuring
some of the best small sound and eloquent
static from Winnipeg, Canada and Zurich.
not half [Winnipeg]
I8U [Montreal]
Jason Kahn [Zurich]
Friday, October 21 2005
at the Urban Shaman Gallery
203-290 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg MB Canada
R3B 0T2
Doors: 8:15 pm | Performances: 9:00 pm
Admission: $10
Winnipeg¹s Allan Conroy [aka not half] began making audio experiments in 1983. He developed an obsession for radios, tape-loops, squeaky sounds and unusual acoustic phenomena,
all recorded to tape in a largely improvised fashion. Acquiring samplers in 1992, he began to sample this comprehensive body
of work, a project which continues to the present day. not half frequently uses anything and everything to make sounds, either exclusively or combined with other working methods.
www.noroomfortalent.com
www.dtrashrecords.com
I8U¹s audio art can be understood as sound-sculpture.
It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments
where analog and digital meet. Her web art can be said to follow
a parallel path, intertwining both musical and visual elements.
From classical music to blues, it took only one chance meeting
with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music.
This is I8U¹s second visit to Send + Receive.
www.i8u.com
Originally a percussionist, Zurich¹s Jason Kahn has collaborated with artists including Evan Parker, Chirstian Marclay and Steve Roden. Kahn currently performs using a laptop and analogue synthesizer and combines these with percussion. Kahn is the founder of the CD label cut, has composed music for theatre
and dance and has given concerts around the world. In the past several years Kahn has exhibited several sound installations.
www.jasonkahn.net
www.cut.fm
November 11th 2005 – 6 to 8pm @ Kleinblue Gallery
IN THE CONTEXT OF ” LES JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE”
SATURDAY THE 1ST OF OCTOBER 2005
13:00 – 17:00
STUDIO XX PRÉSENTS :
A DAY OF EXCHANGE, NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE
Join us for a festive fall day when we will present the latest interactive works produced through the Studio. Experience the multimedia installation of Stéphanie Lagueux. Look and listen to the computer generated and assisted works from musicians I8U, and cellist, Vera Ronkos. The Studio XX team members will be in the house to keep it warm and tell you about this year’s programming, production activities, our wide gamut of workshops, our open source lab and our online revue, .dpi.
Schedule
1:00 – doors open
presentation : The Social Body :
a multimédia installation
by Stéphanie Lagueux, in coproduction with Studio XX
The Social Body is a video and web installation in which surfers on the web, through their responses, affect a body modelled in fat. Demonstrating the powerful effect of ideas on matter by a process of “art-statistics”, this sensitizing device evokes the massive influence of the social body on each individual one.
1:45
launch of the fall program and workshops at STUDIO XX :
jake moore and Marie-Hellène Lemay
2:00 : Performances by artists from the MAX/msp workshops
Introduction by instructor Patrice Coulombe.
-Vera Ronkos :on the cello/max patch
accompanied by Patrice Coulombe on violon
Vera will play the cello that will be effected different ways by a patch that resulted from the Studio XX course Max/MSP.
followed by :
-The first live processed audio-visual performance of I8U,
“BURDEN”
Burden is an ongoing project inspired by the metamorphosis of the soul from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The concept is that when art becomes subjectively stale, the artist feels burden. Once this Burden becomes too heavy, the paradigm shifts and the artist can create anew. Through MAX/msp and jitter, I8U explores this concept with a live performance using a patch that acts as a new instrument to show this metamorphosis.
I8U’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture.” It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her Web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.
and throughout the day we will be streaming live :
Refresh: The first International Conference on Media Art Histories
from the Banff New media Institute
The presentations will be in both French and English.
Please pass on this invitation! Hope to see you there
STUDIO XX
338 Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E8
Métro Sherbrooke, ou autobus 24 (Sherbrooke) ou 125 (Ontario).
(514) 845-7934 / http://www.studioxx.org
Information: info@studioxx.org
* ‘Homework’ at ORT
September 24th at 9 p.m. sharp!
@
ORT*, 330 Ellery St. (between broadway & beaver st.), _Ground Floor_, Bushwick, Brooklyn (see Directions Below)
*at ORT* (on ellery in bushwick, brooklyn), o.blaat (Keiko
Uenishi) is prepping to set up the
first collaborative work at this wonderful space (expecting to be series of collaborative development/experiments as site-specific tryouts) called *’Homework’.*
The first of the tryouts will feature *Haeyoung Kim (Bubblyfish)
, I8U , David Linton, *and *o.blaat* , in various combinations (solos/duos/trios/quartet).
Open-to-public concert portion will start at 9 p.m. sharp at ORT, 330 Ellery St., Bushwick, Brooklyn *admission is free (but your donation is gladly accepted:) BYOB in casual salon style…
btw. we have very limited bike parking space, and not responsible for any bike locked outside on the street.
direction to ORT:
where: *330 Ellery St. (between Broadway & Beaver St.) Ground flr.,
Brooklyn (Bushwick – southeast of Willyburg)*
time:
** always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info
<http://mta.info/> !!
trains:
*J to Flushing Ave.* (4th stop from LES/manhattan.. if you’re coming
from willyburg, 3rd stop from marcy ave.) upon exiting, take right side of staircase (facing to the token booth) which would lead you to go down in front of Duane Reade – corner of Broadway & Flushing Ave. cross Flushing Ave. to another corner where big construction is in process, then keep walking on Broadway for 3 blks (away from Manhattan)… so you’ll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway. Make left on Ellery St. (it’s within 3-5 min walk.)
*G to Flushing Ave. *(from greenpoint/mid-willyburg/downtown-brooklyn) upon exiting, walk on Flushing Ave. towards Woodhull hospital/Broadway. once you hit Broadway, make right and walk 3 blks. so you’ll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway.
Make left on Ellery St. (it’s within 8-10 min. walk.)
*Haeyoung Kim (Bubblyfish) * relocated to US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she explores the territory of sounds and their cultural representation. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she has been creating “lo-fi”, 8-bit sound works and minimal electronic compositions.
Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Her work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including Le Consortium, France; Media Ruimte, Belgium; and in New York at The Museum of the Moving Image;, Eyebeam Atelier; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; and Lincoln Center’s Walter Reed Theater. She was the 2003 Van Lier artist-in-residency recipient at Harvestworks.
http://bubblyfish.com
I8U (review by exclaim.ca on ‘Send + Receive’
festival: Montreal’s I8U fashioned expansive electronic tones, forming spellbinding textures that resulted in a very impressive set.
Frequencies gradually and adeptly reached tall crests of sound before descending to subterranean reverberations. Shifting from lulling minimalism to resonating noise, I8U sculpted sound with the utmost precision and talent. RN/exclaim.ca)
http://i8u.com
*
David Linton*has witnessed the sun’s rise and fall on 4 decades worth of amerikan subcultural music practice. For the past 2 1/2 of these decades he has lived and worked in NYC – first hitting his stride as a ‘downtown’ drummer in the early 1980’s. (See early recordings: Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, among others soon to come) From the drums he moved to solo performing and live electronics and computer assisted composition and sound design for dance and theater – etc… (more than a dozen scores for choreographer Stephen Petronio – and a couple of noteworthy works for the Wooster Group- among many others) His mid 80&’s solo release “Orchesography” (Neutral 14) represents downtown sensibility at the crossroads of post punk, primal noise, early sampling technique, and theatrical post modernism. By the early ’90’s an experimental foray into venue building (at the ‘hausofouch’ loft in Chinatown) led to transformative zeitgeist events (Ouch, Sensate, SoundLab, & Step Forward) and a burgeoning absorption in the multimedia design parameters associated with the ‘immersive’ movement.
By the late ’90’s a perfect balance between audio and visual elements in the live electronic performance environment was sought with the launch of the Unit¥Gain platform and integrated modus operandi. From here it was a curious but natural progression to the community media architecture explorations of Unitygain Television (1AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org – still running). http://unitygain.org
*o.blaat* Based in Brooklyn, New York, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) — Sound artist, composer, and core member of SHARE(http://share.dj) — is known for creating various interactive audio environments resulting from her ceaseless pursuits of erasing the performer’s presence and ultimately altering listening situations. After performing with a unique, hand-made electronic ‘tapboard.effector.soundsystem’ for several years, Uenishi has been
exploring the Powerbook’s mobility and its least distracting state of being. Her performance and installations have appeared at many
museums/clubs/galleries/festivals worldwide.
Most recently, she completed a site-specific audio/light interactive
installation, ‘Aboard:Fillip2’ created for a cargo-container at Fortescue Avenue Gallery, London, UK in July 2005. The piece was
commissioned by dosensos.org and a part of its ‘Six Sites for Sound’
(http://sixsitesforsound.net)
http://obla.at
Connect the dots
an evening curated by Ilan Katin
November 9th 2005 – 8pm @ MonkeyTown
New York City
Live sound and video manipulations featuring:
BubblyFish + Glomag
www.bubblyfish.com/
www.glomag.com/
Aerostatic
www.aerostatic.com/
I8U << From Montreal!!!
www.i8u.com/
Chika
www.chiklet.com/
ilan katin
www.ilankatin.com/
The show which also take place at MonkeyTown the following Wedneday (Sept. 21st) will be 60 minutes of continuous music and synchronized video. The video will utilize two projectors. The visuals will be coordinated by the two artists so that the two images are never the same and yet will compliment each other.
The event is curated by ilan katin. Location
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Directions:
From the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd. Monkey Town is halfway down the block on the left.
always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info