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immerson 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Chartier,  Monique Jean, Nathan McNinch

In conversation with Richard Chartier after the concert @ 19:30.
Open to all!

Concert
Immerson  2 at Oboro
Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25, 2011, at 6 pm, limited seating!Tickets on sale at OBORO for $10 (cash only), from Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 5 pm.
You can also dial 514 844-3250 to make a reservation with credit card.

The Artists:

Richard Chartier (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.

Chartier’s critically acclaimed sound works have been published over the past 12 years as 40 compact discs on labels such as 12k/LINE (US), Raster-Noton (Germany), Spekk (Japan), Non Visual Objects (Austria), Room40 (Australia), Die Stadt (Germany), DSP (Italy), ERS (Netherlands), and Trente Oiseaux (Germany). He has collaborated with noted sound artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, CoH, and German pioneer Asmus Tietchens, as well as installation artists Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand, and visual artist Linn Meyers. His work currently appears on 38 international sound art and electronic music compilations.

Chartier’s sound works and installations continue to be presented internationally. His work has been exhibited in the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (US), Sounding Spaces at NTT/ICC (Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Italy), Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago and with the traveling sound exhibit Invisible Cities. His solo and collaborative installations have been shown at the Art Gallery of University of Maryland (US), Media Lab Enschede (Netherlands), Montalvo Arts Center (US), G Fine Art (US), Die Schachtel (Italy), The Contemporary Museum of Baltimore (US), Fusebox (US), and Diapason (US).
Chartier continues to perform his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America. He has performed at noted art spaces/electronic music festivals including:  MUTEK (Canada), GRM/Maison de Radio France (France), Musiktriennale Koeln (Germany), Observatori (Spain), DEAF (Ireland), Transmediale (Germany), NETMAGE (Italy), Lovebytes (UK), The Leeds International Film Festival (UK), The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), REDCAT (US), and La Batie (Switzerland) and at art museums including: ICA (UK), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (DC), ICC (Japan), CAPC Musée D’Art Contemporain De Bordeaux (France), Musee d’Art Contemporain (Canada), The Contemporary Art Centre (Lithuania), and Sculpture Center (NY). His live performances have taken place in conjunction with the exhibits Frequenzen [Hz] at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Germany) and A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 and Visual Music at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (US).
Since 2000, Chartier has continued to curate his influential recording label LINE, publishing 45 CDs and DVDs documenting the compositional and installation work of international sound artists who explore the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. Chartier’s Series, the premiere release on LINE, was awarded an Honorable Mention for Digital Music by Austria’s prestigious Prix Ars Electronica in 2001.

In 2006, Chartier was invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to create a sound work in conjunction with the Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibit. Titled Specification.Fifteen and composed with musician Taylor Deupree, this work is inspired by Sugimoto’s Seascape series. The audio performance premiere in the museum’s curved Lerner Room at sunset reflected the duality and stillness of Sugimoto’s series. The live recording was released on compact disc through Chartier’s LINE label. The work was awarded one of five Honorable Mentions for outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art by the Jury of Transmediale.07 Award (Germany). With a special slowly shifting video piece incorporating Sugimoto’s Seascapes, a new version of Specifiation.Fifteen premiered at Berlin’s Akademie der Kuenste (Germany) in 2007. This audio/visual performance has subsequently been presented at Issue Project Room (NY) and Torun’s Center for Contemporary Art (Poland) and continues to be adapted.

http://www.3particles.com/

Monique Jean lives and works in Montréal. She studied electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Francis Dhomont.

In addition to her acousmatic compositions, her work is also regularly associated with video and experimental films, with dance and with installations. Her harbour symphony L’Appel des machines soufflantes (“The Call of Blowing Machines”), a commission of Radio-Canada, was premiered in March 1998 at the Port of Montréal and in 1999 she was an invited composer during the Rien à voir (5) concert series produced by Réseaux (Montréal).

Finalist in the Ciber@rt (Valencia, Spain, 1999), Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic, 2001) and Bourges (France, 2002) competitions, her works are regularly performed and broadcast during numerous national and international concerts and festivals.

www.theresatransistor.ca
www.electrocd.com/en/bio/jean_mo/discog/

nathan mcninch is a consummate tinkerer whom on occasion makes art and music. nathan has released sound work for a handful of independent record labels including: oral, important records, moar and his own petite sono. he has also produced sound works for a variety of other mediums including: installation, video radio, and the internet.

http://petitesono.com/

About immerson:

immerson is a concert event and philosophy initiated by France Jobin that proposes creating an environment dedicated to an enhanced listening experience through the physical comfort of the audience by means of a specifically designed space.

Jobin initiated immerson in February 2011, in partnership with OBORO and in close collaboration with Stéphane Claude.

France Jobin is an audio / installation artist, composer and curator. Her audio art, qualified as “sound sculpture”, distinguishes itself in a minimalist approach of complex sound environments at the intersection of analog and digital. She participates in festivals, as well as presents installations and events internationally. Jobin has produced numerous solo albums with renowned labels such as ROOM40 (AU), LINE (US), popmuzik records and ATAK (JP).  France Jobin was a Sonic Arts Awards 2014 finalist in the category Sonic Research.

francejobin.com

Immersound wishes to acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts. 

 

 

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Janvier

 

Studio 303 
presents
JANVIER

Created by Tedi Tafel (conception/direction) 

In collaboration with
 Leslie Baker, Bill Coleman, Dean Makarenko, Lin Snelling,
 Monique Jean, France Jobin (I8U) et Yan Lee Chan
January 13-14-15 & 20-21-22, 6 p. m. to 9 p. m.
661, Rose-de-Lima,
Montreal (metro Lionel-Groulx)

Janvier by Tedi Tafel

Janvier is what happens when talented artists from various disciplines collaborate and use their fertile imaginations to explore in depth the sensuality and mystery that is January. Winter dictates the pace of this piece, in which images unfold slowly. In this atmosphere of ambiguity and shifting shadows, where even the architecture is in perpetual flux, bodies rise slowly from the cold, like winter light emerging ever so gradually from darkness. check video

For artist Tedi Tafel, Janvier represents the culmination of more than twenty years of researching the evocative potential of bodies in non-traditional venues. First presented as part of Calendar, a series of multidisciplinary performances offered throughout the city, each month at a different site, Janvier is back in all its magically suggestive splendour, further enriched by the cumulative experience of a year of Calendar performances.

NB: Janvier flows continuously over a period of three hours. The public is invited to move throughout the site freely, and to come and go as it pleases. However, space is limited. Reservations recommended.

Biography

Tedi Tafel is a Montreal-based choreographer and teacher whose current research interests include site-specific performance and video installation. Her work investigates the expressive potential of the human body in direct relationship to place. Inspired by being in nature, she creates from a need to translate something of this experience back into the city. She transforms public sites into spaces of heightened attention, imagination, and metaphor, thereby diverting us from our habitual, merely functional mode of moving through the city, and awakening in us a more sensual and enchanted engagement with our surroundings. With her latest works, Life-World (2007) and Calendar (2010), Tedi departs from conventional notions of ‘spectacle.’ She invents new forms of presentation that blur the separations between performer and audience, between art and life. Her work has been shown across Canada and in New York, Iceland, Mexico, Germany and Wales.

Janvier is copresented by Studio 303 and l’Agora de la danse.

 

 

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Akousma

AKOUSMA_8

Du 12 au 15 octobre 2011
1345, avenue Lalonde
Montréal (QC) H2L 5A9
Billetterie 514. 521.4493
www.usine-c.com

Le 12 octobre : Pierre-Yves Macé (FR), Roger Tellier Craig (QC)
Le 13 octobre : Hélène Prévost (QC), Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Le 14 octobre : France Jobin (QC), Robert Hampson (GB)
Le 15 octobre : Marc Behrens (DE), Horacio Vaggione (FR)
Programmation détaillée
Mercredi 12 octobre • 20 h • Usine C
TRANS_FORMATION: Roger Tellier-Craig (QC) • Pierre-Yves Macé (FR)
Roger Tellier-Craig est un musicien de Montréal. Ces dix dernières années, il s’est investi dans de nombreux projets, s’inspirant d’un spectre de références contradictoires pour explorer de nouveaux contextes musicaux. Il a été parmi les cofondateurs de Fly Pan Am, de Et Sans (aux côtés d’Alexandre St-Onge), de Set Fire to Flames et de Pas Chic Chic, ainsi que guitariste au sein de la formation Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Sous la signature Le Révélateur, il développe actuellement une esthétique élaborée in extenso à partir de synthétiseurs analogiques, une manière qui n’est pas sans rappeler les beaux jours de la « computer music ».
(titre à venir) création mondialePierre-Yves Macé est un compositeur dont le travail se situe au croisement de la musique électroacoustique, de la musique contemporaine et de l’art sonore. Il est l’auteur de quatre disques solo : Faux-jumeaux (Tzadik, 2002), Circulations (Sub rosa, 2005), crash_test ii (tensional integrity) (Orkhêstra, 2006) et passagenweg (Brocoli, 2009) et il collabore avec de nombreux artistes, dont l’écrivain Mathieu Larnaudie, avec qui il mène depuis 2003 un travail de coécriture qui se décline en plusieurs projets parallèles : chanson pop, lecture/performance et composition électroacoustique ou radiophonique.
MINIATURES/Song Recycle (2010) – 40 minutes

***** Soirée en co-diffusion avec Le Vivier (www.levivier.ca) • Pierre-Yves Macé est l’invité d’Ekumen

Jeudi 13 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

RADIO_DIFFUSION: Hélène Prévost (QC) • Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Hélène Prévost a longtemps été réalisatrice et animatrice d’émissions consacrées aux musiques nouvelles à Radio-Canada (1978-2007). La radio et la diffusion occupent toujours une place de choix au cœur de ses préoccupations et, pour sa performance, plusieurs appareils radio sont utilisés comme source continue de matériau, flux indéterminé qui réagit à l’environnement. L’artiste poursuit son travail d’exploration et développe pour ce faire un instrument singulier, qui est un croisement entre le studio radiophonique et le laboratoire électroacoustique.
U/ONZE – 35 minutes création mondialeDesigner acoustique de premier ordre, Stephan Mathieu est considéré comme l’un des plus importants « musiciens de laptop » du moment. Il fait partie de ces artistes du son qui ont également une formation en arts visuels et dont l’inspiration peut aussi s’incarner sous forme d’installations sonores. Cela dit, au-delà des a priori conceptuels, la musique de Stephan Mathieu comporte indubitablement une grande sensualité.
Music for Columbia Phonoharp (2011) – 50 minutes création nord-américaine

Vendredi 14 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

SENS_ACTION: France Jobin (QC) • Robert Hampson (GB)
France Jobin (aussi connue sous l’alias i8u) explore les franges atmosphériques d’un vaste territoire acoustique dans lequel défilent des images qui témoignent de sa sensibilité aux arts visuels ; certains observateurs décrivent ses œuvres comme de véritables sculptures sonores. Avec Event Horizon, elle propose, dans le cadre d’AKOUSMA, un beau voyage dont le titre évoque la frontière entre la matière et le vide.
Event Horizon (2009) – 35 minutes création mondiale
La diffusion d’Event Horizon est rendu possible avec l’appui aux activités de diffusionle d’Oboro.

Robert Hampson provient du monde de la pop psychédélique et du shoegazing. Toujours actif avec son projet collaboratif Main, il se consacre également depuis les années 2000 à un travail davantage axé vers l’exploration sonore et la diffusion acousmatique. Sa musique démontre une qualité d’écoute qui se traduit par une grande finesse d’écriture dans laquelle prend forme une trame narrative mystérieuse et inouïe.
Ahead – Only The Stars (2007)
Commande du VIBRO (13 mins) – Published by Touch Music création nord-américaine
Dans Le Lointain (2008)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published By Touch Music création nord-américaine
Repercussions (2011)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published by At The Surface création nord-américaine

Samedi 15 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

ORGANI_SON: Marc Behrens (DE) • Horacio Vaggione (FR/AR)
Marc Behrens est un artiste sonore en perpétuel renouvellement. Son expérience musicale éclectique (musiques industrielle, concrète, minimal glitch, paysage sonore, etc.) et ses nombreuses collaborations témoignent de la diversité esthétique de ses œuvres, dont le point commun est une évidente sensibilité.
Queendom (2009) : 8:07
voice: Yôko Higashi création nord-américaine
Sleppet (2–3): Avalanches, Water and Stones (2008) : 9:35 création nord-américaine Sleppet (4) Glacier (2008) : 10:00
Irregular Characters (2010) : 19:41
using material by: Yasunao Tone création nord-américaineHoracio Vaggione fait partie des pionniers de l’électroacoustique, mais son œuvre ne porte pas le poids du passé, bien au contraire ; nous sommes ici devant une musique d’une grande vivacité. Son intérêt envers le caractère énergétique du son est au premier plan de son travail. La virtuosité du compositeur nous permet d’entrer dans ce monde invisible où matière, durée et énergie sont en pleine convolution. Ses œuvres se présentent sous forme de grandes fresques abstraites qui diffusent leur beauté au travers de la cohérence du discours et de la forme musicale.
Arenas (2007) : 15’ création nord-américaine
Ash (1990) : 15’
Points critiques (2011) : 16’ création canadienne

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Akousma at Empac

AKOUSMA at Empac

Friday October 7, 8:00 PM – Studio 2

EMPAC is located at the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue, in Troy, NY.

Presenting international works across the spectrum of electronic music, this concert highlights selections from this year’s eighth annual AKOUSMA festival in Montréal. Pierre-Yves Macé (France), France Jobin (Canada), Horacio Vaggione (France/Argentina), and Louis Dufort (Canada) will be interpreting their works live over a 16-speaker system surrounding the audience.

AKOUSMA is produced by Réseaux, a composer-run organization dedicated to presenting and commissioning electroacoustic music since 1991. Montréal is the North American hub for electronic music, offering a wide range of festivals spanning dance music, acoustics research, and everything in between.

Curator: Micah Silver

Bios:France Jobin, aka i8u, is a Montréal-based sound/installation/web artist and curator. Jobin’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture,” and her installation/web art incorporates both musical and visual elements.

France Jobin has created solo recordings for ROOM40, NVO, and Bake/Staalplaat, among others, and has had many collaborations, including with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian, and Tomas Phillips.

She has participated in web work/installations in Québec and Toronto, and in various music and new technology festivals in Canada, Europe, and the United States, including Silophone, MUTEK, Le Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Ver Uit de Maat, send + receive, Les Digitales, Club Transmediale, velak, Shut up and Listen!, ISEA2010 RUHR, and immersound, as well as a soundtrack with Bubblyfish for the film Swordswoman of Huangjiang (Huangjiang Nuxia), presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Her latest endeavor, immersound, is a concert event/philosophy that proposes to create a dedicated listening environment by focusing on the physical comfort of the audience through a specifically designed space. The premise is to explore new perceptions and experiences of the listening process by pushing the notion of “immersion” to its possible limits. The first immersound was produced in February 2011 at the OBORO gallery in Montréal.

Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.

Montréal composer Louis Dufort’s music ranges from a cathartic form of expressionism to a focus on the inner structure of sound matter.

Dufort developed his style through electroacoustic music, and then turned his attention to mixed music and multimedia art, and has worked with a wide range of organizations, including the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM), the Quasar saxophone quartet and Bozzini string quartet, the Ensemble de flûtes Alizé, Réseaux, the Quebec Association for Creation and Research in Electroacoustics (ACREQ), and Chants Libres, for which he wrote the music for the 2005 opera, L’Archange

In 2007, Dufort was commissioned by Société Radio‐Canada (SRC) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to make a video and acousmatic remix of Glenn Gould’s recordings for the pianist 75th birthday.

In 2001, Dufort received a mention from Prix Ars Electronica (Austria); in 2005, he was invited to work at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Germany, and in 2007, he was a guest of Recombinant Media Labs (RML) in San Francisco. He has worked with choreographer Marie Chouinard since1996, and their collaborations have been regularly acclaimed, including Body_Remix, which premiered at the Venice Biennial in 2005.

Dufort teaches at Montréal’s Music Conservatory. He was named artistic director of Réseaux in 2010, and he begins his first season with a concert at EMPAC.

Pierre-Yves Macé is a French musician whose musical practice encompasses improvisation on machines, a background in piano and classical percussion, jazz-rock/prog-rock bands, dance accompaniments, and an interest in literature and musicology. He received his PhD in musicology in 2009, which explored phonography and the “sound document” in contemporary music. His first recording, Faux-Jumeaux, was released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label in 2002. Subsequently, he released Circulations (Sub Rosa, 2005), and Crash_Test II (Tensional Integrity) (Orkhêstra, 2006) for a string quartet. He has held residencies at CalArts in Los Angeles, CNMAT in Berkeley (2004), and GRM in Paris (2006, 2008). Macé has performed in the Octobre Festival in Normandie, MIMI, Villette Sonique, Brocoli, Transnumériques, and Présences électronique. His artistic collaborations include projects with ON (Sylvain Chauveau & Steven Hess), That Summer, Louisville, artist Hippolyte Hentgen, and writers Mathieu Larnaudie, Philippe Vasset, and Christophe Fiat. He is also a member of the Encyclopédie de la parole, a speech encyclopedia crew whose goal is to constitute a compositional plan through which different forms of recorded speeches may be compared.

Horacio Vaggione is an Argentinian-born electroacoustic and musique concrète composer who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound, and whose pieces often are for performer and computer‐generated tape. He studied composition at the National University in Córdoba and the University of Illinois, where he first gained exposure and access to computers.

Vaggione visited every electronic studio in Europe during the 1970s. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where he was part of the ALEA group. He also co‐founded an electronic studio and music and computer projects at the Autonomous University of Madrid with Luis de Pablo. In 1978, he moved to France, where he still resides, and begin work at GMEB in Bourges, INA‐GRM and IRCAM in Paris, where his music moved from synthesized and sampled loops (as in La Maquina de Cantar, produced on an IBM computer) toward micromontage. Since 1994, he has been a professor of music at the University of Paris VIII, where he organized the Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale (CICM).

About EMPAC

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.

EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.

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DATA/FIELDS

DATA/FIELDS

“I am pleased to announce that, by popular demand, Data/Fields exhibit has been extended two weeks…through Sunday, December 11th!” – Richard Chartier due to popular demand, DATA/FIELDS has been extended until December 11th, 2011!

“Sharply installed and smartly edited mini-survey of cutting-edge contemporary art… the works in “Data/Fields” sharpen your senses, even as they blur the boundary between sight and sound.” – The Washington Post

New Media Installation Works

Sep 22 – Nov 27
Terrace Gallery
Opening reception: Fri Sep 23 / 7-10pm / Free
Gallery talk: Mon Sep 26 + Wed Sep 28 / 12:30pm /Free

Data are points that flow through fields. We can pause in these fields and extract the information. If data fields are those set boundaries in which we place, consider, and collect information, then a gallery might be a great plane of these fields. Or, leaving the natural world for the subjective, it could become an index, compiled by artist and viewer together. Created by five noted international artists, the works in Data/Fields utilize the thematic implications of the data field as they transform gallery space into hubs of sensory information: sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence. The viewer/listener becomes another connection, another point, in the flow and transferral of data.

Data/Fields is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.

These selected and commissioned works at Artisphere are the artists’ gallery debut in the Washington, DC area and include two premiere exhibitions in the United States.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Caleb Coppock (U.S.)
Mark Fell (U.K.)
Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany)
Ryoji Ikeda (Japan)
France Jobin (Canada)
About the Curator

Richard Chartier (curator) (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally, including the 2002’s Whitney Biennial. He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits.

In 2000 he formed the influential recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. In 2007 he curated the sound/video program Colorfield Variations, a collection of works influenced by the Color Field painting movement. This program continues to screened and exhibited and digital/film festivals, museums, and art galleries around the world. In 2010, Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship. 3particles.com + lineimprint.com

France Jobin

photo by Richard Chartier

Entre-deux, 2011, 6-channel site specific sound installation, 144 minute cycles

“Between notes and sounds lie rests and silence. I have come to regard these as the most fragile parts of music.” – France Jobin

Created entirely with actual field recordings from across the globe and on location around Artisphere, Montreal sound artist France Jobin’s site-specific work Entre-deux explores acts of systemic, yet subjective, information gathering. Spaces and times are chosen for their inherent beauty, then processed and reformed as location and experience itself becomes transposed. Entre-deux is the re-placing of data. This site-specific work is the first gallery exhibition of Jobin’s installations in the U.S.
Entre-Deux is supported in part by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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On view in Data/Fields, a new media exhibition in which the viewer/listener becomes another connection in the flow and transfer of data. The artworks presented act as hubs of sensory information—sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence.  The exhibition features works by five noted international artists, Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell (U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin (Canada), and is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.

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Audio Screening & Conversation with the Muses

 

Audio Screening & Conversation | In Conversation with the Muses…
Lucia H. Chung (Convenor) with i8u, Miki Yui & Peter Hodgkinson | 02

August 2011 | 7:30-9pm | £2

at SoundFjord
Unit 3b – Studio 28, 28 Lawrence Road, N15 4ER
London, United Kingdom

In response to an invitation to hosting an audio screening at SoundFjord, artist Lucia H Chung conducts an exchange project with artists who have inspired her artistic journey in sound and music making.

This 8-week long exchange between Muki Yui, i8u and Lucia started from a collective contemplation on Yoko Ono’s instruction Secret Piece (1953), first sent by Lucia to the other artists respectively. Responding to the material that they received, Miki and i8u returned their thoughts in the form of text, image and sound. Through this to and fro correspondence, the three artists shared a close and intimate conversation on time, space, memory and sound. This journey of exchange will be presented as a collaborative work that is exclusive to SoundFjord.

The event will also be the premiere of an audiovisual work created out of a collaboration between Peter Hodgkinson and Lucia H Chung.

Finally, Lucia will talk about her forthcoming solo work on murmur records in Japan.

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Chain Letter

 

Chain Letter
Curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey

Summer 2011 Group Exhibition

Venue:

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave # B1
Santa Monica, CA 90404-4031

Date: July 23 – August 25, 2011
Opening Saturday, July 23 / 6-8 pm

Works by Yann Novak, Robert Crouch, Heather Cassills and i8u’s 29 Palms
released on DER will be part of the exhibit +  many more artists!

Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration.  Initially
conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the
exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires one’s work.  Each
artist invited, then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so
on.  This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which
each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne
Gallery.

This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the
social nature of the art world.  It is the hope of the curators that the
response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an
exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and
admired by their peers.

Chain Letter mimics communication today; and the way in which information
is passed.  The outcome will be a testament to the power of connectivity
within society at present.

Other cities worldwide will be participating in the Chain Letter
exhibition including New York City, London, Paris, Johannesburg,
Philadelphia, Boston, Seoul.

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Bring to light NYC

 Bring to light NYC – Nuit Blanche New York

October 1st 2011 in Greenpoint

The Festival

Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life. Bring to Light will transform streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline.

JiKU

Translated from the Japanese as “space-time”, JiKU (jeekoo) is an audiovisual, interactive experience as well as a video mapping installation and projection. While listening to a live music stream, audience members view an intricate visual projection, programmed by the artist to respond specifically to the music. Displayed overhead, the projection distorts the space of the immediate area as it showers light over participants. JiKU will energize a dormant location within Greenpoint, as the artist manipulates the space based on the real time reactions of the individuals inhabiting it.

Projection by Chika

Audio by i8u

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re/flux | curated by Soundfjord

EVENT HORIZON – i8u – Cédrick Eymenier

EVENT HORIZON screening at ICA

Event: Museums at Night:
SoundFjord
[The Sublimated Landscape/Sonic Topology]

Venue: ICA
The Mall
LONDON
SW1Y 5AH

Date: Sat 16 July 2011
Time: 20:00 – 12:00
Entry: Free

SoundFjord has curated an extended evening of
sound and AV work featuring the following artists and their noted works

Audio-VisualWorks

i8u + Cédrick Eymenier
Event Horizon
00:09:33

Mem1
Laura + Mark Cetilia
Aphrosia
00:14:39

Rubedo
Vesna Petresin Robert | Laurent-Paul Robert
Structures in Flux
00:11:08

William Fowler Collins + Claudia X. Valdes
6th Magnitude
00:10:19

 

SoundWorks

Andie Brown
All Cats are Grey by Night
00:10:00

Bug Compass
Miles Allchurch
Sheng
00:04:03

Clinker
Gary James Joynes
Due South (Towards Irricana)
00:09:06

David Kristian + Marie Davidson
Dans La Chaleur
00:06:59

Emilian Gatsov
Second Body
00:10:47

Gastón Arévalo
Intertidal
00:05:06

Graham Dunning
To Look At Her Sinking
00:07:11

Heribert Friedl
raumzitate (room quotations)
00:12:13

Martin Clarke
Tourist
00:07:15

Matthew Sansom
Mêtis
00:42:44

mimosa|moize
Martin J Thompson + Lucia H Chung
3 + 1
00:20:40

Robert Crouch
November
00:07:30

Scant Intone
Desolation Sound
00:06:26

Simon Whetham
A Suspension of Time
00:05:40

Somadrone
Neil O’Connor
Radio Aurora
00:07:19

Steve Roden
Airforms
00:56:14

Sublamp
Ryan Connor
[Untitled]
00:09:31

Thomas Park
Mermaids in New York
00:05:02

Tomas Phillips
Affectueuse/Sublimation
00:15:45

TU M’
Emiliano Romanelli + Rossano Polidoro
Monochrome #7
00:12:35

Wil Bolton
Ulica Kanonicza
00:10:20

Yann Novak
Music for Restaurants
00:20:00

 

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Tracing the Invisible at ACP, Sydney, Australia

Tracing the Invisible by Riley Post
Audio tracks by:

Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Pattern 4
Svarte Greiner – Final Sleep
Edgard Varèse – Poème électronique
i8u – higgs released on ROOM40’s 10th anniversary compilation Various 10

Tracing the Invisible is an audio-visual generative installation exploring the psychological and emotional connection between the aural and the visual. Paired animations take live sound as a determinant in the composition, movement and decomposition of form. Sometimes rigid, sometimes fluid, but always delicate and abstract; these shapes live under the screen’s surface, resting on a sea of colour.

Presented at the Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street
Paddington NSW 2021

Friday 6 May – Saturday 11 June
Tue – Fri: 12.00 – 7.00pm,
Sat & Sun 10.00am – 6.00pm