extrasensory sound art event - 29 June 2000 at the 291 Gallery, London E2

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extrasensory

A sound art event featuring live performance, installation works, sound 
presentations, and DJs, promoting the art of listening?

29 June 2000 Thursday 8pm ? 12am

291 Gallery 291 Hackney Road London E2

£5 / £3

Rail Liverpool St > Cambridge Heath
Tube Old St / Bethnal Green
Bus 26, 48, 55
Car Parking

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ARTISTS:

Tommy Filipowicz

An artist from Sweden, part of whose work consists of making sounds and 
images of computer files. By putting them together into animations, he tells 
quirky ?stories? of what is going on inside a computer - or the physical 
world seen through a graphically crude digital lens. Filipowicz has adapted 
the easygoing terminology of TV guides and papers to describe them.

Bernhard Günter

Bernhard Günter is one of the founders of the microsound genre, having 
released the influential un peu de neige salie CD way back in 1993 (listed 
in the Top 100 Albums that set the World on Fire, The Wire). He often uses 
extreme low volume sound, and employs a compositional strategy that is based 
on sound itself. ?I start from sound materials that I listen to very often, 
and in a very attentive manner, trying to find their internal qualities, 
tendencies, and potentials...? By using non-referential sound materials, 
along with a refusal of illustrative elements, the artist attempts to create 
a language free zone. ?Thinking without words is the ultimate goal.? 
Bernhard Günter will present a 1½ hour live performance, followed by a 
discussion about his work with the audience.

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Kaz

Playing with Life. White noise. Non-audio sound. Visual sound created by 
absence of signals. A state of nothingness? Video projection of white noise 
is the medium that the artist uses in his installation works, which deal 
with the question of ?Who am I?? in relation to infinity and eternity. The 
projection of white noise is complemented by live video projection of the 
space itself, which becomes complete only when the viewer enters it. A work 
that actively involves the audience and the spatial characteristics of the 
gallery.

Janek Schaefer

An artist particularly interested in vinyl record modification and player 
experiments. His tri-phonic turntable became a three tone arm, two 
direction, multi-level, micro vari-speed vinyl manipulator, and was invented 
and built by Schaefer in 1997. It is the only turntable with such potential 
in existence. His work includes making use of vinyl that is both warped and 
pressed off-centre, creating a variety of different effects. Sound 
relationships are mostly discovered by chance, and are harnessed and used to 
compose live sound collages that incorporate abstracted found sound, 
primitive electronic textures and electro-acoustic methodologies. For 
extrasensory Schaefer presents a work that largely explores low volume noise 
utilising a new modified turntable live performance.

Snap, Crackle & Pop

More distressed vinyl manipulations. Records are (literally) scored using a 
scalpel, nib and other utensils, to create rhythmic noise patterns of snap, 
crackle and pop. These simple recordings are multi-layered using multiple 
turntables and a mixer. This is presented as a stand-alone installation 
work, with a half-hour live performance at 21:00.

Akira Yamamichi

Yamamichi uses synthesizer and sound editing software to create ?sounds that 
stopped making sense? ? clicks, taps, tones, and other microsounds. These 
elements are then composed into repetitive works, the pulse modeling being 
designed upon auditory inclinations. The artist?s primary concern is 
audiology and his soundworks reflect this proto-scientific approach.


The event will also include DJ performance highlighting the best in 
contemporary sound art and microsonics, including a ½ hour presentation 
dedicated to MP3 soundworks.

A programme will be made available on the night detailing the event schedule 
and further information on the specific works being presented. Artist?s CDs 
and other materials will also be available to buy.

Please visit the extrasensory website, which includes links to artists? own 
websites.

www.fragment.freeserve.co.uk/extrasensory

extrasensory: 020 7265 9760

Lisa Jensen, 291 Gallery: 020 7613 5676

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