NYC sat. aug 4 live: taylor deupree, richard chartier, tim barnes, janek schaefer

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Diapason presents:

A Mixt Event

Saturday, August 4

8PM:
Installations
tba

9PM:
Performances
featuring
Tim Barnes and Michael J. Schumacher
Richard Chartier
Taylor Deupree
Janek Schaefer

$10

Diapason
1026 Avenue of the Americas @ 39th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
(212) 719-4393

http://www.diapasongallery.com

about the artists:

Tim Barnes
Tim Barnes (b.1967) makes noise for a living. He is a sound designer
and percussionist in NYC. His manipulations of sound have invaded
millions of American homes without anyone even knowing. As a
percussionist and performer for almost 20 years, he has collaborated
with a diverse range of artists, including Jim O'Rourke, Tony Conrad,
Neil Hagerty, avant-folk group Tower Recordings, Ikue Mori,
Dean Roberts, Nagisa Ni te, Ira Cohen and Charles Curtis. Over the
past three years, Tim has released for the first time the lost
recordings of pioneering percussionist Angus MacLise through his
label Quakebasket (see www.quakebasket.com for more details).  His
drum duo record with Chicago percussionist Glenn Kotche, "domoodomo",
topped many critics' list for 2000. Most recently, Barnes has
recorded his first solo percussion record, entitled "All Acoustics".
His solo and duo performances prior to this recording have been
primarily electro-acoustic based, but through his performances with
both Oren Ambarchi and Michael Schumacher last month, Barnes has
begun revisiting the space of acoustic sound generators.


Richard Chartier
Richard Chartier, minimal sound artist/composer, painter and graphic
designer, has recorded critically acclaimed solo recordings for
Trente Oiseaux (Germany), LINE (USA), Meme (Japan), Fallt (Ireland),
Microwave (The Netherlands) and Intransitive Recordings (USA) as well
collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0) and Taylor Deupree on 12k
(USA). For his cd Series, Chartier was awarded one of twelve
Honorable Mentions in the category of Digital Music by the
prestigious PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA, 2001 (Linz, Austria).
His work has been featured on a number of international compilations
including this year's Clicks & Cuts 2 (Mille Plateaux, Germany) and
in Computer Music Journal in conjunction with the essay "The
Aesthetics of Failure: Post-Digital Tendencies in Contemporary
Computer Music" by Kim Cascone (MIT Press, USA). His work explores
the relationship between sound, silence and the art of listening.
Both his visual and sound works have been exhibited in many galleries
and artspaces including the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
and Washington Project for the Arts Projectspace. Over the past
several years, he has been invited to perform his sound work at live
events in the United States, Canada, and the UK including such noted
international electronic music festivals as MUTEK (Montreal),
Lovebytes (Sheffield) and Transmissions (Chicago). With Taylor
Deupree, he founded the recording label LINE, as a subdivision of 12k
focusing new, digital, conceptual, minimalist sound art.
http://www.3particles.com
chartier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Taylor Deupree
Taylor Deupree, composer and head of New York's 12k label, has
prepared a unique sound set exclusively for his performance at the
Diapason Gallery on August 4th. Utilizing a powerbook and a surface
controller, Taylor will be mixing a series of 8 second loops to
create an improvised 40 minute piece. The majority of the loops are
separated freqency ranges from one base file. Mixed together they
form the complete file where the freqencies fade in and out over time.
The source of the loop comes from a noise hiss treated with granular
synthesis algorithms. The result is a light, sibiliant wash of
tickling static. Because the sounds have been isolated into 8 second
loops, the careful listener will be able to discern patterns and
repetitions within the subtle clicks and nuances of the static, thus
creating a rhythmic, hypnotic and relaxing soundfield.
This piece, as yet untitled, is part of an extended project for
installations in an anechoic chamber.

Janek Schaefer
Janek Schaefer was born in England to Polish and Canadian  parents
in 1970 and graduated in architecture at the Royal College of Art in
1996. As a sound artist and musician his most notable work has been
the invention of the ?Tri-Phonic1 and ?Twin1 turntables, alongside
the exploration of new experimental ?Eccentric1 and ?Fragmented1
vinyl cutting techniques. His ?Recorded Delivery1 project sent a
sound activated  dictaphone through the post for an installation
organised in a self storage centre in London.  He has released CD1s
and records for Fat Cat [UK], K-raa-K3 [Belgium], Hot Air [UK], and
Diskono [Scotland] and is currently working on a new solo album for
Sub Rosa [Belgium]. He also formed a duo with Robert Hampson in 1999
called ?Comae1 whose debut release is due out on Rhiz records
[Vienna] this year. Schaefer has toured widely performing live
?Foundsoundscapes1 composed from the evocative, emotive and dynamic
layering of abstracted textures and tones culled from ancient vinyl
and manipulated field recordings. Janek was selected as 'Sound
Designer of the Year' by Creative Review Magazine [UK] in 1999 and
was awarded an 'Honorary Mention' at the Ars Electronica Festival
[Austria] in 2001 for his album 'Above Buildings'.  He works and
lives in London.

Michael J. Schumacher
is a composer of electronic sound installations using 2 - 16
speakers, computer-controlled random structures; of acoustic music
realizing advanced formal schemes; of taped and live music (also
improvised) for prepared electric guitar, synthesizer, etc. He has
composed two piano sonatas, numerous shorter works for piano solo,
chamber music, songs, and orchestral music. He studied music at
Indiana University and the Juillard School of Music. Born in
Washington, D.C., he has lived in New York City since 1983.
Schumacher's works have been performed in the United States, Europe
and Asia. He has presented sound installations at The Kitchen,
Experimental Intermedia, at the Technical University in Berlin, and
at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House, among other
places. He has received grants from the New Jersey Council on the
Arts, Meet the Composer, and Harvestworks. He has performed and
recorded with the cellist Charles Curtis, guitarist Donald Miller,
and with Stephen Tunney on Shimmy Disc Records. In 1996 he founded,
with Ursula Scherrer, Studio Five Beekman, a multi-media art gallery
which has presented installations by David Behrman, David First,
Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Matt Rogalsky, and others. He is the
founder, with Liz Gerring, of Diapason.

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OUT NOW 12k/LINE RELEASES:
12k1013  taylor deupree | occur | CD
LINE_005 bernhard günter | monochrome white / polychrome w/neon nails | 2CD
chronologi: 12k year 1 - year 4 (CD) (instinct records. june 2001)

UPCOMING 12k/LINE RELEASES:
12k1014  sogar | basal | CD (AUG)
12k1015  goem | abri | CD (OCT)
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LINE_006 z.e.l.l.e | nth | CD (AUG)
LINE_007 steve roden | forms of paper | CD  (OCT)

LIVE:
august 4th: diapason gallery, new york city
august 9th: san francisco, california
october 9-10: new york city (TBA)