Re: [microsound] this next weekend NYC?

[peter lew <abigigloo@xxxxxxx>]

 > > ******* Announcement from Free 103
 > ****************
 > >
 > >
 > > www.free103point9.org                 transmission
 > > art
 > >
 > >
 > > Two benefits for Sound Generation book
 > > and free103point9 this week:
 > >
 > >
 > > Thu: at Experimental Intermedia, Soho
 > >
 > > Sat: at OfficeOps, Bushwick
 > >
 > >
 > > <<<<<>>>>>
 > >
 > >
 > > Thursday 01.08.03
 > >
 > > SOUND GENERATION benefit
 > >
 > > TOBIAS VAN VEEN | CLAUDIO CHEA | KEN MONTGOMERY
 > > LARRY 7 | MARK MCNULTY | GREGORY WHITEHEAD
 > > ANNEA LOCKWOOD + PAUL RYAN | PAMELA Z | GREYG
 > > FILISTINE
 > >
 > > @ Experimental Intermedia,
 > > 224 Centre St. at Grand St.,
 > > Third Floor, Manhattan.
 > > 212.431.5127. 8 p.m., $5.
 > >
 > > A concert of innovative electronic music, sound
 > art
 > > and
 > > video for the forthcoming Chronoplastics and
 > > Autonomedia book Sound Generation.
 > > A recording will be streamed at 8 p.m. Fri. Jan. 9
 > > on free103point9 Online Radio
 > www.free103point9.org
 > >
 > >
 > > and
 > >
 > >
 > > Saturday 01.10.03
 > >
 > > SOUND GENERATION/FREE103POINT9 BENEFIT
 > > four rooms of sights and sounds
 > >
 > > KEN MONTGOMERY | GREYG FILISTINE | CORNUCOPIA
 > > LEMUR | DAVID DANIELL + JAMES ELLIOTT
 > > RADIO 4 x 4: BEN OWEN + RADIO RUIDO + TOM ROE +
 > MATT
 > > MIKAS
 > > 31 DOWN | MARK BAIN | DAMIEN CATERA | TELESEEN
 > > PETER STALEY | NEUROTRANSMITTER
 > > other video artists tba
 > >
 > > @ OfficeOps, 57 Thames St.,
 > > Bushwick/East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.- 3
 > a.m.
 > > Located between Morgan Ave. + Knickerbocker Ave.,
 > > East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn.
 > > Near Morgan Ave. L stop. 718.418.2509. $10.
 > > www.officeops.org
 > >
 > > A multimedia minifestival of sound and video
 > > exhibitions
 > > and performances, with a late-night chill-out
 > > lounge.
 > > Featuring sound performances and artworks for the
 > > forthcoming Chronoplastics and Autonomedia book
 > > Sound Generation. Four-room benefit also helps
 > > free103point9 and BION.
 > >
 > > Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.
 > > Tune in at www.free103point9.org at 8 p.m.
 > >
 > >
 > > See the poster for this show at:
 > > http://www.autonomedia.org/aoj.pdf
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
 > >
 > > GREYG FILISTINE, riotmaster extraordinaire, is
 > > founder
 > > of
 > > the Seatte-based musician, "Tactical Rhythmic
 > Unit,"
 > > the
 > > Infernal Noise Brigade, and member of the global
 > > field-recording
 > > composition group, AudioFile Collective. Filistine
 > > will be
 > > presenting videos on INB activities in the months
 > > preceeding
 > > the invasion of Iraq on January 10 at OfficeOps.
 > > www.postworldindustries.com
 > >
 > > LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
 > is
 > > a
 > > Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists
 > > developing
 > > robotic musical instruments. Having completed work
 > > under a
 > > Rockefeller Foundation grant awarded to the group
 > in
 > > 2001,
 > > LEMUR has recently presented its robots at several
 > > high visibility
 > > events. Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
 > > commissioned
 > > a collaborative work with New York composer Joshua
 > > Fried; it
 > > debuted in May 2002 at Harvestworks and was later
 > > performed
 > > at Soho's Hear Arts Center. Wired magazine will be
 > > highlighting
 > > ShivaBot in its July 2003 ArtBots article. LEMUR
 > > instruments
 > > have been demonstrated at various academic
 > symposia
 > > and
 > > institutions, including the Second International
 > > Conference on
 > > Entertainment Computing at Carnegie Mellon
 > > University
 > > and
 > > the 2003 International Conference on New
 > Interfaces
 > > for
 > > Musical Expression. LEMUR's philosophy is to build
 > > robotic
 > > instruments that "play themselves." "In LEMUR
 > > designs,
 > > the
 > > robots are the instruments. We are less interested
 > > in
 > > creating
 > > humanoid robots that emulate humans playing
 > > instruments,"
 > > explains LEMUR founder and director Eric Singer.
 > > "Rather,
 > > we seek to create machines which intimately
 > > integrate
 > > the
 > > instruments with the robotics. Musical robots are
 > > most
 > > engaging
 > > when playing in ways which humans can't or don't
 > > normally play.
 > > This has been one of our guiding design
 > principles."
 > > http://lemurbots.org/
 > >
 > > CORNOCOPIA, founded by CLAUDIO CHEA, is a sound
 > art
 > > collective.
 > > Founded in 1996, Cornucopia began with feedback
 > and
 > > analog
 > > electronics, and later moved into digital
 > > manipulation
 > > of
 > > field-recordings.
 > > They are the most well-known sound art group to
 > have
 > > come from
 > > Puerto Rico, having released over 55 recordings on
 > > labels worldwide,
 > > and performed throughout Europe, the US and
 > Mexico.
 > >
 > > ANNEA LOCKWOCD + PAUL RYAN present their
 > > interpretation of
 > > "Bow Falls," in accord with the Earthscore
 > > Notational
 > > System, which
 > > assumes that there are patterns in waterflow that
 > > can
 > > be communicated
 > > electronically. Paul Ryan used handheld
 > camerawork,
 > > slow motion,
 > > reverse motion and negative color fields to
 > compose
 >
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On Jan 7, 2004, at 8:10 AM, claudio chea wrote:

> Hello all;
>
> Any interesting exhibitions or something particular to see this next 
> weekend in NYC?
>
> thanks!
>
> Claudio Chea
>
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