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[microsound] FREE LIVE EVENT . William Basinski and Richard Chartier @ G FINE ART (DC) March 18



(we recommend calling the gallery and reserving seating as soon as 
possible to ensure you get to attend the show)
JUST ANNOUNCED!!


FREE LIVE EVENT
William Basinski & Richard Chartier

@ G FINE ART (Washington, DC)

FRIDAY MARCH 18 2005, 7:00pm

G Fine Art is proud to present, in conjunction with its current exhibit 
GROUP LOOP, an evening of live performances/diffusions by two of North 
America's most well critically acclaimed minimal electronic sound 
artists: William Basinski (NY/LA) and Richard Chartier (DC). Last year 
marked the pair's first collaborative work as the cd William Basinski + 
Richard Chartier, released in Japan on the highly regarded Spekk 
recording label. Both artists recently performed and presented work at 
the Redcat/Disney Theatre in Los Angeles for LA Museum of Contemporary 
Art's Visual Music: See Hear Now series in conjunction with the 
museum's exhibit Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 
1900. This will be the first performance by William Basinski in 
Washington, DC as well as the first full performance by Richard 
Chartier in the city in over 3 years.

Due to limited seating, space must be reserved in advance.
please contact the gallery at: 202.462.1601 for reservations.


William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has 
been working in experimental media for over 25 years in NYC. His epic 
4-disc masterwork,
The Disintegration Loops (www.mmlxii.com) has received international 
critical acclaim. The Disintegration Loops was chosen as one of the top 
50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork Media. Art Forum selected The River, his 
transcendental 2-disc release on Raster-Noton (Germany), as one of the 
top ten albums of 2003.

Installations and films made in collaboration with artist-filmmaker, 
James Elaine have been presented internationally, most recently at 
REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles for The Museum of 
Contemporary Art’s Visual Music exhibition. Their film, Variations, 
premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and will be 
released in a DVD edition by IDEA Records (USA) in 2005. Basinski’s new 
2-CD album, Variations: A Movement in Chrome Primitive, was released in 
fall 2004 by Durtro/Die Stadt (Germany). His monthly web-radio program, 
The Slipstream, can be heard on PS1/MOMA’s new art-radio station, 
WPS1.org.

In the last year, Mr. Basinski’s performances and installations have 
been presented at the ECOUTE Exhibition at Pompidou Centre (Paris, 
France); VISUAL MUSIC: SEE HEAR NOW at MoCA (Los Angeles);  G Fine Arts 
(Washington, DC); Instal Festival (Glasgow, Scotland); The Project 
(NYC); The Sculpture Center (NYC); Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum 
(Genoa, Italy); The Bonn Bienale (Bonn, Germany); The Sensoralia 
Festival at the Palladium Theater (Rome, Italy), and Recombinant Media 
Labs (San Francisco).

WEBSITE: http://www.mmlxii.com


Richard Chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has 
created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE 
(USA), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Spekk (Japan), Mutek_rec (Canada), and 
Fallt (Ireland), including collaborations with artists Taylor Deupree, 
William Basinski, COH, and *0 and has appeared on numerous 
international compilations. His digital minimalist work explores the 
inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, 
focus, and the act of listening.

Chartier’s sound works and sound installations have been presented 
internationally including in the exhibits Sounding Spaces at ICC 
(Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Torino, 
Italy), 2002 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), 
Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago and with the travelling 
sound exhibit Invisible Cities created by digital media curators Fehler 
as well as solo and collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC) and 
Diapason (NY). He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, and 
North America at MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), GRM/Maison de Radio France 
(Paris, France), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), 
Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes (Sheffield, UK), The Leeds 
International Film Festival (Leeds,UK), The Rotterdam International 
Film Festival (NE), Garage (Stralsund, Germany) and other noted digital 
art/music festivals and at exhibits such as Frequenzen [Hz] at the 
Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) and A Minimal Future? Art as Object 
1958-1968  and as the collaborative performance work CHESSMACHINE (with 
Ivan Pavlov) at Visual Music 1905-2005 at the Museum of Contemporary 
Art (Los Angeles).

In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its 
continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by 
international sound artists and composers exploring the aesthetics of 
contemporary and digital minimalism. The premiere release on LINE, 
Chartier’s Series as awarded Honorable Mention in the category of 
Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria).

WEBSITE: http://www.3particles.com