PARTICIPATION Performance Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a multi-instrumentalist. The long time San Pedro resident plays original contemporary jazz on the Chapman Stick, a ten-stringed instrument that is played by tapping on the fret board. He accompanies himself, with the aid of a loop pedal, on the cajon (box drum), bass and […]
PARTICIPATION Bureau of Thanks is an interactive installation-performance inspired by memories of form-fillers and petition writers set up with typewriters and folding tables outside the DMV offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I grew up. It is also inspired by LA poet Jen Hofer’s *escritorio publico* love-letter project. In Bureau of Thanks I set up […]
PARTICIPATION The Bees of the Dead wikiGong continues to explore use of environmentally-generated audio, and adds audio generated by (non-human) organisms. Using folk custom as a port of entry, our speculations on consciousness bungee back across the universe to aliens living on the planet we naively call ours. Are they symbionts, bound to us and […]
PARTICIPATION Alpha State Suggestions is an exercise in the expressive qualities of spoken voice. The Japanese text deals with various world facts, and has a partly humanitarian and ecological lean. The piece was created from a relatively short sample, spoken by Karen Gomyo in 2002. June Haze Spectral treatment of rock demos by Michelle Zauner. […]
PARTICIPATION Performs as part of Synthlab. A consummate TechDweeb, visual artist and novatone “musician” univac continuously re-purposes the detritus of trickle-down technology and off-the-shelf toys and electronics in order to create circuit-bent audioVisual hybrids; causing the designers of the original items to shudder in disbelief. In addition to circuit-bent video gadgets, univac also constructs audioVisualizations utilizing Apple’s […]
PARTICIPATION Unite hEAR! Statement: Unite Here! Unite Hear! Unite Here! Unite hEAR! The sound of trouble, the sound of treble.Listen to the people, listen to the silence.We must be heard, hEAR our cry.We are loud, we are proud.We cannot be silenced!Don’t be bias, we are human too. Thomas Zear Beyrooty has been a creative person […]
PARTICIPATION Resonant Spaces is a series of installation works using resonant “speaker-objects” built by attaching small speakers to snare drums. The sounds of these hybrid electronic and acoustic instruments activate the resonant frequencies of their locations, delineating the physicality of a surrounding environment defined by architecture and materiality. Previous pieces in the series engaged aspects […]
PARTICIPATION Dreamlands Statement: Dreamlands was originally created for an audiovisual performance and video installation based on the concepts of expanded and synaesthetic cinema. Synaesthetic cinema is an aesthetic language guided by the senses to create non-narrative films. In Dreamlands, we have captured a macro world of metal powders morphing from sound waves, as well as […]
PARTICIPATION Hot Sacred Statement: I take bright and bold colors, use them, ring them out on the canvas in drips and splashes. With energy and sensousness, I repeat forms, images and motif’s. And, with paint and digital processes I heighten the emotion of my work and reiterate the obvious, like a raw deal turned inside […]
PARTICIPATION 6:30 – 7:00 Qrux7:00 – 7:30 Kantor7:30 – 8:00 Rychard Cooper8:00 – 8:30 Faraday Cage8:30 – 9:00 Som Shankar9:00 – 9:30 Kittyspit9:30 – 10:00 Cannibalistic CaterpillarVisuals by univac Music and live video art since 2015. SynthLab’s artist combine analog, digital and acoustic instruments with modular synthesizers, drum machines, loopers, effects processors, and homemade software, […]