[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Tuesday, February 13th, 8:30pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Diapason, gallery for sound and intermedia presents...

Tuesday February 13th
8:30pm

OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason

Live sets by:
- Bradley Eros (projections) with o.blaat / Keiko
Uenishi (sound) : musique plastique
- Andrew Lampert with Alan Licht

Invited artist:
- Lary Seven

Suggested donation:
$ 7


OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two
different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set
with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed
by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green
tea. A third artist, from  previous generations of visualists or related
fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to
create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different
perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer


About the artists:

Bradley Eros: An artist working in myriad media: experimental film &
video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, expanded cinema
& installation. Also a maverick curator, designer, researcher &
investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics,
subterranean science, erotic psyche, poetic accidents, cinema povera.
Exhibited at 2004 Whitney Biennial & The American Century, The New York
Film Festival, London Film Festival, MoMA, Pacific Film Archives,
Warhol Museum, Arsenal in Berlin, Lightcone in Paris; works with the
New York Filmmakers' Cooperative, Anthology Film Archives & directs the
Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema.

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)
Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artivist and core member of SHARE (
http://share.dj), o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her sound works
formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship
with sounds, through kinesthetic response as well as aural cognition. 
 She performed at various venues including: The Kitchen, Whitney Museum of
American Art, P.S.1, White Columns, Chelsea Art Museum, Rhizome.org, Lincoln
Center, MIT (Boston), Cornell Univercity, Serralves Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tate Britain, Sydney Opera House, ZKM, Konfrontationen 2006 Festival,
ClubTransmediale Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus, Kunstradio, LU, Zoobizarre,
STEIM, Netmage 06 Festival, Interferenze Festival. She has also created
installations 'Aboard: Fillip2' (Fortescue Gallery, London), and 'J'ai un
secret merveilleux: Midas' (Citysonic 2006, Mons, Belgium). 
 She was a recipient for Harvestworks' Artist-In-Residence 2004, and Van
Lier Foundation/Harvestworks' fellowship  in 2000-2001. Uenishi is currently
an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn College (CUNY) Center for Computer Music
for 2006-2007. Upcoming residency is to take place in Nodar, Portugal in
October, 2007.  
More info at http://obla.at and http://myspace.com/oblaat (firefox only)

musique plastique: This presentation will alternate 2 live ephemeral
cinema performances using piezoelectric-generated electronic sound -
with 2 studio-produced high definition and digital video versions of
similar processes & materials, using hand-manipulated celluloid film
strips & colored plastic gels with external lenses and filters, to
create a  "pyrographic chemystery" of metaphors & abstractions.

As an artist, Andrew Lampert primarily focuses on projector-based
pieces, film/video portraits, participatory productions and private
performances.  VARIETIES OF SLOW, a multi-hour 3-screen performance,
PIANO AND STRING QUARTET, PIANO AND STRING QUARTET, a sound piece, and
OKKYUNG DUET, a film performance with cellist Okkyung Lee, were
included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, a
performance piece originally staged in 2000, was revived in 2005 at the
Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His work has been presented and performed
at the New York Film Festival, the Lux Centre, The Rotterdam
International Film Festival, the Images Festival and
galleries/institutions in the US, Mexico, Canada, UK, Holland, France
and Russia. As an Archivist and Programmer, Lampert works at Anthology
Film Archives where he is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance
and preservation of the collection.

Alan Licht: A New York based musician and writer, Alan Licht has
released four albums of pieces for solo and multiple guitars, the
latest being A New York Minute (XI). He currently co-directs Text of
Light with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, a music group in which they and
others improvise with experimental films screening behind them, and is
a member of Rob Mazurek's group Mandarin Movie. He's also recorded and
performed as an improvisor with: Rashied Ali, Jim O'Rourke, Christian
Marclay, Thurston Moore, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Ikue
Mori, Derek Bailey, Charles Curtis, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Nihilist
Spasm Band, Oren Ambarchi, Ken Vandermark, Peter Brotzmann, Keith Rowe,
Marina Rosenfeld, Raz Mesinai, Tetuzi Akiyama, Aki Onda, Jandek,
Michael Snow, Keiji Haino, DJ Olive, Fennesz, and DJ Spooky. A founding
member of the indie rock bands Love Child & Run On, he's also performed
with Tom Verlaine, Brokeback, Papa M, the Styrenes, Royal Trux & Plush.
Sound installations include "Today I Am A Fountain Pen", Studio Five
Beekman, NYC (1998), "Country Geese, City Geese" and "Twilight of the
Idols" Diapason, NYC (2003)  and "The Downsizing of Don Dokken", part
of 'Constrictions' exhibition at Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn (1996). A
frequent contributor to the WIRE, Modern Painters, Time Out NY, Art
Review, Premiere, and Film Comment, his first book, An Emotional Memoir
of Martha Quinn, was published by Drag City Press in 2001.

Lary Seven continues to expand his live-performance repertoire to
include experimental music utilizing custom-built electro-acoustic
devices. Recent live performances include Barbican (London 2000) and
Fonotactik (Vienna 2002).
New York-based collaborative Directart Productions Ltd. works in a
variety of disciplines. These include music, film, video, live
performance, radio and visual art. Directart has been the vehicle for
numerous creative projects by its principals, Lary Seven and Fabio
Roberti, for more than twenty years.
Foremost among its many endeavors is Plastikville Studios, Directart's
music-production resource. Plastikville was formed in the early
eighties and is an ongoing interest for musicians from around the
world.
Directart has also curated film and 3-D slide screenings both locally
and internationally. In 1991, Directart collaborated with VRcades on
"The Knowledge Bazaar," with their sound and 3-D slide tableaux, at the
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. And a collaboration with
the internationalist KBZ-200 group included film, slide and live
performances in Berlin ('93), Munich ('94) and Brighton ('94).



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