[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Monday, April 27th, 8pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Monday April 27th
8 pm

MiniOptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:

- Sawako (live visuals / live sound)
- Anton Marini and Mary Ann Benedetto (live visuals) with Aerostatic
(live sound)

Suggested donation:
$ 7

Diapason
882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, 10th floor
BROOKLYN (Sunset Park)
(718) 499-5070
directions: D, N or R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn


OptoSonic Tea is a 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

OptoSonic Tea is partly funded by the Experimental Television Center.
The Experimental Television Center¹s Presentation Funds program is
supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.


About the artists:

Originally born in Nagoya, Japan, Sawako is a timeline-based artist, a
sound sculptor and a signal alchemist currently based in Brooklyn USA.
Once through the processor named Sawako, memories in everyday life
float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. She is
interested in the soundscape, the signal scape and the media scape of
digital era, and her activities are making bridge between public and
private, virtual and actual world.
She has 4 solo CD releases from 12k, and/OAR and Anticipate, has
collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Taylor Deupree,
Andrew Deutsch, Kenneth Kirschner, Taku Sugimoto Toshimaru Nakamura,
Chika, O.blaat, asuna, Daisuke Miyatani, Radio Sonde, Ryan Francesconi
and Jacob Kirkegaard, and has performed in Tonic, WFC, Armory Show,
Issue Project Room, Roulette, Monkey Town (NYC); Send + Receive
Festival, MUTEK (Canada), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), m12 (Berlin),
Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC), UCLA Hammer Museum (LA), offsite,
Apple Store Sinsaibashi (Japan); OFFF Festival (Lisbon), Glade
Festival, Resonance FM, ICA London (UK); and other venues in the US,
Europe and Japan. Sawako obtained a Master¹s degree in Interactive
Telecommunications from New York University¹s Tisch School of the
Arts.
http://www.troncolon.com

Anton Marini (vade) is a video performance artist, programmer and
video engineer specializing realtime video systems, glitch aesthetics
and visual effects. His work explores designing software environments
and systems for realtime video as well as performing abstract
visualizations and urban video collages. Anton Marini is a former
researcher in residence at NYU's Brooklyn Experimental Media Center
and has taught at Parsons/New School Design and Technology Department.
He has performed at events such as Transmediale, Ultrasound festival,
BAP, Anyware, Eyewash, Rake, Share, Warper, as well as leading several
workshops in new media programming environments. His work has been
featured and performed in music videos airing on MTV, Comedy Central,
on DVD and in venues across the globe.
http://vade.info

Mary Ann Benedetto (outpt) is a visual artist working in a blend of
traditional and digital media using photography, code, and
mathematics. She teaches game development, procedural animation, and
graphic design at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.  She has preformed
live visuals at Eyewash, Blip Festival, Pulsewave, and 8static.
http://outpt.net/

Aerostatic - Based in Brooklyn, New York, Composer/Performers Terry
Golob & Michele Darling AKA Aerostatic, utilize artifacts of sound
generated by digital and analog processing in conjunction with a
variety of interactive technologies.  They compose a hybrid style of
electronic music for performance, films, installations, and game
environments.  Their sonic aesthetic is a synthesis of formal
classical elements manipulated by modern processes and the
hyper-rhythmic pulse of futuristic electronics. The result evokes the
intricacies of biomechanics and the integration of embedded micro
technologies with existing and yet to be discovered organic entities.
Aerostatic¹s music has been featured in venues, museums, festivals and
performances in the United States, Argentina, England, Austria, Italy,
Australia and Serbia.  Their music and sound design clients include
Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop), HBO, The Learning Channel, Moshi
Monsters, Four Kids Entertainment and The Criterion Collection.
Michele Darling is currently a professor of audio and sound design at
the Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Media Arts.
http://www.aerostaticmusic.com/


for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html