[spectre] A mini OptoSonic Tea festival - Saturday, March 17th @ Outpost NY - 5pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Saturday, March 17th, 2012
5pm

A mini OptoSonic Tea festival

Featuring live sets by:
⁃ LoVid (live visuals and sound)
⁃ David Linton (live visuals/audio)
⁃ Brock Monroe (live visuals) with Nick Hallett (sound)
⁃ Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer (live visuals)
with Gill Arno (sound)

Invited respondents/moderators:
- Adam Kendall
- Michael J. Schumacher


Suggested donation: 
$ 7

Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman St
Ridgewood, NY 11385
L train @ Halsey St. stop
(Coming from Manhattan, cross Wyckoff Ave and take a left on Norman St)
http://outpostedit.org/
(718) 599-2385


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


About the artists:

Gill Arnò is a sound artist, performer and visual artist. In his work he
engages sound and light as well as notions of memory, presence and time in
complex constructions and performances. He is known as an improviser and as
a phonographer, as well as for his intermedia project "mpld", in which he
plays sequences of modified found slides while processing and amplifying the
projectors' mechanical sounds. Arnò was born in Italy and moved to NY in
1997. He runs the experimental label Unframed and hosts the performance
series Fotofono in his Brooklyn apartment and studio. Collaborators in past
and present projects include Aki Onda, Andrew Lafkas, Ben Owen, Bruce
McClure, Bryan Eubanks, Daniel Neumann and Richard Garet. He has performed
at Experimental Intermedia (NY), The Stone (NY), Diapason Gallery (NY),
Seattle Improvised Music Festival, No Idea Festival (Austin), Images
Festival (Toronto), Courtisane Festival (Gent), Link (Bologna), Staalplaat
WS (Berlin), WORM (Rotterdam).
www.fotofono.net
www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld
www.unframedrecordings.net

Nick Hallett is a composer, vocalist, and cultural producer.  His new media
opera with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10, was performed at The
Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art and PICA TBA Festival, and continues
to tour nationally through 2013. Hallett’s work was included in Performa’s
2007 and 2009 biennials. He is the co-director of the Darmstadt music
series, currently held at ISSUE Project Room.  After organizing the first
performance of the current incarnation of Joshua Light Show in 2007, Hallett
became its music director and producer.  Recently, he composed music for the
project's fulldome son-et-lumière at the Hayden Planetarium of the American
Museum of Natural History.  Hallett and Monroe collaborated on "Voice +
Light Systems," a four-part residency connecting vocal music and multimedia
ritual at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in May, 2009.

Adam Kendall is a videoist and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
He treats video as a medium capable of detailed, structured composition and
dynamic, improvisational performances. Adam regularly performs and screens
pieces solo and in various collaborations, including the multimedia project
Toys’ Opera, and has recently presented or performed at SEAMUS 2011 (Miami,
FL), ICMC 2010 (Stony Brook, NY), The Stone (NYC), Contour Editions
(Online), and Diapason Gallery (NYC). 2012 includes projects with the
new-music ensembles Le Train Bleu (NYC) and Fuse (DC). He has organized a/v
performance series and workshops, including {R}ake, and is a software
developer who incorporates his own programming in his work.
http://www.hellbender.org

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal,
Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in
experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced
many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances
which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events
around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and
installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around
collaborations with new music composers and sound artists, notably Phill
Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, David
First and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is active in live video
mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists
including: Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarté, Shelley Hirsch, Anne
Wellmer, Margarida Garcia, Anthony Coleman, Micheal Delia, André Gonçalves,
Matt Pass, Audrey Chen, murmer, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom
Hamilton, among others. She is also involved in the programming and
organization of diverse media art events, notably with Experimental
Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012) and the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in
NYC. 
www.liberovskaya.net

David Linton (born Newburgh NY 1956) is a Time based multiple media artist
traveling the vectors of sound, subculture, and signal flow. He has been
active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for 30 years.
Originally a percussionist, David has created sound, music, and something in
between, for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since
his arrival in NY at the tail end of 1970's. By the later 80's - after a
good deal of percussion work along side other musicians: Lee Ranaldo, Rhys
Chatham, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp among others - he was equally known for
his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances as well as his
soundscore productions for the Wooster Group & choreographers Karole
Armitage & Steven Petronio among many others. His 1986 solo Lp
"Orchesography" was an unlikely collusion of street beats, early sampling
tek, and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's he had retired from
performing on drums in the live electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the
vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in
performance priorities this new 'compressed' format suggested. Throughout
the 90's Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and
appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design
and/or production of multimedia event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996)
and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present). In the later 90's David was a key
participant in Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods multimedia improvisation Performance
project "Crash Landing" performing live electronics on stage in early
outings in Leuvan, Vienna and Paris  . From 2001 Linton's fascination with
instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of
electronic sound and visual artists assumed the form of a live experimental
television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television
(2001-2004) - for which he was producer/director - and occasional performer.
In 2004 David embarked upon his present course with the launch of his solo
audio-visual project: the Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System.
With his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" (2004) Linton aims
to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by
deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live
action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space. He
employs an integrated recursive analog audio-video feedback system of his
own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver
vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual
performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual "medicine show"
emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider
that within the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually
came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic
body/culture of human life in North America... Since the onset of the
Bicameral project david performs extensively at home and abroad... his most
recent project - an installation room at the Clocktower Gallery entitled
"The Cortical Degausser"  has perhaps relocated the Live Cinema proclivities
of his work away from performance into a new dimension of relational
space...  
http://bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch
http://bicameral.multiply.com/
http://www.unitygain.org/

LoVid is the art duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. LoVid explores
translation and decay of natural, electrical, and biological systems.
Working together since 2001, LoVid produces works that are playful as well
as aggressive, combining hand-made and machine produced craft, DIY
electro-engineering, textile, video, and noise. LoVid has performed and
exhibited at Museum of Moving Image (NY), Lampo (Graham Foundation),
International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA, Aurora Picture Show, PS1,
Evolution Festival (Leeds) Anthology Film Archives, The Kitchen, Mixed
Greens Gallery, Rua Red (Dublin), Netherland Media Art Institute, The
Science Gallery (Ireland), Real Art Ways, Urbis, (UK), The Jewish Museum
(NY), The Butler Institute for American Art, The Neuberger Museum, The New
Museum, and ICA London, among many others. LoVid has been artist in
residence at STEIM, Diapason, Smack Mellon, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam,
Harvestworks, free103point9, and Alfred University, and has received
fellowships and grants from rhizome.org, Franklin Furnace, The Netherland
America Foundation, NYFA, LMCC, Experimental TV Center, NYSCA,
turbulence.org, and Greenwall Foundation.

Brock Monroe is a multimedia artist working mainly in the intersection of
improvisatory projections to live music. As a solo artist and in conjunction
with the Joshua Light Show and Mighty Robot A/V Squad, he has appeared at
Transmediale (DE), Lincoln Center, Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum
of Natural History, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Netmage (IT),
All Tomorrow’s Parties (UK), MoMA/PS1, and Secret Project Robot among
others. 

The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer's work reminds one of moving
paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their
own stories. She transforms spaces and landscapes into serene, abstract
portraits of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with
what we see then the feeling they leave behind. Scherrer is a Swiss artist
living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and
museums internationally. Scherrer has worked with the composers/musicians
Shelley Hirsch, Michelle Nagai, Kato Hideki, Flo Kaufmann, David Watson,
Thomas Ankersmit, Brian Chase, Domenico Sciajno, Michael J. Schumacher,
among others, in the creation of video and sound installations, live
performances and single-channel videos. She has collaborated with the
choreographer Liz Gerring as well as the light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert.
Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic Tea, a
series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sounds.
http://www.ursulascherrer.com

Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based
in NYC. He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, making
computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time
periods. In their realization, Schumacher uses multiple speaker
configurations that relate the sounds of the installation to the
architecture of the exhibition space. Architectural and acoustical
considerations thereby become basic structural elements. Schumacher was
recently the Edgard Varèse guest professor at Berlin’s Technical University.
While in Europe he had exhibitions at Q02 in Brussels, The Hermitage in St.
Petersburg and at Ultraschall Festival in Berlin. Recent publications
include a shared LP (with Jerome Noetinger) released by Entr’acte of London
and a CD, “Weave” also on Entr’acte. XI Records has published a DVD set of
five sound installations as computer applications, playable on up to eight
speakers, which may be installed on a computer to create sound environments
in the home. Schumacher’s latest project is the band “Else” with Timur
Yusef, drums, Peter Knoll, guitar and Nisi Jacobs, bass.
www.michaeljschumacher.com
www.diapasongallery.org


This Optosonic Tea event is funded by an Arts Council of the Southern
Fingerlakes Electronic Media and Film grant (supported by NYSCA) through
Outpost Artists Resources.

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