[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Thursday, December 9th, 8pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Thursday, December 9th
8 pm
 
OptoSonic Tea
 
Live set(s) by:
 
- Benton-C Bainbridge (live visuals) with Brooke Broussard (choreography)
and Roarke Menzies (music)
 
Invited respondent/moderator:
 
- Koosil-ja
 
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:
 
Benton-C Bainbridge is an artist working out of The Bronx and Nashville.
Bainbridge makes movies, installations, and live visual performances with
custom digital, analog and optical systems of his own design. Benton-C has
presented video as immersive environments and extemporaneous compositions
across 5 continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world.
For more info: http://benton-c.com/info.html

Brooke Broussard is a dance artist that has performed for 11 years around
the world with noted Shen Wei Dance Arts, Aly Rose, and David Michalek. She
is an emerging choreographer whose work incorporates neuro science,
emotional states and inventive, improvisational movement; culminating in a
multi-media performances while also collaborating with musicians, visual
artists, and advancing technologies. Her visions cross the line away from
the typical dance performance into a new generation of tech savvy
performance art. 
 
Roarke Menzies is a multidisciplinary performer, composer and sound artist.
He uses hardware and software to create soundscapes, collages, electronic
compositions and ambient pop music. His improvisations incorporate live
sampling, gesture, voice, vocal percussion, radio, and other tools and toys.
Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, Roarke collaborates regularly with
choreographers, filmmakers, writers, visual artists, etc.
 
Koosil-ja creates dance, music, song, and digital environment for koosil-ja/
danceKUMIKO since 1986. Her works have been commissioned and presented and
she also taught and participated in residency activities throughout NYC and
nationally and internationally. Koosil-ja has received a New York Dance and
Performance Award for Choreography, a Guggenheim Fellowship and many other
awards and fellowships. Koosil-ja participated in the Media in Transition
Conference at MIT (07), the Flying Circus Project in Singapore and Vietnam
(07) and many other conferences nationally and internationally.  Koosil-ja
also creates and performs music. In 1984, she co-founded the band Bosho as a
percussionist and vocalist and toured Europe and Japan and has performed
with Takehisa Kosugi, Fast Forward, Mimi Goese, David Linton, and Lance
Blisters, among others. She performed and wrote songs with The Wooster
Group. Her composition, Like Us, was released on the Agriculture Record
Label New York (02) and was licensed for Robert Wilson¹s digital project
³Portrays² for the Beijing Exhibition (08). Koosil-ja holds a Master of
Science degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (07).
 
for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html