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EVENT

INCIDENTAL MUSIC - site-specific installation/performances in a 50,000 sq ft former warehouse


Dates:
Sat Jun 16, 2012 18:00 - Sat Jun 16, 2012

Location:
Queens, New York
United States of America

INCIDENTAL MUSIC ::::
site-specific installation/performances

Fragmental Museum's Sound Series kicks-off with a day of site-specific installations and performances curated by Composer/turntablist Tristan Shepherd.

A group of interdisciplinary artists whose work converges around sound will distribute five pieces across the four floors of the building, investigating the mutual inflection of interior and occupant, leaving affective traces on the horizontal architecture of the vacant warehouse.

WHEN
Saturday, june 16th, 2012
4pm – 11pm
Reception and refreshments 6pm
Performances 6pm - 9pm

ARTISTS

RICHARD GARET
ANDREA PARKINS
DORON SADJA
TRISTAN SHEPHERD

BETHANY IDES with
ERIN YERBY
NETTA YERUSHALMY
ED BEAR

DIRECTIONS
7 train to Hunters Point Avenue
G train to 21st Street

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EVENT

Sound Installation Pioneer Liz Phillips' BIYUU featuring Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds


Dates:
Sat Jun 02, 2012 20:00 - Sun Jun 03, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

Interactive Sound Installation Art Pioneer
Liz Phillips "Biyuu"
Featuring Butoh Dancer, Mariko Endo Reynolds
Saturday, June 2 & Sunday, June 3, 8pm, 2012

Admission : $15
Students/Seniors/Members : $10
Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368

Brooklyn, NY: June 2, Roulette presents an enchanting, intense evening of sound and movement presented by pioneer sound and video artist Liz Phillips, with movement performed by professional Butoh dancer, Mariko Endo Reynolds. Phillips and Reynolds have worked together to produce this energetic, original work titled “Biyuu” an exploration into the body electric, ground, potential energy fields and radical events in nature. The culmination of their work has resulted in a beautiful, delicate, visceral audio and visual feast for the audience as these two incredible artists fuse together their undeniable talents and inspirations.

“Biyuu” is a Japanese word which mimics the sound of bamboo bending in the wind, that sound is the base suggestion for the entire piece. On stage Mariko’s body will become an antenna as she shifts shape, moving near ground and reaching out. Her body will act as a conductor and the space around her will be activated, responding in sound and light changes. Liz will translate, transpose and shift spectrums, activating water, sound and color formations as projections fall on coil forms that hold translucent paper scrims. The paper will act sometimes as the loudspeaker, at other times as a sensor. As Mariko performs, she will move the coils and a weather balloon to capture images and transform the stage. Seen and unseen waves of water, sub audio, audio, radio frequency, ultrasonic and light will become tactile material as Liz creates a hypersensitive 3-d sound and video installation which reinvents the performance landscape.

About Liz Phillips
New York-based artist Liz Phillips has been making interactive multi-media installations for the past 30 years, which combine audio and visual art forms with new technologies to create a fascinating interactive experience. Born in New Jersey in 1951, Phillips received a B.A from Bennington College in 1973. In 1981, she co-founded Parabola Arts Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created by five media artists from varied disciplines (music, sculpture, film, video) which provides funding for art-related projects. Phillips has made and exhibited interactive sound and multimedia installations at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals, and public spaces. These include The Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Walker Art Museum, Ars Electronica, Jacob?s Pillow, The Kitchen, and Creative Time, among others. Phillips has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and her work was presented by the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM Japan, and the World Financial Center.

About Mariko Endo Reynolds
Mariko Endo Reynolds is a professional Japanese Butoh Dancer. She trained with the legendary performer Akira Kasai, one of the co-founders of the Butoh movement. She has toured Japan and the United States as a principal dancer in one of Japan’s representative Butoh companies, Dairakudakan. In addition to her foundation of dance, she has studied psychoanalysis and energy healing and that influences her approach to dance as a sculpture of consciousness.

About Roulette
Roulette – one of New York City’s premiere venues for experimental music for over 33 years - has reopened bigger and better than ever. Located in a newly renovated 1920s Art Deco concert hall in Downtown Brooklyn, the new Roulette features two levels of seating for up to 400 people (600 standing), an expanded multi-channel sound system, projection screen for film and multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and a specially designed floor to accommodate dance. Teamed with bold new programming, the new Roulette promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City - if not the country - to experience adventurous music and art.

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EVENT

Thurston Moore + Bill Nace + Joe McPhee


Dates:
Thu May 31, 2012 20:00 - Thu May 31, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

Thurston Moore + Bill Nace + Joe McPhee
Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 8:00 pm
$20 General Admission
$15 Students/Seniors/Roulette Members
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Three pillars of the noise and avant-jazz scene collide! Thurston Moore, singer/songwriter/guitarist for Sonic Youth, teams up with free-noise guitarist Bill Nace and avant-jazz saxophonist Joe McPhee for an evening of mind bending cacophony.

Thurston Moore, often referenced for his work with popular alternative rock band Sonic Youth, brings to the table a long and rich history, frequently working on improvised, noise based instrumental solo or duo projects. He has worked with numerous highly acclaimed artists such as William Hooker, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Chris Corsano, Nels Cline, Daniel Carter, DJ Spooky, Daniel Castro and Lydia Lunch among others. Moore has also worked in several collaborations with intense and distinctive guitarist Bill Nace, May 31 at Roulette being no exception. Nace, one of the premiere avant-garde guitarists around, is known to push the boundaries of distortion, creating his own unique palette of sound. Textured, precise and mind-bending, Nace is a complimentary bedfellow for Moore.

In an interesting juxtaposition this trio is rounded out by award winning reeds player Joe Mcphee. A thoughtful conceptualist, deeply emotional composer and improviser, Mcphee has long championed the creative jazz and new music scene. Appearing on over 70 recordings, Mcphee has collaborated with Peter Brotzmann, Ken Vandermark, Dominic Duval, Evan Parker, Jay Rosen, Jeb Bishop and Mat Maneri among others. He has earned such accolades as "... his magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." - Time Out New York, and continues to set the globe on fire with frequent appearances at major festivals, concert halls and New York City venues.


EVENT

DORON SADJA ✡ RESIDUALS [Album Release & Performance]


Dates:
Sat Apr 07, 2012 17:00 - Sat Apr 07, 2012

Location:
New York City, New York
United States of America

DORON SADJA : RESIDUALS
CD RELEASE PARTY & PERFORMANCE


Saturday, April 7th: 5 - 7PM
www.printedmatter.org/

Doron Sadja gives life to music which is difficult, powerful, intense and delicate - all at the same time." Touching Extremes

Multimedia artist Doron Sadja celebrates his first solo electronics release since 2003's "a piece of string, a sunset" on 12k - and it's in this same realm that his endlessly imaginative sound design shines brightest. "Residuals" - on Shinkoyo Records - is a four movement, hyper-emotive, ultra-synthetic landscape. Slowly lifting off from near silence into an ethereal vacuum of swirling cacophonies and multi-tonal noise, "Residuals" never lets go. Romantic synthesizer harmonies, extreme frequencies, spectral chord blasts, and ultra-high synthesized feedback - combining to form structures so innately organic that it's easy to forget that a human (or a computer, for that matter) had anything to do with it. Tonight at Printed Matter, Sadja will perform a quadrophonic set in celebration of his new release.

In the years since his last release, Doron has not been idle, in fact he's been active across mediums: co-founding the West Nile (now "285 Kent") performance space in Brooklyn, collaborating in the groups Symbol and Ganjatronics, exploring video and performance art in his gallery and installation work (see "The Slowest Kiss" and "Crybaby", or his duo with Alfredo Marin "Alfi & Waldi" and their "Original S(t)IN(k)"). But what's striking about Residuals is how singular, focused and exciting these sounds are - evocative of early Autechre mixed with Alva Noto plus a little Badalamenti new-age bliss... Each sound given space, each movement given time, blooming naturally and with purpose.

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EVENT

WE ARE FOOLS: A Film Based on the Tarot - World Premiere - Roulette, NYC


Dates:
Sun Apr 01, 2012 20:00 - Sun Apr 01, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

WE ARE FOOLS
A VISUAL POEM BASED ON THE TAROT
By Zeljko McMullen & Severiano Martinez

All of the archetypes of the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot are acted out in an exalted home movie setting - opposites are reconciled, money is burnt - everyone everywhere lives happily ever after...

Suggested Admission: One Burned Dollar

WE ARE FOOLS is a cinematic representation of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as depicted through common and ordinary means. Featuring theatrical performances by an extensive list of artists including Tony Conrad, Alix Pearlstein, MV Carbon, members of Mirror Mirror, and many others, WE ARE FOOLS sets up elaborate scenarios in homes, parks, lofts, and colleges in which each "non-actor" improvises, invoking their understanding and autobiographical relationships to the symbols and themes embedded in each card. Blurring the lines of paradox, WE ARE FOOLS depicts a series of self-explorative rituals examining real-life relationships to enigmatic constructions of reality. Music by Maryanne Amacher, Lucky Dragons, Excepter, Bruno Coviello (Light Asylum), Iasos, Hildegaard von Bingen amongst others.

For More Info Visit: http://shinkoyo.com/WEAREFOOLS/

View the Trailer: http://vimeo.com/37872364

WE ARE FOOLS features performances by:
Zeljko McMullen, Thomas Arsenault, Aziz Ali Loy, Jeremie Chetrit, Tony Conrad, Lucy Indiana Dodd, MV Carbon, Johnny Misheff, Doron Sadja, John Fell Ryan, Lala Harrison, Owen Cannon, Caitlin Jemison, Zorka McMullen, Lauren Luloff, Angela Vitacolonna, Mario Diaz de Leon, Alix Pearlstein, Freddy Nightliker, Severiano Martinez, Vanessa Hagerbaumer, Ami Dang, Carson Garhart, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Laura Zuspan, Eliza Swann, 3 baby-sat kids, Carly Ptak, Ryan Lucero, David Riley, Hilary Zarabi-Aazam, Cammisa Buerhaus, Alfredo Marin, Jessie Stead, Lizzie Harper, Alexandra Velasco, Fern Silva, Molly West, Cat Chow, Prince, and Carlen Altman

Music by:
Tony Conrad, MV Carbon, Doron Sadja, Excepter, Severiano Martinez, Lucky Dragons, Mario Diaz de Leon, Bruno Coviello (Light Asylum), Joe Williams (White Williams), Zeljko McMullen, Hildegaard von Bingen, Fennesz, Thomas Arsenault (Mas Ysa / Ablehearts), Iasos, The Holy Experiment, Michael Beharie (Tezeo), Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), Wish.