IMAGIMA

Coco66: 66 Greenpoint Ave Brooklyn, NY
Free before Midnight, $5 after

For our inaugural 2009 event, this Valentine’s Day we have created a very special and romantic evening. To begin the evening we have decided to forgo music (just this once) and show a cinematic master piece by Fellini, called ‘Cabiria’ . During the show we will be serving dinner from a limited menu that will be available at the venue. The food is wonderful and from the venue’s restaurant, Coco66.

Following TFIB Cinema we have selected a wide range of music and visual atmospheres to ‘keep you in the mood’. Starting off we have Alexander Basset (recently transplanted from Chicago) beginning the evening out with some slow house and new disco. Following up Alex is NYC’s long time resident and TFIB resident Patrick Gallagher, representing NYC with some deep and minimal house and techno. After Patrick we have fellow TFIB resident, Isomer Transition, performing his first Live PA in NYC in over a year. With an inclusion on an upcoming Fabric mix CD, and DJ support from the likes of Claude VonStroke, Troy Pierce and Ryan Elliott, 2009 is off to a good start for Isomer. Following Isomer’s inaugural 2009 Live PA we have two of New York’s underground DJ scene’s rising stars to finish off the night, Kendra ‘You know you know me so I don’t need a last name, fool!’ (of Wax Doll’s fame), and the in-demand Jon Schmidt. Kendra has promised to bring the dance party with a DJ set of infamous french house, and Jon will anchor the night with some deep and heady minimal.

Every TFIB event needs to look proper, so we have hypnotized NYC visual artist CHiKA and got her to be our resident VJ! Her visual style is both minimal and futuristic, a perfect compliment for the music we offer.

Finally, to make sure that the night *sounds proper* we are bringing in some amazing sound reinforcement from our friend Nick down in Philly. He has been doing sound here in NYC lately at the Bunker, House and Home, with Jason Carter and has an amazing sound system. Part of the Future being Beautiful includes enough bass, so we are being sure to bring it.

Schedule and set times:
8 - 10 : Fellini’s ‘Cabiria’ w/Dinner available
10 - 11:15 : Alexander Basset - Chicago / New Disco
11:15 - 12:30 : Patrick Gallagher - Deep House and Minimal Techno.
12:30 - 1:30 : Isomer Transition - Live PA Heady and Deep Techno.
1:30 - 2:45 : Kendra - French House Party.
2:45 - Close : Jon Schmidt - Deep and Heady Minimal.

Next month we bring you live electronic performances by Ezekiel Honig, Morgan Packard, Calmer, Isomer Transition and DJ sets by Jen Lusker, Patrick Gallagher + others.

If you are looking for an alternative to the main stream music events in NYC, look no further than The Future Is Beautiful.

TFIB is a fully multiplexed event brought to you by The Gestalt Foundation.

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LUCKY CAT: 245 Grand Street Williamsburg, NY
7:30-10:00 Free

SAWAKO is a Japanese sound artist currently living in New York City. She graduated Keio University, SFC, JAPAN, in 2002, where she studied computing culture and sound design with Christopher Penrose, as well as”environmental information” as an interdisciplinary approach. She has performed in Japan, USA, Paris and London. She makes soundscapes graced with beautiful silences, the poetics of petite sounds, mixer feedback, computer prossesing, and field recording, and the various sounds of her immediate environment. Almost paradoxical in nature, Sawako’s music encompasses both deep contemplation and a arbitrary randomness.

MPLD - prepared and processed slide projectors. The photoacoustic continuum of MPLD’s projection slowly flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory’s subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep carving out e ach one from the other. The mechanical sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack. Color, density, texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to the distorted
enlargement of a magnifying glass.

( ) is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally.

NORTH GUINEA HILLS is Aaron Halley who started DJing in Florida while in various noise/improv combos before moving to NYC. He got his start in NYC w/ DJ Olive/Toshio Kajiwara’s Phonomena party at Subtonic. He has formed groups that have performed everything from primitive dadaist hiphop to realizations of works from Bernard Parmegiani and Steve Reich to free psyche folk. He also has performed for free103point9’s radio art performance tune-(in)))) (2003), performed turntabilized interperetations of Michael Count’s Surrealist landscape sculpture “the world” for the Gale Gates gallery, and has recently performed for Share’s “Anyware” at the Kitchen (part of the New Sound New york festival) where he collaborated w/ Sean Smith, clarkovsaturn, and remotely
(via webstream) w/ Ryoko Kuwajima while she was in London.

SHIGE MORIYA, born 1967 in Kyoto, Japan, is a video artist and curator. He has been in New York since 1993, He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE¹s Artistic and Executive Director. He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation.

CHiKA works with abstract images, movement, and emotional states with a minimalist aesthetic. It illustrates how one’s past is linked to one’s present and how ever-changing feelings affect the perception of each moment. In collaboration with musicians,she combines video with graphic imagery to traverse a range of emotion. She also has performed Galapagos, Tonic, The Lucky Cat and several other places.
Chika lives and works in New York City.