{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborativeelectro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
This month features the “electro” side of electro-acoustic music. Dan Iglesia performs experimental live video with Radio Wonderland/Joshua Fried, who creates electronic music with a laptop and multitude of eclectic devices; Chika reates her audio-reactive, illustrative video with the laptop/electronics duo Lilt Marathon; and Richard Garet creates his self-generated, sometimes aggressive, sometimes environmental video with the abstract electronic audio of WvS.
Monkey Town serves dinner during the show, so come hungry. Seating is limited - It’s a good idea to make reservations on their website.
FEBRUARY 22ND - MARCH 9TH OPEN SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS 1-7PM
DURING THE WEEK BY APPOINTMENT
CLOSING NIGHT PERFORMANCES : SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH 7PM
TALK WITH PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AT 6PM
with DJ North Guinea Hills in the lounge
Video as an instrument is a show with artists working with a synchronous relationship between image and sound. Artists and performers use a myriad of techniques with customized applications and instruments, found sources and samples, and real time performance to create improvised compositions. video as an instrument includes videos, installations, and performances.
SUPREME TRADING GALLERY
213 North 8th Street L Train to Bedford Avenue Williamsburg, Brooklyn
GALLERY SHOW FEBRUARY 22ND-MARCH 9TH
OPEN SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS 1-7PM
DURING THE WEEK BY APPOINTMENT
TALK WITH PARTICIPATING ARTISTS SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH AT 6PM
Directions from the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd.
MonkeyTown is halfway down the block on the left.
about the artists:
Jon Keith Brunelle calls his work laptop storytelling: rapid-fire digital slide shows comprising hundreds of vintage movie stills, remixed to form satiric new stories that he tells in live voiceover. For *Storyscapes* he will deliver another solo performance featuring a new episode in my series of Jack Bauer “24″ remixes. Jon is the founder of The Psychasthenia Society,which is dedicated to the performance of political and cultural satire as digital spectacle.
Adam Kendall and Richard Garet will present a live audio-visual set with motion artists Eric Dunlap and Rebekah Kennedy. Kendall will work with a live camera and custom software to manipulate Dunlap and Kennedy’s movements in real-time, and Garet will create environmental and microtonal sounds from his computer-based system. Kendall/Garet will create both figurative and abstract audio-video from their real-time processing of real-world images and sounds. Adam is a video-artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Through his own work and the A/V series he curates, Adam explores the means of multimedia improvisation and composition. Richard is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments.
CHiKA will mix a story called “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics†which is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. This two channel performance will feature a score by DJ ActivePhaze. CHiKA is a live computer visuals artist working within New York’s expanded cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. Chika works exclusively with Module8 from Gragecube in Switzerland.
Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez directs “Somnex in Luminemâ€, a live video/dance/soundscape interaction featuring dancers whose movement and form are abstracted to various degrees to create a projected misc-èn-scene of real-time performance. A 3-way conversation among media and senses in space and time. Continuing the experiment from “Untitled#1″, this performance is a excerpt from the larger piece “We Hide Our Monsters Underneath Our Pillowsâ€, a story of resolutions in the realm of vivid dreaming. Soundscape selection and live camera feed by DJ Ray Velasquez and feature motion artists Eric Dunlap and Rebekah Kennedy.
Nyculture Rgb150EyeWash is an event where VJs and Video artists perform live-mix video, present audio visual performances in collaboration with Audio and Motion artists, workshop live performance involving video and technology. EyeWash is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
