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May 1, 2008 at 8:05 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
The third installment of the LISTEN/VISION series is coming up on Wednesday, May 14. This time, we are super happy to share that Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender from the Raster-Noton imprint will perform live, both individually and as a trio called Signal.
About Raster-Noton: Raster-Noton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German sound manipulators Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender pooled their resources as Raster-Noton and jacked into international art currents. Their minimalist electronic CDs and sound objects have sent power surges through a global grid connecting like-minded artists from Coil’s ElpH to Tokyo’s Ryoji Ikeda.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
$15 general public, limited free seating for SFAI students
Please join us for this very special event, co-presented by Overlap.org and Volume Projects with generous support from the Goethe Institut.
Full info here: http://overlap.org/2008/03/31/listenvision-03-san-francisco-may-14th-2008/
April 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm · Filed under Design, Music, Overlap
I first encountered the work of Bay area artist David Kwan at last month’s LISTEN/VISION 02 event, where I experienced Solaris, an audiovisual piece focused on the diaphanous reverberations of muted light forms.
Kwan, who teaches at Mills College in Oakland, is now taking part of Interplay, a new exhibition at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley:
Terra Firma is a complex video installation deployed by an automated system that “composes” a continuously changing landscape derived from video footage. The footage is generated from four different video sources that project images of empty landscapes to create a single on-site landscape in the gallery. Kwan’s visual continuum of shifting permutations creates a sort of “non-place” suggestive of our own interior psychological space. For the viewer, these images can provoke a nostalgic memory of our archetypal landscape. (description via Kala’s website)
Interplay
Featuring works by: David Kwan, Nora Pauwels, Bartosz Posacki and Steve Reich
- April 17 - May 24, 2008
- Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Gallery Talk with the Artists: Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm
- Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-5:30 pm; Sat, 12-4:30 pm
March 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
Overlap.org and Volume Projects announce LISTEN/VISION 02, an evening of immersive sound and video art at the San Francisco Art Institute on Friday, March 21, 2008.
LISTEN/VISION 02 is part of a unique series presenting *unreleased* audiovisual compositions. These exclusive pieces — specifically commissioned from an international pool of contemporary artists — are not available anywhere on CD, DVD or on the Internet.
Featured Artists:
GREGG KOWALSKY – “Rosebud for Red Magus” – 2006 – 18:17 min.
Gregg Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College. Kowalsky’s compositions range from drone and noise pieces to the psychedelic, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, live mixes. He has composed for film, dance, acoustic ensembles and sound installations. Gregg’s debut full-length album “Through The Cardial Window” was released on the Kranky label in Spring 2006.
http://ossobucco.net/
DAVID KWAN - “SOLARIS” - 2006 - 10:07 min.
Kwan has presented work at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Television Access, The Lab, and Mission 17 in San Francisco; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; and Baracke am Deustchen Theater in Berlin. He received a BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where he teaches music, art and intermedia. http://www.meridiangallery.org/davidkwan2003.htm
CHIKA and I8U - “Infinity02″ - 2008 - 30:38 min.
CHIKA is a visual 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. I8U is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. Her work reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet.
http://www.imagima.com
SAWAKO – “untitled” – 2006 – 15:18 min.
Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. She culls sounds from everyday life — field recordings, instruments, vocal and electronic sounds — and sets them floating in a digital space imbued with organic textures. Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig.
http://www.12k.com/sawako.html
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Friday, March 21, 2008
7-9pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133
$5 Public, Free for SFAI students
February 6, 2008 at 10:21 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
I am in love with the Lumerians‘ self-titled debut album. Five potent tracks slowly unfold into succulent psych, with perceptive bass lines and focused percussion layered with the spacey warmth of organ and guitar.
The cover art, printed locally at Logos, tenders a visual précis of the music: frozen ice, both rigid and softly rippling, imparts a myriad of subtle shades and patterns that emerge and develop like an intoxicating trip.
It’s a damn fine album that’s miles ahead of anything else you’ve heard lately; the limited pressing of 500 clear vinyl records makes this one you shouldn’t wait to buy.
Listen and download at Other Music now!
http://www.thelumerians.com
August 23, 2007 at 11:52 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
I’m very excited to invite all to join us this Saturday for a special evening!
On the artists:
- Hailing from Edmonton, Canada, Mark Templeton comes to San Francisco after celebrating a live performance at Mutek as well as the release of Standing On A Hummingbird, an exquisitely refined collection of gossamer sounds.
- Roddy Schrock, who delves into the everyday for the profound, will also perform alongside visual artist Jano Cortjio, whose work explores the icons of daily life and highlights the radicality of domesticity. Together they will create an immersive audiovisual space for reflection.
- Finally, Ruoho Ruotsi, who recently appeared with Fourtet and Alex Smoke on Steve Reich’s recent “Remixed 2006,” offers a modern, downtempo dub aspect to the evening. As the labelhead of De’fchild Productions, he has worked with such notable artists as Deadbeat, Pheek, Süz and Ali Khan.
- Additional sounds will be provided by DJ Pand0ra, who has graced both radio airwaves and numerous San Francisco events including the former weekly ‘Node’ party at the anime bar POW!
June 8, 2007 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
Yippee, another fantastic week has gone by with many great happenings!
John Sullivan and I printed the flyers for the next Overlap show (June 23, 2007 at Rx Gallery). We’ll be mixing up an eclectic blend of sights and sounds for this evening, featuring lives sets by Blevin Blectum and Eliot Lipp. I’ll also be DJing alongside curated video by Studio27 and live video action from Ryan Junell and the ever-mysterious Microcosmic Mealworm. It should make great antidote material for those jaded clublings out there… thanks Kenric for the flyer design!
April 27, 2007 at 5:33 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
Hope to see some of you there…
February 20, 2007 at 1:33 am · Filed under Music, Overlap
I’m excited about OVERLAP 04 on Saturday, February 24. OVERLAP 04 be the first live West Coast performance by New York-based artists Ezekiel Honig and Morgan Packard of Microcosm Music and Honig’s newly established Anticipate Recordings label. Oh yes, and Saturday will also be my birthday too, so this will be an extra special evening. Come swing by!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
+ Ezekiel Honig (Microcosm / Anticipate)
+ Morgan Packard (Microcosm / Anticipate)
+ Tycho (Iso50 / Ghostly International)
Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
$10
OVERLAP 04 info on upcoming.org
February 7, 2007 at 9:29 pm · Filed under Culture, Design, Overlap
100 Words reminded me of high school afternoons spent zine-crafting with moody goth friends down in the South Bay. Gotta love SFZero for bringing back swell memories…
For this task, I snipped images and text from offset printing and design brochures pulled from my library, German magazines, the San Francisco Chronicle, plus this week’s copies of The Onion and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. All photos from this task were taken at the Arc Cafe this drizzly morn’ and can be viewed on my Flickr stream.
September 19, 2006 at 8:05 pm · Filed under Music, Overlap
I’ve created a new Overlap group on last.fm: http://www.last.fm/group/Overlap/ Come join us as we begin scrobbling our very own crazy music charts.
If you haven’t heard of last.fm, It’s quite possibly one of the greatest social music websites online… well worth checking out!
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