LISTEN/VISION 02

March 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm · Filed under Music

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

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Matmos @ SFAI

May 14, 2006 at 3:30 am · Filed under Music

Richard Chartier (L-ne/12K/Raster-Noten) and Matmos performed in a live outdoor show at the SF Art Institute yesterday. Chartier performed a lovely ambient soundscape which seriously mellowed the crowd out, enhanced by the passing of birds in the air and white noise from the neighborhood.Then Matmos picked things up as they played material from their newly released album, “The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast.” Matmos was joined by Martin’s SFAI students — aka the New Genres Orchestra — who lined the balcony above.

While Drew tweaked the electronics, Martin donned a pair of long gloves and played a cow’s uterus (!) with a vacuum tube, chimes, percussive hand instruments, drums and a horn. The students chanted, drummed, blew through tubes and rocked rose bouquets until the petals, bloom heads and leaves fell like confetti onto the band and audience below. ‘Twas a lovely sight to behold, especially on a sunny Friday afternoon in San Francisco! Fellow Overlap video artist Nate Boyce joined Matmos for a bit of drumming before the group finished with a superb space-disco piece.Run and pick up your copy of the new album — it’s fantastic. Former collaborators like Bjork also appear on the album’s title track, which is dedicated to Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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