4.21 @ 8 pm:
The Sonic Unconscious –
Jana Winderen: Scuttling around in the shallows
4.22 @ 8 pm:
Sagittarius A-Star U-Nite featuring Second Family Band + Trulofa Trio + Matt Valentine + The Aquarian Foundation
4.23 @ 8 pm:
Gordon Monahan
4.24 @ 8 pm:
Quartet for the End of Space: Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch
CD Release
4.24 @ 8 pm
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
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The Sonic Unconscious concludes next Thursday with Jana Winderen's Scuttling around in the shallows (
Thursday 4.21) which uses underwater recording to investigate how shrimp use sound for navigation, feeding, and communication. Gordon Monahan, conceptual sound artist and electronic pioneer, brings his Saurkraut Synthesizer (
Saturday 4.23) to ISSUE. Experimental Italian label Qbico, reincarnated as Sagittarius A-Star, hosts an evening with music collectives from as far afield as Wisconsin and Denmark (
Friday 4.22). Finally, the Quartet for the End of Space (Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Doug Van Nort, & Jonas Braasch) is throwing a release party for their self-titled CD (
Sunday 4.24).
4.21 @ 8 pm:
The Sonic Unconscious –
Jana Winderen: Scuttling around in the shallows
Jana Winderen, a sound artist and acoustic researcher based in Oslo with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fine arts, begins her compositional process in any number of unpredictable locations: “in the boat or hanging on a rope in a crevasse.” Describing her work as blind field recording, Winderen often embarks on long treks to search for unique sonic environments to source sounds for her elaborate performances and installations. Using hydrophones to record biotic and abiotic sounds, she then mixes these recordings into her layered compositions—uncanny semblances of inaccessible places.
In Scuttling around in the shallows, Winderen will continue her investigation into the sound of shrimp, exploring how the smallest creatures of the ocean use sound for communication, orientation, and feeding. Hydrophones—originally a military development—are repurposed, inadvertently producing unexpected qualities not informed by their original design. Here, the production of music and the study of cod are in excess of the technological thought.
Support for The Sonic Unconscious is provided, in part, by mediaThe foundation.
Jana Winderen’s presentation is made possible, in part, by the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
4.22 @ 8 pm:
Sagittarius A-Star U-Nite featuring Second Family Band + Trulofa Trio + Matt Valentine + The Aquarian Foundation
Sagittarius A-Star is the new incarnation of the legendary Italian label Qbico. Qbico specialized in limited edition, hand-painted vinyls releases, ranging from free jazz to Japanese psychedelia, free-folk, and electronic improvisation. The special aesthetic of the colored vinyls and the limited edition cover art are testaments to the dedication and skill that goes into each of Sagitarraus A Records.
The Second Family Band is a collective of musicians based in Madison, Wisconsin. Formed in 2002, the group was created to provide an open and improvisational environment for local musicians. The band has been influential in the explosion of the Free Folk movement that developed in the U.S. throughout the early 2000s. Their musical style encompasses a variety of influences including free jazz, Indian raga, krautrock, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, and experimental avant-garde music.
Trulofa Trio is a Danish improvisational free folk/free jazz band consisting of members Nikolai Brix Vartenberg, Jon Dræby Nielsen, and Magnus Olsen Majmon. The group has an upcoming LP release through the Italian label, Qbico.
Matt “MV” Valentine is a Guitarist, bantar player, singer, and writer currently active as one half of “MV & EE.” In the last decade, he released the LPs “Space Shanties,” “Creek To Creation,” and “Pulsations” on the Fringes and Qbico labels.
The Sagittarius A-Star show will feature accompaniment from The Aquarian Foundation (Erika Elder, Ron Schneiderman and Willie Lane) who will be performing “Environments.”
4.23 @ 8 pm:
Gordon Monahan
Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance.
4.24 @ 8 pm:
Quartet for the End of Space: Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch
CD Release
Please join us for this very special release party and concert that promises to span a vast sonic terrain, challenging listener and performer alike through a seamless blend of Deep Listening and Absolute Noise, moving between ever-fluid improvisation and carefully controlled sound manipulation.
This quartet convened for two improvisational sessions between February and May of 2010, with López sitting in on a Triple Point (Oliveros/Van Nort/Braasch) recording session and bringing his finely crafted sonic objects-as-instruments, further spanning the electro-acoustic divide that has become Triple Point’s calling. The four later re-formed for their debut concert at the Deep Listening Institute in Kingston, NY in September of 2010. These sessions have since become raw material for the individual artists to construct new visions of this shared sonic body through extensive and thorough evolution of the recordings – personal reflections culled from a collective tapestry.
4.24 @ 8 pm:
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
Bring your equipment / instruments / gear etc. to join the jam!
FREE
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On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound.
We members of the international arts community express our concern for Ai’s freedom and disappointment in China’s reluctance to live up to its promise to nurture creativity and independent thought, the keys to “soft power” and cultural influence.
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