LISTEN/VISION NY 04

Monday, June 9
Admission: $7, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended

LISTEN/VISION NY 04 co-produced by Overlap and Volume Projects

LISTEN/VISION NY 04 features new work by Sawako, Greg Davis, David Kwan, Frank Bretschneider and Nate Boyce.  These long sound and visual pieces have never been heard or screened outside of the LISTEN/VISION series. Started in San Francisco in January, LISTEN/VISION is a unique listening and screening series that always includes *unreleased* sound and visual recordings that have been specifically commissioned for the event from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists.

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

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

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER  - "RHYTHM EXP" (2007), 8:09 min.

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. After the fall of the wall, he co-founded the record label Rastermusic which merged with Carsten Nicolai's Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999.

NATE BOYCE - "Plasma Wielder" (2008), 10:00 min.

Nate Boyce is an artist and musician who creates perceptually disorienting and kinetically charged audiovisual works that take the shape of musical compositions. Influenced by the techniques early video art and the 1960's structural film movement, Boyce employs a customized analog/digital hybrid processing and synthesis system based on modified consumer video gear.

Using control voltages from an analog synth to sequence analog video feedback, Plasma Wielder produces trance-inducing audiovisual polyrhythms which interpret the phenomenological reduction of the video signal as a temporally malleable material.

For more information about this event, please visit:
http://overlap.org/2008/05/16/listenvision-ny-01-june-9th-2008-monkeytown/