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2005 |
I8U in New York - November 2005
November 9th 2005 - 8pm @ MonkeyTown
November 11th 2005 - 6 to 8pm @ Kleinblue
Gallery
see below for info :
Connect the dots
an evening curated by Ilan Katin
November 9th 2005 - 8pm @ MonkeyTown
Location
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
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. Monkey Town is
halfway down the block on the left.
always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info
Low Impact Electronics
Live Improv accompanying Rafael Fuentes - Visual Feedback
November 11th 2005 - 6 to 8pm @ Kleinblue
Gallery
http://www.kleinblueproductions.com/
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Send
and Receive
A Festival of Sound 2005
A Festival of Sound 2005
Silent Music, Secret Noise
An evening of live performance featuring
some of the best small sound and eloquent
static from Winnipeg, Canada and Zurich.
not half [Winnipeg]
I8U [Montreal]
Jason Kahn [Zurich]
Friday, October 21 2005
at the Urban Shaman Gallery
203-290 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg MB Canada
R3B 0T2
Doors: 8:15 pm | Performances: 9:00 pm
Admission: $10
Winnipeg¹s Allan Conroy [aka
not half] began making audio experiments in 1983. He developed an obsession
for radios, tape-loops, squeaky sounds and unusual acoustic phenomena,
all recorded to tape in a largely improvised fashion. Acquiring samplers in
1992, he began to sample this comprehensive body
of work, a project which continues to the present day. not half frequently
uses anything and everything to make sounds, either exclusively or combined
with other working methods.
www.noroomfortalent.com
www.dtrashrecords.com
I8U¹s audio art can be
understood as sound-sculpture.
It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments
where analog and digital meet. Her web art can be said to follow
a parallel path, intertwining both musical and visual elements.
From classical music to blues, it took only one chance meeting
with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music.
This is I8U¹s second visit to Send + Receive.
www.i8u.com
Originally a percussionist,
Zurich¹s Jason Kahn has collaborated with artists including Evan Parker,
Chirstian Marclay and Steve Roden. Kahn currently performs using a laptop
and analogue synthesizer and combines these with percussion. Kahn is the
founder of the CD label cut, has composed music for theatre
and dance and has given concerts around the world. In the past several years
Kahn has exhibited several sound installations.
www.jasonkahn.net
www.cut.fm
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IN THE CONTEXT OF " LES JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE"
SATURDAY THE 1ST OF
OCTOBER 2005
13:00 – 17:00
STUDIO
XX PRÉSENTS :
A DAY OF EXCHANGE, NEW
MEDIA AND CULTURE
Join us for a festive fall day when we will present the latest interactive works produced through the Studio. Experience the multimedia installation of Stéphanie Lagueux. Look and listen to the computer generated and assisted works from musicians I8U, and cellist, Vera Ronkos. The Studio XX team members will be in the house to keep it warm and tell you about this year’s programming, production activities, our wide gamut of workshops, our open source lab and our online revue, .dpi.
Schedule
1:00 – doors open
presentation :
The Social Body
:
a multimédia
installation
by Stéphanie Lagueux, in coproduction with Studio XX
The Social Body is a video and web installation in which surfers on the web, through their responses, affect a body modelled in fat. Demonstrating the powerful effect of ideas on matter by a process of "art-statistics", this sensitizing device evokes the massive influence of the social body on each individual one.
1:45
launch of the fall program and workshops at STUDIO XX :
jake moore and Marie-Hellène Lemay
2:00 : Performances by
artists from the MAX/msp workshops
Introduction by instructor Patrice Coulombe.
-Vera Ronkos
:on
the cello/max patch
accompanied by
Patrice Coulombe
on violon
Vera will play the cello
that will be effected different ways by a patch that resulted from
the Studio XX course Max/MSP.
followed by :
-The first live
processed audio-visual performance of
I8U,
“BURDEN”
Burden is an ongoing project inspired by the metamorphosis of
the soul from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The concept is
that when art becomes subjectively stale, the artist feels burden.
Once this Burden becomes too heavy, the paradigm shifts and the
artist can create anew. Through MAX/msp and jitter, I8U explores
this concept with a live performance using a patch that acts as a
new instrument to show this metamorphosis.
I8U's audio art can be qualified as "sound-sculpture." It reveals
powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and
digital meet. Her Web art can be said to follow a parallel path,
incorporating both musical and visual elements. Her work continues
to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.
and throughout the day
we will be streaming live :
Refresh: The first International Conference on Media Art Histories
from the
Banff New media
Institute
The
presentations will be in both French and English.
Please pass on this invitation! Hope to see you there
STUDIO XX
338 Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E8
Métro Sherbrooke, ou autobus 24 (Sherbrooke) ou 125 (Ontario).
(514) 845-7934 /
http://www.studioxx.org
Information:
info@studioxx.org
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I8U in New York - September 2005
SHARE round table discussion
Discussion of audio and visual art
communities
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Connect the dots
an evening curated by Ilan Katin
September 18th @ SHARE
@ Mundial
September 21st @ MonkeyTown
see below for info :
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* 'Homework' at ORT
September 24th at 9 p.m. sharp!
@
ORT*, 330 Ellery St. (between broadway & beaver st.), _Ground Floor_, Bushwick, Brooklyn (see Directions Below)
*at ORT* (on ellery in bushwick, brooklyn),
o.blaat (Keiko
Uenishi) is prepping to set up the
first collaborative work at this wonderful space (expecting to be series of collaborative development/experiments as site-specific tryouts) called *'Homework'.*
The first of the tryouts will feature *Haeyoung
Kim (Bubblyfish)
, I8U ,
David Linton, *and *o.blaat* , in
various combinations (solos/duos/trios/quartet).
Open-to-public concert portion will start at 9
p.m. sharp at ORT, 330 Ellery St., Bushwick, Brooklyn *admission is
free (but your donation is gladly accepted:) BYOB in casual salon
style...
btw. we have very limited bike parking space, and not responsible
for any bike locked outside on the street.
direction to ORT:
where: *330 Ellery St. (between Broadway & Beaver St.) Ground flr.,
Brooklyn (Bushwick - southeast of Willyburg)*
time:
** always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info
<http://mta.info/> !!
trains:
*J to Flushing Ave.* (4th stop from LES/manhattan.. if you're coming
from willyburg, 3rd stop from marcy ave.) upon exiting, take right
side of staircase (facing to the token booth) which would lead you
to go down in front of Duane Reade - corner of Broadway & Flushing
Ave. cross Flushing Ave. to another corner where big construction is
in process, then keep walking on Broadway for 3 blks (away from
Manhattan)... so you'll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway.
Make left on Ellery St. (it's within 3-5 min walk.)
*G to Flushing Ave. *(from greenpoint/mid-willyburg/downtown-brooklyn)
upon exiting, walk on Flushing Ave. towards Woodhull
hospital/Broadway. once you hit Broadway, make right and walk 3 blks.
so you'll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway.
Make left on Ellery St. (it's within 8-10 min. walk.)
*Haeyoung Kim (Bubblyfish) *
relocated to US from Korea in 1992. With a background in
classical piano, she explores the territory of sounds and their
cultural representation. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she
has been creating "lo-fi", 8-bit sound works and minimal electronic
compositions.
Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and
audio engineer. Her work has been presented in various art venues,
clubs, festivals, and galleries including Le Consortium, France;
Media Ruimte, Belgium; and in New York at The Museum of the Moving
Image;, Eyebeam Atelier; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; and
Lincoln Center's Walter Reed Theater. She was the 2003 Van Lier
artist-in-residency recipient at Harvestworks.
http://bubblyfish.com
I8U
(review by exclaim.ca on 'Send + Receive'
festival: Montreal's I8U fashioned expansive electronic tones,
forming spellbinding textures that resulted in a very impressive
set.
Frequencies gradually and adeptly reached tall crests of sound
before descending to subterranean reverberations. Shifting from
lulling minimalism to resonating noise, I8U sculpted sound with the
utmost precision and talent. RN/exclaim.ca)
http://i8u.com
*
David Linton*has witnessed the
sun's rise and fall on 4 decades worth of amerikan subcultural music
practice. For the past 2 1/2 of these decades he has lived and
worked in NYC - first hitting his stride as a 'downtown' drummer in
the early 1980's. (See early recordings: Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca,
among others soon to come) From the drums he moved to solo
performing and live electronics and computer assisted composition
and sound design for dance and theater - etc... (more than a dozen
scores for choreographer Stephen Petronio - and a couple of
noteworthy works for the Wooster Group- among many others) His mid
80&'s solo release "Orchesography" (Neutral 14) represents downtown
sensibility at the crossroads of post punk, primal noise, early
sampling technique, and theatrical post modernism. By the early
'90's an experimental foray into venue building (at the 'hausofouch'
loft in Chinatown) led to transformative zeitgeist events (Ouch,
Sensate, SoundLab, & Step Forward) and a burgeoning absorption in
the multimedia design parameters associated with the 'immersive'
movement.
By the late '90's a perfect balance between audio and visual
elements in the live electronic performance environment was sought
with the launch of the Unit¥Gain platform and integrated modus
operandi. From here it was a curious but natural progression to the
community media architecture explorations of Unitygain Television
(1AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org - still running). http://unitygain.org
*o.blaat*
Based in Brooklyn, New York, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) -- Sound
artist, composer, and core member of SHARE(http://share.dj) -- is
known for creating various interactive audio environments resulting
from her ceaseless pursuits of erasing the performer's presence and
ultimately altering listening situations. After performing with a
unique, hand-made electronic 'tapboard.effector.soundsystem'
for several years, Uenishi has been
exploring the Powerbook's mobility and its least distracting state
of being. Her performance and installations have appeared at many
museums/clubs/galleries/festivals worldwide.
Most recently, she completed a site-specific audio/light interactive
installation, 'Aboard:Fillip2' created for a cargo-container at
Fortescue Avenue Gallery, London, UK in July 2005. The piece was
commissioned by dosensos.org and a part of its 'Six Sites for Sound'
(http://sixsitesforsound.net)
http://obla.at
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ELECTRIC SUNDAY
August 28th 2005, 21:00
- Mrs White, a trio comprising of
Myléna Bergeron + Magali Babin + i8u.
- ester b
- dj maïté
- + special guest
Hemisphere Gauche
221 Beaubien est,
Montréal (Québec)
H2S 1R5
Téléphone : (514) 278-6693
door 20:00 / 5$
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The première of Mrs White,
a trio comprising of
Myléna Bergeron + Magali Babin + i8u.
Saturday, June 4th 2005
18h40-19h20
Museum Just for Laughs,
2111 Boul. St Laurent, 1st floor
Montreal, Qc
Canada
The presence of Yokomono at PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 will offer
the occasion for Staalplaat to inaugurate their wireless video
extension and entertain certain sonic loops from the likes of Anton
Nikkilä, Charlemagne Palestine, Fennesz, fm3, Ignaz Schick, Ilpo Väisänen,
Justin Bennett, C.M. von Hausswolff, Phill Niblock, Radian and Tim
Hecker.
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April 28th is the last of
a series of 3 concerts presented in the context of Volapük. This concert
brings together Les Poules and the trio of young innovative musicians I8U,
Magali Babin and Myléna Bergeron. The show, while exploring the diverse
avenues of today's musical language will follow Volapük's thematic : a mix
and exchange of new languages. These guests have distinguished themselves by
their research and their will to push beyond the boundaries of electronic
and noise music.
Les
Poules: Joane
Hétu, saxophone, voice; Diane
Labrosse, sampler; Danielle Palardy
Roger, percussions + a trio of young innovative musicians I8U, electronics; Magali
Babin, electronics and found objects; Mylena Bergeron, electronics and vocals.
- Jeudi/Thursday April 28 avril 2005 - 20h30 -
O Patro Vys
356, avenue du Mont-Royal Est — Montréal
[métro Mont-Royal]
[t] : 514-845-3855
La soirée du 28 avril de la série
de trois concerts Volapük jumelle le trio Les Poules et le trio des jeunes
musiciennes innovatrices I8U, Magali Babin et Mylena Bergeron. Ce concert,
qui explore les diverses avenues du langage musical d’aujourd’hui, se déroule
sous la thématique Volapük: mélanges et échanges de nouveaux langages.
Les formations invitées se distinguent par leur esprit de recherche et leur
volonté de repousser les frontières de la musique bruitiste et
électronique.
Les Poules: Joane Hétu, saxophone, voix; Diane Labrosse, échantionneur; Danielle Palardy Roger, percussions + le trio des jeunes musiciennes innovatrices I8U, électroniques; Magali Babin, électroniques et objets; Mylena Bergeron, électroniques, voix.
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Proximité
Proximité is a project presented at the Clark Gallery in the context of their "Postes_Audio " initiative. Set up in a area of the gallery referred to as the lounge, Postes_Audio offers an array of sound exploration. It invites the listener to put on a set of headphones and enjoy the music of a featured artist. 2 sets of headphones, 2 artists.
Proximité is a collection of tracks that have been released on Canadian and European labels as well as unreleased tracks including the only collaboration of this catalogue recorded with artist Akira Rabelais. This material was specifically selected by i8u to reflect upon the intimate relationship between listener and the music, therefore utilizing the space, be it audible or physical
Plenty of thought and analysis comes into play when dealing with proximity in the visual world, yet proximity in the aural world is more abstract and for most of us under explored. With the visual, proximity is usually measured in distance between you and an inanimate object, yet in the aural world it is usually more personal. Although, sound can be caused by objects making us aware of our relationship to it, usually it is people or relationships that are brought to our attention through sound. A whisper or a yell, even when alone, has power because of its proximity. The music needs of a listener can sometimes be satisfied in a large auditorium, and with others, only earphones will suffice.
This project attempts to explore the organic nature of what sound evokes in us within the context of its aural proximity.
Curators : Gennaro de Pasquale and Sébastien Lapointe.
Featured Artists:
I8U
Racam
At the Clark
Gallery - March 10 to April 2005
5455, Avenue de Gaspé, Room 604, Montreal (QC)
Opened Wednesday to Saturday, from 9 am to 5 pm.
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