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"
WE'LL DO IT LIVE "
An
Audio/Video Performance
TO
BENIFIT - THE WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
Treanor Brothers Animation, HDADD™, Meat Water and
ARC STUDIOS are pleased to
present "Do It Live", an audio/video performance,
on Friday, June 13th from
8:00 pm to 1:00 am at the Pell-Chafee Center, 87 Empire
Street,
Providence.
The
evening will feature some of the world's top audio/video
artists,
including Aerostatic, Benton-C Bainbridge, Brian Kane,
David Lublin,
Duncan Laurie, Jeswa, Nalepa, Ooah, Peter Kirn, Richard
Devine, RNDM
and Robotkid, Synesthete and Unkle Thirsty.
The
performance is being held to benefit the Woonasquatucket
River
Watershed Council. Proceeds will go toward fulfilling
the mission of
the WRWC, which is to encourage, support, and promote
the restoration
and preservation of the Woonasquatucket River Watershed.
Over
the past two summers, many of the artists featured in
"We'll Do
It Live" have convened for an informal salon at the
Jamestown studio
of sound artist and radionics expert Duncan Laurie. Last
year Laurie
staged a performance at Fort Adams called Water Music
Remix during
tall ships weekend.
Tickets
for the all-ages performance are $15 ,$10 student
teacher,military, police fire the
day of the show. There will be a cash bar.
For more information, email Nick Bauta at nickbauta@gmail.com,
or call
401-588-4288.
Featured
artists include:
AEROSTATIC
(Native State Records)
www.myspace.com/aerostaticmusic
Aerostatic
is Terry Golob and Michele Darling, based in Brooklyn,
NY.
They compose and perform a hybrid style of electronic
music that is
atmospheric, ambient, microbeat and downtempo with breakcore/grindcore
sensibilities. Aerostatic utilize artifacts of sound generated
by
digital and analog processes in conjunction with a variety
of
interactive technologies, to compose and design audio
environments for
performance, film, and installations. Their work has been
featured in
shows and festivals in the U.S., U.K., Italy, and Australia.
Aerostatic perform regularly throughout New York City
and Brooklyn.
They have also played in Italy, Vienna, Argentina, Rhode
Island,
Chicago, and Los Angeles. Their piece "Continuous"
was included on the
ambient compilation CD, Beneath The Surface on Native
State Records.
Aerostatic also composed the soundtrack for the Hub Culture
Retrospective: Antarctica DVD by Hub Culture, UK. Their
Digital EP
'Code' has recently been put out by Native State Records.
Aerostatic
did a remix for the forthcoming CD 'Water Music Remixed',
a beautiful
compilation by several cutting edge electronic artists
who
reinterpreted parts of Handel's Water Music.
BRIAN KANE
www.briankane.net
Brian
Kane is the Karl Rove of the Art World.
BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE
http://www.benton-c.com/
Benton-C
Bainbridge is a Bronx artist who has made video as a
painterly and performable medium for 25 years. Using custom
digital,
analog and optical systems, Benton-C's movies contribute
to a dialog
in an emerging global language. Benton-C has shown his
work on 5
continents in venues and events including SFMoMA (San
Francisco),
Hayden Planetarium (NYC), Lincoln Center, Hirshhorn Museum
and
Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Colón
CETC (Buenos Aires),
EMPAC (Troy, NY), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Dallas Video
Festival,
Madison Square Garden, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris,
Museum of
Modern Art, Eyebeam (NYC), CELCIT (Managua) and LUX2006
(Sevilla).
Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is making video paintings,
installations and performances with systems co-designed
with fellow
artists/technologists Kanye West, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and
Destiny's Child,
among many others.
DAVID LUBLIN
www.vidvox.com
David
Lublin of Vidvox and lmnopf is not professional enough
to have
anything to say about himself artistically, but nonetheless
his act is
still worth checking out.
DUNCAN LAURIE
www.duncanlaurie.com
Duncan
Laurie is a sculptor and audio artist that has been exploring
and writing about semiotics and the relationship of subtle
energy
technology (psychotronic and radionic) to art; devising
sonic plant
and mineral communication experiments for artistic presentation.
He
has been featured in Make magazine and the Sound issue
of Visionaire,
which featured the likes of David Byrne, Yoko Ono, U2,
and Michael
Stipe. Using brainwave monitors, he has been coaxing small
voltages
out of plants and rocks to drive Ableton Live.
JOSHUA KAY aka JESWA (Soul Oddity, Phoenecia, Schematic
Records)
www.myspace.com/
Joshua
Kay aka Jeswa is the founder of Schematic Records and
one half
of the pioneering electronic groups Phoenecia and Soul
Oddity. As Soul
Oddity, they were hometown champions of electronic music,
pioneering
Miami's rave scene with a sound that combined Detroit
electro with
Miami bass funk creating something undeniably powerful
for the
dancefloor. As Phoenecia, the quirky duo (Joshua Kay and
Romulo del
Castillo) spearheaded the Intelligent Dance Music (IDM)
movement with
their inventive, chirpy, blip-and-bass antics. Josh set
aside
recording to run their label, Schematic Music, and to
manage other
artists. But lately they've been performing out again,
including a
Soul Oddity tribute concert in the Design District that
drew hundreds
of old-school fans clamoring for the once-hot tune "DJ
Tokyo."
Phoenecia puts art -- abstract collages of synthesized
sound -- before
pandering to fans. The future-is-now approach leads many
to consider
them legends ahead of their time. Schematic Artists include
Delarosa &
Asora, Richard Devine, Din-ST, Dino Felipe, Finesse And
Runway, Nick
Forté, Hearts Of Darknesses, Jeswa, Kiyo, o9, Otto
Von Schirach,
Phoenecia, Takeshi Muto, Secret Frequency Crew and Shapeshifter
NALEPA (Native State Records)
www.myspace.com/nalepa
LA-based
electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist
collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass, glitchy
breaks,
bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful sinewave melodies
to create his
patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has produced
tracks with
such legends as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, worked
with the LA
Philharmonic, shared a bill with Amon Tobin and DJ Spooky
at Walt
Disney Concert Hall, rocked Flavorpill's Friday's Off
the 405 Series
at the Getty Museum and performed on The Do Lab Stage
at Coachella
2007. Nalepa is one of the artists featured in Visionaire
53 SOUND
which includes 100 original sound pieces by David Byrne,
U2, Danger
Mouse, Dan The Automator, Yoko Ono and more. When he's
not in the lab
or rocking dancefloors together with Tokyo-based MattB
as Bass
Science, Nalepa can be found teaching Ableton Live, ProTools
and
Reason to the students in his Principles of Music Technology
classes
at Chapman University Conservatory of Music.
OOAH (The Glitch Mob, Alpha Pup)
www.myspace.com/ooahmusik
In
the heart of the deep south, New Orleans, Louisiana a
sound was
born. That sound was comprised from threads of punk, jazz,
and of
course, hip hop. That sound is Ooah. From the age of 16
when he
started playing house parties, Josh Mayer knew he wanted
to make music
and so took that desire straight to the west coast to
pull from and
add a unique flavor to the electronic movement that has
been steadily
growing there for years. As a result, Josh started his
career as a hip
hop battle DJ, and has never left his dirty south roots
behind though
his path has taken him from the south to San Francisco,
Los Angeles,
Burning Man, New York and abroad. Currently Ooah spends
his time
composing as a solo artist and for The Glitch Mob. The
Mob is
comprised of Ooah, edIT, Kraddy, and Boreta. The four
artists together
on stage are like nothing that exists elsewhere. Their
sound is a
fusion of hip-hop and subsonic electronic music recently
described as
"Futuristic Crunk" or "Laser Bass"
in The New Yorker. To watch The Mob
is a unique experience every time as each set is entirely
new
depending on the composition and mixing by each of its
members. In a
word, freestyle. As a solo artist, Ooah's music is comprised
of
hip-hop, dubstep, IDM, and more. His unmistakable style
can be found
in the company of such artists as Flying Lotus, Noisia,
The Grouch and
Eligh, Megasoid, Mala, Deru, and Matisyahu. Ooah is presently
recording both a solo album and an album with The Glitch
Mob.
PETER KIRN (CreateDigitalMusic)
www.createdigitalmusic.com
Peter
Kirn is a composer/musician, media artist, technologist,
writer,
and the editor-in-chief of Create Digital Music. His work
has been
presented around the world and televised on CBC-TV Canada
and TV-5
Europe, and he regularly performs as a laptop musician
and
keyboardist. As a regular contributor to Keyboard and
Macworld
magazines, he has written about music technology and musicians;
his
book Real World Digital Audio came out in December 2005
on Peachpit
Press. He has also presented lectures, workshops, and
master classes
at conferences, universities, and schools, both on his
own work and
music and media technology. He has studied at Sarah Lawrence
College
and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where
he is
finishing his Ph.D. in music composition.
RICHARD DEVINE (Schematic/Warp/Sublight/Asphodel/Detroit
Underground)
www.myspace.com/richarddevine
During
the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp
artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More).
He has
released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel,
and
Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing
music mayhem
worldwide. Based from Atlanta, Georgia he has done film
score work for
Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper).
He has also
collaborated with BT (Brian Transeau on movie "Surveillance"
Directed
by Adam Rifkin, Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and have
done sound
mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails,
composed and
designed commercials for the Nike Shoe Company and worked
with various
companies doing sound design for Audi, BMW, Ford, Lincoln,
Mercury,
Scion, Coke, LandRover, Lexus, Peugeot, Dodge, HBO, Nestle,
Nike
Japan, McDonald's, Sprite, Sony, Spike Television network
and XBOX
(Halo2 and 3 for Microsoft Gamming Division http://www.halo3.com.
He
has also worked with Konami gaming division for the Dance-Dance
Revolution game. And currently now for Sony Play station
PS3
(Infected) for Dawn of the Dead. He has also recently
completed all
the sound design for the new xbox360. http://www.xbox360.com,
and
"Gears of War, Forza, and Massive Effects websites.
In conjunction
with TV and film work Richard also has done programming
and sound
design work with major audio companies. His work has been
featured on
new software and hardware titles from many innovative
companies such
as Native Instruments, Izotope, WayOutware, Eventide Effects
Company,
GRM tools, Korg, Clavia Nord, Alesis, Akai, Ableton Live,
Apple
Computers, Access Virus, DigiDesign, Openlabs, Universal
Audio,
Hartmann Neuron synthesizers, Stanton Magnetics DJ Company,
Roland,
Propellerheads, Yamaha and M-Audio Division.
RNDM & ROBOTKID
http://www.robotkid.com/rndm-robotkid/
RNDM
& ROBOTKID represent the next stage of audio/visual
live
performance. Using turntable-controlled video playback
systems, the
DJ/VJ duo sample from their extensive knowledge of pop
culture and
eclectic music to create audio-visual remixes live on
stage. dj RNDM,
a Boston native, is one of the city's hottest up and coming
DJs. An
avid turntablist, RNDM brings a unique flair to his performances
by
combining different styles and techniques, from mixing
and scratching
to juggling and blending. www.djrndm.com ROBOTKID makes
musical games
(Rock Band) by day and video art for bands/DJ's by night.
Robotkid has
been performing in Boston-area clubs for over 10 years.
You can see
some of his work online at www.robotkid.com
VJ SYNESTHETE
www.synesthete.com
VJ
Synesthete (Todd Thille), an Istanbul based multi-media
artist, has
VJed with top audio artists in the US and Europe, the
likes of Sven
Vath, Talvin Singh, DJ Spooky, The Orb and Transglobal
Underground. He
won the first (and so far only) Maker Faire VJ Battle.
Besting a pool
of 8 talented artists. He has been building custom hardware
and
software for his live performances, working with Rhode
Island based
artist Duncan Laurie recently to incorporate Nature signals.
UNKLE THIRSTY
www.unklethirsty.com
Simply
put, Unkle Thirsty makes cups. Since completing his MFA
at RISD
in 2003, he's been moonlighting as a psychogeographer
with PIPS, an
artist collective he co-founded. He has a strong background
in craft
and has recently rejoined his ceramic roots by making
utilitarian
pottery. His goal is to stimulate conversation about contemporary
social issues while sharing a "cup" of coffee
or tea.
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v e r t h e p a s t b e l o w .
Get
Yer Ya-Yas Out Tonight
11:38 am on May 9th, 2008
viennaguy So what have we learned? Zombies move faster
than you might think… when being chased by angry bar
managers. And they dance okay too, although that fetid odor
of rotting flesh and dried blood makes them somewhat undesirable
partners. Ghouls on the other hand smell quite nice thank
you. And they are snappy dressers and are frankly pretty
hot in a baseball furies/thriller/heroin chic-goes-to-the-prom
kind of way. Mostly what I learned at the happening at Studio
Blue on Friday night (and if you missed it you are to be
pitied) is that watching a guy* eat a light bulb is actually
pretty damn entertaining. One rarely sees such aggressive
good cheer and anarchic party energy. What a scene
What I did not learn on Friday cuz I knew it already, is
that The Viennagram is amazing and fun and they rock. I
like that Viennaguy a lot but I didn’t get his name.
(They will be playing May 9 at Firehouse 13, and again on
May 21st at AS220. Go see for yourself.)
8:30 PM — Preparations for the third annual Zombie
Day invasion take place in the Upper Quad at RISD, 55 Angell
Street, where an experienced team will apply makeup and
blood. Your clothes will get messed up, plan accordingly.
10:00 PM — From there, the zombies will swarm down
Thayer Street, lurch around Brown, and back to Angell Street
in search of slow-moving yuppies and pie-throwing commies,
vegans and freegans and out-of-town mommies. And please
— I am begging you — get that guy who plays
the saxophone. This is being organized (a relative term
when speaking of zombies) by Andrew Fogel and a gang of
RISD students who must insist that you be at least 18 years
old to take part for reasons of liability. (Oh right, almost
forgot, get the lawyers!) A donation of a buck or two is
requested to support the purchase of the Z-Day supplies.
You can even RSVP on Facebook.
11:00 PM until whenever — The Undead After-Party
at Studio Blue, of which, more later.
viennagramSay what you will about local auteur (RIFC) Mike
Ryan, he throws one helluva party. Last night he and the
lovely Cat had a few friends over to Studio Blue in Riverside
(I’m pretty sure he had permission). Normally a recording
and production studio/performance venue etc. etc., for a
few hours it was taken over by a happy crew of loonies who
danced like mad to The Viennagram. Sounds like (in their
own words) “Tom Waits played backwards… sex-cat
mating calls… underwater noise nostalgia…”
that sort of thing. But that doesn’t begin to describe
how dance-able this music is. Fronted by their weirdly charismatic
drummer, the band also found time to work on their painting.