LISTEN/VISION 04, Brooklyn – June 9th, 2008

LISTEN/VISION co-produced with Volume Projects is very happy to announce the first NYC edition of the LISTEN/VISION event series. This June 9th event at Monkeytown presents exclusive LISTEN/VISION pieces by Sawako, Greg Davis, David Kwan, Frank Bretschneider and Nate Boyce. Come celebrate as Overlap goes national!

June 9th 2008 – 8-10pm (doors at 7:30)
Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

GREG DAVIS – “Interbeing” – 2006 – 21:07 mins
after years of hip-hop groups, jazz combos, free improvisation, and experimental composition, greg moved toward the world of computer-based music in 1997. at depaul university in chicago, greg studied classical & jazz guitar alongside composition and jazz studies. In 1997, he started his own label, autumn records, to release his own music and the music of others. greg moved to boston in 1999 to pursue a master’s degree in composition which he received in june 2001. he also independently immersed himself in the study of electronic music during this time. greg became an active performer on the boston music scene, playing many shows by himself and with don mennerich, as parallel. greg davis has played live shows around the world with: hrvatski / keith fullerton whitman, 242.pilots, david grubbs, zoviet france, chicago underground duo, flying lutenbachers, adult, o9, otto von schirach, stars as eyes, lexaunculpt, blectum from blechdom, viki, mitchell akiyama, loscil, casey rice (designer), e*rock, inkblot, marumari, twine, warmdesk, bit meddler, flashpapr, a-musik soundsystem, murcof, lullatone, shedding, ogurusu norihide, fonica, the animal collective, f.s. blumm, ratatat, i am robot and proud, alejandra & aeron, jan jelinek, christopher willits, sebastien roux, sora, leafcutter john and more.
http://www.autumnrecords.net

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.