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
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Sound Arts just announced an all new website featuring classes, demos and a bunch of cool stuff.

http://www.soundarts.org

LISTEN/VISION 03

Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 7-9pm at The San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133 - $15 Public / Limited free seating for SFAI Students.

Featuring : RASTER-NOTON - Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider as “Signal”

Curated and co-presented by Volume Projects & Overlap , LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. Overlap.org and Volume have partnered to commission new and *unreleased* sound and video recordings from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. These exclusive pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD, are presented in a collective listening environment. 

The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presents a very special evening with live performances by the three principal members of the German arts platform Raster-Noton: Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender. Each artist will perform individually, and collectively as Signal. These artists are considered by many to be some of the most important and influential individuals working within the field of experimental electronic audiovisual performance today.
Raster-Noton: Archiv Für Ton Und Nichtton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German sound manipulators Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender pooled their resources as Raster-Noton and jacked into international art currents. Their minimalist electronic CDs and sound objects have sent power surges through a global grid connecting like-minded artists from Coil’s ElpH to Tokyo’s Ryoji Ikeda.

Carsten Nicolai -
Carsten Nicolai is an artist who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. For several years now he has also experimented with sound under the pseudonym Noto to create his own code of signs, acoustic and visual symbols. As Alva Noto he leads those experiments into the field of electronic music. Among others, Nicolai already performed as Alva Noto at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Kunsthaus Graz and at Tate Modern in London. Additionally he has projects with diverse artists such as Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Mika Vainio or Thomas Knak (opto); recently he toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto through Europe, Australia and Asia.

Frank Bretschneider -
Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider‘s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. After the fall of the wall, he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form raster-noton in 1999. He has performed at music and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, Offf, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, Ultima, etc. In addition to his solo work he has collaborated with artists such as with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden, and Ralph Steinbrüchel.

Olaf Bender -
Germany-based Olaf Bender is one of three founders of the Raster-Noton imprint. He often records under such aliases as Byetone and Lumen for solo projects, and together with Komet and Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) forms the laptop microsound trio Signal. His output is extremely sparse, with his sole full-length contributions being a disc in the prize-winning 20′ to 2000 series and 2003’s Feld, released on Raster-affiliated label Binemusic.

Funding for LISTEN/VISION 03 is generously provided by the Goethe Institut of San Francisco

Links:
Raster-Noton
Goethe Institut San Francisco
Volume Projects
Overlap

This program is generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.

CHRISTOPHER WILLITS – YURI’S NIGHT PERFORMANCE – APRIL 12th 2008

The spring tour will blast off (sorry i had to) Saturday APRIL 12 at Yuri’s Night Space Festival

info here :http://sf.yurisnight.net/2008/music.php

They have a great lineup this year, really excited to play.

about Yuri’s Night :

“Yuri’s Night is a celebration of space exploration—and mankind’s curiosity, scientific ingenuity, technical achievements, and spirit of collaboration that have made it all possible. This year, NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever, with 8,000 people joining astronauts, artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians to pay tribute to our global space heritage and to celebrate how much more is out there to be discovered!”

T H R E E   P I E C E S 

Platform for Art and Sound

Join us for a quarterly studio presentation of three two new pieces of
sound, image or movement from local and visiting artists.

Next Event: February 26, 2008, 7-9 p.m.

1112 Larkin St. (@ Sutter) #307

genericfun.com/3pieces

+1 415 298 1663

NOTE: Doors Close at 7:30 p.m., Space limited, FREE

Featuring:  Joshua Churchill and Richard Garet

Joshua Churchill 
(( sound and light performance/installation )) 

Joshua Churchill is a San Francisco based cross-disciplinary artist that works primarily with sound and light in the context of site-specific installations and experimental music performances and recordings. His approach to performance/recording work, which involves live processing and layering of generated and found sounds, and often shares similarities in his approach to installation work, including treatment of space, the utilization of found materials, particularly sound, and the pairing of reactive lighting elements to sound. Through his work, Churchill challenges the expectations of the audience and the passive role that is traditionally assigned to them by immersing them within it and compelling them to become critically aware of their relationship to their surroundings.

Joshua Churchill also performs and records solo noise work under the moniker T/R, and participates in a number of ongoing collaborative projects. He has exhibited and/or performed at Chapel of the Chimes (Oakland), Triple Base Gallery (San Francisco), The Recombinant Media Compound (San Francisco), 7hz (San Francisco), National Showa Kinen Park (Tokyo), Loop-Line (Tokyo), Yerba Buena Center For the Arts (San Francisco), New Media Scotland, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Post Gallery (Los Angeles), and Galeria Ze Dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal).

www.joshuachurchill.com

myspace.com/jshchrchllm

Richard Garet Painting by Numbers / Comp 6_2

Richard Garet is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. he is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, and form. even though garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. all of these modes are additional ways in which garet’s work exposes the audience to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception.

I began the Painting by Number Series as a means of exploring the possibilities of digital video’s ability to handle color, motion, digital errors, and light. I continued by turning this outcome into moving image color field compositions. My methods were focused on the possibilities and phenomenology of light as material, pushing the boundaries of the media’s digital permutations, and in software processing. All the works in this series also engage in emphasizing the media, the process, and the sensory gaps between the eye and the mind.



www.richardgaret.com

LISTEN/VISION 01

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st 2008 7-9 pm.

$5 Public, $2 Students/Seniors, Free for Camerawork Members

LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception that includes *unreleased* sound and visual recordings from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists.

Featuring : NATE BOYCE, CARL STONE, FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER, RICHARD CHARTIER.

Curated and co-presented by Volume Projects & Overlap

VOLUME and Overlap.org present:

LISTEN/VISION 01
Thursday, February 21st. 2008, 7-9pm
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-4104

LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. VOLUME and Overlap.org have partnered to commission new and *unreleased* sound and video recordings from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. Future installments of LISTEN/VISION will also host live performances and multi-channel sound installations. LISTEN/VISION 01 will present new work by Richard Chartier, Frank Bretschneider, Carl Stone, and Nate Boyce.

RICHARD CHARTIER
Chartier_pre_1_01 (2005), 17:29 min.
Richard Chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE (USA), Raster-Noton (Germany), Die Stadt (Germany), Spekk (Japan), NonVisualObjects (Austria), Mutek_rec (Canada), DSP (Italy), ERS (Netherlands), and Trente Oiseaux (Germany), including collaborations with noted artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, COH, and Asmus Tietchens and has appeared on numerous international compilations. His digital minimalist work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening. Chartier_pre_1_01 was originally developed during the process of creating the work Incidence released on Raster-Noton in 2007. Beginning with a low volume sparkle of static, the piece gradually morphs itself into low frequency territory. The monolithic drone of Incidence ebbs and flows over a bed of gentle crackle and fizz, only to end much as it began, with a wafer-thin line of static and hiss.

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
RHYTHM EXP (2007), 8:09 min.
Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider‘s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. After the fall of the wall, he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999. He has performed at music and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, Offf, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, Ultima, etc. In addition to his solo work he has collaborated with artists such as with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden, and Ralph Steinbrüchel. RHYTHM EXP is a music-visual work based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. An attempt to assimilate the qualities found in music – including movement, rhythm, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure – within visual phenomena. The music for the project was composed of waveforms, feedback, impulses, clicks, the sound of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light and radiation. As the animation is driven by sound frequency and intensity, the images attain an unexpected beauty, from simple geometrical patterns to extraordinarily complex forms.

CARL STONE
Shin Chon (2006), 34:48 min.
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan.

NATE BOYCE
Plasma Wielder (2008), 10:00 min.
Nate Boyce is an artist and musician who creates perceptually disorienting and kinetically charged sound image works that take the shape of musical compositions. Influenced by the techniques early video art and the 1960’s structural film movement, he employs antiquated analog processing devices alongside custom-built image processing software to generate an anomalous fusion of both analog and digital materials. Nate performs regularly with Matmos and has collaborated with Christopher Willits, as well as Tussle on music videos. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. Plasma Wielder was made using a customized analog/digital hybrid processing and synthesis system based on modified consumer video gear that uses control voltages from an analog synth to sequence and modulate analog video feedback creating trance inducing audio/visual polyrhythms. Aimed at the phenomenological reduction of the video signal as a temporally malleable material.