C. SPENCER YEH

Don’t miss our FINAL 2011 Sound Off concert salon, with special solo performances by C. Spencer Yeh throughout the night.

Sound Off is a salon and concert series of experimental music at 16 beaver group in Lower Manhattan. Taking place on the last Thursday of the month, Sound Off is an intimate performance series that connects audiences with composers, musicians, artists and eachother.

C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to the US in 1980; studied radio/television/film at Northwestern University, repped Cincinnati, Ohio over a decade, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Musically, Yeh is active both as a solo artist and improviser, as well as with his project, Burning Star Core. Yeh has collaborated with a deep and ever-growing list of artists and groups, including Tony Conrad, New Humans with Vito Acconci, Thurston Moore, Amy Granat with Jutta Koether, Okkyung Lee, Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, John Wiese, Nico Vascellari, Don Dietrich and Ben Hall (as The New Monuments), Nate Wooley, Prurient, and Jandek. He has performed at festivals and venues such as Sonar, FIMAV at Victoriaville, Frieze Arts Fair, Issue Project Room, No Fun Fest, High Zero, the 24 Hour Drone People at Fylkingen, The Kitchen, and ZKM Karlsruhe. He has exhibited his visual and multimedia works at national and international venues including the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the New Museum in New York, International Film Festival Rotterdam, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, and alt.gallery in Newcastle.

LOCATION:
16beavergroup
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
(btwn. New and Broad Sts.)
4,5 to Bowling Green
J,Z to Broad Street
N,R to Whitehall

$5 suggested donation

((audience)) is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers. For more information, visit http://au.dience.org/ or email curators@au.dience.org.

JULY 28, 2011 / 7-10pm

M.E.M.E.@BROWN TAKES MANHATTAN
with audio / visual performances by:
Betsey Biggs
Peter Bussigel
Mark Cetilia
Lynn Goeringer
Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley)
Stephan Moore
Ed Osborn
Caroline Park
Jacob Richman

Hosted in partnership with the Harvestworks New York Electronic Art Festival 2011

LOCATION:
16beavergroup
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
(btwn. New and Broad Sts.)
4,5 to Bowling Green
J,Z to Broad Street
N,R to Whitehall

$5 suggested donation

Betsey Biggs is a Brooklyn and Providence-based composer and artist whose practice in music, sound, video and installation aims to explore the resonance between sound and image, to actively engage the audience, and to explore the relationships among sound, memory, and geography. Her work has been described by The New Yorker as “psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.” Her work has been seen and heard at venues as disparate as ISSUE Project Room, Abrons Arts Center, the Conflux Festival, MASSMoCA, Sundance Film Festival, and on the streets of Oakland, Red Hook, Williamsburg and the Gowanus. She will be peforming “Remember/Wake Up”: In January, I visited Laos to explore the boundaries of memory and perception; to honor the memories that haunt these sites as well as to inhabit the place as it exists now. This is what morning there felt like to me. For laptop and field recordings.

Bevin Kelley is a Providence, RI based composer, sound designer, electronic musician, and multimedia performer. She is half of Blectum from Blechdom. She is 2/5 of the way through a PhD.

Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, sound designer and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvised solo performances, sound installation works, scores and sound designs for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past decade. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught workshops and numerous college-level courses in composition, programming, sound art and electronic music. He curates the annual Floating Points Festival at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, where he also serves on the Art Advisory Board. From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250 concerts with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as their sound engineer and music coordinator, and as a touring musician.

Ed Osborn works with many forms of electronic media including installation, video, sound, and, performance. His pieces show a tactile sense of space, movement, image and aurality combined with a precise economy of materials. Osborn has received grants and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts, STEIM (Amsterdam), and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UC San Diego. He has presented his work worldwide and is on the faculty of the Visual Art Department at Brown University. Ed will be presenting “Stone North” for live electronics and tabletop guitar. Tones are generated from the guitar using an EBow and slide are processed and delayed to build a shifting bed of sound that slowly evolves over time.

Jacob Richman is a mixed-media composer whose work explorers the relationship between sight and sound live performance and fixed media. His pieces mix live-processed moving images, music and sound to create unique multimedia settings in which performers can interact. He is fascinated by what he sees as the interconnectedness of things: people with places, sounds with textures, humans with animals, plants and the natural world. Jacob lives happily in Providence, Rhode Island with his girlfriend, cat and dog, and is a doctoral candidate in the MEME program at Brown University. He will perform “Speak, Stone,” a non-fiction video about Canto a Tenores folksinging as well as the people, animals and landscape in and around the town of Bitti, Sardinia. Featuring the Tenores di Bitti “Mialinu Pira.”

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Sound Off is a six-month salon and concert series of experimental music at 16beavergroup in Lower Manhattan. Taking place on the last Thursday of the month, from March through August, Sound Off is an intimate performance series that connects audiences with composers, musicians, artists, and one another.

JULY 28 / 7-10pm
Brown University M.E.M.E. Department
(Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments)
with audio / visual performances by:

Betsey Biggs
Peter Bussigel
Mark Cetilia
Lynn Goeringer
Bevin Kelley
Stephan Moore
Ed Osborn
Caroline Park
Jacob Richman

Hosted in partnership with the Harvestworks New York Electronic Art Festival 2011

LOCATION:
16beavergroup
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
(btwn. New and Broad Sts.)
4,5 to Bowling Green
J,Z to Broad Street
N,R to Whitehall

$5 suggested donation
For more information, visit lrlx.wordpress.com or email curators Lauren Rosati and Alexis Bhagat at curators@au.dience.org

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

JUNE 30 / 7-10pm
ALEXANDER KEEFE talks about Post-Fluxus, Henry Flynt, Utopia and East & West

JULY 28 / 7-10pm
Brown University MEME Department
with ED OSBORN and special guests

Hosted in partnership with Harvestworks New York Electronic Art Festival 2011

AUGUST 25 / 7-10pm
C. SPENCER YEH

For more information on ((audience)) and this series, visit our website.

DON’T MISS IT!!

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Our first SOUND OFF concert series kicks off next Thursday, March 31 with SAM KULIK and TWISTY CAT. Please join us! And check out the confirmed schedule below for info on all upcoming SOUND OFF events.

Location:
16 beaver group
16 Beaver Street (btwn. New and Broad Sts.), 4th Floor
NYC

$5 suggested donation

Sound Off is a six-month salon and concert series of experimental music at 16 beaver group in Lower Manhattan. Taking place on the last Thursday of the month, from March through August, Sound Off is an intimate performance series that connects audiences with composers, musicians, artists and eachother.

MARCH 31 / 7-10pm
SAM KULIK (trombonist with the Nervous Cabaret)
TWISTY CAT (bass clarinet / baritone sax / electronics)

APRIL 28 / 7-10pm
Columbia University’s Computer Music Center:

R. LUKE DUBOIS
DAMON HOLZBORN
SAM PLURA
BRYAN JACOBS
BRAD GARTON

MAY 26 / 7-10pm
Trombones:
MONIQUE BUZZARTÉ
CHRIS MCINTYRE’S 7 x 7 TROMBONE BAND

JUNE 30 / 7-10pm
ALEXANDER KEEFE talks and plays tape music by HENRY FLYNT

JULY 28 / 7-10pm
Brown University MEME Department
with ED OSBORN

More perfomers TBA

AUGUST 25 / 7-10pm
C. SPENCER YEH

For more information on ((audience)) and this series, visit our website.

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Dear Friends,

((audience)) is an unprecedented project and we have received some unprecedented support from the Unsound Festival New York, Electronic Music Foundation, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce the Cinema for the Ear screening at  Walter Reade Theater on April 5th of this year.

Info for our program is below. We’ve got a diverse lineup ranging from Felix Kubin to Pamela Z to our gem from the open call–Clay Gold. Tickets for this event, and all Unsound Festival New York events go on sale today! Please advance purchase a ticket. It costs as much as a movie. Let’s sell this out! With a strong show of support, maybe our nomadic festival will find a “home” at Lincoln Center? (It happens to be the only cinema in New York with a DMA8+ decoder installed. That’s the box we’ve been trying to raise money to buy for the past year.)

Ok. That’s it for now. This is a “Special Announcement.” Tickets are on sale. And a request: Please buy one.

Lauren + Alexis

UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK LABS, ((AUDIENCE)) AND FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER PRESENT
((AUDIENCE)): CINEMA FOR THE EAR AT WALTER READE THEATER
A SPECIAL 5.1 SURROUND-SOUND “CINEMA IN THE DARK” PROGRAM
FEATURING “HORROR” THEMED MUSIC FROM
DEMDIKE STARE, RAIME, FELIX KUBIN, PAMELA Z, CLAY GOLD, BRYAN JACOBS, PETER KUTIN AND A SOUND-ONLY SCREENING OF THE ROB EGGERS SHORT “TELL-TALE HEART.”

TUESDAY, APRIL 5th 2011, 8pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater,
165 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023 (212) 875-5610
$12 / Discount for Film Society Members and Students with ID
Please note: This program will be “screened,” not performed live.

TICKETS ON SALE TODAY HERE

About ((Audience)): Cinema for the Ear
Conceived in 2006 by curators Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati, ((audience)): Cinema for the Ear is an unprecedented project that explores the notion of cinema as 21st century concert hall. The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a program of 5.1 surround sound works by international artists intended for presentation in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark” – audio only, without visual accompaniment. Tonight, selected works, all related to the theme of “Horror,” will be presented in a completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment.

RAIME is a London-based electronic duo whose music is dark, minimal and haunting. Inspired by 1980’s cold wave, new wave, no wave and obscure electronic bands, the duo released their debut single and a follow up on the new label Blackest Ever Black in 2010. They also made their European live debut at Unsound Festival Krakow in October 2010. Raime have produced a new piece of music for ((audience)).

DEMDIKE STARE is the distinctly British musical project of Manchester / Lancaster duo Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Whittaker and Canty took their musical moniker from the name of a 17th-century witch and also serves as an indication that their music reflects their interests in the occult, mysticism, and the unknown. Their recently released second album “Tryptych” (Modern Love, 2011) is an extensive three disc set full of soundscapes and rhythms that draw on vintage horror soundtracks, the work of Ennio Morricone, UK bass, 90’s techno and their own special mix of analog gear and samples. Demdike Stare produced a new piece of music for ((audience)).

PETER KUTIN is a sound artist, musician, composer and producer based in Vienna. His latest release, for Film Archiv Austria, is a DVD of original music composed and arranged for silent films. His work “Lucidity,” a composition for six channels, was commissioned for this program.

FELIX KUBIN is one of electronic music’s most dynamic and versatile performers whose activities include futuristic pop, radio plays, electroacoustic music, and works for chamber orchestra. Kubin’s music is saturated with enthusiasm for disharmonic pop, industrial noise, and 20th century avant-garde music. In the last 20 years, he has released a diverse array of albums and played over 70 electronic music festivals. Kubin was on the cover of the June 2010 issue of Wire Magazine. ((audience)) will present his work, “Nachtspeicher (Night storage),” a piece about night sounds – club noise, field recordings, whispering silence, encounters with strange people and drunken ghosts. Twilight talks on the edge of reality and illusion. Fading outlines. The piece premiered on WDR, Germany on December 27, 2003.

CLAY GOLD lives in Korolev, Russia and works in Macau, China. He is a recording engineer and a recording artist, contributing stereo, quadraphonic and 5.1 sound art works for SoundFjord Gallery in London, Sonic Art in Oxford and the Dragonfly Festival in Sweden. “Airtight Orange Plastic Coffin,” which was commissioned for this program, is a response to the horrors of the 21st century – pollution, overcrowding and the arrogance of mankind.

BRYAN JACOBS lives in New York. His composition “Within Scenes of Hurt” was created from snippets of audio taken from movies that display various states of human, nonverbal emotional expression. Sounds of actors in scenes of extreme turmoil were captured, then stretched, frozen, and examined from many angles. This piece is part of the artist’s investigations of innate understandings of the human voice.

The short film “Tell-Tale Heart,” directed by ROBERT EGGERS, is inspired by the work of the same name by Edgar A. Poe and features the sound design of DAMIAN VOLPE and MATT ROCKER. Created as a short, it will be played as a sound-only movie for this occasion. Within the smoldering chambers of a desolate house, a solitary manservant tends to his invalid master. Tormented by constant silence and the banalities of his duties, the servant’s fears gradually turn to violent obsession.

PAMELA Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist. She has composed a large body of work, from solo voice and electronics to large-scale theatrical, multimedia and performance works that involve electro-acoustic music, projected video, and movement. Her work also includes installations, fixed media works (or “tape music”), and commissioned works for chamber ensembles. ((audience)) will present her work, “De-Star Spangled Banner” which features samples of Z’s voice singing a bel canto rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” The samples are processed to varied lengths and then densely layered. Pitch correction is consistently used whenever the time is expanded or compressed, resulting in a palate of sounds that remains completely within the pitch range of the original melody. Embedded in the texture are passages of the anthem stretched to as much as 35 times its original length; in other samples, the entire anthem is compressed to only five and half seconds.

Cinema for the Ear is presented by:  Unsound Festival New York LABS, Walter Reade Theater – Film Society of Lincoln Center, and ((audience)), in cooperation with Electronic Music Foundation.

Unsound Festival New York is presented by Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York

In Cooperation With The Trust For Mutual Understanding, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, City of Krakow, Krakow Festival Office, 6 Senses, Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, Instituto Cervantes de New York, Consulate General of Finland in New York, Royal Consulate of Norway New York, Pro Helvetia, BAMcinématek, Backspin Promotions, Bedroom Community, The Blackened Music Series, Beyond Booking, The Bunker, The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Electronic Music Foundation, European Cities of Advanced Sound, International Cities of Advanced Sound, Film Comment Selects, ISSUE Project Room, Kiss&Tell, (le) Poisson Rouge, Littlefield, No Fun Productions, RVNG Intl /FRKWYS, Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building.

Location:
16 beaver group
16 Beaver Street (btwn. New and Broad Sts.), 4th Floor
NYC

$5 suggested donation

Sound Off is a six-month salon and concert series of experimental music at 16 beaver group in Lower Manhattan. Taking place on the last Thursday of the month, from March through August, Sound Off is an intimate performance series that connects audiences with composers, musicians, artists and eachother.

MARCH 31 / 7-10pm
SAM KULIK (trombonist with the Nervous Cabaret)
TWISTY CAT (bass clarinet / baritone sax / electronics)

APRIL 28 / 7-10pm
Columbia University Music Department:
R. LUKE DUBOIS
More perfomers TBA

MAY 26 / 7-10pm
Trombones:
MONIQUE BUZZARTÉ
CHRIS MCINTYRE’S 7 x 7 TROMBONE BAND

JUNE 30 / 7-10pm
ALEXANDER KEEFE talks and plays tape music by HENRY FLYNT

JULY 28 / 7-10pm
Brown University MEME Department
with ED OSBORN

More perfomers TBA

AUGUST 25 / 7-10pm
C. SPENCER YEH

For more information on ((audience)) and this series, visit our website.

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.