Karneia

Description

Welcome to the first of a series of collective art and music gatherings! Karneia was the ancient festival of Sparta celebrating Apollo, who among many other things, is the god of art and music. Renewing this theme, we invite you to be part of our convergence of local artists, musicians, and creative people showcasing their talents. Our vision is to garner support for our communities, and expand networks to create new and innovative forms of expression. Experimentation is the key - we draw our participants from various scenes and social groups to encourage a cross-pollination of different styles, talents, and ideas for richer and more inclusive experiences.

The talent we have selected provide for a rich mixture of live musical performance, mixed media, live art, DJs, an art gallery, aerial performance, and interactive art installations to stimulate your senses.

Musical performances by:
Trifonic
Dioskouri
Mad Zach
HoverKraft

Art and Live Painting by:
Dela
Krisztina Lazar
Chriss Granillo

...and more to be announced!


MUSIC BIOS

Brian Trifon is the front man for Trifonic, a San Francisco-based electronic act that seamlessly fuses experimental production wizardry with beautiful melodies and traditional song structures to craft music that is simultaneously unexpected and accessible. Brian began to explore electronic music and production while in college. Joining together with his older brother Lawrence, he created the music project Trifonic. Trifonic dropped its first and only album to date Emergence in 2008, combining elements of downtempo electronica, IDM, post-rock and classical music to create a deep, lush musical experience distinctly their own. Trifonic masterfully blends manipulated ambient sounds and synths with live guitars, strings and other instruments to create a rich, layered mixture of organic and hi-tech elements. Trifonic can best be described as emotional bass music with an element of post-rock and cinematic urgency and drama. It’s an intertwining of high-tech cold and bassy elements with organic human emotion and escapism.

http://www.trifonic.com/

Mad Zach is the bi-product of a sinister lab experiment dealing with psychedelics and circuitry. The goal was to externalize the organization of the universe into a complex series of resonances in order to unlock dimensional portals and open minds. Yet from the ruins of ancient wisdom and future bound circuitry an inexplicably dark frankenbot was resurrected. It marches to the off beat of the lucifer rebellion, backed by a mutant army of lost souls. In his twisted laboratory, Mad Zach creates chemically synthesized microcosms of inter-gallactic alien secrets that cause ripples and folds in the space time continuum. The result is textural, spectral, and riddled with lobe cracking impulses and subharmonic body thwaps. His highly anticipated live performances integrate an armada of custom built midi controllers and live hardware to deliver the purest frequencies to your brain. Prepare to be melted.

http://www.madzach.com/

Dioskouri – the sons of Zeus – is the brotherhood of Michelangelo Passalalpi and Mike Murray. Hailing from Deep Playa, they made their edgy SF debut together at the Decompression Heat the Street FaIRE in 2011. Their full spectrum selection of House mixed to perfection will give anyone an auditory erection. Tracks interwoven with inspiring samples of past and present social leaders and visionaries provide for a sophisticated and driving dance experience with a message and will not let you off your feet. Their combined talents and passion for electronic music bring you the most entertaining DJ set you've experienced.

Mike - http://soundcloud.com/ashesfall
Michelangelo – http://soundcloud.com/michelangelo54

HoverKraft is a live electronic trio based out of California's SF Bay Area. Taking music lovers on a musical journey as they explore the live electronic realms of funk, space rock, glitch hop, and beyond. Be ready for an eclectic mix of mid-tempo glitch, fantasy wobbles, psydub, electro funk and astral guitar licks. Featuring Trey Howard on Beats, Guitar, and Synth, Darin Lehman on Bass, and Max Vernon on Drums, HoverKraft brings live music and soul to the electronic ethos that is the Bay and further.

http://www.hoverkraft.org/


ART BIOS

Dela, a talented self-taught artist was born in Baja, Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and then skipped from Florida to San Francisco on July 2011. He has been drawing all his life, works in his youth were inspired by the beauty of sunsets, water, vegetation, salsa and reggae music, surfing, sound, and mostly, dreams and girls. He picked up the brushes in 2002 after moving in with a friend who had a big empty wall and creations started flowing. Inspiration for his paintings come from the human condition, our relationships with Mother Earth, LOVE and the female form, while dreams also play a major role in the electrifying color palette of his work.

http://delacanvas.com/home.html

Finding a visual expression through beauty and kitsch, grace and grit, the ridiculous and the sublime, Krisztina Lazar's work draws from the nostalgic perspective of art nouveau and 60’s psychedelica, attempting to navigate the poles between the populace and the elitist conceptions of imagery. The symbology she depicts is a language of ideas and interactions that function as a microcosm of images in it of itself within the macrocosm of broader inter-related ideas.

http://transcendentbird.com/home.html

From an early age, Chriss Granillo found artistic and creative inspiration through science classes and a back yard shared with wild animals of the desert. While inspiration was plentiful, art supplies were not, so the alternative was to create using found objects and supplies unearthed at local thrift stores. Many of Chris’s early works appear on recycled surfaces and discarded objects. Granillo found it fascinating sharing the earth with animals that once controlled the surface of the land but have now been driven underground by commercial development, a conflict which frequently is depicted in his work. Granillo's subjects of preference are Mexican folk art, the human figure, nature, mystery, and underwater organisms. His paintings are influenced by religious renaissance painting and a mixture of street art. In 2003 Granillo relocated to the Bay Area art scene and began dabbling into the wider pallet of artistic mediums such as printmaking, sculpture, photography, graphic design, and murals.

http://chrisgranilloart.tumblr.com/

More Info

Link

http://www.facebook.com/Karneia