Description
“Artistic traditions are evolving and transforming through the integration of electronic and digital tools. New medias are creating a global artistic landscape. It is these intersections that NEXMAP is exploring through our Binary Cities Series of performances...” states Linda Bouchard, NEXMAP’s artistic director.Founded in 1981, The California E.A.R. Unit has earned an international reputation as one of America’s finest contemporary chamber ensembles. They will present their “Roadworks” program, featuring “Spill out/Fish Tank,” the premiere of composer Linda Bouchard’s multimedia collaboration with video artist Kim Turos, as well as works by Amy Knoles, Vicki Ray, and Eric km Clark. French Cellist Soizic Lebrat will present “Bleu Solo,” drawing on her years of research into extended techniques and improvisation in a collaboration with Montreal-based artist Yan Breuleux who has earned an international reputation in immersive video. Oakland-based artist, composer, and sound designer Chris Kubick will perform several multi-media pieces from a series of works titled “So-called Sounds" which focuses on the ways in which sound and language inform and infect one another.
What the critics say about our performing artists:
“New York has its Bang on a Can; we have our California E.A.R. Unit: daredevil small ensembles dedicated to what-the-hell service to whatever new music, of whatever provenance (and the more challenging the better) that happens to cross their line of sight.” Alan Rich-LA Weekly
Soizic Lebrat twiddles, caresses her cello in a physical and energic way. She explores the instrument unashamedly, in an experimentation without bound. She is stubborn and carries her ideas with beliefs, which gives to « Bleu solo » suite a real strength. We are immediately seduced by the frank interpretation: Soizic Lebrat is not fussy. Her cello bow is bountiful, sometimes dogged to the trance, or haunted, dreaming... -Guillaume Tarche, Le son du Grizli mai 2010
"It's really a wonderful idea. The resultant sound is frightening and otherworldly, and suggests that human beings are odd creatures indeed. Why do we make sounds which communicate nothing? There is expression even in non-linguistic sound, and its fun to hear such expression isolated." review of Language Removal Services (Chris Kubick) S/T CD, by Ben Tausig-Dusted Magazine
More on the artists:
The California E.A.R. Unit (Eric km Clark - Violin, Vicki Ray - Piano and Amy Knoles – Percussion) is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, and promotion of the music of our time. California E.A.R. Unit strives to achieve a flexibility and rapport within contemporary music, and earned an international reputation as one of America’s finest contemporary chamber ensembles. The California E.A.R. Unit was founded in 1981. In its twenty-eight year history, the ensemble has presented concerts of electro acoustic and live interactive computer music, Music Theater, Dance, and local and world premieres of over 500 chamber works. The “Roadworks” program will feature: the world premiere of Spill Out/Fish Tank by Linda Bouchard and Kim Turos, Belfo by percussionist Amy Knoles, Jugg(ular)ling by pianist Vicky Ray and ExPat by violonist Eric km Clark.
Multimedia Artist/Percussionist/Composer Amy Knoles tours globally as a soloist performing computer assisted live electronic music with electronic percussion controllers and linear/interactive video. Pianist Vicki Ray performs widely as a soloist and collaborative artist. She is a member of the award winning California E.A.R. Unit and Xtet. As a founding member of PianoSpheres, her playing has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times for "displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and technical panache that puts a composer's thoughts directly before the listener."
Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric km Clark has performed throughout the world, with the majority of his shows taking place in Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City. Originally from Victoria, Canada, Linda Bouchard is NEXMAP's founder and Artistic Director and has been composing for over 30 years focusing on acoustic instruments and their textural capabilities. Kim Turos is an artist and landscape architect known for sculpture and site-specific installations. Her investigations focuses on the increasingly delicate symbiosis of nature and society
Cellist and improviser Soizic Lebrat from Nantes, France will present a piece for solo cello titled “Bleu Solo,” drawing on her years of research into extended techniques and improvisation, and her own unique language of sonic gestures. She will perform along with a video piece created by Montreal-based artist Yan Breuleux who has earned an international reputation in immersive video.
Oakland-based artist, composer, and sound designer Chris Kubick will perform several multi-media pieces from a series of works titled “So-called Sounds.” These pieces draw on Kubick’s work with sound effect libraries, and have in common a focus on the ways in which sound and language inform and infect one another.
NEXMAP explores emergent forms of artistic expression and their technological possibilities through public events, performances, workshops and discussions. NEXMAP's Binary Cities project is an ongoing series of live performances, installations, and symposium discussions featuring music, dance, video/film, and visual arts. These events bring together artists from the San Francisco Bay Area with artists from other international cities in order to present works that have a direct relationship with new technology and traditional practice. Binary City 2010 is made possible in part through support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the W & F Hewlett Foundation, the American Composers Forum Subito Grant and the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in San Francisco.
art.tech at The LAB is a festival of art, performance, sound, workshops, demos and lectures focusing on cutting-edge artistic experiments in the intersection of art and technology coinciding with ZER01's 01SJ Biennial.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.nexmap.org
- Contact Form (account required)
Comments