 Elise Baldwin We are pleased to announce that VOLUME has received a grant from Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant program to fund Electronic Cinema, a series of experimental electronic sound performances co-curated with artist Kadet Kuhne.
Electronic Cinema will commission San Francisco Bay Area artists: Elise Baldwin, Lissom (Tana Sprague) and Kadet Kuhne to perform a live sound score for an existing experimental film or video.
The long-standing practice of early Dadaist and Modernist film-making to contemporary practices of experimental film and video has been paralleled by an avant-garde and cutting-edge approach to music composition. The role of technology in developing these divergent art forms has been vital and inseparable from the aesthetic impact and meaning of the works. However integral sound has become to our interpretation of picture, there is still such a wide gap not only between the understanding of the impact sound has on image, but also between sound and visual artists in the performance-based arts arena and visual art world.
Electronic Cinema seeks to merge these two arts communities by pairing Bay Area film and video makers with Bay Area electronic sound and music composers, with an emphasis on experimentation in approach, tools and concept. As with experimental film, electronic musicians approach their medium with unconventional structures, pushing against conventional boundaries or definitions. This departure incorporates and celebrates unexpected ingredients and impressions, breaking open new forms not-yet-categorizable.
The electronic sound and music genre is often misconstrued as simply consisting of techno or dance music by artists unfamiliar with its complexity, and similarly, experimental films and video are often seen as eye candy or backdrop visuals, without conceptual direction or art historical reference. By encouraging collaborations across the film and video making and electronic composing disciplines, new relationships and possibilities for expanding the experimental art community as a whole will be realized. Adding to this artistic discovery is the exciting opportunity for these two communities who already co-exist to gain a deeper understanding of one another, and through public performance, gather in one space that will provide a rhizomatic blossoming of potential connections and future collaborations.
Electronic Cinema will initially be presented in San Francisco in the summer and fall, 2010. Performance schedule and venues will be announced shortly.
Support for Electronic Cinema is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
 Kadet Kuhne  Tana Sprague
 photo by TJ Norris VOLUME and Overlap are very happy to announce a rare live recording from the event series LISTEN/VISION, co-produced by VOLUME and Overlap. Three sound artists from the German record label Raster-Noton; Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender, reach through pop culture and science in this funky, minimal electronic set. This digital LP features a very unique performance from Signal, a collaboration between all three Raster-Noton artists. This is deep-listening techno for your body.
Buy it at the new Overlap shop !
LISTEN/VISION showcases new work by artists traversing the territory between art and music through multidisciplinary art forms including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, video mixes, and animation.
Thanks to artist and curator TJ Norris for photo documenting the event.
 Taylor Deupree & Christopher Willits Overlap and Volume present
LISTEN/VISION 06
Sunday 10 May 2009 at Cafe Du Nord, Doors 7pm
Join Overlap and VOLUME for the sixth installment of this ongoing series. LISTEN/VISION showcases new work by artists traversing the territory between art and music through multidisciplinary art forms including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, video mixes, and animation.
LISTEN/VISION 06 features performances by:
Christopher Willits (Overlap/12k/Ghostly) – SF local experimentalist / genre flexitarian will perform solo + an exclusive collaboration with the strings and horns or Classical Revolution (!).
Taylor Deupree (12k) – The man behind 12k who is always doing much more with much less. Visiting from NY, his first SF show in many years.
Classical Revolution – An amazing group of players actively bringing chamber music out of the chamber.
$10, 21+
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm.
Cafe Du Nord and
The Swedish American Hall
2170 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 861-5016
 Steve Roden VOLUME is pleased to announce that Scores will open May 7 at Lawrimore Project in Seattle.
The relationship between musical scores and conceptual art is well documented: from early Stockhausen scores and John Cage’s seminal work, to the conceptual art strategies of Sol LeWitt and Yoko Ono, artists have found the idea of the score as a useful tool to further artistic practices. Historically, visual artists have used the notion of the score to transmit a set of instructions for completing an artwork (LeWitt) or in other cases the score itself is the final piece (Ono).
For this exhibition, we have asked 14 artists to participate in this tradition by creating a new visual work that will also serve as a musical score for another artist or musician to interpret and perform.
The artists in Scores include Nayland Blake, Julie Davidow, Lecia Dole-Recio, Fallen Fruit, Steven Hull, Tomo Isoyama, Monique Jenkinson, Nina Katchadourian, Keep Adding, Simon Leung, Lucky Dragons, Eamon Ore-Giron, Steve Roden, David Schafer, and Laetitia Sonami.
The Scores exhibition is part 1 of a 2-part project. More information on the entire project will be forthcoming.
 Monique Jenkinson  Tomo Isoyama  Fallen Fruit  Julie Davidow  Keep Adding
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