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Scores May 7 - June 13, 2009 Lawrimore Project 831 Airport Way S., Seattle, WA 98134 www.lawrimoreproject.com 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. |
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LISTEN/VISION 06 Sunday 10 May 2009 Cafe Du Nord and The Swedish American Hall 2170 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 861-5016 $10, 21+ Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm. 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. |
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Resonant Forms Friday, April 3-Sunday, April 5, 2009 Los Angeles Contemporary Exihbitins 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 www.welcometolace.org LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and VOLUME will present the Resonant Forms festival from April 3rd through 5th. The festival will present unique performances and installations by pioneers in the emergent fields of experimental electronic music, live cinema, and sound art. While artists have been working at the crossroads of visual and sound arts for decades, recently this work has experienced a resurgence as technological developments have allowed greater fluidity across artistic media and genres. The artists featured in this festival represent varied approaches to the interplay of artistic mediums, and take risks not frequently observed in traditional creative modalities. Resonant Forms will premiere Sheepwoman, a new live cinema performance piece by SUE-C. and Laetitia Sonami, commissioned by LACE. The festival will also feature performances by William Basinski, Richard Chartier, Christopher Willits, Kadet Kuhne, Lucky Dragons, Yann Novak, and Celer, installations by David Kwan, Mark Trayle, and ArtSpa, hosted by Adam Overton. Each of these artists traverses the territory between visual art, music, and sound through varied disciplines including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, and animation. Currently, these artists, their work, and this nascent genre are not being promoted through visual or performing arts organizations in the United States. A goal of the festival is to also cultivate a deeper understanding and appreciation of this work through panel discussions and workshops, where dialogue between composer and audience is encouraged. Resonant Forms participates in the same cultural conversation as Mutek festival (Montreal), Transmediale (Berlin), and Ars Electronica (Linz).
Festival schedule and performers subject to change
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Restless Brilliance September 24th, 2008 The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024 7:00pm FREE VOLUME and the Hammer Museum presented Restless Brilliance, an evening exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presented artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art. This installment of our ongoing series with the Hammer Musuem presents a live performance by Shuttle358, and a screeningof Colorfield Variations organized by artists Richard Chartier. Shuttle358 Also known as the critically acclaimed artist Shuttle 358 on the NY based label 12k and Fenton on the Japanese imprint Plop, Dan Abrams is among a new wave of artists bringing the aesthetic sensibilities of digital technologies to bear upon the styles of environmental space music first explored by the likes of Brian Eno, David Parsons, Michael Stearns, and Robert Rich. Abrams created quite a stir in the US minimal electronic scene with his debut release Optimal.lp in 1999 in which he seamlessly blended the soft sounds of ambient music with the granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism. This release defined his style and gave birth to many imitators, with comparisons to the work of Eno and Global Communication proving as often, and appropriate, as those to Oval or Ryoji Ikeda. Colorfield Variations The Colorfield Variations program, organized by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier, is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists including: Frank Bretschneider, Alan Callander, Chris Carter + Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey/Throbbing Gristle), Sue Costabile, Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand, Mark Fell (SND/Blir) + Ernest Edmonds, Tina Frank + General Magic, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Stephan Mathieu, Steve Roden, and Bas Van Koolwijk. Colorfield Variation includes new works especially created for this program. Colorfield Variations in its original form was commissioned for Washington Project for the Arts and premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, on April 25, 2007. Links: Shuttle358 Colorfield Variations The Hammer Museum |
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Listen / Vision 04 June 9, 2008 Monkeytown Brooklyn, NY Volume Projects and Overlap.org present LISTEN/VISION 04, June 9th at Monkteytown. LISTEN/VISION 04 is the first NYC presentation of the LISTEN/VISION series. LISTEN/VISION 04 showcases new work by such international artists as Greg Davis, Sawako, Frank Bretschneider, David Kwan, and Nate Boyce. Each of these artists traverses 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. The fourht installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 02 presented new work by Greg Davis, David Kwan, Sawako, Frank Bretschneider,and Nate Boyce. Links: Monkeytown Overlap.org Greg Davis Sawako David Kwan Frank Bretschneider Nate Boyce |
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Listen / Vision 03 May 14, 2008 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presented 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 performed 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. Signal: Robotron (mp3) Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai): Unitxt Olaf Bender: D.O.A.T. (Death of a Typographer) (mp3) Frank Bretschneider: Rhythm 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. Olaf Bender Germany-based Olaf Bender is one of three founders of the Raster-Noton imprint. Beside the management of Raster-Noton, Olaf Bender is responsible for the graphic design and public appearance of the label and its products. 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. 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. This program was generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco. Links: Overlap.org Raster-Noton Goethe Institut San Francisco |
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Listen / Vision 02 March 21, 2008 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA The second installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 02 presented new work by Gregg Kowalsky, David Kwan, i8u and CHiKA, and Sawako. Links: Overlap.org Gregg Kowalsky David Kwan i8u CHiKA Sawako |
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Listen / Vision 01 February 21, 2008 SF Camerawork San Francisco, CA The first installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 01 presented new work by Richard Chartier, Frank Bretschneider, Carl Stone, and Nate Boyce. Links: SF Camerawork Overlap.org Richard Chartier Frank Bretschenider Carl Stone Nate Boyce |
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Restless Brillance The Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA Volume and the Hammer Museum co-presented Restless Brilliance, two evenings exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance,Restless Brilliance presented artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art. October 23, 2007 William Basinski Sawako Steve Roden Screening: The Sound of Microclimates by Semiconductor November 7, 2007 Taylor Deupree Christopher Willits I8U & Chika Screening: RHYTHM EXP by Frank Bretschneider The evenings' program also featured a surprise collaborative set by Taylor Deupree and Christopher Willits. |
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Carsten Nicolai Lecture September 24, 2007 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA Volume presented a lecture with internationally acclaimed artist and musician Carsten Nicolai at the San Francisco Art Institute. 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. After his participation in Documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennal, Nicolai's works were shown in two comprehensive solo exhibitions at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, and at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany in 2005. Nicolai has 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, Mika Vainio, and Thomas Knak; most recently he collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on the critically acclaimed project Insen. Nicolai, along with partners Frank Bretschenider and Olaf Bender, is also a founding member of the German experimental electronic music imprint Raster-Noton. |