Light Dreams

In collaboration with
Monkey Town

Light Dreams

featuring

Tomomi Adachi
Orin Buck
Frantz Loriot
Ben Miller
Andrea Parkins



Thursday, January 7, 7:30pm

Monkey Town
58 N 3rd St
(between Kent & Wythe, 7 blocks from the Bedford Ave. stop on the L train)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
EMF members $5/ Minimum $10


PROGRAM

Improvisatons................................................................................... Buck, Loriot, Miller, Parkins

Improvisations....................................................................................................Tomomi Adachi

Improvisations.......................................................................................................Adachi, Buck

ABOUT THE ARTISTS


Tomomi Adachi
Tokyo based performer/composer Tomomi Adachi has played improvised music with voice, computer and self-made instruments, and composed works for his group Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus, a punk-style choir. He has performed in Japan, Europe and US, and recorded for Naya and Tzadik labels. As one event in his involvement in the great Japanese sound poetry tradition, he performed the Japanese premiere of Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate.

Orin Buck
Orin Buck is a New York City-based artist working in videography, photography, computer art, painting, drawing and music. His video work is based on algorithmic composition with random numbers, slow motion, time reversal, and layering to present an experience that is sensual and repeatable. New compositions are published on orinbuck.com. Recent shows include Drunken Boat #10, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center and Haven Arts Gallery.


Frantz Loriot
Brooklyn -based French violist/violinist Frantz Loriot performs solo and in various ensembles ranging from rock to new music by way of improvisation and electronics. He contributes to projects with poetry, cinema, theater and dance. He has performed in New York and Europe, and appears on numerous CDs, including 2009's Les érotiques, EPM, and Asozial, Le Pélican Frisé.

Ben Miller
Performing under the name Degeneration, Miller produces a cacophonic, texturous, multiphonic soundscape with a deconstructed electric guitar modified to stereo with multiple pickups. His 40-year career included alto sax player in the art-punk band Destroy All Monsters. Current projects indlucde Third Border (Radial Records) The Push-Pull Quartet (Tigerasylum Records), and The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra (a 15-member ensemble).

Andrea Parkins
Andrea Parkins is a NYC-based composer, sound/installation artist, and electro-instrumentalist. Andrea has collaborated with David Watson, Steven Vitiello and many others, and in 2009 released her latest CD, faulty (broken orbit) on Important Records. Andrea’s work has been presented in NYC at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Diapason and Experimental Intermedia, and internationally at music and sound festivals and venues.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

LIGHT DREAMS

The Light Dreams series by Orin Buck, begun with a series of computer graphic "video paintings" in 1988, uses video to extend 2D art traditions with the added dimensions of time and sound. Pieces are meant to be viewed as paintings which change, either continuously, frame by frame, or at set intervals of seconds. This event brings together many of the pieces for the first time in two channel versions, and will include premiere showings.

The show opens with the Parkins/Miller/Loriot trio improvising to a program drawn from Light Dreams 4 and 5, and other short videos including From Black and The Conception of God.

Next, Tomomi Adachi will present several of his own voice performance pieces with real time signal processing and self-made instruments. After that he will improvise with Buck's video art, programed live in interaction with Adachi's performance. Bucks video will be a mix of new algorithmically generated works using photography, video and computer graphics related to the Light Dreams concept.