[jitter] [OT] any Live A/V to see in NYC this week?

I just got this in my Inbox:

Harvestworks and Roulette present: "HARVESTWORKS INSIDE," March 27, 28 & 29

THURSDAY MARCH 27:  Living Cinema: Bob Ostertag & Pierre Hébert / mem1 Duo
FRIDAY MARCH 28: Messages: Tres Warren & Taketo Shimada (with light show 
by Jeff Perkins) / Rebecca Cherry
SATURDAY MARCH 29: gReid and Ruen / Robert Madler

All concerts begin at 8:30PM

ROULETTE
20 Greene Street (btwn Canal & Grand), New York City
Admission: $15 / Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10
Reservations/Tickets: 212-219-8242
Roulette members / Location One members: free

Harvestworks is pleased to present the Spring 2008 performance series 
"Harvestworks Inside," with three exceptional programs featuring 
Harvestworks affiliated artists past and present. Showcasing the 
diversity of works produced in our production studios and through our 
Artist In Residence programs, "Harvestworks Inside" offers an 
outstanding sampling of the rich creative activity that has 
characterized Harvestworks' Digital Media Arts programs since 1977.

THURSDAY MARCH 27:

"Living Cinema" is the creation of Quebecois filmmaker Pierre Hébert and 
San Francisco composer Bob Ostertag. This innovative project brings the 
creation of cinema out of the movie and recording studios and on to the 
stage. Ostertag has created custom software that allows the two artists 
to actually perform an animated movie with soundtrack, live on stage. 
They will perform their newest work Special Forces, which premiered last 
May in Beirut and San Francisco. Like their earlier works, it 
incorporates events from the world news; in this case, it begins with 
the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

Sonodendron is a fully immersive work that explores the sonic potentials 
of cello and electronics on both the microscopic and macroscopic scale. 
With a 5.1 Surround Sound score by Mem1 (Laura Thomas-Merino, cello & M. 
Cera, electronics) and video by media artist Liora Belford, Sonodendron 
is a visceral tour through the bowels and ephemera of the cello.

FRIDAY MARCH 28:

Messages is a collaboration between Tres Warren of Psychic Ills and 
visual artist Taketo Shimada. Their sound falls somewhere between drone, 
raga, techno and psychedelia - mashing guitar, homemade tanpura, voice, 
percussion, turntables and everything else they can get their hands on. 
About their first EP from The Social Registry, Dusted magazine 
proclaimed: "This is some heavy, humid drone, pregnant with 4am 
electricity and, in the end, thick fuzzy beats. A beautiful surprise, 
engaging even in its abstract tendencies."

Messages' apprearance at Roulette will be a continutation of their 
recent live sets, the 'Brain Damage On Broadway' show at the Emily 
Harvey Foundation and their appearance at the 'Evas Arche Und Der 
Feminist' party at Gavin Brown's Passerby. Expect an evening of 
hypnosis, experimentaion and improvised psychedelia.

Jeff Perkins (Single Wing Turquoise Bird, who provided light shows to 
Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead and Dr. John to name a few) provides 
his minimal psychedelic light show with four slide projectors and 
motorized fly wheels.

Violinist and composer Rebecca Cherry will present a new multi-media 
Surround-Sound installation exploring the relationship between sound and 
imagery. Juxtaposing original sound samples of stringed instruments 
employing extended techniques with video footage from popular music 
videos, the work seeks to generate new and unexpected connections 
between seemingly unrelated materials. Audience members will have the 
opportunity to interact with the installation through a computer 
interface provided by the artist.

SATURDAY MARCH 29:

A collaboration between guitarist Vernon Reid and multi-instrumentalist 
Leon Gruenbaum, gReid and Ruen is a kaleidoscopic conglomeration of 
field hollers, space sounds and general mayhem. Exploring instrumental 
groove-based futuristic improvisations, tonight is a rare opportunity to 
hear these virtuoso musicians in their most experimental mode. Yuko 
Sueta will be providing visuals via video projection.

Performing under his IDM/electronica moniker Plasticity, New York-based 
composer Robert Madler will perform a set of electronic works that 
explore experimental beats, static drones, loops, polyrhythms and noise. 
A 2006 Harvestworks Artist In Residence, Madler's music has been 
featured at many universities in the US, including the SEAMUS festival, 
as well as in Canada, Mexicao, Spain and France.


BIOGRAPHIES:

Bob Ostertag is a composer, performer, historian, instrument builder, 
journalist, activist and kayak instructor. He has performed at music, 
film, and multi-media festivals around the globe and his collaborators 
include the Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Anthony Braxton, 
Lynn Breedlove, and Justin Bond. He is currently Professor of 
Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis.

Pierre Hébert, born in 1944 in Montreal, is a self-taugt filmmaker 
strongly influenced by animation film makers Norman McLaren and Len Lye. 
He worked for The National Film Board of Canada from 1965 until the end 
of 1999 and has since pursued a career as an independent artist and 
filmmaker. Since 1983, he has taken part in live performances with 
musicians such as Jean Derome, Robert M. Lepage and René Lussier, Fred 
Frith and Bob Ostertag.

Mem1 is an electroacoustic duo that seamlessly blends the sounds of 
cello (Laura Thomas-Merino) and electronics (M. Cera) to create a subtle 
evolution of textures that moves beyond melody, lyricism, and 
traditional structural confines, resulting in an organically revealed 
narrative.

Laura Thomas-Merino is a professional cellist originally from Los 
Angeles, currently residing in Providence, RI.  An active orchestral and 
chamber musician, she has performed in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, 
and Italy with such artists as Pamela Z, the Robin Cox Ensemble, the 
group OXO as part of the Sonic Boom Festival in Vancouver, with the 
Providence String Quartet.

M. Cera is a media artist who is interested in exploring audio/visual 
control systems that are intuitive as well as experimental in nature. He 
is a member of the experimental media art group Redux, and the 
electroacoustic duo Mem1 alongside cellist Laura Thomas-Merino.

Liora Belford is a Tel-Aviv based video artist and a filmmaker. Her 
works have been featured at numerous worldwide festivals and art 
exhibitions including Art Film Festival (Slovakia), Tel-Aviv Museum of 
Art (Israel), Vancouver Film Festival (Canada), Washington Jewish Film 
Festival (USA), and many others.

Taketo Shimada is a visual artist and musician from Tokyo. He has lived 
and worked in NYC since the mid 80s. Taketo paints everyday and makes 
the most of instruments and sound systems for his music. He has worked 
with a variety of figures such as Henry Flynt, Alison Knowles and 
Rammellzee to name a few.

Tres Warren is an artist and musician living and working in New York 
City.  He's involved in various music collaborations including Messages 
and has performed as part of Damo Suzuki's Network, in addition to 
recording and touring internationally with his band Psychic Ills.

Jeff Perkins is a visual artist and filmmaker. While serving in the U.S. 
Air Force stationed in Tokyo, he met Yoko Ono and her husband Anthony 
Cox. Through them he was exposed to the works of Cage, Duchamp, LaMonte 
Young and others and began participating in events, performances and 
concerts. He a co-founder of 'Single Wing Turquoise Bird', a multimedia 
group doing light shows for Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead and Dr. 
John to name a few. Jeff currently exhibits at the Emily Harvey Gallery 
and is now finishing up his new film 'The Painter Sam Francis'.

Violinist Rebecca Cherry is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and 
has performed in the Baltimore, Annapolis and Vancouver Symphony 
Orchestras, the London and Bergen Philharmonic, and with pop music 
performers including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, and more.

Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the hard rock/heavy 
metal band Living Colour, guitarist Vernon Reid was named #66 on Rolling 
Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Reid first came to 
prominence in the 1980s in the band of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. 
While he is perhaps best known for his work with Living Colour, Reid has 
had an active solo career that includes collaborations with Bill T. 
Jones, Salif Keita and James "Blood" Ulmer; performances with the Roots, 
Mick Jagger, Rollins Band, Spearhead, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, and 
Tracey Chapman; and various original scores for film and television.

Leon Gruenbaum has been a vital force in the New York music scene for 
the last 20 years. After early classical training on piano and 
woodwinds, Mr. Gruenbaum developed an interest in jazz, funk and 
avant-garde music. Mr. Gruenbaum conceived of the world's first 
relativistic music keyboard, a patented MIDI controller called the 
Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee. He has recorded and performed 
internationally with this instrument with guitarist Vernon Reid, and 
demonstrated it last year at the academic conference "NIME" (New 
Interfaces for Musical Expression).

Yuko Sueta is an interactive video artist who presents landscapes to 
live music. She creates sensual textures and stories into visuals by 
using chaotic mixtures of manipulated 16mm films and digital images.  
Her work has been performed live with rock, experimental, electro 
musicians  such as Ifwhen, Apollo Heights, Costanza, Kayo Dot and played 
all around U.S, Europe and Japan.

Robert Madler is a composer and performer who has focused on 
experimental media since 1998, specializing in electroacoustic 
composition (both stereo diffusion and octophonic), compositions 
utilizing multiple video projections, and programming in Max/MSP and 
Reaktor.

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Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides
resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental
work created with digital technologies.  Our programs are made possible
with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National
Endowmentfor the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials
for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust,
the Aaron Copland Fund, mediaThe foundation, the Foundation for Con-
temporary Art, the Jerome Foundation, the Argosy Foundation and the
New York State Music Fund.
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HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-431-1130
http://www.harvestworks.org
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