LMAKseries presents;

Alex Carpenter, Byron Westbrook and Philip White

Tuesday, May 10th -  7:30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street, Between Delancey and Broome
Suggestion donation of $7.

We are pleased to present the performances by Alex Carpenter, Byron Westbrook and Philip White on Tuesday, May 10, 2011as part of the LMAKseries, which aim’s to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into LMAKprojects’ mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape,

Artist Alex Carpenter presents kinetic forms coaxed from his live video delay system - a new invention which employs chains of cameras and projectors to assist in the creation of living light-cell organisms, while contributing live audio activity in a symbiotic interchange.
 
Philip White’s i/o 4 is a work for no-input mixing board and several homemade control and processing circuits. Part of the larger i/o series, i/o 4 is specifically concerned with perception of time in relation to sound.
 
Lastly, Byron Westbrook will present Corridors, a format for multi-channel audio and video performance which utilizes speakers placed throughout the audience to explore the dynamics of a room.
 
Alex Carpenter is an Australian artist and researcher living in New York City. He has performed extensively as a soloist playing guitar, keyboard and electric zither through a multi-amp and delay network he calls the Live Audio Delay System, and has also independently produced and coordinated a number of large-scale ensemble performance and multi-media events under the moniker Music of Transparent Means.

Music of Transparent Means was Alex’s chief project in Australia from 2002 to 2007, initially providing a platform for his meticulously-tuned wineglass inventions, then later incorporating instruments such as prepared guitars, woodwind, strings, percussion and brass, and featuring as many as 21 performers at a single time.

Alex’s most recent performance activity has centered on his own Live Video Delay System, an extension of the audio system, which employs multiple cameras and extreme color isolation to facilitate a unique looping and layering of live laser drawings. The system was first tested at MELA Foundation in 2009, and continues to be shown on screen and in performance internationally.

Alex has performed alongside artists such as Francisco Lopez (Madrid), Will Guthrie (Melbourne), Kyle Bobby Dunn and Richard Lainhart (NYC), and has produced several CD and DVD releases on his own label,Vanished Records.
  http://transparentmeans.net/
 
Byron Westbrook is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound, images, and objects. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment. His installation-based work explores unique and participatory listening formats utilizing common tecnology.

He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, The Stone, Diapason Gallery, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery, (NYC), Les Voûtes (FR), Wien Konzerthaus (Austria), O’ (Milano), Cave12 (Geneva), NonEvent (Boston), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), Institute of Intermedia (CZ). He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Jandek, Oren Ambarchi, Lawrence English, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Greg Davis, Maria Chavez, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Tetuzi Akiyama, among many others. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre, David Watson and Jonathan Kane. He has worked as technical coordinator of Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 2004. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik at Sclhoss Schrattenberg. In 2010 he was an artist in residence at Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. A CD of CORRIDORS was released in 2010 on Sedimental Records. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is completing MFA studies in sound at Bard College.
 www.byronwestbrook.com   

 Philip White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.

Current projects include thenumber46 (with Suzanne Thorpe), with chuck johnson with philip white and collaborations with Ted Hearne, Taylor Levine and Phil Stearns. Recent performances/exhibitions include Diapason (NYC), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Redux New Media Festival (Charleston, SC), Galerie Neurotitan (Berlin), Princeton University, Bent Festival 2010, NYCEMF 2010, Floating Points Festival 2010 and a featured spot on free103.9.org. He has performed with Toshimaru Nakamura, Gene Coleman, Kenta Nagai, ADACHI Tomomi, MV Carbon, Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs. He has received grants form Meet The Composer and Electronic Music Foundation

Below are some photographic selections from the fifth installment of the 2010-2011 LMAKseries season, which occurred on March 29th, 2011.  The evening hosted audio/visual work by duo Aldredo Marin and Doron Sadja (Alfi and Waldi), a solo performance by Jeremy D. Slater and ended with a distorted violin and lap guitar collaboration between Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett. A special thanks to everyone that made it out for this special night.

(Above: Alfi and Waldi)

(Above: Jeremy D. Slater)

(Above: Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett)

All Images © Bryan Krueger, 2011

LMAKseries PRESENTS:

Blake Carrington
Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe 

Monday, February 14 at 7.30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street, Between Delancey and Broome

Suggestion donation of $7.-

Blake Carrington, Is Space, 6-channel sound piece

Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe 

In LMAKprojects’ aim to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape, LMAKseries is pleased to present the performances by Blake Carrington and Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe on Monday, February 14, 2011.

Blake Carrington created a piece, Is Space particularly for the space. He will place six speakers throughout and under the architecture of the gallery, complicating the spatial experience for long and narrow venue. Smoothed-out loops of field recordings are converted to staccato beats by custom sequencers, resulting in polyrhythms that move around the space, falling in and out of sync with each other. Henri Lefebvre’s quote “people don’t act in space, peoples’ actions define space” influenced the piece conceptually. In a similar fashion, this piece intends to create a negotiation between the physical space of performance and a perceived sonic topography.

Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe present a work-in-development in celebration of Valentine’s Day,Threeway:  for Xenia, a LectureOpera on the subject of composer and percussionist Xenia Kashevaroff, married to John Cage from 1935 to 1945, but also lover of and nude model for photographer Edward Weston, and muse to comparative mythologist, Joseph Campbell.  Fabled for her erotic nature (Cage described her “most delightfully unmoral, pagan”), Kashevaroff casts an interesting light onto the legacy of John Cage and his noted collaboration in life and art with Merce Cunningham, with whom she and Cage shared a threeway sexual encounter that would, in effect, transform the landscape of experimental music.  Playing with strategies its creators call “skinematic,” the piece integrates aleatoric procedures, graphic notation, and an homage to the analog electronic soundtracks of classic softcore pulp sex films, all on equal footing.  


Blake Carrington (b. 1980) operates within the spheres of the sound, visual and media arts.  His work in all of these forms is informed largely by cultural geography, landscape and architecture.  The areas between these formalized spatial practices and the experiential qualities of sound and visual art practice are the main focus of his work. He received a NYSCA grant in support of his debut CD release concert to be held at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on March 3. In the Spring Carrington will be artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space on Governors Island, and currently Carrington is writing a piece for the Princeton Laptop Orchestra.

In addition to his work in sound and video, he also creates hi-res digital prints from custom Max/MSP/Jitter patches.  His print series Loci_, exploring the questionable translation of field recordings to abstract landscape imagery,is in The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program in New York.  Blake was born in Indiana and currently lives and works in Brooklyn

Nick Hallett is a NYC-based composer, vocalist, and cultural producer. His first opera, a collaboration with video artist Shana Moulton, was performed at the Kitchen and the New Museum.  His music has also been performed at Joe’s Pub, ISSUE Project Room,The Kitchen, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Stone. Nick held the first RE:NEW RE:PLAY artist residency at the New Museum in May 2009 and his work was included in the Performa 07 and Performa 09 biennials. After organizing a performance for the Joshua Light Show at the Kitchen in 2007, Hallett became its music curator, and will soon compose original music for the project. With Zach Layton, he co-directs the celebrated Darmstadt new music series at ISSUE Project Room. As a vocalist, he has performed the works of Anthony Braxton, Susie Ibarra, and Meredith Monk, among others. From 2000 to 2003, he led the band Plantains, a new wave-cabaret act incorporating electronic music and video, collaborating with Ray Sweeten and Seth Kirby, a recent retrospective of which was released in 2010 on I, Absentee.

Brock Monroe is a live cinema artist and designer.  In collaboration with the Joshua Light Show and Mighty Robot A/V Squad, Brock has created visuals at Abrons Arts Center, The Kitchen, PS1, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Netmage festival (Bologna), Aurora Picture Show’s Media Archeology festival (Houston), Monkey Town, ISSUE Project Room, and Secret Project Robot. His last collaboration with Nick Hallett occurred in May 2009 at the New Museum as part of the RE:NEW RE:PLAY series.

LMAKseries is curated by Richard Garet and Louky Keijsers Koning in consultation with Berlin-based artist Andy Graydon