Electricity is Magic
2011
01.10.11
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KATA-STROPH performance at Nuit Blanche
Electricity is Magic teamed up with the inimitable
Campbell Foster at Toronto's
Distillery District on October 1, as a part of the
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Festival. We performed as KATA-STROPH, the Nouveau Futurist Art of Noise Group, transforming a number of the objects in the Distillery into feedback machines, including the marquee sculpture Still Horn.
KATA-STROPH is an interactive noise-art installation and performance featuring custom-built tactile instruments creating an electro-industrial orchestra: the STILL HORN, the FLATBEDONATOR, the SIREN, the ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC SHEET METAL FEEDBACK PHONE, and the TRUCKOPHONE. A Futurist Manifesto Sound of industrial noise and objects with modern electronics, the instruments can be played by the participants and/or the operators throughout the Futurism Today or NOT! event. There will also be the premiere of the new composition performed by members of the Nouveau Futurist Art of Noise group in a special late night concert.
Images coming soon.
1.08.11
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Taylor, Gibbs & Powell take Regina
"Electricity is Magic" is an evening of contemporary music featuring new work from Nigel Taylor, Kory Gibbs and Eric Powell. This concert event explores the relationship between the acoustic and the digital in contemporary music performance.
Presenting several approaches to the link between instruments and electricity - ranging from a simple microphone and amplifier setup to custom-built integrated electronics, this event features contemporary improvisation from Nigel Taylor and Kory Gibbs, and the world's first piece for bassoon and breathalizer by Eric Powell.
Admission is by donation. Show is August 3, 8 pm.
12.07.11
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Subtitles VI: The Last of the Masters
Friday 15 July
Threewalls Gallery
119 N Peoria, #2D
Chicago, IL
Lee Blalock
Eddie Breitweiser
Tommy Heffron
Matt Griffin
“These creatures are among us, although morphologically they do not differ from us; we must not posit a difference of essence, but a difference of behavior. In my science fiction I write about about them constantly. Sometimes they themselves do not know they are androids. Like Rachel Rosen, they can be pretty but somehow lack something; they can be absolutely born of a human womb and even design androids and themselves be without warmth; they then fall within the clinical entity "schizoid," which means lacking proper feeling. I am sure we mean the same thing here, with the emphasis on the word "thing." A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.” - Philip K. Dick
For the final Subtitles performance, Lee Blalock, Eddie Breitweiser, and Tommy Heffron will present utopias, dystopias, universes, multiverses, fiction, science & science fiction through their words, sounds, and movements.
*****
Lee Blalock is a Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and musician who uses her background in science, mathematics and design to inform projects dealing with concepts of self-similarity and future history. She employs sound, electronics, digital art, choreography, and performance as her communicative media. (Leeblalock.com)
"Build" marries Lee's love of science-fiction, sound design, processed field recordings, and disembodied voices in order to suggest an audio model of neurological enhancement through artificial means.
*****
Capitalizing "It"
Or, Everything that is the Upper Case
Performance for speakers.
Edward Breitweiser: performance, text, and programming.
Capitalizing "It": Or, Everything that is the Upper Case is an exercise in world-making.
*****
Plus readings by Tommy Heffron (a time-based artist of intrigue & adventure)
and Livebox’s Matt Griffin
09.05.11
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Check out some performance images and videos from "Dissecting the Mediator", last Friday at
Jennifer Norback Fine Art. There's Daniel Arkfeld playing Max Alexander's "Fast Hearts", Nigel Taylor playing "Things & Stuff and Stuff & Things", and Eric Powell playing "Short Chaser", the world's first piece for bassoon and breathalyzer. More after the jump.
