[spectre] OptoSonic Tea NYC- Friday October 26th @ EI

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Friday, October 26 2007
8:30pm

OptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:
- Eric Redlinger (visuals) & Patrick Todd (sound)
- Larry Seven (visuals) & Gen Ken Montgomery (sound)

Invited artist/respondent:
- Tony Conrad

Suggested donation:
$ 7

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013
212 431 5127, 212 431 6430

OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two
different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set
with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed
by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green
tea. A third artist, from  previous generations of visualists or related
fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to
create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different
perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer



About the artists:

Eric Redlinger is a sound designer and interactive media performer. His
musical background includes significant research in both extremes of the
western musical spectrum. A long-time composer and performer of electronic
music, Eric also plays lute and sings in the early music ensemble Asteria,
putting him on a musical map that embraces both the mystical lushness and
elegant complexity of the 14th and 15th century polyphonists as well as the
exacting control over sonority and acoustics made possible by contemporary
synthesis and audio processing techniques. When a research position took him
to the Waag Society (Amsterdam) in 2003, he expanded his scope to include
live visuals working on the Keyworx project, a software platform devoted to
inter-media synthesis and networked-based collaboration.
Eric holds a Master of Science degree from the Integrated Digital Media
Institute (IDMI) at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. His work has
been presented internationally, most recently at last year's Transmediale
festival in Berlin. In addition to IDMI, where Eric currently holds a
research position, he can be found most Sundays in the East Village at 37,
Avenue A, where he helps host the weekly SHARE audio/visual jam sessions.

Patrick Todd explores the outer realms of manufacturing noise production
through a digital interface. He will bring us his raw sound in what will
prove to be an electrifying evening of excessive/compulsive distortions and
feedback. Trained in the visual arts, he is interested in the sculptural,
associative experiential aspect that is only possible through sound and
other time based media.
Patrick Todd is also founder of the "Flow" production along with Jeremy
Slater since 2004 and collaborates with several groups throughout the city.
"Flow" is dedicated to a textural approach to sound as opposed to the
melodic, making this a unique venue for bringing together artists who have
these tendencies. He has also been the composer for several dance projects,
including Sens Productions' "Unseen: Landscape", and Patricia Maldonado's
solo project at PS122. A frequent participant at SHARE, he can be found most
Sundays in the East Village at 37 Avenue A after 8PM.

Lary Seven continues to expand his live-performance repertoire to include
experimental music utilizing custom-built electro-acoustic devices. Recent
live performances include Barbican (London 2000) and Fonotactik (Vienna
2002).
New York-based collaborative Directart Productions Ltd. works in a variety
of disciplines. These include music, film, video, live performance, radio
and visual art. Directart has been the vehicle for numerous creative
projects by its principals, Lary Seven and Fabio Roberti, for more than
twenty years.
Foremost among its many endeavors is Plastikville Studios, Directart's
music-production resource. Plastikville was formed in the early eighties and
is an ongoing interest for musicians from around the world.
Directart has also curated film and 3-D slide screenings both locally and
internationally. In 1991, Directart collaborated with VRcades on "The
Knowledge Bazaar," with their sound and 3-D slide tableaux, at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. And a collaboration with the
internationalist KBZ-200 group included film, slide and live performances in
Berlin ('93), Munich ('94) and Brighton ('94).

Since 1979 Gen Ken Montgomery has been finding novel ways to work and play
with sound, and to deliver it to the public in compelling ways. His work
includes Cassette Culture and Mail Art networking, performing octophonic
sound concerts in total darkness, producing records, creating an audio only
CD-ROM, making audio installations, and giving concerts. One of Montgomery's
specialties is enhancing the sounds of appliances and using them as musical
instruments. His signature machine is the laminator
(www.MinistryofLamination.com), however he has also worked with ice
breakers, aquariums, and refrigerators to name a few others.
Montgomery is one of the original founders of the Pogus Prodctions and
Generations Unlimited record labels and is the founder of Generator, New
York's first sound art gallery. Together with Scott Konzelmann (Chop Shop)
he continues to publish recordings of sound artists through Generator Sound
Art, Inc. (www.generatorsoundart.org)
Currently he spends less time making sounds and more time listening to
sounds while creating mail art, books, video and other non-sound works.

Artist/musician/filmmaker Tony Conrad teaches in the Department of Media
Study of the University at Buffalo. During the 1960s he was a participant in
the founding of minimal music and structural film. Recently his Yellow
Movies (1972-73) have been exhibited at the Greene-Naftali and Daniel
Buchholz galleries. His installation Beholden to Victory (1980-2007) opened
in May at Overduin and Kite in L.A. His films, videos, compositions, and
musical performances are seen internationally. Many of his recordings are
released on the Table of the Elements label.


for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html