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field
effects 12: strung up, thrown out
friday,
june 20, doors 8pm
964 natoma, sf, ca, usa
requested donation $6-10
The
world makes music, remember to listen.
Field Effects 12 offers a night of found-sound sound art.
The twelfth in a series of concerts showcasing the use of found sound,
found materials, and field recordings in media art, Field Effects 12 offers
a night of found sound in a comfortable environment. Tonight we focus
on sound found performatively, rather than field recordings proper...
Field
Effects 12 features Bay Area sound artists:
cheryl
leonard and players
'Instruments
in Trees is a semi-composed, semi-improvised work for arboreal
materials and strings. Sticks, twigs, leaves, needles, pinecones, bark,
and lichen will be cultivated as sound sources in a performance
that investigates cycles and processes inherent to trees. These materials
are used raw, to prepare the strings, and in the creation/assemblage of
new instruments such as the Long Twig, Driftwood
Pipe Organ, Pine Cone Rustlers, Eucalyptus Curtains, and Autumn
Bonsais. Throughout the work there is special emphasis on exploring
very quiet phenomena and the subtle intricacies of sounds not usually
considered musical.'
Performers will be Tim Blue (tree materials & violin), A.L. Dentel
(tree materials & cello), Cheryl E. Leonard (tree materials &
viola), Patty Liu (tree materials, violin & cello).
Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer, and improviser of music
and interdisciplinary works. Raw materials for her work can come from
just about anywhere: glass shards and pinecones, glaciers, boxspring
mattresses, circular saw blades, viola, the erhu, hyenas, whales and
elk. From these diverse sources emerge works that embrace the spectrum
of musical possibilities: improvised to composed, acoustic to electronic,
diaphanous to bombastic, notes to noise.
Leonard holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.A. from Mills
College, both in music composition. She has performed and presented
work in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and throughout the
United States. Leonard is the recipient of an ASCAP Foundation Grant
to Young Composers, residencies at Villa Montalvo and Engine 27, a Meet
the Composer Grant, and has been honored in New Langton Art's Bay Area
Awards Show. Her instrument/sculpture The Underwater
Flying Machine was shown at Lincoln Center's Day
of Homemade Instruments. She has recordings available from Great
Hoary Marmot Records, 23five Incorporated, and Apraxia Records.
http://www.allwaysnorth.com/IIT.html
targodie
Targodie
is an experimental sound project begun in 1995 by San
Francisco sound artist Scot Jenerik and sculptor Larnie Fox. Their soundscapes
range from atmospheric bliss to penetrating noise. Targodie has one release,
Against
the Sky, on Mobilization.
In its current configuration Targodie uses elements from Fox's recent
installation at the LAB, War
Toys, as instruments. Fox sends signals from these devices to Jenerik,
who interprets, manipulates and moves these sounds through the space.
Larnie Fox is known for painting, large-scale kinetic bamboo sculpture,
sound sculpture, and performance. He is a founder of 23five Incorporated,
a non-profit organization that promotes sound art. He is a founding
member of two Utah-based Fluxus-influenced groups. He was commissioned
to create and burn a 20' bamboo-and-muslin windmill at Burning Man 1997,
and there he made and flew a 23' bamboo-and-muslin kite (1996) and airplane
(1998). His work has been shown at the San Francisco Art Institute,
SOMAR, Pond, Second Space Gallery, and at one-person shows at The LAB,
the Richmond Art Center and the Randall Museum. He has performed at
CELL, Komotion, Noisegate, Splunge, The Werepad, The LAB and Anti-Matter
Gallery, and has shown and performed on a guerrilla basis regularly.
Scot Jenerik is a conceptual artist who primarily works with sound,
fire, performance and instrument building. Jenerik has performed
and lectured extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan,
and has produced multiple internationally distributed audio and
video works. Jenerik is a co-founder of 23five Incorporated and
currently serves as the organization's Executive Director. Jenerik
is also a Director and curator of The Lab art space, San Francisco.
He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
http://www.infoflow.com/larnie/sound.html
http://www.23five.org/jenerik/sound_targodie.html
http://www.23five.org/jenerik/
http://www.infoflow.com/larnie
jon
brumit
Of
his work, Jon writes: ''The New Bobby Sextet: ambient, explosive, meditative.
95% recycled and 5% thrift store or donated. Brought to you by Jon Brumit,
a recent artist-in-residence
at the San Francisco Dump. Turntables, clock radios, time-lapse VCRs,
a found guitar, a marquee sign used as a metronome... Fun times, not
necessarily easy listening.'
http://www.auburnplacer.com/air_brumit.htm
http://www.examiner.com/ex_files/default.jsp?story=X1107FOUNDART
The
Field Effects series showcases artists who are interested in framing the
hidden beauty of the everyday world: beauty on the surface, awaiting our
attention. Beauty that must be delicately extracted. And beauty in potential,
awaiting juxtaposition, collage, repetition and mutilation.
Seating
mostly on futons to encourage comfortable deep listening and viewing.
As I think we've bid farewell to our wonderful loaner beanbags (thanks
again, Blasthaus!),
you may want to bring a pillow...
Depending
on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available on a donation-based honor
system. With luck, someone will bake cookies.
This
information is not for print distribution or advertising. This is a private
event for friends, family, and our community.
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