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BIOFEEDBACK:
Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!
A Benefit for Steve
Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble
Featuring Tony Conrad
+ HangedUp, Dj Olive + Toshio Kajiwara + Markus Miller + Dj North Guinea
Hills, Tyondai Braxton, Services, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam and
special appearance by Barbara Bush (aka Martha
Wilson)
Thursday, October 21, 8pm, $12
(two floors of music)
Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street
(between Rivington and Delancy)
www.tonicnyc.com
Contact: Dion Workman (dionATtinynumbers.com),
Brooke Singer (brookeATbsing.net)
The Benefit:
"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an
energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are
creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and the
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for
Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To
date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but projected
costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court
will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in
December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who
may find themselves in a similar unfortunate position of political
scrutiny.
For more information
about the case, visit www.caedefensefund.org. And for
information about CAE’s projects, visit www.critical-art.net.
Artists
Performing at the BIOFEEDBACK Benefit:
Tony
Conrad
Known as a pioneer in the field of minimalist music and
“underground” cinema, Tony Conrad has worked in music composition, video,
film, and performance. During the last ten years Conrad has focused on
music, performing recent works in new music venues, museums, and clubs in
the US and internationally. He has composed more than a dozen works,
primarily for solo amplified violin with amplified strings, using special
tunings and scales – a practice that began with his early associations
with LaMonte Young and the “Dream Syndicate” in the early 1960s.He has
taught video production and analysis in the Department of Media Study of
the State University of New York at Buffalo since
1976.
HangedUp
The duo HangedUp, comprised of
drummer Eric Craven and violist Genevive Heistek, mixes punk, improv and
European folk influences to form blistering instrumental music.Craven is
an incredibly inventive and kinetic drummer, beating out rhythms in the
spirit of Dog Faced Hermans and The Ex. Heistek rigs up her viola with
looping pedals and bi-amplification to create swirling layers of chugging
rhythms and dense drones. Hangedup have released two albums on
Constellation and have toured extensively, making a recent appearance at
the K-RAA-K festival with Tony Conrad, where they were proclaimed by many
to be the festival highlight.
Dj Olive
In the
1990's Dj Olive was an active member of the infamous Williamsburg scene
producing ambient events throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 1999, he
co-founded Phonomena Audio Arts & Multiples with Toshio Kajiwara, a
record label and a weekly event that has continued to be a thriving
platform for local DJ's and beatmakers to perform downtempo abstract
electronic music with many international guests. After many years of
collaboration with a diverse roster of musicians, Olive released his debut
solo CD, "Bodega" in 2003.
Dj North Guinea
Hills
Aaron Halley, aka Dj North Guinea Hills, started djing
in Florida while in various noise/improv combos before emerging in the New
York music scene through Dj Olive and Toshio Kajiwara's weekly
event, Phonomena. His groups run the gamut from primitive dadaist hiphop
to realizations of works by Bernard Parmegiani and Steve Reich to free
psyche folk. He most recently performed in the New Sound New York
Festival as part of Share's "anyware" at The
Kitchen.
Tyondai Braxton
For nearly a decade,
Tyondai Braxton has been actively performing, composing and developing his
own artistic vision. His inimitable solo music consists of building
“orchestrated loops” with voice, guitar and found objects in real time and
manipulating them with guitar pedals. In addition to his solo ventures,
Braxton is currently performing in the explosive avant-rock band Battles
(formed by Ian Williams) and has worked with numerous musicians/composers,
including Alan Sparhawk from Low, Glenn Branca and Wadada Leo
Smith.
Dub Trio
By incorporating elements of
electronic, rock, and jazz, Dub Trio – the joint effort of DP Holmes
(guitar/ keyboards), Stu Brooks (bass/ keyboards), and Joe Tomino (drums/
melodica) -- are simultaneously revolutionizing and paying homage to King
Tubby’s original style dub. And like any great band, they make it sound so
easy, using the simplicity of dub to explore a complex and unique musical
fabric. Dub Trio's debut CD “Exploring the Dangers of” has just been
released in the US by ROIR.
Services
Services
is an electronic rock duo from Brooklyn who wield samplers, drum machines
and one cymbal like machine guns and box cutters. Master of ceremonies
Trztan, spews acid and leads the way with his rhythmic announcements and a
crashing cymbal while!!!!!!! the backbone X-topher crushes your
brains with authentic heavy metal samples and the BIG beat. Not too hi fi
not too lo fi just enough to keep the threat of danger
alive.
New Humans
New Humans' minimalist
impulse is coupled with deconstructive tendencies that create raw and
improbable compositions of disparate tones, noise and color. Their
performances are characterized by graphic elements that nod to minimalist
sculpture and Op-Art, as well as an unpredictable style that brought them
much attention at the 2004 Armory show. New Humans are Bella Foster
(Guitar), Mika Tajima (Bass), Howie Chen (Guitar/Keyboard) and Danny
Barria (Drums/Guitar). Their CD, Color Séance, is available at Printed
Matter.
Talibam
Talibam’s raucous output
comes from synthesizer manipulations by Matt Mottel, bari sax trench work
mechanics by Ed Bear, and further confused drumming by Kevin Shea (Storm
and Stress). Talibam amalgamates, remixes and chews out sonic influences
of groups like early Cecil Taylor Trio,MEV and the Arkestra. Guitarist
Matthu Stull from Pittsburgh joins Talibam for this performance.
Martha Wilson
Performance artist Martha Wilson
is Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., a museum she
established in her TriBeCa storefront loft in lower Manhattan which, since
its inception in 1976, has presented and preserved temporal art: artists’
books and other multiples produced internationally after 1960; temporary
installations; and performance art. As an artist, she has performed in the
guises of Alexander Haig, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Tipper
Gore. Ms. Wilson lectures widely on the book as an art form, on
performance art, and on “live art on the Internet.” |
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