8 PM

Two Installations

3% Vision

Video installation by Dave Gearey with sound by Daniel Goode

Tall Grasses

A sound and image projection of tall grasses blowing in the wind by John Hudak

"grass that one kind of grass when you walk on the soft land what kind can it be grass blown in the wind tall grass green grass that one kind of grass"

9 PM

Three Performances

featuring

John Hudak/Bruce Tovsky, electronics and video projection controlled by Theremin

Ian Nagoski/Daniel Conrad, electronics and chromaccord

Thomas C. Moore

about the artists:

Daniel Conrad's Chromaccord Light Organ is a unique light performance instrument. In the early 70s, after seeing Joseph Albers' theoretical work on the effects of juxtaposed color on human perception, Conrad designed the Chromaccord to add the dimension of time to Albers' work, creating retina-tingling sequences of afterimages (analogous in many ways to the adaptation of Helmholtz's sound-wave theories by the early soundfield artists). Conrad has written about the Chromaccord in Leonardo: Lournal of Art and Science.

More information on Conrad is available at: http://www.citypaper.com/2001-07-04/music.html

Dave Gearey makes moving images. He is described as a "Poet with a Camera" whose work explores the rich territory between photographic naturalism and pure abstraction. His work has been presented, in various media, since 1972, at times, in callaboration with other artists.

Daniel Goode, composer and clarinetist, is co-director/founder of the DownTown Ensemble in New York City and a composer-performer with Gamelan Son of Lion since its beginning in the mid 1970's. A CD of his evening-length solo clarinet piece, Clarinet Songs is available on the XI label of Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Recordings, scores and writings are available from Frog Music (http://www.frogpeak.org), Lebanon, New Hampshire. His music has been with visual artists, choreographers and dramatists, over the years with electro-acoustic pieces and composed scores and structured improvisation. His most recent release are Tunnel-Funnel and Fiddle Studies (on Tzadik).

John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of four when he began to play a variety of instruments. At the University of Delaware (BA, English 1981) and Naropa Institute for the Arts (1979), he studied video, photography, creative writing and dance. He then began to create taped soundtracks for his solo performance art pieces. In recent years, he has concentrated on sound, particularly natural sounds. HudakÕs current sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded, deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the basis for aural manipulations. http://www.johnhudak.net

Thomas C. Moore of Philadelphia is an artist and creator of subtle fields of sound. Using liminal frequencies from the near-inaudible ends of the audial spectrum, his work addresses issues of perception and anticipation to effect new physical and psychological experiences in the listener. Spare and slowly developing in nature, the work's intent is to encourage periods of solitude and introspection. Though he works with sound as his sole medium, he is very careful not to discuss it in a musical context. Instead, this non-visual aesthetic, completely devoid of an object or visual points of reference is intended to engage the mind and body in ways he feels traditional methods of art making such as painting and sculpture cannot.

Ian Nagoski "really rips with some higher-mind electronics, brutal and unsophisticated on one hand, beautiful and truly elevating on the other. Listening to this is like examining fractal images throuh a microscope - you'll lose your sense of self." - Bruce Russell. http://www.redroom.org/individuals/nagoski/

Conrad and Nagoski's performances together were described by Nick Barna: "The small sensory engine rolling within you, building, overlapping humming reverberation, eyes fixed so constant that you begin to see the variability of the staring, open opticals in similar retinal reverberation, washing over floods into the sensory sea."

Composer/video designer Bruce Tovsky has been a part of the downtown art/music for over 20 years. His video work has been shown extensively across the U.S., Europe and Japan. As a composer, he has done scores for films, videos, theater and performance. He is particularly known for his dance scores for such choreographers as Charles Dennis, Muna Tseng, Cydney Wilkes and Mary Seidman. His new cd transmissions is available on his own label, skeleton.

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