Tetsu Inoue

presents three Multi Channel Sound Sculptures:

Fragment Dots version 02 (additional sounds by Michael J. Schumacher)

Fragment drone

music for times square

Tetsu Inoue has created two new works for Diapason's two multi channel sound environments and a third for a new experiment: sound outside the gallery space! For the first time, we'll be entertaining the passersby on Sixth Avenue with the sounds of new music via speakers inconspicuously placed on our second floor windowsills. Inoue considers the two indoor pieces separate components of a larger installation. In the back room is the 8 channel Fragment Dot, version 2. In the front room is the 10 channel Fragment Drone. The pieces use similar pitch material and contain a good deal of silence. They interact spatially, echoing each other, conflicting with each other, reinforcing each other. This approach has broadened the listener's sense of space at the gallery, distance is expressed through sound.

Ursula Scherrer

Untitled

a video installation in three parts

Ursula Scherrer has contributed three video pieces to this installation. In her words: "In this video I captured a still scene with a fast moving camera. The relatively short segments are then layered on top of each other. There are up to seven layers visible at a time. The layers have masks to show only small parts of the image, the original footage is at times rotated, expanded, distorted - the layers are staggered."

about the artists:

Japanese born computer music and ambient composer Tetsu Inoue has been recording music for more than 10 years, articulating the expressive capacity of electronics through both analog and digital means. To date he has released over 40 albums, either solo or in collaboration with artists such as Atom Heart, Bill Laswell, Haruomi Hosono (YMO), Carl Stone, Pete Namlook, Jonah Sharp, and many others. For the past 6 years Tetsu's work has drawn upon the compositional possibilities opened up by desktop digital signal processing technologies; works such as Psychoacoustic and Fragment Dots (Tzadik) Waterloo Terminal (Caipirinha) and Dsp Holiday (Otodisc), Active/Freeze (12k) Object and Organic Code (IEA) Field tracker with Andrew Deutsch (Anomalousrecords). pict.soul (cycling 74) harming bard version 02 (lucky kichen) with Stephen Vitiello, Audio (Fax) etc. These recent releases largely abandon the broad, immersive environments of his earlier works in favor of a sculptural or even architectonic approach to sound marked by density and fracture glitch over continuity and transparency. He currently runs his own label Otodisc.

Ursula Scherrer was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and has been living in New York City since 1988. She studied dance at the Theatertanzschule St. Gallen, Switzerland, before moving to New York City. She danced with several choreographers, as well as choreographing her own work. She started to photograph in 1993 and has shown her work in the U.S., Switzerland and Mexico. She won a Prize in the International Photography Contest of Austin, Texas.Created in 1996 in New York City together with Michael J. Schumacher Studio Five Beekman, a gallery specializing in sound and multi-media installations. In 1997, she began working with video. Her work has been shown at various venues, BAC 36th International Film and Video Festival, Dissonanze Festival, Rome/Italy, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn/USA, Strange Attractors II, 2nd International Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art, St. Paul/USA, 9e Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais Geneve/Switzerland, Media Test Wall, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge/USA, Engine 27, New York City/USA, GAIe Gates etal., Brooklyn/USA, Red Room, Baltimore/USA, Experimental Intermedia Gent, Gent/Belgium, among others.

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