October 7, 14, 21 & 28
6 pm - midnight
Bruce Tovsky
Underpass
installations and performances
Installations: 6
pm - midnight
Performances by different musicians each week: 8:30 pm
$ 5 suggested (for performances)
Performance lineup (subject to change):
October 7: Ben Owen,
Zach Layton, Michael Schumacher, sawako
October 14: Andy Graydon, John Hudak, Kato Hideki
October 21: Richard Garet, Bryan Eubanks
October 28: o.blaat, Gill Arno, Matthew Ostrowski
UNDERPASS was inspired by many walks around and underneath the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, the Prospect Expressway and beneath many of the elevated subway tracks around Brooklyn. I found some amazing resonant spaces on these walks, and began recording them with my binaural recording rig. Over a period of three years I did several several sets of recordings in these locations, and extensive video recording as well. As I began assembling the piece I thought about the lengthy gestation of the piece and of ways I could allude to this and deconstruct the image over a period of time. Various timelapse techniques were experimented with, as well as various contexts - I have been working with video in diptych and triptych form for a few years and it was a natural progression to structure the piece in this form. The idea of three sections, with a gradual accretion of image and sound, came near the very end; and the pairing of each section with a mirroring sound performance seemed to be required. UNDERPASS was first presented at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, in October of 2005, with guest sound artists John Hudak on resonator guitar and laptop, and Brooks Williams on laptop. A workshop version of the UNDERPASS installation was presented in November of 2005 at my space 106BLDG30 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist based in in Brooklyn, New York. After earning his MFA degree in Multimedia from Rutgers University in 1979, he became part of the nascent lower east side art scene, scoring performance, dance works and films and showing his video works across the USA, Europe and Japan. He worked as an audio producer/engineer, (Liquid Liquid, Y Pants, Karen Finley, Foetus,) composer of dance scores (Cydney Wilkes, Muna Tseng, Charles Dennis) and as a video editor/designer for commercials and music videos. For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations, often in collaboration with artists such as John Hudak, Kim Cascone, David Linton and others in a variety of spaces around New York City, including Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Diapason, Tonic and his own gallery/installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. His recent video/sound piece ETHER premiered at 106BLDG30 in the Navy Yard in June 2005, and has been playing in international festivals from S‹o Paulo to Seoul to Paris. The audio from ETHER was recently featured in "Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher," a BBC4 radio documentary on shortwave numbers stations. In the winter of 2005/6 he performed a series of improvisations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, collaborating with Kim Cascone, Matt Davignon, Dominic Cramp and David Kendall.
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