Please note, this event will be held at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM!
Sunday, March 8th
4 pm
Live sets by:
- Richard Lainhart
(live visuals and live music)
- Domenico Sciajno (Italy)
(live visuals and live music) with Gene Coleman (live sound)
Invited moderator / respondent:
- Zach Layton
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Suggested donation: $ 7
Issue
Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd floor (3rd Avenue)
Brooklyn NY 11215
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about the artists:
Richard Lainhart
is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker. He studied composition
and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New
York at Albany, and has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor,
Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many
others. He's also played vibes in a swing band; composed music for film,
television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web; engineered
audio for recordings and live sound; and served as technical director
at Intelligent Music, a pioneering music software company.
His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany,
Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic
Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, ExOvo and Airglow Music labels and are
distributed online via MusicZeit. As an active performer, Lainhart has
appeared in public approximately 2000 times. He has composed over 100
electronic and acoustic works, and has been making music for 40 years.
In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to contribute
a work to New York Soundscape (www.arts-electric.org/stories/080511_nycsoundscape.html).
Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown in festivals in
the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue,
The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won
awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema
and Technology in Toronto. In 2008, he was awarded a Film & Media grant
by the New York State Council on the Arts for "No Other Time", full-length
intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining
live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition
computer-animated film projection.
You can find examples of his music and digital artworks at his website,
www.otownmedia.com.
Some of his short films are available at www.vimeo.com/rlainhart.
Domenico Sciajno
is born in Torino (Italy) in 1965, based in Palermo since 1999, double
bass player and composer, studied 'Instrumental and Electronic Composition'
with Gilius Van Bergeijk and Double bass in the 'Royal Conservatory' of
Den Haag in Holland. His interest for improvisation and the influence
of academic education bring his research to the creative possibilities
given by the interaction between acoustic instruments, indeterminacy factors
and their live processing by electronic devices or computers. From 1992
he has been presented in some of the most important festivals as musician,
improviser or composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene
and some of his work is documented by worldwide independent labels of
experimental and electronic music. The wide spectrum of his experiences
bring him very close to the concept of performance, where he uses texts
and electronics in combination with a choreografic use of the scene space
and the projection of visuals made by himself. He also makes Interactive
Sound Installations for art galleries and exhibitions. Activist in the
developement of experimental arts, in 1995 he founded the association
Antitesi, from 1995 and 1998 organized concerts and little festivals (Antitesi
in musica '95/'96, Folk it out! '97, i(n)terazioni '98, Inaudito! '99),
in 1997 he collaborated to give birth to the Fringes record label, in
2003 started toghether with other musicians the label Bowindo and founded
the national collective iXem (italian eXperimental electronic music).
In the edition 2004 of Prix Ars Electronica his work OUR UR in collaboration
with Alvin Curran has been prized with an honorary mention.
www.sciajno.net
www.myspace.com/sciajno
Gene Coleman
is a composer, musician and director. He has created over 50 works for
various instrumentation and media, often using complex notations and improvisation
in the same score. Innovative use of sound, image, space and time allows
Coleman to create work that expands our understanding of the world. Since
2001 his work has focused on the global transformation of culture and
music's relationship with other media, such as architecture, video and
dance. He studied painting, music and film making at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, where his principle teachers included legendary
experimental film artists Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr, as well as Robert
Snyder (sonic arts) and Barbara Rossi (painting). Since 2000 he has been
the artistic director of Soundfield, a producing and presenting organization
with operations in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, New York and
internationally. His ongoing projects feature musicians from many parts
of the globe.
More info at: www.soundfield.org
Zach Layton
is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in Brooklyn
with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental culture
and architecture. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies
created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves,
minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns.
Zach's work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and he
has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, Roulette, Joe's Pub, exit
art, Art forum Berlin, New York Electronic Art Festival, Yerba bBena Center
for the Arts, Eyebeam, Sculpture Center, Diapason, Issue Project Room,
Millenium Film Workshop, Bushwick Arts Project, St. Mark's Ontological
Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Miguel Abreu Gallery,
Participant Gallery, Monkeytown and many other venues in New York, South
America and Europe. He has collaborated with Luke Dubois, Vito Acconci,
Joshua White, Jonas Mekas, Bradley Eros, Andy Graydon, Nick Hallett, Matthew
Ostrowski, Michael Evans, MV Carbon, Seth Kirby, Matthew Welch, Christine
Bard, Alex Waterman, Patrick Hambrect, Marissa Olsen, Angie Eng, Adam
Kendall, Chika Ijima, Tristan Perich and Ray Sweeten among many other
artists, filmmakers, curators and musicians.
Zach is also founder of Brooklyn's monthly experimental music series,
"darmstadt: classics of the avant garde" co-curated with Nick Hallett
featuring leading local and international composers and improvisers, co-curator
of the PS1 summer warmup music series and is one of the directors of Issue
Project Room. Zach has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation,
Turbulence and the Jerome Foundation and is a graduate of the Oberlin
Conservatory and the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
www.zachlaytonindustries.com
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