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OptoSonic Tea
OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.
OptoSonic Tea
on the Road
When we go on the road or
accept invitations from elsewhere than our home base, our credo is to
both be part of the program ourselves as well as to involve local artists.
Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer
Contacts:
Katherine Liberovskaya: liberovskaya@compuserve.com
Ursula Scherrer: uscherrer@verizon.net
OptoSonic Tea is
partly funded by the Experimental Television Center.
The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is funded
by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Upcoming events
2009
April
27th, 8pm
Sawako and Anton Marini/Mary Ann Benedetto w/ Aerostatic
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Past events
2009
March
8th, 4pm
Domenico Sciajno, Richard Lainhart and Zach Layton
February
16th, 8pm
Joshue Ott/Exekiel Honig and Peter Shapiro/Glass Bees
January
12th, 9pm
Alexandra Dementieva/Michael Attias, Aki Onda/Alan Licht and Amanda McDonald
Crowley
2008
December
4th, 8 pm
André Goncalves and Richard Garet
May
30 th, 9 pm
at Experimental Intermedia
Pamela Z , Daniel Vatsky/Chris Jordan/Jon Cohrs and
Miya Masaoka
April
15 th, 8:30 pm
at Experimental Intermedia
Caspar Stracke/Hahn Rowe, Naval Cassidy/Michael Evans and Carol Parkinson
March
10th, 8:30 pm
at Experimental Intermedia
Leah Singer / Lee Ranaldo, Kjell Bjørgeengen / Okkyung Lee
and Kathleen Forde
2007
December
9, 4pm
at Issue Project Room
Zarah Cabanas (live visuals) + Paul Amitai (live sound), Chika IIjima
(live visuals) + bubblyfish (live sound), Marie-Helene Parant (live visuals)
+ Jim Bell (live sound) (Montreal, Canada), David Linton (live visuals
+ sound), Katherine Liberovskaya/Peter Shapiro (live visuals) + Hitoshi
Kojo (live sound) (Japan/CH), Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) + Kato Hideki
(live sound)
November 20, 7pm
Die
Schachtel
Milan / Italy
Phill Niblock (visuals) / Stefano Pilia (sound)
Alessandra Zucchi (visuals) / Antonio Della Marina (sound)
moderator: Andrea Lissoni
November 16, 7pm
spacio
O'
Milan / Italy
Domenico Sciajno (live visuals
and music)
Ursula Scherrer & Katherine Liberovskaya (live visuals) with Phill
Niblock (music)
moderator: Francesco Tenaglia
October
26, 8:30 pm
at Experimental Intermedia
Lary Seven / Gen Ken Montgomery, Eric Redlinger / Patrick Todd and Tony
Conrad
August 28, 9pm
Letne Dielne 07
Bratislava / Slovakia
with
Katherine Liberovskaya / Ursula Scherrer (live video) & Anne Wellmer
(music)
August 25, 8pm
Hotel
Pupik
Schrattenberg / Austria
with
Katherine Liberovskaya / Ursula Scherrer (live video) & Anne Wellmer
(music)
also on the bill: - Paul Amitai - Subshrubs (Angelic‡ Castell—, Katharina Klement, Maja Osojnik) - The Ghost and the Band (Manfred Hofer, Oliver Stotz mit Eva Jantschitsch) - Martin Siewert - Performance: Carla Bobadilla
August 22, 9pm
Kunstraum
Walcheturm
Zürich / Switzerland
with
Ursula Scherrer (live video) &
Monya Pletsch (music)
Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) & Jason Kahn (music)
Phill Niblock (film and music)
June 6
OptoSonic Tonic
at Experimental Intermedia
Pill Niblock, Text of Light,
Katherine Liberovskaya / Ursula Scherrer with Marina Rosenfeld
May
18
Kurt Hentschlager, Shimpei Takeda
& Bruce Tovsky and Carl Skelton
April
19
Andy Guhl, Kurt Ralske and
Michael J. Schumacher
March
27
Janene Higgins / Mari Kimura, Jennifer Reeves / Anthony Burr and Toni
Dove
February
13
Bradley Eros / o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), Andrew Lampert / Alan Licht and
Lary Seven
January
11
Angie Eng / Yumiko Tanaka / David Weinstein, Andrew Deutsch / Stephen
Vitiello and Melanie Crean
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2006
December
7
LoVid, Bill Etra / James Herring and Anton Marini
November
2
Gisela / David Gamper, Ikue Mori / Jim Staley and Alan Licht
September
26
Gill Arno, Luke DuBois and Gerd Stern
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