Reminder: Diapason: DRAW, Padtech - Nehil

[Diapason Events]

*Diapason* presents:
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*A Mixt Event, featuring
DRAW and Padtech*

Thursday, February 26
8PM

$10 suggested donation


  882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets
BROOKLYN (Sunset Park)
10th floor
info: 718-499-5070
www.diapasongallery.org

N, D or R to 36th Street
Bus: 35, 37, 63, 70

*Google Map<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=882+3rd+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11232,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title>
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  *DRAW*

Sound: *Michael Schumacher*

Visuals: *Nisi Jacobs*

DRAW, founded in 2007, is a multimedia audio-visual collaboration between
Michael J. Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs. DRAW creates multi-channel
multi-projection large-scale works in performances and installations. DRAW's
architectonic sound-image-scapes utilize found and new footage, field
recordings, analog synthesizers, DSP, and A/V processing tools. Coming out
of the 60's tradition of happenings and experiential art, performances
engage audiences with an almost overwhelming physicality. In performance,
DRAW works with live musicians, poets, and singers to create immersive live
sets that saturate performance spaces. When possible, they perform with
multi-channel systems.

Recent performances include evening length programs curated by DRAW at East
Coast Aliens and Monkeytown in Brooklyn, and an Ear to the Earth festival
commission. An interview with DRAW and Charlie Morrow about the festival is
here: *http://drawnyc.com/wbai_cat_radio.html*

*http://www.drawnyc.com*

*Padtech*

Padtech is the electroacoustic duo of David and James Galbraith. Founded in
2005 with D.I.Y. electronics sensibility and drummer’s precision, their
debut performance at The Chocolate Factory was a short trip through spare
and smooth terrain on a custom analog rig. Padtech’s music—veering into
muscular out improv at times—is created with self-built electronics,
analog synthesizer modules, and Drum Workshop drums.

*David Galbraith* is a composer, performer and media artist who explores the
couplings between art, music, technology and the body through his sound
installations, sound performances, video works, and self-developed software.
Galbraith is a 2009 Artist In Residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts
Center. In 2008 Galbraith showed an installation of sound and projected
digital animation at Diapason and was included in the launch of*soundmuseum.fm
*: Museum for Contemporary Sound Art. In 2006 he received a grant from the
Experimental Television Center for lgOpre, his sound/image software which he
enhanced in 2007 at STEIM (Amsterdam). A 2005 NYSCA-supported installation
was shown at Diapason and is included in the forthcoming Diapason DVD
archive. Galbraith’s work has been presented internationally at P.S.1/MoMA,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, KW Institute of Contemporary Art
(Berlin), Tonic, The Stone, Art in General, and Garage Festival, Stralsund,
Germany, among others. Since 2004 he has performed with Analogos, the analog
synthesis collective.
*http://www.soundsokay.com/djg.html*

*James Galbraith* is a drummer/percussionist living in Brooklyn. He has
established himself a go-to drummer on the art-rock scene performing with
Discoteca Flaming Star, Eastern Front Orchestra, Von Galbraith, Iron Lap,
Sounds Okay Super Session, and The Brides of Wiggenstein among others. He
has studied privately with Billy Martin, and in addition to Padtech,
currently plays regularly in a duo with DJ McNany (Run Roc Records),
L’Silhouette of Noise, and in the funk outfit Out of Pockets.


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*Gill Arno, Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, and Leif Sundstrom*

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Friday February 27th

8:30PM

free

Arno, Lafkas, Eubanks, and Sundstrom will perform a site-specific piece
developed in February at the gallery. The performance uses Diapason's unique
12 and 8 channel sound systems, live electronics, percussion, doublebass, 88
keys of the piano (played once each), 2 accumulating loops of material from
the buildings infrastructure captured via contact mics, live and recorded
video from the surroundings, film from somewhere else, and other live and
pre-recorded material distributed through the space. The piece will be
preceded by a 4 track/12 speaker overture beginning around 7pm.

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  *Swarm/Knives*

*by Seth Nehil*


a sound installation


Saturdays, February 7 - 28
2 - 8PM
free


*Swarm/Knives*

"To create a space between events that is charged.  To call, connecting
across space and invigorating an atmosphere.  To confuse space as time for
making a music.  To utilize an erotics of distance.

Flocking is horizontal and occurs at irregular intervals, forming clusters.
Flocking is a form of continuity which links discrete sonic events into
strands.  Tumbling is vertical, a relationship between two or more strands.
Tumble is the perceptual grouping of sequential sounds into causal
relationships.  Tumbling could be heard as a "meta-flocking" across layers
of the music.  These structures arise through accidental correspondence,
emphasized purposefully."

*Seth Nehil* is a multimedia artist living in Portland, OR. He has composed
sound for CD, multi-speaker installations, solo and large-scale concerts,
dance, theater and performance.  An extensive discography includes releases
on international labels.  He has performed throughout the US, in Europe and
Japan.  Seth Nehil is co-editor and designer of FO A RM projects, publishing
materials on arts and research, with a focus on sound art. He currently
teaches Time Arts and Art Theory at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and
Washington State University.

Further information:

http://sethnehil.blogspot.com
http://sethnehil.artdocuments.org <http://sethnehil.artdocuments.org%20/>
http://foarm.artdocuments.org

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