[Microsound-announce] seeking concert/screening/workshop bookings in No. America

[derek holzer]

Netherlands-based audiovisual artists Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer are
seeking bookings in North America during the months of March, April and 
May 2006. They offer a combination of performance, workshop and 
screening related to aspects of audio and video synthesis, suitable for 
small venues, festivals or universities:

1) Derek Holzer + Sara Kolster (+ guests): live audiovisual performance
2) Pure Data workshop for sound and image
3) Soundtransit.nl presentation
4) "visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE" screening

Their focus will be the western United States and Canada in March-April, 
and the northeast US/ southeast Canada in May.

PROGRAM OPTIONS

1) Derek Holzer + Sara Kolster (+ guests): live audiovisual performance

Both Holzer and Kolster find inspiration in the history of experimental
cinema and electroacoustic music, as well as in contemporary "live
cinema", improv and microsound practices. Their performance work centers
around the use of photographic transparencies, found objects, field
recordings and sparse instrumentals to create layers of interrelated
sound and image. Improvisations with local sound or video artists are 
welcome!

2) Pure Data workshop for sound and image

Pure Data is a free and open source software similar to Max/MSP which
can be used on Linux, OSX and Windows to process data, sound and image
in real time. This workshop covers the basic syntax of the program as
well as its use in live performance. Depending on the venue, it can last
1-4 days and accomodate up to 12 persons.

3) Soundtransit.nl presentation

SoundTransit.nl is an online, collaborative soundscape project by Sara
Kolster, Marc Boon and Derek Holzer dedicated to field recording and
phonography. On this site, you can BOOK a sonic transit through a wide
range of different locations recorded from around the world, or you can
SEARCH the database for specific sounds by keyword, artist, country or
location. A presentation of this project can include an introduction to
field recording and phonography, a discussion on the importance of open
licenses such as Creative Commons, or a technical discussion of the
structure of the website.

4) "visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE" screening

This lecture and screening, made up of "historic" and contemporary works
from the collection of Montevideo/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
(Amsterdam), investigates the interrelation of what has often considered
to be two seperate disciplines: sound and image.

Works shown will include:

1) Steina & Woody Vasulka: Violin Power [US][1978]
2) Steina & Woody Vasulka: BAD [US][1979]
3) Servaas: 4 Poems [NL][1981]
4) Matthew Schlanger: Lizard Hearts [US][1986]
5) Nicolas Provost: Papillon d'Amour [BE][2003]
6) Jan van Nuenen: SET_4 [NL][2003]
7) Bas van Koolwijk: five [NL][2002]
8) Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster: resonanCITY [NL] [2005]

About the artists:

Sara Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design.
Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film;
capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories
of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based
media (video, film, photography) to appropriated research methods
belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism,
documentary & archeology).

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio and
streaming media technologies. His work has focused on capturing and
transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban
locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in
improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Linux and
Pure-Data.

Their work ‘resonanCITY’ has been performed live in Holland, Brasil,
ex-Yugoslavia, the Baltic States and at the Transmediale 05 festival in
Berlin. ‘resonanCITY’ also took the Second Prize at the 11th
International WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2005. 
Their collaborative website Soundtransit.nl currently shares almost 600 
sounds, contributed by 150 different artists from around the world.

Links:

http://umatic.nl
http://soundtransit.nl
http://www.sarako.net/
http://www.nexsound.org/ns22.html

Please write for more details:

derek at umatic.nl



-- 
derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
---Oblique Strategy # 68:
"Faced with a choice, do both"