[Microsound-announce] a few shows strewn about...

[Bruce Tovsky]

a few tidbits strewn around the place...

feb 24 2007 8pm Members FREE; Students, Children (11 & under) $5; Adults $8

Space Re-Mixed 3.1

tovsky + takeda at the Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady Museum.
15 Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308 518-382-7893

bruce tovsky (sound) and shimpei takeda (video) join forces at a lovely, intimate planetarium in upstate NY. we are both looking forward to performing in this unusual venue, our first time working as a duo.

Space Re-Mixed events are immersive presentations of real-time audio and visual performances in the Suits-Bueche Planetarium. At Space Re-Mixed 3.1, experience the work of electronic media sound and visual artists Linda Aubry Bullock & Mike Bullock, along with Bruce Tovsky playing improvised music to Shimpei Takeda's video work, all in the Suits-Bueche Planetarium.

Directions From Thruway:

NYS Thruway to Exit 25. Follow I-890 west to Exit 5 - Broadway and bear to the right. Go to the first traffic light on Broadway and take a right on to Millard Street. Continue on Millard Street through 3 intersections, which takes you across Albany Street and State Street. After you cross State Street, Millard Street will become Nott Terrace. Take the second right on Nott Terrace to Nott Terrace Heights. Go to the top of the hill. The Museum is on your right.


Directions From Northway:

Take the Northway to Exit 6 and take Route 7 west towards Schenectady. Follow Route 7 about 6 miles to Union Street. Take Union Street to Nott Terrace and turn left. Turn left on Nott Terrace Heights. Go to the top of the hill. The Museum is on your right.


Directions From Route 146:

Directions from Clifton Park, Mechanicville (Route 146) - Stay on 146 over the Rexford Bridge to Balltown Road.  Stay on Balltown Road to the intersection of Union Street (Route 7).  Take a right onto Union Street.  Take Union Street to Union College area and turn left on Nott Terrace.  Go through first intersection (Eastern Avenue) and take your first left after that (Nott Terrace Heights).  Go to the top of the hill.  The Museum is on your right.


Directions From Amsterdam:

Take Route 5 through the Village of Scotia. Cross the Scotia Bridge and stay on State Street in Schenectady. Continue on State Street bearing right where the road forks. Turn left at the first intersection and continue straight across to Nott Terrace. Turn right on Nott Terrace Heights. Go to the top of the hill. The Museum is on your right.



mar 16 2007 8:30pm $10

the theremin society at Issue Project Room

performers TBA (check issueprojectroom.org for details) - bruce will be performing with his "video theremin" in the spirit of synaesthesia month at Issue.



and for you midwesterners....

i am part of a phonography-related show at a gallery in chicago next month:

GeoPhonoBox
Sonic Surveys of Place
March 2 - March 28, 2007

Opening Reception March 2 from 7-11pm

Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 1/2 W. North Ave, Chicago IL


CHICAGO - Around the Coyote is pleased to present GeoPhonoBox an exhibit curated by Chicago based visual and sonic artist Zoe Asta and Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rob Danielson. This exhibition will feature sound recordings about "place" created by sound artists, nature recordists, ethnographers, composers, pedestrians, geographers and other practitioners from around the world. Each submission in the show is to represent one geographic place within the realm of a cardboard shipping box.

This is the first sound art exhibition at the Around the Coyote Gallery, and one of the few contemporary sound art exhibitions held in Chicago. The importance of the use of noise or sound in modern and contemporary art can be traced back at least to the 1913 publication of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo; however, as opposed to the early sound artists who were rightly preoccupied with the political, social and art historical implications of noise as an artistic medium, contemporary sound artists can take an understanding of noise as medium for granted. The debate over musicalized or non-musicalized noise is no longer automatically relevant. GeoPhonoBox: Sonic Surveys of Place shows how sound, once we get beyond the conceptual debate over the medium, can be used like any visual medium to describe and evoke. 

Each artist was sent a cardboard shipping box in which they could include visual cues, if they desired, along with their sound project. Each box is displayed in the gallery as it was returned to us from the artists, the box serving as a document of the distance the sound piece traveled as well as the container for the visual and auditory elements of the piece.


Exhibited Artists include: Tamara Albaitis (San Francisco), Jorge Bachmann and Jessica Resmond (San Francisco), Lori Beckstead (Ontario, Canada), Bryce Beverlin II (North Oaks, Minnesota), Scott Bowering (Vancouver, Canada), Emily Conrad (Brooklyn, New York), Sebastian Craig (London), MR Daniel (Princeton, New Jersey), Rob Danielson (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), John Davis (San Francisco), Martin Desloovere (Mariakerke, Belgium), Heribert Friedl (Vienna, Austria), Peter Goin (Reno, Nevada), Mike Hallenbeck (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Noah Jurcin (Evanston, Illinois), Jason Kahn (Zurich, Switzerland), Meri von KleinSmid (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Robert Major (Harlan, Kentucky), Danielle Martin (Chicago, Illinois), Robert Millis (Seattle, Washington), David Moré (Chicago, Illinois), Lance Olsen (Victoria, Canada), Heather Perkins (Portland, Oregon), David Rose (Ontario, Canada), Matthew Sansom (London), Justyna Scheuring (London), Scott Sherk (Orefield, Pennsylvania), Toby Sinkinson (Boulder, Colorado), Annette Sowell (Hollywood, California), Bruce Tovsky (Brooklyn, New York). 

For questions or images contact:
Allison Stites, Executive Director 
t: 773-342-6777
e: allison at aroundthecoyote.org