[Microsound-announce] Tovsky+Garet ar IPR

[Bruce Tovsky]

hi everyone
a reminder: richard garet and i are doing a rare duo performance using the 16 channel speaker matrix designed and choreographed by sound artist stephan moore. this will be our last performance in the old issue project room space, stay tuned for info on the new, improved ipr.

Saturday, June 16 Issue Project Room
bruce tovsky + richard garet + stephan moore
tim hecker 

BRUCE TOVSKY: laptop, induction mics, theremin, kalimba, ukelele, contact mics 

RICHARD GARET: laptop 

TIM HECKER: solo drone, noise and contorted harmonics 

RADIUS: Sound artists Bruce Tovsky and Richard Garet do a rare duo sound performance on the hemispheric speaker installation  in tribute to Issue's final days on the Gowanus canal. 

Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist, who began painting at the age of 7 and started playing with tape recorders at the age of 10. Ever since then he has been figuring out ways of putting sound and pictures together. For the past several years, he has been creating live video and sound improvisations with artists such as John Hudak, David Linton and Kim Cascone at spaces such as Diapason, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room and his own installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. www.skeletonhome.com 

Richard Garet is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. He's interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature's processes, and the observation of the relationships between nature and human  beings. Though Garet's work suits the standard gallery environment, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of  these modes are additional examinations of the ways in which  Garet's work exposes the visitors to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception. 

Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Mille Plateaux, Kranky, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat and Fat Cat. His works have been described as "structured ambient", "tectonic color plates" and "cathedral electronic music". More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft that is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as "foreboding, abstract  pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow  moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole". His Radio Amor was recognized as a key recording of 2003 by Wire magazine. Last  year's "Harmony in Ultraviolet" on Kranky, was in the top 20 of Pitchfork's best of 2006. His work has also included commissions for contemporary dance, sound-art installations and various writings. He is also an acclaimed producer of techno, having toured and produced under the name Jetone. Tim has presented his work in a live setting around the world, including performances at Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), Victoriaville in (Quebec), IDEAL (Nantes), Vancouver New Music Festival (Vancouver) and Transmediale (Berlin). He currently resides in Montreal. 

8:00 p.m.; $10 



Directions

Brooklyn-bound F / G trains to Carroll St.
2.5 blocks from stop (between Bond & Nevins)

15 minutes from 2nd Ave. F stop
10 minutes from Metropolitan Ave. G stop

Brooklyn-bound R train to Union St.
Walk 3 blocks west; left onto Nevins; right onto Carroll