[Microsound-announce] LISTEN/VISION 02 in San Francisco

[i8u]

If you're going to be in the SF Bay Area this friday, we'd love to 
see you there...


<http://Overlap.org>Overlap.org and VOLUME present

LISTEN/VISION 02
Friday, March 21st, 2008, 7-9pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St.
San Francisco, CA 94133


CHiKA video still

LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It 
is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and 
space. VOLUME and <http://Overlap.org>Overlap.org have partnered to 
commission new and unreleased sound and video works from an 
international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. These exclusive 
pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD, are presented in 
a collective listening environment. LISTEN/VISION will also host 
occasional live performances and multichannel sound installations.

For more information, visit 
<http://www.volumeprojects.org/>volumeprojects.org and 
o<http://overlap.org/tag/event/>verlap.or<http://overlap.org/tag/event/>g.




The second installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 02 will present 
ew work by Gregg Kowalsky, David Kwan , i8u and CHiKA, and Sawako.

Gregg Kowalsky
Rosebud for Red Magus, 2006 (18:17 min)
Kowalsky's compositions range from drone and noise pieces to the 
psychedelic, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of 
South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is 
interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, 
live mixes. He has composed for film, dance, acoustic ensembles and 
sound installations. Gregg's debut full-length album, Through The 
Cardial Window was released on the Kranky label in Spring 2006. Gregg 
Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a Master 
of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College.
<http://ossobucco.net/>http://ossobucco.net

David Kwan
Solaris, 2006 (10:07 min)
Sound-generated video projections; dimensions and running time 
variable; video projection with sound. David Kwan composes 
soundscapes using live radio signals and feeds them into a customized 
video imaging system to reveal visual patterning and to 
electromagnetically alter their dimensions. The end result is an 
electronic form of painting that is constructed from sound but 
manifested as light.

Kwan has presented work at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film 
Archive, Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Television Access, The 
Lab, and Mission 17 in San Francisco; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in 
Seattle; Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; and Baracke am 
Deustchen Theater in Berlin. He received a BA in Art Practice from UC 
Berkeley and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, where he 
has been teaching in music, art and intermedia.
<http://www.meridiangallery.org/davidkwan2003.htm>http://www.meridiangallery.org/davidkwan2003.htm

i8u and CHiKA
Infinity02, 2008 (30:38 min)
Unlimited or unmeasurable in extent of space, duration of time: the 
infinite nature of the fabric of space. CHiKA uses minimal objects in 
two-dimensional space to create a video work invoking the feeling of 
the unlimited possibilities, approaching the unmeasureable nature of 
the infinite. I8u's soundscapes inspired by the concept of string 
theory mirror our limited understanding and imagination of these 
strings as they slip in and out of the dimensions we are aware of. 
The audio and visual moves from a closed world with perspective as 
its corresponding symbolic form.

France Jobin aka i8u is a sound/installation/web artist residing in 
Montreal, Canada. i8u's audio art can be qualified as 
"sound-sculpture." It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound 
environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art 
can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and 
visual elements.
<http://www.i8u.com/>http://www.i8u.com

Chika Iijima is a live computer visuals artist working within New 
York's expanded cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement 
geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, 
repetitive combinations. Chika has performed at the Museum of Modern 
Art (New York), The Mapping Festival (Geneva), the Bushwick Art 
Project (Brooklyn, NY), and the clubs Galapagos and Tonic, both in New York.
<http://www.imagima.com/>http://www.imagima.com

Sawako
Untitled, 2006 (15:18 min)
Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value 
of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, 
Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through 
the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field 
recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space 
vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world 
has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig.
<http://www.12k.com/sawako.html>http://www.troncolon.com

LISTEN/VISION 02 is $5 for the general public and free for S.F.A.I. 
students and faculty


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