2010.09.14 – Corridors, Cleared, Brett Naucke, Duplicates
Corridors, Cleared, Brett Naucke, Duplicates
Enemy
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3
9pm
Byron Westbrook is a New York based artist and assistant to Phil Niblock. His project Corridors is a multi-channel audio performance that uses pre-recorded/pre-processed instrumental and environmental recordings along with home-made speakers and amplifiers strategically placed within a room for dynamic spatial playback. The audio is accompanied by video projections of abstracted fluctuating light sources. A more detailed description of the process and performance setup is here – http://www.byronwestbrook.com/corridors.html
SOUND + VIDEO EXCERPTS: www.myspace.com/corridors
Corridors at Exit Art NYC Oct 11, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocsxR3L5wng
CORRIDORS – Live at Institute of Intermedia, Prague, CZ, 9/8/08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7nXhXJMJk
“To call Byron Westbrook a composer of breathtakingly beautiful ambient pieces and drone works is reasonably accurate but painfully reductive; Westbrook, whose work under the name Corridors has involved acoustic instruments, field recordings, spatialized playback and lighting, is the kind of artist for whom the old, mostly disused term intermedia was coined.” -TimeOut New York
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Cleared is the new Chicago based duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. They have a cassette release coming out on Digitalis and will release their debut album this Fall on Immune.
Cleared was formed in the latter part of 2009 as a project meant to focus on sound selection, repetition and patience as central elements of composition/performance. Hess and Vallera had previously worked in various contexts of improvisational, long form and experimental music. Cleared is an effort to take the knowledge both have gained from these arenas regarding texture and speed, and situate them into cyclical patterns of sound and rhythm. This approach both enforces and escapes notions of traditional song structure.
The sessions that created the material for the initial tracks were made in Steven Hess’s Chicago studio in an extremely straightforward manner of recording. Percussion, electronics, field recordings and other experiments were arranged and supplemented with synthesis and guitar. Frequently, parts of the original audio recordings were sampled, and further manipulated back into the work. The result is a body of songs that are simultaneously familiar and indistinguishable in their instrumentation.
Official websites:
www.stevenrhess.com
www.michaelvallera.com
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Brett Naucke plays synths and has recently returned from touring with Tortoise. http://www.myspace.com/catholictapes
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Duplicates is a new collaboration between Ryan T Dunn and Joseph Kramer that analyzes and dissects the sonic conventions of language, inhabits the meaning held within liminal spaces between subjectivities and presents a general overview of the recording and representation of verbal communication. Funded by grants from the Liscentric College of Art and the Jenny K. Real Jobs for Artists Foundation, Dunn and Kramer are embarking on a worldwide lecture tour in 2011 to promote their new Audio Book, “What Did I just Say!?”
Ryan T Dunn: http://www.liscentric.com
Joseph Kramer is a recovering luddite with a new iPhone.
