c&s
c&s
a color and sound installation by Michael Graeve
plus
a program of related sound performances by
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
Nathan Butler
TVPow.
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c&s
COLOR AND SOUND INSTALLATION:
Opening: Friday, March 31, 2006 7-10pm
Exhibition: April 6-21, 2006
Hours: Thursday/Friday 3-7 or by Appointment
RELATED SOUND PERFORMANCES:
Friday April 14:
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
Friday April 21:
Michael Graeve
Nathan Butler
TVPow
Doors Open 8:30pm, Sound 9pm, $5 Donation.
Enemy
3rd Floor, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave,
Chicago IL 60622, USA
enemy@cranksatori.net
http://cranksatori.net/enemy
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COLOR AND SOUND INSTALLATION
MICHAEL GRAEVE
c&s
c&s is a site-specific color and sound installation, comprising a series of wall paintings and multi-channel sound diffusion created for Enemy, Chicago. This work continues Michael Graeve's twelve-year investigation into the possibilities created by combining painting and sound practices.
Painting and sound histories have of course profoundly influenced each other over the last century, and while sound is frequently considered the most abstract of the arts, discussions concerning non-figuration are now firmly married to the history of painting. Painting's foremost dimension is spatial and sound's foremost dimension is temporal. When they overlap in installation space, or in concept, there is a proliferation of both relations and un-relations, a proliferation of both correspondences and incoherencies. It is such falling-together and falling-apart that drives his investigation.
This exhibition and performance series introduces Chicago audiences to Michael's practice, and includes other recent works, including 'Inside/Outside' (pictured on the invitation card), a work previously exhibited at Gigantic Art Space, New York, in June 2005.
MICHAEL GRAEVE recently moved to Chicago from Melbourne, Australia. He works across painting and sound disciplines through installation, performance and composition. In 2005 he was Australia Council for the Arts resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. He was awarded a Samstag International Travelling Scholarship and enrolled in the MFA program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous degrees from RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) include a BFA (Painting, 1995) and a Research Masters (MA) in Media Arts (2004). He has exhibited, performed and published widely since 1995 and his work was the topic of an article by Branden W. Joseph in the March 2005 Artforum International. He was a founding member of Grey Area Art Space Inc (1996-1999) and Program Manager at West Space Inc (2001-2004). He is represented by Conny Dietzschold Gallery in Sydney/Cologne.
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SOUND PERFORMANCES
Friday April 14:
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
MICHAEL GRAEVE
"I assist domestic record players and loudspeaker systems in picking themselves up. Rich textures and rhythms fall together and fall apart, evidencing simple interactions between machine process and human gesture. After 14 years I am still surprised by the complex possibilities generated from the following simple variables at my disposal: Speaker placement (controlling feedback and spatialisation in the room), record player and platter surfaces, needle quality, power, volume, balance, bass, treble, loudness, and the platter speeds of 16, 33, 45, 78. In working with this instrumentation I am fond of the palpably causal, nearly deadpan relationship that can exist between gesture and outcome, movement and amplification. Compositions and performances play with the forces of simplicity and complexity, density and openness, movement and juxtaposition, boredom and development, repetition, percussion, duration, scale, the awkward, the coherent, the falling apart and the falling together."
DAN ST. CLAIR
makes artwork that playfully reconsiders our daily listening habits. His public projects include a muzak map of the Chicago Loop, a unique set of bicycle horns, and The Cure for That Song Stuck in Your Head. In 2004 he archived a set of original piano preparations used by John Cage and David Tudor. Exhibition venues include The Chocolate Factory, New York, NY, Wired Magazine NEXTfest, Chicago, IL, and Mess Hall, Chicago, IL. As a pianist, he has performed with Anthony Braxton, Matt Bauder, Mary Halvorson, and Jamey Abersold. He has studied with Nic Collins, Mary Jane Jacob, Ron Kuivila, and Anne Wilson.
ADAM SONDERBERG and KATHERINE YOUNG
adam sonderberg (haptic, dropp ensemble) and katherine young (architeuthis walks on land, the william young) embarked on their work together as part of the chicago-based trio civil war (w/ amy cimini). their mutual interest in graphic notation and computer-based sound assemblages has led the duo to create pieces focused on shifting perspectives on a single sound source. to date, music boxes, bassoon, viola, and beethoven’s 9th symphony have all been employed. the results are rigorous but engrossing. the first volume of sonderberg and young’s collaborative work will be published in spring 2006 by the l’innomable label.
more info: www.longboxrecordings.com / www.tillbyturning.com/katherine
Friday April 21:
Michael Graeve
Nathan Butler
TVPow
In NATHAN BUTLER's
performance a sequence of performative acts, physical and verbal, will be initiated and pursued to an illogical conclusion. The space will be interrupted and expanded by feedback and audio-visual sampling of the performance. These captures will be returned to the environment and mixed with previously recorded environments via a multi-channel array of speakers and a video projection. The space created is an awkward balance between performance and that of the technician presenting representations of present and previous vocabularies of material within similar time frames.
Nathan Butler is currently working toward an MFA in the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute Chicago. He was born in Nashville and has lived in Santa Barbara and Prague and now lives in Chicago. His roots as an artist began in photography. Over the last 3 years Nathan’s work has taken the form of phonography and performance.
TVPOW
Todd Carter :: acoustic and electronic instruments
Brent Gutzeit :: acoustic and electronic instruments
Michael Hartman :: acoustic and electronic instruments
*TV Pow* is a trio of composers and free improvisers first organized in Tokyo 1995 by Michael Hartman and Brent Gutzeit, and later joined by Todd Carter in the move to Chicago in 1996. They employ samplers, percussion, invented instruments, synthesizers, turntables, tape manipulation, computers and multi-speaker surround-sound systems in a constantly evolving soundscape of sparkling electronics, ambient drones, minimalist techno, and cinematic field recordings. Creating through live performance something both new and recombinant, TV Pow has toured throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States.*
*still we are banned from Canada.
http://www.tvpow.net
a color and sound installation by Michael Graeve
plus
a program of related sound performances by
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
Nathan Butler
TVPow.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
c&s
COLOR AND SOUND INSTALLATION:
Opening: Friday, March 31, 2006 7-10pm
Exhibition: April 6-21, 2006
Hours: Thursday/Friday 3-7 or by Appointment
RELATED SOUND PERFORMANCES:
Friday April 14:
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
Friday April 21:
Michael Graeve
Nathan Butler
TVPow
Doors Open 8:30pm, Sound 9pm, $5 Donation.
Enemy
3rd Floor, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave,
Chicago IL 60622, USA
enemy@cranksatori.net
http://cranksatori.net/enemy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COLOR AND SOUND INSTALLATION
MICHAEL GRAEVE
c&s
c&s is a site-specific color and sound installation, comprising a series of wall paintings and multi-channel sound diffusion created for Enemy, Chicago. This work continues Michael Graeve's twelve-year investigation into the possibilities created by combining painting and sound practices.
Painting and sound histories have of course profoundly influenced each other over the last century, and while sound is frequently considered the most abstract of the arts, discussions concerning non-figuration are now firmly married to the history of painting. Painting's foremost dimension is spatial and sound's foremost dimension is temporal. When they overlap in installation space, or in concept, there is a proliferation of both relations and un-relations, a proliferation of both correspondences and incoherencies. It is such falling-together and falling-apart that drives his investigation.
This exhibition and performance series introduces Chicago audiences to Michael's practice, and includes other recent works, including 'Inside/Outside' (pictured on the invitation card), a work previously exhibited at Gigantic Art Space, New York, in June 2005.
MICHAEL GRAEVE recently moved to Chicago from Melbourne, Australia. He works across painting and sound disciplines through installation, performance and composition. In 2005 he was Australia Council for the Arts resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. He was awarded a Samstag International Travelling Scholarship and enrolled in the MFA program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous degrees from RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) include a BFA (Painting, 1995) and a Research Masters (MA) in Media Arts (2004). He has exhibited, performed and published widely since 1995 and his work was the topic of an article by Branden W. Joseph in the March 2005 Artforum International. He was a founding member of Grey Area Art Space Inc (1996-1999) and Program Manager at West Space Inc (2001-2004). He is represented by Conny Dietzschold Gallery in Sydney/Cologne.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SOUND PERFORMANCES
Friday April 14:
Michael Graeve
Dan St. Clair
Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young
MICHAEL GRAEVE
"I assist domestic record players and loudspeaker systems in picking themselves up. Rich textures and rhythms fall together and fall apart, evidencing simple interactions between machine process and human gesture. After 14 years I am still surprised by the complex possibilities generated from the following simple variables at my disposal: Speaker placement (controlling feedback and spatialisation in the room), record player and platter surfaces, needle quality, power, volume, balance, bass, treble, loudness, and the platter speeds of 16, 33, 45, 78. In working with this instrumentation I am fond of the palpably causal, nearly deadpan relationship that can exist between gesture and outcome, movement and amplification. Compositions and performances play with the forces of simplicity and complexity, density and openness, movement and juxtaposition, boredom and development, repetition, percussion, duration, scale, the awkward, the coherent, the falling apart and the falling together."
DAN ST. CLAIR
makes artwork that playfully reconsiders our daily listening habits. His public projects include a muzak map of the Chicago Loop, a unique set of bicycle horns, and The Cure for That Song Stuck in Your Head. In 2004 he archived a set of original piano preparations used by John Cage and David Tudor. Exhibition venues include The Chocolate Factory, New York, NY, Wired Magazine NEXTfest, Chicago, IL, and Mess Hall, Chicago, IL. As a pianist, he has performed with Anthony Braxton, Matt Bauder, Mary Halvorson, and Jamey Abersold. He has studied with Nic Collins, Mary Jane Jacob, Ron Kuivila, and Anne Wilson.
ADAM SONDERBERG and KATHERINE YOUNG
adam sonderberg (haptic, dropp ensemble) and katherine young (architeuthis walks on land, the william young) embarked on their work together as part of the chicago-based trio civil war (w/ amy cimini). their mutual interest in graphic notation and computer-based sound assemblages has led the duo to create pieces focused on shifting perspectives on a single sound source. to date, music boxes, bassoon, viola, and beethoven’s 9th symphony have all been employed. the results are rigorous but engrossing. the first volume of sonderberg and young’s collaborative work will be published in spring 2006 by the l’innomable label.
more info: www.longboxrecordings.com / www.tillbyturning.com/katherine
Friday April 21:
Michael Graeve
Nathan Butler
TVPow
In NATHAN BUTLER's
performance a sequence of performative acts, physical and verbal, will be initiated and pursued to an illogical conclusion. The space will be interrupted and expanded by feedback and audio-visual sampling of the performance. These captures will be returned to the environment and mixed with previously recorded environments via a multi-channel array of speakers and a video projection. The space created is an awkward balance between performance and that of the technician presenting representations of present and previous vocabularies of material within similar time frames.
Nathan Butler is currently working toward an MFA in the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute Chicago. He was born in Nashville and has lived in Santa Barbara and Prague and now lives in Chicago. His roots as an artist began in photography. Over the last 3 years Nathan’s work has taken the form of phonography and performance.
TVPOW
Todd Carter :: acoustic and electronic instruments
Brent Gutzeit :: acoustic and electronic instruments
Michael Hartman :: acoustic and electronic instruments
*TV Pow* is a trio of composers and free improvisers first organized in Tokyo 1995 by Michael Hartman and Brent Gutzeit, and later joined by Todd Carter in the move to Chicago in 1996. They employ samplers, percussion, invented instruments, synthesizers, turntables, tape manipulation, computers and multi-speaker surround-sound systems in a constantly evolving soundscape of sparkling electronics, ambient drones, minimalist techno, and cinematic field recordings. Creating through live performance something both new and recombinant, TV Pow has toured throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States.*
*still we are banned from Canada.
http://www.tvpow.net
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