TARANTULA HILL BENEFIT SHOW 4-29

Many of you know Twig and Carly from Nautical Almanac. During the weekend of March 17 (when they were both performing at No Fun Fest in New York) their space in Baltimore, dubbed Tarantula Hill (which was the performance space on the third floor) suffered an extensive fire. In addition to the loss of their four cats, there also were extensive material damages. To help get Twig and Carly (and their space) back on their feet, CIP and Enemy are organizing a benefit show here on Saturday, April 29. The requested donation is a sliding scale between $5 and $10. So far, artists confirmed to perform include Bloodyminded, Is, Church of Light and Sound, Adam Strohm, Vadim Spirkut, Gays in the Military, I Love Presets, Spunky Toofers, Insect Deli, and Vertonen. There also will be a raffle (releases from assorted labels, a few sound making/destroying devices) for a dollar a ticket. All money brought in for this event will go directly to Twig and Carly. Estimated start time will be 8 PM given the number of bands performing. More details as they come...

More info about the fire: http://www.heresee.com/

Nautical Alamanac: http://www.heresee.com/nauticallink.htm

If you're good with a soldering iron and like electronic noise makers, help Peter B. keep Twig and Carly fed while they rebuild: FOOD FOR THILL SCROLL

Leonardson - Margolis Duo Pics from 3.3.06

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) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest!

For Immediate Release: "(A) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest in Chicago!"
THURSDAY 2006.04.06 - SUNDAY 2006.04.09
http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.04.05-2006.04.08

4 days of Digital and New Media art from Mexico City to Chicago!
12 artists and curators share projects in this cultural exchange!
Countless conversations enabled by raw bits of experimental art!
PRESS RELEASE follows below...

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(A) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest!
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http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.04.05-2006.04.08

THURSDAY 2006.04.06 - SUNDAY 2006.04.09
THROUGHOUT CHICAGO IL .US
FREE and OPEN!


12 artists and curators from Mexico City, Mexico travel to Chicago to participate in the upcoming (A) r4wb1t5 macro.Fest of digital arts, New Media projects and realtime audio video performances!

Chicago’s fourth instance of the decentralized and distributed (A) r4wb1t5 macro.Fest consists of a string of New Media art events occurring each day from April 5th through April 9th. Various alternative art spaces in Chicago will function as hosts for these individually curated and connected r4wb1t5 micro.Fests. Each micro.Fest is organized by individual curators based in Mexico City and facilitated in Chicago by Amanda Gutierrez, jon.satrom and jonCates. This r4wb1t5 macro.Fest is a macro-expansion/explosion of previous smaller r4wb1t5 micro.Fest activities.

This r4wb1t5 macro.Fest initiates a cultural exchange wherein Chicago-based curators, organizers and artists will soon travel to Mexico City to develop a sister r4wb1t5 festival. Artists, curators, organizers, facilitators and participants gather for these free and open events comprised of live audio and video, media art screenings, installations, and network based art in the discursive context of r4WB1t5. Join the conversational hyperthreads of these dynamic exchanges between Chicago and Mexico City!

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DAYLY SCHEDULE
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DAY ONE
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THURSDAY 2006.04.06
7 PM
CHI-TOWN ARENA
2255 S. Throop CHICAGO IL .US 60608
(PARKING AVAILABLE)

Arcangel Constantinni (Curator, Organizer and live Net Art programming)
Infomera VS Chicago (web-based New Media)
dønut VS PIRANACON.EXE (realtime audio performance)

(A) MEXICAN r4wb1t5 macro.Fest begins in Chicago as Arcangel Constantinni curates a live Net Art wrestling match. Extreme programming, Web Art coding and Mexican wrestling collide in Pilsen's CHI-TOWN ARENA when Arcangel Constantinni brings his Infomera VS Chicago project to the stage. During the match the Mexico City based dønut project will go head to head against PIRANACON.EXE in an experimental electronic music battle.

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DAY TWO
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FRIDAY 2006.04.07
8 PM
BUSKER
1087 North Hermitage #1F CHICAGO IL .US 60622
http://buskerchicago.com

Eusebio Bañuelos (Curator, Organizer and realtime audio video performance)
Juan Jose Rivas (realtime audio video performer)
Paola de Anda (video installation)
Carolina Esparragoza (interactive installation)
MU Collective (video installation)
techmex - http://www.tech-mex.org (web-based New Media)
fllanos - http://www.fllanos.com (web-based New Media)

Eusebio Bañuelos curates a night of Video Art, realtime audio video performances and installations from Mexico City. Video screenings, performances, installations and web-based New Media by Eusebio Bañuelos, Juan Jose Rivas, Paola de Anda, Carolina Esparragoza, MU Collective, techmex and fllanos present a view into the diverse fields of Mexican media art.

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DAY THREE
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SATURDAY 2006.04.08
8 PM
EN3MY
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl CHICAGO IL .US 60622
http://cranksatori.net/enemy

Rogelio Sosa (Sound art curator)
MU Collective: Eduardo Melendez and Ernesto Romero (realtime audio video performance)
Mario de Vega (realtime audio video performance)

Rogelio Sosa curates a program of realtime audio video performance and Sound Art featuring MU Collective (, Eduardo Meléndez, Ernesto Romero) and Mario de Vega. This program features multi-channel experimental electronic music and audio work from these individual and collaborative projects.

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SUNDAY 2006.04.09
3 PM
POLVO
1458 W. 18th ST. 1R CHICAGO IL .US 60608
http://www.polvo.org

Artists' talk and panel discussion (in Spanish)
Changorama: David Somellera and Abelardo Martín (realtime audio video performance)
MU Collective: Eduardo Melendez and Ernesto Romero (FLOR installation)

r4WB1t5 macro.Fest participants will discuss New Media art in Mexico City during a panel discussion to be held in Spanish. After the artists' talk and panel discussion. MU Collective (Eduardo Melendez and Ernesto Romero) share an interactive installation. Changorama (David Somellera and Abelardo Martín) performs realtime audio video. As a expansive close to the r4WB1t5 marco.Fest, this evening will spread outside of Polvo into the streets of Pilsen distributing our shared efforts and dispersing raw bits as seeds for future exchanges.

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ONGOING
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This r4WB1t5 macro.Fest will include experimental Radio Art projects, reports broadcast from the festival and interviews with the participants. These radio programs will be available online through the festival website as well as on air from stations such as Free Radio SAIC and Radio Arte. Listen on WEDNESDAY 2006.04.05 through MONDAY 2006.04.10 to the following programs:

THURSDAY 2006.04.06 - SUNDAY 2006.04.09
PERFORMANCES STREAMING ONLINE:
http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.04.05-2006.04.08

David Somellera (Curator and Organizer)
Triscerable (Radio Art)
Zaratustra Gabriel Vázquez Ruíz (Radio Art)

REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS:

WEDNESDAY 2006.04.05 - FRIDAY 2006.04.07

Free Radio SAIC (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
http://freeradiosaic.org

MONDAY 2006.04.10

Radio Arte
http://www.wrte.org

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LINKS
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Links to more information on individual artists and art spaces follows below...

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CURATORS
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in alphabetical order

Eusebio Bañuelos - http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cmm
Arcángel Constantini - http://www.museotamayo.org/inmerso
David Somellera
Rogelio Sosa - http://www.caustica.net
Mario de Vega - http://www.f4rm.org

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ARTISTS
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in order of appearance

Arcangel Constantinni - http://www.unosunosyunosceros.com
Infomera VS Chicago - http://www.infomera.net
Eusebio Bañuelos - http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cmm
Juan Jose Rivas - http://www.replica21.com/archivo/q_r/04_rivas_rivas.html
Paola de Anda - http://www.art-idea.com/_mexico/manotemblorosa/manotemb.html
MU Collective: Eduardo Melendez and Ernesto Romero
Rogelio Sosa - http://www.caustica.net
techmex - http://www.tech-mex.org
fllanos - http://www.fllanos.com
Eduardo Meléndez - http://www.sergioluque.com
Ernesto Romero
Mario de Vega - http://www.f4rm.org
Carolina Esparragoza - http://www.ilustracionmexico.org/carolina.html
Changorama: David Somellera and Abelardo Martín
Triscerable - http://www.ibero909radio.com/programas/triscerable.htm
Zaratustra Gabriel Vázquez Ruíz - http://www.ibero909radio.com/programas/triscerable.htm

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HOSTS
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in chronological order

CHI-TOWN ARENA
EN3MY - http://cranksatori.net/enemy
BUSKER - http://buskerchicago.com
POLVO - http://www.polvo.org

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SPONSORS
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Secretaria de Relacione Exteriores / SRE - http://www.sre.gob.mx
Fondo Nacional para La Cultura y las Artes / FONCA - http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes/ CONACULTA - http://www.cnca.gob.mx
Centro Multimedia / CMM - http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cmm
Consulado de México en Chicago - http://www.mfacmchicago.org
Mexicana - https://www.mexicana.com
Radio Ibero - http://www.uia.mx/ibero909
Radio Arte - http://www.wrte.org

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FACILITATORS
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Amanda Gutierrez, jon.satrom and jonCates - http://r4wb1t5.org
http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.04.05-2006.04.08

Michael Graeve - c&s

c&s is a site-specific installation in color and sound. Michael Graeve works across painting and sound disciplines through installation, performance and composition.


Opening: Friday 31 March, 7-10
Exhibition: 6 - 21 April 2006
Hours: Thursday / Friday: 3-7 or by appointment

image: Michael Graeve, Inside/Outside, 2005. Installation view: Gigantic Art Space, New York NY.

Related Sound Performances

Friday 14th April:
Michael Graeve, Dan St. Clair, Adam Sonderberg & Katherine Young

Friday 21 April:
Michael Graeve, Nathan Butler, TVPow

Both Events: Doors open 8:30 PM, Sound 9 PM, $5 donation

Jason Soliday/Vertonen/Snake Charm/Is

Jason Soliday
Vertonen
Snake Charm
Is

Saturday, March 25
Doors 9:30 PM
Music 10 PM
$5 Donation

Good Stuff House

Good Stuff House

"Good Stuff House is a new project from Scott Tuma, Matt Christensen and
Mike Weis. Tuma has recorded two solo albums for Truckstop Recordings and
is a member of the collective Boxhead Ensemble. He is also a former member
of Souled American. Christensen and Weis are from the Chicago-based band
Zelienople, who have released music on Finland's 267 Lattajjaa, New
Zealand's PseudoArcana and Chicago's Loose Thread labels. Time-Lag Records
will be releasing the debut album by Good Stuff House in April and this
show at Enemy will mark their debut live performance."

Lonberg-Holm Soliday Duo

Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
Jason Soliday - electronics

Roebke Labycz Duo

Brian Labycz - koto & electronics
Jason Roebke - bass


Friday, March 17
Doors 8:30 PM
Music 9 PM
$5 Donation