FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

'THE SONIC SELF'
March 7 - March 30, 2003

Opening Event: Friday March 7, 2003. 5 - 8 PM
Closing Event: Saturday March 29, 2003. 5 - 8 PM

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212.255.0719
info@chelseaartmuseum.org
http://chelseaartmuseum.org

'THE SONIC SELF'

"Hear the thunder high above. Feel the rumble deep within"

Sound is born of pressure, literally and metaphorically. The visual is dominant, but sound actively shapes our interpretation of the visual. Sound is bound up in the image. It is neither simple nor complex. It is both mathematical and emotional. Sound informs on a primal level. It has roots in a biological imperative, but it is capable of such subtlety as to invoke tears.

'The Sonic Self' exhibition and associated events curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, examine the ever-increasing confluence of audio and visual experiences in contemporary culture. The exhibition and events bridge disparate audio practices by pairing sound artists, musicians and visual artists with the goal that their collaborative projects will expose and underscore their shared languages. This cross-fertilization of sound and visual art will be manifested in digital installation, video projection, DJ sampling and sound/performance art.

'The Sonic Self' includes work by:

Romeo Doron Alaeff - audio-video projection
James Avatar - audio-video
Damian Catera - sound continuum for laptop and headphones
Chantal Claret - video projection
Ian Couch and Mighty Robot AV - audio-video immersions
Chris Cullinan/The Filter Kingz
Chronic Electronic Orchestra - transpace
DanceTube - biomovements
Digitelle & Carlos Granda - video mix
DJ ECON - audio textures
Scotto Mycklebust - sound composition for laptop
Kazuo Kawasumi - sound performance
Japa Keenon - sound and music collages
Amy Kool/Valerie Barnes - audio-video installation
Jerzy Kubina - site specific installation and performance
Dennydaniel - audio-video installation
Mornignwood - video and musical performance
Rosalind Schneider - audio-video installation
Threat/Spiff Wiegand & Margarita
Wojtek Ulrich - audio-video installation
Monika Weiss - site specific ephemeral installation and performance
Samuel Zakuto/Oliver Ray - audio-video installation
Krzysztof Zarebski/Krystyna Jachniewicz - site specific performance

For additional information about each performance visit web site:
http://nyartsmagazine.com/sound/sonic.htm

The project is made possible at the invitation of Abraham Lubelski, the publisher of NY Arts magazine. Guest curator Jolanta Gora-Wita. Sponsored by NY Arts Magazine, Berlinerkunst Magazine, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, dennydaniel.com, Labatt USA/Carlsberg and biNcode.com. PR by Linda Kubit.

'The Sonic Self' selected presentations detailed schedule:

- Romeo Doron Alaeff (video projection Mar 7 - Mar 30) – "Crybaby" is an audio-video series that examines the emotional culture of crying: crying as a signature of the self, crying as a social mechanism and crying as a specific device in modern media, specifically film. Stripping out all narrative clues and using a variety of original and appropriated musical scores, the video series parallels crying and filmmaking as both singularly genuine acts as well as subversively manipulative devices. Artist will also present: ONCE, 1995 (TRT: 04:58) , BLUE MOON (FANTASY INTERUPPTED) Elvis Edit, 2001 (TRT: 03:59) and IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES Tunnels Only Edit, 2002 (TRT: 03:23).

- Damian Catera (sound installation Mar 7 - Mar 30) - 'NYC TRANSFORMATION/ deCOMPOSITION' Goodbye Sonic Youth (Tin Rain On). A Real-Time, Sound Continuum (for laptop and headphones, 2003). NYC TRANSFORMATION / deCOMPOSITION Goodbye Sonic Youth (Tin Rain On) is a reflection on the city's rich sonic palette and its aesthetic undercurrents. For this piece, sounds recorded throughout the city, as well as the Sonic Youth piece Rain on Tin, are sampled and randomly transformed with algorithms that artist wrote in the MAX/MSP programming environment. Artist will also present (sound performance Mar 7, 6-7 pm), deCOMPOSITION NYC v.3. It is an improvised, site specific electroacoustic performance for 3 radios, and live electronics. For this piece, live radio is sampled and, spatially/ algorithmically manipulated with performance software that I wrote in the MAX/ MSP programming environment. The results are a constantly changing soundscape where the sampled sounds are cut up , randomly rearranged and altered.

Live band: Chronic Electronic Orchestra, Video mix: Digitelle & Carlos Granda, Turntablist: DJ Econ, Biomovements: DanceTube, Special guests: Threat, Spiff Wiegand , & Margarita (performance Mar 14, 2 - 6 pm) - Trancespace: Media Mix Exhibit - "TranCEspace" media mix performance. This "Live Mix" collaboration created by performance artists, musicians and Djs will create an active dance floor of a social experience where different kinds of media are manipulated in real time to evoke a direct response from the audience.

- Chantal Claret (video projection Mar 7 – 30). 'The GoGo Dancer,' 6 minutes, 16 mm with original music by Timo Ellis starring Jaiko Suzuki. The GoGo Dancer is a short film about the night in the life of a gogo dancer. A young woman uses her love of music and dancing to escape from as well as be immersed into the world.

- Dennydaniel (video installation Mar 7 – 30). "I create visual glimpses into the worlds of various performers or scenes. They are part documentary, part music video, and part oil painting. I have a need to manipulate colors and forms so that the image relief's (as in relief map) and has a feeling like you can touch and feel the curves of the subject. The underling current is the sensual form of the human body or even an inanimate object and their fluid motion."

Live band: Chronic Electronic Orchestra, Video mix: Digitelle & Carlos Granda, Turntablist: DJ Econ, Biomovements: DanceTube, Special guests: Chris Cullinan, The Filter Kingz, (performance Mar 29, 5-8 pm) - Trancespace: Media Mix Exhibit FINALE- "TranCEspace" - A real-time sound and video performance. Live performance using elements of underground music, live DJ turntablism to create a unique exhibit; enhancing the museum experience. Museum visitors are encouraged to interact with the space by dancing as Dj Econ uses his turntable wizardry as "Audio Textures" and to enhance the experience.

- Ian Couch and Mighty Robot AV (performance Mar 15 and 16, 2-6 pm) - 'Joshua light and sound show'. This live audio-video installation will express the spirit of the Joshua light show troupe which once graced venues such as the Filmore East and West in the late sixties projecting landscapes of moving colors and images for countless musical acts of the time

- Kazuo Kawasumi (performance Mar 7, 7:15 - 8 pm and Mar 23, 2-6 pm) - "Glasscade" is the Sound Installation/Performance using the glass side board and stairs in the museum. The various sounds of glass, from a delicate tinkling sounds to a big breaking sounds actually will flow out from the glass .

- Jappa Keenon ( performance Mar 28, 4-6 pm). "My own sound and music collages are works based on simplicity and listening. The sound of an electric motor in certain contexts can transmit waves and pulses that are of relative pitch and have musical tone. This example is one of many that i listen for in nature and in everyday life."

- Amy Kool and Valerie Barnes (video on monitor Mar 7 - Mar 30) - 'Kinesthesia' audio-video projection. Kinesthesia or art in motion is represented by a thirty minutes video presentation. In addition to the visual ---colors, patterns and forms ---and the tactile---textures, Amy Kool's Mandalas have, via video, undergone another dimension: motion, light and sonic sound.

- Jerzy Kubina in collaboration with Genya Turovskaya (performance Mar 9, 2-6 pm) - 'interREACTION' is a site specific performance which later becomes part of an ongoing installation. Two artists are interacting on opposites side of a transparent screen positioned in the corner of the gallery space - Genya by handwriting her own texts, Jurek by mechanically placing black tape on the floor and screen. Two sources of sound are incorporated in the piece. The sound of reading poetry is juxtaposed against recorded industrial tones to further intensify the contrast between lyrical and mechanical production.

- Morningwood (performance Mar 29, 2-5 pm) - video and musical performance. Morningwood is one of New York’s finest undiscovered rock bands, founded in 2002 by Pedro Yanowitz (Hand of Doom, Money Mark, ex-Wallflowers). What was originally intended as a solo act, Pedro then called on his friends and lovers: the young, charismatic Chantal Claret, Timo Ellis (ex-Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, and Yoko Ono), and Jappa Keenon (ex-Cibo Matto).

- Scotto Iverson Mycklebust (performance Mar 21, 3-6 pm) - 'REV.' performance, computer composition for noise, sound effects and music. A real-time sound piece of the F-18 Fighter jet. The set-up includes; portable CD player, 2 - 4 speakers and/or headphones, visual image: the word "REV" as projected text on the wall.

- Rosalind Schneider (video installation Mar 16 - 30) - "Wave Transformations" seeks a new interpretation of nature through the creation of computer processed imagery. Images float in a darkened room, projected on 14’ translucent white balloon.

- Wojtek Ulrich (video installation Mar 7 - 30) - THE BOAT is a three-meter hanging installation, a "lifeboat" whose body is constructed of dried dead fish. The frequent confusion of illusion and reality is highlighted by five video monitors facing upwards within the boat, showing underwater footage of fish swimming by. The viewer is challenged to separate illusion from experience. Artist will also present a video projection on a block of ice.

- Monika Weiss (performance Mar 8 and Mar 22, 1-6 pm) - Saturday, March 22: Elytron, dusza i cialo to tylko dwa skrzydla(spirit and body are only two wings). Elytron is a 5-hour site specific performance/installation. "Moving progressively and intuitively around the floor, and using my entire figure as a metaphorical brush, I repeatedly leave and I arrive back to a sculpted vessel filled with dark fluid. I leave sonic traces of the action creating a permeable, open zone of sound, while I move, curled up, within the self-imposed boundaries of canvas."

- Samuel Zakuto (video installation Mar 7 - 30) - 'Oh, Mother, The Soil Is Falling Over My Head' video on monitor and headphones, stands as an eulogy for Peace. Artist will present series of different portraits of Americans dressed as Israeli soldiers. The vision will be supported by mixed audio collage, created by Oliver Ray, taken from Hebrew and Arabic news broadcasts and music, combined with a noise-field of electric guitar.

- Krzysztof Zarebski (performance Mar 9 – 2-6 pm) - ‘DJ Cool Freez/Helmut’s Voice’ installation/performance in collaboration with Gary Smith. " Transforming the context of relation between everyday objects in unexpected ways, I try to create new metaphoric systems. Synthetic materials as: broken records and audio tape with recorded voice, are symbols of memory to me. I think about temperature of sound. By using taped voice of Helmut Kajzer, I’ll create an electro-magnetic energy, which will warm up my body…"

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