8 PM
DRAW
Nisi Jacobs and Michael J. Schumacher, live video and electronic sound

8:45 PM
Lovid: a screening of “Cyclops”

9 PM
dj sniff & Keir Neuringer
turntables and saxophone

9:45 PM
Fred Worden: a screening of “Everyday Bad Dream”

10 PM
Aki Onda and Alan Licht: “Cinemage”

DRAW is the live video and sound project of Nisi Jacobs and Michael Schumacher. They create compositions that form the basis for improvisations involving multi-screen video, algorithmically generated sound and live musicians. They make work that retains the spontaneity of improvisation while exploring in depth the relation between sound and image. Their practice involves a number of strategies to achieve this end, such as coupling specific sound and image sequences, using multi-channel setups for both video and sound, role-switching, and exploring notational techniques.

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory.

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and the musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narratization of the phonographically amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-made hardware interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one turntable and DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for electronic music and a researcher of music technology.

Keir Neuringer was born in New York in 1976 and has lived in Europe since 1999. He is active as an improvising saxophonist and a composer of electronic and acoustic music. He also writes texts and makes videos and installations critical of the destructive behavior exhibited and accepted by the dominant culture. He studied in the US, UK, Poland and The Netherlands.

Cinemage is Aki Onda's audio-visual project, which performances are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation. Cinemage means "images for cinema," or "homage for cinema." The visual images in Cinemage are snapshots taken from Onda's daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation--the particulars within lose significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of memory. The sensibility of Cinemage is essentially filmic. The photos are more like moving images than stills and the style is similar to Chris Marker's La Jetee. Projected on a screen, the images have the eerie familiarity of an out-of-focus memory and evoke a feeling of déjà vu. On this occasion, Alan Licht plays guitar along with Onda's visual images.

Fred Worden, filmmaker, has been involved in experimental cinema since the 1970s. His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, in Paris, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, and The Hong Kong International Film Festival. He was an editor for Criss-Cross Art Communications form the 70's through the 80's and his writings have appeared in Cinematograph. His work is included in in the Stan Brakhage Collection and the collection of the Centre Pompidou and others. Worden’s interest in intermittent projection: how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector resonates with a viewer on a level beyond representation . Fred teaches film and video production classes as well as film history and theory courses at the University of Maryland.


Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia is a non-profit performance and exhibition space that invites the public, artists and composers to engage with contemporary music and sound practices. Established in 2001 by composer Michael J. Schumacher and choreographer Liz Gerring, Diapason continues to be the sole venue in New York City (and one of few internationally) that is dedicated to both presenting multichannel sound installations and providing space for composers and sound artists to experiment, exhibit and perform.

Additional info at Ba-Rock Brooklyn.org

VENUES

T.B.D. Brooklyn is a new, chic addition to the Greenpoint bar scene. Located on Franklin Street between Eagle and Freeman Streets, the bar features drink specials, live music, monthly art exhibits, and a tasty bar menu.

East Coast Aliens is a non-for-profit center for art, culture and debates located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Van Gogh’s Radio Lounge is a cozy dive located on Franklin between Java and India Streets. Drinks are cheap ($2 PBRs!), couches are cozy, and Wednesday is open mic night.

BANDS

Headlining: Apollo Heights

The City and Horses "is a catchy, jangly, lo-fi project out of New York from generously talented, and generous, Marc Louis,” says sixeyes, while Monkey calls their three song EP "Little Finland," "a little gem" that "starts as Teenage Fanclub and ends as Belle & Sebastian yet has a homespun charm all of its own."

The So So Glos. The So So Glos are a punky rock and roll band from Brooklyn. They play music to combat apathy and won’t stop until everyone is a believer. BANG!

The Shot Heard Round the World.Recently receiving an honorable mention in the L-magazine’s Best NYC Bands, the harmonies and folk-pop guitars of TSHRtW transport their listeners to a lawn full of dancing hippies in the summer of ’68. You don’t want to miss it. Myspace: tshrtw

Backwords. Based out of Brooklyn and Philadelphia, Backwords blends modern psychadelics with 50s rock, roots, and alt-country. They take a gulp of harmony, fuse it with sonic experimental firecrackers, and end up bouncing with love on stage. Think Neil Young meets Built to Spill.

Flowers is a brand new group from Philadelphia coming up to play their first show in New York. The band meshes layers of swirling guitar feedback to structurally subverted avant -garde pop songs. In short, experimental music you can hum along to. Myspace: flowersnohippie

Madam Robot and the Lust Brigade is a Williamsburg trio bringing you dynamic, yet playful psychedelic garage-rock. “For fans of: The Beatles, United States of America, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Aphex Twin, and 13th Floor Elevators”. Myspace: madamrobot

Heavy Creatures are a beautifully loud and fervent foursome from Greenpoint who combine psych, golden rock and oceanic whispers into a confection that TimeOutNY refers to as "curiously potent". myspace: heavycreatures

Broken Trees are a folk/pop trio from Philadelphia, fronted by Liz Boyd on vocals and Fender Rhodes, with Adam Ravtiz on upright bass and Joe Baldacci on drums and percussion. Boyd's folk-inspired songwriting is coupled with the group's respective Jazz, Rock, and Classical influences. The trio recently completed its 10-song, self-titled album that ranges from catchy piano-pop to moody introspection, complete with brass, woodwinds, orchestral percussion and toy piano. Myspace: brokentrees

Mobile Wash Unit is the brainchild of Greenpoint local Andy Snyder. Punk to folk influences combine seamlessly into the guitar-driven rock let loose by Andy and a “rotating collective of talented friends.” Myspace: mobilewashunit

A M is electric powered Dada pop with acoustic footnotes. Myspace: amtheband

Declan Zimmerman. Declan Zimmerman's music will make you laugh knowingly, shift uncomfortably, weep uncontrollably and then it will get stuck in your head for days. That said, it is quite entertaining and relatively harmless. Someone once told him the songs remind them of The Magnetic Fields. He was flattered. Myspace: declanzimmerman

Discovery. This fancy four-piece from Brooklyn writes catchy, sparse pop with deep disco and jazzy flourishes. Dig Cholewka's wise and smoky vocals and Marsh's synth and bass lines grooving wickedly to Garwacke's bright and bouncy drumming. Meanwhile Smith laces the stuff with effects-heavy, spaced-out trombone gold. The group featured in Italian Vogue and Germany's Z magazine has been called "post-punk meets tropicalia" and "Eastern European nu wave." Their cover tunes range from Smokey Robinson to The Rolling Stones to 80s dance music mavens Nu Shooz. Fans leave Discovery live shows singing--first-timers wake up with Discovery songs still in their heads. Myspace: thisisdiscovery


Williamsboy. The Williamsboy is a singer-songwriter, whose live performances and gritty original Rock-N-Roll are reminiscent of artists such as Wilco, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. Equally at home playing ramshackle folk, bar-room-blues, modern rock and alt-country; The Williamsboy’s sound is timeless.

And more to come!