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Vienna 01.18.2009 – Amann Studios

January 18.09

Live recording #100 at Amann Studios in Vienna.

This performance will include new material based on “und transit”,
a sound installation which was presented in Krems this past month
at Kreuzgang / Minoritenkloster

Sunday, Jan.18.09 – 21:00

Amann Studio
Neustiftgasse 68/23b
A-1070Wien

see below for info on installation

und transit (english below)

Eine Klanginstallation von i8u (France Jobin)

15.12.2008 – 16.01.2009 tägl ab 11 Uhr

Kreuzgang / Minoritenkloster

Wir alle besitzen die Angewohnheit, den Raum der unseren Weg zu unserem Ziel umgibt zu ignorieren. Wie viele Durchgänge scheinen sie zu einem Ende zu führen, in Wirklichkeit aber sind sie das Ende selber. Als ich das erste Mal den Kreuzgang betreten habe war ich von der Einsamkeit und der Praktikabilität berührt. Ich habe begonnen, die verschiedensten Klänge in Krems UND Stein aufzunehmen, um daraus Klanglandschaften für die Leere dieses Raumes zu schaffen. So enstand diese Installation „und transit“

klangraum

und transit

A sound installation by i8u (France Jobin)

15.12.2008 – 16.01.2009  from 11am to 5pm

Kreuzgang / Minoritenkloster

We all have a capacity to ignore the space we must use to get to our destination. Like most passage ways, they are a means to an end, and rarely are treated as an end in itself. Upon being introduced to minoritenplatz, I was immediately struck by the loneliness and practicality of this passage way. Since then, I have collected a number of field recordings from in and around Krems, in order to create a series of soundscapes based on the sound of emptiness in this space.

I acknowledge the support of the Canada  Council for the Arts

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Vienna 11.20.2008 – Shut up and Listen!

SHUT UP AND LISTEN 2008!

November 21st  2008

Shut up and Listen! 2008

Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art, Vienna, November
20th-21st, 2008

small – silent – lowercase

The interdisciplinary festival ‘Shut up and Listen!’ enters 2008 into its
third season. After ‘hoerspiel, radio art and acusmatic music’ in 2006, and
‘soundscape – field recording – phonography’ in 2007, this year’s focus is
‘small – silent – lowercase’. We’d like to concentrate on ‘small sounds’,
on music and sound art projects that work with reduced means,
and often take place at the threshold of perception.

Once again, our motto is: Let’s shut up and listen!

Ernst Reitermaier and Bernhard Gál
(curators)

raum35
(Theresianumgasse 35, 1040 Vienna)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008, from 19.30

Dimitrios Polisoidis (GRE/AUT) – Viola: Klaus Lang – ägäische eisberge.
Heribert Friedl / non visual objects (AUT) – Laptop
Berndt Thurner (AUT) – Triangel, Große Trommel:
Werke von Alvin Lucier und Nader Mashayekhi
Klaus Filip (AUT) – Sinus: ein drei fünftel

Quadrophonic sound installation
Martin Supper (GER) geXX

Friday, November 21st, 2008, from 19.30

Tim Blechmann (GER/AUT) – Laptop
Erin Gee (USA/AUT) – Stimme: Mouthpieces
i8u (CAN) – Laptop: 10-33 cm
Duo i8u (CAN) & Tim Blechmann (GER/AUT)
The International Nothing (Fagaschinski/Thieke, GER) – Klarinetten

Quadrophonic sound installation
Martin Supper (GER) geXX

Shut up and Listen! 2008

Interdisziplinäres Festival für Musik und Klangkunst

small – silent – lowercase

Das interdisziplinäre Festival *Shut up and Listen! *wird 2008 zum dritten Mal stattfinden. Nach den Schwerpunkten „Hörspiel, Radiokunst, Akusmatische Musik“ im Jahr 2006 und „Soundscape – Field Recording – Phonographie“ im Jahr 2007 lautet das diesjährige Festivalthema „*small – silent – lowercase*“. Die Aufmerksamkeit gilt also den ‚kleinen Klängen’ – jenen Musik- und Klangkunstprojekten, welche sich reduziertester Mittel bedienen und sich oftmals am Rand des Hörbaren ereignen. *Shut up and Listen! 2008* will herausragenden künstlerischen Arbeiten ein Podium bieten, welche diese Qualitäten zur Grundlage haben und sich damit vom lauthalsigen Mediengeschrei des vorherrschenden Musikbetriebs abheben.

Auch dieses Jahr gilt: Let’s shut up and listen!

Ernst Reitermaier und Bernhard Gál
……………..
20.11.08 19:30
mit klaus filip, berndt thurner (lucier, mashajekhi),
dimitri polisoidis (klaus lang) und anderen.

21.11.08 19:30
mit fagaschinski/thieke (the international nothing),
tim blechmann,erin gee, i8u und anderen.

an beiden tagen:
klanginstallation von martin supper

unterstützt von bmukk, stadt wien, bezirk wieden und ske fonds

nähere informationen folgen in kürze…

raum35

I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

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NewYork 09.07.2008 – Share @ santos party house

September 7 2008

share @ santos party house
100 Lafayette Street,
New York, New York 10013

i8u |CHiKA present: Infinity02

i8u and CHiKA
Infinity02, 2008 (30:38 min)
Unlimited or unmeasurable in extent of space, duration of time: the infinite nature of the fabric of space. CHiKA uses minimal objects in two-dimensional space to create a video work invoking the feeling of the unlimited possibilities, approaching the unmeasureable nature of the infinite. I8u’s soundscapes inspired by the concept of string theory mirror our limited understanding and imagination of these strings as they slip in and out of the dimensions we are aware of. The audio and visual moves from a closed world with perspective as its corresponding symbolic form.

France Jobin aka i8u is a sound/installation/web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture.” It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements.
http://www.i8u.com

Chika Iijima is a live computer visuals artist working within New York’s expanded cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. Chika has performed at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Mapping Festival (Geneva), the Bushwick Art Project (Brooklyn, NY), and the clubs Galapagos and Tonic, both in New York.
http://www.imagima.com

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Montreal 05.29.2009 – Mutek 2008

May 29, 2008

MUTEK 2008 | Open_Lab_Ouvert
Mutek is once again hosting Le Placard May 29th -30th 2008 @SAT
(see below for schedule)

Placard is a headphone concert festival, playing with concentration, intimacy,time warp,and teleportation.This year it goes on for 97 days non stop, in different cities. It functions under a mode of open program,open for headphone rooms to create performance spaces where performers are welcomed to perform. Both the headphoneroom ‘owner’ and the performers use the inscription site to self organize the global program. The placard ‘owner’ receives in his room performers who have submitted a inscription via the site , and streams the shows to the other headphonerooms either passive listeners or waiting to perform.The site is designed to simplify communication inbetween the performers and the organizers, using automatic emails notifying of incomming inscriptions , accepted deplaced or refused perfomances ; also notifying performers of the creation of headphonerooms in their city.

The ring has grown , last year quite a few new cities got involved ;( helsinki , stralsund , benicassim .. (link to last year’s archive) ) .This year has allready started with a few prologues (maybe a preview of what might be one day a non stop placard network) – one in berlin during club transmediale – one in bratislava – and one in bologna -(see pictures and line-ups here) The official placard festival opening will be in montreal for the mutek festival and then move on.

May 29th 2008 @ 15:20 (EDT)

i8u will present: 10-33 cm resonance

i8u’s audio is inspired by the concept of string theory; 10-33 cm being the theoretical size of the strings that makes up the universe. Resonance is the vibrational pattern, which determines what kind of particle the string is. The type of particle is the movement of the string and the energy associated with this movement.
The soundscapes created mirror our limited understanding and imagination of these strings as they slip in and out of the dimensions we are aware of.

Schedule Open_Lab_Ouvert:

May 29, 2008

.12:00 (EDT) .Element Kuuda
.12:40 (EDT) .Ghislain Roy
.13:20 (EDT) .Jim Bel
.14:00 (EDT) .Katherine Kline
.14:40 (EDT) .grkzg
.15:20 (EDT) .i8u
.16:00 (EDT) .David Kristian
.16:40 (EDT) .Nathan McNinch
.17:20 (EDT) .Wapstan. – .19-Jan-67
.18:00 (EDT) .Mark Templeton
.18:40 (EDT) .Ezekiel Honig
.19:20 (EDT) .Babin Magali
.20:00 (EDT) .Steve Bates
.20:40 (EDT) .Thierry Gauthie
.21:20 (EDT) .Victortronic
.22:00 (EDT) .Martine H. Crispo
.22:40 (EDT) .Le Rossignol et Lafrance
.23:20 (EDT) .Winston Phillips

May 30, 2008

.12:00 (EDT) .Orphx
.12:40 (EDT) .gmackrr
.13:20 (EDT) .kvik. – .sluiten
.14:00 (EDT) .Pon De Replay
.14:40 (EDT) .anne-f . Jacques
.15:20 (EDT) .Nicolas Dion
.16:00 (EDT) .AUN. – .MOTORSLEEP
.16:40 (EDT) .FSK 1138
.17:20 (EDT) .Nancy Tobin
.18:00 (EDT) .Szkieve
.18:40 (EDT) .le Peuplier de Simon
.19:20 (EDT) .Deluge
.20:00 (EDT) .des cailloux et du carbone
.20:40 (EDT) .Thames
.21:20 (EDT) .Matt Fuzz
.22:00 (EDT) .Vorpa
.22:40 (EDT) .Michel Pontbriand
.23:20 (EDT) .???

SAT, Société des arts technologiques
1195 boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal (Québec) H5B 1C2 Canada

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Montreal 04.19.2008 – Etats Generaux

April 19, 2008

MEDIA ARTS STATE OF AFFAIRS EVENINGSà

CQAM and the State of Affairs team have concocted a program that celebrates Media Arts. Four exciting evenings are in store from April 17th to 20th.

OFFICIAL OPENING – Thursday APRIL 17th

5 PM : Official opening ceremony in the Luce Guilbault Hall of the Cinémathèque québécoise with public partners, artists whose works are part of the retrospective and participants in a friendly, launch.

6:30 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE I = FILM
Claude-Jutra theatre, Cinémathèque québécoise.
Presented by Claude Forget, curator

Karaoké by Stéphane Lafleur
La main invisible by Sylvain L’Espérance
Du moteur à explosion by Dominic Gagnon

Free of charge for registered participants with a pass

FRIDAY APRIL 18th

5 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE  III = NEW MEDIA
Exhibition vernissage of New Media installations – Room R-515, National Library and Archives

Peter Flemming
Sofian Audry

Open to the public free of charge

8 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE II = VIDEO
Auditorium, National Library and Archives
Presented by Nicole Gingras, curator
Artists present

En decà du réel by Manon Labrecque
Oh la la du narratif by Sylvie Laliberté
Karaoke by Donigan Cumming
Stravaig by Nikki Forrest
Rut by Yudi Sewraj
Étincelante by Brigitte Lebrasseur
Site by A. Golden
« A » (comme aveugle) by Nicole Benoît
Sleeping Car by Monique Moumblow
Valo by Nelly-Ève Rajotte
Hernaford rd. or The Distance to Sleep by Rachel Echenberg
My Heart the Interior Decorator by Nelson Henricks
These days by Nathalie Bujold
Mystery and melancholy de Daniel Olson
Biotech by Mathieu Latulippe
Line Up by Julie-Christine Fortier
Karma by Chantal duPont

Open to the public free of charge

SATURDAY APRIL 19th

8:30 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE III = AUDIO ART
Auditorium, National Library and Archives
4 audio performances
Presented by Valérie Lamontagne, curator

Ekumen
i8u
Perfo 1. (DL) & 4. (JD), project by Martin Tétrault with audio contributions by Diane Morin, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Rober Racine and Manon Labrecque.

DJS

David Lafrance (experimental)
d Julie D (techno)

Open to the public free of charge
BAnQ – 475, Boul. de Maisonneuve Est,
Montreal, (Quebec) H2L 5C4

SUNDAY APRIL 20th

5 PM : Cocktail at the Society for Technology and Art – SAT)

8 PM : CLOSING EVENT

Autoplayback – A performance by Jerôme Minière, accompanied by de Dan Popa

DJ Bliss

VJ Beewoo

Free of charge for participants with a pass. Otherwise, $15 contribution.

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Vienna 02.19.2008 – V’elak-gala #30

v´elak-gala #30:19 / 02 / 2008 _ brut/Konzerthaus lothringerstr. 3; 1030 vienna

February 19, 2008

v´elak-gala #30:
19.02.2008
20:00

i8u (Can)
Bernhard Gal
Greg Haines (Uk)
Bruzek / Schwab (v´elak)
Heribert Friedl

V´EL:AK
is a no-profit organisation/platform for artist who work in fields of experimental music, video, dance, performance etc.

one aspect is the organisation of the concert series “Elak-Gala”, which was originally founded by students from the inst. for electroacoustics of the univ. for music & interpretative arts of vienna, someday in late summer of 2004 ;
there have been 28 non-funded elak-galas on various places in vienna since then;
with 1st of jannuary 2008 we are supported by the ske-fonds -> so elak-gala became v´elak-gala.
Brut/Konzerthaus
Lothringerstrasse 3
1030 Vienna

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Los Angeles 11.07.2007 Restless Brilliance

November 7th 2007

Hammer Presents
Restless Brilliance

Join us for two evenings exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presents artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art.

October 23
William Basinski
Sawako
Steve Roden
Screening: The Sound of Microclimates by Semiconductor

November 7
Taylor Deupree
Christopher Willits
i8u & CHiKA
Screening: RHYTHM EXP by Frank Bretschneider

Restless Brilliance is curated by Volume

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000

The Museum is located at the northeast corner of Westwood and Wilshire Boulevards in Westwood Village, 3 blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire Boulevard exit.

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Review of Mutek 2007 Nocturne 3 by TJ Norris, Igloomag

For the remainder of the night it was over to the cavernous Metropolis for a split venue/themed presentation. In the larger room were mostly the dance music, in the smaller space more experimental and quieter or quirky offerings. I tended to spend most of the earlier part of the evening alongside LA curator Robert Crouch watching the mostly female driven evening of music by the wash of heady and physical, cyclical and sensory sounds of I8U, the soft tweaky dissonance and ambient layers of Sawako and my first exposure to the vivacious Bubblyfish doing 8-bit renditions of Kraftwerk songs. The whole intimate space was filled to the gills with an audience craving a very contained experience. This all started with a helmet scream gaming match where two players stood side by side in a race that used their voices to drive motor vehicles. Noisey and fun.

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Montreal 06.01.2007 – Mutek 2007

June 1st 2007

NOCTURNE 3

June 1, 2007 21:00 pm
METROPOLIS,
59 Ste-Catherine Est
30.00$

Bubblyfish
CHiKA
Cobblestone Jazz
Decrepticon
Detalles
glomag
i8u
Kalabrese and his Rumpelorchestra
Matthew Dear’s Big Hands
MEC
o.blaat
Sawako
The Mole

For the occasion of the very promising NOCTURNE 3 showcase, the Metropolis will host a massive two-room event to kick-start the weekend.

In the main room, several of today’s best producers bring new band projects to the stage for an energetic showcase designed to celebrate the organic side of dance music. Hotly tipped Swiss producer Kalabrese and his Rumpelorchestra bring an innovative mix of techno and funk, while superstar DJ/producer Matthew Dear previews material from his new electronic pop album with his three-piece band, Big Hands. Montreal’s The Mole keeps the evening rolling with his infectious brand of disco-soul, before joining forces mid-set with the inimitable Cobblestone Jazz (Vancouver), a three-man electronic jam band led by none of other than Mathew Jonson.

Meanwhile, over in the Savoy Lounge, six experimental electronic musicians and two visual artists from Japan, New York, Paris, and Montreal will build a strange and fanciful soundtrack for the curious: O.Blaat, Sawako, Chika, Bubblyfish, Glomag, Decrepticon, Mec and i8u.