Montreal 01.28.2006 – Textures_03

TEXTURES_03: Jan 28th 2006 – 9pm
i8u | tomas phillips
with Clonal Machina
from San Francisco

Textures is a series of deep-listening events held on the last Saturday of each month at Pharmacie Esperanza. These salon-style concerts focus mainly on live performances of ambient, noise, improv and experimental music in a comfortable and intimate setting.

Two Montreal debuts at our Textures concert series. First up will be the ambient stylings of Clonal Machina, who has recently relocated from San  Francisco. The second performance of the evening will be the first live collaboration between I8U and Tomas Phillips, in anticipation of their upcoming release Anther on petite sono.

La Salle D’Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza)
5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur)
Montreal, QC

Winnipeg 02.21.2005 – Send and Receive


A Festival of Sound 2005

Silent Music, Secret Noise

An evening of live performance featuring
some of the best small sound and eloquent
static from Winnipeg, Canada and Zurich.

not half [Winnipeg]
I8U [Montreal]
Jason Kahn [Zurich]

Friday, October 21 2005
at the Urban Shaman Gallery
203-290 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg MB Canada
R3B 0T2

Doors: 8:15 pm | Performances: 9:00 pm
Admission: $10

Winnipeg¹s Allan Conroy [aka not half] began making audio experiments in 1983. He developed an obsession for radios, tape-loops, squeaky sounds and unusual acoustic phenomena,
all recorded to tape in a largely improvised fashion. Acquiring samplers in 1992, he began to sample this comprehensive body
of work, a project which continues to the present day. not half frequently uses anything and everything to make sounds, either exclusively or combined with other working methods.
www.noroomfortalent.com
www.dtrashrecords.com

I8U¹s audio art can be understood as sound-sculpture.
It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments
where analog and digital meet. Her web art can be said to follow
a parallel path, intertwining both musical and visual elements.
From classical music to blues, it took only one chance meeting
with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music.
This is I8U¹s second visit to Send + Receive.
www.i8u.com

Originally a percussionist, Zurich¹s Jason Kahn has collaborated with artists including Evan Parker, Chirstian Marclay and Steve Roden. Kahn currently performs using a laptop and analogue synthesizer and combines these with percussion. Kahn is the founder of the CD label cut, has composed music for theatre
and dance and has given concerts around the world. In the past several years Kahn has exhibited several sound installations.
www.jasonkahn.net
www.cut.fm

Montreal 01.02.2005 – Studio XX

IN THE CONTEXT OF ” LES JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE”
SATURDAY THE 1ST OF OCTOBER 2005
13:00 – 17:00

STUDIO XX PRÉSENTS :

A DAY OF EXCHANGE, NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE

Join us for a festive fall day when we will present the latest interactive works produced through the Studio. Experience the multimedia installation of Stéphanie Lagueux. Look and listen to the computer generated and assisted works from musicians I8U, and cellist, Vera Ronkos. The Studio XX team members will be in the house to keep it warm and tell you about this year’s programming, production activities, our wide gamut of workshops, our open source lab and our online revue, .dpi.


Schedule

1:00 – doors open

presentation : The Social Body :
a multimédia installation
by Stéphanie Lagueux, in coproduction with Studio XX

The Social Body is a video and web installation in which surfers on the web, through their responses, affect a body modelled in fat. Demonstrating the powerful effect of ideas on matter by a process of “art-statistics”, this sensitizing device evokes the massive influence of the social body on each individual one.

1:45
launch of the fall program and workshops at  STUDIO XX :

jake moore and Marie-Hellène Lemay

2:00 : Performances by artists from the MAX/msp workshops
Introduction by instructor Patrice Coulombe.

-Vera Ronkos :on the cello/max patch
accompanied by
Patrice Coulombe on violon
Vera will play the cello that will be effected different ways by a patch that resulted from the Studio XX course Max/MSP.


followed by :

-The first live processed audio-visual performance of I8U,
“BURDEN”

Burden is an ongoing project inspired by the metamorphosis of the soul from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The concept is that when art becomes subjectively stale, the artist feels burden. Once this Burden becomes too heavy, the paradigm shifts and the artist can create anew. Through MAX/msp and jitter, I8U explores this concept with a live performance using a patch that acts as a new instrument to show this metamorphosis.

I8U’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture.” It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her Web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.

and throughout the day we will  be streaming live :

Refresh: The first International Conference on Media Art Histories
from the
Banff New media Institute

The presentations will be in both French and English.

Please pass on this invitation! Hope to see you there

STUDIO XX
338 Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E8
Métro Sherbrooke, ou autobus 24 (Sherbrooke) ou 125 (Ontario).
(514) 845-7934 /
http://www.studioxx.org
Information:
info@studioxx.org

New York 09.24.2005 – Homework at ORT

* ‘Homework’ at ORT

September 24th at 9 p.m. sharp!

@

ORT*, 330 Ellery St. (between broadway & beaver st.), _Ground Floor_, Bushwick, Brooklyn (see Directions Below)

*at ORT* (on ellery in bushwick, brooklyn), o.blaat (Keiko
Uenishi) is prepping to set up the

first collaborative work at this wonderful space (expecting to be series of collaborative development/experiments as site-specific tryouts) called *’Homework’.*

The first of the tryouts will feature *Haeyoung Kim (Bubblyfish)
, I8U , David Linton, *and *o.blaat* , in various combinations (solos/duos/trios/quartet).

Open-to-public concert portion will start at 9 p.m. sharp at ORT, 330 Ellery St., Bushwick, Brooklyn *admission is free (but your donation is gladly accepted:) BYOB in casual salon style…
btw. we have very limited bike parking space, and not responsible for any bike locked outside on the street.

direction to ORT:
where: *330 Ellery St. (between Broadway & Beaver St.) Ground flr.,
Brooklyn (Bushwick – southeast of Willyburg)*
time:

** always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info
<http://mta.info/> !!

trains:
*J to Flushing Ave.* (4th stop from LES/manhattan.. if you’re coming
from willyburg, 3rd stop from marcy ave.) upon exiting, take right side of staircase (facing to the token booth) which would lead you to go down in front of Duane Reade – corner of Broadway & Flushing Ave. cross Flushing Ave. to another corner where big construction is in process, then keep walking on Broadway for 3 blks (away from Manhattan)… so you’ll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway. Make left on Ellery St. (it’s within 3-5 min walk.)

*G to Flushing Ave. *(from greenpoint/mid-willyburg/downtown-brooklyn) upon exiting, walk on Flushing Ave. towards Woodhull hospital/Broadway. once you hit Broadway, make right and walk 3 blks. so you’ll see Ellery St. is crossing with Broadway.
Make left on Ellery St. (it’s within 8-10 min. walk.)

*Haeyoung Kim (Bubblyfish) * relocated to US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she explores the territory of sounds and their cultural representation. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she has been creating “lo-fi”, 8-bit sound works and minimal electronic compositions.
Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Her work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including Le Consortium, France; Media Ruimte, Belgium; and in New York at The Museum of the Moving Image;, Eyebeam Atelier; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; and Lincoln Center’s Walter Reed Theater. She was the 2003 Van Lier artist-in-residency recipient at Harvestworks.
http://bubblyfish.com

I8U (review by exclaim.ca on ‘Send + Receive’
festival: Montreal’s I8U fashioned expansive electronic tones, forming spellbinding textures that resulted in a very impressive set.
Frequencies gradually and adeptly reached tall crests of sound before descending to subterranean reverberations. Shifting from lulling minimalism to resonating noise, I8U sculpted sound with the utmost precision and talent. RN/exclaim.ca)
http://i8u.com
*
David Linton*has witnessed the sun’s rise and fall on 4 decades worth of amerikan subcultural music practice. For the past 2 1/2 of these decades he has lived and worked in NYC – first hitting his stride as a ‘downtown’ drummer in the early 1980’s. (See early recordings: Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, among others soon to come) From the drums he moved to solo performing and live electronics and computer assisted composition and sound design for dance and theater – etc… (more than a dozen scores for choreographer Stephen Petronio – and a couple of noteworthy works for the Wooster Group- among many others) His mid 80&’s solo release “Orchesography” (Neutral 14) represents downtown sensibility at the crossroads of post punk, primal noise, early sampling technique, and theatrical post modernism. By the early ’90’s an experimental foray into venue building (at the ‘hausofouch’ loft in Chinatown) led to transformative zeitgeist events (Ouch, Sensate, SoundLab, & Step Forward) and a burgeoning absorption in the multimedia design parameters associated with the ‘immersive’ movement.

By the late ’90’s a perfect balance between audio and visual elements in the live electronic performance environment was sought with the launch of the Unit¥Gain platform and integrated modus operandi. From here it was a curious but natural progression to the community media architecture explorations of Unitygain Television (1AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org – still running). http://unitygain.org

*o.blaat* Based in Brooklyn, New York, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) — Sound artist, composer, and core member of SHARE(http://share.dj) — is known for creating various interactive audio environments resulting from her ceaseless pursuits of erasing the performer’s presence and ultimately altering listening situations. After performing with a unique, hand-made electronic ‘tapboard.effector.soundsystem’  for several years, Uenishi has been
exploring the Powerbook’s mobility and its least distracting state of being. Her performance and installations have appeared at many
museums/clubs/galleries/festivals worldwide.
Most recently, she completed a site-specific audio/light interactive
installation, ‘Aboard:Fillip2’ created for a cargo-container at Fortescue Avenue Gallery, London, UK in July 2005. The piece was
commissioned by dosensos.org and a part of its ‘Six Sites for Sound’
(http://sixsitesforsound.net)
http://obla.at

New York 09.18.2005 – Connect the Dots @ Monkey Town

Connect the dots
an evening curated by Ilan Katin

November 9th 2005  – 8pm @ MonkeyTown

New York City

Live sound and video manipulations featuring:

BubblyFish + Glomag
www.bubblyfish.com/
www.glomag.com/

Aerostatic
www.aerostatic.com/

I8U << From Montreal!!!
www.i8u.com/

Chika
www.chiklet.com/

ilan katin
www.ilankatin.com/

The show which also take place at MonkeyTown the following Wedneday (Sept. 21st) will be 60 minutes of continuous music and synchronized video. The video will utilize two projectors. The visuals will be coordinated by the two artists so that the two images are never the same and yet will compliment each other.

The event is curated by ilan katin. Location
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

Directions:
From the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd. Monkey Town is halfway down the block on the left.

always check schedule/route re: train/bus with http://mta.info

Montreal 06.04.2005 – Mutek 2005

Le Placard @ Mutek 2005

The première of Mrs White, a trio comprising of
Myléna Bergeron + Magali Babin + i8u.

Saturday, June 4th 2005
18h40-19h20

Museum Just for Laughs,
2111 Boul. St Laurent, 1st floor
Montreal, Qc
Canada

Le PLacard welcomes 60 artists from the canadian electronic scenes and Mutek internationl guests. Le PLacard is a a MAJOR gathering, an unique event !
3 days of concerts for deep listeners connected to the stage by wires, hearing all performances through headphones, and 3 days of Internet streaming for far away lovers of experimental music.


Le Placard

Initiated in 1999 by Parisian organization BÜRO, LE PLACARD is a unique concept for a nomadic, international festival: it is based around the presentation of live musical performances to a public outfitted with headphones, along with the simultaneous transmission of the concerts over the Internet.

PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 is the initiative of Eric Mattson, curator of this first collaboration between LE PLACARD and MUTEK. The event-laboratory welcomes over a period of three days over sixty performances of original and untamed electronic music. The selected artists come from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as several other countries-all of whom will be taking advantage of this exclusive platform to diffuse an eclectic assortment of original, unedited, and untamed electronic music.

A festival within a Festival, PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 also serves as an outlet for meetings and exchanges-a forum for impromptu collaborations and unexpected demonstrations.

The Yokomono project from duo Staalplaat Soundsystem debuts the festival in its performance format, and then follows with its installation mode-assuring a playfully animated break during the interludes which dot the program.

The calendar of performances will be published on www.placard.org, www.mutek.ca, and www.bandeapart.fm. The BANDEAPART.FM/Radio-Canada website will also present a blog where internet-users can interact more directly to share their impressions on the performances. PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 inaugurates the 2005 season for LE PLACARD, which will unfurl over three months in different venues.

Büro
Paris, FR
www.placard.org
www.bandeapart.fm

Spearheaded by Parisian artist Erik Minkkinen, BÜRO is a structure for the organising and producing of events, dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of all kinds of “adventurous” music, while also maintaining an interest in extreme, innovative, critical, or playful artistic approaches in the grand scheme of electronic music. It’s within this context that LE PLACARD-a nomadic, international festival that, since 1999, proposes a three-month long season of live performances coupled with simultaneous streaming over the Internet-thrives. This diffusionary method stimulates creation and favours experimentation, permitting performances in rather unconventional environments: a Parisian maids’ bedroom, a Tokyo gallery, or the backstage of a concert that can become as good as diffusionary venue for the festival as any. Incorporating a large number of people present or connected live via the Internet, this event-laboratory creates a network of ephemeral concert sites, “placards (closets),” and integrates the audience into each creative step along the way.

Staalplaat Soundsystem
NL_DE

Conceived by Geert-Jan Hobijn and Carsten Stabenow, this project is regarded by its authors as a Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation. Resurrecting the mechanic, playful aesthetic characteristic of all the creations from Staalplaat Soundsystem, the Yokomono installation consists of ten vinyl killers-toy car spinning record players, each customised with its own fm transmitter. The emerging sounds are due to a collection of radios that receive the randomly transmitted signals from the toy cars, yet instability and unpredictability ensues since the cars run on batteries and will ultimately die out, hence the term “vinyl killers.”
The presence of Yokomono at PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 will offer the occasion for Staalplaat to inaugurate their wireless video extension and entertain certain sonic loops from the likes of Anton Nikkilä, Charlemagne Palestine, Fennesz, fm3, Ignaz Schick, Ilpo Väisänen, Justin Bennett, C.M. von Hausswolff, Phill Niblock, Radian and Tim Hecker.


Montreal 12.15.2004 – TAC 4 @ Oboro

A rare collaboration with  David Kristian on December 15th, 2004. (see Below)

Transistors and Other Circuits


TAC 4 – Friday November 26th, 7:00 pm

Diane Labrosse
David Sanson + Mathias Delplanque
Daniel Olson
Szkieve

2111 bld. St-Laurent, Montréal – Museum Just for Laughs, 3rd floor, 10 $
note : TAC 4 will be followed at 10:00 PM by MUTEK Micro 10, with Julien Roy, Lena (fr), Mossa, Cabanne + Arc =Copacabannark (fr)

TAC 5 Studies of Multi-channel Diffusion by Electronic Composers (1)

Nancy Tobin
John Sellekaers
David Kristian + I8U
Mathias Delplanque

Wednesday December 15th, 9:00 pm @
Oboro, 4001 Berri – Laboratoire Nouveaux
Médias 2nd Floor, Tix: 10 $ Doors open
at 8:30pm, show starts at 9:00pm sharp.

TAC 6 – Friday December 17th, 9:00 pm

Ælab
Magali Babin
Joda Clement
Tim Hecker

Oboro, 4001 rue Berri – New Media Lab, 2nd floor
9 PM, doors open at 8:30 PM