[Nettime-bold] NFF: 'glitch &granular' - interactive Interruption installation -Final Full information

[tobias v <tobias@techno.ca>]

--- the New Forms Festival & the Velocity Media Arts Society (VMASS)
        in conjunction with <ST>

 present

 

    //glitch &granular// <----

 

    friday august 2nd 2002
    10pm- 2am+ / 
    vancouver.bc.canada

 

 

an evening of experimental electronic music
        interactive digital technologies
        video light and sculpture installation ::

        curated by tobias c. van Veen

 

--granular & glitch

An evening of minimal techno, granular dub, and ambient textures with
synchronised video and installation artŠ.an environmental metamorphosis
between the eyes and the ears spanning audio explorations into the realms of
experimental electronic music. The ³glitch² is a point of software collapse,
when unexpected sound guides the musical process; ³granular² is a
description for the post-dub digital synthesis of micro-peels of sound,
slivers of echoes and traces of frequencies and harmonies. Prepare to feel
sound and grasp its subtleties in all its silences and pockets of intensity
as the Video-In is subjected to a proper full spectrum sound system.
Vancouver grabs ahold of the future and shocks it to life: Kafka awakes to
find his cockroach genitals a digital bleep, a becoming-instrument waiting
to be played by the lyres of wind and wire.

 

[Joshua Kit Clayton. San Francisco. Orthlorng Musork.]

Come prepared for an immersive audio-visual experience featuring the first
live performance in over a year from internationally respected Orthlorng
Musork label innovator and micro-dub pioneer Joshua Kit Clayton from San
Francisco. Releasing minimal dub-techno masterpieces since the early Œ90s,
Kit Clayton has become the focal point for a San Francisco sound that
includes esteemed colleagues Sutekh, Safety Scissors, Blechtum from
Blechdom, Twerk, and Kid606. Joshua has work on many labels including Pole¹s
~scape, Sutekh¹s Context, Background, Vertical Form, Cytrax, Delay, Mille
Plateaux, Carpark, Pthalo, Plug Research, Parallel, Proptronix, and
Caipirinha, as well as working for Max/MSP¹s parent company Cycling ¹74. The
New Forms Festival is proud to provide a full listening experience for
Joshua¹s music. A Dirty Quebecois at heart, Joshua collects his trash at
http://www.musork.com/o_jkc.html <http://www.musork.com/o_jkc.html>

 

[Sue Costabile. San Francisco. Orthlorng Musork.]

Joining Kit Clayton will be label co-founder and video artist Sue Costabile
in a rare live collaborative audio-visual performance. As well as running
Orthlorng Musork, whose roster includes such notable artists as Timeblind
aka Chris Sattinger, AGF, Blechtum from Blechdom, and Stephen Mathieu, Sue
creates video art visuals for Joshua¹s music. Their esoteric and exploratory
live performances are the stuff of memory. The real woman behind the musork,
Sue sets her sights at www.musork.com <http://www.musork.com/>

 

[Mitchell Akiyama. Montreal. Intr_version.]

>From Montreal, the NFF welcomes intr_version label founder and composer of
melancholic and moody minimally textured techno Mitchell Akiyama in his
first live west coast performance. Mitchell has been busy in the Montreal
scene, founding his label intr_version and recording work for Alien 8,
Raster-Noton, Background, spar.ks, Instinct, and Substractif. Along with
Substractif labelmate Tim Hecker and Alien8 cohort Tomas Jirku, Mitchell is
known for recombinating the tension of minimal techno and its spaces of
silence with the emotional gridwork of post-digital explorative electronic.
Secretly singing to powerlines, Mitchell is planted at www.intr-version.com
<http://www.intr-version.com/> and

 

[Ben Nevile. Victoria.]

Bringing the beats, Victoria¹s Ben Nevile returns for a live minimal house
hoe-down spanning his work on such labels as Context, Mosaic, Telegraph,
Nordic Trax, Traum, and C74. Nevile¹s quirky yet laidback take on minimal
micro-house with a dub influence reflects his west-coast lifestyle and has
quickly gained him recognition at such festivals as Mutek 2002 and Refrains
2001. Another code-crunching employee of Cycling ¹74, Ben uses an inventive
and original Max software environment which he manipulates with a
self-programmed MIDI joystick, setting him apart in the world of laptop
performers as a wizard of technology and synthesized soul. A closet Rush
fan, Ben¹s diary is at www.saoul.com <http://www.saoul.com/>

 

[tobias. Montreal. <ST>]

Montreal¹s most recent Vancouver ex-patriate and minimal techno diehard DJ,
tobias, takes on three turntables of tricks. Despite his thinky-thinky
academic pandering, which he will display with panache at the NFF panels
[link here], tobias has a deep love for the carnal pleasures of frequency
foreplay. There¹s no talking here: you¹ll find yourself on the floor and
sweaty with your legs moving to an unholy rhythm. And keep your ears peeled:
no doubt some live tunes will find themselves dropped into the mix straight
from the studio smoke. Situationist or Surrealist? Decide for yourself at
www.shrumtribe.com <http://www.shrumtribe.com/>


--The Performance.

This will be a performance and a body shaking experience. Please note that
during the performances of Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Kit Clayton and Sue
Costabile there will be no in/out privileges. It¹s like the opera: be on
time, as this is a dedicated and intense sonic environment. After the
tension, hang on as the ecstatic release of Ben Nevile and tobias launch
into the rhythmic realms of micro-house and minimal techno for a thumping
tribute to the spirits of yesteryear.

 
 

--Joshua Kit Clayton and Sue Costabile.

 
"Granular Electronic Artist Joshua Kit Clayton to debut new interactive
audio-visual technology at New Forms Festival"

Experimental electronic music pioneer Joshua Kit Clayton will be debuting
his new, interactive audio-visual technology at the Friday, August 2nd
"glitch & granular" night at the New Forms Festival. Clayton is an
internationally renowned music software programmer who constructs "patches"
for the modular audio-visual software, Max/MSP, which forms the basis for
his compositional and performance process. The debut performance is called
"Interruption," and uses an advanced audio-visual interface to interpret a
live-filmed image of Joshua's and label co-partner Sue Costabile's faces
while at the same time recording their spoken and bodily sounds. The image
and audio data is then interpreted by Clayton's self-programmed Max/MSP
"patch" to mix with a pre-progammed series of abstract, fantasy images and
sounds. The reinterpreted and remixed images and audio will then be
projected onto a screen and broadcast out the soundsystem in real-time. This
is the international debut of this cutting-edge performance.

 
 
[Artist's Statement: "Interruption" by Joshua Kit Clayton & Sue Costabile]


"Susan and I will be on stage lying down on either tables or beds. Above
our heads will be a light, a video camera, and a microphone. We will be
facing upwards towards the cameras which will be zoomed close on our
faces. Our audio and video signal will each be sent to a computer to
determine how our audio and video will interrupt and or be interrupted
by a separate world of audio/video. These audio/video streams will be
merged and sent to the projector which will project the image on a
screen behind us. 

The video of our faces will be concrete/real, while the other
audio/video streams will be abstract/fantasy. There will be interplay
between reality/fantasy for each performer, as well as between
performers.


[WHAT IS BEN NEVILE DOING WITH A LAPTOP AND A JOYSTICK?]

"a guy named Adam Schabtach who works for C74 has written an object
called "insprock" that gives easy access to USB gaming devices in Max.  the
patch I use polls the joystick every 10 milliseconds or so.  if there has
been a change in status - ie, it is tilted differently, or I've pressed or
released a button - the data for that change comes out of this object as raw
numbers.  so for instance, the horizontal and vertical tilts come out as
numbers between 0 and 65535.  my max patch analyses this gesture data and
responds according to a set of rules I've programmed in.

so in short, the joystick gets plugged right into the computer's USB port
and sends numbers directly into the max environment.  MIDI is out of the
picture, although if you wanted you could use Max to generate MIDI in
response to the joystick's movements.  I did something like that this past
weekend with Cobblestone Jazz."



--The Art-Space.

Vancouver¹s Olo J. Milkman of the Product of Neglect Art Collective will
treat the eyes to the continuing series of Ample Lamps and Reverse-Line
slides featured at previous <ST> events and as seen at Wazubeez and the Mojo
Dojo. Olo will be creating metamorphic line-work specifically for the New
Forms Festival. Olo¹s work and diligently diverse online radio show can be
found at http://www.productofneglect.com

 

UBC Fine Arts graduate Triina Linde returns with conceptual space-art that
will transform your personal object-relations. You may remember her green
op-art floor covering at Refrains; compose yourself for another strangely
shocking environmental experience at the NFF.

 

---Location. Time. Date.

Video-In. 1965 Main St. 10pm-2am?
Limited Capacity. Be on time.
*No in/out during Kit Clayton + Sue Costabile¹s performance*
Tickets $15 advance / $20 door.
Info + tickets: http://www.newformsfestival.com

questions about the glitch night?
email tobias@techno.ca
 

---Lineup.

10-11 tobias
11-12 Mitchell Akiyama
12-1 Joshua Kit Clayton & Sue Costabile
1-2 Ben Nevile
2-? tobias

 

Šdo not miss another memory that threatens to racinate your soulŠ
   

 

 



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