UNSEEN series | Wave Encounters Obstacle
Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series presents site-specific, collaborative performances by Bay Area artists and explores current practices in immersive media, including expanded cinema, video and sound art, experimental music and technology. The UNSEEN series is curated by Oakland artist Matt Fisher.
Tickets $8 Presale / $13 Day of Show / $15 Door. Cash bar available to those 21 years and older.
Wave Encounters Obstacle is a new collaborative, mutimedia work by five local artists working in expanded cinema and music.
Thomas Dimuzio, Kit Young, Lori Varga, Brian Pederson and Sung Kim will be using 8 channels of video and film with 8 channels of surround audio.
Leaning heavily on Bay Area history of both expanded cinema and immersive light shows, Young and Varga create improvised analog, digital and voltage-controlled visuals that incorporate manipulated slide projectors, 16-mm film sources, and digital projection and synthesis.
Innovator and pioneer
Thomas Dimuzio’s analog modular synthesizers will both act as instruments and voltage control devices that create and respond to Young’s visuals. Dimuzio will also be modulating live acoustic performances by Sung Kim on invented instruments and Brian Pederson on baritone horn and sax.
The work is in four parts, and both instrumentation and roles will recombine over the course of the performance. Join us for an immersive exploration of psychedelic imagery, found footage, drone synth ambient and electroacoustic improvisation.
Schedule:
8:00 Doors
9:00 Show
Artists:
Thomas Dimuzio- modular audio synth
Sung Kim- invented instruments, (Nuns Horn, Ozukuri)
Brian Pedersen- baritone horn, sax
Lori Varga- 16mm fillm, 35mm slide projections
Kit Young- modular video synth, video feedback array