UNsound REsound : an evening featuring the work of Bay Area sound artists Chris Fitzpatrick, Scott Arford, Thomas Dimuzio (solo and together)
Chris Fitzpatrick is a practicing sound and visual artist, writer, composer, and performer. His visual and audio work has been shown since 1994 in galleries, clubs, alternative spaces, street corners, and radio stations from California to Croatia. He has received awards including cash prizes, gallery popular votes, and first place in an international billboard competition. As a regularly commissioned composer, Fitzpatrick has written and performed music for feature and short films, which have been shown at film festivals and in theatres. He is also a member of sound-arts collective, Noisegate, and has released four full-length recordings on Tumult, Legion, Manufracture, and Invisible records. These releases were supported with promotional tours in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Poptastic, his latest musical endeavor, will be released on Seeland Records early next year.
In addition to his own work, Fitzpatrick has coordinated and curated shows for local and international artists. He served as the director of the Artery Gallery, and is currently a partner within OnSix Gallery in San Francisco. He was also a Features Editor for PopMatters magazine, for which he writes interrogative articles centered on media objects, and is currently the Editor of The Lunger, an online literary magazine concerned with progressive history.
Chris Fitzpatrick was born in New York and currently lives in San Francisco, California, where he is the Creative Director of Scopic Networks(scopicnetworks.com) - a multi-media production studio.
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Scott Arford is one of the leading figures of new media arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. His works include sound and visual
performances, fully immersive multichannel sound and video installations, and low frequency spatial-acoustic explorations with Randy H.Y. Yau as Infrasound. Recently, Arford premiered solo works at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the Activating the Medium festival, performed at the Australian Center for the Moving Image for Liquid Architecture - the 4th Annual National Festival of Sound Art in Melbourne Australia, completed a multi-channel sound/video installation in Lima, Peru for 7 Festival de Video/Arte/Eolectronica, a multi-channel sound/video installation at Sonic Light in Amsterdam, and taught a week-long sound workshop at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Arford received a Bachelor of Architecture from the College of Architecture and Design at Kansas State University in 1991. He is currently an instructor at the California College of Arts in Oakland, CA. In 1995 Arford founded 7hz, a warehouse/performance space dedicated to supporting live electronic experimental media. 7hz has featured such international artists as Francisco Lopez, Kit Clayton, Blechdom from Blectum, Zbignew Karkowski, The Haters, Mayuko Hino, and John Duncan.
Arford has presented his works throughout the US, Europe, China, Taiwan, Japan and South America.
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Thomas Dimuzio is a composer, musician, mastering engineer and label proprietor based in San Francisco. Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live sampling and studio techniques to create consistently compelling works, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time and technology. Effortlessly moving from electro-acoustic and noise to glitch, dark ambient, improv and drone, Dimuzio's eclecticism bespeaks a career equally informed by profound dedication to his craft and collaborations with friends, artists and technologists alike.
Equally versed in sound design and production, Dimuzio has produced radically distinct sound libraries for Big Fish Audio, Rarefaction and OSC which have then been utilized by television programs such as the X-Files, and done mastering work for the likes of Negativland, Wobbly/People Like Us/Matmos, and GG Allin as well as worked on many remix projects, including the Art Bears. Among his collaborations include work with Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Matmos, Wobbly, DJ Qbert, Dan Burke, Paul Haslinger, Due Process, 5uu's and many others.
Current projects include work with Mark Hosler, Mickey Hart and Poptastic. Dimuzio's current release Slew, available through RéR Megacorp/Gench, neatly compiles the artist's contributions to compilation albums released between 1990 and 2004.
(www.thomasdimuzio.com)
Cost: $6-10