SOUNDSPACE: MUSICOLOGY sponsored by Kenaxis Software
Inspired by the work of artist Francisco Lopez, curator Alan So presents a sound installation at The LAB where artists and musicians will perform in a specially-designed circular 6-channel-speaker sound space that will have audiences experience sounds in an all-encompassing surround environment.
Artists:
Night Night
Don Seaver
Tim Gallaher
GroundChuck
An Electronic/Theatric/Acrobatic Adventure. Electronic music artists Night Night, and GroundChuck will perform their works split on 6 channels creating an acrobatic musical feast for the ears. Performance artist Tim Gallaher creates surround audio/visual filmsongs. In a special collaboration, Night Night, reinterprets award-winning theatre composer Don Seaver ‘s dramatic scores for plays and musicals, including Medea and The Crucible in the surround environment.
SOUNDSPACE:MUSICOLOGY> ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
ALAN SO (Curator)
Alan So has been creating and supporting innovative art for over 10 years. He believes art is a cultural revolution and catalyst for enlightenment-- one that evokes thought and inspires action. He pursues this revolution with intense fervor giving people progressive ideas and tools to better live, think, and interact with the world around them, one mind at a time. An accomplished artist and a professional designer, this advocate of art intersects his many abilities to become producer, organizer, curator, programmer, promoter, director, and founder of MEDIATE NETWORK, a forum for diverse artists to create and disseminate works to a world in desperate need of innovative ideas. With MEDIATE, he has conceived of and produced such projects as The.ME.Project and Project>Soundwave, bringing together artists from around the globe and organizing exhibitions and events Online, in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and his native Canada. www.me-di-ate.net
NIGHT NIGHT (Performer)
Night Night is the lap-pop alias for Dana Gumbiner, producer, engineer and singer/songwriter with the band Deathray. Night Night’s music is composed using various acoustic, electronic and junk-technology sources: Speak N Spell affirmations over tone poems and stuttered rhythms, combined with wry visuals create an atmosphere of pleasant transcendental fuzziness, something akin to a short flight on an airplane, or your first glass of wine.The first Night Night EP “Stuntman & Psychic� is available through Observatory/Skyway www.deathraymusic.com/nightnight.html
TIM GALLAHER (Performer)
Tim Gallaher is a San Francisco based mixed media performance artist. With a degree in film production, his primary mediums are music, film and writing, and he combines them into unique performances in which he accompanies his musical films and their recorded soundtracks with live narration and singing while standing up alongside the projected images, creating musical cinematic performance narratives. Spoken word and absurd puppetry antics round out his shows. He has performed his one-man show, Tim’s Magic Lantern Show at the San Francisco and Victoria, Canada Fringe Festivals and his songs can be heard on numerous independent feature films such as April is My Religion, The Low Life and Tromeo and Juliet. Currently, Tim is working on his next musical film, set in the early 1960’s US about a majestic ands seductive alien who visits a lonely young ham radio buff and change history in the process. www.sonic.net/tim-g
GROUNDCHUCK (Performer)
groundchuck is: pulverized cow, a fur bearing mammal, soundscapes and aural interludes that aim at reframing consciousness and creating thought patterns that transform and inspire. groundchuck a.k.a. Charles Freeman's quest for world domination through sound started at age 8 when Charles and his older brother sequenced new soundtracks for sci-fi movies on an old four-track recorder. over the next 15 years Charles spent most of his time developing his musical expertise through the study of piano, saxophone, guitar, turntablism and finally the digital audio workstation. Charles' musical voyage has taken him through many styles of creation. www.groundchuck.net
DON SEAVER (Composer)
Don Seaver started songwriting with a country western band in 1982, and wrote his first musical in 1983. He started composing for the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1990, which began his 15 years in theater creating original scores and sound design. He has worked with numerous Bay Area theaters, including Magic Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Aurora Theatre, Encore Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, and Shotgun Players. In addition, Don has composed scores for television, videogames, and ballet, and is working on an opera about Leonard Bernstein. He has been nominated for several Bay Area Theater Critics’ Circle Awards for best score/sound design over the years, and won in 1999 for his score for “Mere Mortals� and in 2004 for “Southern Lights� (with Julie Jackson.) www.donseaver.com
Cost: $6-10