December 08, 2005
Opsound + Glowlab Open Lab
Look, Listen, Interact, Play, Contribute
Opsound is pleased to announce an exciting line-up for the closing party of Opsound's Open Sound Exchange and Glowlab's Open Lab to take place Sunday, December 11 at Art Interactive Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 4-8pm.
Performances in the gallery will include a live video and audio stream by LoVid, an interactive audio piece for mobile phone handsets by RZ-1 Mobil Tek, plus experimental ambient live music by Eric Raz, Brad Bordine, and Weapons of Mass Destruction, additional sounds from Opsound's collaborative internet radio stream.
Directions and Information: Sunday, December 11, 4-8pm; Art Interactive
130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA; 617-498-0100, info[at]artinteractive.org; Subway: Central Square [Directions/map]
Performers:
LoVid--LoVid is Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Using homemade electronic devices and DIY sculptural instruments, LoVid overwhelms the senses with new media in their performances, videos, objects, and installations. LoVid has toured the US and Europe extensively performing among many others at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Boley, Max Protetch, Eyedrum, NY Underground Film Festival, Look and Listen Festival, Kraak(3) Festival, Lokaal01, Lumen, and Futuresonic Festival. LoVid has exhibited among others at COCA Seattle, Sotheby's, SOUTHFIRST, Happy Lion, Institute of Contemporary Art London, and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. LoVid is currently artist in residence at Eyebeam, has been selected as artist in residence at Harvestworks and iEAR, has been nominated free103point9 transmission artist, and has recently received a grant from NYSCA. A DVD of LoVid recordings made during a residency at Experimental TV Center has recently been released on CollectivEye.
RZ-1 MobileTek--Glad to be back in the Boston area. My roots. Searching for new methods to release sound into our environment. Currently developing audio software for the cell phone. Recently completed projects include New Conventions of Behavior - An experimental sound work that investigates how listeners create cognitive structures for understanding new sounds, and how composers organize sound structures into pieces. Auracle: a voice driven, interactive and colloborative instrument. The project was led by Max Neuhaus and realized with a team of fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.
Eric Raz--Soundscapes (guitar & looping) Graduate of the School of the Museum of FIne Arts. Also a visual artist; batik, lighting, printmaking.
Brad Bordine--Free electronic sound environments drawn from a palette of synthesis and environmental recordings.
Weapons of Mass Destruction--Weapons of Mass Destruction is a Brooklyn-based guitar and laptop band, specializing in semi-ambient deconstructions and blasted-open pop covers. WMD are Sharilyn Neidhardt (guitar, keyboard, vocals, and sounds) and Sal Randolph (laptop, rhythms, vocals, field recordings, sounds). They have performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Pianos, and Subtonic and Trash in New York, as well as in clubs, pubs and galleries the UK and Germany.
Opsound's Open Sound Exchange: Boston
Beginning October 14, Opsound's Open Sound Exchange: Boston will be part of Glowlab's "Open Lab", an exhibition and festival of psychogeographic explorations headquartered at Art Interactive. Opsound will be collecting and generating a sound portrait of Cambridge and Boston through recordings in the gallery, sound gathering walks through various neighborhoods, and via contributions from sound artists and musicians over the internet. All the collected material will be broadcast as a 24/7 internet radio stream -- a special edition of the 'opstream' -- that will grow throughout the exhibition.
About Opsound: Free Love, Free Music.
Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine. Opsound is a project of artist Sal Randolph.
Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their sounds to the project.
Opsound's Open Sound Exchange: Boston is gathering material for an open pool of sounds relating to the city. Boston real and Boston imaginary, Boston past and Boston now: yelling cabbies, Rat new wave, Fenway Park crowds, sunday afternoon string quartets, harbor noises, sidewalk folk singers, Composers in Red Sneakers new music, banker high heels, museum whispers, Media Lab algorithms, Big Dig construction, student arias. every city is a world of sound -- help discover Boston's by creating a kaleidoscopic sonic portrait. Contributions can include work from, about, or inspired by the idea of Boston. Boston sounds, including field recordings from various parts of the city, are already in the pool and available for remixing.
To contribute, simply add your sounds to opsound, and tag them with the word "boston."
Glowlab: Open Lab
Curated by Christina Ray
A nine-week-long psychogeography festival and exhibition
In Fall 2005, Art Interactive is conducting a nine-week-long experiment. We have invited artists affiliated with Glowlab, a network of psychogeographers, to use the Central Square neighborhood as the site of their research and fill the exhibition space with the results of their investigations. PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, a term coined by the Situationist International in the 1950s and appropriated by contemporary artists, is used to describe projects that produce affect in relation to the geographic environment. Rather than making maps in the traditional geographic sense, these artists utilize maps and geography to conduct located experiments with (among other things) people, trash, bikes, clothes, the sky and the gallery space itself. Often making use of mobile technologies and existing in the hybrid spaces of the Internet and the physical world, their projects produce new understandings of location and identity as shifting, fluid, singular and irreducible.
Central Square, Cambridge, MA, will never be the same again. Join us for nine weeks of public walks, talks, tours, workshops, concerts, group bike rides, and other ways of exploring the Central Square neighborhood. Each weekend of the festival, different Glowlab artists will be present to lead participatory public events inside and outside the Art Interactive space. Visit the online schedule at for more details about upcoming events or email info[at]artinteractive.org.
Glowlab: Open Lab
Opening Reception: Friday, October 14th, 2005, 6 - 9pm
October 14 through December 11
Gallery Hours & Location:
Art Interactive is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 - 6pm or by
appointment. The gallery is located at 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the
corner of Prospect Street in Cambridge, MA. For more information,
please contact info@artinteractive.org, call 617-498-0100 or fax 617-498-0019.
Press release with downloadable press kit.
Posted by jo at December 8, 2005 11:05 AM
