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VOLUME and the Hammer Museum present Restless Brilliance, an evening exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presented artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art. This installment of our ongoing series with the Hammer Musuem presents a live performance by Shuttle358, and a screeningof Colorfield Variations organized by artists Richard Chartier. Abrams created quite a stir in the US minimal electronic scene with his debut release Optimal.lp in 1999 in which he seamlessly blended the soft sounds of ambient music with the granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism. This release defined his style and gave birth to many imitators, with comparisons to the work of Eno and Global Communication proving as often, and appropriate, as those to Oval or Ryoji Ikeda. Colorfield Variations Colorfield Variations in its original form was commissioned for Washington Project for the Arts and premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, on April 25, 2007. |
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ISIS + TIM HECKER
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Originally curated by Volume Co-Director Robert Crouch for the Bleeding Edge Festival, Volume will continue to work with the artists to develop and present further versions of this very special collaboration. We are also pleased to announce that SnowGhost Music has generously offered to produce and record this project in the coming months at their studio in Montana. Visit the SnowGhost website to learn more about this unique partnership.
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Volume Projects and Overlap.org present LISTEN/VISION 04, June 9th at Monkteytown. LISTEN/VISION 04 is the first NYC presentation of the LISTEN/VISION series. LISTEN/VISION 04 showcases new work by such international artists as Greg Davis, Sawako, Frank Bretschneider, David Kwan, and Nate Boyce. Each of these artists traverses the territory between art and music through multidisciplinary art forms including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, video mixes, and animation. The fourht installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 02 presented new work by Greg Davis, David Kwan, Sawako, Frank Bretschneider,and Nate Boyce. Links: |
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May 14, 2008 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presented a very special evening with live performances by the three principal members of the German arts platform Raster-Noton: Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender. Each artist performed individually, and collectively as Signal. These artists are considered by many to be some of the most important and influential individuals working within the field of experimental electronic audiovisual performance today. Signal: Robotron (mp3) Carsten Nicolai Among others, Nicolai already performed as Alva Noto at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Kunsthaus Graz and at Tate Modern in London. Additionally he has projects with diverse artists such as Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Mika Vainio or Thomas Knak (opto); recently he toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto through Europe, Australia and Asia. Olaf Bender Frank Bretschneider After the fall of the wall, he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999. He has performed at music and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, Offf, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, Ultima, etc. In addition to his solo work he has collaborated with artists such as with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden, and Ralph Steinbrüchel. This program was generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.
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LISTEN/VISION 02
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March 21, 2008 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA The second installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 02 presented new work by Gregg Kowalsky, David Kwan, i8u and CHiKA, and Sawako. Overlap.org Gregg Kowalsky David Kwan i8u CHiKA Sawako |
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LISTEN/VISION 01
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February 21, 2008 SF Camerawork San Francisco, CA The first installment of this series, LISTEN/VISION 01 presented new work by Richard Chartier, Frank Bretschneider, Carl Stone, and Nate Boyce. Links: |
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RESTLESS BRILLIANCE
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Volume and the Hammer Museum co-presented Restless Brilliance, two evenings exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance,Restless Brilliance presented artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art. October 23, 2007 |
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CARSTEN NICOLAI LECTURE
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Volume presented a lecture with internationally acclaimed artist and musician Carsten Nicolai at the San Francisco Art Institute. Carsten Nicolai is an artist who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. For several years now he has also experimented with sound under the pseudonym Noto to create his own code of signs, acoustic and visual symbols. As Alva Noto he leads those experiments into the field of electronic music. After his participation in Documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennal, Nicolai's works were shown in two comprehensive solo exhibitions at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, and at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany in 2005. Nicolai has performed as Alva Noto at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Kunsthaus Graz and at Tate Modern in London. Additionally he has projects with diverse artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, and Thomas Knak; most recently he collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on the critically acclaimed project Insen. Nicolai, along with partners Frank Bretschenider and Olaf Bender, is also a founding member of the German experimental electronic music imprint Raster-Noton. |
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David Kwan, Solaris
