An Event and
not all night, all right (well, except in Europe)
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From:
Katherine Liberovskaya (katlib7@gmail.com)
OptoSonic MayDay Marathon
Saturday May 1st 2021 noon-11pm NYC time / 18:00-5:00 Europe
We are back with a second marathon online OptoSonic Tea event, almost exactly a
year after the first one. In this 11 hour long event artists from different
parts of the world will perform together (mostly U.S., Europe and Latin
America), taking advantage of the unplace of the web in combination with the
technology of being able to be connected always with everywhere even as many
are still in lockdowns or isolation.
This
international community oriented exploration of live performance with visuals, movement
and sound will form a wild virtual collage of rhythms, colors,
gestures and light.
Curated by
Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer.
Once again in partnership with NowNet Arts NYC, this year we are
also collaborating with Experimental Intermedia NYC, XFest (Lowell,
MA) and Kunsthaus Langenthal (Switzerland) and have opted for this time to
invite different organizations and groups to take over the different hours of
the day. These include: NowNet Lab Ensemble (NYC), OptoSonic Tea (NYC and Langenthal, Switzerland), PataLab
(Berlin, Bogotá, Cologne), APO33 (Nantes, France), Harvestworks (NYC), XFest
(Lowell, MA), Sonic Gatherings (NYC), Grace Exhibition Space
(NYC), Vampÿrates & Clockface Orange @ Synesthesia (NYC).
The entire OptoSonic MayDay Marathon will be viewable via
the NowNet Arts virtual venue:
(Times in EST (NY) and CET (Europe) )
12 pm | 18 h NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble (NYC)
set 1: Ximena
Alarcon (voice, electronics), Viv Corringham (voice, electronics), Cássia
Carrascoza Bomfim (flute), Biggi Vinkeloe (alto saxophone), Angelo Branford
(guitar), Tom Zlabinger (bass), Diane Roblin (piano, electric keyboards), Jane
Wang (multi-instrumentalist), Gloria Damijan (percussion, electronics), Scott
Miller (electronics), Kit Fitzgerald (video), Sarah Weaver (conductor,
composer); set 2: Viv Corringham (voice, electronics), Gloria Damijan (concept,
video, toy piano, percussion, objects), Jane Wang (toy piano, piano, cello,
objects); set 3: Viv Corringham (voice, electronics), Kit Fitzgerald (video),
Biggi Vinkeloe (alto saxophone), Tom Zlabinger (bass)
1:30 pm | 19.30 h PataLab (Berlin, Bogotá, Cologne)
Ricardo Arias
(balloon, electronics), Nicola L. Hein (guitar, electronics), Luis Negrón
van Grieken (video / performance), Juan Oroszco (video / performance),
Claudia Schmitz (live moving image, live drawing)
2:00 pm | 20 h APO33 (Nantes, France)
APO33
Collective
Anonymous
artists (secret bodies, visuals, sounds and encrypted informations)
3:00 pm | 21 h OptoSonic Tea
(Langenthal, Switzerland)
Michael Egger
(analog audiovisuals), Asi Föcker (live visuals), Simon Grab (no-input feedback
electronics), Flo Kaufmann (analog audiovisuals), Laurent Novac /studio z1
(live audio and visuals), Ursula Scherrer (live visuals)
4:00 pm | 22 h Harvestworks (NYC)
set 1: Tomoko
Hojo (Video and Live visual + sound processing), Sergey Kasich (sound and live
electronics); set 2: Dafna Naphtali (sound processing), Andrew Neumann (Live
Video Switching)
5:00 pm | 23 h XFest MA (Lowell, MA)
set 1: Pied Nu
(France): Olivier Labbe (sound), Emmanuel Lalande (sound), Gregory Kowlaski
(visuals); set 2: ensemble inedit?!: Joe Burgio (sound), Kristiana Hubley
(movement), Ian Kovac (sound), John Voigt (sound), Charlotte Wagner (movement),
Andrea West (movement), Walter Wright (sound), Joe Burgio (artistic director);
set 3:
Callie Chapman
(movement, video), Al Margolis (various instruments, contact mics, objects), id
m theftable (voice, contact mics, objects), Dei Xhrist (voice, electronics)
6:00 pm | 24 h Sonic Gatherings (NYC)
Jorge Chikiar (sound), Brandon
Collwes (movement), Eleanor Hullihan (movement), John King (sound), Connor Voss
(movement), Christina Wheeler (sound)
7:00 pm | 1 h Grace Exhibition Space (NYC)
set 1:
Veronica Peña (performance); set 2: Hector Canonge (performance)
8:00 pm | 2 h Vampÿrates & Clockface Orange @
Synesthesia (NYC)
Vampÿrates
(sound: samples, rhythms, effects; visuals: film, video, slides) Richard Sylvarnes
& Bradley Eros; @ & with Synesthesia (visuals: smoke, reflections,
lights, digital mapping), Mio Nakai & Andrew Norris; A Clockface Orange
(visuals: liquid light projections, animation), Rachael Guma & Genevieve HK
9:00 pm | 3 h OptoSonic Tea (NYC)
set 1: Shelley
Hirsch (voice), Keiko Uenishi (electronics), Phill Niblock (field recordings),
Yoshiko Chuma (movement), Sofy Yuditskaya (live video), Katherine Liberovskaya
(live visuals); set 2: Marie-Helene Parant (live video), Peter Shapiro (live video),
Micheal Delia (live instruments), Hans Tammen (live electronics)
10:00 pm | 4 h NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble (NYC)
Angelo
Branford (guitar), Kit Fitzgerald (video), Colin James Gibson (guitar),
Katherine Liberovskaya (live visuals), Jim Mansfield (drums), Anna Pasztor
(movement), Christian Pincock (trombone), Diane Roblin (piano, electric
keyboards), Prawit Siriwat (guitar, electronics), Lisa Sokolov (voice, piano),
Beth Warshafsky (video), Sarah Weaver (conductor), Tom Zlabinger (bass)