Sunday, October 26
8 pm
$ 10
Resounding Image
An evening of intermedia collaboration
with
Aki Onda and mpld
Bruce McClure
Fabienne Gautier
Combes & Renaud
Sylvain Flanagan
The seven artists
gathered for this show come from a range of different artistic practices.
Music and sound art, film and photography, performance and installation
are some of the elements of their respective work.
As sound composers and performers, they are interested in the cinematic
and evocative qualities of sound. As photographers and film makers, they
look for inherent musical qualities of images and their display. All of
them look to unfold by some degree narrative structures (whether broad
or minimal, open-ended or finite) within the time frame of the live show.
Resounding Image brings these artists together because of their shared
interest in intermedia cross-pollination. As a one-night event, it defines
a space and a time for sound and image to meet and interact sympathetically.
Aki Onda and mpld
(Gill Arn˜)
Cassettes, walkmans, electronics. Amplified slide projectors. Live 20Õ
Aki Onda is
an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan
and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette
Memories project - works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings
collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda's musical instrument
of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings
with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with
electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage,
Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar
improvisation.
www.akionda.net
mpld
Gill Arn˜ was born in Italy, where he studied art and typography before
moving to New York in 1997. His current work includes video, photography,
print, sound recording and composition, installations and live performance.
In the project mpld old modified slide projectors are used in a live setting.
Static images from found slides become pulsating and fade one into another,
while the projectorsÕ mechanical sounds are tapped and processed to reveal
their musical possibilities. Arn˜ often collaborates on- and off-stage
with other artists. He publishes books, recordings and other multiples
via his own imprint, unframed, and runs Fotofono, a small studio in Brooklyn
where public events are sometimes held.
www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld
www.unframedrecordings.net
Bruce McClure
16mm projectors, pedals. Live 20Õ
Bruce McClure graduated from architectural school in 1985, received his
license to practice in 1992 and continues to work in offices in New York
City. In 1994 his interests turned from static to moving images and now
occupy most of his time when not at work. Originally attracted to abandoned
technologies, he began working with effects created by a variety of simple
devices such as the phenakistascope (1830). Recombining spinning discs
and EdgertonÕs xenon flash (1930) gave rise to a mongrelized roto-optics
that eventually suggested the movie projector as the best means to wallow
in temporal dynamics. His projector performances have been included in
many national and international events including the Whitney Biennial,
Rotterdam Film Festival, and Image Forum (Japan). Since 2002 he has shown
annually at "Media City" Film festival, Windsor Ontario where
he has premiered many works and won several awards.
Fabienne Gautier
Movies on DVD: Iceland 4Õ19s and Passing 9Õ40s Passing is a short slice
of life on the street. One homeless person dealing with his isolation
on the streets of Paris. Iceland was shot in B&W super 8 while driving
across Iceland in 2004. IcelandÕs landscape seemed to reflect a particular
internalization of feeling. This work speaks to this internal mind. Fabienne
Gautier is an artist and filmmaker living in Paris. Her works include
several medias like film, video, installations and photography. She is
interesting in experimenting with various visual and audio and to play
within their particular relationship. Her work has been shown internationally
in galleries and festivals including the New Museum of Contemporary art
NYC, the Kitchen NYC, Locarno, Rotterdam, Media City Canada, and the New
York Underground festivals. her short Night Walk has been awarded best
experimental short at the 2006 Delta International Film and Video Festival
USA.
gautier.fabienne.free.fr
Combes & Renaud
Video on DVD: Anibray Transmission 5Õ26 The same countryside landscape
was photographed from the same spot at different times of the day and
different days. The polaroids were scanned and edited in a video where
the same landscape fades in and out of itself in a silent yet musical
fashion. Combes & Renaud are Paris-based artists and photographers. They
started a series of work ÒUnstill imagesÓ which are videos using stills
and sound. They were recently commissioned to represent France at the
Exposition Internationale of Saragosse (Spain) in 2008. www.combesrenaud.com
Sylvain Flanagan
3 slide projectors, slides and recorded vocal sounds 13Õ
Sylvain Flanagan is a Brooklyn-based artist working with sound and images.
His work has been shown in Europe and New York galleries in art venues
such as Museum of Contemporary Art of the city of Paris, Galerie Eric
Dupont, Hopital Ephemere, Knitting Factory, Galapagos Art Space, Gallery
Siseshow and Gallery Sensei. "With visual Ð slides projections Ð
and musical installations, I work on relations between images and sounds.
I am interested in the paradox between the fact that still images are
inherently silent but also have a potential for sound and music. Improvising
vocal sounds on photographic images, I give these a voice and a dimension
in time." - Sylvain Flanaganwww.sylvainflanagan.com"
www.sylvainflanagan.com
Resounding Image is an original idea of Gill Arno, Fabienne Gautier and Sylvain Flanagan.
