Three evenings of Sound Performance
18 - 20 November 2004, 8:00pm
EYEBEAM
540 W 21st St.
(between 10th & 11th Avenues) NYC.
info@eyebeam.org
www.eyebeam.org
Eyebeam is pleased to present three evenings of innovative sound performance, including new works by Scanner and Ryoji Ikeda.
Eyebeam
World Music Videos and Live Performances
November 18 – 8:00pm
Eyebeam and Link TV present a screening of pre-release world music videos followed by live performances from Emeline Michel of Haiti, Eletfa of Hungary and the Fula Flute Ensemble of Guinea/West Africa. Videos for these performers and for Bakithi Kumalo of South Africa were produced in a new collaboration between Eyebeam’s Education Studios and Link TV’s music programming arm, pairing film and video students with world musicians fusing music and visual art. This event is free to the public with a suggested donation.
52 Spaces by Scanner
November 19 – 8:00pm
Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, notorious for his first works on CD that remixed voices scanned from cell phone conversations with techno noise and beats, continues his relentless study of the subjective, polyphonic and amplified urban experience. In his live performance 52 Spaces, Scanner explores the hidden resonances and meanings of sound within the filmic image using Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 film L’Eclisse as its inspirational focal point. Rome appears as a surreal city, anonymous and suspended in time as Scanner manipulates sections of dialogue, background noises and musical fragments. A rarefied and seductive atmosphere is generated as the new sound tracks interact with the dramatically manipulated projection of the last 52 frames of the film.**Ticketed event.
C4I by Ryoji Ikeda
November 20 – 8:00pm
Eyebeam is pleased to present the U.S. premiere of C4I, the exciting new work by sound artist and electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda. Both a concert and a film, C4I (“see-four-eye”) uses data as material and theme, highlighting the ways in which various forms of information shape our perception and understanding of the world. Outsized video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into the symbolic languages of facts, figures and diagrams used in montage with dazzling graphic force, illuminating the musical score. **Ticketed event.
Advance tickets may be purchased at Eyebeam’s online store, app.etapestry.com/hosted/Eyebeam/giving.html, or in person at Other Music, 15 E. 4th Street, NYC.
52 Spaces was commissioned for the British School of Art at Rome.
C4I was commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan, 2004 and its tour produced by Forma, UK.
Eyebeam center for art and technology supports the development, creation and presentation of new forms of innovative cultural production. Founded in 1996, Eyebeam is dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre.