[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Announcement premiere of the sound speaker series on Thursday, Aug 24 with David Michael DiGregorio and Sung Hwan Kim

[STEIM <knock@steim.nl>]

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Thank you.

On behalf--

Thank you very much.

On behalf of the great city of Amsterdam and the whole family of  
STEIM, let me thank you for the great privilege of being invited here  
tonight.

Iâm delighted to be speaking to a gathering as attentive as this  
one--and to one thatâs come together with an objective as compelling  
as the inconsequential and the unpredictable in music.

I must confess, however, to a certain discomfort, shared with other  
colleagues, about the very term âmusicâââelectro- 
instrumentalâ or otherwise.

Listen closely to what I am about to tell you because you can expect  
to play an active role in the proceedings: A night of sonic  
experiments meets performance art meets poetry reading meets musical  
theater, etc.

Present for an evening and some days in advance, James Beckett will  
share some means of transposing various source material across  
languages, both visible and audible. This will be expanded in a small  
concert, a score extracted from 1950âs rabbit experiments, a  
collaboration with Koen Nutters. Executed by the âN-Ensembleâ, -  
featuring Viljam Nybacka, Morten J Olsen, Dirk Bruinsma and Carlos  
Galvez Taroncher.

Right in front of your very ears David Michael DiGregorio and Sung  
Hwan Kim present a theatre play, "Two in a Room", a synaesthetic  
melding of music and drawing featuring various instruments and active  
drawings.

And Jamie Hodge (who moonlights as a producer of dance tracks for  
legendary Plus 8 Records) will give a serious music talk on the work  
of Gottfried Michael Koenig (who garnered worldwide recognition in  
the â80s for his work with the Institute of Sonology at the Royal  
Conservatory at The Hague).

No doubt, you will rise to the challenge.

Comprised of unequal parts: concert, exhibition, lecture and theatre  
play, âsound speaker,â as presented here for the first time in  
studio 3, promises to address all of those long-burning questions we  
have about so-called musical aesthetics.

With STEIMâs hard and soft gadgetry as the props at their disposal,  
I now let the artists and performers take center stage and speak  
through the manipulation of sound itself.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

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STEIM presents on Thursday August 24 at 20.30h the premiere of the  
sound speaker series,
with David Michael DiGregorio and Sung Hwan Kim.

"Two in a Room"

A musical storytelling performance by visual artist Sung Hwan Kim and  
musician David Michael DiGregorio, based on the exchange between the  
two: Kim and DiGregorio, text and lyrics, image and sound, Korea and  
the US, iconophilia and iconoclasm.

The tale is told through text, music, film and live video.  The music  
itself is made with layered voice, ocarina, delay, a sampling  
keyboard, harmonica, kazoo, pump organ, guitar, mallets, stretched  
membranous materials, air, dry-erase marker on plastic, jae-gum  
(Korean cymbals) and pang-eul (Korean bells).  The interest in  
collaboration with the visual partly lies on how a vocalist might  
turn into a character in the story telling process; or how the story  
might turn into music in return.

At the corners of the house, there is nothing, not even dust.  The  
house has two floors, whose first and second floors are connected by  
a green metal pole, firehouse style.  The four corners of the ground  
floor are protected by the webs that four individual spiders have  
made.  The spiders are all from the same family, all born in  
different years.  The spiders have never met one another since there  
is enough prey caught in their webs, enough that they never have to  
travel to the other corners.  The second floor is free of spiders.  A  
mysterious woman enters the building through the second floor on  
Mondays.  She cleans the floor from corner to corner, lies on the  
middle of the floor, first on her back and later on her front,  
wiggles her butt many times staining the patch of floor with her  
vagina, and leaves.  Her presence conducts itself down below.  "Who  
is she?"  The spider from the East wonders.  "Who," "is," "she?" the  
spider from the East shouts.  No one hears.  "Who is she?" the spider  
from the West wonders.  "Who is she?" she shouts.  No one hears.  And  
so forth.  By the time the spiders from the North and South wonder  
and shout, their meals are served, fresh and nice on each of their  
webs, six times a week, exactly twenty-four bodies of their prey in  
those six days; and the mysterious woman visits again, the next  
Monday.  The green pole shines from the mold.

David Michael DiGregorio (b. 1979 in Boston) grew up on the North  
Shore of the Boston area, studied filmmaking and electro-acoustic  
composition at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was  
a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in  
Maine.  Currently, he is a participant at DasArts, Amsterdam.  He has  
screened 16mm work at the Tank, New York City; the Officinema film  
festival, Bologna; and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.  Most  
recently, he has performed concerts at STEIM; Galerie Ferdinand van  
Dieten-d'Eendt; BAK, Utrecht; and in the kraakgeluiden series.

Sung Hwan Kim (b.1975 in Seoul, Korea), an artist, holds a Master of  
Science in Visual Studies from M.I.T, and was a resident artist at  
the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.  He has shown his works at  
such venues as Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, Portland Institute  
of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, D.U.M.B.O art center, Pacific Film  
Archive, Le Plateau (Paris), The Living Art Museum (Reykyavik),  
Mediamatic (Amsterdam), Objectif-Exhibitions(Antwerp), Leeum Samsung  
Museum of Art (Seoul) among others and various international film  
festivals.  As a performer, he participated in Joan Jonas' Lines in  
the Sand at Documenta 11, Kassel, Tate Modern, London, and The  
Kitchen, NYC.


Date: Thursday August 24
Time: 20.30h
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134
Entrance: 5 euro
Info and reservations: knock@steim.nl and/or 020-6228690

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STEIM
(studio for electro instrumental music)
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek)

Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel: 020-6228690
Fax: 020-6264262
Email: knock@steim.nl
Website: www.steim.nl



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