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[Nettime-ro] Shelley Hirsch, Janene Higgins, Ikue Mori and others @ Location One |
Thursday, December 12th: Shelley Hirsch with Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara Friday, December 13th: Janene Higgins and Ikue Mori Both performances will begin at 8PM sharp All tickets at the door: $10, Members Free GALLERY INFORMATION Location One is located at 26 Greene Street NYC 10013, between Grand and Canal Streets. Subway: Canal Street (N, R, 6, A, C, E, J, M, Z) (212) 334-3347 www.location1.org Thursday, December 12th: Shelley Hirsch will perform solo and improvisational works with turntablists Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara. Hirsch will be celebrating her record release The Far in Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch (Tzadik) and Duets with Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence). SHELLEY HIRSCH is a vocalist, composer, performance artist whose written and improvised work for stage, concert, record, film, television and radio has been presented on 5 continents. Hirsch has been called "enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic" by the NY Times. Her work incorporates extended vocal techniques, real and imaginary language, international music styles, stream of consciousness, electronics, characterizations, storytelling, movement and mixed visual media. She has presented her mostly staged solo pieces at prestigious festivals, theaters and museums around the world including The Hebbel Theater (Berlin), WienerFestWochen (Vienna), The Zurcher InternationalTheaterSpektakel (Zurich) Adelaide State Theater (Australia) The Whitney Museum (NYC) Experimenta Festival (Buenos Aires), Helsinki Biennale (Finland) Angelica Festival (Bologna Italy)City of Women Festival (Llubliana Slovenia). Hirsch is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including NEA, NYFA , NYSCA and Creative Capital. (For a complete bio please see www.location1.org) December 13th: Janene Higgins and Ikue Mori will perform a live duet of video and music. JANENE HIGGINS' videos and digital media have been presented internationally at numerous festivals and galleries. She has developed a unique style for live video performance, utilizing video mixers and Powerbook as performance instruments. This brought collaborations with such artists as Alan Licht, Prema Murthy, Elliott Sharp, and Zeena Parkins. She has performed in many music festivals in Europe and North America, including Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria; the City of Women festival, Slovenia; Vasistas Festival of Multimedia, Montreal; Roulette Festival of Mixology, NYC, and at Documenta X. IKUE MORI, one of New York's most exciting improvisers and composers, has played with musicians such as Fred Frith, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins and Jim Staley. Ikue Mori has developed a personal and innovative technique of playing samplers triggered by adapted drum machines and incorporated laptop computer programming to broaden her scope of musical expression. Her most recent albums are Labyrinth, solo computer (Tzadik 2001), One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tzadik 2000), Painted Desert (Avant) with guitarists Marc Ribot and Robert Quine, Death Praxis (Nonsequitor) with vocalist Tenko, and Vibraslaps (Rec Rec) with singer Catherine Jauniaux. Other recent projects include the collaboration Mephista (Tzadik, 2002) with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra. She has also recorded as a member of the groups Fukuko, Tohban Djan, and The Worlds Of Love (with David Garland and Cinnie Cole). Mori was a member of the legendary late '70s "No Wave" group DNA (with Arto Lindsay) who can be heard on albums on Avant and American Clave, and on the Brian Eno-produced No New York compilation on Antilles. Ikue has given workshops at the International Percussion Festival in Berlin, and performed at NY Symphony Space and Derek Baily's Company Week in London. In 1999 she won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electonics in the Digital Music category. **To be removed from this mailing list, kindly hit Reply and write, "Remove" in the subject line. Thank You. _______________________________________________ locone mailing list [email protected] http://mail.location1.org/mailman/listinfo/locone _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/