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FLOW at MONKEY TOWN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th 8PM
58 NORTH 3rd (bet Kent and Wythe)
L TRAIN to BEDFORD AVE
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
http://monkeytownhq.com/12_17_07.html

$5, $10 minimum for dinner and (or) drinks

Have dinner and enjoy flow!. The food is amazing! Monkeytown serves experimental cuisine and classic dishes from a country that doesn’t exist.
Monkeytown is a permanent space that privileges video art, short films, feature-length films and documentaries, outside traditional galleries,
movie theaters, museums, or clubs.

MONKEY TOWN
58 N 3RD STREET
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Reservations are recommended!!
http://monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html

AUDIO + VIDEO PERFORMANCES:

PATRICK TODD + SATISH (sound) + THE ZUVUYA COLLECTIVE (video)
JEREMY D. SLATER + GREGORY REYNOLDS (sound) + SHIGE MORIYA (video)
DANIEL IGLESIA (sound and video)

ABOUT FLOW:

...experimenting with noise, sound, and image...flow brings you closer to the edge of dreams than you would normally find yourself in a waking state. flow provides you with continual sound and vision with stimulating textures leaving you with a sensation of satiety, yet a craving for more...flow consists of performances throughout the evening with a stream of sound and video performed live—a consistent flow...

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

SATISH began playing trumpet in his school jazz band in Boston, and much to the dismay of his family he decided to renounce his education in biology in favor of becoming a musician in New York City. He began incorporating more and more Indian rhythmic and harmonic elements into his music, eventually forming a band called Indofunk. He now plays a very special instrument called the Firebird, which is a standard trumpet with the addition of a trombone-style slide, so that he can play traditional Indian "gamakas" (slides, bends, and other ornaments). Satish plays his Firebird through multiple sonic effects pedals, allowing him to create a dizzying array of sounds and textures, and transporting the listener to ethereal and uncharted soundscapes."

PATRICK TODD is a sound artist who works primarily with electronic noises to create compositions that border the familiar worlds of ambient atmospheric music and specific events more akin to Foley artists. He explores the various textural qualities that are specific to granular synthesizers and are usually relegated to our modern age backround soundscape by bringing them forward and putting them into order. Coming from a visual backround with a masters degree in fine art, installation, he is acutely aware of the power in sound to alter our perceptions of the world around us. He has been working in New York for 10 years and continues to build alliances through organizing events, most notably flow in collaboration with Jeremy Slater, an event that explores the noisier elements in sound. http://www.myspace.com/patricktoddeclectic

THE ZUVUYA COLLECTIVE is an association of audio and visual artists who explore the dynamic relationships between time-based media, immersive installations, physical phenomenon and audio visual alchemy in order to reveal the hidden interplay between the conscious, subconscious and collective unconscious. Individual artists participating include: VJ KA, VJ OHM, VJ BOT and dr.littlefish, who all form the monthly and popular "LOVE" party at Hotel QT.

Past projects include visuals for Dinosaur Jr and the Flaming Lips, performances at the Museum of Natural History, Queens Museum of Art, Monkeytown, Irregular Primes with Amoeba Technologies, Mad Love at AdHoc Art, Dreams and Nightmares at Issue Project Room.

The Zuvuya Collective features members of the Glassbead Collective which created live visuals for groups such as Billionaires for Bush, The War Resisters, Brooklyn Media Lab, GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival as well as a piece for the WORD_and_WORK section of Volume No. 9 of ART.ES, a Spanish art magazine published in Madrid. http://www.myspace.com/zcollective

JEREMY D. SLATER is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. Otherwise known as (  ) ... Jeremy uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. http://www.parenthesismedia.com http://www.myspace.com/parenthesis

GREGORY REYNOLDS is a musician whose drive to investigate and explore the dynamics of modern sound making has shaped his identity as a performer, composer, listener, and teacher.

At the root of his practice is a presentation of sound events and spaces that challenge and re-orient by emphasizing a new relationship to acoustic phenomena outside the usual context of musical listening. He endeavors to facilitate an experience of heightened sensitivity and awareness of physical, architectural, and spiritual qualities.

His main vehicle in these pursuits has been the alto saxophone, on which for many years he has been developing a variety of techniques drawing from such influences as water, white noise, cd skips, and the complex drones of industrial and domestic machinery. For the past eight years Reynolds has been performing around the US, Canada, and Japan with a diverse group of dancers and musicians.

Currently, Reynolds is an artist in residence at CAVE artspace in Brooklyn, NY where he has been very busy collaborating with an international cast of Butoh dancers in addition to teaching workshops on improvisation and developing a multi media project focusing on the horizon and the nature of thresholds. Recently he has performed and/or curated for the Frequencies NYC festival, New York Noise! festival, Philadelphia's Something Else More festival, and the New York International Butoh festival.

SHIGE MORIYA, born in 1967, originally from Kyoto and Kobe, Japan, is now based in New York. Shige works as an installation artist, creating large, translucent installations, constructed with filmy sculptures of transparent fabric. These clusters form a landscape for projected images of color and light. His videography has been featured in theater/dance productions, and a substantial amount of his work is performed live in an interdisciplinary environment, often in collaboration with musicians, dancers and other visual artists. His work has been presented in Japan, Finland, Vietnam, Germany and the US. Initially working as an assistant curator at the Cast Iron Gallery in Soho (1993), he went on to co-found CAVE three years later. Curator of the gallery program of CAVE for the last 10 years, much of his time has been devoted to supporting and presenting the work of emerging visual/multi-disciplinary artists. Moriya is co-curator of the New York Butoh Festival and a core member of GARNICA LEIMAY AcTS LAB and CAVEnsemble. http://caveartspace.org

DANIEL IGLESIA creates music and media for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two. He works with live manipulations of sound, with notions of automation and algorithmic composition, the magnification of inherent chaos in sounds, and real-time performance with traditional instruments. His works have taken the form of audio and video performance, instrumental works with live electronics, gallery installations, and collaborations with theater and dance. His work has been presented in such diverse venues as Lincoln Center, Eyebeam Gallery, The Stone, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Merce Cunningham Studio, Roulette, the Public Theater, the Delancey, and international festivals in the U.S., France, and Spain.

Hosted by The Red Chair
http://www.myspace.com/fromtheredchair

THANKS TO MONTGOMERY and MONKEYTOWN