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OptoSonic Tea
8:30 pm, Kurt Ralske, Andy Guhl and Michael J. Schumacher
> OptoSonic Tea (@ Diapason)
1026 Sixth Avenue, # 2S
New York NY 10018
(OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound)
Live sets by:
- Kurt Ralske
- Andy Guhl
(212) 719-4393
info@diapasongallery.org
Kurt Ralske
Kurt Ralske's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kurt programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. He is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries
Kurt is a Visiting Professor at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, and on the faculty of School of Visual Arts (MFA Computer Art Department), in NYC.
Kurt has released 8 CDs of his musical compositions on the labels Sony, 4AD, and SubRosa.
Michael J. Schumacher
Michael J. Schumacher is a composer of electronic sound installations using 2 - 16 speakers, computer-controlled random structures, of acoustic music realizing advanced formal schemes, of taped and live music (also improvised) for prepared electric guitar, synthesizer, etc. He has composed works for piano solo, chamber ensemble, voice, and orchestra. He studied music at Indiana University and the Juillard School of Music. Born in Washington, D.C., he has lived in New York City since 1983.
Schumacher's works have been presented in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has presented sound installations at The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia and Roulette, at the Queens Museum and PS 1, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon and Triskel Intermedia in Cork, at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House, and at his own sound and intermedia galleries, Studio Five Beekman and Diapason. He has received grants from NYFA, iEAR, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, and Harvestworks. He has collaborated with the cellist Charles Curtis, guitarist Donald Miller, with David First, Ben Manley, Stephen Tunney and Tim Barnes, with dancers and choreographers including Liz Gerring, and with the video artist Ursula Scherrer. As director of Studio Five Beekman and Diapason Gallery, he has produced exhibitions by David Behrman, Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Steve Roden, Marina Rosenfeld, Stephen Vitiello, La Monte Young and many others. His discography includes five solo CDs, including a double CD set on the XI label
OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence
of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These
presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live
visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations
and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with
live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups
of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice.
The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists'
practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations
of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in
this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices
and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.
Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer
Diapason
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