[Attackpanther] Friday July 18: Corridors+Duane Pitre+Ilya Monosov @ ISSUE Project Room

[byron westbrook]

Friday July 18th, 2008
ISSUE Project Room
Doors 8pm
Music 8:30 sharp
$10

www.issueprojectroom.org
http://www.myspace.com/corridors
http://www.myspace.com/duanepitre
http://www.myspace.com/ilyamonosov

*Byron Westbrook*  (b. 1977)  is a sound/intermedia artist living in
Brooklyn, NY. His audio/video performances as CORRIDORS involve the
distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through
a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and
light.   He has shared bills with diverse artists such as Sawako, Tony
Conrad, Mouthus, Stefan Tcherepnin, Lichens, James Blackshaw, Anette Krebs,
Soft Circle, and Mountains, among many others. He has presented at venues
such as Tonic, Roulette, ParisLondonWestNile, Issue Project Room,
Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery.  Westbrook has also collaborated
with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the
drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed
in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca and Jonathan
Kane.  In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging
Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium and is currently the
technical coordinator at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC.  Releases
are forthcoming in 2008 for both Corridors and Essentialist, along with a
fall tour of the US with Alessandro Bosetti.

CORRIDORS is a multi-channel audio/video environment that uses video
projections, amplifiers and speakers strategically placed within a
performance space. It was originally developed as a distribution system for
improvised guitar feedback and has evolved over the last three years into
composed works using varied sound sources through the system, which is also
customized for the individual works.  The project emphasizes how
redistributed energy of sound and light in space to alter perception.

Audio elements consist of either guitar feedback processed live,
pre-recorded instrumental performances and/or found sounds.  These
recordings are pre-processed to reduce the sounds to the pure energy of the
source material (as opposed to referencing the source). They are then
redistributed live through the performance space via the multi-channel
system with additional processing to cater to the composition and space.

Following the audio concept, the video elements are sources of light
processed to reduce identification of form, object and location, thus
highlighting the essential energy and its movement.

"To call Byron Westbrook a composer of breathtakingly beautiful ambient
pieces and drone works is reasonably accurate but painfully reductive;
Westbrook, whose work under the name Corridors has involved acoustic
instruments, field recordings, spatialized playback and lighting, is the
kind of artist for whom the old, mostly disused term intermedia was
coined."  -TimeOut New York

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*Duane Pitre *(w/ ensemble)

Duane Pitre (originally from New Orleans) is a Brooklyn-based composer,
improviser, and sound-artist. His primary instrument is electric guitar(s),
which he plays in a nontraditional fashion, utilizing various objects such
as mallets and rotary tools to coax unusual sounds from the instrument. His
current works explore both chaos and discipline–and the territory that
exists between the two.

In summer of 2007 Pitre's album, Organized Pitches Occurring in Time, was
released on Important Records (CD) and Trome Records (vinyl). This album
consists of two versions of his lengthy drone/contemporary-classical
composition Ensemble Drones. Ensemble Drones was performed live in December
2007 by a 13-piece ensemble in Burlington, VT, and future performances of
the piece are in the works for Chicago, San Diego, and New Orleans.

Pitre has a number of releases scheduled for 2008, including a track on a
compilation of experimental/avant-garde guitarists, which will also feature
work by Keith Rowe (AMM), Tetuzi Akiyama, Sebastien Roux, and others. He is
currently curating–and will be contributing a track to–a Just Intonation
compilation that will be released on Important Records in late 2008. The
compilation will include work by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Ellen
Fullman, Michael Harrison, and Arnold Dreyblatt.

Pitre is currently constructing, and writing for, a bowed-guitar ensemble,
which will use unconventionally strung electric guitars (utilizing
multi-unisons) tuned in Just Intonation. Tonight's performance will be from
this ensemble/material.

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*Ilya Monosov* has spent the last decade working with sound and objects and
creating his unique form of ritualistic music performance. He has worked in
collaboration or had co publications with Preston Swirnoff, Marc Schulz,
Andrew Deutsch, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Curtis, Larry Polansky, Bob
Cobbing, Makoto Kawabata, Radu Malfatti and many others. His output has been
highly varied and has encompassed everything from gypsy folk music, to
minimalist improvisation, to heavy rock in the wild California group, The
Shining Path. He has also been involved in many performances and multi-media
events (including performances and installations at the first lower case
events in LA) and currently has a piece online in Frogpeak Unbound, as well
as artist books in Printed Matter NYC.
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