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Mobius presents a multimedia concert featuring Margolis, Homler, Delia,
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Mary Curtin
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Oct 20, 2009 20:22 PDT
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at Mobius
[725 Harrison Avenue, Suite One, Boston 02118, mobius.org, 617-638-0020]
Saturday, October 24th 8pm
Donation: $10/$5 students & seniors
Multimedia concert featuring Al Margolis (NY), Anna Homler (LA), Michael
Delia, Katherine Liberovskaya;
also with James Coleman, Derek Hoffend, Jed Speare, and Tom Plsek
Mobius welcomes Al Margolis, Anna Homler, Michael Delia, and Katherine
Liberovskaya for a special concert featuring their new quartet with
Katherine Liberovskaya doing live video mixing. Boston's own James
Coleman (theremin), Derek Hoffend (electronics), Jed Speare
(electronics), and Tom Plsek (trombone) will open for them.
L.A. based spoken-word and intermedia artist Homler has worked with
instrument builder and sound and visual artist Delia. Delia has worked
with composer Margolis and video artist Liberovskaya. Now they will all
work together. The adventure begins with toys, homemade instruments,
live sampling, pre-recorded sound, voice, words and live video.
For more information: Anna Homler: www.annahomler.com; Michael Delia:
www.mad.lemurie.cz; Al Margolis: www.myspace.com/ifbwana +
www.pogus.com; Katherine Liberovskaya: www.liberovskaya.net
Bios:
Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette
underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was co-
founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he
continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making
music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and
more process-oriented composition. He has recorded and/or performed with
Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine
Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane
Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among
others. Performed at the 15th Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music and
the 6th Sonic Circuits DC festivals; has had installations at Diapason
in NYC and the Santa Fe Electroacoustic Music Festival; collaborated
with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on Take-off, which has been
shown internationally; premiered Three Songs in Search of a Voice, a
"nohtopera" with MutaMYTHeatre - music by Margolis and text and voice,
Lisa Barnard. His It Never Rains in Mexico, a commission by WDR Koln was
aired in December 2007.
Visual and vocal artist Anna Homler’s alternative languages extend the
possibilities of meaning and communication. With a sensibility that is
both ancient and post-modern, Homler makes words musical and music like
words. Since 1982, she has collaborated in America with
composer/musicians Steve Moshier, David Moss, Ethan James, and Jorge
Martin; and in Europe with the Voices of Kwahn Steve Beresford, Peter
Kowald, Frank Schulte, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Sylvia
Hallett, among others. She has performed at well-known venues throughout
the United States and Europe. She has been called "a cross between
Robert Wilson and Astrid Gilberto."
"...a singer who can take the audience by the hand and lead them along
the weird path between atmospherics and surreal humor. A witch with a
few home-brewed spells and a ray gun." Resonance
"Disconcertingly bewitching." Cadence
"Anna Homler sings pop versions of cave paintings." WFMU catalog
Michael Delia is an artist whose work spans a wide range of disciplines
and media encompassing paintings, sculpture, installations, and sound
art as well as music performances. Central to his visceral work is an
irrefutable yet delicate sense of beauty combined with a lingering sense
of histories past. Both Delia’s paintings and self-made instruments
seemingly transcend time and space, often touching on the ephemeral. His
musical instruments and installations are interesting not only from the
acoustic but also from the visual point of view. Inspired by the musical
heritage of various ethnic and cultural provenances, a contemporary
DIY-man Delia constructs his instruments and acoustic objects from found
and banal materials. In so doing this, he combines the verified
achievements of inventive organologies with the rational musical systems
of the 20th century. Delia’s music is crystally microtonal and
meditative, but can also be dramatically majestic. Michael Delia has
presented his art at various American and European venues, including
Experimental Intermedia, The Knitting Factory and Exit Art in New York,
Stichting Logos in Gent, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Hermit in Plasy,
Sound Off and The Rosenberg Museum in Slovakia, Rudolfinum in Prague,
Sklenìná Louka in Brno, Kép-Ze-Let in Tatabánya and Mamu Galerie in
Budapest.
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal,
Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in
experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has
produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video
performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic
venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in
single- channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly
revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists,
notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Hitoshi Kojo, Zanana, David
Watson, David First and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is
active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live
new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat,
Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Shelley Hirsch, Anthony
Coleman, Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castellò, Micheal Delia, Antonio
Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Richard Geret, André
Gonçalves, Matt Pass, Monique Buzzarté, Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen,
murmer, Max Shentelevs, John Grzinich, the Notekillers, Marina
Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom Hamilton, among others. In
addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the
programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with
Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president
2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal, as well as Experimental
Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and
the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC.
--submitted by marycurtinproductions on behalf of Mobius
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617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), maryc-@comcast.net
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