Opalnest presents
LOW TIDE CHORUS

photo: Mary Mattingly (Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery)

Wednesday, January 19 2010
7PM – 10PM

Place:
The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street (map)
Brooklyn, NYC

eiji sumi / maria chavez / mary mattingly / michelle hinebrook / shamos / vangeline / windy hill mill / zemi17
* scroll down for artist links


Michelle Hinebrook

LOW TIDE CHORUS – a one-night performance featuring a group of eight visionaires – blending avant-garde performances, sound-visuals, electro-acoustics, disembodied musical instruments, a nomadic utopia – all coming together like a paradoxical chorus. “Low Tide Chorus” welcomes the present moment to reflect upon revelations. Opening the night’s ambiance is Brooklyn’s own Shamos, performing inimitable otherworldly sounds, and a tundra of kaleidoscopic projections by visual artist Michelle Hinebrook. Tonight, lighting conceptualist Eiji Sumi will charge up the underground with minimalistic organic forms, morphing along the music of Paris-based band Windy Hill Mill – sonic rhythms that will slow your heartbeat. Orchestrating as if out of an animal kingdom, Zemi17 (aka Aaron Taylor Kuffner) is a solo musician and composer of visceral multi-point sound environments. Audiences will also have the opportunity to plunge into multi-media artist Mary Mattingly’s “Nomadographies” and fall into the existential trance of Butoh artist Vangeline's (Vangeline Theater) choreography.  Our final performance is avant-turntablist Maria Chavez - culling from her collection of needles, dubbed “Pencils of Sound” – renowned for her distinctive approach to live sound installations. Ms. Chavez’s rare solo appearance will encourage audiences to experience through the run of tonight show.

PERFORMERS / ARTISTS

Maria Chavez

maria chavez
(sound artist/avant-turntablist/recently performed for Christian Marclay: FESTIVAL at the Whitney Museum)
artist website

Zemi17

zemi17
(composer, musician, sound and installation artist/co-creator of the Gamelatron: the world’s first fully robotic gamelan orchestra; and was part of Scope Miami 2010)
artist website
(with downloadable tracks)

Vangeline (Photo: Yi Chun Wu)

vangeline
(butoh dancer/artistic director of the vangeline theatre)
artist website

Shamos

shamos
(from the previous band mot mot/improvisional instrumentalist)

windy hill mill

windy hill mill
(electro-acoustic/icy sub bass/sonic rythymic soundscapes)
artist website
(with downloadable tracks)

Mary Mattingly

"We go round and round in the night. Round and round in the night."

mary mattingly
(multi-media visual artist/performance artist/created the Waterpod Project)
artist website

eiji sumi
(conceptual lighting installation artist)
artist website

michelle hinebrook
(visual artist/previously featured on jen bekman)
artist website
"abstraction in my work emerges through sensation, emotion,
memory, physical experiences and material experimentation."

curated by
helen homan wu

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