Dream House

Sept. 20, 2008: 2 p.m. – June 20, 2009: midnight

Dream House
275 Church St., 3rd fl.
btw Franklin + White Sts.
Manhattan, NY
212-925-8270

La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela: Sound and Light Environment, continuing installation. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as "a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." In the light environment Marian Zazeela presents four works, two environmental: Imagic Light and Magenta Day, Magenta Night, in installations specifically designed for the site; and two sculptural: the neon work, Dream House Variation I, and the wall sculpture, Ruine Window 1992 from her series, Still Light. In the environment Imagic Light, Zazeela projects pairs of colored lights on mobile forms to create seemingly three-dimensional colored shadows in a luminous field. More

Music, under your Feet

Nov. 22, 2008: 2 p.m. – Dec. 20, 2008: 8 p.m.

Diapason
882 3rd Ave., 10th fl.
btw 32-33rd Sts.
Brooklyn, NY
718-499-5070

“Music, under your Feet” by Rolf Julius. Saturdays, November 22-December 20, 2-8 p.m. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22, 6-8 p.m. "One should bend down more often to pick up the tones lying around everywhere. In Manhattan, I saw and heard the really huge and thick and loud tones, the brown and the violet, but also the little quiet ones between the cracks in the walls, under the bridges, and among the chirping crickets on Roosevelt Island." I noticed this in 1984 during my stay at PS-1 in Queens. Now I like to bring some of these small sounds into the gallery, sounds, I picked up during many years, together with some new visual ones.” More

Astronome: A Night at the Opera rehearsals

Nov. 26, 2008: 10 a.m. – Jan. 21, 2009: 4:30 p.m.

(free103point9 Online Radio Event, free103point9 in collaboration with...)

Director Richard Foreman and musician John Zorn team up for "Astronome: A Night at the Opera" opening next year at Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Watch video feed of rehearsals and see how Foreman develops this production. Tune in at www.free103point9.org every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 2008-Jan. 21, 2009 live from the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Manhattan. No rehearsals Dec. 24, 2008. Show opens in 2009. More

December Sunwatch

Dec. 1, 2008: noon – Jan. 1, 2009

free103point9 Online Radio

(free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Jon Brumit, Judy Dunaway, Victoria Estok, Brenda Hutchinson, Stephen Vitiello, Jenneth Webster

December Sunwatch is an online radio event, part of Brenda Hutchinson's dailybell2008, a yearlong project dedicated to the observation of the sun every time it crosses the horizon and to sharing the awareness of that moment with others. Hutchinson began the project on New Year's Eve 2007. To celebrate the last month of the project for this year she has invited 30 people from all over the world to choose one day to observe and document a sunrise or sunset. The invitation is open-ended and responses could range from poetry and performance to recordings of local soundscapes. free103point9 will broadcast a different piece each day at noon EST (-5 GMT) from places throughout the US and Canada as well as from Europe, Korea, and Nepal. This month long series was instigated by Barbara Held who together with Pilar Subirà curates "Lines of Sight," a bi-monthly online radio program, which takes its name from the interconnected points of the global resonant space created by radio and other wireless technologies. dailybell2008 and other work by Brenda Hutchinson, along with Jon Brumit, are featured in this month's "Lines of Sight" program #6.

"Lines of Sight" for Radio Web MACBA: http://rwm.macba.es/en/curatorial/

Distribution Application Seminar: Catskill

Dec. 4, 2008: 6:30 p.m.

Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA)
398 Main Street
Catskill, NY 12414
United States
518-943-3400

(free103point9 Event)

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2009 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. This grant is for completed works only.

On December 4th, Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, free103point9) will introduce this regrant opportunity as well as the application process.

About the Distribution Grant

Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: duplication of previews, screening, and exhibition copies of moving image and sound works; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

New to the Distribution Grant this year, successful applicants will also be awarded the additional opportunity to work with a project consultant. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees’ specific genre of media art.

Application Guidelines, FAQs, and Resources will be available at http://www.free103point9.org/nysca in November 2008.

Contact free103point9 for more information:
regrant@free103point9.org
(518) 622-2598
(917) 297-1537
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40º PHI: Live Art in the Parks - Central Park

Dec. 6, 2008: noon – 5 p.m.

Central Park
Arthur Ross Pinetum
Mid-Park between 84th and 86th St.
Manhattan, NY

(free103point9 in collaboration with...)

Joshua Fried

free103point9 Transmission Artist Joshua Fried/Radio Wonderland performs outdoors and unplugged as part of 40º PHI: The Live Art in the Parks series. Fried will remix live radio in his performance. Presented with the support of free103point9.

Live Art in the Parks performances are free-to-the-public in NYC parks with each performance date highlighting four artists – to create a total of 40 new performance works over the next year. The series works as a public laboratory for New York based performance artists to experiment and refine Live Art pieces for the masses. This public performance practice will provide the foundation for part two of 40º PHI: the 40º Phi Live Art Expedition, a traveling Live Art show that will visit towns across the country which are parallel to NYC on the 40º latitude line in 2009.

The Nineteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)

Dec. 10, 2008 – Dec. 21, 2008

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre St
at Grand St., 3rd floor
Manhattan, NY
212-431-5127

(free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Bryan Eubanks, Phill Niblock

The Thirty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fortieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fortieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, The Nineteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator December 2008 with:

Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada) and Anne Wellmer (The Netherlands) Wednesday 10

Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Stockholm) Saturday 13

Jon Abbey and Jason Lescalleet (USA) Sunday 14 3-11 p.m.

Stefaan Quix (Belgium) Monday 15

Andrew Lafkas and Bryan Eubanks (New York) Tuesday 16

Francisco Janes (Portugal) Thursday 18

Leslie Ross (New York) Friday 19

Phill Niblock (New York) Sunday 21

All of the EI December concerts are being streamed on free103point9Online Radio, www.free103point9.org. Click on http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/ei.mp3.m3u or paste that address into your media player.

Thurman Barker's Strike Force + Douglas R. Ewart & Inventions

Dec. 11, 2008: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.

Location One
20 Greene St.
Manhattan, NY
212-219-8242

Thurman Barker + Strike Force and Douglas R. Ewart + Inventions. Celebrating his 60th birthday, Thurman Barker brings his mighty percussion quintet Strike Force to town. Employing multiple mallet instruments, tympani, congas, drum set, and yet other percussion, Strike Force creates a fresh combination of notated and improvised music. "This group allows me an opportunity to compose in a style that comes natural for me. A style where Rhythm and texture is the focus. Writing for skins, metal and wood, provide a wide range to work with. Also, working with exceptional Percussionists, each bringing their own unique skills and style is a challenge and fun for me." Strike Force: Bryan Carrott, vibraphone; Eli Fountaine, marimba; Wilson Moorman, xylophone and tympani; Ray Mantilla, conga drums and percussion; Thurman Barker, drums.
Douglas Ewart’s ensemble Inventions reinvents itself for “Reflection of Haiti and Memories of Lester Bowie,” a set of new works celebrating Ewart’s recent ‘wonderful and challenging’ trip to Haiti and his friendship both musical and personal for the late AACM trumpeter Lester Bowie. “One of the sounds that I am particularly fond of, is the rattling sound that the player’s saliva creates, it is alive in every sense!” Inventions: Reggie Nicholson, marimba/drums; Henry Grimes, bass/violin; Adegoke Steven Colson, piano; Craig Harris, trombone/didjeridu/percussion; Douglas R. Ewart, reeds/didjeridu/percussion; plus a special guest! More

NY Eye & Ear Record Fair and Music Festival

Dec. 12, 2008 – Dec. 13, 2008

Vanishing Point
240 Meserole st
Bushwick
Brooklyn, 11206

NY Eye & Ear is a 2 day record fair and music festival celebrating NYC homegrown DIY recording labels and bands. This is NYC's only record fair devoted exclusively to NY record labels. The title is inspired from the 1964 Michael Snow film w/ soundtrack by Albert Ayler and from the all-too-familiar signs seen daily in the subway tunnels by riders of the L-train. Presented by Pendu Org.
Friday, December 12 from 7 p.m. - midnight.
Saturday, December 13 from 2 p.m. - midnight.
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La Superette 2008

Dec. 13, 2008: noon – Dec. 14, 2008: 6 p.m.

South Street Seaport
Front St. and John St.

La Superette 2008 will transform a retail space on the corner of Front St. and John St. for two days, creating a temporary store with a huge selection of artist-made multiples from around the country. Enjoying 10 years of success at the cutting edge, La Superette is a unique arts and craft event with a non-commercial goal: to support and distribute the works of independent artists and designers. The variety of items includes hacked clothes, homemade electronic toys, patchwork accessories, houseware, artist books and CDs. Emerging once a year, just in time for holiday shopping, La Superette offers the most unique and affordable shopping experience for hundreds of shoppers year after year. With recent economic and political changes this year more than ever is a time to celebrate the craftiness and creativity, and be a part of an event that represents the true spirit of New York City. Among exciting items are Carrie Paterson's homemade perfume, Dez's bedtime stories CD, Sirin Thada's necklaces, Lady Jane's yoga bags, Petra Farinha's computer icons accessories, and Jessica Delfino's homemade maxi pads. La Superette 2008 features a commissioned installation by NY artist Yoav Bergner that will display the merchandise, a window installation by NY sculptor Kim Holleman, a gift wrapping station by ScrapCycle and a video catalog by Thessia Machado with song by MP Lockwood. To make the Superette shopping experience more enjoyable the event includes performances by Marisa Olson, Dafna Naftali, and Warren Malone among others. Also included in this year’s celebration is the renegade bakery Sweet Tooth of the Tiger selling homemade treats. And finally, to celebrate La Superette’s 10 year anniversary, a full color book is being published with contributions by many of the artists from the past 10 years. The book will be premiered and sold at this year’s festivities. More

Chorus of Refuge

Dec. 13, 2008: 7 p.m. – Dec. 14, 2008: 6 p.m.

Union Docs
322 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

(free103point9 in collaboration with...)

Jason Cady, Ann Heppermann + Kara Oehler

Chorus of Refuge is a sound installation that transmits the stories of six refugees, living in different cities across the U.S. to six radios. The voices of the refugees are superimposed and coordinated in both rhythm and tonality to unite their narratives of struggle, survival and triumph. The event is free and open to the public.

Opening: Saturday 7-9 p.m.
Sunday hours: Noon-6 p.m. More

Terrence McManus/Ellery Eskelin/Gerry Hemingway

Dec. 16, 2008: 9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Stain Bar
766 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
United States
718-387-7840

The Dream of the Ants This will be this ensembles first performance and will be premiering a new multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine. Terrence McManus-acoustic guitar; Ellery Eskelin-saxophone; Gerry Hemingway-percussion. More

The Sound of Light by Julianne Swartz

Dec. 21, 2008 – March 15, 2009

The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave.
at 92nd St.
Manhattan, NY
212-423-3200

Julianne Swartz

The Sound of Light, an interactive installation by Julianne Swartz that aurally guides visitors through the museum's permanent exhibition Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Listeners borrow Swartz's handmade "Receivers" and listen to ten radio transmitters spread throughout the museum. Please note that this interactive art work is on view Sunday through Thursday. Sunday - Wednesday, 11 a.m. -5:45 p.m.; Thursday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. More

Giant Ear))) with China Blue

Dec. 28, 2008: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

(free103point9 Event, free103point9 Online Radio Event)

China Blue, Jonny Farrow, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Andrea Polli

NYSAE members Andrea Polli and Jonny Farrow interview artist China Blue about her recent CD, Under Voices, for which she recorded the seismic vibrations of the Eiffel Tower. With excerpts of the CD and other sonic curiosities. More information about China Blue's project here. More

Making Recordings: Digital Journalism for Community Radio

Dec. 29, 2008: 2 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

(free103point9 Event, Radio Lab, free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Tom Roe

Tom Roe, a former freelance writer for publications such as The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wire, and other publications, shares tips for future community radio journalists. Topics include interviewing, reporting, digital recording, and others. This workshop is focused on potential community journalists in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, where free103point9 is launching a community FM radio station. See http://free103point9.org/communityradio/ for more information. Tune in for video and audio webcast at www.free103point9.org. More