Monday, June 8, 2009

some upcoming CORRIDORS performances in the EU

Monday 8 June (w/dirac)
Rhiz
guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 vienna
5 euros
www.rhiz.org

Tuesday 9 June
velak gala #44
brut / konzerthaus
lothringerstrasse 20, 1030 vienna
http://velak.klingt.org
20.00, 3 euros

Monday 15 June
eXperimontag @ Madame Claude
Lübbener str. 19, 10997 Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/madame_claude
19.00 doors, 20.30 music

Friday 19 June
The Joinery
Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
www.thejoinery.org
7pm | 10 Euro

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www.myspace.com/corridors
www.byronwestbrook.com

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Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name 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 performance bills with Tony Conrad, Sawako, Stefan Tcherepnin, Alessandro Bosetti, Mountains, Jason Kahn, James Blackshaw, Anette Krebs, among many others. He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, ParisLondonWestNile, Les Voûtes (FR), Issue Project Room, Institute of Intermedia (CZ), 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, Duane Pitre and Jonathan Kane. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at HotelPupik at Schoss Schrattenberg. He is also currently the technical coordinator at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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"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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Friday, June 5, 2009

PAOLO INVERNI

"PATHS," OPENING ON: June 5th, 2009. 6pm
Galerie Mario Mazzoli
Zimmerstr. 13, Berlin

CURATED BY
Daniela Cascella

In Paths Inverni plays back some music he loves (by Steve Roden, William Basinski, Akira Rabelais, Christina Kubisch, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Nuno Canavarro) in places that have marked his life, and then records the "dialogue" between the music itself and the environment’s sounds. As critic Daniela Cascella explains, "These soundscapes aim at reawakening the delight one feels in finding an old photograph and creating a story, always different, around it. An image does not hold just one story, a musical piece not just one sound, a landscape not just a single distinct trace. For each of them and their way of combining themselves, we conjure up a feeling, an emotional tone, a Stimmung, to steal a term from the German language. Changeable and transitory, and yet we sense the atmosphere, the aura."

The work consists of an artist’s book, three audio/visual installations, and six photographs on lambda print.

Born in Savigliano, Piemonte, Italy in 1977, Paolo holds a BA in Communication Sciences qand a MA in Writing and Story-Editing for Audiovisual Products from the University of Torino. He lives and works in Torino. Inverni’s works have been exhibited at e/static, Torino, ('luci', curated by Carlo Fossati, 2005); Künstlerhaus Dortmund ('inner spaces', curated by Maija Julius e Reinhild Kuhn, 2006); blank, Torino ('découpage (f l)', curated by Carlo Fossati for e/static, 2006); 'Sounds Electric '07', Dundalk ('point . light . sound .', curated by Anthony Kelly for EAR, 2007). His works have been published on 'contemporary' magazine, annual 2008, Art 21 Limited, 2008 (text by Daniela Cascella); 'stretching a point', edited by Willi Otremba, DruckVerlag Kettler, 2008 (text by Maija Julius).

Galerie Mario Mazzoli
Zimmerstraße 13,
www.galeriemazzoli.com