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Trans|Optic Thursday 12.10.09

A show of experimental & new abstract films curated by Dean Smith
I’m really excited to be collaborating with Paul Clipson for the first time!
Paul will be screening a brand-new Super 8mm film that was created for this collaboration
Also being screened:

Oskar Fischinger: Wax Experiments [1921-23] & Spirals [1926]
the wax-sliced imagery on 16mm film…. Not to be missed!!

Dean Smith: three video mandalas [2007-2009]

Thorston Fleisch: Kosmos [2004]
16mm film in which Fleisch grew crystals directly on film!!!!

transoptic

darwinsbitch @ Ice On The High 12.5.09

December 3-5
Thursday Dec. 3- 7:30pm Staged Reading of Ginsberg’s HOWL
Friday Dec. 4- 11-5 day viewing; Performances and video 6:30-10pm
Saturday Dec. 5- 11-5 day viewing; evening performance 6:30-10pm
West Berkeley’s Pacific Basin Building presents,
“Ice on the High” a feral art/music event for three nights and two days in the first week of December. Ice on the High [...]

myrmyr @ Green Sight & Sound 12.4.09

Green Sight + Sound

A Benefit for ME’DI.ATE’s Soundwave ((4)) Festival and ecoartspace: Celebrating Ten Years of Art and Ecology Programming

BUY NOW at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/88482

MORE INFO at http://www.me-di-ate.net/green-sight-sound/

what
Art Exhibition and Silent Auction of small works by over 40 environmental artists
Wine-Appetizers-Sweets by Terra Savia, Bi-Rite, Marin French Cheese Company, Paulding & [...]

Overlapping Worlds: Friday 11.13.09 @ ATA, SF

UPDATE: DARWINSBITCH WILL BE PLAYING INSTEAD OF DATE PALMS
Gregg’s grandfather passed away, and he will be out of town, so I will do a solo set instead.

OVERLAPPING WORLDS

SUN CIRCLE / FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON
ELM / VIDEO BY JON PORRAS
DARWINSBITCH / VIDEO BY BEN BRACKEN
An evening of experimental sound, music and image.
Artist’s Television Access
Friday, [...]

more ‘ore’ reviews: junkmedia & wonderfulwoodenreasons

from Junkmedia
Ore, the latest release from Oakland-based composer Marielle Jakobsons’s solo project darwinsbitch, evolves in a fashion similar to Darwin’s coral model: it grows in seemingly anarchic ways. Expressionistic brushstrokes paint the solid droning soundscape with violin interpolations and complex, detailed harmonies; but as you look back, the previously obscured hinges that hold it [...]

myrmyr amber sea tour

10.11.09 Date Palms @ the Hemlock w/Nadja & Portraits

a wonderful show last nite @ the hemlock w/my friends Nadja & Portraits. Portraits performed an elegant & dynamic drone in D with 7 members on 39 strings, 2 voices, & 1 gong. Thx to all who came out, it was a very special evening of drone-doom-bliss!! And yes, Date Palms is [...]

Sat 10.10 db @ life changing ministries

Sat Oct 10 Composers Decomposed Vol 7
Antimatter | Darwinsbitch | Omniverous Sinsillium
multi-dimensional insects melt your mind by eating through your eardrum
w/food & special guest DJ Porest!!
Life Changing Ministries ||  1629 8th St Oakland 8pm
 

 

String TV Documentation

Below are two videos of my installation String TV, which was presented in San Francisco at the LAB’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition August 2009. The first video is a demo explaining the system and inspiration for the piece. The second video is a performance on the instrument by Gregg Kowalsky, who also did the [...]

ON LAND festival Sept 19

I’m really excited to be playing at the Swedish American Hall next Saturday and to be part of this awesome lineup the Root Strata folks put together. Along with Jim Haynes, William Fowler Collins, Starving Weirdos, Metal Rouge, + others, we’re on EARLY at 2pm… so don’t dawdle!! Check out the [...]