Works/San José - Music Performance April 29, 2005

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Collection of Intermedia Works, featuring DOUBLE VISION and guest artists Agnes Szelag/aggiflex, Marielle Jakobson, Bill Wolter and David Blithell Date: April 29, 2005, 8pm (doors open 7:30) Venue: WORKS/San Jose, New Music Night Address: 30 North 3rd Street, San Jose, CA 95112 Phone: 408.295.8378 Website: www.double-vision.biz or www.workssanjose.org DOUBLE VISION joins forces with other Bay Area intermedia artists to bring you an evening of innovative and cutting-edge collaborations and premieres. The evening will feature live music, dance, animation and video interactivity through the use of Max/MSP/Jitter, motion-sensing and capture devices, automated instruments, and other new media technologies. Video and sound artist Agnes Szelag/aggiflex, violinist and laptop musician Marielle Jakobson, FryPan's Bill Wolter, and experimental composer/performer David Blithell, of sfSound, will be among DOUBLE VISION's guest artists. "...Disembodied Head [by DOUBLE VISION] is a pinnacle example of the crossover of modern danc with audio/visual components. " - Hilary Burke, Producer of PBS' "Meaning of the 21st Century." DOUBLE VISION (www.double-vision.biz), led by Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute, is a collective of performers, musicians, dancers, video-artists, and technology aficionados striving to push the boundaries of dance, music and video art. DOUBLE VISION has curated and presented work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Albuquerque, the World Wide Web, and for the national PBS series, "Meaning in the 21st Century." DOUBLE VISION artists performing at WORKS will include Sean Clute, Dena Bermann, Bethany Clemen, Dorsey Dunn, Justin Gray, Shawn Irwin, Pauline Jennings, Jason Jones, Amy Nielson, Isabelle Sjahsam, Bill Wolter, and Nicole Zvarick. DAVID BLITHELL (www.davidblitell.com) is a composer/performer based in Emeryville. Having just completed his Ph.D. in composition at UC Berkeley, working with Edmund Campion and David Wessel, he has focused his recent work on the connections between music, theater, and language. As a trumpet player he studied primarily with Edwin Harkins at UC San Diego ? whose performance art duo [THE] has been very influential. He is one of the principal organizers and performers with the Bay Area new music ensemble sfSound. David will be performing "Lumen - Aria" for trumpet and electronics, as well as a premiere work for automated musical instruments, human, and computer. AGNES SZELAG/aggiflex (www.aggiflex.com) has been producing electronic music and visuals in the bay area for the past 6 years and has been teaching media arts at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts for the past 5 years. Agnes recently released a full length DVD of her audio/visual work, a three-song compilation, Konstruktions, and performed at San Francisco's first all female electronic music festival "Estrogenesis." Agnes will be collaborating with DOUBLE VISION artists, Sean Clute and Dorsey Dunn. BILL WOLTER is a musician/composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His work hovers around the sounds of experimental rock, jazz, and new music, emphasizing rhythmic quirkiness and melodic angularity. He will be collaborating with Sean Clute for "Ode to Jean Baudrillard," featuring live polyrhythmic spinning disks to create a simulation involving the blurring of one level of reality that is tangible and another level that is fictitious. Composer-improvisor of electroacoustic music, Marielle Jakobson received her B.A. in Music Performance and Biology in 2003 from Case Western University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, she left Ohio to study computer music full-time in Paris, France. At the Center for the Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis she worked with Gerard Pape, Jean-Claude Risset, Curtis Roads, and Trevor Wishart. After returning from Paris this summer, she booked it to the East Bay to expand her musical palette at Mills College, pursuing an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media. Recent premieres include "eventol (verboten sans solice)" for four-track tape at Les Voutes in Paris, November 2004. Current projects include interfacing violin and laptop via Supercollider, and making sound installations with plants. She will be performing her violin-laptop duo "v-osc-vi vassymmetry."

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