Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • an evening with Hiss & Hum (im//perfect color) and Danilo Casti (bridge)

    castiBRIDGE: An improv-based performance that runs around glitch, drone ambient music and sound scape sculpting with minimalistic visuals.
    Danilo Casti (Sardinia island – Italy)
    Bridge. Passage. Landscape. It’s a metaphor for the human innate curiosity towards knowledge. It’s an idea that connects two worlds. A man who crosses the bridge leaves behind a trail of melancholy, feeling the attraction to the newly discovered path. Close to each bridge there is always an interesting soundscape that gradually changes, fading the steps ahead to the traces of suspended memories. The bridge always tells two locations, weaving the space of memory to the flow of time. Duration: 30 min

     

    “im//perfect color”: Released exclusively on VHS and inspired by equal parts “New Wave Theatre” and Chris & Cosey’s “CTI Transmissions”, “im//perfect color” is the 4th full-length release from hiss & hum. Made using second-hand VCRs and obsolete (and often broken) video editors, the brittle, colorful, and slightly unstable visuals compliment the anxious melodies to make short abstract films that are, while immediately somewhat distressing, ultimately very calming and peaceful in their embrace of clutter, chaos, and color.  Two pieces from the release will be screened, as well as a live performance of a new work in progress titled “an easy mind (can suffer through all feeling).”

     

    DANILO CASTI

    Danilo Casti is an electroacustic musician and composer born in Cagliari (Sardinia island, Italy) . He’s been present in the Italian electronic music scene since 2000, starting his music career with hardcore punk, moving to noise-drone, glitch, acousmatic and electroacoustic music. His music research ranges from experimental theatre, to contemporary dance, video and multimedia installation. He has collaborated with several artists such as Simone Lecca, Gregory Petitqueux, Manuel Carreras, Riccardo Mantelli, Alessandro Carboni, Lorenzo Tripodi e Ogino Knauss, Gustavo Costa, Henrique Fernandes, Georgios Sioros, Nella Turkki, Ana Dora Borges, Susana Oliveira, Patricia Cadaveira, Manu Alcaraz Clemente, I&D Ensemble di Porto, Maurizio Saiu, Andy Beuys, Matan Fridman, Manuel Lain, Laura Farneti, Mattia Pegna, Mario Massa, Walter Reis do Pinheiro, Naritaka Shimizu Pavla Beranova. He founded the theatre and dance group OOFFOURO with Alessandro Carboni.

    Over the years he has developed an interest in real time composition methodologies, researching various performing possibilities applied not only to sound performance but also to dance and video. He performed at various festivals of electronic music, theatre and dance such as Audio Art Krakow, Santarcangelo Festival, Crisalide Festival Forlì, Contemporanea Prato, Ipercorpo Rome, Fabbrica Europa Florence, Castle of Imagination Slupsk, Multiplace Zilina, SpazioMusica Cagliari, Signal Festival Cagliari, Zoom Festival Scandicci, Festival Internazionale Nuova Danza Milan, Inequilibrio Castiglioncello. He has been a guest in several creative residencies and has performed at events such as: Motorschiff Stubnitz (Amsterdam NL, Rostock DE), STEIM Amsterdam (NL), Arboreto Mondaino (IT), Cesta Tabor (CZ), BWAZG Zielona Gora (PL), NOD-ROXY Prague (CZ), Rozbrat Poznan (PL), Sonoscopia Porto (PT), Kollatino Underground Rome (IT), Teatro Studio Parco della Musica Rome (IT). In 2003 he organized the first edition of the festival EnToPan at the Foundry in London.

    http://www.danilocasti.com

    http://www.facebook.com/danilo.casti.mdc

    http://www.youtube.com/user/danilocastivideo

     

    HISS & HUM

    Hiss & Hum is the project of multi-instrumentalist Dave D’estroyer, perhaps best known in the bay area as the animated half of now-defunct sound terrorists Celine Dion (2013).  In addition to recording and performing in a wide range of other collaborative projects for the past decade, D’estroyer has been making home recordings that began as simple experiments in song form but have evolved into challenging soundscapes using heavily effected guitar & synthesizer.  His visual work began as abstract compliments to his more recent musical recordings, but he has also made videos for Clipd Beaks, Seven Lies About Girls, and RXCCXXNS which all share his rough editing technique and vivid psychedelic color scheme.

     

  • OpenScreening

    openscreeningATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact  
    Programming@atasite.org

  • thrombotic resurrection

    thromboticArtist Statement: The soul is the formation of a clot believed by some to be the divine inside of an immortal intravascular mass vessel. By obstructing the flow of mortality through the human being, some believe it is the actual vehicle by which injury occurs. When a spirit is injured, the body uses platelets to form a blood clot to prevent life loss at a site distant from its point of origin and is subsequently resurrected and ascends.Bio: Marcelle Marais (born on July 6, 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a multifaceted artist working in the mediums of painting, music and performance. Marcelle immigrated to the United States when she was eighteen and moved to San Francisco in 2004, where she attended the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2010. Her work expresses the continuous cycle of regeneration and degeneration of the self in various forms: the forever evolving, expanding, decaying, and rebirth through the
    intrinsic qualities of human nature which are inherent in all of us. These are the cycles of life through which her creativity is channeled, explored, and expressed.Bio: Maciej Makalowski is an interdisciplinary artist born in Poznań, Poland and raised in Montréal, Washington DC, and central Pennsylvania. His paintings, photographs, collages, and films explore political histories, nostalgia, popular culture, and fringe spirituality. He received an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011 and a BFA in Painting and BA in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008. He has exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Long Beach, Berkeley, Chicago, Portland, Tulsa, Russia, Pennsylvania, and Italy. He is also a founding member of the Basement artist collective in the Mission district of San Francisco. In his spare time, Maciej focuses on playing music and social work. He currently resides and works in San Francisco, CA. www.makalowski.com

    Opening Reception April 17th 6-9PM