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  • Vera Gould: recent works

    VeraArtist’s Statement:

    Creativity doesn’t begin in the mind. It is a force that penetrates all of existence. If we manage to tap into this boundless energy, it moves
    freely through our bodies. When I paint, I have no goal in mind. I simply absorb the beauty of the present moment and transmute it into an experience for others. The first stroke is entirely spontaneous. The second stroke places itself relation to the first. The third stroke is dependent on the first two. In this way, the complexity escalates until the composition reaches equilibrium.This process is at once an improvisational dance and a mathematical puzzle. It mirrors the rhythms of nature.

  • TRITONIA: Works by Claire Staples, Leila Abdul-Rauf and Princess VuVu

    Claire StaplesClaire Staples, an artist and musician in Oakland, California, will be showing her video “Water is Whet”, an autobiographical exploration of the universal solvent.

    Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf enters a world all of her own weaving brass, piano and various other textures into filmic soundscapes that echo the sounds of memories faded through time. Diverging from the sounds of her work in much heavier projects (Vastum, Hammers of Misfortune, Cardinal Wyrm, Ionophore), Leila creates an overall atmosphere of introspection, accessing what is often unconscious and obscured by the human condition: songs are not so much composed as captured from dreams.  Leila in the WoodsEvoking haunting and desolate places, a private world is exposed, where time and space are distilled down to what remain of distant memories and hidden emotions, melded into a symphony of ethereal melancholy. Selections will be performed at ATA from both of her solo albums, Insomnia and Cold and Cloud, embedded within improvisational pieces. Nathan Verrill (Cardinal Wyrm) will be accompanying Leila’s set on synths and live sound captures, as well as projecting live visuals.

    Princess VuVu and the Undead present “Gott Mit Uns”, a dance with Gott Mit Unsghosts on neurological highways. Performing a musical score with Nathan Verill and Pranjal Tiwari, Princess will take us on a kaleidoscopic adventure through the woefully macabre and erotic tunnels of her mind. Captured in fragments dancing on screen, the moving image unfolds to the song of a siren summoning ghosts of filial tides

  • PATTERNS OF AIR: An evening of sound, video and film performances

     
    PatternsCollageSarah Davachi & Paul Clipson
    Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken
    Marielle Jakobsons
     
    As a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Sarah Davachi engages in practices of analog synthesis and psychoacoustic manipulations.  Her work focuses on the experience of enveloped sonic dwelling, often utilizing extended durations and drones, gradual transformations in texture, and simple harmonic structures that emphasize variations in overtone complexity and natural phasing patterns.  She holds an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College and, since 2007, has worked for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter, researcher, and archivist of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments.  She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, CA), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), WORM (Rotterdam, NL), and EMS (Stockholm, SE) and has released recordings with Students of Decay, Important Records, Constellation Tatsu, Full Spectrum Records, and JAZ Records.  Davachi currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. http://sarahdavachi.com/
     
    MarielleImage Marielle V. Jakobsons is a composer and intermedia artist based in Oakland, CA. Her compositions evoke minimalism with melodic drone and enveloping polyrhythmic soundscapes of synthesizers and strings.  She collaborates extensively in the experimental arts often composing or designing sound for visual elements such as film or interactive media.  She builds installations and instruments which bring focus to visceral experience of sound and light, most recently in her series “Macro-Cymatic Studies.”  As a solo artist, with her bands “Date Palms”, “Myrmyr”, and other collaborations, she has published recordings and toured internationally on Thrill Jockey, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, Important Records, among others.   Most recently a new choral work “The Threads Beneath” was premiered by The International Orange Chorale of SF, and a new solo album is due out in mid-2016. Marielle received her BA from Case Western and the Cleveland Institute of Music and a graduate certificate in computer music composition at the Center for Computer Composition of Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX). At Mills College, she was awarded her MFA in 2006, as well as the Elizabeth  Mills Crawford Award in Composition.  She has been awarded the Djerassi Artist Residency, Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, Brush Creek Foundation Arts Residency, American Composer’s Forum Grant, NEXMAP Sounding Out California Composer’s Award, has exhibited installations at the LAB,  San Francisco and California College of the Arts, among other distinctions. She has been a Visiting Professor at Mills College and San Francisco State University, and Visiting Artist at Eastern Washington University. http://www.mariellejakobsons.com/
     
    Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken make music with both traditional and hand made instruments that exploit the natural overtones and sympathetic vibrations generated by highly redundant tuning systems. Minimal structures and simple harmonic relationships give rise to meditative washes of sound. Each composition is constructed by considering the personal experience of a physical site, the materials used in the construction of the instruments, and the interplay between the two. Their performances are a mixture of the imagined and real, of natural phenomena, and direct action. Ashley and Ben have been awarded collaborative residencies at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and EMS in Stockholm, Sweden.
    Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and experimental film artist whose work involves projected installation and live collaborative performances with sound artists and musicians. His largely improvised, in-camera-edited films bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. His works have been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. http://www.withinmirrors.org/