Sonic Arts at GASP

Studio Visit: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

2008-06-13T08:55:00.000-07:00

Art-tistcics Art Ambassadors blog feature on Magdalena Campos/GASP

Art-tistcics Art Ambassadors blog

GASP, Rivington Place and Exit Art by Dawoud Bey

2008-06-09T13:11:00.001-07:00

This is a link to a really nice article on GASP, Rivington Place and Exit Art by photographer and guest curator Dawoud Bey.

"In addition to the ongoing exhibition program--curated by both American and international curators--GASP has a strong music and performing program as well, called Sonic Arts @ GASP. Programmed by Leonard (himself an internationally renowned musician, sonic artist, and longtime Berklee professor) the series brings a diverse group of musicians and audio artists (established and emerging) to the space and its audience. Leonard has also orchestrated an ongoing international exchange program, sending US musicians to perform abroad, while bring artists worldwide to the States to perform at GASP and elsewhere."

whatsgoingon-dawoudbeysblog.blogspot.com

MEMORY9, MetalKT, Eric Miller, Carolyn Wittaul

2008-06-02T20:55:00.000-07:00

Sonic Arts @ GASP proudly presents:

Friday, June 6th @ 8:00

Beat de-constructions, circuit bending noise and realtime video by
Berklee Music Synthesis students/alumni

From London: Gadi Sassoon (aka MEMORY9) with Neil Leonard
Katie Amaral with Carolyn Wittaul
Eric Miller

GASP Gallery
362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA
galleryinfo@g-a-s-p.net
617.418.4308

$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line.

Directions/Info:
http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/
http://gaspsound.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sonicartsatgasp

Artist bios

GADI SASSOON has been described as a "laptop maestro" (Animate!, The Hayward Gallery), a "young cult Italian act" and "one of today's most interesting breakthrough artists" (Soundcrash). He is best known for a live mash-up of genres and sonic sculpting that has shaken floors in London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Boston, Barcelona, Glasgow, and NYC. He has been featured on bills with Luke Vibert, Coldcut, Clark, Battles, The Herbalizer, Zerodb, DJ Vadim, Daedelus, Kode9, N-type, and Loefah. Notable studio collaborations include DJ Vadim (Ninja Tune, BBE), DJ Krust (Full Cycle), Dani Siciliano (!K7) and the label Saffrolla Sounds. www.myspace.com/gadisassoon

KATIE AMARAL (MetalKT) is a guitar player and electronic artist from Somerville, MA. She composes and produces all of her own music and is currently working on a software instrument library derived from all original samples. In May of 2008 she graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music with a dual degree in Music Business and Music Synthesis. She currently works as a music software tutor and is interning as a sound designer at Sonivox inc. Her music has been featured on the Berklee Electronica Club CD and also on a compilation released by Vermin Street, an independent record label based in Charlestown. For more info visit http://www.katieamaral.com or http://www.myspace.com/metalktmusic

ERIC MILLER is a sound artist based in southern New Hampshire. He uses the term 'grayscale' to refer to gradations between binary opposites which are often present in his work. These include rigid/free, improvisation/composition or algorithm, real-time/offline, and tonal/atonal. Miller attempts in his work to traverse these gradations; sometimes with gentle shifts, sometimes with violent leaps from one extreme to the other. The intended result is ambiguity; an obscuring of process, and confusion of which regime a passage lies within each of these axes. Miller's pieces often fit into a category of meta- or counter-composition. This is when several smaller works are brought together in an incommensurate way. They exist within the same framework, yet cannot be considered a unity.

NEIL LEONARD works as a sound artist, composer and saxophonist. His ensemble has featured Marshall Allen, Bruce Barth, Don Byron, Robin Eubanks, and Uri Caine. Leonard’s Dreaming of an Island, for orchestra, electronics and video was premiered by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Leonard's composition Totems was premiered at Carnegie Hall. Leonard's collaborative work with visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons was featured by the 49th Venice Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, NY; and presented by the U.S. State Department at Dakar Biennial. Leonard composed the music for Relatives, by Tony Oursler and Constance DeJong featured by the Whitney Biennial. Leonard is Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and taught sound installation at the Univeristy of Padova and the C. Pollini Conservatory, Italy.

Gasp attempts to create a space for artistic exchange where artists will explore and propose new possibilities for contemporary practices, a site for collaboration between disciplines and fields in the contemporary cultural landscape.

The Sonic Arts at GASP performance/installation series has featured: Phill Niblock, Pamela Z, Amnon Wolman, Ron Kuivila, io casino, Stephen Lehman, Jessica Feldman, Callithumpian Consort, Allan Chase/Bruno Raberg, Gary Chang, Richard Boulanger, Anthony Baldino, Pierce Warnecke, DREV, Mem1, Bruxism (Anne Rhodes/Carl Testa), Landon Rose, Jonathan Chen, Julia Campbell, Joe Sexton, the Jitter class @ Berklee (Joe Branciforte, Daniel Patterson, Zachary Kramer, Ben 'Encanti' Cantil, Carson Whitley, Alex Molina), Max Ables ... and many more.

Boston Globe Quick Pick: BRUXISM and ALLAN CHASE/BRUNO RÅBERG DUO

2008-05-02T12:23:00.000-07:00

By Max Pearl, May 2, 2008

The Greater Boston art gallery scene has a bit of a stagnant reputation, due in part to stuffy Newbury Street spots haunted by old, wealthy art patrons sipping little plastic cups of chardonnay. But there are pockets of life out there for a younger, more restless crowd.

Along with showing paintings, photography, sculpture, and sound art, Brookline's Gasp Gallery books touring musicians and talented Berklee kids for live music - from head-bobbing dance tracks to electroacoustic soundscapes - that draws a sizable crowd. Not only that, Gasp is only one block from the "D" train's Brookline Hills stop on the Green Line.

Tonight, Bruxism, a duo that makes use of experimental voice-work, woodwinds, and various electronics, plays alongside far-out free jazz duo Allan Chase and Bruno Raberg. All ages. Doors at 8 p.m. $10 suggested donation, $6 for students. 362-4 Boylston St., Brookline. 617-418-4308.

CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT/JESSICA FELDMAN - Sat. May 3

2008-04-23T19:35:00.000-07:00

Detail from JESSICA FELDMAN performance

JESSICA FELDMAN
From NYC - live video and sound performance

CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT
Leading New England contemporary music ensemble performs:

Karola Obermueller: but one adagio smile still lingers for solo cello
Ben Schwartz, cello

John Cage: Ryoanji for flute, trombone and percussion
Jessi Rosinski, flute; Dylan Chmura-Moore, trombone; Jeff Means, percussion

Giacinto Scelsi: Hyxos for flute and percussion
Jessi Rosinski, flute; Jeff Means, percussion

Helmut Lachenmann: temA for voice, flute and cello
Jen Ashe, voice; Jessi Rosinski, flute; Ben Schwartz, cello

Saturday, May 3 @ 8:00
$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

The CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT is dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience. Founded by pianist and conductor Stephen Drury in the late 1990's, we are an ensemble producing concerts of contemporary music at the highest standard. The Consort consists of a senior band of long standing Thump soloists, but is fundamentally flexible in size and makeup, enabling the group to tackle unusual repertoire in non-standard or larger chamber ensembles, or to take part in experimental projects. Our repertoire encompasses a huge stylistic spectrum, from the classics of the last 50 years to works of the avant-garde and experimental jazz and rock. Active commissioning and recording of new works is crucial to our mission. We have worked with composers John Cage, Lee Hyla, John Zorn, Michael Finnissy, Franco Donatoni, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Helmut Lachenmann, John Luther Adams, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff and many others. Recordings are available on Tzadik, New World and Mode records.

JESSICA FELDMAN is an intermedia artist with a background in sound, sculpture and installation. She creates work that asks its audience to engage in dynamic relationships with their physical surroundings, with each other, with larger communities and with political questions. Recent pieces tend toward interactivity and often occur in extremely public or extremely private spaces. She makes use of sculptural materials, video and choreographic practices in addition to sound. Works have been performed, installed and exhibited internationally at art galleries, museums, concert halls, public parks, city streets, tiny closets and the internet and at NYC venues such as The Kitchen, Roulette, The Stone, The Tank, MonkeyTown and Tenri Cultural Institute. Her work has received grants/awards from the LMCC, the Max Kade Foundation, Columbia University, Meet the Composer and the Experimental Television Center, among others.

Links:

http://www.callithumpian.org/
http://www.jessicafeldman.org/

BRUXISM and ALLAN CHASE/BRUNO RÅBERG DUO - Friday, May 2

2008-04-23T19:23:00.000-07:00

BRUXISM: ANNE RHODES and CARL TESTA

BRUNO RÅBERG

ALLAN CHASE

BRUXISM:
(ANNE RHODES voice; CARL TESTA double bass/bass clarinet/electronics - featured with the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet)
with guest NEIL LEONARD bass clarinet/electronics

ALLAN CHASE /BRUNO RÅBERG DUO
Chase - saxophones, Råberg - double bass
Leading New England improvisers

Friday, May 2 @ 8:00
$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

ANNE RHODES is a vocalist based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.M. in Voice Performance from Boston University, and an M.A. in Experimental Music Performance from Wesleyan University. Anne specializes in collaborating with composers and improvisation, using extended vocal techniques while relying heavily on her classical training. She has performed with Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, the Crane School of Music Opera Ensemble, the Boston University Chamber Choir, the New England Conservatory Continuing Education Opera Studio, MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble, the FLUX Quartet, Mirror Boiyz, and Connecticut Opera, and has premiered works by composers including Anthony Braxton, Neil Leonard, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Alvin Lucier.Rhodes is a member of the New Haven Improvisors Collective.

CARL TESTA is a composer and instrumentalist based in New Haven, CT and New York City. Originally from Chicago, Testa studied music with Donn DeSanto, at the U of C Lab School, as well as at the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) School of Music. He studied music and sociology at Wesleyan University with Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Charles Lemert, and performed with Anthony Braxton, Aaron Siegel, Anne Rhodes, Angela Opell, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Gergely Kiss, Dave Ruder, Daniel Raimi, Dave Kadden, Philip Schulze, David Jensenius, and many others. Presently, he leads his own groups, and is a key member of Anthony Braxton's ensemble. Testa's compositional interests are focused on in writing for clarinet ensembles, for electronics, for voice, and for multimedia events.

Bassist/composer BRUNO RÅBERG is originally from Sweden. At age 20 he moved to Stockholm to join Eje Thelin's band and stayed on for four years, recording and touring extensively. In 1981 Råberg relocated to the US to study with Miroslav Vitous at New Enland Conservatory. Råberg has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, as well as North, South and Central America. He released 5 CDs as a leader and has performed with: Mick Goodrick, Matt Wilson, Bob Moses, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Yoron Israel, Billy Hart, Dick Oats, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Bobo Stensson, Thomas Gustavsson, Sam Rivers, Julius Hemphil, Jim Black, Bruce Barth, Bob Mintzer, Greg Osby, Jackie Byard, Ran Blake, George Russell, Miroslav Vitous, Regina Carter, Antonio Hart, Billy Kilson, Gene Jackson, John Medeski, John LaPorta, John McNeil, Rachel Z, Donald Brown, Bill Pierce, Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra with David Baker. Råberg is a Professor at Berklee College of Music.

Jazz and classical saxophonist ALLAN CHASE has performed with Alan Dawson, Teddy Kotick, Mick Goodrick, Lewis Nash, Fred Hersch, and Andrew Cyrille. Chase's debut recording with his own quartet, Dark Clouds with Silver Linings, was chosen as one of the top ten jazz CDs of 1995 by critics for the Boston Globe, Jazziz, and the Boston Phoenix. His second CD, Phoenix, was released in 2000. From 1981 to 1995, he was a member of Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet, which recorded six CDs and performed on 10 European concert tours. Since 1992, Chase has been a member of Rashied Ali's quintet, Prima Materia, and has recorded four CDs with him. He has also performed chamber music with Marimolin and the Princeton Composers' Ensemble. Chase has recorded with his own quartet and with Gunther Schuller, John Zorn, Dominique Eade, and Stanley Cowell, and has done studio recordings for feature films, popular music records, television, radio, and advertisements. Recordings on Coppens, Knitting Factory Works, Catalyst/BMG, Accurate, GM, Bridge, Cadence Jazz, YOUR Records, Northeastern.

NEIL LEONARD works as a sound artist, composer and saxophonist. His ensemble has featured Marshall Allen (Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra), Bruce Barth, Uri Caine, Don Byron, Kenwood Dennard, Robin Eubanks, Frank Lacy, Oriente Lopez, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Uri Caine. Leonard's Dreaming of an Island, for orchestra, electronics and video was premiered by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Leonard's composition Totems was premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall by Byron and Caine. Leonard compositions were featured in festivals in Europe, North America, Africa, Middle East, Japan and the Caribbean. Leonard's collaborative work with visual artist Magdalena Campos-Pons was featured by the 49th Venice Biennial and MOMA, NY. Leonard has recorded for ECM, A&M, Accurate and Interval Recordings. Leonard is co-owner of Gallery Artist Studio Project (GASP). Leonard is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, and taught sound installation at the University of Padova and the C. Pollini Conservatory, Italy.

Are we there yet?

2008-03-24T08:35:00.000-07:00

ARE WE THERE YET? Curated by Dawoud Bey

March 28 - May 3, 2008
Opening Reception, March 28, 5-8 pm; Artist Talk @ 6 pm

Featured Artists; Howard Henry Chen, Alan Cohen, Christine DiThomas, Aaron Gent, Rula Halawani, Surendra Lawoti, Curtis Mann, Oscar Palacio, Adriana Rios
Fresh Produce: Nahna Kim

Steve Lehman Concert in the Phoenix

2008-03-14T13:57:00.000-07:00

"[LEHMAN] does a solo show as part of the cool "Sonic Arts"
music series at of the area's coolest gallery/performances spaces,
GASP." - The Boston Phoenix

Steve Lehman Solo Concert

2008-03-10T15:04:00.000-07:00

GASP Gallery Presents:

Friday, March 14th @ 8:00
STEVE LEHMAN – solo saxophone/live electronics

$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

Read The New York Times review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/arts/music/17choi.html

"Probing the furthest frontiers of rhythm science, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman represents some of the most advanced compositional thinking in jazz today. A child of the avant-garde, he's a former student and bandmate of Anthony Braxton and a member of Fieldwork, the collaborative trio with piano visionary Vijay Iyer. Lehman's 2005 outing Demian as Posthuman, featuring Meshell Ndegeocello, is a study in splintered soundscapes and mind-altering beats." -Philadelphia Weekly

Named a Rising Star on the alto saxophone in 2006 and 2007 by the Downbeat Magazine International Critics Poll, STEVE LEHMAN is a saxophonist and composer whose work resides on the cutting-edge of contemporary music. He has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by The Wire, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and by National Public Radio. A former student of both Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton, he has performed and recorded throughout the United States and Europe with his own ensembles, and with those led by Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Mark Dresser, Vijay Iyer, Oliver Lake, and Meshell Ndegeocello. Lehman's pieces for large orchestra and chamber ensembles have been performed by the Janacek Philharmonic, members of Ensemble 21 and Ensemble Sospeso, and by the pianist Marilyn Nonken. Lehman's recent electro-acoustic music has focused on the development of computer-driven models for improvisation using Max/MSP. Lehman is a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University. Lehman's recordings as a leader include On Meaning (Pi 2007) and Demian as Posthuman (Pi 2005), featuring 9-time Grammy nominee Meshell Ndegeocello.

http://www.stevelehman.com/

Dynamics of Belonging @ GASP

2008-01-30T19:01:00.001-08:00

Dynamics of Belonging

February 1 - March 8, 2008
Opening reception Friday February 1, 2008 5 - 8 pm
Artist talk @ 6 pm

Curated by Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Featured artists; Luis Cantillo, Lina Dorado, Maria Elvira Dieppa, Rodrigo Echeverri, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Max Steven Grossman, Rodrigo Mendoza Cortissoz, Marco Mojica, Anita (Ana Maria) Velasco. Fresh Produce; Evelyn Rydz

"The essence of a nation is that people share many things and also that they have forgotten many things"
-Garcia Canclini, La globalizacin imaginada

The Dynamics of Belonging brings together Colombian artists living and working in Colombia and in the United States, whose work questions and challenges the influence of nationhood in contemporary art production.

Upcoming Events @ GASP

2008-01-18T15:33:00.000-08:00

Sonic Arts @ GASP proudly presents two concerts:

Friday, January 25th @ 8:00

Achille Succi - saxophone/bass clarinet
Neil Leonard – saxophone/electronics
Garrison Fewell – electric guitar
Bruno Råberg – acoustic bass

Friday, March 14th @ 8:00

Stephen Lehman – saxophone/electronics

GASP Gallery
362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA
info@g-a-s-p.net
617.418.4308

$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line.

Directions/Info:
http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/
http://gaspsound.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sonicartsatgasp

Artist bios

Guitarist GARRISON FEWELL records for Soul Note, Koch, Accurate, Splasc(H) and Boxholder. Recently, Garrison recorded a live CD at Birdland (NYC) with John Tchicai (sax), Charlie Kohlhase (sax), Cecil McBee (bass) and Billy Hart (drums). Garrison has performed in the US, South America, Africa, Caribbean, Canada and Europe. He has played with Khan Jamal, Cecil Bridgewater, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Jay Clayton, Zbigniew Namyslowski, and Cameron Brown. Garrison has taught in conservatories throughout Europe and teaches at the Sant Anna Arresi Jazz Festival (Sardegna) with William Parker, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrahms, Anthony Cyrille and Roscoe Mitchell. Garrison is Professor of Guitar and Ear Training at Berklee College of Music.

Saxophonist, bass clarinetist ACHILLE SUCCI hails from Modena Italy. He leads the group Atman with Fabrizio Puglisi and Alberto Capelli that has hosted guest soloists Louis Sclavis, Ab Baars and Ernst Rejiseger. Achille Succi plays in Uri Caine's "Othello Suite" and other projects led by Louis Sclavis, Ettore Fioravanti's, Simone Guiducci, Paolino Dalla Porta, Nicola Pisani, Giorgio Gaslini and Franco D'Andrea; As winner of the "Pépinières Europeénnes pour jeunes artistes" he collaborated with Danish composer Pierre Dorge and his "New Jungle Orchestra." Achille Succi released two CDs, "Shiva’s dance” and "Terra". He teaches improvisation and clarinet at Roccella Jonica Jazz Festival, Siena Jazz summer workshops and Conservatory of Ferrara.

Bassist/composer BRUNO RÅBERG is originally from Sweden. At age 20 he moved to Stockholm to join Eje Thelin's band and stayed on for four years, recording and touring extensively. In 1981 Råberg relocated to the US to study with Miroslav Vitous at New Enland Conservatory. Råberg has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, as well as North, South and Central America. He released 5 CDs as a leader and has performed with: Mick Goodrick, Matt Wilson, Bob Moses, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Yoron Israel, Billy Hart, Dick Oats, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Bobo Stensson, Thomas Gustavsson, Sam Rivers, Julius Hemphil, Jim Black, Bruce Barth, Bob Mintzer, Greg Osby, Jackie Byard, Ran Blake, George Russell, Miroslav Vitous, Regina Carter, Antonio Hart, Billy Kilson, Gene Jackson, John Medeski, John LaPorta, John McNeil, Rachel Z, Donald Brown, Bill Pierce, Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra with David Baker. Råberg is a Professor at Berklee College of Music.

NEIL LEONARD works as a sound artist, composer and saxophonist. His ensemble has featured Marshall Allen (Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra), Bruce Barth, Uri Caine, Don Byron, Kenwood Dennard, Robin Eubanks, Frank Lacy, Oriente Lopez, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Uri Caine. Leonard’s Dreaming of an Island, for orchestra, electronics and video was premiered by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Leonard's composition Totems was premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall by Byron and Caine. Leonard compositions were featured in festivals in Europe, North America, Africa, Middle East, Japan and the Caribbean. Leonard's collaborative work with visual artist Magdalena Campos-Pons was featured by the 49th Venice Biennial and MOMA, NY. Leonard has recorded for ECM, A&M, Accurate and Interval Recordings. Leonard is co-owner of Gallery Artist Studio Project (GASP). Leonard is Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, and taught sound installation at the University of Padova and the C. Pollini Conservatory, Italy.

Named a Rising Star on the alto saxophone in 2006 and 2007 by the Downbeat Magazine International Critics Poll, STEVE LEHMAN is a saxophonist and composer whose work resides on the cutting-edge of contemporary music. He has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by The Wire, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and by National Public Radio. A former student of both Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton, he has performed and recorded throughout the United States and Europe with his own ensembles, and with those led by Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Mark Dresser, Vijay Iyer, Oliver Lake, and Meshell Ndegeocello. An award-winning composer, Lehman's pieces for large orchestra and chamber ensembles have been performed by the Janacek Philharmonic, members of Ensemble 21 and Ensemble Sospeso, and by the pianist Marilyn Nonken. Lehman's recent electro-acoustic music has focused on the development of computer-driven models for improvisation, based in the Max/MSP programming environment. Since 2006, Lehman has been a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University where he is a departmental fellow.

Lehman's most recent recordings as a leader include On Meaning (Pi 2007) with his critically acclaimed quintet, and Demian as Posthuman (Pi 2005), featuring Tyshawn Sorey and 9-time Grammy nominee Meshell Ndegeocello.

Mem1-Campbell-Sexton

2007-11-28T07:48:00.001-08:00

Sassoon, Baldino, Putnam, Novotny @ GASP

2007-11-14T21:05:00.001-08:00

Sonic Arts @ GASP proudly presents:

Saturday, November 17th @ 8:00

Gadi Sassoon - live electronics
Anthony Baldino with Sylvia Novotny - live electronics and dance
Spencer Putnam - live electonics

GASP Gallery
362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA
info@g-a-s-p.net
617.418.4308

$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line.

Directions/Info:
http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/
http://gaspsound.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sonicartsatgasp

Artist bios

Gadi Sassoon has been described as a "laptop maestro" (Animate!, The Hayward Gallery), a "young cult Italian act" and "one of today's most interesting breakthrough artists" (Soundcrash). He is best known for a live mash-up of genres and sonic sculpting that has shaken floors in London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Boston, Barcelona, Glasgow, and NYC. He has been featured on bills with Luke Vibert, Coldcut, Clark, Battles, The Herbalizer, Zerodb, DJ Vadim, Daedelus, Kode9, N-type, and Loefah. Notable studio collaborations include DJ Vadim (Ninja Tune, BBE), DJ Krust (Full Cycle), Dani Siciliano (!K7) and the label Saffrolla Sounds. www.myspace.com/gadisassoon

Anthony Baldino composes electronic music for modern dance and concert performance. Last summer he toured Italy playing in the Sguardi Sonori, Pop-Eye and Futurity Festivals. He composed and designed sound for films featured in the Sundance film festival. Anthony recently conducted the world premiere of Olivia Block's Rime and Glaze for 24 musicians (voices, string quartet, laptop soloists, contact mics).

Spencer Putnam began his music career in Omaha, Nebraska and now resides in Boston, MA. Under the moniker of Maetoba, Spencer performs as a multi-instrumentalist often toting a guitar, bass, keyboard and/or a variety of percussion instruments in an electronic setting using a variety of software applications on his laptop to simultaneously manipulate live and pre-recorded sounds. He has written and recorded music and sound for televised and private advertising, a small collection of short films and animations, the Boston 48-Hour Film Project and is currently in the process of incorporating live video-manipulation techniques into his on-stage performance.

This Friday Mem1, Julia Campbell, Joe Sexton

2007-10-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

Sonic Arts @ GASP's proudly presents:

Mem1
(Laura Thomas-Merino – cello, M. Cera – laptop)
Julia Campbell – laptop
Joe Sexton - laptop

GASP Gallery
Friday, 19th October at 8:30 pm
362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA
info@g-a-s-p.net
617.418.4308

$10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID

GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA 'D' Riverside line. Directions and additional info:

http://www397.pair.com/gasp1
http://gaspsound.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/sonicartsatgasp

Mem1 is an electroacoustic duo that seamlessly blends the sounds of cello (Laura Thomas-Merino) and electronics (M. Cera) to create a subtle evolution of textures that moves beyond melody, lyricism, and traditional structural confines. Mem1 has collaborated with the Penderecki String Quartet and performed at REDCAT (Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Mem1 was recently awarded a residency from Harvestworks (NYC) to create a new work with video artists Liora Belford. Their second album, Alexipharmaca, is published by Interval Recordings.

Laura Thomas-Merino is a cellist from Los Angeles. She has been featured in festivals in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Italy. She has performed with Pamela Z, the Robin Cox Ensemble, OXO and the Providence String Quartet. In November, she premieres Andre Cormier's ‘Piling Sand, Piling Stone’ with violist Robin Streb.

M. Cera is a media artist who performs with custom applications for live audio/visual performance. Cera's work employs feedback loops, genetic algorithms, and carefully controlled chaos. He is a member of the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of the Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project. Together with Laura, he curates the concert series, CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, that features experimental, electronic and new music.

LINK: http://www.mem1.com/

Joe Sexton has performed extensively on the East coast and in Chicago. After graduating from New England Conservatory Sexton played saxophone in ensembles led by Steve Lacy, Joe Morris, and the Chicago's Branch/Riordan/Sexton. Sexton currently performs computer-based music both solo and in collaboration with Julia Campbell.

From upstate New York, Julia Campbell came to Boston in 2003 to study saxophone improvisation and soon became obsessed by creating music from electronic means. Her computer compositions utilize a diverse set of synthesis techniques, organic material, and digital signal processing tools. She also works in sound design and has collaborated with animators and video game companies. She performs regularly with Joe Sexton and has premiered work by Olivia Block.

2007-09-19T18:28:00.000-07:00

SEPTEMBER UPDATE

Sonic Arts @ GASP is currently working on an exciting series of events for this fall including performances by Anne Rhodes, Anthony Baldino, Julia Campbell and Neil Leonard with others TBA in the next week.

We started a myspace site:
myspace/sonicartsatgasp

The Sonic Arts @ GASP engine for the fall is:

Neil Leonard
Gallery Owner & Founder

Julia Campbell
Sonic Arts @ GASP Intern

GASP workshop in Italy - 2007

2007-09-18T18:08:00.004-07:00

Gianni Bolongaro, GASP's collaborator in La Spezia, discusses the La Marrana collection with Jess Hewitt and Pierce Warnecke. Jess had just arrived from Boston and had not slept for 48 hours due to flight delays.

Neil Leonard, Jess Hewitt and LA composer Gary Chang recording Janis Kounellis' untitled sculpture at La Marrana di Monte Marcello, La Spezia.

Pierce Warnecke spent two years working at GASP as an artist, curator and producer. In this photo Pierce is recording 5.1 audio installations in Chiesa San Lorenzo, Portovenere.

Over the summer GASP partnered with Berklee College of Music to hold a workshop in Sonic Arts for graduates of the Music Synthesis Program. Attendees included Anthony Baldino (not shown), Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke. Other GASP sponsors included the Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media Art, La Marrana and the Italian Airforce who provided accomodations!

Related links:
neilleonardevents.blogspot.com (Italy Tour 2007 posts)
sguardisonori2007.blogspot.com
sanctuariestour.blogspot.com

Boston Cyberarts @ Gasp - 2007

2007-09-18T12:59:00.000-07:00

GASP Sonic Arts Series
Curated by Neil Leonard

EVENT ONE: New Music form the US and Poland
Marek Choloniewski, Richard Boulander and Neil Leonard
Date and Time: Sunday April 22, 8:00 pm

A BIG THANKS TO RICHARD BOULANGER FOR LENDING US HIS SOUND SYSTEM FOR THIS AND FUTURE EVENTS!!

EVENT TWO: Reactive
A sound installation by Piecre Warnecke and Max Abeles
Four channel audio, interactive video, warped plexiglass sculpture and photo sensors.
Date and Time: May 1-4, Reception 6-8

EVENT THREE: HinjNoiz: File under Rumble Organ- prepared
Sound installation by Landon Rose
Date and Time: May 17-19

NOTE: The rumble organ is a unique instrument made with stove pipe, raw speakers, guitar pick-up and a spinning disk. The sound is processed with a computer running the application SuperCollider

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Reactive - Pierce Warnecke's senior thesis project

2007-09-18T12:50:00.004-07:00

GASP and the Boston Cyberarts Festival Present:
Reactive: A sound installation by Piecre Warnecke and Max Abeles
For 4 channel audio, interactive video, warped plexiglass sculpture and photo sensors.
May 1-4, 2007

Outeractive - works by the Jitter class @ Berklee

2007-09-18T12:41:00.004-07:00

Pierce Warnecke (multimedia artist, Gasp Intern, Berklee alumn) curated this show of live MAX/MSP/JITTER performances and installations.

After a the show ... students of the Jitter class @ Berklee.
Standing: Joe Branciforte, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Neil Leonard, Daniel Patterson, Zachary Kramer, Ben 'Encanti' Cantil, Max Abeles
Sitting: Carson Whitley, Alex Molina, Pierce Warnecke

Action shot!

The Jitter class show was part of the American Composers Forum annual SONIC CIRCUITS ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL.

AMNON WOLMAN MASTER CLASS: Amnon Wolman gave a master class on his work with MAX/MSP/Jitter and critiqued class works. Amnon's master class was sponsored by ACF and Berklee and was open to the public.

Io Casino - Notes from 2006 event

2007-09-17T17:41:00.002-07:00

You are invited to a sound performance

io casino - electronics, bass and voice
Neil Leonard - woodwinds and electronics
Anne Rhodes - voice
Jonathan Chen - violin

GASP Gallery
Sunday, 18th December at 7-8 pm, 2006

IO CASINO [electronics, bass, and voice] is a sound artist who lives in Barcelona, Spain. Her work ranges from long drones with bass and metallic textures to voice works that evoke ‘a young girl and ancient Inuit women processed by sampler and electronics.’ casino has released three CDs: "Io Casino" (Zanfonia / Gràcia Territori Sonor), "Mundo das ferramentas" (Gràcia Territori Sonor w/ Kasper Toeplitz, Francisco López, Tibetan Red, Josep Gimenez, and Victor Nubla), and "Cicalà" (Icones). In 1996, she became part of the Gràcia Territori Sonor team, which organizes the Festival LEM (Barcelona) and which she directs. This event is part of casino’s first tour on the U.S.

Saxophonist and composer, NEIL LEONARD [woodwinds and electronics], is known for his highly unique approach to composition and improvisation. His ensemble has featured Marshall Allen (Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra), Bruce Barth, Don Byron, Uri Caine, Kenwood Dennard, Robin Eubanks, Frank Lacy, Badal Roy, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Leonard composed the music for "Relatives," by Tony Oursler and Constance DeJong, which was featured at the Whitney Biennial and in 25 cities around the world. He is co-owner of Gallery Artist Studio Project (GASP) and curator of the GASP sonic arts series in Brookline. Leonard teaches at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

ANNE RHODES [voice] is originally from Portland, Maine. She has performed with the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre Chorus, the Crane School of Music Opera Ensemble, the Boston University Camber Choir, the New England Conservatory Continuing Education Opera Studio, MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble and the Connecticut Opera Chorus. Anne is currently pursuing an M.A. in Music Performance at Wesleyan University, focusing on experimental music, improvisation and collaboration with composers. She is particularly interested in the inherent issues involved in singing music written by instrumentalists, and in using the voice as an ensemble instrument as opposed to a vehicle for text. She is currently working in collaboration with Neely Bruce on a large body of French art songs and with Anthony Braxton on a duo “Ghost Trance” recording project.

JONATHAN CHEN’s [violin] work, including sound installations, compositions, and improvisations, has been featured by The Soap Factory (Minneapolis), Chicago Cultural Center, Asian American Jazz Festival, and many others. Chen’s performance venues include the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Renaissance Society, Smithsonian Institute, Sounds Like Now Festival (NYC), WNUR Jazz Festival, Sonic Circuits International Festival of Electronic Music, and others. He has worked with Anthony Braxton, Gene Coleman, Nic Collins, Olivia Block, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Megan Rodgers, Jenny Walsh, Amnon Wolman, Santiago Cucullu, and Jeff Chan. Recent duets with bassist Tatsu Aoki will be released on Asian Improv Records.

Amnon Wolman - 4 projector/4 channel sound installation

2007-09-17T17:41:00.001-07:00

At Amnon's request, we emptied the back office, hung black drapes to keep the light out and furnished the space with cushions so visitors could lounge inside the installation space. This video is a hand-held shoot made by Amnon.

Computer Music Journal reviews GASP

2007-09-17T17:33:00.000-07:00

Computer Music Journal
Volume 29, Number 4, Winter 2005

CMJ Volume 29, Number 4, Winter 2005 contents

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Rosari, Alexia. Amnon Wolman, Ron Kuivila, Phill Niblock: Sound Art at Gasp

Pics from the first season - 2005

2007-09-17T17:26:00.000-07:00

one of several projections for Phill Niblock's concert/installation.

Phill Niblock

Ron Kuivila - performing an 8-channel sound piece

From the first season of events - 2005

2007-09-17T05:19:00.000-07:00

First concert!

2007-09-17T05:18:00.003-07:00

Our First concert was entitled 'Diva Hour' featuring Pamela Z.
It seemed like Brookline got a foot of snow that evening. Cars were towed from the street (including the GASP wagon). Pamela's train was canceled, leaving her stranded in Boston. We stayed home, drank coffee and shoveled a lot of snow!