Experimental Visual/Sound Performance December 28, 2005

Wed, December 28, 9:30pm 2005,

Cover is $15

BRINK: Other-Minded Music, a monthly concert series by Other Minds, presents performances by New York visual/sound artist Bruce Tovsky, and Oakland-based experimental musician Matt Davignon.

Tovsky will perform his most recent video/sound piece ETHER, which premiered at 106BLDG30 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in June 2005, and has been playing in international festivals from S?o Paulo to Seoul. The sound from ETHER was also featured recently in the BBC4 radio documentary "Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher," a provocative and disturbing look at shortwave numbers stations. With evocative sound and visual elements, ETHER aims to create an immersive environment of data decay. Images crackle and distort, merging in and out of video noise. The hiss and hum of sound thousands of miles away fills the room; snatches of music and voices decompose into static. In a darkened room, the video diptych is projected on a flat white wall as the only illumination.

In addition, Tovsky and Davignon will perform two improvisational pieces together, one initiated by each artist. Both will draw on recently accumulated materials, and neither artist will know before the performance what the other has at hand. Tovsky will also incorporate recent video work that he has assembled for this event.