Looking for an event that will stoke your brain with the illest experimental music and performance art in the midst of a rad installation? Come to our next Performance Art and Experimental Music Night. The Swinging Chandeliers, Drew Schnurr, and Ken Okuno.
Performance Art and Experimental Music Night
at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2004
The Swinging Chandeliers, Drew Schnurr, and Ken Okuno
at Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles's New Venue for Performance Art and Experimental Music and Film
Los Angeles, CA, July 3, 2004 - We don't have chandeliers hanging at
Dangerous Curve, Downtown Los Angeles's new experimental art space, but
we've got blow-up blimps! Looking for an event that will stoke your
brain with the illest experimental music and performance art in the
midst of a rad installation? Come to our next Performance Art and
Experimental Music Night, at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2004.
We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo
Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts (#102).
The lineup this time includes The Swinging Chandeliers, the duo of
master tape loop artist Joseph Hammer and artist/hypnotist Sayo
Mitsuishi, plus the brilliant experimental bassist Drew Schnurr, and
veteran musician/poet Ken Okuno. We request a modest $5.00 donation
(that's split entirely among the acts), for which you get plenty of
close, free parking and free refreshments. The evening coincides with
the last week of Karyl Newman's lyrical and probing pneumatic blimp
installation "Hangar."
The Swinging Chandeliers is the duo Joseph Hammer and Sayo Mitsuishi.
The latter, an artist/hypnotist, draws live to Joseph's tape loops on an
overhead projector. She uses both hands simultaneously, ambidextrously
achieving an uncanny symmetry that's more about intricate body gesture
rather than representation.
Joseph Hammer is a respected tape-loop Meister, altering his cycles
seamlessly, morphing them organically rather than metrically. The
effect is natural, not forced:
"Unlike many people's art loops but like all real-life loops,
Hammer's are always changing - sources and lengths of sample
altered, cycles often completed at irregular intervals."
--Greg Berk, L.A. Weekly
This is the mark of a true master, as Cage is the master of even his
silences. Both musicians obey natural laws. The effect is timeless and
completely absorbing, "focusing on the way recorded sounds (instrumental,
electronic and found) move around in your headspace." (Berk again.)
Yeah, we got that swing.
Drew Schnurr, an experimental bassist who has already wowed our opening
goers with his "indescribable sounds," is the founder and owner of
Domain Productions, and the new music movement DEUSoNICA. Drew lives
and works in the San Fernando Building of Los Angeles's Old Bank
District. He is an accomplished composer and sound designer, with work
featured on various television networks and in select national
performance venues. Drew is currently working on, among several other
things, an album project with Esperanza (a singer who has reduced many
of our opening goers to tears with her stunning voice). He was recently
comissioned by the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company to compose music for
both of their new works. Currently, Drew is collaborating with a select
group of Downtown Los Angeles visual artists on an innovative CD/DVD
media project.
Ken Okuno, musician, poet, novelist, has performed experimental music
and poetry nationally to appreciative audiences, and has played original
rock at such venues as The Gig Hollywood, The Joint, and The Tempest.
He's the author of "Mambo Boy," a novel and "Earth Trout," a poetry
collection. Ken will be mixing extended poetry and one or more musical
instruments in his own inimitable way.
Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and
emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person exhibitions of
risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor
currently popular. Also, in a time when other spaces have reduced their
performance art programming, Dangerous Curve is a new venue for
performance artists, with an emphasis on performance installations, and
regular performance art events. An annual performance art festival is
planned for the future.
Contact: Tim Quinn or Kathryn Hargreaves 213-617-8483
Dangerous Curve
1020 Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA 90013