July 30, 2005
Inprovisaciones En El Mapa



(Bogota, Columbia) – Soundwave>Series artist, justino aka Jorge Bachmann, performs in Bogota, Columbia with artist Nobara Hayakawa at MAPA Teatro on Saturday, August 6, 2005. The San Francisco-based sound and visual artist had an amazing performance at Sonic Charge last year. Photos of the event are here.

[ruidobello] en colaboración con el Mapa presenta:
INPROVISACIONES EN EL MAPA
justino (laptop+contact mics)
nobara hayakawa (voz) + justino (laptop)

Sábado 6 de agosto 8:30 PM
MAPA Teatro Cra 7 # 23-08 Bogotá DC
Entrada Libre - Free Admission

June 25, 2005
The Drift! Releases Debut EP



(San Francisco, USA) – The Drift! releases their long-awaited debut 12" EP "Streets b/w Nozomi" on the Temporary Residence Label. This San Francisco-based quartet of Rich Douthit (Box Car Saints), Safa Shokrai, Danny Grody (Tarentel) and Jeff Jacobs headlined the Soundwave>Series event Tripped Wire at 111 Minna Gallery last year. Photos from their mind blowing performance here. Their full length debut is expected in the Fall 2005 from TRL.

From Temporary Residence: "After spending the better part of two years improvising together several times a week, San Francisco's The Drift got down to the business of writing and recording some new material. This 12" showcases the first two tracks from ongoing recording sessions. Like every great jazz group, they have tons more where this came from... we're just getting started. Packaged in hand silk-screened chipboard jackets, and limited to 1,000 copies (a handful of which are colored vinyl), "Streets" and "Nozomi" are two perfect teasers for the epic debut album coming fall 2005. Until then, play it LOUD, and play it over and over again."

Buy "Streets b/w Nozomi" here.

May 05, 2005
David Khang: Oral-Fecal



(Vancouver, Canada) – Vancouver/Toronto-based artist and The.ME.Project contributor, David Khang has a new exhibition and performance at Grunt Gallery , 116-350 East 2nd Ave., Vancouver, from May 6th to May 28th 2005. The exhibition opening is on Friday, May 6 at 8pm and a performance at 9pm. Artist Talk at the Gallery is on Thursday, May 12 at 8pm.

Khang's "Oral-Fecal" uses a pool of ink into which video is projected that will form the centerpiece of this sculptural installation. The work is based in part on Khang's performance, Linea Lingua, originally produced in California in 2004. Incorporated into this visual work are elements of calligraphy, performativity of language, and exploration beyond rational, articulate speech.

During the opening of the exhibition Khang will perform his new work, (vag)Anal Painting. Combining homoerotic and scatological references, Khang uses the trope of language to interrogate notions of tradition, authenticity, and cultural/linguistic otherness.

April 19, 2005
BBC Features Project>Soundwave

(London, United Kingdom) – Project>Soundwave debuts across the pond this Friday April 22 when the BBC Radio 3 program "Mixing It" features "Sound Collage 1998-2002" by Tom Thayer off of ME'D1.ATE's new release "Project>Soundwave: An Exploration into the Nature of Sound". Catch the live stream at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/ at 2:30 PM Pacific Standard Time (10:30 PM UK Time) with an archived stream available the following week.

"Mixing It" is UK's preeminent new music program broadcast worldwide which has long been celebrated as a bastion of experimental music radio. Courageous and innovative, "Mixing It" is music without limits, covering a wide range of styles, including left-field areas of modern classical, dance, rock and world music.

"Sound Collage 1998-2002" is a sewn-together chronological journal of sounds found through various objects and machines collected at thrift stores and coaxed throughout a five-year period by Tom Thayer, a Mulfreesboro, Tennesse-based artist. Working with canvas, paper, electronics, performance and sound, Tom has exhibited across the United States including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Soundwave>Series events in San Francisco and Oakland. He is currently a professor at Middle Tennessee State University and recording his debut CD "Songs of Animal Land".

Project>Soundwave has already been making waves in North America being featured on New York City's WNYC "New Sounds", Canada's CBC Radio 2 "Brave New Waves", and many college/independent radio including KKUP (Cupertino), KZSU (Stanford), WLUW (Chicago), WMBR (MIT).

The SF Examiner calls Project>Soundwave "...a breathtaking assortment of experimental sounds, noises and rhythms,... that approach sound from a uniquely artistic perspective... testing the limits of sound's raw emotional capability."

East Bay Express reviews it as "...avant-garde sound artists using everything from loops to found objects to electronic permutation, to push the frontiers of what we call "music" far beyond what we're accustomed to hearing."

April 2, 2005
Adrienne Lai: All the Arms Around You

(Vancouver, Canada) – Vancouver-based artist, writer, curator, educator and The.ME.Project contributor, Adrienne Lai exhibits new work in this intriguing solo exhibition at the Helen Pitt Gallery ARC, 882 Homer St., Vancouver, from April 8th to May 14th 2005. Opening on Friday, April 7 at 7pm. Artist Talks at the Gallery, Saturday, April 23, 2pm.

Lai’s “All the Arms Around You” involves three separate returns to a previously unfinished series of photographs.  After sending out a questionnaire to everyone on her personal email list concerning their relationships to her and to contemporary art and culture, Lai solicited the Pitt’s Board of Directors to select three candidates from those that were returned.  Each of the “final three” provided Lai with specific instructions concerning the completion and installation of her unfinished photo-series.  For this exhibition Lai has completed three different works based on these instructions.  Alongside the finished projects, the Gallery is providing a display of the ephemera documenting this process, as well as explanatory narrative panels.

March 23, 2005
SHIZUKU-Drop: Justino Composes and Plays Live For Modern Butoh Dance Group

(San Francisco, USA) – Soundwave>Series artist justino, aka Jorge Bachmann, has composed the sounds and performs live at SHIZUKU-drop, a three-part dance performance by TAKAMI & TOUMEI MOBU (MODERN BUTOH) Dance Group. The second-installment will be performed at the Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission St. @ 11th St., San Francisco, on March 25, 26 and April 1, 2, 2005 at 8:00 pm. $15 general $13 students & seniors. Info & reservations (415) 554-0402. www.mobudance.com

Direction: Takami, Dancers: Christopher Foster, Elizabeth Zarek, Monique Tajiri goldwater, Glass art: Kana Tanaka, Sound: Jorge Bachmann, Costume: Kristine Pierce, Light: Stephen Bernard Siegel.

March 01, 2005
Justino Performs Luggage New Music Series 03/03

(San Francisco, USA) – Soundwave>Series artist justino performs at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. (at 6th Street), New Music Series, this Thursday, March 3rd at 8:00PM.

Justino, aka Jorge Bachmann, is a San Francisco-based sculpture, photo and sound artist constantly obsessed with the sounds surrounding him. Since the early 80’s, he has collected field recordings, exploring the strange, unique and microcosmic sounds of everyday life. The artist creates sound atmospheres for his sculpture installations and uses his compositions exploring social and sensual constructs and experiences. http://anihilo.com http://ruidobello.org.

Also performing, is Albuquerque, NM artist Jeff Gburek at 9:00PM. He uses prepared guitar, looped-input mixer and various microphones and electronics to create his music. Though he's influenced by Indian ragas, Arabic maqamat and gamelan music, his live sounds mostly come in the form of static hums, mechanical scrapings, guttural punctuation, theremin-like whines, field recordings and room acoustics.

February 26, 2005
Alon Nechustan At Triad Theatre 02/26

(New York, USA) – New York composer, musician and Project>Soundwave contributor Alon Nechustan and his band TALAT plays the Triad Theatre , 158 West 72nd Street, this Saturday, February 26th at 11:30PM. 8$.

His original music also will be presented for choreagrapher Valerie Norman and Innerlandscapes Dance Theatre Group at the Merce Cunnigham Studio:
Thur. & Fri. Feb. 24 & 25 @ 9pm and Sat. & Sun. Feb. 26 & 27 @ 8pm.

February 20, 2005
HarS: Loft Concert#2

(Montréal, Canada) – Paris-based Dutch artist and Project>Soundwave contributor, HarS, performs tonight the second of two 'Loft Concerts' as part of his ETAY residency. Guest artists include : Esther Bourdages, i8u, and Kathy Kennedy. Etay Loft: 2019 Rue Moreau, Montreal, QC. Saturday Feb 19, 2005. Doors open at 7pm.

Project>Soundwave presents sounds, performances, words, and photos of HarS' ETAY visit (Feb 14-Feb22) at www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/

February 19, 2005
HarS: Loft Concert#1

(Montréal, Canada) – Paris-based Dutch artist and Project>Soundwave contributor, HarS, performs tonight the first of two 'Loft Concerts' as part of his ETAY residency. Guest artists include David Turgeon, Esther Bourdages, Tomas Phillips, Chantale Laplante, Anna Friz, and Jen Morris. Etay Loft: 2019 Rue Moreau, Montreal, QC. Saturday Feb 19, 2005. Doors open at 7pm.

Project>Soundwave presents sounds, performances, words, and photos of HarS' ETAY visit (Feb 14-Feb22) at www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/

February 19, 2005
Alon Nechustan + Knitting + Merce Cunningham

(New York, USA) – New York composer, musician and Project>Soundwave contributor Alon Nechustan and his band TALAT plays the Knitting Factory (Main Space), 74 Leonard Street, this Sunday February 20th at Midnight. 12$.

His original music also will be presented for choreagrapher Valerie Norman and Innerlandscapes Dance Theatre Group at the Merce Cunnigham Studio:
Thur. & Fri. Feb. 24 & 25 @ 9pm and Sat. & Sun. Feb. 26 & 27 @ 8pm.

February 10, 2005
HarS at ETAY_Montréal

(Montréal, Canada) – ME.D1'ATE's Project>Soundwave presents Paris-based Dutch artist and Project>Soundwave contributor, HarS at the ETAY loft (www.etay.ca) in Montréal, Canada. He will travel there for a week-long residency from February 14 to 21, 2005. The ETAY Loft is equipped with digital video-cameras, capturing video 24/7 and 'audio-wired' by an earlier residency of Jake Elliot (http://structuredsound.net/). During the week, HarS will be recording and exploring sounds (and near silences) inside and outside the loft. HarS is also inviting several Montreal-based musicians and (sound)artists to visit him at the ETAY loft and talk about their work and collaborate on a short recording session with him. Artists in the Montréal area interested in participating can contact HarS at chronson@harsmedia.com.

The work will culminate with a presentation at the Upgrade (http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca/) on Thursday, February 17th, 2005 and two informal public 'loft-concerts' on Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20, 2005 which will include solo and improvised group sessions with artists that have visited with him during the week.

Stay tuned to http://www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/ for detailed information about the project and developments from HarS in Montréal. HarS will also be reporting in his SoundBlog http://soundblog.net, and in an audio reportage-collage available as "Podcasts" (or as a downloadable mp3-file) at Park4DTV http://raudio.park.nl in Amsterdam.

February 09, 2005
The Drift! Makes Out 02/10

(San Francisco, USA) – The Drift! performs at the Make Out Room (3225 22nd Street at Mission) this Thursday, February 10, 2005 with Brian and Chris and Charles Atlas. $6. 8PM. Check out their new website http://www.rectangular.org/drift and the photos from their amazing "Tripped Wire" Soundwave>Series performance at 111 Minna Gallery last May. http//:www.projectsoundwave.com/gallery/Minna/Minna.html

February 06, 2005
Paxico Review Features Brendan Ormsby aka Kappa

Paxico Review profiles this rising New York-based electronic artist and Project>Soundwave contributor Brendan Ormsby aka Kappa. Read about this unique talent and how he uses his sounds and music to bring down Bush and the Republican National Convention. Even Eminem takes notice (though ME'D1.ATE noticed first). www.paxicoreview.com/Ormsby.htm

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