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| Wednesday, Oct 3 Bryant Lake Bowl, 7pm |
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| STEEV HISE "His work relies on not the tape edit but the altered CD, with layers of familiarity rather than altered realities. ..Very catchy, even when it's nearly making you vomit from vertigo induced by speed-switching." - www.othermusic.com San Francisco based Steev Hise has been composing and performing experimental music, performance art, and video since 1990. Hise studied composition and cultural studies at California Institute of the Arts and has performed across North America and most recently in Belgium at the Brussels2000 Cultural Resistance event. Focusing on the appropriation and recontextualization of cultural artifacts, Hise has been commissioned by several choreographers and is featured on various Viral Communications releases, as well as the Illegal Art compilation, Deconstructing Beck and etoy?s Toywar. Hise performs using a sampling computer of his own design, the "Syntagm Engine," which allows him to access, organize, and search through an enormous database of samples on moments notice. Opening for Wet Gate, Steev will be using his custom Linux software instrument, The Syntagm Engine, to perform improvised sound collage along with collaged video accompaniment. Hise is also the founder of Detritus.net, an internet site dedicated to recycled culture. web info: www.detritus.net www.detritus.net/steev WET GATE "Their idea was as simple as it was strange: to use actual film in place of music, and 16mm projectors instead of instruments, casting images and sound on the eyes and ears of audiences in a grouplike format....Through repetition, juxtaposition, and overlap, the mundane becomes absurd, the silly becomes sinister." - David Cook (SF Weekly) Performing since 1995, Wet Gate is Peter Conheim (Mono Pause, Negativland), Steven Dye (The Dactyls) and Owen O'Toole. Using film projectors as musical instruments, Wet Gate performs sound collage utilizing sounds found in the films they are projecting, in concert with the noise of the projection machines themselves. These machines are pushed to their limits, projecting the film?s found footage, in addition to reproducing the sounds Wet Gate manipulates for their performance. Wet Gate has collaborated live with Wobbly, Animal Charm, People Like Us, Basement Films and others. Performances include San Francisco's Film Arts Foundation festival in 1995, SoundCulture 1996, CalArts CSSSA 1997 program, 1998's Other Minds/ Common Sense Composers' Collective OPUS 415 no. 4 Marathon and many others. web info: http://wetgate.net/ |
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