videotics.com hereby announces the release of the following
5 discs. Click a title to purchase or visit a page with a bit of bonus material
for the disc.
Hydrophon [cd] by
Elliott Sharp
Solo abstract guitar pieces Elliott described as "all-electric &
pretty psychedelic!" Paying tribute to the massive power of the
seas, Hydrophone is oceanic in scope and displays
nearly-orchestral textures created only with a guitar and a few
pedals and objects.A central figure in the avant-garde and
experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s.
Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from
blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and
techno music. He pioneered the use of a lap top computer in live
performance with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s. He has
used algorithms and fibonacci numbers in experimental
composition since at least 1987.He has collaborated regularly
with many people, including Christian Marclay, Zeena Parkins,
Vernon Reid, Bobby Previte, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jack
DeJohnette, Sonny Sharrock, Debbie Harry, and Bachir
Attar.
Confessions of a
Sociopath, and other provocations, by Joe Gibbons
[dvd].also featuring ‘The Tutor’ by Emily Breer (2007),
Confidential P.2 (1980), The Florist (2010), Driving/Rain
(2010), and Sabotaging Spring (1991). Joe Gibbons has received
fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the
Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, the Creative Capital
Foundation, The LEF Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and
the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He has exhibited at the
Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Centre Pompidou, and other venues. His work has been chosen
for the Whitney Biennial, the NY Video Festival, the Rotterdam
Film Festival, and the Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
"Confessions of a Sociopath” (2001) was included in "Best Films
of the Year" lists in Film Comment and Artforum magazines.
Mbeng-N'tam: Bwiti Iboga
Music and Dance from Gabon
[dvd]. This disc features genuine Bwiti iboga cult initiation and
other music and dance by the Fang Bwiti group/family Mbeng-N'tam,
based near Libreville, the capital of Gabon in Central Africa.
Mbeng-N'tam was founded in 1998. This authentic Bwiti group of
about 60 men, women, and children is innovative in its openness
and desire to share the traditions of Bwiti with outsiders.
Besides their ritual activity, they haveperformed concerts of
Bwiti music and dance in Gabon, Canada, and France. The troupe
has won First Prize at the Fetes des cultures a Libreville,
Gabon in 2001 and 2002 for costume and masked performance, and
First Prize UNESCO at the same venue the following year for best
instrumental traditional performance.
Videotics Rob Swift [dvd/cd]
The video
includes a 10 minute scratch demo by Rob, then 3
10-minute non-hiphop videotics deconstructions
manipulating the footage by Mike Landau,
accompanied by a half-hour ep of Rob's
unreleased music [except a couple tracks
previously available as downloads only] to
compensate Rob's hiphop fans for the unhiphop
video mixes.Rob Swift AKA Robert Aguilar is one
of the great turntablists, an alumnus of the
X-Men and the X-ecutioners, winner of the DMC
East Coast title, and collaborator with Herbie
Hancock, Blue Man Group, Fat Joe, Cypress Hill,
Bob James, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, and
others. His many fine cds are widely available.
His website is at djrobswift.com. Mike Landau's
algorithmic video has aired on Hawaii public
access tv for more than 15 years and over 150
shows, and was supposedly shown at the Hawaii Underground
Film Festival.
Chimpanzees Painting,
and other videotics [dvd] by Mike Landau
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Algorithmically processed [chimps, elephants, and sea lion
painting] and generated imagery. Mike Landau's algorithmic video
has aired on Hawaii public access tv for more than 15 years and
over 150 shows, and was supposedly shown at the Hawaii Underground Film
Festival. Previous incarnations of his website received the
Editors' Choice Award from Directory.net, yahoo.com notable
site, and positive notice in the Village Voice and elsewhere. He
served as house pianist at the Circus Bar in Panajachel,
Guatemala for 6 months, and has played shorter piano gigs at
various bars and restaurants in Mexico, Boston, San Francisco,
Alaska, and Hawaii. But not recently.
Mike Landau
