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Live Performances
September 18, 2009 7PM
$10 or Included with Festival Pass

Live experimental music on the Red House stage featuring five unique and innovative artists. The Loud Objects perform live 1-bit circuit bending on an overhead projector. Zach Layton and MV Carbon play sitar, cello, electronic and feedback.

   Bios

The Loud Objects have set the standard for performative live circuit bending. Wielding soldering irons and a ramshackle overhead projector, the New York City-based trio (composer Tristan Perich, programmer Kunal Gupta, and architect Katie Shima) wire up live musical circuits in pursuit of lo-fi electronic noise. During the opening minutes of their performance, The Loud Objects are surrounded by a bleak silence as they swiftly assemble an initial circuit, their activities starkly projected from their OHP work-surface. Gradually, as more components are added, Perich, Gupta and Shima gradually hack microchips into a swarm of percussive 1-bit noise. Since their debut performance as Columbia University undergraduates in 2005, The Loud Objects have toured Europe, Japan and the United States, including performances at Piksel in Norway, Italy’s Screen Music 2, and NIME, Blip and Bent festivals in the U.S.

Zach Layton is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental culture and architecture. His work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, Roulette, Joe's Pub, Exit Art, Art Forum Berlin, New York Electronic Art Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, Sculpture Center, Diapason, Issue Project Room, Millenium Film Workshop, Bushwick Arts Project, St. Mark's Ontological Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Participant, Inc., Monkeytown and many other venues in New York, South America and Europe. Layton is also founder of Brooklyn's monthly experimental music series, "Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant-Garde", co-curated with Nick Hallett; co-curator of the PS1 Summer Warm-Up music series and is a Director of Issue Project Room.

MV Carbon uses fragmented field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, tape manipulations, and photosensitive oscillators to assimilate structural chaos and decomposition. She creates eerie and unsettling compositions using her voice as an instrument and processing it through tape machines. She plays cello through tape loops and guitar pedals and uses 16mm film imagery as a backdrop for her performances. She is a member of Metalux, Bad Faces, Foamula and the now defunct Bride of No No. She has released music on labels such as 5RC, Load, Hanson, Veglia, No Fun Productions, Nihilist, and Atavistic.