Friday November 22, 8pm
R. Luke Dubois / Sarah Halpern / Lisa Gwilliam, Zach Layton, Ray Sweeten
Sound Performances
Image courtesy of the artists
Microscope is pleased to present an evening of live sound organized by Lisa Gwilliam and Ray Sweeten featuring performances by R. Luke Dubois, Sarah Halpern, and Zach Layton in collaboration with Gwilliam and Sweeten.
The artists will be available for Q&A following the performances.
Program:
Lisa Gwilliam / Zach Layton / Ray Sweeten
Performance with Juno-60, modular synths, slide steel guitar, recorder.
Sarah Halpern
Performance with electric guitar, voice, audio recordings and reading.
R. Luke Dubois
Performance on modular synths and laptop.
General admission $12
Students & Members $10
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R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Todd Reynolds, Chris Mann, Bora Yoon, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Maya Lin, Bang on a Can, Engine 27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling’74. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, a duo with vocalist Lesley Flanigan that explores the modality of the human voice, and in Fair Use, a trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski, that looks at our accelerating culture through electronic performance and remixing of cinema. DuBois has lived for the last twenty-five years in New York City. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.
Lisa Gwilliam & Ray Sweeten (DataSpaceTime) made their debut as the collaborative duo in 2011 with the solo exhibit “the optimal value for y” at Microscope Gallery. The artists use current technologies that are further developed or redirected, through the use of original coding, as a means to consider the culture of informatics and the thresholds of image recognition and perception across various mediums. Their work has been featured in institutional shows in the US and abroad including the solo exhibition “Cryptophasia” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and in the group shows “Processed: To Each Their Own Image”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France; “Day In Day Out” at GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers, Dresden, Germany “Altarations”, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, and “Dialogics”, Rowan University Art Gallery, New Jersey among others. Their 6-channel video “Breakout” was commissioned by The Parrish Museum for New York City Center where it was on view for a year. Sweeten has also performed and screened works at the New Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, NY Underground Film Festival, NY Film Festival’s Views of the Avant-Garde, SF Electronic Music Festival, Liverpool Biennial, Millennium Film Project, Pacific Film Archive, Chicago Filmmakers and has held youth workshops for electronic music at Community Musicworks (RI), Vibe Songmakers(NY), and The Guggenheim Museum (NY). Gwilliam & Sweeten live and work in Brooklyn, New York.
Sarah Halpern’s work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Experimental Intermedia, NYFF’s Views of the Avant-Garde, The Kitchen, Microscope Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art: Dreamlands Expanded, The Museum of Moving Image and Centre Pompidou among others. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a founding member of Optipus Film Group and has collaborated extensively with electronic musician Matt Wellins. Halpern lives and works in Providence, RI.
Zach Layton is a guitarist, composer, curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist based in New York. He has performed and exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, MoMa/PS1, the Kitchen, Roulette, and many other venues in New York and internationally. His works have been performed by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Curator of ISSUE Project Room from 2008 – 2012, MoMa/PS1 Warmup from 2005 – 2007, and the founder of the critically acclaimed Darmstadt “Classics of The Avant-Garde,” festival. In 2015, he was a recipient of the grants to artists award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a Jerome Foundation grant in 2006. He was assistant professor of experimental and electronic music at the New School from 2015-2017 and is currently assistant professor of music production at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
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Microscope Gallery Event Series 2019 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).