Subject: subtropics2002
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Saturday, March 2, 2002
[8:00 p.m. - midnight] $5 donation
PS 742, 1165 S.W. 6 Street
Little Havana
SURREAL
MARATHON
Co-presented with Artemis
The 2002 Subtropics opens with the 14th edition of its Subtropics Marathon,
the yearly showcase of Florida experimentalists.? Over three hours of
indoor/outdoor music performances and sound video works featuring the work
of artists Shahreyar Ataie, Randall Beaver, Kristine Burns, Russell
Frehling, David Manson, Needle, Humberto Ramirez, Armando Rodriguez, Dinorah
Rodriguez, Alfredo Triff, and guest artist Lou Mallozzi from Chicago, and
more.
The Subtropics Marathon is a celebration of experimental home-grown
activity.? This year1s takes place in three different spaces at the same
location.? Chamber and electronic music performances are scheduled at
street-level storefront PS 742 theatre space.? The upstairs Lab6 loft
gallery has been turned into an intimate screening room for viewing of sound
videos throughout the evening.? Outside, the rear patio has been set up with
food and drinks, plus some more of that usually unusual otic elixir South
Floridian1s have grown to expect and enjoy from 14 years of Subtropics
offerings.? Numbered copies of the recently released Subtropics Vol. 1:
Breath will be available among other items at Elegua Records1 table.
Sound Videos Marathon:
PS 122: WORD, SOUND, LINE, OBJECT; SURVEILLANCE; & LONG LINES
? 1997 & 1998 Russell Frehling
3I work mainly doing installations and my work tends to sit in a strange
niche between music and sculpture. I work with sound, but with the key
musical elements of time and linear organization minified or removed. My
conceptual concerns are fundamentally sculptural, but I work with an
invisible, massless material. Here sound is given an unaccustomed context in
which its physicality becomes the essential issue: where shape, texture,
density and arrangement in space become the objects of reflection.2 -Russell
Frehling.? [note: this statement seems to apply to he1s video work too. -GM]
L1ANATONIE DU D?SIR - Film/Video, RT: 05:25 ? 2001 Dinorah de Jes?s
Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros
3This assemblage of erotic images, found and damaged footage, and
hand-crafted 16mm film was originally projected onto the torso of Butoh
artist Helena Thevenot as part of the one-hour piece The Anatomy of Desire,
praised by The Miami Herald as one of the ten best performance pieces of the
year in 2000. A tribute to biophysical impulses, the video version
synchronizes the film to its original score by Gustavo Matamoros.2 -Dinorah
de Jesus Rodriguez
HEAVY METAL ? Kristine Burns
3Heavy Metal is an abstract distillate of a symbiotic relationship between
metallic sounds (both synthesized and sampled) and largely monochromatic
synthesized video. The music and video were realized by the composer at the
Music Technology Center, Florida International University in 2000.2
-Kristine Burns
POOL ? Humberto Ramirez
3Pool is a short video that explores the intersection of culture, memory and
values. Through a simple first person voice a story develops that relates
cross-cultural experiences. The racial obstacles encountered in American
Society are viewed within the context of difference and empowerment. A
closely miked vocal narrative is superimposed on a track of Nat King Cole1s
music establishing an intimate setting where sound acts as a catalyst for
memory and reflection.2 -Humberto Ramirez
HATE ? Humberto Ramirez
3Hate is a video in which the cultural dynamics of the city are implied
through a series of talking heads and monologues. The video seeks to
denaturalize a condition in which the potential solidarity amongst
minorities is subverted by notions of nationalism, race, gender, class etc.
By problematizing what seems to remain hidden or at least unspoken this work
intends to produce, if not solutions, at least discourse.2
HOLLYWOOD BLVD ? Sandra Banion
This video is a day and night traversal of the Walk of Fame.? It is a video
built out of intersecting and parallel streams: day footage alternating with
night shots; still images intercut with motion; two parallel voices that
simultaneously recite the list of memorialized stars and the rows of fast
food stands, porn shops, and empty lots that line the boulevard. These frame
the video's primary parallel: interviews with John Peterson, who attentively
polishes the bronze stars each day, and an unnamed woman who runs down the
boulevard at night, oblivious to the pedestrians, traffic, and ghosts that
populate the street.? -Sandra Binion
? GEISHIA ? Shahreyar Ataie
? A new work by Randall Beaver
Performances Marathon Highlights:
?? Lou Mallozzi1s Re-Power Down - a rather quiet structured improvisation
that incorporates text, pre-recorded materials, and live music.? The piece
is structured as a series of modules with internal cues.? Some of the
materials are predetermined, but combinations and juxtapositions remain
unstable.? It is a variation on a live radio piece called "Power Down,"
presented on WNUR-FM, Chicago, in 2001. The piece featuresperformance and
media artist Sandra Binion.
?? David Manson - Streams - An 8 minute piece for trombone and PC in which
speech fragments and trombone are processed real time in an exploration of
resonance, articulation and inflection.
?? Needle - A 15-25 min. transmission with sounds manipulated through an
array of beta bodega coalition's signal intelligence division's encryption
engines.
?? Alfredo Triff - Untitled - a piece for violin and pre-amp
?? Armando Rodriguez - Untitled - a performance for Galician Bag Pipes
?? Eduardo Kusnir - Snow White - a 15 minute long electro-acoustic
composition in three parts with narration spoken by Francis Schwartz.? The
parts include:
???? - In the Palace
???? - In the Forest
???? - Here come the Dwarfs
? improvisations
? A survey of early electronic music and other goodies cortesy of Andrew
Yeomanson A.K.A. DJ Le Spam
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