About Wave Farm
Radio 4x4 at NAMAC's Taking Liberties
Sep 28, 2005: 7pm- 11:59 pm
Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 215-898-7108
Open to NAMAC Conference badge holders only.
Radio 4x4 with Dan Matz + Matt Mikas + Michael O'Reilly + Tom Roe
At the NAMAC Opening Reception held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia 7 p.m.
Radio 4x4 is a collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dan Matz
Dan Matz is a founding member of WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY who in their twelve year existence have released music on Trance Records, Young God records, and most recently on Secretly Canadian (www.secretlycanadian.com). With WFTD, Matz has toured the United States, Canada and Europe extensively. Matz has released solo records under his own name (Amish Record’s “Carry Me Over”) and as “The Birdwatcher” (ARRCO) and has also contributed with artists as diverse as Michael Gira, I-Sound, The Early Day Miners and others on various live and studio projects.
Matt Mikas
Matt Mikas is a sound artist with a history of involvement with microradio. A sonic anthropologist, Mikas uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer. In January 2000 he curated the sound program for Dave Hickey’s Ultralounge at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa. "Of The Bridge," a collaboration with Matt Bua and Tom Roe, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, sampling the Williamsburg Bridge and Sonny Rollins (who often rehearsed there). Mikas’s current project "Interactive Audio Response Kit" is a musical composition and listening tool created for two identical LPs.
Michael O'Reilly
Michael O'Reilly is a filmmaker, composer and writer living in Philadelphia. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust, the Independence Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as grants on the local, state and national level. He has been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Fellowship, and has twice attended the MacDowell Colony, where he was privileged to compose on the same piano used by Aaron Copland. Among the venues that have featured his work are the Philadelphia and London ICA, Lincoln Center in New York, and at festivals and in galleries here and abroad. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. He has taught at Temple, Philadelphia, LaSalle and Arcadia Universities, University of the Arts, and Scribe Video Center and holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. He currently teaches at University of Pennsylvania.
Tom Roe
free103point9's Tom Roe is a sound transmission artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded microradio stations 87X in Tampa, FL and free103point9 in Brooklyn, NY. Roe performs with transmitters using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and various electronics. He has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. Roe's writing about Free Jazz in New York recently appeared in The Wire's 20th Anniversary publication Undercurrents (Continuum). His collaboration with Matt Bua and Matt Mikas, Of The Bridge, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Roe’s Constructive Engagement, featuring manipulated recordings from recent political protests and Of The Bridge, both received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. He co-curated Tune(In))) (2002), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters. He has also performed at the Gwangju Biennele in 2004, and at Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, and at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland. Roe has also spoken on panels for Fairness and Accuracy in Media, the Grassroots Radio Conference, Anarchist Forum, and NYC Grassroots Media Conference. He is also free103point9 Program Director. He has DJ'd Rubulad, Union Pool, Galapagos, Smack Mellon, and other New York clubs, and hosted "Audio Buffet" from 2000-2002 at Diner in Williamsburg and "Rock 'n' Roll Radio" in 2002 at Angel in Manhattan. He now hosts "Dizziness" every Monday at 9 p.m. EST on free103point9 Online Radio.
NAMAC Conference Overview
http://www.namac.org/
It's been three years since NAMAC's last convening and it feels more urgent than ever for the independent media community to assemble, plan, share, educate, conspire and take some liberties with our previous ways of thinking about our field. Join us in this call to action to put new meaning to the media arts as a practice of freedom, creativity and risk.
Colleagues and others in affiliated fields will offer best practices and strategies to nurture new leaders, welcome artistic developments, and galvanize the position of independent media as a tool for insuring an engaged and informed citizenry.
Creatively envision a plan for our future full of calculated and crazy risks for a brilliant next 25 years. The spirited, independent yet collaborative Philadelphia media community is primed to welcome you! Have fun, take some liberties.
More info:
http://www.takingliberties2005.org/
http://www.takingliberties2005.org/events.php
http://www.icaphila.org
Radio 4x4 with Dan Matz + Matt Mikas + Michael O'Reilly + Tom Roe
At the NAMAC Opening Reception held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia 7 p.m.
Radio 4x4 is a collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dan Matz
Dan Matz is a founding member of WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY who in their twelve year existence have released music on Trance Records, Young God records, and most recently on Secretly Canadian (www.secretlycanadian.com). With WFTD, Matz has toured the United States, Canada and Europe extensively. Matz has released solo records under his own name (Amish Record’s “Carry Me Over”) and as “The Birdwatcher” (ARRCO) and has also contributed with artists as diverse as Michael Gira, I-Sound, The Early Day Miners and others on various live and studio projects.
Matt Mikas
Matt Mikas is a sound artist with a history of involvement with microradio. A sonic anthropologist, Mikas uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer. In January 2000 he curated the sound program for Dave Hickey’s Ultralounge at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa. "Of The Bridge," a collaboration with Matt Bua and Tom Roe, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, sampling the Williamsburg Bridge and Sonny Rollins (who often rehearsed there). Mikas’s current project "Interactive Audio Response Kit" is a musical composition and listening tool created for two identical LPs.
Michael O'Reilly
Michael O'Reilly is a filmmaker, composer and writer living in Philadelphia. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust, the Independence Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as grants on the local, state and national level. He has been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Fellowship, and has twice attended the MacDowell Colony, where he was privileged to compose on the same piano used by Aaron Copland. Among the venues that have featured his work are the Philadelphia and London ICA, Lincoln Center in New York, and at festivals and in galleries here and abroad. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. He has taught at Temple, Philadelphia, LaSalle and Arcadia Universities, University of the Arts, and Scribe Video Center and holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. He currently teaches at University of Pennsylvania.
Tom Roe
free103point9's Tom Roe is a sound transmission artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded microradio stations 87X in Tampa, FL and free103point9 in Brooklyn, NY. Roe performs with transmitters using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and various electronics. He has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. Roe's writing about Free Jazz in New York recently appeared in The Wire's 20th Anniversary publication Undercurrents (Continuum). His collaboration with Matt Bua and Matt Mikas, Of The Bridge, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Roe’s Constructive Engagement, featuring manipulated recordings from recent political protests and Of The Bridge, both received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. He co-curated Tune(In))) (2002), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters. He has also performed at the Gwangju Biennele in 2004, and at Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, and at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland. Roe has also spoken on panels for Fairness and Accuracy in Media, the Grassroots Radio Conference, Anarchist Forum, and NYC Grassroots Media Conference. He is also free103point9 Program Director. He has DJ'd Rubulad, Union Pool, Galapagos, Smack Mellon, and other New York clubs, and hosted "Audio Buffet" from 2000-2002 at Diner in Williamsburg and "Rock 'n' Roll Radio" in 2002 at Angel in Manhattan. He now hosts "Dizziness" every Monday at 9 p.m. EST on free103point9 Online Radio.
NAMAC Conference Overview
http://www.namac.org/
It's been three years since NAMAC's last convening and it feels more urgent than ever for the independent media community to assemble, plan, share, educate, conspire and take some liberties with our previous ways of thinking about our field. Join us in this call to action to put new meaning to the media arts as a practice of freedom, creativity and risk.
Colleagues and others in affiliated fields will offer best practices and strategies to nurture new leaders, welcome artistic developments, and galvanize the position of independent media as a tool for insuring an engaged and informed citizenry.
Creatively envision a plan for our future full of calculated and crazy risks for a brilliant next 25 years. The spirited, independent yet collaborative Philadelphia media community is primed to welcome you! Have fun, take some liberties.
More info:
http://www.takingliberties2005.org/
http://www.takingliberties2005.org/events.php
http://www.icaphila.org