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SONIC SELF - Sound Art Related Exhibition & Music Events

THE SONIC SELF

July 15, 2008 - August 30, 2008

Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 17th, 2008, 6-9 pm
Events: Live Performances July, 17, 18 & 19, 2008, 6-9 pm
@ Chelsea Art Museum - 556 West 22nd Street - New York, NY 10011 - 212.255.0719

From July 15th until August 30th, 2008, the Sonic Self is bringing together local and international sound artists, musicians, video/multimedia and performance artists to facilitate the exchange and development of pioneering ideas, innovative skills and practices in contemporary Sound Art discipline. The Sonic Self’ - a sound-art related exhibition and associated music events - aim at developing an open and direct audio-visual dialog in order to expose significant similarities and differences in the growing confluence of audio and visual experiences in the contemporary complex and diverse global culture.

The exhibition and associated events, curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Koshek Swaminathan, Anna Frants, Koan Jeff Baysa, Yaro, guest curator Maciej Zygmunt Czarkowski, will present works by selected pioneering artists, who use sound as their primal medium, encompassing a spoken word, field recordings, computer generated sound, video projection, interactive art, sound performance, live music and DJ sampling. The Sonic Self artists will collectively examine forms in which we communicate with each other and with the world around us by way of articulate sounds, music, dialog, visuals and motion - transforming the perception and transporting the mind through an internal sound experience.

www.thesonicself.org
www.chelseaartmuseum.org

The famous quotation: “When the power of love, overcomes the love of power, the world will know the peace.” by Jimmy Hendrix can be certainly simply applied to the Sonic Self as an underlying and unifying inspiration which brought together many of the participating artists from around the world with the main goal that their collaborative projects will bridge disparate audio-visual practices and expose their shared languages. (...)

Participating Sonic Self artists include; Sound installation by:

David Marcus Abir, Mikhail Acrest, Damian Catera, DJ Olive, Phil Dadson, Fiorentina De Biasi, Anna Frants/CylandMedialab, Ivan Govorkov/Elena Gubanova, Timur Kuyanov, Lisa Moren, Pooyan Bedayat/Sonicscapes, Shelby Voice and Virgil Wong.

Video and multimedia by:

Romeo Alaeff, Natalie Bewernitz , Dmitri Bulnigin, Hasan Elahi, Anna Frants , Marek Goldowski, Frankie Hutton, Steve Jones, Andrea Juan, Anna Kolosova, Amy Cohen Banker/Amy Kool, Alexandra Lerman, Natalia Lyakh, Eugene Rodriguez, Miroslaw Rogala, Dmitri Shubin, Maria Sharafutdinova, Kirill Shuvalov, Srinivasan and Kit Krash, Pawel Wojtasik.

Live music and performances by:

Text of Light, Damian Catera, David Linton, Zuvuya Collective, The GamelaTron by Zemi17, The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), One Song One Life, Micah Gaugh , Rhaki, Kortek, Hahn Rowe, Greg Smith with Friends, Nigel Dickie with Veinmelter, Scotto Mycklebust, Yaro, Kundalini Shock Attack.

The curators of the Sonic Self will next bring this unique international sound project to Chennai, India, in winter of 2009, and to St. Petersburg, Russia in spring of 2009. The Sonic Self project, initiated in the spring of 2003 by Jolanta Gora-Wita, will be presented for the second time this summer at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC.

The Sonic Self and active associates include Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Branch, Russia; Agency of Culture and Cinematography, NYC; The Constellation Group Ltd; Stellar PR; CylandMedialab, Russia; Harvestworks and Bincode New Media, NYC. A/V system and sound made possible by Greg Smith and Legacy Studios, NYC. Internet Technology by: M M Rahman Maqsood CEO of Level Ten Solutions. Cyland video support by: Director of technical department and art manager Vladimir Smirnov-Lillo. Additional support by Balinoff Inc.

For contact & events info visit our website at www.thesonicself.org or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 1-646-678-2418

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