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Performance: Ben Neill and Bill Jones> Terrorvision Remixed
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Added: 05/21/2004
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Performance: Ben Neill and Bill Jones> Terrorvision Remixed
TERRORVISION PERFORMANCE
Ben Neill + Bill Jones Live Remix
@
EXIT ART
Saturday MAY 22, 9pm FREE ADMISSION
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
P 212 966 7745
F 212 925 2928
info@exitart.org
In their performance, four linked computers form a "Power Book band" that merges Neill's three-belled, computer interfaced mutantrumpet, keyboards, and other instruments with live MIDI controlled digital video. They literally play the moving pictures to create "video remixes" breathing life into real-time and recorded video. The music ranges from deep ambient soundscapes to funky electronic breakbeats.
Flavorpill.com:
Ben Neill, whose super-charged beats fueled the Volkswagon Turbonium - http://www.greenbeet.com -commercial, rejoins collaborator Bill Jones for a live remix of sound and images from Exit Art's Terrorvision exhibition. An unsettling and sometimes brutal show, Terrorvision presents work from a group of international artists who explore personal and collective moments of fear. Jones and Neill regurgitate this culled material through live digital manipulation in an improvisational performance that seamlessly integrates deep ambient soundscapes and progressive backbeats with videos and stills. Equally at home in art houses and raves, the duo brings a minimalist sonic aesthetic to a sleek and menacing exhibition. (RA: from flavorpill new york, #206, May 18 2004)
ARTISTS:
Ben Neill is a composer, performer, producer and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Through his use of interactive computer technologies, Neill creates a unique musical and visual universe, melding the worlds of electronic dance music, jazz, pop culture and visual media. Neill has recorded seven CDs of his music on the Six Degrees, Universal/Verve, Astralwerks, New Tone and Ear-Rational labels. He has performed his music internationally at venues such as Cite de la Musique France, Berlin Love Parade Germany, Spoleto Festival Italy, Bang On A Can Festival New York, his collaboration with DJ Spooky and video sampling pioneer Gardner Post of Emergency Broadcast Network, toured America and Europe in 1997. In 2002, Ben Neill "made music industry history" (MSNBC News) by releasing Automotive, an album comprised of extended versions of music he originally wrote for Volkswagen TV commercials.
Neill's video remixes created with artist Bill Jones were presented at Sundance 2004 and have been aired on Fox TV network. Neill and Jones have also recently performed DJ/VJ sets at Spirit (formerly Twilo), and regularly at Remote Lounge. Recent TV appearances include CNBC Power Lunch, Tech TV Screen Savers, Wall Street Journal Report, and Media Television Canada. Neill is currently working with Bill Jones on a new video/music work which is an adaptation of the novel Palladio by Jonathan Dee. It will be premiered in March 2005 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in Manhattan.
Bill Jones is a photographer and installation artist. His work in all media is concerned with the subject of light as physical phenomena
and metaphorical figure. It inhabits the liminal spaces created by the conjunction of performance, installation and object art. Jones was a seminal figure in the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, along with such artists as Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall. His last solo exhibition, along with musician collaborator Ben Neill, premieres a new chapter in the development of midi-controlled video. Entitled Nite Nite, was shown at Sandra Gering Gallery, New York City, March 22 - Apr 19, 2003. Bill Jones has had a distinguished career as a writer and editor. Previously the managing editor of Arts Magazine, in 1998 he conceived and founded Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture, which he edited for its first two years. More recently he collaborated with Merrill Garnett on the publication: First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research, and continues to collaborate with him on numerous
publications and projects.
Terrorvision Remixed
when: Sat 5.22.04 (9pm)
where: Exit Art (475 10th Ave, 212.966.7745)
price: Free
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