Brian O'Reilly & Stefanie Ku Live

Thu, Oct 6
8:00pm-11:00pm
Free

Echo de Pensees Sound Series
in conjunction with
The Museum of Viral Memory
presents live audio and video performances by
Brian O'Reilly and Stefanie Ku

Brian O'Reilly works with sound, video, assemblage books, multi-media
installations, and also is a performing double bassist, focusing on
performances of contemporary music and the integration of electronics
and extended playing techniques. He attended the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago on a scholarship for sculpture, where he
completed a BFA in 1997. In 1998, he moved to Paris, France to study
composition and
techniques with the Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis,
during this time he worked extensively with Xenakis' electronic music
system utilizing graphic sonic synthesis the UPIC. After a year of
research at Xenakis' studio,
what was then called Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX), he received an
appointment to become the studio's Musical Assistant, during that
time he assisted, amongst others, Luc Ferrari on his audio and video
installation "Cycle Des Souvenirs" and Eliane Radigue. He completed
his graduate degree from MAT (Media Arts and Technology) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.

Current projects include the DVD "Point Line Cloud", a collection of
his visual mappings for the music of Curtis Roads, a commission from
Z.K.M,
(the Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany) to create a series of
video works and a live performance collaborating with the Viola
player Garth
Knox, featuring works by: Grisey, Haas, Murail, Scelsi, Schiarrino,
and Knox
& O'Reilly. Also currently in preparation is a audio collaboration with
Zbigniew Karkowski "the Difficulty of Being" for the Antifrost label,
and the
DVD "the ledger of fins" utilizing the untapped potentials of the DVD
specification. The project's objectives are to trace the tangled
threads of a
fractured narrative, and to interconnect the thin strands that bind
sound to
moving images.The final output will implement the ability to select
from different
regions of material both manually, and through involuntary
progression by random scripting within the DVD. Thereby constructing
a navigable database, in which the viewer will have multiple routes
to explore the boundaries of the work.


Intermedia artist Stefanie L. Ku is dedicated to the sculpting,
faceting, and polishing of sound and image.
Stefanie began her musical career at the tender age of 5 studying the
piano on a booster chair. She has studied piano under Betty Oberacker
and
composition under Jeremy Haladyna and Curtis Roads. After years of
dedicating herself to the study and pursuit of music, Stefanie began
venturing into intermedia (audio, visual, and tactile information and
the way they interact with one another) upon completing a Bachelor's
in Music Composition, and have since been performing in various
international new media festivals (Sounding Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan,
Consciousness Reframed as presented by the Planetary Collegium -
Beijing, China, Get It Louder - Shanghai, China) as well as
throughout California (CCRMA - Stanford, Woodstockhausen - Santa
Cruz, The Luggage Store Series - San Francisco). Stefanie is currently
concentrating on transmuting her visions from the dimensionless realm
of pure thought into a more accessible language, one that could
actually be realized and communicated.
She will be performing
Aleph
According to Borges' short story, the Aleph is a point in space that
contains all other points. Could this be a state not unlike that of a
consciousness at the very instant of its formation, a miniscule
universe that embodies all the beginnings and ends of countless
thoughts that would ever come out of the consciousness? Aleph is its
creator's attempt to convey a truly
immersive environment in an ethereal sense. Originally a three-screen/
three-projector installation, the Aleph features a mix of signal and
noise, interlaced with womb-like organic textures.

Echo de Pensees Sound Series is an ongoing series of sound
performances and installations at California College of the Arts. The
series strives to offer a venue for experimental and contemporary
musicians and sound artists.
Contact for more information.

The Museum of Viral Memory is primarily a rumor.
Contact for more information.

Venue:

PLAySPACE Gallery
1111 8th St
San Francisco



PLAySPACE Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of California College
of the Arts, 1111 8th Street (at 16th and Wisconsin.)

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