sonic front presents:
DOKTOR23 (DOK GREGORY)
( )
NOT HAPPY
November 14th 8-10PM
DOKTOR23 (DOK GREGORY) analog & vtol modular synthesizer/theremin/werkbench sampler.
Dok
has been composing, performing and recording experimental/electronic music
since 1983. He has been a member of NYC based audio visual group Amoeba
Technology since 1997, toured and performed in festivals throughout the United
States, Europe, Russia and South America and had recorded works released in
most of the same. Doks' collaborative audio-visual works have been featured in
programs at the Forum Des Images in Paris, Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, The
Kitchen and Lincoln Center in NYC and elsewhere. In 2007 he began work on the
ISRS system (a shortwave radio synthesizer) and continues to research, develop
and deploy the technology. Dok has also toured and collaborated extensively as
a member of Silence Corporation, Incidence Transmission Network, Psychic TV,
Trance Pop Loops, Future Dream Transmissions and the Ransom Corps. He is and
has been based in Brooklyn, N.Y. for the past 23 years and is director of the
23 Windows Arts Collective.current projects include:
Plan 23(NYC) with Peter
Principle/WvS/( )
Byzantine Art Punk Ensemble (NYC/SPb) w/ Alexei Pliousnine/Dmitry
Kakhovsky
Telesmatic Sound Box (NYC/Helsinki) with Timo Viialainen
Sewer Rats
BK (NYC) with CX Kidtronic/Jason BK
ZGT (NYC) with Peter Principle/Zemi17
www.zgt.me
( ) is Jeremy D. Slater. His sound work consists of field recordings as
a base to create processed drones with guitar, objects, ambient noise, and
environmental sound. Performances include live performed video that is ambient
and reactive. Video work includes single and multiple channel videos for
screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He is a member
of Plan 23, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. He is currently
curator of a "sonic front" at Front Room Gallery, series exploring
electroacoustic improvisation, electronic music, and sound art. He's curated
numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including “A Sound
Show” at Front Room Gallery, the sound/video performance series “kere.u” and
“FLOW”, “Sun Khronos” at Millennium Film Workshop, and “Video as an Instrument”
at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery. Jeremy Slater was one of the 1999
recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts
(NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest
musician at Watermill Center and HERE with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in
residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited
and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, South Korea, and
Japan. www.jeremyslater.net www.parenthesismusic.com
NOT HAPPY is Johnny Scuotto (Synths/Loops),
Steven Welbourne (Viola), and Nick John Stevens (Synths).
