Déjà vu? is an experiential event series with ambient music and multi-film screenings. You can lie down on the bed, and enjoy sounds and film. Let's chill out!
-Ambient Musicians
ZILMRAH:
ZILMRAH is a project started by musician & instrument builder Lawry Romani. He builds electro acoustic instruments based on repurposed objects such as scrap metal, bicycles, telephones while adding modifications such as guitar pick ups, input jacks, tuning pegs and strings to create functioning sound sculptures out of otherwise over looked, under utilized or obsolete objects cluttering a world based in disposable society. He has collaborated and recorded with many artists including Controlled Bleeding, Missing Foundation, Marc Edwards, Ron Anderson, David Tamura, Steve Moses, Lauds, Spreaders, Pas Musique and has performed or showcased work in multiple countries.
Pas Musique:
Pas Musique emerged from Brooklyn, New York in 1995 as a solo project of founder Robert L. Pepper and has since gone through many variations of experimental, electronic iterations. In 2018, Pas Musique remain as a four piece consisting of Jon V Worthley, Michael Durek, Jesse Fairbairn, and Robert Pepper, pursuing the musical elements of electronic, experimental music with krautrock undertones. Pas Musique have collaborated with many great musicians which include Faust, Rapoon, ZEV, Philippe Petit, HATI, Chester Hawkins, Jim Tuite, and many more. Pas Musique have performed in 18 countries and all throughout the United States.
Www.pasmusique.net
Bloater:
BLOATER (Queens): Originally conceived as a freeform noise duo in 2008 with guitarist Steve Smith (END RESULT, Chicago), BLOATER has come into sharper focus as a solo project in recent years. Interests include: heavy drones and dirges, indeterminate pitches, tempo dragging, attraction and repulsion.
YUJIN YAMA:
YUJIN is an LES/NYC based sound artist who just plays electric guitar, but with voluminous stomp boxes weaving all sorts of ideas into his own sound. Like releasing a shutter or drawing on sound, actualizing momentary tension to soundscape with his scenic approach, he never sounds like just one guitarist playing, he brings magic into monotone, sparkle into the universe, without using sound samples.
He collaborates often with other musicians, but also works with painters, poets, visual artists. His main project with Kenya Kanazawa and Naoki Iwakawa is ROOMTEMPERATURE, which performs couch-locked, kosmische, improvised jams, and has performed at Maxfish, Footlight Bar, Flowers for All Occasions, The Green Point Gallery, Park Church co-op, Synethsesia and etc since 2017.
https://soundcloud.com/roomtemperature
-Film / Visual
Clockface Orange
Clockface Orange is an artist group comprised of Rachael Guma and Genevieve HK. Their liquid light performances incorporate over-head projection of water and oil-based liquids on glass plates to create "visual music" accompanying live musicians, sound artists, and audio recordings of all genres. They have collaborated with, and perform as part of the expanded cinema collective known as Optipus, as well as on their own, in and around New York City.
Ian Couch
For more than 2 decades, NY artist Ian Couch has been working with still and motion picture film installations for gallery exhibitions and musical events. He's always been mesmerized by the various mechanical, time lapse and color manipulations which are possible in conventional film work. He uses a few long forgotten techniques taught to him by his late father, also an artist who filled Ian's childhood with large sun prizms, kaleidoscopes and original sculpted lamps of geodes and stained glass. He was also given a 16mm bolex and 120mm portrait camera at 13 years old which he still uses today.
"My only motivation using stills and the flicker of film is a lifelong attempt at conveying the ineffable music in one colorful moment of our own narratives."
A few of his notable photo exhibits were at The Pompidou Centre during the Paris Photo Expo, The Chelsea Art Museum and the Dag Hammarskjold Building Lobby show. The last show included his NY artists portrait series done by the light of the full moon only and his night landscapes in which he captures a light and shadow "komorebi" effect. A few samples are seen here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/iancouch/
Ian has done numerous film/music projection events the first of which was at the 25th annual Woodstock festival (original Bethel site) for various musicians and much later at a fish/shark gallery Aquatic Creations. The latter utilized an arsenal of equipment projecting through sun fish aquariums (they basked in the bright lights) creating an everchanging fish silhouetted cascade of color and imagery throughout the white walls during an unusually mellow performance by Acid Mother's Temple. This event also debuted his original live action 16mm psychedelic Russian fairytale Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave for which he wrote, directed and scored the film's fore boding piano music.