NMC Presents: FEAR OF THE OBJECT | RICK REED | MONTE ESPINA + LOUISE FRISTENSKY + KRISTINA SMITH
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FEAR OF THE OBJECT
Fear of the Object is a site-specific intervention utilizing live video and sound performance to put into dialogue the architectural resonances and dissonances found within physical space sound and light. The work is based on the inherent frequencies and resonances of Cogburn's percussive objects Masterof Sruti´s transducer driven membranes and Manzano's spatialized live electronics. Audio generated video projected from Holm is fed back into sound and blurs distinctions between hearing and seeing.
Kjell Bjørgeengen - Dave Jones VideoSynth and Flood Coil (Norway)
Chris Cogburn - percussion + electronics (US/Mexico)
Michele Sruti - vibrating membrane (Italy/Norway)
Juan Manzano - electronics (Mexico)
Kjell Bjørgeengen explores art as an investigation of reality merging artistic and political transformation. His video work began at The Experimental Television Center in Owego New York where he collaborated with Dave Jones on large-scale video installations and the development of the Jones VideoSynth. Bjørgeengen has exhibited widely in Norway as well as internationally at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art The Ludwig Forum and Pori Art Museum. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Jon Balke Joëlle Léandre Okkyung Lee and Otomo Yoshihid.
Chris Cogburn is a percussionist focused on improvised music exploring the threshold between acoustic and electronic sounds and their sites of resonance. He has performed at major venues and festivals worldwide including James Turrell's Roden Crater (Arizona) and Quiet Que (Berlin). His projects include Resonance with Iván Naranjo the electro-acoustic trio Anáhuac with Ignaz Schick and Juan García and A Spirale with Mario Gabola and Maurizio Argenziano. Since 2003 he has organized the annual No Idea Festival based in Austin Texas with events across the U.S. and Mexico.
Michele Sruti is known for his research in sound production and alternative percussion techniques developing a unique style using the Gran Cassa with transducers and objects for sound exploration. Active in contemporary music he tours and records with Dans les arbres Huntsville and O3 also composing for ensembles such as Ensemble MusikFabrik and Quatuor Bozzini.
Juan Manzano works span from chamber music live electronics and improvisation with compositions performed by the LA Philharmonic Arditti Quartet and numerous other ensembles across America and Europe. He has studied with Germán Romero Ron Kuivila and Brian Ferneyhough as well as having been a part of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA) and having served as Coordinator of Technologies Applied to Musical Creation at CEPROMUSIC.
RICK REED
Rick Reed is a self-taught electronic musician who has been creating his own sound since 1981. He has released seven solo recordings including The Symmetry of Telemetry (2023) and collaborated in groups such as The Voltage Spooks Shifting Currents Frequency Curtain and Abrasion Ensemble. Performing across North America and internationally in Europe Reed has also composed soundtracks for filmmaker Ken Jacobs including Capitalism Child Labor (2006) which is in MoMA’s permanent collection.
MONTE ESPINA + LOUISE FRISTENSKY + KRISTINA SMITH
Monte Espina is an electroacoustic free improvisation duo formed by Venezuelan-born North Texas-based musicians Ernesto Montiel and Miguel Espinel who met in 2016. Through amplified sounds and signal processing they create sinuous sonic environments with a fully improvised approach. Collaboration is central to their practice having worked with artists such as Liz Tonne Louise Fristensky Alan F. Jones among many others. Their discography includes y culebra (2019) pa (2021) cuatro estaciones (2022) and alquimia criolla (2024).
Louise Fristensky is a composer sound sculptor and systems artist whose work explores the micro-refractions of reality and the unreality of shared experiences. Their projects include to swim in air an evolving modular system of intermedial works and False Landscapes an experimental video and audio piece on internal spaces. Their work has been featured at festivals like As If Radio (Glasgow) Audio Art Festival (Krakow) and Soundlings Festival (London) where they were the inaugural Composition TA in 2017.
Kristina Smith is a multimedia artist writer and maker of things. They hold an MFA with distinction and are part of the ritual noise duo “Ruptured Implant.” They are interested in memory radical vulnerability and channeling and pouring out the aches of the heart and world. They are mostly just trying to not die.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
New Media Contemporary, 830 Exposition Ave #102, Dallas, United States
