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UNSEEN series | Wave Encounters Obstacle

Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series brings together media artists to collaborate on site specific performances between sound and video artists. The UNSEEN series is curated by artist, Matt Fisher. Tickets: $8 Presale / $13 Day of Show / $15 Door. Cash bar available to those 21 years and older.

Doors: 8:00pm
Show: 9:00pm

A night of recombinant improvisation. Thomas Dimuzio, Kit Young, Lori Varga, Brian Pederson and Sung Kim will present four new audiovisual works using 8 channels of video and film with 8 channels of surround audio. Leaning heavily on Bay Area history of immersive light shows, Young and Varga will be creating improvised analog, digital and voltage-controlled visuals that incorporate manipulated slide projectors, 16-mm film sources, and digital projection and synthesis. Innovator and pioneer Thomas Dimuzio’s analog modular synthesizers will both act as instruments and voltage control devices that create and respond to Young’s visuals. Dimuzio will also be modulating live acoustic performances by Sung Kim on invented instruments and Brian Pederson on baritone horn and sax. For each of the four works, instrumentation and roles roles will shift in an immersive exploration of psychedelic imagery, found footage, drone synth ambient and electroacoustic improvisation.

Artists

Thomas Dimuzio

The music of Thomas Dimuzio transports the listener to other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” (Peter Marsh, BBC)  His  recordings  have  been  released  internationally  by  RéR  Megacorp,  Resipiscent,  Asphodel,  RRRecords,  MonoType, No Fun Productions, Sonoris, Drone Records, Record Label Records, Odd Size, Seeland, and other independent  labels.  Among  his  collaborators  are  Chris  Cutler,  Dan  Burke,  Joseph  Hammer,  Marcia  Bassett,  Alan  Courtis, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, Alaric, ISIS, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly and Negativland. Recent performances include AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CCRMA at Stanford, Recombinant Media Labs Don Buchla Memorial Concert, Warner Jepson: A Night of Indeterminacy and Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Art and Liberation. Dimuzio also hosted KPFA’s Frequency Modulation  Radio  which  featured  live  on-­‐air  performances  of  sonic  practitioners  exploring  the  fringes  of  music.  Dimuzio’s new live record “Sutro Transmissions” was released by Resipiscent in January 2020 to world-­‐wide acclaim.

Lori Varga

Lori Varga is a local analog film & Light projection artist; native to the Bay Area. Utilizing forgotten / near obsolete technology into optically challenging psychedelic lightshows & multi-projector visual displays- as a favorite form of expression. Lori has been making 16mm multi projector film collage since 1995. She has also made over 15 short experimental /collage essay films in super 8mm & 16mm format. From 1999 till 2011, she projected analog/background films & hand- painted film loops for many well-known psychedelic rock/avant-garde bands throughout central Texas and the Mid West. Her work has been shown @ The Cinematexas Film Festival, Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema , Salvage Vanguard Theater, Shapeshifter's Cinema , Filmhuis Cavia Film Fest Amsterdam & at over 20 nightclubs all over CA. & the mid west. Usually she works solo, with a large, expansive table of analog gear ... (slide projectors/ timers/16mm film projectors/ overheads/ retro laser lights)- currently she is branching out to incorporate digital projection units & camera systems into her live setups. Alongside working with found film footage & vintage,educational imagery she also creates music using tape recorders, offbeat & satire - like samples, various awkward,circuit -bent sound toys and 1950's reel to reel tape decks. She is obviously "out-there" & enjoys working with fellow lightshow artists/ culture jammers/ & underground/ electronic musicians.

Brian Pedersen

Brian Pedersen (b.1974) is a self taught saxophonist strongly influenced by freeform high energy "jazz". Founding member of the free jazz unit Key West (2000-present), as well as baritone horn doom/noise trio Dancin' Baby (2005-present).

Kit Young

Kit Young builds video feedback and synthesis systems that incorporate sculpture, robotics, microprocessors, and computer work to produce video stills, loops and short pieces. He also uses his video synthesis systems to perform in a live, improvisational way with other visual artists and musicians. Kit is an avid improvisor, explorer, and collaborator. Though his work is at the forefront of new media technique, his imagery is grounded in the personal and the social, with a focus on the increase of empathy and awareness. He has exhibited work and performed at many Bay Area venues including The Center For New Music, S.F. Cinematheque, Artists Television Access, Other Cinema, Studio Grand, and Krowswork Gallery.

Sung Kim

Sung Kim (1975.) is an improvisor, sculptor, and instrument builder born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Washington, DC. In 1989, Kim studied ceramic sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art. It was at Corcoran that Kim started building his own variations of the guitar. Kim received his BFA in sculpture from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. It was in Chicago where Kim began to deviate from the guitar to explore other techniques, tonalities, and sympathetic resonance. It was also in Chicago where kim started his collaborations with musicians to explore his instruments in an improvisational context. Kim Facilitate his musical and sculptural endeavors by owning and operating an architectural woodworking design/build studio in the San Francisco Bay Area.