[NewMusic] WOW - This Friday @ 8pm

[DOUBLE VISION]

What: *WOW Festival - Special Intermedia Performance Night*
Where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street (btw 5th and 6th), San Francisco
When: Jan. 18, 2008 [8pm] (Entire festival runs throughout January)
Cost: $15-20
Info/Tix: *http://www.double-vision.biz/wow.html*

Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is produced by
Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. The festival runs throughout the month of
January at Shotwell Studio and The Garage. This year the festival will host
a ONE NIGHT ONLY, special intermedia event featuring internationally renown
experimental artists *Laetitia Sonami* and *Les Stuck* on January 18.  This
event will also feature intermedia performance group *DOUBLE VISION*.

*LAETITIA SONAMI *is an electronic composer, performer and sound
installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and found
sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her
interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with kinetic
and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an evening
black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to track
her body's motion and turn movement into sound.

Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form,
transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of numerous
awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has been
performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area. "...Experimental music
is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times

*LES STUCK* has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Alonzo
King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi Koike; with
commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City Ballet, the
Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and the
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with
dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa Arts
Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been shown at
six film festivals and received the "Best of Show--Experimental" award at
the Berkeley Film Festival.

Intermedia performance group, *DOUBLE VISION*, creates contemporary
performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the
heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the
ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result, is a body of
work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.