[NewMusic] WOW - This Friday @ 8pm

[Damon Smith]

Not to dig up old grudges but I had to physically stop Mary Alice Fry  
from stealing money from artists as well as mediate between artists  
she promised guarantees to and refused to pay.
It was bad enough that I would still encourage boycotting any  
production she has any role in.

On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:06 PM, DOUBLE VISION wrote:

> 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.
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Damon Smith

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