[NewMusicEvents] Tuesday, May 15: Video Savant audio/visual improvisations at 21 Grand

[Matt Davignon]

Tuesday, May 15 2007 8:00 PM

21 Grand
416 25th St @Broadway
Oakland
$6-10 sliding scale

Video Savant: Charles Woodman improvises video with local musicians:

8pm:
John Hanes: Drum kit & electronics
Allen Whitman: Bass guitar & electronics
Matt Davignon: Drum machine

9pm:
Josiah Wolfe: Drums
Doug McDiarmid: Guitar
David P Madson (aka Odd Nosdam): Records and Noise

"What happens when you take cinema out of the movie theater, wrench
the reel off the projector and start editing the images and sound
live, in front of the audience? LIVE CINEMA!" (Holly Willis, New
Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image) The mysterious
multi-media ensemble viDEO sAVant has travelled the world presenting
its own brand of live improvisational cinema since 1990. This dynamic
performance will feature a synthesis of sound and moving images with
elements produced and mixed on the spot in a process of live
interaction between projectionist and musician, yielding fluid
results, shifting and varied, never the same twice. Participants
include Charles Woodman on images, with Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid
(of the Why? band), and David P. Madson (aka Anticon's Odd Nosdam) and
one trio of electronic/acoustic improvisers Allen Whitman (of the
Mermen), John Hanes and Matt Davignon. www.videosavant.org