Agnes Szelag was given a microphone at age four and has been fascinated with all types of recording mediums since then. Her work includes songwriting, electronics, improvisation, cello, voice, dance, and visual mediums such as photography, sculpture and video. Over the last five years Agnes has performed in the Bay area as aggiflex, Comfort Food (w/ Abe Dichi), and most recently myrmyr (w/ Marielle Jakobsons) doing both live audio sets as well as being a VJ. She has worked with many kinds of artists and has produced music and video and performed for dance/performance companies such as CAPACITOR and more recently DOUBLE VISION. She has also been part of a collective in San Francisco called KONSTRUKT as both an artist and event organizer. KONSTRUKT put out a compilation in fall of 2004 named IONS, which includes most of the sound artists in the collective including Agnes. Agnes had released her first album (AESSEA) in fall of 2002 and since then has produced two DVDs that include her visual and audio work. Over the last two years Agnes has become more interested in installation art and showed Inhabitants, a site-specific piece at Mills SIGNAL FLOW FESTIVAL in the Spring of 2005. This piece re-done is being shown again at ELECTRONIC MUSIC MIDWEST in Kansas City on October 22, 2005. In December 2005 she showed her piece “Shadows” at the Interface Exhibit at CCA. Her piece “Who are you?” was played in various cities in the U.S. as well as internationally as part of Robert Voisey’s 60x60 project. Agnes graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in Radio/TV/Film and is currently working on her MFA in Electronic Music Performance and Recording Media at Mills College in Oakland, California where Agnes resides. Before going to Mills Agnes ran her own company (Bellatrix Studios), freelanced and has taught at Ex’pression College for Digital Media since 1999.
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man-made weather
This piece is a meditation on using technology and energy to alter an audience’s awareness of what is interior and exterior. The movement of sound parallels air-pressure changes both on a macro and micro scale: the earth’s air pressure systems, inside and outside of instruments, and in our ears. The images and voice play with the idea of what we choose to experience and on what level of awareness. Through the use of song, video, improvisation, and the given space, sound and light’s “nature-like” persistence is contrasted with the artificiality of its emergence from electronic mediums.
The following people helped on this project and made it a possibility: Andy Peterson – camera and lighting, David Johngrass – superstar engineer, Felipe Ceballos – drums really late at night, and Rob Gwin – asst. camera and fellow adventurer.