Strange Attractors VII and the Program in Experimental Intermedia Art present
THE DEEP NARRATIVES VIDEO BAND
an intermedia evening at
Nobles with special guests
George Cartwright and Carei Thomas
with David Means, Steve
Goldstein and Video artists Troy Zaushny and DaVinci with Steve Carlino
…a powerful mix of sound and
vision set against a 30 monitor video wall of a converted munitions plant.
Friday, 8 p.m., October 19th
Nobles eXperimental interMedia
Studio, 645 E. 7th St. (Mounds Blvd & 7th St.) in St. Paul
$8 general; $5 students and
seniors
St. Paul, MN (Oct 1, 2001)— Saxophonist George
Cartwright invades Metropolitan State University with a team of improvising
musicians and video artists in an intermedia mix of powerful sound and vision
at 8pm, Friday, October 19th at the Nobles eXperimental interMedia Studio. Set against a 30
monitor video wall, the Deep Narratives Video Band will present an
evening-length performance installation in the former munitions manufacturing
plant on St. Paul’s East Side.
Joining Cartwright is local jazz legend and
raconteur Carei Thomas with David Means, electric guitar and Steve Goldstein,
laptop computer. Video artists Troy
Zaushny and DaVinci join the musicians with live and prerecorded video
materials coordinated by Steve Carlino. Visual and sound elements from the
space are combined with improvised and composed elements to create an abstract
mosaic of simultaneous stories and new musical invention.
Cartwright has been in the Twin Cities for the last
two years after spending a decade of creative work in Memphis and another
decade of musical innovation in New York City.
He is perhaps best know for founding the eclectic new music group
Curlew, which he recently brought together locally at Gus Lucky’s Gallery.
Thomas is well known in the area as a gifted
composer, pianist and spoken word artist whose spontaneous eruptions of sound
and serendipity have delighted audiences for decades.
Means and Goldstein have worked together for 4 years
as a duo and with other notable improvisers including Fred Ho, Carei Thomas and
Gary Schulte. They recently joined
Cartwright in the Nobles space for a recording session. “This combination of artists and materials
will be quite an interesting experiment”, said Means, who is a Professor of
Media and Fine Arts at Metro State University, and directs the Nobles
eXperimental interMedia Studio. “We’re
always looking for ways to incorporate our new video wall into exciting
performance and exhibition contexts, and this event should break new ground”,
he added.
Joining
the musicians are video artists Troy Zaushny, whose intermedia installation
“Madonna and Child 200” was exhibited at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery last
year, and DaVinci, an independent video artist with broadcast television
experience as well. Technical
coordination comes from Steve Carlino, a
multi-disciplinary artist who has recently concentrated his efforts in sound
design, performance, and experimental instrument construction.
The Nobles Video Wall contains two separate banks of monitors (3 X 3) and (3 X 2) capable of displaying individual or composite video signals from cameras or videotape sources. Six other monitors can be fed separate camera or videotape signals and the entire wall can be programmed by a 8 X 8 routing switcher.
For further information on this event, contact David Means, (651) 793-3967.
George Cartwright The Nobles Video Wall