STYLUS : OUR SIGNATURES BLEW UP IN SPACE : Live @ Rhizome DC
JS Adams : turntable + electronics / score + backing track
Christopher Mathews-Larsen : turntable + recording
Patrick Gillis : turntable
Beau Finley : turntable + backing track

STYLUS : OUR SIGNATURES BLEW UP IN SPACE : 22 DEC 2019

BLK w/ BEAR advocates a communications aesthetic wherein audio/visuals are distilled to key base components through image pixelation and sound/time manipulation. We celebrate the physical manifestation of misfired communications, broken language and broadcast interference. We champion delay and decay. We champion audio bleed, field recordings and the deconstructed surface noise of altered vinyl recordings. We herald cyclical repetitions and misappropriated realignments, intentional over-processing, signal saturation and digital malfeasance, audio pranksterism. Through aggressive enlargement and recontextualization of the mundane and every-day we hope to usher listeners and viewers into a deeper introspective relationship with previously familiar – now unstable – environs.

Trace Recordings artists BLK w/ BEAR have garnered glowing reviews and international airplay for the thought-provoking and moving 'Wish for a World Without Hurt' collaboration with London's ROTHKO and the limited edition 'fahrenheit_drafts' 12-inch single. Audio has accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London and selections from 'Wish for a World' were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant 'The Flight that Fought Back' program. The four-track 'Version 3' extended play is available for download at the Long Division with Remainders '14 versions of the same EP' project site and now available in a box set collection with all fourteen versions plus an additional digital-download outtakes EP including a 21-minute remix of BLK w/ BEAR's Version 001. Additional material has been released through Little Cracked Rabbit, Public Record, and Sonic Circuits - District of Noise.

Addition projects :: THAT / BLK TAG / STYLUS / the sloth ensemble / Littlebytes / Halfbytes / THAT CLOUD ... more.

H. Paul Moon is a filmmaker based in New York City and Washington, D.C. whose works concentrate on the performing arts. Films include “Sitka: A Piano Documentary” about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, “Quartet for the End of Time” about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition, and an acclaimed documentary feature about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber that premiered on PBS.  Moon has created music videos and concert films for numerous composers ranging from Moondog to Steve Reich, and four opera films set in a community garden.  His film “The Passion of Scrooge” was awarded “Critic's Choice” by Opera News as a “thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed” with “first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling.”  He also was cinematographer for director Josephine Decker's “First Day Out” in the anthology film “collective:unconscious.”  Moon’s films have been screened to live audiences at over two hundred film festivals around the world, with several awards and museum exhibitions.  Highlights include works featured in exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art and the City Museum of New York, PBS television broadcasts, and the Venice Biennale.  As a NYSCA grant recipient, he is currently producing the BOWERY MUSIC + POETRY + FILM series at Bowery Poetry Club.

STYLUS : OUR SIGNATURES BLEW UP IN SPACE : 22 DEC 2019

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