hi gang passing on info. this and the vision festival look to make a fun may ! love to all steve koenig n.p.: billy bang- vietnam: the aftermath ------------------------------------- hello friends -- i know not many of you on this list are in NYC, but any and all help spreading the word would be much appreciated. This is a young, scrappy, entirely artist-run festival that I'm really looking forward to and proud to be a part of. Those who can make it, it would kick ass to see you again. thanks, and take care kyle Improvised and Otherwise: A Festival of Sound and Form Thursday to Sunday, May 1 - 4, 2003 Presented at Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) 205 North 7th Street (at Driggs), Brooklyn, NY Tickets: $15 adults/$10 students & seniors, Weekend Passes: $40 four-day/$25 two-day THURSDAY - MAY 1 8:00 Isle of Pines - Boaz Barkan, Robert Scott, Sherwood Chen - movement, Arnie Saiki - music, text & puppets 8:30 Reuben Radding - contrabass 9:00 Debra Bluth - dance 9:30 Materiality of Sound in Image - A screening of videos by Maria Dumlao, Kyra Garrigue, Geu Jin Han, Gregory King 10:00 psi - Jaime Fennelly - electonics, Chris Forsyth - electric guitar, Fritz Welch - drums & amplified percussion FRIDAY - MAY 2 8:00 Luis Lara Malvacias/Not Festival - dance, David Watson & Sean Meehan - music, 8:30 Lafayette Gilchrist Trio - Lafayette Gilchrist - piano, John Dierker - reeds, percussionist TBA 9:30 Loophole - Corrina Kalisz, Alison Robinson, Estelle Woodward - dance, Jeff Arnal - percussion, Gordon Beeferman - piano 10:00 Transcontinental 01 - Ernesto Diaz-Infante - guitar, Jesse Quattro - voice, Rent Romus - alto/soprano saxophone Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, Chris Heenan - bass clarinet, Adam Lane - double bass, Helena Espvall-Santoleri - cello, Lance Grabmiller - laptop, Mike Pride - percussion SATURDAY - MAY 3 4:00 Radical Low - Kurt Ralske - video, Chantal Yzermans - dance, Nicholas Marantz - electronics 4:30 Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon - multi-media (Athens) 5:00 Adam James Wilson Quintet - Arto Artinian - flute, Brad Kemp - double bass, Aaron Trant - percussion, Jonathan Vincent - piano & accordian, Adam Wilson - guitar 6:00 Hans Tammen - endangered guitar, Dafna Naphtali - voice, electronics 6:30 Ras Moshe and The Music Now Unit - Jackson Krall - percussion, Matt Heyner - bass, Ras Moshe - reeds 7:30 Susan Sgorbati & Cori Olinghouse - dance 8:00 Gordon Beeferman - piano, Jeff Arnal - percussion, John Hughes - double bass (NYC, Germany) 8:30 Shakin Ray Levis - Dennis J. Palmer - synthesizers, Bob Stagner - percussion (Chattanooga) 9:30 K.J. Holmes & Karinne Keithley - dance, with Michael Wall and The Whoring Horn Ensemble (NYC) 10:00 Alberto Braida - piano, Giancarlo Locatelli - clarinets (Italy) SUNDAY - MAY 4 4:00 Lisa Gonzales & Carol Kyles Finley - dance 4:15 Lionel Popkin & Carolyn Hall - dance 4:30 Kathy Supove - piano, electronics 5:00 John Berndt - reeds, electronics, percussion, Dan Breen - bass, electronics, percussion, Andy Hayleck - amplified gong, Jack Wright - reeds (Balitmore, Boulder) 6:00 Aaron Petrovitch - "A Cosmic Mishap in an Accidental Universe" - spoken word (NYC) 6:30 Dynasty - Seth Misterka - saxophones, Jennifer Deveau - bass, Nate Smith - percussion (NYC) 7:30 Chainworks - Dan DeChellis - piano, Matt Hannafin - percussion, Brian Moran - electronics (NYC) 8:00 PIMA Group - Melissa Putz, Thomas Clark, Michael Barker, Emily Fifer, Ryan Grove, Helena Epsvall- Santoleri - dance, music & video (Philadelphia) 8:30 Miya Masaoka - koto, electronics (NYC) 9:00 Ben Hall - percussion, Katt Hernandez - violin, John Voigt - electronic upright bass (Boston, Detroit) In the WAX Gallery, April 11th - May 5th FROM THE GROUND UP featuring paintings by: Mark Bouthilette, Catherine Hamilton, Paul Douglas Olmer Closing Reception Friday May 2nd, 6 to 8pm Improvised and Otherwise: A Festival of Sound and Form is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) Additional funding is provided by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.