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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 278: blueprint flavor
If you notice more people than usual shuffling around the city in cool specs and well-fitted clothing in the coming days, that may be because Thursday, October 6th through next Tuesday, October 11th, is Architecture Week. The centerpiece is the annual Open House New York festival, which sees hundreds of unique sites throughout the city extending their hospitality to visitors over the weekend for special tours, talks, and presentations. The metric-minded should also pop over to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim to take in the inaugural First Fridays night, featuring Flavorpill-curated DJ lineups, beginning with Tommie Sunshine and James Friedman, who get the party started this week in the museum's rotunda. Familiar spaces can also be glimpsed in Noah Baumbach's excellent new film The Squid and the Whale, set in Park Slope. But if you just want to throw structure to the wind, avant-garde artists represent as Christian Marclay and others play accompaniment for Stan Brakhage films, the experimental works of Robert Beavers see their US premiere at the Whitney, and Philip Glass plays a piece commissioned for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. Sketch a plan, and spread it...
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Kicking off with leftfield cuts from Tommie Sunshine and James Friedman, Flavorpill launches a new monthly DJ series at the Guggenheim — beats, drinks, and art this Friday in the famous rotunda.
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Jean-Pierre Gauthier
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Now through Sat 10.8 (Tue-Sat: 10:30am-6pm) |
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Jack Shainman Gallery (513 W 20th St, 212.645.1701) map |
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Canadian multimedia artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier's RUT commands the
space of Jack Shainman's main gallery with alien energy. A skeletal
structure of found objects, piping, wires, and lights, it emits a curious
mélange of sounds evoking some future vision where nature and
technology blend into the bionic sublime. Suspended from the wall, four
drawing machines, Marqueurs d'incertitude (uncertainty recorders),
lead the way through the gallery's entrance. These mechanized curios are a
subtle update of Sol Lewitt's practice of wall drawing. Constantly moving,
they whir with elastic abandon, leaving graphite traces of their passage. A
provocative blend of historical reference, assemblage, and phenomenon, this
work both pleases and disturbs, providing ample room for imagination. (AM)
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The Writer's Life: Italy and America feat. Adam Haslett, Gary Shteyngart, Mike Albo, and Heidi Julavits
Tue 10.4 (7pm) Housing Works UBC (126 Crosby St, 212.334.3324) map
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Some of NYC's finest young writers celebrate the works of their Italian amici — Valeria Parella, Paolo Cognetti, and Nicola Lagioia, among others — and The Literary Review's Italian Fiction issue. (MV)
 
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MUSIC: Cinemalism
Philip Glass: Orion
Tue 10.4 & Thur 10.6 - Sat 10.8 (7:30pm) BAM (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map $20-60
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Philip Glass collaborates with an imposing lineup of world musicians —
utilizing didgeridoo, kora, sitar, vocals and more — for this piece
devoted to the son of Neptune, who was buried among the stars. (JKG)
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MUSIC: Indie Balladeering
The Decemberists
Tue 10.4 & Wed 10.5 (9:30pm) Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.353.1600) map $25 / $23 advance
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Colin Meloy and his merry Decemberists "chimbley" sweep through Webster Hall
for two nights of anachronistic narratives, dramaturgic ditties,
sophisticated sea shanties, and artful anthems, with surprisingly
earnest performances. (JL)
Note: Sons & Daughters open on Tuesday, and Cass McCombs on Wednesday.
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The Squid and the Whale
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Unfolding in Park Slope, c. 1986, writer/director Noah Baumbach's third feature, The Squid and the Whale, is unsparing but not unkind.
Eschewing the showy revelry and glib detachment that made his recent collaboration with Wes Anderson virtually unwatchable, Baumbach has captured with quiet humor the acute pain of two sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline) and their literati parents (Laura Linney and Jeff
Daniels) adjusting to a divorce. Billed as lightly fictionalized autobiography, the film is laden with period and site-specific detail, endowing the moments of ugly confrontation and dismissal with a credible but also voyeuristic thrill. Watching both parents and kids
thoughtlessly wound each other, we have a sense of rifling through the least flattering photos in a family album. (LG)
 Which two animals should nature (or the government) allow to mate and
procreate and why? The three most compelling responses win either a The
Squid and the Whale book, soundtrack CD, or a pair of tickets.
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George Saunders' Pastoralia
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Now through Sun 10.9 (Wed-Fri: 8:30pm / Sat: 4:30 & 8:30pm / Sun: 4:30pm) |
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P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.477.5829) map |
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In a bizarre theme park from the future, a man and a woman, clad in fur costumes and Neanderthal facial prosthetics, live in a cave mimicking their prehistoric forebears for the edification of visitors and for the audience's amusement. They eat, hunt, and paint on the cave walls, unearth modern-day snacks from under fake rocks when no one is watching, and communicate in animalistic grunts because speaking English is a grave, out-of-character offense. Yehuda Duenyas' adaptation of George Saunders' short story is pleasing to the eye, and even though many of the written work's internal monologues are impossible to communicate, the actors manage to convey the humor, humanity, and, ultimately, the sadness of the satirical story with few words. (SP)
In what year were the oldest known human fossils found? The first eight
correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a performance.
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| MUSIC: Indie/Power-Pop |
Metric w/ the Most Serene Republic
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One of the only Broken Social Scene-affiliated acts not on the Arts &
Crafts label, Metric's moment has been a long time coming. Singer Emily
Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw have been collaborating for the better part
of a decade, but it was only with their 2003 debut, Old World
Underground, Where Are You Now?, that their ridiculously catchy new-wave
pop reached the world at large. The follow-up, Live It Out, hits
stores this week, and while the hooks are less immediate, the music remains
as potent as before, all artful construction and clever turns of phrase.
Openers the Most Serene Republic, meanwhile, are on Arts & Crafts,
but are actually not BSS-related. Clearly, the world is becoming more
complex by the day. (DL)
When you're really, honestly, actually being genuine, how many muscles do you exercise with a smile? The second and fourth correct answers each win a copy of Old World Underground.
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Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel: The Quitter
Wed 10.5 (7pm) Barnes & Noble (33 E 17th St, 212.253.0810) map
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We know about cranky comic-book legend Harvey Pekar's adult life, thanks to 2003's American Splendor. Pekar's latest The Quitter invites us into his youth, where we meet a boy who always quits before he fails. (JA)
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The Films of Stan Brakhage feat. Text of Light
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From 1953 until his death in 2003, Stan Brakhage created some of the 20th century's most radical art with more than 40 films. His works are at turns purely abstract, socio-politically agitating, quasi-Actionist, and stream of conscious, occasionally employing revolutionary mixed-media manipulations of film stock. Avant, all-star ensemble Text of Light (named after an early Brakhage film) pay tribute with two nights of live improvisation to accompany screenings of his work. Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo joins turntable collagist Christian Marclay, minimalist guitarist Alan Licht, free-jazz drummer William Hooker, and saxophone/didgeridoo minimalist Ulrich Krieger. Dispensing with any attempt to guide viewers through these visual poems, ToL seek, rather, to open them up to unexpected avenues of perception. (LJ)
Note: Friday's show also features contributions from turntablist/composer Marina Rosenfeld and the brilliant harpist Zeena Parkins.
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| MUSIC: Sad Pop |
Nada Surf
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Thur 10.6 & Fri 10.7 (9pm) |
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Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map |
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Two competing instincts are at war within Nada Surf singer/songwriter
Matthew Caws' songs: the need to be sensitive and honest, and the need to
rawk. The Weight Is a Gift parses Caws' conflicted psyche with
hard-won grace, taking Nada Surf's stately, sincere power-pop to new heights
of both delicacy and grit. With the dead weight of "Popular" nearly ten
years behind them, the band breezes through melancholy rockers like
"Concrete Bed" and "Do It Again" with the maturity of a band that knows its
place, and Caws' simple lyrical observations ("To find someone you love / You've gotta be someone you love") always ring truer than the clichés
they uproot. (TG)
Note: Brooklyn-based, one-man emo machine Say Hi to Your Mom opens on Thursday and torchy trio Shivaree, Friday.
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Yoko Higashino and Hiroaki Umeda
Thur 10.6 - Sat 10.8 (7:30pm) Dance Theater Workshop (219 W 19th St, 212.691.6500) map $20
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Two of Japan's freshest choreographers take the stage at DTW: Yoko Higashino
makes use of a relentless beat to suggest a siege of societal change, while
Hiroaki Umeda manipulates light to produce a visual rhythmic base. (SP)
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MUSIC: Newer Wave
stellastarr* w/ Giant Drag and the Twenty Twos
Thur 10.6 (8:30pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $17.50
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Brooklyn's own new Romantics bring their black-clad pop and melancholy
melodies home on the last leg of their tour in support of Harmonies for
the Haunted. LA's Giant Drag opens. (LT)
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Good Night, and Good Luck
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In Good Night, and Good Luck, director/costar George Clooney dodges
the many (oft-documented) pitfalls of the biopic by limiting himself to one
event in Edward R. Murrow's life: the '50s TV anchorman's successful
campaign to expose the un-American activities of the House Un-American
Activities Committee and that notorious Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph
McCarthy. Shot in a neat, black-and-white series of smoke-filled rooms
peopled by a wonderfully efficient cast (including Patricia Clarkson and the
undersung David Strathairn), Clooney's economy has enabled an overtly political
allegory about the responsibilities of the media when the government has
gotten out of hand. (LR)
Note: The Museum of Televison & Radio is holding a related series of screenings, Good Night, and Good Luck: Murrow from McCarthy to Monroe, from today through Sat 11.6.
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Jeremy Blake: Sodium Fox
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Fri 10.7 (6-8pm) |
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Feigen Contemporary (535 W 20th St, 212.929.0500) map |
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Sodium Fox is Jeremy Blake's latest installment in his delirious
oeuvre of acid art films. A collaboration with Nashville poet and Silver
Jews frontman David Berman, it updates Eugene Delacroix's Romantic
painting Liberty Leading the People, replacing revolutionary
symbolism with the post-consumer icon of a Los Angeles stripper from a club
called Crazy Girls. Blake's deft patchwork approach to the medium
combines animation, found photography, and heady staging, for a romp
through fractured, 21st-century American psychology, while his humor cuts
close to the bone, re-imagining such prominent forbears as Ed Ruscha and
Barry Hannah as a "fantasy gang of poetic ruffians." A salon-style
installation of paintings, drawings, and photographs is also on display.
(AM)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 11.12 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm). A book launch for Philip Monk's Spirit Hunter, The Haunting of
American Culture by Myths of Violence: Speculations on Jeremy Blake's
Winchester Trilogy follows at Feigen on Sat 10.8 (4-6pm).
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Tonus
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Fri 10.7 (7:30pm) |
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USM U. Schaerer Sons Inc. (28-30 Greene St, 212.371.1230) map |
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The Swiss mind-meld of music, dance, and multimedia art that is Tonus visits
New York tonight for this single performance. A key pillar of the Tonus
collective is Ania Losinger who dances on her self-invented, half-ton marimba (or Xala). While she performs intricate flamenco and ballet moves, she creates
exotic and complex rhythmic music with Steve Reich-inspired phrasing, accents
of jazz, contempoary classical, and even jittery drum 'n bass. Composer Don
Li presents new explorations of rhythm, and Pierre-Yves Borgeaud presents extended intermissions that offer a
total immersion in video art. While Tonus performs through the night, the
audience lounges in USM Modular Furniture's spacious Soho storefront. (JM)
If you could create a musical instrument, what would it be? Our five
favorite descriptions each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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The Guggenheim and Flavorpill present First Fridays feat. Tommie Sunshine w/ James Friedman
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Absorb your culture from head to toe as Flavorpill partners with the Guggenheim to present First Fridays, a monthly soiree that brings world-class DJs to the museum's atrium. You can dance to sets from some of today's most formidable beat purveyors, or just browse the museum's stunning new exhibition, Russia!, which offers an impressive survey of Russian artwork from the 13th century to the present, as an impeccable soundtrack spirals through the rotunda. Tonight, the series kicks off with Tommie Sunshine and James Friedman spinning informed techno and electro, with a dash of house and punk-funk. Po-mo dance party! (JKG)
Note: Future dates include Ghostly's Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliot (Fri 11.4), German duo Funkstörung (Fri 12.2), and mash-up master Diplo (Fri 1.6).
What do the Allentown Art Museum and the Guggenheim have in common? The seventh and eighth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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XLR8R Chicago Issue Release Party feat. DJ Funk, Stretch Armstrong, and Syrup Girls
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Being name-checked as an inspiration in Daft Punk's classic cut "Teachers"
certainly lends a bit of cred to the resume. Such is the case with DJ Funk,
whose pitch-bent and vocoded name was repeatedly refrained by the Parisian
duo in the company of Green Velvet, Kenny Dope, and Louis Vega, among
others. He's widely seen as a godfather of ghetto/booty-tech, but also
weaves Chicago house, Detroit techno, and Baltimore club into his sets.
Think call-and-response, reppin' where you're from, playfully misogynistic
lyrics, and dirty, grinding beats. Funk is aided and abetted by the Syrup
Girls, Stretch Armstrong, and 'dem ho's from Cut. (CJN)
Note: Free Sparks from 10pm-12am.
In what year was Kenner's Stretch Armstrong figure introduced? The
sixth correct response wins a one-year subscription to XLR8R.
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| MUSIC: Avant/Drone Folk |
Six Organs of Admittance
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Though not without its admirers, the increasing output from the freak folk
scene (Devendra, Joanna, et al) frequently emphasizes certain vocal
eccentricities that not every listener finds rewarding. With Six Organs of
Admittance, Ben Chasny's take on folk is plenty freakish, but owes more to
the complexities of free jazz and underground metal than experimental larynx
bending. His arrangements veer far from typical song structure, but retain
an organic quality rooted in traditional folk. Those only familiar with
Chasny's work with colossal psych outfit Comets on Fire should be pleased
with the decidedly earthier, but equally complex Six Organs of Admittance.
(JPC)
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Daniel Lanois & Tortoise w/ Beans
Fri 10.7 (8:30pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $25 / $22.50 advance
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Daniel Lanois has sealed his place in music history as the producer of
countless classics, but his lush instrumentals are also exquisite. His
plaintive pedal-steel is backed by post-rock unit Tortoise, who also
co-headline. (JL)
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Made Event presents Richie Hawtin w/ Lee Burridge
Fri 10.7 (11pm) Spirit (530 W 27th St, 212.268.9477) map $35 / $25 advance
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Austere techno technician Richie Hawtin co-headlines tonight with funky
tech-house maestro Lee Burridge. Whether you like your big club beats severe
or sleazy, tactical or trippy, these top jocks have you covered. (CEH)
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Open House NY
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Sat 10.8 & Sun 10.9 |
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Various locations |
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In the city that never sleeps, most of us sleepwalk through our days in some
way, plugged into our 'Pods, glued to our phones, eyes directed at street
level. But with the advent of Architecture Week and its centerpiece, Open
House New York, we have new incentive to geek out on our mighty metropolis.
Hundreds of sites spread across all five boroughs swing their
doors wide to curious onlookers. You can investigate Fresh Kills' ongoing
transformation from dump to parkland, preview Renzo Piano's plans for the
new NYT headquarters, explore Ellis Island's historic hospital
buildings, or (oh glory!) get a behind-the-scenes look at MoMA's
conservation lab. Uncover your inner flaneur, and hit the streets. (JKG)
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Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed
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American high and low cultures collide in Luis Gispert and filmmaker Jeffrey
Reed's experimental film and photographs. Stereomongrel follows a
10-year-old girl caught between innocence and rage, mother and father. The
photographs add narrative layers, exploring characters and sites outside the
film's frames. Incorporating Gispert's visual patois of hip-hop glamour and
Catholic baroque iconography, the work is obsessively decadent, and nothing
is sacred. Families fail, little girls grow up, the Whitney disintegrates, and art gets pulverized. Indulgence leads to destruction here, but the artists
evade abjection, beautifully merging the visual and political in a show that
lures you in, and spits you back out into a questionable reality. (LK)
Note: This exhibition continues through Fri 11.11 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).
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Lyrics Born w/ the Perceptionists, Pigeon John, and Apsci
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This here's a serious Cali showing, minus cursing, Compton shout-outs, and
hydraulic cars. Lyrics Born has been on Quannum since it was Solesides
— the original incarnation of the legendary Bay Area label that
introduced the world to DJ Shadow and Blackalicious. LB's first EP (as Asia
Born) launched the label, and the gravel-voiced MC has been honing his
silken flow ever since. The Perceptionists's agit-hop made for last year's
Def Jux highlight. Pigeon John, rapper with the LA Symphony collective,
drops quirky, self-effacing rhymes with everyday themes over sunny, melodic
tracks. New Quannum duo Apsci raise hell with studdering electro, hip-hop, and soul. (PCS)
According to a recent interview, what song made Tom Shimura (aka Lyrics
Born) fall in love with hip-hop? The fourth correct answer wins a pair of
tickets to this show.
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Lawnchair Generals
Sat 10.8 (9pm-5am) Sullivan Room (218 Sullivan St, 212.252.2151) map $15 / $10 w/ RSVP
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The Lawnchair Generals' smooth, funky house tracks can be found in DJ crates
around the world, and as DJs themselves, the Seattle duo always keep dance
floors elated. Dubby deep-house man Troydon opens. (CEH)
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Moscow Cats Theater
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Now through Sun 10.30 (Fri: 8pm / Sat & Sun: 12 & 3pm) |
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Tribeca Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers St, 212.220.1460) map |
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Yuri Kuklachev maintains that his cats work out of love, not for treats, or
out of fear. Sitting close to this one-ring circus of 26 cats, 2 dogs, and
7 clowns, there's no doubt that these frisky players are eager to show off. They shimmy up poles, jump off 20-foot platforms, walk tightropes, and ride dogs barebacked. They dance, balance balls on their noses, and push each other around in prams. When they want the spotlight, they do somersaults — or even a pawstand in the palm of Master Yuri's hand.
The felines interact with puppets, stuffed animals, and even audience
members. Improvisation keeps each performance fresh, and the element of
surprise always lurks — although the risk of a Siegfried & Roy-style
mauling is fortunately minimal. (CM)
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Four Tet w/ Jamie Lidell and Koushik
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No disrespect to Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, who headlines tonight's show, but the real highlight of the bill is Jamie Lidell. Hebden makes a mighty racket with his laptops, converting pre-recorded tracks into shuddering beasts. But Lidell is a true performance artist, at times constructing perilous houses of cards out of live sampling and luck, and at times happy to hit the space bar and take center stage to belt out Stax and Motown-inspired, goosebump-inducing soul. His A/V crew, creating live video loops and projecting Super 8 footage onto Lidell and his outlandish costumes, only enhances the all-consuming spectacle. You won't see a better "laptop" show this decade. (PHS)
Note: Lidell headlines at Rothko on Wed 10.12.
Which two instruments did Lidell first learn at primary school? The third
correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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My Hand Outstretched: Films by Robert Beavers
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Fri 10.7 - Sun 10.30 (schedule) |
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Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) map |
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Robert Beavers left America in 1967, moving to Europe with his companion,
Gregory Markopoulos. The two led an itinerant lifestyle — shooting films
wherever they went and fiercely disavowing commercial production — and
created their own "monographic" festival, Temenos, in Greece. While names
such as Anger, Brakhage, and Mekas constitute the American experimental
establishment, Beavers has rarely been screened here in the US. That changes
with this comprehensive survey, which features the North American premier of
films such as Winged Dialogue (1967), Plan of Brussels (1968),
and the playful Diminished Frame (1970), while Early Monthly
Segments (1968-70) gets its US premier with continuous screenings for
the first week of programming. Sensual, poetic, and constantly evolving,
Beavers' films finally get their due. (AM)
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Since closing its doors on Leonard Street in 2004, the multimedia gallery/screening room/restaurant Monkeytown has relocated within Williamsburg to a gorgeous new space on North 3rd Street. The digs still boast an intimate, four-screen theater (think a box shape) equipped with surround sound and low couches set behind long tables, which create a loungey dining and viewing environment. However, in this incarnation, pedigreed chef Coleman Foster's experimental cuisine garners its own stage, with the addition of a non-performance-oriented front dining room. Luckily, Monkeytown's mission to curate an edgy and unusual lineup of hybrid performances and screenings hasn't changed at all — one-woman, video art-rock outfit Tracy + the Plastics kicked off last week's grand opening, and the October schedule includes programs such as America's Funniest Pet Videos, accompanied by live hot stone massage, and a series of paired movies (highlighted by F is for Fake and Dial M for Murder) which is less a double feature than film face-off. (AN)
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Matador
Released September 2005
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Love of noise notwithstanding, today's Double bear little resemblance to the
abrasive math-rock duo initially composed of David Greenhill and Jeff
McLeod. Keyboardist Jacob Morris and guitarist Donald Beaman came aboard for 2004's psych-tinged Palm Fronds LP, and now, the Brooklyn quartet turns in a surprisingly melodic and soulful (though by no means muted) Matador debut, Loose in the Air. Greenhill's vocals — one minute meek, the next drunkenly assured — hover above gnashing guitars
and paranoid electronic effects, yet Morris' warm organ grooves and
McLeod's nimble kit work prevent things from spiralling into full-on David
Lynch territory. In fact, second track "Idiocy" swings with a sardonic
buoyancy to rival the Walkmen's early output. That said, there's no
mistaking Loose's unspoken agenda: to supplant Television's
Marquee Moon in your favorite juke by the year 2030. (JS)
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Recorded at WNYU, Beats in Space stands as perhaps the finest DJ-mixed program in the US. In addition to his excellent sets, host Tim Sweeney pulls in forward-thinking jocks and producers who are in town for gigs, and the result is a cache of guest mixes spanning every conceivable sub-genre of electronic music. This week, Stromba lays down a deep, dubby disco mix, while Roy Dank demonstrates the eclectic Pop Your Funk sound with some punk-funk selections. Finally, Thomas Fehlmann treats BiS listeners to a live, on-the-fly laptop rendition of his album Lowflow. (CJN)
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Stromba: Beats in Space mix (Dubby disco)
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Roy Dank: Beats in Space mix (Punk-funk/disco)
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Thomas Fehlmann: Live laptop set (Downtempo dub/techno)
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| 1 Times Square | Jami Attenberg | | Dakota | Joe P. Colly | | Bryant Park Hotel | Leigh Goldstein | | 21 Lincoln Place | Todd Goldstein | | NY Public Library | Carl E. Hagen | | Puck Building | Lance Jacobs | | Lipstick Building | Lindsay Korotkin | | Singer Building | Chris MacLeod | | Old Penn Station | John McCormick | | Empire State Building | Andrea Neustein | | Madison Square Garden | Lisa Rosman | | Polo Grounds | Jon Schultz | | 40 Wall Street | Philip H. Sherburne | | CBGB's | Patrick C. Sisson | | Flatiron Building | Marcella Veneziale |
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| United Nations Secretariat | Anjuli Ayer | | Time Warner Mall | Jessica Bauer-Greene | | Woolworth Building | Morgan Croney | | Freedom Center plans | Jules Gaffney | | Museum of Sex | Pilar Gallego | | Brooklyn Lyceum | Sander-Martijn Milks | | St John the Divine's | David Morrow | | Bobst Library | Leah Taylor | | Grand Central | Judah Wiedre |
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