"The Noise of Art "

An Evening of Mechanical and Kinetic Sound Installations,

Live Noise performance and the sound of steel.

Feb 23rd 8 PM – Midnight $15

1010 Murray Street

Berkeley, CA.

THE SHIPYARD: http://www.pureeviltm.com/shipyard/

QBOX: http://www.burningart.com/qbox  

A shipping container evening of art and performance not to be missed.

ART ART ART: Interactive Sound/Art and Noise Installations pounding out of Big Red Shipping Containers with: flapping wings, contact mic’s, water pumps and pinball machines, the AMF, the NBC, jackhammers, piano, ship and airplane parts and no one will ever forget the melting can. You will marvel at the sonic ice sculptures, but bring ear protection, wear gloves and be prepared for a surprise guest and much much more.

"The Noise of Art" will be a combination of interactive art installations and live performance and often a combination of both. There will be several self-contained interactive mechanical, kinetic or electronic sound sculptures; each installed in individual iron oxide red shipping container, all of which will require audience participation. There are three multi-piece "bands" and many other interesting and unusual works of art.

The evening will start at 8:00 pm with 45min. for roaming the installations, then we will proceed installation by installation highlighting each artist and performer in the show. Technomania Circus will entertain us between many of the pieces.

Enjoy an evening under the stars; support the arts, support local artists, help QBOX continue this type of programming and while you’re at it, learn about one of the Bay Area’s newest and most unique cooperative arts organizations, the Shipyard.

The evening’s artists include:

Kenneth Atchley

Sealed and Open Fountains

Fountains composed of trashcans, water pumps, contact mic's, geophone, polyethylene, and sealant. Through amplification and signal processing the fountains' sound is scaled and styled to fit the urban listening space.

Larnie Fox

The Crow (Wartime Studio Interior) Sub

Both are kinetic/sound sculptures. Materials: Bamboo, Contact Microphones, Electric Motors, and Found Objects.

Aesthetic Meat Front: Louis Fleischauer, Serina Lilly, Jenner Sharp, Robert Sin

Public Deprogramming Ritual: Pure Kaos against Total Kontrol

The ritual includes: Musik made of bones, blood, meat, metal combined wit, dark electronics, body modifications, which are also used as sound source, collective art and audience participation. The idea behind this Ritual is to help the participants (performers and audience alike) de-program themselves from a reality that we've been taught to believe. By releasing out inner powers and the primal instinct we become aware of side in us, that has been suppressed far to long. We ask you to use these moments to realize that there is more to life than what we have been programmed to believe. You are invited to participate!

TEchnomania Circus Bruce Cartier aka 'Manboy'

Technomaniacal Noise by a Circus

The interactive integration of music & Circus, a 5 minute performances, 6 times in the evening every 30 minutes.

Shipyard Artists’

Sonic Ice Sculptures (and other acts of art.)

La Cesari (resident/affiliate of the Creamery Art Studios in Oakland, but it's an independent project...)

The Visible Woman: Orgasmic Pinball

A Subverted Pinball Machine with the theme of the female sexual pleasure system.

Once upon a time, this pinball machine had a somewhat violent, male-oriented theme based on a Hollywood action movie. The machine's original graphics have been replaced with collages of anatomical drawings, giving the machine an educational slant. Meanwhile, the machine's original sound has been replaced with orgasmic-sounding vocal noises, which increase in intensity as the pinball's internal switches are hit, and decrease in intensity when the player fails to stimulate the machine properly. The machine "plays" the player as much as the player "plays" it, creating a performance of unique gestures and attitude from each different person who plays.

Justin

Trash Can on Fire

15 minutes

A trashcan with force fed air, will create a rushing roar that will fill the heated air with the sound of steel, failing under heat.

Neighborhood Bass Coalition (NBC)

Sound of Steel 02-23-02

Collaborative sound performance using found metal as primary audio source; processing and pure synthesis

Christopher Benfield

Frequency Communion

Installed in a canyon between containers the space will be dark with a strobe light and projecting negative versions of slides his paintings appearing/disappearing. These would be projected onto people walking in the space visually immersed in the environment. A short wave would act as a receiver picking up extra signals, set at a frequency with a lot of white noise and intermittent emergency broadcasts.

FiLTHMiLK Erich Filthmilk, Dan Hernandez, Nick Peterson, and Scott Rot

Applications of Past Unlawful Deeds

Midi controlled power tools attached to a piano body, sheet metal, and ship and airplane parts. Steel accompanied by electronic noise devices, sub harmonics & cello

QBOX supports the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of mechanical, kinetic and electronic art in the Bay Area. We provide emerging and established artists with a much-needed local forum for their ideas and their art. Our programs help subsidize the creation of local art by sharing a substantial portion of our proceeds with the artists whose work we present. We create an artistic environment that encourages cross-cultural, cross-generational, collaborative interaction between art organizations, artists and audience members alike.