Progressions |
By
Marjan Moghaddam. Music By Adam Caine |
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Multimedia Performance
Progressions
Thursday September 25th, at 7.30pm
Kumble Theater
for the Performing Arts
Downtown
Brooklyn Campus of LIU
Progressions is a groundbreaking multimedia performance by award winning digital artist Marjan Moghaddam and guitarist/composer Adam Caine, featuring live improvised computer animation and music, at the Kumble Theater in downtown Brooklyn. Funded in part by the Brooklyn Arts Council and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, this mesmerizing journey through visuals and music employs real time computer-driven animations that are displayed on a 30 foot video projection screen.
The visuals are ‘played’ live on stage in what Ms. Moghaddam describes as “jamming with digital painting & sculpture on a screen”. The animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures and pulsing psychedelic patterns. Adam Caine’s live guitar and electronics style encompasses extremes of dissonance and rhythmic agitation contrasted with softer and more dynamic passages, united by a unique sound-palette and highly-individual melodic sense.
Together, they take the audience through a mind bending journey of shifting musical and visual terrains as a series of progressions. For Ms. Moghaddam the improvisational visual experience is influenced by the shamanic energy of Jackson Pollack’s paint dripping, while Mr. Caine's musical improvisation is rooted in the traditions of free-jazz, experimental concert music and avant-rock.
Nick Lyons and Lorenzo Sanguedolce will be opening with a short saxophone duo. Ticket holders can signup at the event for a free workshop on visual music by Ms. Moghaddam on Wednesday October 22nd, at the Media Arts Department of the Brooklyn campus of LIU, on a first come first serve basis.
Marjan
Moghaddam Bio:
Marjan Moghaddam is an award winning, Brooklyn based computer artist
and animator who has exhibited her work at many galleries, museums and
festivals throughout the years. Ms Moghaddam’s most recent animations
have been selected by over a dozen international festivals and exhibited
at Art Basel Miami and the 2008 Armory show of Contemporary Art in New
York City.
Adam
Caine Bio:
Adam Caine is a guitarist, improvisor and composer based in Brooklyn.
He has played with various groups in New York City and throughout the
United States. He has performed with Connie Crothers, Paul Smoker, Daniel
Carter, Ken Filiano, Glen Branca, Haale, and the New York Soundpainting
Ensemble. Adam's 2005 CD, "PIPE," received rave reviews in
Wire and Cadence magazine.
Kumble
Theater for the Performing Arts: Downtown Brooklyn campus of Long Island
University. Flatbush between Dekalb and Willoughy (across from Junior’s
restaurant).
Trains: 4 or 5, or 2 or 3 to Nevins Street stop. B,M,Q, or R trains
to Dekalb Ave stop.
Tickets: $7 General Public. $5 with Student ID. LIU Faculty & Staff
$5. LIU students $3.
For
more information:
Contact Marjan Moghaddam
www.marjan.com and www.myspace.com/marjanm
www.Caine.tv and www.myspace.com/adamnoahcaine
Box Office: www.brooklyn.liu.edu/KumbleTheater
718-488-1624