Ian Jacobs (of Change the Station) and Ben Lam (of einLab & bsp) perform their mix of rock, blues + electronics as Catacombs, at Bar Matchless, Friday, October 9th at 8pm. Come see us if you're free. Also playing: Pilot Cloud, The Party Faithful, and Bot.
Bio
einLab are Elia Gurna and Ben Lam, an artist team based in Beacon and Queens, New York. Visual artists with backgrounds in literature and music, they have been creating sound pieces since 2002. Past collaborator, guitarist Mark Di Donna, joined the team's performing lineup in 2005.
Their audio pieces have been featured in such exhibitions as Windows On Main St. at the Howland Public Library and Flow: Navigating the Super Paradigm at Collaborative Concepts, both in Beacon, Cityscapes: Urban Poetry Mass at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where they were also broadcast on CBC Radio, Queens International 2004 at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and Collaboration 1 at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia.
einLab has also contributed media specific interventions to a series produced by Vienna's museum in progress, appearing in the Austrian daily newspaper der Standard's New York Times supplement, and Art in General & e-flux's Arts & Leisure in New York. Most recently, they have adapted their sound pieces to a live medium, with performances at the Queens Museum of Art, beacon artist union, WKCR's Live Constructions, ez loft, and chashama's 44th Street gallery.
"For Queens International 2004, einLab presents no neutral ground: a panorama peace piece (2004). Produced in the spirit of Einstein's writings from Why War?, the physicist's exchange with Freud on pacifism, no neutral ground is a reaction to recent history, and a critique of America's obsession with excess. Three listening stations are set up along the viewing platform and ramp of the museum's Panorama of the City of New York, offering visitors an alternate way of experiencing the model -- to feel the pulse of the city through einLab's beats. Their downtempo ethereal drum and keyboard backdrop is fused with unapologetic articulations of the social ills of our time."
excerpt from the Queens International 2004 exhibition catalog entry written by Emmy Catedral
Check out the new Sunsual poster,
made with love, humor, and pop-art for you!
Because the project is more than music.
It' s about connection.
Friends of The World!
Much Love from The Sun!
I've put together a night of runk and fock music on May 14, 2007. I'm thinking of calling this the "It's After the Last Days; Don't You Know That Yet?" Party, with a respectful nod to the incomparable Sun Ra. Or maybe just: "Revivalution."
Anyway, come join us for a fantastic evening with four stellar bands: Ultrafine is first up at 8pm with their new wave sounds, subsonic bass, and chanteuse vocals for your earhole. Think the Brazilian Girls and Kudu with a splash of Gwen Stefani. Then, catch Mother Flux spreading a love remedy for your blues and ushering in the revival (without the fire and brimstone). After us, at 9:50pm, Ancient Soul takes over. Their sound harkens back to when rock in the vein Sabbath, Maiden, Dio, etc. reigned supreme. If you dig Wolfmother and Priestess, you'll love this band. Closing out the night at 10:45pm is NathalieD and Benoir with their stream of consciousness laptological soulstew.
Come early and stay the whole night. You'll go home fully rocked out. And we all need that on the regular.
Here's the details:
May 14, 2007 (Mother Flux goes on at 8:45 PM)
The Delancey (Check out www.thedelancey.com)
168 Delancey Street (Between Clinton and Attorney Streets)
NYC, New York 10002
Cost:$6
The renegade artist Oscar Wilde wrote that "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." And the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley also wrote about how music echoing power when he wrote: "Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."
Please join me as my music reverberates to keep from crying at our next show. We're playing in Billyburg this time around.
Here's the details:
April 22, 2007 10:00 PM
@ Trash Bar
256 Grand St. between Driggs and Roebling
Williamsburg, New York 11211
Cost: $6
Hey einLab, Don't miss the next TOOLFIST performance this Saturday at the Baybridge in Salem Mass for those of you in the area. Check us out here for details or go to toolfist.com
thanks Ben. I lost my yellow legal pad layout! (my e-landlord changed servers)...but I am slowly moving everything to my new playground: notadancingbear.com
Twice today with fingers fleeted and numbers lost to the ever grown changes in the air. Retaught and imagined for all its remainder, in hours, in jars, with drops.
Asides the highways melting and I can’t drive with such a bloody mess
