Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play - September 27, 2008 - January 4, 2009
akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/details.php?unid=721

Montréal artist, inventor and musician Jean-Pierre Gauthier brings humor and poetry to his kinetic sculptural installations. This exhibition, the first survey of the award-winning artist’s work, will make its exclusive U.S. appearance at the Akron Art Museum.

Gauthier ingeniously transforms electrical cable, funnels, pulleys and other industrial and everyday objects into living, moving, singing organisms. His dynamic installations invoke the opposing forces of order and chaos, permanence and fragility. Each work invites the viewer to experience and interact with its visual, sound, and moving parts.

Among the works featured in the exhibition is Beats and Butterflies, a spectacular glistening piano that plays when viewers move through the room. Gauthier in fact views all of his materials as instruments. In Rut, motors, wires, microphones, mixing boards and amplifiers are set in motion to create mesmerizing rhythmic and auditory movements. The seemingly jumbled network of conduits is in fact a highly orchestrated mechanism that creates a multi-sensory experience of space and time.

Born in 1965 in Matane (Quebec Province), Gauthier has lived and worked in Montréal since 1986. Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play is comprised of artwork made from 2002 to the present.

Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry will be performing in Massillon, Ohio Saturday night the 21st on the historic Lincoln Theatre stage for the annual ArySyrcus event presented by The Ananda Center and Arts in Stark.

We will be performing new material live accompanied by our original motion visual art projected on the giant theatre screen. We will take the stage at 9:30pm.

The ArtSyrcus event begins at 6pm and will features a variety of performances, visual fine art on display, and screenings of short films throughout the various areas of the Lincoln theatre.

The Lincoln Theatre opened Tuesday, November 23, 1915.

lionslincolntheatre.com | www.theanandacenter.org | artsinstark.com

2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Groupe de Recherches Musicales, a French organization for research into sonology and electracoustic music. It was created by Pierre Schaeffer in 1958 as part of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française with François Bayle as its head (1966-1997).

Members of GRM consist of some of history’s greatest pioneers of sound. François Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, and Pierre Schaeffer just to name a few. If you are not familiar with these artist’s and their work we highly suggest you take some time to read about and listen to their work. They carved the path for today’s electracoustic music.

Please take a moment to visit http://www.artistswanted.org/jbible and vote on Jeremy Bible’s photographic work.

Our friends over at the german label Gruenrekorder have released their first issue of Field Notes magazine. The first issue - published in May 2008 - features six articles, written by Costa Gröhn, Tanja Hemm, Christoph Korn, Stefan Militzer, Marcus Obst (aka Dronæment) & Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American).
gruenrekorder.de/fieldnotes

http://event.electro-music.com/ August 14-16, 2008 Kingsport, Tennessee
Three days of experimental electronic music concerts, jam sessions, lectures, and demos.
“The Woodstock of electronic music” — Philadelphia Inquirer
electro-music 2008 is a three day conference/music festival to be held at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport,Tennessee, August 14 - 16, 2008. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts.
The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.

A track from Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry’s recent album ‘glare’ on the restingbell.net label is featured on the fantastic walkman podcast. walkman-podcast

We will be performing at and attending the Electro-Music 2008 festival being held this year in Kingsport, Tennesee August 14th-16th.

Electro-music 2008, a three day conference/music festival to be held at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport,Tennessee, August 14 - 16, 2008. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts.

The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.

electro-music 2008/

A new jeremybible.com site has been launched that features a nice interface which showcases his sound, photo, and video work.

Our album ‘glare’ is now available from restingbell.net
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry are two productive artists based in Canton, Ohio, an area of the United States referred to as ‘the rust belt’ due to its rapid industrial decline. Similar to their surroundings which contrast rural farmland against decaying industrial landscapes, the duo contrast various sounds and styles in ways that can be compared to the elegant and subtle color contrasts created by painters of fine abstract-expressionist art. Utilizing field recordings, found sounds, acoustic instrumentation and electronic soundscapes, their compositions take place in the wide field of musique concrete, experimental acoustic music, and electronic sound design.
“glare” is a huge piece of modern contemporary music. 5 tracks, about 60 minutes duration.From the first track, you can almost grab the intense and exciting spirit, being inherent in these pieces. Dark and gloomy melodies meet abstract glitches, lost radio frequencies, mysterious field recordings and other interferences. With all these ingredients, Jeremy and Jason create warm, nostalgic, and at times frightening scenery. It smells like old basements, dusty treasure chests, old physical instruments and yellowed pictures from your grandmother’s photo album. The duo’s growing catalog of “sound paintings”, each creating a new experience, will see release through a growing list of labels including Resting Bell, Gruenrekorder, Abgurd, Gears of Sand, and their own imprint, Experimedia.

We will be releasing two albums on Experimedia over the next two months.
vector [expcd003]
shpwrk [expcd005]

We will be performing at Art Displaced - October 25th 2008 - Massillon, Ohio | DETAILS HERE

We will be performing at Ingenuity Festival 2008 - Cleveland’s Annual Festival of Art & Technology
July 25th-27th 2008 Playhouse Square - Cleveland, Ohio
DETAILS HERE

Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry will be performing at NOTACON 5 @ Holiday Inn Select City Centre - Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday April 5th 2008 - 9:30pm
DETAILS HERE

A collaboration between ‘Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry‘ and the legendary ‘Illusion of Safety‘ is in the works. We will be starting off with some remote file passing here shortly. In the spring/summer 2008 we will meet up for a couple studio sessions and live performances which will then lead to the release of an album or two.

Our piano based album entitled ‘Vryashn’ will be released on CD by Gears of Sand in May08.

It was confirmed that two of our albums, Marker (pt1) and Magnet (pt2), which coincide with one another will be released on CD by German based label Gruenrekorder.

We will be contributing work to the fantastic Berlin based label Resting Bell to be released May 2008.

jeremy bible & jason henry - ound [abgurd ab55 - 2008]
Our album entitled ‘Ound’ will be released on Russian based label Abgurd.