Morgan Packard, Smirk, Joshue Ott, Ezekiel Honig
Morgan Packard will be joining us for special artist curated evening at Devotion Gallery. Featuring: Smirk, Joshue Ott, Ezekiel Honig, Morgan Packard
Saturday Jan 2nd from 7-10pm
$5 requested donation
BYOB
Images from Joshue Ott's SuperDraw Application
New York-based visualist Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisations, performed live and projected in large scale. Working from hand-drawn forms manipulated in real-time with superDraw, a software instrument of his own design, Ott composes evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance, delivered with an inescapably human touch. Supple yet digital, ephemeral but instantly memorable, Ott renders sound into vision, yielding an immersive multi-sensory experience that is at once immediate and synergistic, a unique visual narrative born in the moment.
Morgan Packard’s sound is rooted in a decade’s immersion in beat-based electronic music and informed by periods of intense study of jazz, western classical music, and computer programming. While his music may be wrangled into the minimal electronic category, he is actually eschewing minimal tropes in favor of highly wrought arrangements – fitting multiple sensibilities into music that could easily be mistaken for existing genres, though when explored carefully, hardly fits into any. Using the form of techno/house/breakbeat music as a beginning, not an end unto itself, Morgan arrives at a sound which manages to synthesize ideas from the worlds of electronics, jazz, and classical in a manner that has no hint of experimentation, but rather a purposeful, concrete rendering of his vision.
The structure of Morgan’s music begins with loop-based electronica. However he uses software of his own creation to subtly disrupt the “loopness” inherent in this form. Every iteration of a loop has incremental changes, which over time becomes something entirely different from its origin. The constantly shifting textures is due both to the software techniques employed and the hand guiding the results. Morgan carefully nudges the arrangements into music that pays homage to a host of techniques and styles that have come before it; taking those ideas and stretching them into new forms; adhering to select guidelines, while disregarding most.
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Photos of the evening are up here -->
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixperry/
Please post up any ones you might have. What a great night! Did anyone get some video?
/ Phoenix