Text of Light and Voices and Echoes in Houston

From Houston’s Nameless Sound:

Text of Light
Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex
2201 Preston Street, Houston

Co-presented with Aurora Picture Show as part of the 9th annual Media Archaeology Festival

Tim Barnes (Louisville): drums
Ulrich Krieger (Los Angeles): saxophone, electronics
Alan Licht (New York): guitar
Lee Ranaldo (New York): guitar

$15 General Admission / $10 APS & NS members

Everyone under 18 gets in for free (pending availability).
For information call 713-928-5653

Nameless Sound opens its season with a special engagement by
Text of Light improvising to the films of Stan Brakhage, a hero of America’s mid-century cinematic avant-garde. “Our view is that the music and the film are two events happening simultaneously,” says Lee Ranaldo, also a member of the venerated experimental rock group Sonic Youth. As such, Text of Light does not perform soundtracks. Rather, the group uses the film as a further element to fuel their improvisation, with the resulting juxtaposition being a real-time, mixed media collage. Any of the Text of Light members may or may not be viewing the films as they unspool, and may or may not be reacting to the sounds of any of the other performers. The Stan Brakhage films featured in this program are Mammals of Victoria, Beautiful Funerals, and Aftermath.

Voices and Echoes
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 8:00 pm
14 Pews, 800 Aurora Street, Houston

Akio Suzuki (Japan): handmade instruments
Otomo Yoshihide (Japan): guitar, turntables
Gozo Yoshimazu (Japan): voice, video projections

$13 General Admission / $10 with student ID
Everyone under 18 gets in for free!
For information call 713-928-5653

Curated by sound artist Aki Onda, Voices and Echoes presents three pioneering figures from the overlapping worlds of Japanese performance art, video, poetry, and electro-acoustic improvisation. Akio Suzuki is a shamanic presence known for performing with natural materials and handmade instruments, often in remote locations. Gozo Yoshimasu is a migrant visionary who combines readings of his colorfully calligraphed poems with original video projections. Yoshimasu will read with the sonic accompaniment of guitarist and turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, an early proponent of sampling technology who is widely considered to be one of his generations most significant musical re-structuralists.