2 July 2004 Doors: 10PM / $15.00
at Volume / 99 North 13 th St., Williamsburg / 718.388.3588 / www.volume.tv
L Train to Bedford Avenue / Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan
Saul Melman, Projectile Arts and Volume present a night of music and dancing amidst massive inflatable art installations. Many of the featured performers and artists at this event are fine-tuning their crafts before packing up and heading out to the Nevada desert for Burning Man 2004. **Performances by Globesonic (DJs/Dancers/Video), Lorin, Marcos Cabral(Trapez), Nat Rahav, Tangent,
Sneak-E Pete & Scottie B, Wolf and Lamb , Seej & Vestibule (video)… ** Large-scale inflatable art by Saul Melman, Anakin Koenig, Dennis Del Zotto, Fake-Air and Alejandra Airaldi .
MUSIC AND DANCE:
- Globesonic: DJ collective weaves the music of the ancients with a modern sensibility, reaching into the past to create the future. Globesonic DJs combine with the Shakti Spirit Dancers in a journey of healing. Shamanic Ritual, Improvisation, Modern Dance and Yoga form a sacred space where union with the divine takes place, where ecstasy is experienced! www.globesonic.com
- Lorin (BassNectar): A huge wave of deep, thick beats; ancient, hypnotic rhythms; warbling bass with patterned movement inside it; haunting sound textures trigger archetypal, emotional responses. www.bassnectar.net
- Nat Rahav: blends urban dance music with various traditions of improvised and folk music from around the world including Africa's rhythms, the modes of the East, and house music's energetic pulse.
- Tangent(UK): With his artist visa recently granted English born Tangent is currently taking the US by storm, touring extensively whilst co producing & signing the US breakbeat elite. Many have described this DJ to have break sets with the same warped rave ingredients that can be found on the "best drum and bass".
www.djtangent.com www.666records.co.uk www.spongerecords.co.uk
- Sneak-E Pete and Scottie B spin everything from downtempo, dub, electro and house. www.BluntedFunk.com
- Wolf and Lamb: music that embraces basslines that work side to side with punchy beats and gentle melodies providing eloquent cascading nights of dance and symmetry. www.wolflambmusic.com
ART INSTALLATIONS:
- Saul Melman: is a Brooklyn based artist whose work focuses on interactive public sculpture. His current work-in-progress called ‘Jadu Beta' is a large scale inflatable sculpture conceptually influenced by fractal imagery and cellular biology. The 250-foot long sculpture has been commissioned by Burning Man for installation on the Black Rock Desert at the festival in Nevada this September. A portion of ‘Jadu Beta', including its interactive sound component will be
be exhibited at Volume. www.saulmelman.com
- Anakin Koenig Airways: A radiant object, part meteorite, part spaceship, crash-landed in Volume. www.akairways.com
- Alejandar Airaldi: a designer and installation artist. Her architectural and fine arts backgrounds are reflected in her environment and unique design objects, when combined create an enhancing sensorial experience.
- Dennis Del Zotto: His large indoor environments, plastic tunnels, rooms, caverns, and sprawling labyrinths were a fixture of the nightlife and installation art scene in New York in the 1990s.
- Fake-Air : 20,000 cubic ft. black walk-in environment with a sunken living room and tubular video display.
Volume is Williamsburg's newest social playground,a full-on experiment in nitelife, entertainment and recreation. www.volume.tv |