DISK Session #14: JAMIE DROUIN & DEREK HOLZER
// Date: Wed. June 27, 2007 // Time: 9 pm   Sound- and av-performances by Jamie Drouin, Vancouver Island, and Derek Holzer, Utrecht /Berlin.   Jamie Drouin The work of Canadian sound and multimedia artist Jamie Drouin (born 1970) explores the subtleties of experience, with a specific interest in the way audio can dramatically alter perceptions of both physical and temporal space. Incorporating photography, video, field recordings, guitar and synthesized sounds, Drouin’s works create intricately detailed patterns and textures which, while retaining references to corporeal sources, seek to expand and transform audience perceptions of familiar habitat. Jamie Drouin prefers to perform in spaces unusual to music performances – like art galleries, project spaces, museums and the like. His recent works use recordings of the space itself as a sonic point of departure. Next to live sound performances Drouin's work encompasses sound installations, video pieces and photography.   Drouin has collaborated with the Canadian audio-visual artists Skoltz Kolgen, Yann Novak, Lance Olsen and others. He has exhibited and performed amongst other places at MUTEK festival 2007, Decibel festival in Seattle, the Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Leica Gallery in Tokyo.   Jamie Drouin runs his own music label Infrequency Records, where he has published his own work and those of fellow artists Thomas Jirku, Yann Novak and Lance Olsen.   > www.jamiedrouin.com > www.infrequency.org     Derek Holzer Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl. For CTM.05 Holzer initiated the project 33/99 RECORDS in collaboration with Jan Zimmermann and Sara Kolster. He is a requested lecturer on the Pure Data programming environment. Currently he works on his project "Particle Chamber" which involves research on new interfaces and software to controll field-recordings by a spatial set-up of theremin controllers.   Holzer has performed live improvised electronic music in many venues and festivals in Europe, the US and Brasil including FILE (Sao Paulo, BR), WRO (Wroclaw, PL), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht, NL), Garage (Stralsund, DE), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, SCG), BEK (Bergen, NO), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), RAM6 (Vilnius, LT), Arts+Communication (Riga, LV), Kuda.org (Novi Sad, SCG), Earational Festival (S'Hertogenbosch, NL), Medienturm (Graz, AT), Kunstraum (Innsbruck, AT), Art Museum of Nantes (Nantes, FR), Montevideo (Amsterdam, NL), Kraakgeluiden (Amsterdam, NL), Denver University (Denver, USA) and others.   > www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html	> June 27, 2007
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