Incredible! There's so much stuff going on this weekend....
Asdf Semicolon - Terry Riley's In C, Darmstadt
Thursday, Nov 29, 8pm ($5)
Galapagos Art Space, 70 N. 6th St, Brooklyn
"Darmstadt, the Classics of the Avant-Garde performance series at Galapagos, celebrates its third anniversary with a 2nd annual performance of Terry Riley's seminal classic "In C". Join hosts Zach Layton and Nick Hallett for DARMSTADT "Classics of the Avant Garde" as we observe our now-annual tradition of performing In C along with an "all-star" ensemble of instrumentalists, singers, electronic sound artists, and visualists. This is by no means a "traditional" interpretation of Terry Riley's 1964 work."
CMC Fün Night
Thursday, Nov 29, 8pm
3rd floor, Prentis Hall, 632 West 125th St
"The Computer Music Center at Columbia University presents Fün Night, our almost monthly concert series of live electronic music. This month we present the multichannel improvisations of Richard Garet, Brooklyn's electro-acoustic improv trio We are Building, and back from his recent northeast tour, New Jersey's Seth Cluett."
Prime Produce and Performance Lab Series Joint Launch Party
9pm - 6am, Thurs Nov 29 - Fri Nov 30, $10 cover
LAUNCH PARTY for Performance Lab Series with Prime Produce
Featuring Anton Glamb & DJ Krunk Pony
"Performance Lab Series launches this fall, aiming to take performance beyond medium specificity and towards an open multimedia strategy for at making. Prime Produce is a new york based npo that produces innovative solutions for the nonprofit sector."
Blip Festival
Thursday - Sunday, Nov 29 - Dec 2, noon - 7pmish, $10
Eyebeam, 540 w21th st
"Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event. Focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character."
Tranzducer.011
Friday, Nov 30, 8 - 11pm, $5
LEMURplex, 461 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn
"Richard Lainhart will be performing with incredible rig of vintage analog electronic gear, Moldover with customized software and computer controllers, and Rui Pereira using his interface Looop-r."Never been - always meant to.
Los Campesinos!
Friday, Nov 30, 8pm
The band that reminds me of DFW's Infinite Jest. Mmmm.
New Museum!
Saturday, Dec 1
235 Bower
The New Museum opens! They're offering 30 hours of continuous free admission! Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is having a solo exhibition!!
B I T M A P: as good as new
Fri/Sat/Sundays 1 - 6pm, until Feb 3, 2008
VertexList gallery, 138 Bayard St., Brooklyn
"B I T M A P is a group exhibition celebrating the history of the digital image, the aesthetics of early computing and early video-game consoles. Expect pixels, old monitors and 8 bit sounds!"