[Af_List] Fwd: Jason Kahn and Richard Francis 21st Sep

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> Jason Kahn
> Richard Francis
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> Solos + collaboration performance
>
> Saturday 22nd September, 2007
> Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street
> 8pm doors, 8:20pm start
> $7
>
> ***Jason Kahn artist talk at Gus Fisher Gallery on Friday 21st  
> September, 5:30pm, free***
>
> (brought to you in association with Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts  
> Council and Alt Music)
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> Jason Kahn
> www.jasonkahn.net
>
> Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich. His work  
> includes drawing, sound installation, performance and composition.  
> He was born in New York, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to  
> Europe in 1990.
>
> Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late  
> 1990's, and has had solo and group exhibitions internationally,  
> including museums, galleries and arts spaces in the USA, Canada,  
> France, Croatia, Germany, Argentina, Egypt, Poland, Switzerland,  
> Denmark, Austria and Spain.
>
> Kahn has performed both solo and in collaboration with numerous  
> other musicians worldwide, including Tetuzi Akiyama, Kim Cascone,  
> Dieb13, Arnold Dreyblatt, Kevin Drumm, Erik M, John Hudak, Brandon  
> Labelle, Jason Lescalleet, Christian Marclay, Norbert Möslang,  
> David Moss, Günter Müller, Jon Mueller, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko  
> M, Sainkho Namtchylak, Evan Parker, Steve Roden, Taku Sugimoto and  
> Otomo Yoshihide and many others.
>
> Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live  
> electronics into his playing. He currently performs with different  
> combinations of percussion, analogue synthesizer or computer.
>
> As a composer, Kahn's work draws on electronic and acoustic sound  
> sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a  
> sense of timelessness. His work addresses the entity of sound as  
> both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness.
>
> Kahn's sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness  
> through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to  
> other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space.
>
> Kahn's sound work has been published on Cut, the CD label he  
> founded in 1997, as well as Sirr, For4Ears, Brombron, Rossbin,  
> Antifrost, Domizil, ATAK, Table of the Elements, Creative Source,  
> Formed, Longbox Recordings, Crouton and numerous others.
>
> Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs  
> throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Korea, Israel,  
> Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt and Australia.
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> Richard Francis
> www.midstreams.net
>
> Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel) has been active as an experimental  
> sound artist since 1996 and has featured on 40 CD and vinyl record  
> releases to date. His work over the years has explored different  
> techniques of sound generation and processing, with a focus on the  
> recording and digital manipulation of sounds from the surrounding  
> environment.
>
> He has released solo and collaborative sound works on labels such  
> as Drone Records (Germany), Stateart (Germany), Absurd (Greece) and  
> Scarcelight (USA). He currently operates CMR, a record label  
> through which he publishes experimental music works by NZ and  
> international artists distributing titles via a network through  
> Europe, USA, and Asia.
>
> As a performing artist he has toured in Japan, Australia, Hong  
> Kong, New Zealand, Canada and the US. From 2003-2006 Francis  
> operated ACROMA (along with Rosy Parlane), an organization that  
> coordinated a number of live experimental music events in Auckland  
> hosting local and visiting experimental sound artists.
>
> He has collaborated for recording and/or performance with MSBR  
> (Japan), Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), Empirical (NZ), Tetuzi Akiyama  
> (Japan), Gate (NZ), Mattin (Basque Country), Lawrence English  
> (Australia), Greg Headley (USA), Pumice (NZ), Whitebass/Clinton  
> Watkins (NZ), Rosy Parlane (NZ), Howard Stelzer (USA), Kuwayama  
> Kiyoharu (Japan), Phil Dadson (NZ), Joel Stern (Australia), Sean  
> Kerr (NZ), Andrew Clifford (NZ), Anthony Guerra (Australia), Sean  
> Meehan (USA), Antony Milton (NZ), James Kirk (NZ), MHFS (NZ), Tim  
> Coster (NZ), Paul Winstanley (NZ), Ishigami Kazuya (Japan),  
> Takefumi Naoshima (Japan), Toshihiro Koike (Japan), Jason  
> Lescalleet (USA), Jay Sullivan (USA).
>
> This show coincides with the release of a new solo CD entitled  
> 'Together alone, together apart'. These sound works explore  
> combinations of location recordings from indoor and outdoor spaces,  
> the handling of fabric, wood and plastic, self noise generated by  
> home stereo amplifiers, loudspeakers and record players.
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