23five Incorporated & Artists' Television Access present a night of avant-garde film, video, and sound:

Jefre Cantu & Paul Clipson
Grasslung & Matthew Swiezynski
Pulse Emitter & Matthew Swiezynski

Saturday August 8, 2009
8 PM
$6 - 10 sliding scale
ATA / Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street San Francisco, California
www.atasite.org

Jefre Cantu is a San Francisco based artist and musician. He is a founding member of Tarentel; and since 1995, he has recorded and toured in the US, Europe & Japan with the group. In 2004 he began the Root Strata label and has released recordings from a wide variety of musicians such as Grouper, Barn Owl, Machinefabriek, Gregg Kowalsky, and numerous others. http://www.rootstrata.com/

Paul Clipson has shown his films internationally in various galleries, festivals and performance venues in Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Russia, as well as throughout the U.S. and in the Bay Area, including at the Pacific Film Archive, the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, Artists Television Access, The Exploratorium and the San Francisco Art Institute. He works primarily in film, video and works on paper. Since 2003, Clipson has collaborated on film/music performances, documentaries and short films with sound/music artists such as Tarentel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Joshua Churchill, Robert Rich, Jim Haynes and Metal Rouge, projecting largely improvised in-camera edited experimental films employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro imagery, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms.

Grasslung is the project of Brooklyn based Jonas Asher with an emphasis on subtle palettes of sound, and minimal synthesis architecture, using mainly modular synthesizer, polyphonic synthesizer, effects and field recordings to invoke reflections of personal memories and melancholy atmospheres. Jonas Asher also operates the Phaserprone label with Jochen Hartman whom of which the two also collaborate in the project UW Owl.

Pulse Emitter is the project of Portland, Oregon programming master Daryl Groetsch and has recordings on labels such as Phaserprone, Black Horizons, Chondritic Sound, and Gameboy. He has performed in Europe, on the US East and West coasts, having played the No Fun Fest 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. "Over the years, Pulse Emitter0 has produced a fantastic variety of modular mayhem both turbulent and soothing, utilizing a bank of home-made synths and electronics. Deep space explorations worthy of Hawkwind, precise, controlled soundbombing akin to the most broken Throbbing Gristle moments" -- Brian Turner, WFMU

Matthew Swiezynski born Winchester Massachusetts, 1974, currently resides in Oakland California. Co-founder of the Invisible Birds label (with Diane Granahan) and creator and active contributor to The Art of Memory blog, each of which is devoted to research in the fields of music, film, art, photography and literature, dealing specifically with beauty, abstraction and minimalism. Mr. Swiezynski has been making films and videos since the mid 1990s. In the words of the film scholar Arthur de Eriomé, these works are an attempt at discovering, revealing, magnifiying and slowing down moments of beauty and the sublime not noticeable to the naked eye. His films have been shown in the United States, Mexico, Korea, and Canada, as well as Stanford University, Yale University School of Art, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and most recently distributed through the label Invisible Birds.

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Jason Kahn
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Jason Kahn
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