Soundings

An evening of event-based works by artists who generate structure from musical scores in the tradition of John Cage, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art.

Sean Griffin: "Triangle of Need" and "the Chittendons" — Video excerpts from two collaborative works with Catherine Sullivan

Rui Costa: "La Scatola" — Live electo-acoustic work

Maile Colbert: "Transit" — Live sound to video piece

Each artist will present for approximately 40 minutes followed by a question and answer session.

Composer and interdisciplinary artist Sean Griffin lives and works in Los Angeles. He has developed compositional and interdisciplinary methodologies positioned at the intersection of sound and performance. Many of Griffin's recent works explore ambiguities of interdisciplinary incongruity, such as: writing a musical piece for movements alone or scripting musicians as one would an actor. Griffin is a longtime collaborator with Catherine Sullivan and has developed new works with artists such as Ron Athey, Edgar Arceneaux, and Charles Gaines. His works have been presented by London's Tate Modern, the Taipei City Arts Festival, Centre Pompidou, Berlin's Volksbühne, Secession Vienna, the Festival d'Avignon, the Armand Hammer Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Biennial of American Art 2004, and June in Buffalo.

Rui Costa is a new media artist from Lisbon, Portugal. He is a founding member and artistic director of Binaural, an organization dedicated to the promotion of sound and media arts, in particular its articulation with local contexts. Between 2004 and 2005, Rui Costa developed a series of sound works commissioned by Granular, in which he focused on the translation to the sonic domain of other realities such as the tourist's experience of Lisbon ("Sightseeing for the Blind") and an account of a train trip ("Le Train de Bordeaux", based on a short story by Marguerite Duras). He has performed in many venues and sound art festivals in Portugal and Spain, including Con-Mutaciones, in Zaragoza, Musica Ex Machina, in Bilbao, Experimenta, in Salamanca.

Maile Colbert is a filmmaker, video, and sound artist currently living between Lisbon, Portugal and Los Angeles, California. She has exhibited widely in the US including The New York Film Festival, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has also performed in Japan, Mexico, and Spain at festivals such as: the Störung Festival in Barcelona, the Teatra Municipal in Guarda, the Observitori Festival in Valencia. She is currently working on a new release with Tellemake, an experimental opera on millennialism and apocalyptic thought and theory. Additionally she has worked on projects with Rebecca Baron, Adele Horne, and Alan Sekula as sound designer.