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16/7/2004

The Swinging Chandeliers

Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles

Performance Art and Experimental Music Night
at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2004

The Swinging Chandeliers, Drew Schnurr, and Ken Okuno
at Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles's New Venue for Performance Art and Experimental Music and Film

Los Angeles, CA, July 3, 2004 - We don't have chandeliers hanging at Dangerous Curve, Downtown Los Angeles's new experimental art space, but we've got blow-up blimps! Looking for an event that will stoke your brain with the illest experimental music and performance art in the midst of a rad installation? Come to our next Performance Art and Experimental Music Night, at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2004. We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts (#102).

The lineup this time includes The Swinging Chandeliers, the duo of master tape loop artist Joseph Hammer and artist/hypnotist Sayo Mitsuishi, plus the brilliant experimental bassist Drew Schnurr, and veteran musician/poet Ken Okuno. We request a modest $5.00 donation (that's split entirely among the acts), for which you get plenty of close, free parking and free refreshments. The evening coincides with the last week of Karyl Newman's lyrical and probing pneumatic blimp installation "Hangar."

The Swinging Chandeliers is the duo Joseph Hammer and Sayo Mitsuishi. The latter, an artist/hypnotist, draws live to Joseph's tape loops on an overhead projector. She uses both hands simultaneously, ambidextrously achieving an uncanny symmetry that's more about intricate body gesture rather than representation.

Joseph Hammer is a respected tape-loop Meister, altering his cycles seamlessly, morphing them organically rather than metrically. The effect is natural, not forced:
"Unlike many people's art loops but like all real-life loops, Hammer's are always changing - sources and lengths of sample altered, cycles often completed at irregular intervals."
--Greg Berk, L.A. Weekly

This is the mark of a true master, as Cage is the master of even his silences. Both musicians obey natural laws. The effect is timeless and completely absorbing, "focusing on the way recorded sounds (instrumental, electronic and found) move around in your headspace." (Berk again.) Yeah, we got that swing.

Drew Schnurr, an experimental bassist who has already wowed our opening goers with his "indescribable sounds," is the founder and owner of Domain Productions, and the new music movement DEUSoNICA. Drew lives and works in the San Fernando Building of Los Angeles's Old Bank District. He is an accomplished composer and sound designer, with work featured on various television networks and in select national performance venues. Drew is currently working on, among several other things, an album project with Esperanza (a singer who has reduced many of our opening goers to tears with her stunning voice). He was recently comissioned by the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company to compose music for both of their new works. Currently, Drew is collaborating with a select group of Downtown Los Angeles visual artists on an innovative CD/DVD media project.

Ken Okuno, musician, poet, novelist, has performed experimental music and poetry nationally to appreciative audiences, and has played original rock at such venues as The Gig Hollywood, The Joint, and The Tempest. He's the author of "Mambo Boy," a novel and "Earth Trout," a poetry collection. Ken will be mixing extended poetry and one or more musical instruments in his own inimitable way.

Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person exhibitions of risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor currently popular. Also, in a time when other spaces have reduced their performance art programming, Dangerous Curve is a new venue for performance artists, with an emphasis on performance installations, and regular performance art events. An annual performance art festival is planned for the future.

Contact: Tim Quinn or Kathryn Hargreaves 213-617-8483

Dangerous Curve
1020 Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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