{"id":11307,"date":"2013-06-29T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=11307"},"modified":"2013-06-29T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T21:30:54","slug":"11307-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=11307","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Drums and Drones\u2028<\/span><\/strong>
\nBrian Chase with video by Erik Zajaceskowski and Ursula Scherrer<\/span>
\n\u2028admission $6 – artists in person\u2028<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\nDrums and Drones takes its name from what it is\u2028<\/span><\/em>
\n Aural snapshots of the tones of drums and percussion\u2028<\/span><\/em>
\n Suspended, the sonic image is deconstructed<\/span><\/em>
\n \u2028Its constituent frequencies isolated and exposed\u2028<\/span><\/em>
\n The individual makes the whole, and vice versa\u00a0<\/span><\/em>
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\n Vibrations of sound and vibrations of light\u2028<\/span><\/em>
\n Graphic drones in live projection\u2028<\/span><\/em>
\n Visual language decoded into the supra-verbal<\/span><\/em>
\n \u2028The elemental and objective isolated and exposed<\/span><\/em>
\n \u2028Sight and Sound for a “Drone State of Mind”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Microscope Gallery is pleased to present Drums and Drones<\/em>, which began as the solo project of drummer\/composer Brian Chase and has since grown to include video by Erik Zajaceskowski and Ursula Scherrer.\u00a0 Chase\u2019s initial inspiration was La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House installation in TriBeCa, NYC.<\/span>
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\nEmbedded within the natural tone of a drum is a complex array of frequencies. \u00a0Chase uses the principles of Just Intonation, a tuning system commonly referred to as ‘nature’s tuning system’ based on the naturally occurring overtone series. His music is very much focused on the properties of sound as physical vibrations and is structured accordingly.<\/span>
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\nIn February of this year, the debut Drums and Drones<\/em> album was released on Pogus Productions.\u00a0 The album is both a cd and dvd with the dvd featuring videos by Ursula Scherrer and Erik Zajaceskowski. Over the years, Ursula and Erik\u2019s live video projection accompanied live performances of Drums and Drones and became an important component to the experience.\u00a0 Recent performances\/viewings of Drums and Drones have been at Phil Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia courtesy of Katherine Liberovskaya, David Linton’s distENDed cinema, and La Sala in Williamsburg courtesy of Jeanann Dara.<\/span>
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\n Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY.\u00a0 Having grown up on Long Island he later earned a Bachelors of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory outside of Cleveland, OH.\u00a0 Brian is probably best known as the drummer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs.\u00a0 Active on the NYC experimental\/improvised music scene, regular collaborators have included Alan Licht, Robbie Lee, David First, Jeremiah Cymerman, Jessica Pavone, plus many more. Website: www.chasebrian.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>
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\nErik Zajaceskowski runs the Secret Project Robot gallery and performance space in Bushwick, along with Rachel Nelson. His live visuals have fueled countless events and performances, particularly for shows by Oneida, Black Dice, and many more, while simultaneously developing a distinct aesthetic of the DIY\/found object mixed with a playful (and often hypnotic) abstraction. <\/span>Website: www.secretprojectrobot.org<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>
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\nUrsula Scherrer is an internationally recognized video and installation artist.\u00a0 Based in New York City, her solo video pieces have taken her across the world, having presented widely throughout Europe and recently in South Korea.\u00a0 As a performance video artist, collaborations have included those with notable musicians such as Shelley Hirsch, David Watson, Kato Hideki, and Flo Kaufmann.\u00a0 Her style captures a sense of the fleeting, appreciation without attachment.\u00a0 In the spontaneity of creation, shapes take their form and just as quickly morph into something else. Website: www.ursulascherrer.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>
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\nStill from Bass Drum Drone, by Ursula Scherrer (image copyright and courtesy of the artist)
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\nStill from Drone State of Mind, by Erik Zajaceskowski (image copyright and courtesy of the artist)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday July 6, 7pm\u2028 Drums and Drones\u2028 Brian Chase with video by Erik Zajaceskowski and Ursula Scherrer \u2028admission $6 – artists in person\u2028 Drums and Drones takes its name from what it is\u2028 Aural snapshots of the tones of drums and percussion\u2028 Suspended, the sonic image is deconstructed \u2028Its constituent frequencies isolated and exposed\u2028 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11324,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11307\/revisions\/11324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}