Rite Ways (work in progress) :: Angie Eng — Concept /Video, Thierry Madiot — Tubes, trombone,and Satoshi Takeishi — percussion :: June 9, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Roulette Intermedium @ Location One , 20 Greene St, NYC (between Canal and Grand), NYC.

Experimental video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with a new work in progress, Rite Ways with Thierry Madiot, master of breath and wind, inventor of instruments, trombonist who fuses improvised and contemporary music and special guest Satoshi Takeishi on percussion.

Rite Ways is a series of cinepoems based on the theme of rites of passage including pieces: Book of Light, Liminal, Passage and Ancestors. In these works Eng returns to methods of the early experimentalists, who approached cinema as a tool for magic. With a strong marriage between image and sound, she combines low-fi (hand gesture, quotidian object, shadow play) with hi-fi (computer processing, digital effects). Video and music are regarded as a dialogue as well as separate elements that freely interpret the theme independent of their counterpart. Eng manipulates small objects: rocks, miniature religious books, thread, music scroll, sticks, and lingums in front of a camera while mixing footage of indigenous people, rituals and archival footage. Madiot uses compressed air and blows into 15-foot collapsible silicon tubes, conch shells, rubber tubes and balloons. However, he may also include more conventional instruments: the trombone or trumpet.

Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance. In 1993 she moved to New York City and became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene with The Poool a live video performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999. She has collaborated with artists/musicians: Ron Anderson, Vincent Epplay, Yuko Fujiyama, Jon Giles, Andy Grayton, Jason Kao Hwang, Simon Hostettler, Jessica Higgins, Hoppy Kamiyama, Gabriel Latessa, Zach Layton, Jarryd Lowder, Thierry Madiot, Matthew Ostrowski, Jean Jacques Palix, Zeena Parkins, Ludovic Poulet, Liminal Projects, Kyoko Kitamura, Okkyung Lee, David Linton, Geoff Matters, Ikue Mori, Karine Saporta, Jane Scarpantoni, Peter Scherer, Jim Staley, Satoshi Takeishi, Yumiko Tanaka, Keiko Uenishi, Nancy Meli Walker , David Weinstein. Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Experimental Intermedia, and Roulette. She has received numerous grants and commissions: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts, Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV Center. She recently relocated to Paris in 2008.

Thierry Madiot (Paris) is a French sound artist trained as a trombonist who extends the boundaries of wind instruments, including: 30 feet telescopic tubes, digeridoo, balloons, plastic tubing, attached to an air compressor. He makes sound installations as well as ‘sound massages’ collaborating with dancers and improvisation musicians.

He has Improvised and composed Music with or without texts, images, dance, in solo or with for ea those musicians and artists: Frédéric Acquaviva, Sophie Agnel, Noël Akchoté, SteveArguelles, Didier Aschour, Derek Bailey, Richard Barrett, Pascal Battus, Claude Barthelemy, ChristophBaumann, Olivier Benoit, Frédéric Blondy, Jaap Blonk, Pierre Boesflug, Raymond Boni, Hélène Breschand,Hans Burgener, Don Byron, Jean-François Canape, Mathieu Chamagne, Fabrice, Laurent et Xavier Charles,Denis Charolles, Bruno Chevillon, Denis Colin, François Corneloup, Pablo Cueco, Roland Dahinden, LaurentDehors, Benoit Delbecq, Caroline Delume, Axel Dörner, Quentin Dubost, Marc Ducret, Daniel Erdmann, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Esther Ferrer, Alexander Frangenheim, Stéphane Garin, Anne Garrigues, OlivierGelpe, Christian Germain, François Guell, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Olivia Grandville, Kamal Hamadache, GünterHeinz, Jean-Pierre Jullian, Kristoff Kroll, Franck Lambert, Daunik Lazro, Le Quan Ninh, Urs Leimgruber, DidierLevallet, George E Lewis, Joëlle Léandre, Ramon Lopez, Kamel Maad, Alain Mahé, Jean-Michel Marchetti,Lionel Marchetti, Jim Meneses, Phil Minton, Yanik Miossec, Jean-Marc Montera, Ikue Mori, Seijiro Murayama,Theo Nabicht, Michael Nick, Jérôme Noetinger, Annick Nozati, Stéphane Oliva, Guillaume Orti, Evan Parker,Didier Petit, Emmanuel Petit, Ulrich Philipp, Dominique Répécaud, Margritt Rieben, Stéphane Rives, Jean-Pierre Robert, Yves Robert, Carol Robinson, Felix Rückert, Joël Ryan, Camel Zekri, Alexander vonSchlippenbach, Jacques Siron, Alfred Spirli, Claude Tchamitchian, Patricio Villaroël, Bert Wrede, CarlosZingaro

Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. In Columbia, he combined traditional, jazz and classical music with composer Francisco Zumaque. In 1987 he produced “Morning Ride” for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. In NYC since 1991, he has collaborated with: Ray Barretto, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Erik Friedlander and Pablo Ziegler. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.

This event was supported by Experimental Television Center Presentation Funds which is funded in part by New York State Council on the Arts.