Ichiigai: audio art from Karlsruhe, Germany :: August 25, 2009; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602, New York City.

Ichiigai (“not one”) is an experimental audio-art collective which has been exploring a fusion of sound, music, video and art since 2004. Ichiigai is also an artist-run label based in and supported by the State University for Arts and Design (HFG) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Eleven artists from the collective will visit New York City for three performances between 24–31 August 2009. Show concepts have been hand-crafted to suit the venues. At stake: the role and categorization of entertainment, the value of seriousness, multi-media, improvisation, technique, presence, temporality, and sensibility … in general, and in music and art. For complete details visit http://www.ichiigai.net

After Harvestworks:

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: ichiigai, the German label for experimental audio and visual art, will kick off the open jams series Share with a one hour performance that will take you to the edge of improvisation, composition, interactivity, and communication. The collective will perform as a whole, mixing in solos, the audience and the project environment in the process. Sunday, 30 August 2009, 8:00-9:00 PM. at Issue Project Room, 232 3rd St, Brooklyn. Admission: free

MONKEY TOWN:The final show of the supreme audio art collective ichiigai. The audience will be submerged in a barrage of sonic sophistication as the collective members wrangle a pack of four projectors and half a dozen active speakers. Over two hours of high quality audio and video experiments ranging from cognizant reflections on Dasein, to noisy confrontations of your conceptions. Monday, 31 August 2009, 8:00-10:45 PM at Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd St (btwn. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Admission: $8.50