Sound Installation Pioneer Liz Phillips' BIYUU featuring Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds

Interactive Sound Installation Art Pioneer
Liz Phillips "Biyuu"
Featuring Butoh Dancer, Mariko Endo Reynolds
Saturday, June 2 & Sunday, June 3, 8pm, 2012

Admission : $15
Students/Seniors/Members : $10
Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368

Brooklyn, NY: June 2, Roulette presents an enchanting, intense evening of sound and movement presented by pioneer sound and video artist Liz Phillips, with movement performed by professional Butoh dancer, Mariko Endo Reynolds. Phillips and Reynolds have worked together to produce this energetic, original work titled “Biyuu” an exploration into the body electric, ground, potential energy fields and radical events in nature. The culmination of their work has resulted in a beautiful, delicate, visceral audio and visual feast for the audience as these two incredible artists fuse together their undeniable talents and inspirations.

“Biyuu” is a Japanese word which mimics the sound of bamboo bending in the wind, that sound is the base suggestion for the entire piece. On stage Mariko’s body will become an antenna as she shifts shape, moving near ground and reaching out. Her body will act as a conductor and the space around her will be activated, responding in sound and light changes. Liz will translate, transpose and shift spectrums, activating water, sound and color formations as projections fall on coil forms that hold translucent paper scrims. The paper will act sometimes as the loudspeaker, at other times as a sensor. As Mariko performs, she will move the coils and a weather balloon to capture images and transform the stage. Seen and unseen waves of water, sub audio, audio, radio frequency, ultrasonic and light will become tactile material as Liz creates a hypersensitive 3-d sound and video installation which reinvents the performance landscape.

About Liz Phillips
New York-based artist Liz Phillips has been making interactive multi-media installations for the past 30 years, which combine audio and visual art forms with new technologies to create a fascinating interactive experience. Born in New Jersey in 1951, Phillips received a B.A from Bennington College in 1973. In 1981, she co-founded Parabola Arts Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created by five media artists from varied disciplines (music, sculpture, film, video) which provides funding for art-related projects. Phillips has made and exhibited interactive sound and multimedia installations at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals, and public spaces. These include The Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Walker Art Museum, Ars Electronica, Jacob?s Pillow, The Kitchen, and Creative Time, among others. Phillips has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and her work was presented by the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM Japan, and the World Financial Center.

About Mariko Endo Reynolds
Mariko Endo Reynolds is a professional Japanese Butoh Dancer. She trained with the legendary performer Akira Kasai, one of the co-founders of the Butoh movement. She has toured Japan and the United States as a principal dancer in one of Japan’s representative Butoh companies, Dairakudakan. In addition to her foundation of dance, she has studied psychoanalysis and energy healing and that influences her approach to dance as a sculpture of consciousness.

About Roulette
Roulette – one of New York City’s premiere venues for experimental music for over 33 years - has reopened bigger and better than ever. Located in a newly renovated 1920s Art Deco concert hall in Downtown Brooklyn, the new Roulette features two levels of seating for up to 400 people (600 standing), an expanded multi-channel sound system, projection screen for film and multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and a specially designed floor to accommodate dance. Teamed with bold new programming, the new Roulette promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City - if not the country - to experience adventurous music and art.

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