Saturday June 12 2010 - The Music Gallery, Wavelength & Vague Terrain present: William Basinski & Neil Wiernik Info on our feature artists: William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in NYC. His haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life, resounding with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic four-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops, received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork Media. Art Forum selected The River, his transcendental two-disc shortwave music experiment on Raster-Noton, Germany as one of the top ten albums of 2003. His concerts and installations and films made in collaboration with artist-filmmaker James Elaine have been presented internationally, most recently at The Venice Biennale of Music, Happy New Ears Festival (Belgium), FOCUS ONE Festival (Poland), Filosophia Festival (Carpi, Italy), and Cite de la Musique (Paris), among others. Basinski's latest albums, 92982 and Vivian & Ondine were released in 2009 on 2062/USA and distributed internationally. The Wire magazine selected 92982 as one of the top 50 releases of 2009. Neil Wiernik is a Montreal-born audio contortionist, musician and sound designer presently living and working in Toronto. Neil has composed and performed his works since the late 1980s. His projects and mediums of expression have varied and include works for installation, dance, performance, stage, radio, multi-channel speaker systems, Internet diffusion, interactive technologies and various types of recorded media. He has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and the Music Gallery, to name a few. Neil is concerned with various types of storytelling, using abstract environments and spaces to do so. Often the development of these narratives involves the creation of custom tools or subversion of existing ones. When Neil is not preoccupied with his own solo or collaborative projects (naw, whisper room) he is the co-managing editor of Vague Terrain and sits on the board of directors for MusicWorks magazine. |
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