Therefore, The End
One weekend in Lewisburg, PA thirteen years ago still haunts me today...
I will be in town this weekend coming, and I'd love to see you fellows. The occasion in question is my old pal Wayne's noise band's final performance, a 12 hour ordeal from noon to midnite in Brooklyn at an art gallery type place (details below). The avant-boys of Therefore have always encouraged coming and going throughout a performance, and liken their work to any other long shift work day where listeners may come and go, taking in what they please. This offers us, gentlemen, some time to hear some strangeness together as well as go out for food and drink while sharing thoughts on love and war and music as well as past and future exploits we have partaken and harbored for just such an overdue opportunity to share with those who matter, us. And so, I propose a toast, this Friday at some joint in Brooklyn. What do you say?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12 HOUR PERFORMANCE BY EXPLORATORY SOUND ART DUO "THEREFORE"
April 28, 2006 - Noon to Midnight
Brooklyn Fire Proof
101 Richardson St.
Brooklyn NY 11211
718.302.4702
http://www.brooklynfireproof.com
Admission Free
After nine years of truly unconventional collaboration, Wayne S Feldman and Michael Kaufmann of the art/music duo Therefore are calling it quits. Not only are they ending the band, they are completing wiping the slate. During the 12 hour final performance at the Brooklyn Fireproof performance space, the two will be selling all of their instruments and equipment. Whatever does not sell will be pawned or destroyed the following day.
The performance coincides with the release of their last recording, "The Bomb Grant", available through the Long Beach, California based Sounds Are Active label. This last document is an audio collage constructed during the process of purging both members' hard drives of all remaining sound files and related data.
After 9 years in operation, Therefore continues to incorporate elements of punk, progressive economics, and sonic graffiti, to analyze the production and distribution of goods and services of art/music in its various guises. The scope of Therefore's productivity in the last decade includes guerrilla and institutional performances, installations (physical, virtual and conceptual), compositions, and lectures. These include the distribution of 400 plus one-of-a-kind releases (given away on streets, in schools, and malls), several 8 hour performances, 22 and 30 hour continuous performances, and collaborative works for dance, theatre, film and video.
Therefore's approach to music and art is calculated yet improvisational, meditative yet simultaneously anxiety-infused. The physical composition of space and conscious movement through that space positions Therefore in a broader artistic tradition. This is not the noise of youth rebellion or art-damaged power electronics, it is a poetic and painterly cohabitation of the space of music, art and the everyday.
See also: Therefore on Mp3it
I will be in town this weekend coming, and I'd love to see you fellows. The occasion in question is my old pal Wayne's noise band's final performance, a 12 hour ordeal from noon to midnite in Brooklyn at an art gallery type place (details below). The avant-boys of Therefore have always encouraged coming and going throughout a performance, and liken their work to any other long shift work day where listeners may come and go, taking in what they please. This offers us, gentlemen, some time to hear some strangeness together as well as go out for food and drink while sharing thoughts on love and war and music as well as past and future exploits we have partaken and harbored for just such an overdue opportunity to share with those who matter, us. And so, I propose a toast, this Friday at some joint in Brooklyn. What do you say?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12 HOUR PERFORMANCE BY EXPLORATORY SOUND ART DUO "THEREFORE"
April 28, 2006 - Noon to Midnight
Brooklyn Fire Proof
101 Richardson St.
Brooklyn NY 11211
718.302.4702
http://www.brooklynfireproof.com
Admission Free
After nine years of truly unconventional collaboration, Wayne S Feldman and Michael Kaufmann of the art/music duo Therefore are calling it quits. Not only are they ending the band, they are completing wiping the slate. During the 12 hour final performance at the Brooklyn Fireproof performance space, the two will be selling all of their instruments and equipment. Whatever does not sell will be pawned or destroyed the following day.
The performance coincides with the release of their last recording, "The Bomb Grant", available through the Long Beach, California based Sounds Are Active label. This last document is an audio collage constructed during the process of purging both members' hard drives of all remaining sound files and related data.After 9 years in operation, Therefore continues to incorporate elements of punk, progressive economics, and sonic graffiti, to analyze the production and distribution of goods and services of art/music in its various guises. The scope of Therefore's productivity in the last decade includes guerrilla and institutional performances, installations (physical, virtual and conceptual), compositions, and lectures. These include the distribution of 400 plus one-of-a-kind releases (given away on streets, in schools, and malls), several 8 hour performances, 22 and 30 hour continuous performances, and collaborative works for dance, theatre, film and video.
Therefore's approach to music and art is calculated yet improvisational, meditative yet simultaneously anxiety-infused. The physical composition of space and conscious movement through that space positions Therefore in a broader artistic tradition. This is not the noise of youth rebellion or art-damaged power electronics, it is a poetic and painterly cohabitation of the space of music, art and the everyday.
See also: Therefore on Mp3it
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