jazz/improv
7 – 9 pm
$7 donation
Playground New Music Series!
-Bindler/Hernandez/Higgins/Levine
Nicole Bindler - dance
Katt Hernandez - violin
Janene Higgins - video improv
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Saul Levine - videos
Janene Higgins is a graphic designer and video artist living in New York City. Her videos are a direct offshoot of her graphic design, incorporating collage, text, and image layering into a time-based artform. A foray into live video brought performances with such artists as Ikue Mori, Vernon Reid, Elliott Sharp, Prema Murthy, Alan Licht, and Zeena Parkins. “Arch”, a live music/live video piece with Parkins, premiered at Roulette, New York City and was taped for Roulette TV in 2001. From 1996 to 1998, Higgins organized seven events for P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center’s Clocktower Gallery in Tribeca, NYC. These included “Release”,
an evening of solo performances by a sampling of New York’s preeminent noise musicians; and “Timebomb”, a four-night series of music, poetry, film/video, and cyberculture.
Katt Hernandez, violin, grew up in Ann Arbor, MI. She moved to Boston in 1997 and has played throughout the east coast with Joe Maneri, Zack Fuller, John Voigt, Allisa Cardone, Brad Kemp, Jeff Arnal, Dylan Paul, Gordon Beeferman, James Coleman, Jack Wright, Adam James Wilson, Mike Bullock, Ben Hall, Dave Gross, El Cuerpo Exquisito, John Dierker, Hans Rickheit, Dan Breent and Arto Artinian. She performed at the Autumn Uprising, High Zero, Boston CyberArts and Ear Whacks festivals. She is a major influence in the free improv scene here in Boston
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Nicole Bindler, dancer and choreographer, has shown her multimedia work throughout Boston, the Northeast, Midwest and in Berlin. She has performed in the works of Brenda Divelbliss, Jennifer Hicks, and has ongoing collaborations with dancers Lailye Weidman, Alli Ross and Joe Burgio. She has worked with experimental musicians including Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, Johnathan Vincent, Howard Stelzer and Mike Bullock. She recently toured with Lailye, Alli and Asimina Chremos.
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Saul Levine has been making films and more recently videos since 1964. His work has been shown on every continent except Antartica. His work was featured in the Museum of Modern Art film series BIG AS LIFE He had a retrospective at the New York Anthology Film Archives in 1997. In Boston his work has been shown by The IC A The Harvard film archives Primal Screen ,Pictures of the Floating World. Balagon, Mass Art Film Society and the Boston Underground Film festival. He has taught at Mass College of Art for the last 25years and before that at Tufts, the Chicago Art Institute and Suny Binghamton. In addition to his film and video work Saul is known for his live performance work and his performance in other film and video makers work. He also works in collage and installation He has progammed films and videos for the Mass Art Film Society and the Suny Binghamton visiting artist series. In the past he edited New Left Notes ( the nationally newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society), Ideiolects, and XDream.
“Saul Levine is the foremost dissenting film-maker in America.with about35 years of consistent production behind him, and no signs of fatigue, he can show us the shape of a life passionately and uncompromisingly devoted to filmmaking. His works are high-energy messages of friendship, records of sexual love and political activism, radiated by humor, prophetic anger, loneliness and even though rarely, representing repose. Over the last two decades he has become the moral center of Boston’s avant guarde film community.” P Adams Sitney
Production: Walter Wright – WWright@massart.edu
PLAYGROUND was the heart and center of Boston/Cambridge’s world-renowned and resilient improvised music scene for over seven years. After taking a brief hiatus, several producers have banded together to renew the series, which both challenges and gives ecstatic enjoyment to its listeners. Experimentalists from every possible corner of the improvised music universe have come here, always interacting with the large and hugely varied community of improvisers right here at the Zeitgeist. The series will take place EVERY FRIDAY from this day forward!
Production: Katt Hernandez – katt@umich.edu