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.
http://www.soundsareactive.com
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)