Dec 18, 2011
Attention DC / North Virginia dwellers: Currently, Nicholas Syracuse and I have stacks of vintage amps set up in an awesome, empty (and possibly haunted) 3rd floor office building in Old Town, Alexandria, and TONIGHT we host a guerrilla performance/recording for anyone interested. Screenings of my video delay pieces and excerpts from Nick's Highway, with live audio delay accompaniment. 7:30pm / Free / BYOB. Call 917-675-1973 for entrance.
Dec 5, 2011
Screening of Nicholas Syracuse's Highway teaser this Wednesday. Steal a peek into this stunning photographic chronicle of hidden America. A wonderful project which I'm proud to say includes my music. Additional documentaries by Ballard C. Boyd, Catherine Stratton, and Adam Taylor.
Bar 13 @35 E.13th St, NYC. $10 at door.
Oct 29, 2011
Check out my most recent film score. "The Lonely Pair", directed by Nick Hartanto and Sam Roden.
Oct 18, 2011
A CMJ screening in Bushwick this Friday features a short film I scored, "The Lonely Pair".
Unfinished Studios / 75 Stewart Ave #427, Brooklyn / $5
7:00pm: doors
8:45pm: Screening, Part 1
11:00pm: Screening, Part 2 (feat. "The Lonely Pair")
Aug 1, 2011
AUGUST 3RD - Fontana's, Lower East Side (Manhattan). Playing with Ella Joyce Buckley. $5.
AUGUST 15TH - The Delancey (168 Delancey St, NYC). Playing with Ella Joyce Buckley. With Vera Beren's Gothic Chamber Blues Ensemble. NC.
July 9, 2011
JULY 10TH AT BRUAR FALLS 245 GRAND ST, BROOKLYN (BEDFORD L TRAIN). DOORS AT 8PM. PLAYING A SHORT SOLO SET, THEN ACCOMPANYING ELLA JOYCE BUCKLEY.
June 6, 2011
June 17 at THE CHURCH (142 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn) 9pm. Supporting Pronto (featuring Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco). I'll be playing a short solo set, then accompanying the fab Ella Joyce Buckley!
May 14, 2011
May 19 - Korzo, 667 5th Ave, Brooklyn. Me (guitar, live audio delay), Daniel Bindschedler (cello) and Kyle Farrell (vibraphone). 9pm.
May 7, 2011
Union Street Dance Loop 2 (May 6 2011, Brooklyn)
This week's dance rehearsal loop capture.
April 28, 2011
Union Street Dance Loop 1 (April 27 2011, Brooklyn)
This is a spontaneous capture of a guitar via delay system loop that came about during a dance rehearsal yesterday. I wasn't recording the session, but loved this so much I had to borrow my friend's iPhone to get a document of it (thanks, Lex). The loop was built gradually but you hear it here at full maturity. I'd classify this among the more harmonically mutable forms of audio delay life.
April 19, 2011
May 10 - Alex performs at LMAKProjects, Manhattan. Audio and video delay. Also performing: Bryon Westbrook and Philip White.
May 5 - Alex (guitar, live audio delay) performs at Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, with Daniel Bindschedler (cello) and Kyle Farrell (vibraphone) for a show of paintings by Jake Nelson:
April 2, 2011
Alex Carpenter presents kinetic forms coaxed from his live video delay system - an invention which employs chains of cameras and projectors to assist in the creation of living light-cell organisms! - while contributing live audio activity in a symbiotic interchange.
Sunday April 3, at Microscope Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn. 7PM / $6.
March 7, 2011
This is part of the seventh piece to come out of my live video delay sessions at MELA Foundation, NYC. Recorded September 17, 2010. Music (bowed guitar, live audio delay, multiple amps) was recorded September 2009 and mixed February 2011, Brooklyn.
March 1, 2011
Part of my recent performance at Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, caught on camera by Maxine Stadnik:
January 11, 2011
Alex Carpenter will be performing with the (complete) live video and audio delay systems, with additional live audio delay by James Ross, Tuesday Feb 15th, 8pm at OptoSonic Tea, Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, 10th floor, Brooklyn.
Also performing: Chris Jordan (live visuals) with Bradford Reed (live sound).
Invited respondent/moderator: Andrea Monti.
OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.
Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer.
January 7, 2011
The line up from last November's show at Pianos is back this Saturday Feb 12th, 7:30 til midnight at Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn.
That's RICHARD LAINHART, JAMES ROSS, GEORGE STADNIK and ALEX CARPENTER, this time alongside Birdorgan (MA) and The Aggressive Attention-Seekers. Donations welcome.
December 23, 2010
A couple of video excerpts from my recent performance at Pianos:
December 3, 2010
Alex Carpenter (guitar, live audio delay) and Dan Bindschedler (cello) perform at An Exhibition of Paintings at Under Minerva Gallery, 656 Fifth Ave at 19th Street, Brooklyn. December 16th, 6-9pm. Free.
December 1, 2010
Short excerpt from Dan Bindschedler and my performance at BETA Spaces last month:
November 13, 2010
Alex Carpenter (guitar, live audio delay) and Dan Bindschedler (cello) perform at Better Than Jam, tomorrow (November 14) 4:30-7pm, as part of the Arts in Bushwick BETA Spaces program.
October 19, 2010
A night of engaging new audio visual work with: RICHARD LAINHART (Guitar, Electronics, Films), ALEX CARPENTER (Guitar, Live Audio & Video Delay), JAMES ROSS (Guitar, Live Looping), GEORGE STADNIK (Digital Lumia, Photon Guitar).
Pianos 158 Ludlow St NYC / November 7th 7pm / FREE
October 12, 2010
I recently completed the soundtrack to this short film by Nick Hartanto and Sam Roden. If you recognize echos of Chord from the Second Delphic Hymn, you are not mistaken - the project was conceived after cinematographer Nick Hartanto heard this piece, which was used as a loose basis for the guitar and live audio delay score.
October 5, 2010
Excerpts from a couple of my latest video delay pieces. Recorded at MELA Foundation, NYC, September 14-17, 2010.
Music performed on guitar via the Live Audio Delay System. Recorded at Vanished Records, Brooklyn, September 2010.
September 24, 2010
> Alex with Live Audio Delay System at Open House Brooklyn. Saturday, October 9th. Music from 5pm. 728 5th Ave (at 23rd St), Brooklyn.
July 27, 2010
> Alex Carpenter's Live Video Delay 2 screens alongside works by La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela, Henry Flynt, Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock, Jung Hee Choi and others at the 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival. Seoul Art Space_Seogyo, 369-8 Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea. July 24 through August 1, 1-7pm (daily).
> Alex Carpenter (Live Audio Delay System) with James Ross (Guitar) and Michael Waller (Guitar). Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY). August 20, 9pm. Free.
July 20, 2010
Some cool shots courtesy of Nicholas Syracuse from last night's set at Goodbye Blue Monday:
June 25, 2010
Disappointingly, the performance scheduled for tomorrow (June 26) at Youth Group Gallery has been cancelled. Unbeknownst to us, the venue was being occupied illegally, and was issued with a Vacate Order by the NYC Department of Buildings this morning. We were all really excited to put on this show, and will be looking to reschedule at another venue very soon. Stay tuned..
June 10, 2010
> Alex Carpenter (Guitar, Live Audio Delay System) at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn). July 19, 11:30pm. No cover.
> Alex Carpenter (Live Audio Delay System), with James Ross and Michael Waller, at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn). August 20, 9pm.
> Alex Carpenter (Guitar, Laser, Live Video & Audio Delay Systems), James Ross (Guitar, Live Audio Delay System) and Richard Lainhart (Guitar, Electronics, Film) at Youth Group Gallery (19 Hope St Basement, Brooklyn). June 26, 8:30pm. $5 suggested donation.
April 13, 2010
Photos and video from the Live Video Delay System debut on the 31st now up on the archive page.
March 1, 2010
ALEX PRESENTS THE LIVE VIDEO DELAY SYSTEM WITH JAMES ROSS AT THE TANK, NYC, MARCH 31ST, 7:30PM. ENTRY $7.
[PRESS RELEASE:] Performance or scientific experiment? Australian-born artist Alex Carpenter's new invention, the Live Video Delay System, employs chains of cameras, projectors and lens filters to assist in the creation of living light-cell organisms!
The system allows Alex to build layers of live laser "drawings," coaxing remarkably organic visual forms and patterns onto the screen, while musician James Ross contributes audio activity in a symbiotic interchange.
[MORE ABOUT THE LIVE VIDEO DELAY SYSTEM]
February 8, 2010
NEW ESSAY: On Listening and Expression, Part 2
January 7, 2010
NEW ESSAY: Notes on the Evolution of the Live Video Delay System [click image to read]:
October 27, 2009
The Live Video Delay System lives!
After lots of planning and preparation, the Live Video Delay System was finally tested on September 21-22 at MELA Foundation, NYC.
Here are some of the results: