Category — Live Performance

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 8pm

Transform/Immerse, an evening of multi-channel, nature inspired sound compositions by Matthew Burtner, Kim Cascone, Ted Coffey, David Dunn, Erik DeLuca, and Francisco López. The concert will feature works that transform a space into an immersive sonic magnifier.

Saturday, March 6, 2010 | Workshop at 2pm | Concert at 3:15

A fun sound experiment for audio artists and producers in the spirit of the surrealist games. We give you 10 sounds and you have 30 minutes to mash those into a one-minute piece. Manipulate them any way you like. The rules are this: 1) All 10 sounds must be used. 2) The final product must be 1 minute long. Erik DeLuca and Jesse Dukes supervise. Following the workshop, we’ll hold a concert to listen to our creations which we hope to install in the gallery. Note: You must have your own means of audio editing (a DAW) to participate. If you want to participate but don’t have a workstation, please contact Jesse at jpdukes@zworg.com or Erik at erikdeluca@gmail.com and we’ll do our best to find you a loaner.

Thursday, March 18, 2010 | 8pm | in conjunction with the Festival of the Book

Award-winning documentary photographer Louie Palu debuts his audio slideshows, combining stunning black-and-white frames with pulse-pounding audio collected in the heat of battle at the height of the “fighting season” in the Farah and Kandahar Provinces of Afghanistan. This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review and LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph. The slideshows were edited and co-produced by Charlottesville’s own Jesse Dukes.

Friday, March 26, 2010 | 6pm

Readings from Kickstand bike zine, bike noise by Wendy Hsu, bike storytelling by Secretly Y’all, and other bike-related fun!

Sunday, March 7, 2010 | 7pm | $5

Multiple image projection with live ambient/electronic/noise improvisation featuring David Eklund`s beluga ensemble: Jonathan Zorn on laptop guitar, Catherine Monnes on cello & accordion, David Eklund on synthesizer, sax, etc., and Erik Deluca on synthesizer.

Thursday & Friday, March 11 & 12, 2010 | 8pm

The Bridge presents A SmashStage Production
By: Hank Schwemmer, Cris Edwards, Barry Pineo
Directed by: Cris Edwards

Don’t let the term “audio plays” turn you off to the whole thing. Featuring two award-winning plays, Tell Me What To Do by Hank Schwemmer and Dossier by Cris Edwards, plus a new work, Trail of Bodies by Barry Pineo, this collection of short plays features entirely-pre-recorded dialogue and noises tuned to the live actions on stage. It also represents the Charlottesville premier of three Austin-based playwrights.

Audio March Opening Reception | Friday, March 5, 2010 | 6-8pm
Saturday, April 10, 2010 | 8pm

Gregory Whitehead is an internationally renowned radiomaker and audio artist, with credits of well over one hundred radio plays, essays and acoustic adventures. His productions have won numerous major awards, including a Prix Italia for Pressures of the Unspeakable, a Prix Futura BBC Award for Shake, Rattle, Roll and Sony Gold Academy Awards for The Loneliest Road and No Background Music, featuring Sigourney Weaver. The London Daily Telegraph has reviewed his work as “extraordinarily seductive and involving”, while The Loneliest Road was hailed as “a master class of sound”.

Gregory is also a frequent performer in literary cabarets and off off theatre, and a featured guest speaker at conferences and festivals throughout the US and Europe. For his evening at The Bridge, he will present excerpts from a number of his radio essays and plays, and also perform a variety of humorous voice intermezzi and songs that celebrate the paradoxes of writing on air.

Since his work inhabits the fogbound boglands between fact and fiction, come prepared to lose track of all boundaries, as Gregory follows the head of Orpheus as it floats down the river to the Isle of Lesbos; pays a visit to the Jericho Institute, with its drak mission to weaponize the Voice of God; attends a croquet club where the end stakes are adorned with the skulls of vanquished Mohicans; interviews the performance artist
who ate and digested the unabridged Oxford Dictionary of the English Language; and convenes the first ever Bridge Screamscape Colloquium.

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Local musicians Scott Ritchie and Mark Fulton present old science fiction radio stories while performing a live musical soundtrack. The stories are from the past and about a future that may never be, but their messages resonate with the present.

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Photo Credit: Rich Orris

Saturday, February 20, 2010 | 8pm

Ever wondered what she felt about you? Three writers tell love’s dirty little secrets. Short story writers, Aja Gabel and Eleanor Henderson, and poet Molly Minturn will read recent work on the theme of love, in all its guises. Bluegrass band the Rock River Gypsies will perform a set. Light refreshments will be provided.

Aja Gabel’s short fiction can be found in the New England Review, the New Ohio Review, Slush Pile and the Southeast Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and a BA from Wesleyan University. She is an editorial intern at the Virginia Quarterly Review and teaches writing in Charlottesville.

Eleanor Henderson received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI, Indiana Review, North American Review, Ninth Letter and Best American Short Stories 2009. A former contributing editor for Poets & Writers, she currently is the chair of
the fiction board at Virginia Quarterly Review and an assistant professor at James Madison University.

Molly Minturn was born in Massachusetts and studied poetry at the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She worked as an assistant editor at the Iowa Review and now is an associate editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review in Charlottesville. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review.

Rock River Gypsies are a bluegrass/folk band that started out playing charity gigs for campus organizations and local venues, but of late the Gypsies have played at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., the Mountville Festival in Loudoun County, Va., and intimate venues all over the state of Virginia. Members have performed at ethnomusicology conferences, a royal visit from Queen Elizabeth II and contributed to film scores. More at www.myspace.com/therockrivergypsies.

Friday, February 12, 2010 | 8pm | $5

Alessandro Bosetti will perform Mask/Mirror and other pieces involving
improvised speech and interactive computer programs.

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer
and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual
aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions
featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published
recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound
anthropology and composition, often including translation and
misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and
interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with
electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained
and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital
manipulations. Recent projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies
press), the interactive speaking machine “MaskMirror” (STEIM,
Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and an ongoing project on linguistic enclaves in
the USA. Alessandro Bosetti lives between Berlin (Germany) and
Baltimore (USA).

Saturday, February 6, 2010 | 10pm | $10

The Wu is a collection of comedians performing under the direction of Charlottesville comedy veteran Jim Zarling. Combining music, philosophy and stand-up comedy with improv, Wu Prov is truly a new theatrical experience.

Scheduled to perform are comics Alex Modic, John McCullough and Brian Piccolo. Local musicians Wendy Repass and Jack Rakes will also be on hand to assist improv veterans Ben Cole Lisa Mitchell and Ruth Morton in creating a unique improvisational experience.