Performance: “Reading Governors Island,” June 12-13, 2010

On June 12th and 13th, 2010, the Glass Bees presented an interactive, site-specific performance on Governor’s Island, a former military facility just off the southern tip of Manhattan, as part of the FIGMENT festival. “Reading Governors Island” combined sound, images, and audience-contributed spoken word in to explore the island’s history within the context of an interactive multimedia performance.

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Performance: ScrapCycle Opening, May 7, 2010

We’ll be performing with Ranjit Bhatnagar on his handmade instruments along with other instruments (mostly made in factories in China or Japan) at the opening of the ScrapCycle show at Devotion Gallery In Williamsburg.

This performance will be more open-ended and expansive than our March performance which was dedicated to demonstrating some of these instruments.

Bora Yoon and Tom Vanderwall will also be performing.

The opening opens at 7:00 p.m. on May 7th at Devotion Gallery, located at 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206. The price of admission is a used water bottle, which they may be using for some project or perhaps to serve you the complementary refreshments.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

Performance: Barbès, March 3, 2010 as part of Ranjit's "28 More Noisy Noises"

The Glass Bees joined instrument builder and sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar for a performance on his handmade instruments at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 8pm.

We did the same thing the previous year.

Selected recordings from this performance are available:

1. Blinky
2. The Toy Factory at Midnight
3. Gongs-O

Performance: Art Social, August 1, 2009

The Glass Bees love art. You probably do, too. On Saturday, August 1, we participated in curator Aneikit Bonnel’s ART SOCIAL. We performed two sets over the course of the night under the stars in her backyard in Brooklyn, just off Myrtle Avenue, not far from Fort Greene Park.

Aneikit took some photographs of the event.

We have posted an audio recording of the finale of our second set.

And here is a video of part of our performance:

From the official announcement for the event:

The ART SOCIAL finds its precedent in the concept of the ‘salon,’ a collection of eclectic artists and intellectuals who gather to engage and expand upon their passions and forms of expressions. Set in the conventional structure of Home, works of Art are presented in an intimate and accessible environment, intentionally provoking a dynamic cultural discourse.

The presenting artists include:

REBECCA BEERS MILLER displays wire and found object weavings that focus on the psychological underpinnings of process and its relation to material.

HANLY GUNN presents Deep See Circus, a visual diary in painting and sculpture provoked by emotional and environmental fluctuations starring His Majesty King Quadopus and Mighty Mighty Moonson. On land, as in the See, the circus is a perceivable reality.

CLAIRE FALKENBERG paints oil on large-scale landscape photographs, shifting a static moment to an active one.

THE GLASS BEES perform live soundscapes assembled from colliding abstract loops, ambient noise, and sudden inspiration with the use of electronics, guitar, keyboards, acoustic percussion, computer processed field recordings, and found objects.

Performance: Monkeytown, July 14, 2009

The Glass Bees performed alongside Lou Rossi, Carlos’ Red Shoes, and Frogwell at Monkeytown, 58 North 3rd Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the evening of Tuesday, July 14.

We created our own dual-channel video projections for this performance.

Photo by Joshua Howard.