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

The Glass Bees will be joining 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 last year.

Ranjit has been building some really amazing instruments this month, and we’re very much looking forward to this show. We hope you can be there.

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.

Performance: Envoy Enterprises, June 26, 2009

Selected recordings from this performance are being released one by one. Currently available:

Salt March (collaboration with Blevin Blectum)
The Probe
Every Evening, My Cousin

Photo by Lucius Kwok.

We performed on FRIDAY, JUNE 26 at 8:00 pm at ENVOY ENTERPRISES, 131 Chrystie Street (between Delancey and Broome) on the Lower East Side, NYC.

with very special guest … BLEVIN BLECTUM!

Blevin is an electronic musician who has released many highly regarded recordings. She is also 1/2 of the groundbreaking digital duo Blectum From Blechdom who, in addition to having pretty much the greatest band name ever, won the 2001 Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Musics for their album “The Messy Jesse Fiesta.” This is like winning a Pulitzer Prize for Electronic Music, folks.

We were thrilled that Blevin agreed to make the trip down from weirdbeat Providence, RI, and that this happened in a central but off-the-beaten-path venue.

Performance: Barbès, March 4th, 2009 as part of Ranjit's 28 Noisy Noises

This was a very special collaborative performance with sound artist/instrument builder Ranjit Bhatnagar. Ranjit created an instrument for each day of the month of February. We performed on these new instruments at the show.

The project and performance were featured on NPR’s All Things Considered on March 7, 2009.

Below is a video (courtesy Peter Shapiro, who was there with his camera) of the entire performance, and five audio excerpts:

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