Six Incredible Artists, One Incredible Night
Ed Potokar is an artist, musician, and designer who melds sound sculpture, audio architecture and handcrafted musical instruments into a virtuosic display of craftsmanship and visionary artistry. His work and performances have been showcased in shows in Soho, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and Hartford, and at the Prada Foundation in Venice, Italy, as part of the Venice Biennale. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Modern Painter, Elle Décor, DesignBoom, Guitar Aficionado, Fast Company, Co.Create, as well as on NewYork1 News, VH1, WNYC’s “Soundcheck”, the BBC and NBC’s Today Show. He has been invited 3 times to the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, where he won awards for the most unusual instrument and a special judges’ award.
Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments, collage artworks, performances and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, and diverse sounds as function and form collide in the intersection of art and music.
He has been featured in exhibitions and performances worldwide including The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Prada Foundation in Venice (as part of the “Art or Sound” exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2014), The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, New Music America (twice), Mass MoCA, and The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum in New York City as well as in Canada, South America, Thailand, and Japan.
Terry Dame is a New York-based creative technologist, sound artist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator who creates interactive sensor-driven instruments, sculptures, and installations from found objects and sounds. Her work explores the intersection of creativity, technology, nature, and human habitation. From 1998–2012, she led the acclaimed ensemble Electric Junkyard Gamelan, which toured internationally performing original compositions on artist-made instruments built from recycled materials. Dame has also composed for film and dance and is an alum of the Sundance Institute Composer Lab. Her work has been presented at venues including the Kennedy Center, MoMA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Festival Archstoyanie, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. She currently teaches in the MFA Computer Arts program at SVA and the Media Arts program at Marymount Manhattan College.
Smomid is the performance-based art practice of Nick Demopoulos, operating at the intersection of sound, light, and kinetic sculpture. Blending art, technology, and music into a single embodied language, Smomid creates immersive works using entirely self-built instruments that emit sound and light simultaneously. Alongside his work as Smomid, Demopoulos has toured and recorded internationally, including collaborations with NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton and cultural diplomacy tours through the Middle East with the U.S. State Department. Smomid’s work has been presented in venues spanning museums, festivals, and alternative art spaces, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum, LACMA, the National Geographic Museum, Montreux Jazz Festival, and the Jogja Noise Bombing Festival. The project has been featured by Discovery Science Network, BOMB Magazine, Guitar World, and Create Digital Music.
Mark Schaaf is a master percussionist and drum maker who creates predominantly African based instruments with a high level of craftsmanship. Mark studied and recorded at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock NY. Mark has performed in New York city, The Hudson Valley and Ohio. He is a featured member of the Samba Scouts, Redness, the Audio Artists, SpaceCommandBand, and Samba da Cidade in Cleveland Ohio performing on a myriad of unique instruments.
Scott Williams is a bass player, songwriter and multi instrumentalist. He has performed with various groups in NYC, including his own Buddy Scott Trio and the Audio Artists, in numerous venues. He has written music for MTV, and played on VH1, Comedy Central, and WFMU radio. He has composed and performed music for theatre productions, including New York's Public Theatre. His music was featured in the MGM Motion Picture 'A Guy Thing', in which he also performed. Scott Williams currently fronts the band “Still Life with Dog”, and is also a painter whose work was most recently shown at 490 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
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