EA - is a photo-electro-acoustic project instigated by Gill Arno, Richard Garet, Andre Goncalves, Andy Graydon, Ben Owen, and Gil Sanson. While the interests and approaches of each participant vary widely, everyone generally works within the idiom of computer-processed natural and instrumental sounds, and with the interrelation of the visual environment with the aural environment through slide, film, and video projections. The group’s involvement is open and evolving, always incorporating new forms and dividing into smaller focused specialties. One facet of the group’s dynamic is to define smaller performance ensembles -- duos, trios, etc -- from within the larger group for specific pieces. In keeping with this evolving paradigm, the acronym EA does not refer to any fixed phrase. EA works with improvisations as well as with rules-based compositions written by individual participants. Performances alternate between large group improvisations and practiced compositions drawn from the group’s repertoire, often played by smaller units of the group. please find below audio and visual files to download, updates on upcoming performances, and participant information with links. contact ea

Quicktime l MP3 files

video EA - EA's quick time movie excerpt - (3:28") + (10 MB) ¬ sound by EA - video by Andre Goncalves

video EA @ NISUS Rise Over Run For Four Players - (image: Andy Graydon) - (sound: Gill Arno + Richard Garet + Ben Owen + Gil Sanson) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005

video EA @ NISUS Improvisation 1 - (image: Gill Arno + Andy Graydon) - (sound: Ben Owen + Gil Sanson) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005

video EA @ NISUS Improvisation 2 - (image: Gill Arno) - (sound: Richard Garet + Andy Graydon) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005

audio For Gil - Gil's Symphonic Aura - Brooklyn, NY Spring/2005 - (9:00") + (12.3 MB) ¬
This piece is the edited version by Richard Garet of Gil Sanson's (29:11" score) performed by EA's participants during session

Next Performances

Nov 12 Sat EA presents Sonogrammer @ the ANTIMART Venue from 4 to 8 p.m.
49 Bogart Street, Bushwick.
Sonogrammar with:
Seven photo-electro-acoustic compositions performed by Gil Arno, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Sawako Kato, Zach Layton, Chika Iijima, Brendan Murray, Ben Owen, and Siew-Wai Kok.

For more info regarding the programs
DIRECTIONS: Take the L to the Morgan Ave stop in Brooklyn. Leave through the Morgan Ave exit at the front of the train coming from Manhattan, and use the right hand stairs as you exit the station. Make a U-Turn when exiting the stairs, then an Immediate Left on Harrison Place, walking against the One-Way signs. Walk down to Bogart and take a left. Walk just past Seigel Street, and look for the BAP Banner outside of the Archive on the right hand side of the street.

Dec 3, Sat Becoming 02(8pm) at the Millennium Film Workshop - 66 East 4th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave. NYC $7
ben owen, mpld, Richard Garet with Bruce McClure.

Participants

	mpld / Gill Arno - (italy), studied art and typography before moving to NYC in 1997. He has been since then designing record covers and art directing small record labels, as well as creating multi-dimensional environments as part of mixed media experimental events and parties. Gill has been involved since 1998 with many labels and event promoters, including Soundlab Cultural Alchemy, Broklyn Beats, theAgriculture, Seasonal, Phonomena. web-page
	Richard Garet - (uruguay), combines sound material from various sources, field recordings, analog and digital studio processing, and experimentation. He explores the communicational, physical acoustic, affective, and the sensory aspects of sound, its constant intrusion on our senses, and how sound affects our perception. Daily life offers him new possibilities for creation through his transforming found sounds into art. He utilizes any possible sound-producing, reproducing, and recording device for capturing source material while he explores its possibilities and its limitations. In addition, all his audio works are finished within a digital computerized setting. web-page
	Andre Goncalves - (portugal), has started with an idea, which still is a work in progress, for creating micro-environments, computer controlled hermetic spaces where it is his intension to explore several physical phenomenon related with the hearing. André tries to explore them from the point of view of their sonority but also leaving space for a user or an observer to interact with the process. This particular project aims to bring together sound and space through a physical phenomenon, where sound is used as a medium to excite space to be heard, sound generating more sound through space. The sound we get to hear is strictly related to the object's spatial characteristics, it's shape, dimensions and material but also it's relation with the site-specific architecture and again the spatial characteristics of the precise space that hosts all the objects. web-page
	Andy Graydon - (usa), is a film and video maker and sound artist based in New York City. His work focuses on the problems and potentials in the interaction of sound and image. Taking the form of videos, live video mixes, sound works, music and movement performances, and installations, this work explores the boundary zones between performance and exhibition, liveness and mediation, presence and deferral. Recent media performances include shows at The Tank, 611 Florida (Washington DC), The Lehman College gallery, NISUS at Galeria Galou, Eyewash, Tonic, and Galapagos. He is an upcoming resident in the visiting artist program at the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College. web-page
	Ben Owen - (usa) works with projected slide film manipulations, field recordings, and experimental electronic and acoustic sound. His collaborations can be found with tiptip, and radio transmission works with free103point9, broadcastatic, and radio home listening. web-page
	Gil Sanson - (venezuela), has been living in New York since 1999. He works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, and sound art. He is interested in how modern technology affects our perception of nature and reality by analyzing empirically the behavior of sound and the levels of distortion that recording devices produce, and the new meanings that can be abstracted from such distortions of the original sources." web-page