Please join us on Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 6 until 8 pm for a special performance by sound artist Aki Onda with Barry Weisblat, Margarida Garcia, Toshio Kajiwara and Bryan Eubanks. There will be a small admission fee of 5 dollars.

The performance will take place at the gallery, but has been organized in conjunction with Issue Project Room, a non profit space in Brooklyn that fosters a wide-range of artistic projects which challenge and expand conventional practices in art.

Aki Onda is a self-taught electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda's musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.

Toshio Kajiwara - A sound performance artist currently based in Tokyo after 18 years in NYC. His obsessive interest in archiving obscure recordings from the times past, naturally extended itself into a series of sound performances using record players and tape machines in early 90's NYC. Later he toured and recorded as a member of Christian Marclay Trio, and collaborated extensively with Tim Barnes, Peter Kowald, Shelley Hirsch, DJ Olive, Aki Onda, Marina Rosenfeld, Barry Weisblat, Margalida Garcia and Okkyung Lee amongst others. Curated "Phonomena" improvisation series at Tonic for its first 5 years and runs the label of the same title. 2008 projects includes an extensive collaboration with a Japanese choreographer Yoko Higashino, and a project organized in Lisbon by media artists John Klima and Adriana Sa.

Margarida Garcia - Musician born in 1977, Lisbon. Doublebassist, public activicty since 1997. Some selected music collaborations in live/recording settings include Manuel Mota, Nöel Akchoté, Barry Weisblat, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshio Kajiwara, Oren Ambarchi, Ferran Fages, Alfredo C. Monteiro, Ruth Barberán, John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Bryan Eubanks, Andrew Lafkas, Rhodri Davies, David Keenan, Alex Neilson and Aki Onda.

Barry Weisblat is a sound artist/improviser and Electronic Instrument builder from Brooklyn. Extensive experiments with electro-magnetic devices, solar technology, homemade and modified circuits for application in sound generation/manipulation, audio engineering and photography.

Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is a musician and sound artist who focuses on collaborative improvisation and solo musical projects, working in live electronic settings with an instrument of his own design that integrates open-circuits and samplers, as well as in acoustic settings with the Soprano Saxophone. He has worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean Paul Jenkins, Vic Rawlings, Doug Theriault, Leif Sundstrom (eventually in the duo GOD), and Andrew Lafkas. He has released recordings on EMR, Jyrk, Little Enjoyer, and Gameboy and performed music across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea.