LUCKY DRAGONS is Luke Fishbeck. Fishbeck utilizes organic sounds, audience participation, and sexy dancing to make electronic music that is both uplifting and smart. He has given performances at the Kitchen in New York City, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at John Connelly Presents in NYC (inside an Assume Vivid Astro Focus installation), at the Whitney Museum of American Art in conjunction with the Summer of Love exhibition, and most recently, in Bamako, Mali on African Television.
SOFT CIRCLE is Hisham Bharoocha, formerly of Black Dice and Lightning Bolt. Hisham recently served as musical director for the legendary 77 BOADRUM event, a composition for 77 drummers by the experimental Japanese music group the Boredoms. He has performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in conjunction with Doug Aitken's video piece
Sleepwalkers, and at D'Amelio Terras (NYC). As a visual artist, Hisham has been included in shows at Deitch Projects (NYC), John Connelly Presents (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, the Netherlands), and the Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan).
HIGH PLACES is a duo from New York City. They have performed at John Connelly Presents in New York City (inside an Assume Vivid Astro Focus installation), at the Proposition Gallery (NYC) in conjunction with the Hooray!!! exhibition, and at Susan Cianciolo's screening of "1960's Butterfly Girl" at Location (NYC). High Places recently performed a sunrise solar-powered show at Solar One (NYC).
POWDERED WIGS is David of Extreme Animals, combining his Paper Rad and Shepherd School of Music educations to create the world's most beautifully relaxing classical, shoe-gazing hectic noise music. David will be performing on July 24th with Extreme Animals at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in conjunction with MoMA's Automatic Update exhibition.
Text by Mary Pearson.
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High Energy Constructs
990 N. Hill Street, Suite 180
Los Angeles (Chinatown)
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Video documentation of live improvised digital video projections by David Horvitz for High Places in Brooklyn, NY.
High Places and Soft Circle are on tour and are also playing: July 27th at the Smell, July 29th at Ooga Booga (free afternoon show), and July 31st at Che Cafe.