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MLB

The collective project MLB, hosted by STEIM and organized by Jamie Allen, is an ensemble performance project featuring a collection of noise and light performance works together in various combinations, live. Performs will include Loud Objects, Phillip Stearns, Yao Chung Han, Jo Kazuhiro, and Atsuhiro Ito. They seek to fuse visual and audible experience, by using material, minimal and abstract approaches.

The term audio-visual means a lot of different thingsto a lot of different people.The multimedia galleryinstallation artist and thevideo-jockey in a club havedeveloped techniques thatbegin with the desire to fusevisual and audibleexperience. In recentinternational performancepractice, we recognize amove towards the use ofmaterial, minimal andabstract approaches to thisimpulse.

"In a world of ever morepowerful technology, it [is]downright inspiring toexperience the sort ofcommunication that [can] beaccomplished with a simpleon-off switch." - MarcWeidenbaum, disquiet.com

MLB is a project bringingtogether a set of performanceartists with an interest in thepossibilities of minimal andmaximal use of white lightand noise aesthetics. Hostedby STEIM (www.steim.org)and organized by Jamie Allen(www.heavyside.net), theproject is firstly an ensembleperformance projectfeaturing a collection ofnoise/light performanceworks together in variouscombinations, live. Further,the project will culminate in abody of research, highlightingand documenting theapproaches and motivationsof an emerging and radicalperformance form.