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On the monthly series at Galapgos Art Space, BKL. ny in 2000

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Now in it's 3rd year, hausofouch's unity gain is an ongoing live electronic media event which promotes the interactive presentation of fresh new music and kinetic visual work by an ever shifting crew of many of nyc's finest practicioners in the electronic genre. Once a month under the UG banner, a diverse ad hoc community of sound and video artists gets together in a relaxed supportive environment created in con-junction with galapagos artspace in the williamsburg section of brooklyn, to explore new convergences emerging in the realm of performative electronic interactivity. The resulting unique environment has attracted a growing return audience to call ug one of the "best parties in nyc".


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Participating sound artists are asked to come prepared to present 2 separate solo pieces of 15 minutes duration as well as material to be used in 2 group improvisations that happen strategically over the course of the total 4 hour performance.
The solo sets are organized into a cyclic sequence, called the Live PA cycle, which is determined by lottery at the beginning of the evening and is re-peated twice over the course each event. Most of the participating audio artists work with customized individual sound systems -digital, midi, and/or analog- which allow them to reconfigure preformatted material to a live environment.
There are no pauses or announcements to interrupt flow, and so it is up to the artists themselves to negotiate the sonic transitions from one solo to the next during a brief "overlap" period, loosely modeled on the dj's segue or the sonic equivalent of a "relay race". (On any given evening many of these artists will find themselves alongside people they have known for years and worked with before, as well as experiencing new people and material for the first time.)

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Each of the two video artists' real time mixing systems are configured to comprise half of a large scale projection diptyk filling the entire back wall - about 30 ft wide. Additionally each has the ability to trade "signal feeds" back and forth so that aspects of one image may appear as a transform-able element available to be processed by the other. Audio from the PA artists is patched through to both video mixers as well to facilitate hardware based audio to video triggering to augment the biological soft-sync interactivity inherent in the improvisational method.

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