ART/SONG at chashama times square

visual music live performance & installations

ART/SONG at chashama times square

visual music live performance & installations

SAMPLES OF EXPERIMENTAL WORKS ONLINE

at www.youtube.com/MusicByJAZ

** BROADWAY WORLD re: Art/Song @ chashama times square

COME VISIT ART/SONG at FigmentNYC, June 11th & 12th

Jay has always had a strong desire to combine art and music and frequently collaborates with artists, dancers, aerialists, and computer programmers.  Even his first New York production called “Concert of Contradiction” began with an experimental sound loop accompanying an oil painting and ended with an abstract dance/sound collage.

His works have been performed and exhibited in many New York galleries including 55 Mercer and the recent exhibition at chashama Times Square.  

What: Art / Song a Visual Music Performance Installation by Jay Alan Zimmerman and Lisa Ingram

Where: chashama’s performance space at 112 W 44th street (6th and 7th Avenue)

When: Performances, February 23, & 27; March 3, 6, 10, & 13 at 7:00pm; Installation on view and open to the public, February 23 – March 16, 2010; Tuesday - Saturday, 2:00pm – 7:00 pm

Directions: 1, 2, 3, N, R, W, Q, F, V, B, D to 42nd Street

Free: Some of the exhibit will be viewable from the street 24 hours a day

For more information visit www.chashama.org

Using real-time frequency analysis software by Hidetomo Katsura, sound from the microphone will be converted into a wealth of sonic information that Zimmerman layers into unique images.  Layered images for each vowel and phoneme have been captured and further interpreted into a series of abstract watercolors by Ingram.  The performance schedule will be posted in the window and online at musicbyJAZ.com.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jay Alan Zimmerman is the composer and author of several original musicals including his Incredibly DEaF Musical, which debuted at DC’s Capital Fringe Festival.  He composed the music for the plays Booth and Our Brutus, which were both Fringe First Award winners at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the song cycle Punctuated Thoughts, and a multi-media symphony, Roboticus, performed by the LEMUR robots.

Lisa Ingram paintings were recently exhibited in New York at FusionArts Museum and Al Johnson Art in Greenwich Village, and are represented by the art dealers SoHo Myriad in Los Angeles and Atlanta.  Her numerous corporate collectors include Disney, Guggenheim Productions, and Mariott.

ABOUT CHASHAMA

chashama is a NYC arts organization whose mission is to support artists of all genres. chashama adopts vacant properties that are donated by their owners and converts them into theatres, galleries, studios, and window performance sites; chashama then re-grants this space to artists. Our programs are made possible by the generous support of: the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Council, Carnegie Corporation, Dramatist Guild Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tides Foundation and through private donations from individuals.