VISUAL MUSIC & MOVEMENT
CURRENTLY SHOWING AT CHASHAMA TIMES SQUARE:  A VISUAL MUSIC EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE SERIES by Jay Alan Zimmerman & Lisa Ingram FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 16  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 NEW YORK, NY — chashama is pleased to announce the transformation of their Times Square performance space into Art / Song, a visual music environment where the public can see sound visualized through art. The exhibition features collaborative artworks by Lisa Ingram and Jay Alan Zimmerman — a deaf composer — who will also create and debut new music in the space by using an installation that includes deconstructed synthesizers and sound analysis software. At all times, installation elements will perform music and video imagery for passersby, both with and without audible sound. During exhibition hours, the public can view the works up close, as well as see them integrated with live singers during scheduled performances. On performance days, the public can watch Zimmerman rehearse with singers he cannot hear, including Raissa Katona Bennett (Phantom), Andrea Dora (Tarzan), Kelly Ellenwood (Phantom), Matt Lutz, Sierra Rein, and Gabrielle Stravelli. 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. http://www.chashama.orgshapeimage_4_link_0
 THE SUNLIGHT ZONE: an experimental soundscape for this work performed by a team of aerialists.  ROBOTICUS : a symphony for the LEMUR musical robots