This performance marks the debut of Dirty Mirrors, a country band featuring Jon Kessler, John Miller, Aura Rosenberg and Dan Walworth.

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Cleopatra's works collaboratively with artists, curators, writers, designers and musicians on projects that create or further connections between individuals, practices, institutions, etc. These investigations are realized in a storefront space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as well as in the form of off-site, public programs, events and in print publications encompassing various fields and locales. We aim to present work and advance ideas informed by both individual and collective perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience. Cleopatra's started collaborating on projects in June 2008. 
www.cleopatras.us

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With roots in bebop but incorporating the sound and soul of the Rhythm & Blues and Afrobeat, Il Collettivo has created music that defies easy categorization but is swinging, tuneful, and compelling. A highlight of Il Collettivo's live set, "Nonosi" has been known to turn previously indifferent audience members into shouting, dancing, clapping enthusiasts.

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((audience)) is a traveling, biennial festival of 5.1 surround sound art works intended for presentation in movie theaters as "cinema in the dark." The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 1/2 hour program of surround sound works by eight international artists: Jamie Allen, 
Simona Brinkmann, Loud Objects, Uli Schuster, Bryan Jacobs, Natasha Barrett, Cedric Maridet, and Emmanuel Madan / Anna Friz.

Mudboy Fantasy noise by the Doctor of Experimental Organomics in collaboration with a special guest.

Loud Objects Mens' Noise Choir have set the standard for performative live circuit bending. Wielding soldering irons over a ramshackle overhead projector, the New York City-based trio wire up live musical circuits in pursuit of lo-fi electronic noise. In this new performance experiment, Loud Objects play fluorescent light bulb guitars and are backed by a mens' noise choir.

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About the Antagonist Art Movement:  The Antagonist Movement is a community of artists that have banded together to promote art, music and writing and to create a venue where emerging artists, as well as established artists, can inspire and help each other while reaching a wider audience.  There is no standard form or medium for creativity, except the work should provoke its audience.

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Nehedar is the project of New York-based singer-songwriter Emilia Cataldo. While spanning indie-rock, folk and pop genres, the music of Nehedar has continued to deliver her blend of deeply personal lyrics, beautiful vocal harmonies, a variety of instrumentation, and - revealing the jazz influences from her father - momentary departures from strict chord progressions that set her music apart.

Jon Taub
Guitarist/vocalist for Beer Mitzva All-Stars
Ex-bassist/guitarist for Bishop Smeck, [sic] and The Mick Lewis
Co-producer of [sic] LP "Poor Conductor"
Bassist, guitarist and bandleader for Black Box Enterntainment's Off-B'way productions "Soul Searching" and "Generations"
Currently arranging Black Box Studios' "Out Of Whack: The All-Kids' Rock Musical

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Disco Monkeys are a progressive art band known for its high-energy performances and visual appeal. The band's music has been featured in indie films and they often perform in collaboration with visual artists at private and public events for institutions, galleries and the film industry.  Disco Monkeys create a dialogue between the visual art and their distinctive sound that runs continuously over the course of two hours, with no clear beginning or end, triggering a journey where spectator, artwork and sound coalesce into a collective consciousness.

Oxygen Ensemble is a collective of musicians led by New York bassist Thomas Bell.  For the past ten years, the group has taken an 'improvised collective composition' approach to its music which provides a relentless groove heavily steeped in the traditions of Funk & Free-Jazz, with tinges of Drum n Bass, Hip-Hop, & the experimantal Avant-Garde. The Ensemble's improvisations are reminiscent of Miles Davis' early 70's groups with a modern and futuristic feel. The music is based on rhythm, spontaneous composition and group improvisation which allows exploration of all styles of music and creates a captivating sound that pushes the envelope of today's music.

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Azita Youseffi first made a name for herself on a national scale as the bassist for Chicago’s neo-no wave trio Scissor Girls. After their break-up, she formed the excellent Bride of No No, who released one album before splitting up. Their self-titled posthumous follow-up was released this year by Atavistic with far too little fanfare. Azita moved on by releasing Enantiodromia, a solo album of piano-based tunes which found her much closer to the singer-songwriter tradition than that of New York’s no wave pioneers or the Chicago avant-rock scene. What remained constant, however, is Azita’s distinctive and commanding vocal stylings. 

Animal Hospital. There's a lot of creative potential to be found in the deceptively simple act of repetition. Under the moniker of Animal Hospital, Kevin Micka explores this with little more than an arsenal of effects pedals and other assorted guitar gear. Micka's methodÑadding layers of loops on top of one another until a song emergesÑresembles in concept a Facebook-era Frippertronics. But the songs that Animal Hospital crafts are hospitable enough so as not to require a deep technical knowledge of their experimental underpinnings. Micka's sonic surges, usually summed up under that broad umbrella term of post-rock, range from thunderous, crushing, doom-drenched blasts to spacey, twinkling soundscapes to light, mathy riffs running in rings of recurrence. Whatever atmosphere they reflect, Animal Hospital's songs are always evocative. 

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Sacred Bones Records began in Brooklyn, NY in 2007. The label is dedicated to shedding light to some of the best underground music as well as unearthing lost treasures from years past.

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Jon Herington “Steely Dan’s New Guitar Guy” – arguably one of the most coveted slots in the annals of popular music. Jon played on Steely-Dan’s superb grammy-winning CD, Two Against Nature, and their latest release, “Everything Must Go.”
"Quicksilver guitarist Jon Herington picked, scratched and poked his way to standing ovations..." - Austin Scaggs, Rolling Stone "Herington ...was nothing short of sensational"
- David Sinclair, The Times, London.
Jon has recently finished a world tour with Boz Scaggs.

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With roots in bebop but incorporating the sound and soul of the Rhythm & Blues and Afrobeat, Il Collettivo has created music that defies easy categorization but is swinging, tuneful, and compelling. A highlight of Il Collettivo's live set, "Nonosi" has been known to turn previously indifferent audience members into shouting, dancing, clapping enthusiasts.

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R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations.  Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his recent work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his work reveals the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information.His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

Richard Garet (born in 1972, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a sound and visual artist that currently lives and works in New York City. Garet's sonic works propose that the listener/s engage with the work principally in a mode of active listening. The work usually exists as a stereo or various channel composition, site-specific installation, or performance. For the past years his work has dealt with concerns related to the investigation of aural phenomena, environment, spatial listening, structure, function, natural and evolving processes, and materiality. Garet's interests also had brought him to explore acoustics, psychoacoustics, binaural beats, various recording methods, and establishing proper methods and techniques to achieving the work.  

Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist, composer, and performer who creates sensory environments at the intersection of sound, light, acoustics, and technology. Sadeghi draws from these elements to accentuate time and space, and to play with the awareness that can materialize between their physical properties and the human perception. Sadeghi has used prepared piano, 12 string guitar, found objects, electronics and sound reactive light and video during performances and gallery exhibitions. Sadeghi describes his sound and video works as "animated graphical scores" in which image and sound are created in tandem through a finely tuned generative process, leaving both sources with the capacity to dictate the outcome of one another.

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This selection of works, culled from the collection of the Artist Pension Trust, considers the ways in which music videos have influenced contemporary video art.
with:
Ted Riederer, The Resurrectionists
Rashid Johnson, United Boogie Down Baptist
Rho Jae Oon, Casta Diva
Robert Boyd, "Patriot Act," a chapter from Xanadu
Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Damaged 
Luke Fowler, The Way Out 

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Debut Album On Varese Vintage Records
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Avalable In Europe On Colosseum Records

"There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!"
-- Steve Lillywhite, Producer  (U2, Rolling Stones, Johnny Thunders, XTC)

"If there ever was a rock and roll guitar album that could kick start a sense of rock and roll adrenalin in the tradition of Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders, Mink DeVille and Television, it has to be Steve Conte and the Crazy Truth."- Amazon.com/UK

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