Visiting Artists

Claire Elizabeth Barratt - movement [Asheville NC]

Co - laptop [Laussane CH]

Amelie Brodeur - flute [Montreal QC]

Jill Burton - voice [Gainesville FL]

Dustin Carlson - guitar [Brooklyn NY]

Steve Dalachinsky - poet [New York NY]

Shayna Dulberger - upright bass [Brooklyn NY]

Dave Grollman - drums [New York NY]

Chester Hawkins - electronics [Washington DC]

Bob Hubbard - drums [Utica NY]

Bonnie Kane - sax [Brooklyn NY]

Valerie Kuehne - voice, cello [Brooklyn NY]

Robo Rob - DJ [Philadelphia PA]

Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics [San Francisco CA]

Katherine Liberovskaya - video [New York, NY]

Evan Lipson - upright bass [Chattanooga TN]

Dave Miller - drums [Brooklyn NY]

Joey Molinaro - violin [Brooklyn NY]

Ras Moshe - sax, flute [New York NY]

Emilie Mouchous - electronics [Montreal QC]

Nikola Ragusa - flute [Montreal QC]

Robo Rob - DJ [Philadelphia PA]

Chris Welcome - guitar [Brooklyn NY]

Matt Weston - drums [Albany NY]

Jack Wright - saxes [Easton PA]


Local Artists

Dirk Adams - voice, electronics

Mitch Ahern - electric arm and a leg, linoprints [Swampscott MA]

Andy Allen - reeds [Jamaica Plain MA]

Mira Allen- chef, poet [the whole wide world]

Seth Bailin- reeds, bass, drums [Lowell MA]

Ryan Baker- toys [Andover MA]

Ellen Band- laptop [Somerville MA]

Marc Bisson- guitar [Manchester NH]

Jane Boxall-Allen - drums [Burlington VT]

Rick Breault - laptop [Lowell MA]

Erik Brown - electronics [Northhampton MA]

Joe Brown - guitar [Lowell MA]

Todd Brunel - reeds [Boston MA]

Lou Bunk - styrofoamophone [Boston MA]

Joe Burgio - movement [Somerville MA]

Olivia Close - bass [Lowell MA]

Lou Cohen - laptop [Cambridge MA]

Jesse Collins - trumpet [Boston MA]

Michael F Dailey Jr - drums, guitar, voice [Lowell MA]

Peter Eliopolis - poet [Lowell MA]

Flandrew Fleisenberg - drums [Boston MA]

ARKM Foam - various [Jamaica Plain MA]

Kevin Frenette - guitar [Boston MA]

Junko Fujiwara - cello [Haverhill MA]

Mike Funaiole - analog synth [Lowell MA]

Forbes Graham - trumpet [Roslindale MA]

Luther Gray - drums [Boston MA]

Tom Hall - sax [Boston mA]

James Ham - synthesizer [Fitchburg MA]

Keiichi Hashimoto - trumpet [Allston MA]

HEXbeam - video [Boston MA]

Michael Hoerman - poet [Lowell MA]

Jimmy Hughes - analog synth [Jamaica Plain MA]

Joshua Jefferson - sax [Jamaica Plain MA]

Mark Johnson - electronics [Jamaica Plain MA]

Paul Kafka-Gibbons - movement [Somerville MA]

Christos Koulendos - electronics [Lowell]

Gregory Kowalski - video [Newburyport MA]

Kate Lee - guitar [Jamaica Plain MA]

Alyshia Lien - live art [Lowell MA]

Setheyny Loeub-Pen - drums [Lowell MA]

Corey Luebbers - live art [Chelsmford MA] 

Peter Negroponte - drums [Boston MA]

Andrew Neumann - laptop, electronics [Boston MA]

Heather Noeker - keys, guitar [Nashua NH]

Steve Norton - reeds, toy piano, electronics [Medford MA]

Lindsey Parker - live art [Chelmsford MA] 

Andrea Pensado - laptop, voice [Salem MA]

Dave Robinson - poet [Lowell MA]

Zach Root - bass guitar [Lowell MA]

Matt Samolis - flute [Boston MA]

Angela Sawyer - voice, suitcase [Boston MA]

Dave Seidel - electronics [Peterborough NH]

Abdul Hamid Sherzai - electronics [Worcester MA]

Jed Speare - laptop [Boston MA]

Eric Stewart - guitar [Somerville MA]

Crank Sturgeon - himself [Williamstown MA]

Abram Taber - bass [Somerville MA]

Id m Theftable - himself [Portland ME]

Emile Tobenfeld - video [Framingham MA]

Victoria Valente - live art [Lowell MA]

Jeffu Warmouth - drums, mustache [Worcester MA]

Dei Xhrist - voice, electronics [Manchester NH]   

 


XFest 2013

 

Friday-Sunday February 22-24 @ 119 Gallery, UnchARTed, LTC

Improvised music, visuals, movement, and poetry.   

Free 


119 Gallery presents XFest 2013, a festival of improvised music, visuals, movement, and poetry. The format of the festival is simple and challenging: 25 visiting artists and 70 local artists perform. On Friday and Saturday evening there are 10 half-hour sets that feature visiting artists with local artists at 119 Gallery. This year, on Saturday afternoon visiting and local poets read with the musicians at UnchARTed Gallery. On Sunday afternoon local bands will play at Lowell Telecommunications Corp.

Throughout the festival the galleries present special exhibits of 2D work by Mitchel Ahern, Denise Manseau, Joe Burgio, Denise Manseau, and Id m Theftable.

"Improvisation can give us the skills to deal with many social and aesthetic issues of the twenty-first century. Although we have become adept at talking about aesthetic hybridity, cultural alerity, crossing borders (both earthly and cyber), and global fusion; few of us have really studied what physical and intellectual practice will make our bodies and minds ready for this brave new world ... Improvisation can lead us out of our habitual responses by opening up alternative experiences - new physical sensations and appetites ... Although this practice begins with attentiveness to corporeal experience it also develops a mental flexibility that can provide an intellectual map with which to chart new pathways for negotiating awkward and difficult crossings." ~ Ann Cooper Albright, Taken By Surprise
 

Friday February 22

The first day of XFest. It begins in the evening at 119 Gallery with 10 1/2hr sets. Visiting artists/performers are grouped with local artists/performers. The process is somewhat random. The general rule is that you play with people you have never played with before. A number of sets include movement and all the sets have live video.

 

  8:00pm Lou Cohen - laptop, Abdul Hamid Sherzai - electronics; Chris Welcome - guitar; Matt Weston - drums
  8:30pm Mark Johnson - electronics; Dirk Adams - voice, electronics; Chester Hawkins - electronics; Dave Grollman - snare drum
  9:00pm Mike Funaiole - analog synth; Forbes Graham - trumpet; Nikola Ragusa - flute; Dave Scanlon - guitar; Luther Gray- drums
  9:30pm Jill Burton - voice; Co - laptop; Andy Allen - sax; Tom Hall - sax; Mitch Ahern - homebrew instruments
10:00pm Joey Molinaro - violin; Ras Moshe - sax, flute; Kevin Frenette - guitar; Ryan Baker - toys; Evan Lipson - upright bass
10:30pm open slot; James Ham - synthesizer; Shayna Dulberger - upright bass, electronics; Jane Boxall-Allen - drums
11:00pm Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics; Emilie Mouchous - electronics; Olivia Close - bass; fleisenberg - drums
11:30pm Tom Hamilton - electronics; Erik Brown - electronics; Marc Bisson - guitar; Rick Breault - laptop; Bob Hubbard - drums
12:00am Bonnie Kane - sax, flute; Jesse Collins - trumpet; Lou Bunk - styrofoamophone; Valerie Kuehne - cello; Michael F Dailey Jr - drums
12:30am ARKM Foam - himself; Amelie Brodeur - flute; Jimmy Hughes - analog synth; Joe Brown - bass; Dave Miller - drums 

 

Movement by Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Joe Burgio and Andrew Duncan. Live video projection by Katherine Liberovskya, Gregory Kowalski and Emile Tobenfeld. Between sets DJs DA and Robo Rob.  

 

 

Saturday February 23 

The second and the busiest day of the festival starts with brunch at UnchARTed, followed by an afternoon of performances featuring visiting artists. It begins with a series of Fluxus performances followed by Jazz and Poetry.

 

Again, the evening features 10 1/2hr sets at 119 Gallery. In each visiting artist/performers are grouped with local artist/performers. A number of sets include movement and all the sets will have live video.

 

12:00pm Brunch at UnchARTed, provided with help from The Sock Hop.

 

  1:30pm Fluxus Performance: Id m Theftable, Crank Sturgeon
  2:00pm Local Poets: Mira Allen, Peter Eliopolis, Michael Hoerman, and Dave Robinson with Rick Breault - laptop; Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics; Walter Wright - drums + Joe Burgio, Paul Kafka-Gibbons and Gordon Marshall with Joshua Jefferson - saxes; fleisenberg - drums
  3:00pm Visiting Poets: Steve Dalichinsky with Ras Moshe - flute, sax; Dustin Carlson - guitar; Evan Lipson- upright bass; Bob Hubbard - drums + Yuko Otomo with Shayna Dulberger - upright bass
  4:00pm Apocalypso: Joe Burgio - movement; Shayna Dulberger - upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome - guitar; Walter Wright - electronics
  4:30pm Jack Wright Group: Jack Wright - sax; Ron Stabinsky - piano; Ben Wright - upright bass; Johnny McLellan - drums

 

 6:00pm Doors open at 119 Gallery

 

  8:00pm Emilie Mouchous - electronics; Jed Speare - laptop; Ellen Band - laptop; Dave Miller - drums
  8:30pm Co - laptop; Kate Lee - guitar; Shayna Dulberger - upright bass, electronics; Setheyny Loueb-Pen - drums
  9:00pm Jill Burton - voice; Andrew Neumann - laptop; Keiichi Hashimoto - trumpet; Steve Norton - reeds; Dave Grollman - snare drum
  9:30pm Chester Hawkins - electronics; open slot; Andrea Pensado - laptop; Peter Negroponte - drums
10:00pm Bonnie Kane - sax, flute; Angela Sawyer - voice, objects; Dave Seidel - electronics; Evan Lipson - upright bass; Matt Weston drums
10:30pm Ras Moshe - sax, flute; Nikola Ragusa - flute; Matt Samolis - flute; Abram Taber - bass; open slot
11:00pm Valerie Kuehne - voice, cello; Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics; Dei Xhrist - voice electronics; Crank Sturgeon - himself; Heather Noeker - whatever is appropriate
11:30pm Todd Brunel - clarinet; Joshua Jefferson - saxes; Dustin Carlson - guitar; Christos Koulendos - electronics; Jeffu Warmouth - drums
12:00am Amelie Brodeur - flute; Junko Fujiwara - cello; Joey Molinaro - violin; Jingjing Zhou - piano; Zach Root - bass guitar; Seth Bailin - drums
12:30am Id m Theftable - himself; Dave Scanlon - guitar; Chris Welcome - guitar; Eric Stewart - guitar; Bob Hubbard - drums  

 

Movement by Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Joe Burgio and Paul Kafka-Gibbons. Live video projection by Katherine Liberovskya, HEXbeam and Gregory Kowalski. Between sets DJs DA and Robo Rob.       

 


Sunday February 24

The final day of the festival begins with brunch. The afternoon features local artists and bands.

 

12:00pm Brunch @ Lowell Telecommunications Corp

  2:00pm BiRdOrGaN: Marc Bisson - guitar; deiX - vocals, electronics; Mike Funaiole - analog synth; Gregory Kowalski - live video; Michael F Dailey Jr - drums
  2:45pm Steamfunk: Junko Fujiwara - cello; Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics; Andrea Pensado - voice, laptop; Angela Sawyer - voice, objects
  3:30pm Conjoined Twins + 1: Crank Sturgeon joined with Id m Theftable + Steve Norton - reeds, toy piano, electronics, percussion and celesta
  4:15pm O-AM: ARKM Foam - himself; Stephanie Lak - voice, electronics; Walter Wright - electronics, drums
  5:00pm Guerilla Toss: Kassie Carlson - vocals; Ian Kovac - synthesizer; Peter Negroponte - electronic drum kit; Simon Hanes - bass; Arian Shafiee - guitar

Supported by the artists, Lowell Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

 

119 Gallery promotes contemporary and new media art, innovative ideas and cutting-edge techniques with a rich and diverse program of exhibitions, performances and community-based arts services. We welcome everyone to explore and experience new, innovative art.


119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St, Lowell MA  
www.119gallery.org