NEWS

Although you might have already seen this on our homepage, we’re going to be doing a twitter campaign during the CODE show tonight.  Please tweet at #AbattoirCode to join the conversation.  If you’re at the show, please tweet your updates, photos, and video snippets to the #AbattoirCode hashtag and we’ll be aggregating them all and adding them to the archive!  Meanwhile, all your updates will be accessible from the widget on our homepage for this week.

Hope to see you at the show tonight!

Abattoir Projects CODE

Abattoir Projects is proud to present CODE at SHEA STADIUM BROOKLYN.

Sunday, Apr. 29 – 7:30pm
SHEA STADIUM BROOKLYN
$8

20 Meadow St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(L train to Grand St.)

With performances by:

RODDY SCHROCK
WOLFGANG GIL
MICHAEL CLEMOW
RUI PEREIRA
JACKSON MOORE

CODE highlights performing artists whose work involves programming computers. From austere, textural compositions to tightly coupled audio visual experiences, CODE will leave you “tumbling down a rabbit hole” of sound. Documentation of this performance will include multi-channel audio, twitter posts with the hashtag #AbattoirCode, and a Github repository for each artist.

Press Release

We’re very happy to announce that NO CARRIER is being added to the bill at the HARDWARE show at Shea Stadium on Saturday Feb. 26th. We hope to see you there.

Abattoir Projects is proud to present HARDWARE at SHEA STADIUM BROOKLYN.

Sunday, Feb. 26 – 8pm
SHEA STADIUM BROOKLYN
$8

20 Meadow St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(L train to Grand St.)

With performances by:

NULLSLEEP
NO CARRIER
CASPER ELECTRONICS
CRUDLABS SOUND SYSTEM
SELECTRONICS

HARDWARE showcases artists whose practice involves the re-contextualization of electronic devices in ways that subvert cultural expectations. Casper Electronics’ circuit-bent instruments modify the functionality of toys enough to constitute a change its use. Nullsleep employs analogue electronics and culturally significant gaming platforms in the production of dystopian soundscapes. Crudlabs Sound System imposes the compositional rhetoric of dance music on electronic actuators and motors, while Selectronics arranges commonplace electronic devices to create a sort of meta-system in critique of “intended use.”

Press Release

Abattoir Projects is proud to present OPEN PIANO at IBeam Brooklyn.

Saturday, Jan. 7 – 8:30pm
IBEAM BROOKLYN
$10 suggested donation

168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(F or R trains to 4th Ave & 9th Street)

With performances by:

ELEONOR SANDRESKY

The Mary Oliver Songs Bk 1: The Return

JP SCHLEGELMILCH

MICHAEL CLEMOW

Structured Improvisations for Piano and DSP

OPEN PIANO is a performance showcasing works of hybrid practice involving the piano. The word “open” refers not only to the position of the lid of the piano, exposing the soundboard and strings, but also to the notion that the Idea of the instrument is available to us to modify in order to create new and unique instruments. This modification is more than just instrumentation, it is a new aspect of composition–it no longer suffices to merely record the notes one plays in one’s score. Rather, the composer must document the creation of a new, hybrid instrument as well as teach the audience how it is played.

Press Release

Welcome to Abattoir Projects!

It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally going to kick it off in 2012 with a series of events and shows that will showcase hybrid-media artists and performers. As our mission statement indicates, we serve artists by producing appropriate, holistic documentation of their works and processes. Part of our journey will be to discover precisely what that actually means, however, the goal is to begin to build a library of documentary material and provide a platform for artists to contextualize their own work.

Artists placing their own work in context is part of the standard curatorial practice at Abattoir Projects. We think that it’s important that the people who have the most intimate knowledge about the work and process of its production–the artists themselves–to have a place to provide the public with their own understanding of the work and it’s context.

We look forward to seeing you at our events!