04.01.2006 Bushwick Art Project Fundraiser on April 8th [Events]
“This neighborhood deserves its own festival on the regular, so BAP’s got this together to raise the capital we need to make it happen right this June.”
Chaise News: Events
10.17.2005 Chaise in DC! [Events]
It’s a party! We’re breaking out of Brooklyn and going crazy in DC. Save the date, hope to see you there!
Starkey :: philly
grime, gettotech, hip-hop
winner, 2005 DC laptop battle
Seismologist :: brooklyn
circuit-bent scary deep dark dub
dj_methodikal :: virginia
toy-drumcore chaise friend-of-the-family
Unabomba :: brooklyn
ft. Lion and AWOL :: maryland
glitch-hop / dancehall w/ ragga + dirty south emcees
Food for Animals :: Maryland
noise-hop
Thursday, November 10, 2005
DC9
1940 9th St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Show at 9:30pm
21+, $7
08.17.2005 Organized Glitch Brown Pleasurehorse Dragons [Events]
Before September comes, get your fix of aural and visual electronic media from these fantastic Chaise Two artists. They’re a busy bunch – make sure you make the leap to their personal websites, most all of them have put great mp3s and videos on their sites for you to taste. These events are in the east coast, but check back in a bit for September/October international performances!
ORGANIZED COLOR INTOXICATION
Organized Color Intoxication is a multimedia installation by Jonathan Zalben that incorporates live instrumentalists, video projections, and audience participation. OCI will be exhibited in East Harlem August 17 through 20 with artwork by James De La Vega and in various Lower Manhattan locations on August 23 and 26.
For full event details and documentation, visit Jonathan’s website
Glitch Party
August 26 – An all night party at the Knitting Factory, NYC, featuring
- richard devine
- jimmy edgar
- datach’i
- hearts of darknesses
- chaise wonderstar handshake
- dj sets by: alex english, jedi, and g.rizo
more information on the glitch party page
Wilson Brown
Wilson will be performing in the states two more times before flying away to Sao Paulo (hopefully not forever).
- August 23 – Grape Street, Manyunk, Philadelphia, PA
- August 31 – The Living Room Lounge, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
For a preview, check out his podcast
Lucky Dragons
August 27 – AS220, Providence, RI
greenlee
Performing as Pleasurehorse, with Duran Duran Duran and more!
August 27 – May-n-Kevin-4eva, 109 Matthewson St., Providence, RI
07.22.2005 Dancing Dogs and Snake Boxing [Events]
A special treat tonight! Rooftop Films is screening Chaise Two feature, Freestyle on the lawn of the Automotive High School. Elena Elmoznino’s documentary profiles members of the World Canine Freestyle Organization – people who dance with (and bear a striking resemblance to) their dogs. Also playing tonight is Tom Tavee’s Kiss My Snake, a doc about the dangerous performance-sport of snake-boxing.
Friday, July 22nd, 2005 – 50 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
8:30 – Live music
9:00 – Snake boxers in Thailand slap cobras for kicks!
Check out a video preview of Freestyle here.
Directions, tickets ($8), information, and everything are all available at Rooftop’s site We’ll be there handing out copies of Chaise Two and enjoying the films on a giant projection screen and big speakers in the fresh air (and the B61 bus passing by periodically).
07.09.2005 ‘Four Star Day’ On The Roof! [Events]
Four Star Day, Chris Keating and Grady Owens’ brilliant short film featured on Chaise Two, is being shown tonight at Rooftop Films! Some of us will be there handing out free copies of Chaise, and some of us will be off playing a super awesome rock concert at southpaw! Directions, tickets, information, and everything are all available at Rooftop’s site. So long world!
06.30.2005 ‘Red Things’ On the Roof [Events]
Max Porter’s Red Things is being shown at Rooftop Films friday night in Williamsburg! It is being screened as part of “Dark Toons,” a collection of animation (possibly distrubing), all of which look to be very awesome! It’s going down at the Automotive High School, 50 Bedford Ave. Some opening live music from The Couriers kicks off at 8:30 with the films beginning at 9pm. For tons and tons of details about Dark Toons as a whole, and film by film, go here. For directions, here. For Alternative Means Of Travel, here or here. Also! Rooftop Films has some generally awesome screenings coming up this patriotic weekend including music from The Mountain Goats, as well as other screenings featuring CHAISE artists (and free copies of our magazine) July 9th and July 22nd.
06.02.2005 Truckazine [Events]
On Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5, several independent magazines will hit the streets of New York, selling their publications out of a fruit-stand-style pickup truck called Truckazine.
Bomb, Ballyhoo Stories. Cabinet, Chaise, Implicasphere, Open City, Pierogi Press, The Relay Project, Small Spiral Notebook, and Stay Free! are a dynamic group of New York-based magazines, with content ranging from fiction and poetry, to artwork and sound, to cultural criticism and politics. Truckazine will travel the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, stopping at various sidewalk and park locations, tempting passersby with a delectable array of magazines and journals.
A reading featuring Joshua Beckman, Brian Dewan, Lynne Tillman, and others will take place on Sunday, 6 pm, at the corner of Bedford & Lorimer, McCarren Park, Williamsburg.
Check the full schedule here
05.22.2005 Rooftop Films [Events]
The good people at Rooftop Films have announced their 2005 Summer Series. Starting Friday, June 3, they’re screening underground and independent films on Brooklyn rooftops every week. Screenings include “Tape Freak” on July 29 curated with Electronics Arts Intermix, the Found Footage Film Fest on August 5, a night on Governor’s Island, and a Booze Cruise (your chance to watch films while floating on the Hudson).
Chaise will be there on the following nights, handing out copies of chaise two
- July 9: Nick Peterson & The Clouds: Rainy day films from the Pacific Northwest, four star day and red things will be screened
- July 22: Kiss My Snake: a documentary on the Thai performance-sport of snake-boxing, freestyle will be screened
04.28.2005 START IT UP! [Events]
Those kooky cats at Repellent can’t stop or won’t stop the boogie.
Get your swank on at Rothko with these kids if you know what’s good for you.
Repellent presents START IT UP! | May 5th, Rothko
04.25.2005 Bent 2005 [Events]
If you’re in New York on April 27 – 30, check out the BENT 2005 Circuit Bending Festival. Spaceworks at The Tank will play host to a full schedule of performances, demonstrations, and hands on workshops related to the art of circuit bending.
Circuit bending refers to the act of modifying the circuitry of battery-powered children’s toys to create strange, new, and unintended sounds for creative purposes. Bent offers open circuit bending labs everyday and a number of free workshops with delightful topics like Cassette-looptapes and pitch-shifting Walkmans, Gameboy Hacking Workshop, and Nintendo NES Hacking Workshop.