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2008 ACTIVITIES
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AMBIENT ELSEWHERE
Released 20 September 2008
The Philadelphia based Spacemusic duo The Ministry of Inside Things exist outside the confines of the recording studio and in the realm of the live performance. As MoIT, Art Cohen (guitar) and Chuck van Zyl (synths) continue a tradition of bringing an otherwise methodical studio based artform out into the spontaneity of the performance environment. Their third CD Ambient Elsewhere feels dark and isolated when compared to their two earlier releases. While Everlasting Moment explored the edges, dynamics and tension of space and atmosphere, and Contact Point embraced the more unified themes of cosmic, biospheric and macrocosmic interaction, Ambient Elsewhere moves through a strange new territory in-between and outside of traditional Spacemusic. Drawn from a range of chilling themes, this album sonifies wintertime, desolate landscapes and the soul's midnight. Moving through the timbral badlands of the empty quarter, Ambient Elsewhere offers up a courageous intimacy. Always bringing their own influences and innovation to the music process, MoIT produces a sound that is uniquely individual and personal.
The Ministry of Inside Things released their double CD at the performance at The Gatherings Concert Series. The music from Ambient Elsewhere has been drawn from several recent tour performances and features definitive live versions of classic MoIT pieces like "Love Attack" and "Naylor's Run". This set contains two one hour long suites of spacemusic and easily flows through a variety of themes, energy levels and styles.
The Gatherings Concert Series presents
The Ministry of Inside Things w/Mahoney + Peck live in concert on
Saturday 20 September 2008 at 8:00pm at
St. Mary's Hamilton Village 3916 Locust Walk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For complete details, please access:
http://www.thegatherings.org
http://www.synkronosmusic.com
AxD ANNUAL
18 July to 23 August 2008
Artwork from from many of AxD Gallery's past shows will be on display in a Summer retrospective. Expect to see work from Marjorie Tether Arendt, Austin Dodson, Peter Hayes, Vincent McLoughlin, Emma Dodge Hanson, Sheldon Drake, Kimberlee Traub, Peter G.-Ray, Christine Stoughton, Tom Whalen and Chuck van Zyl.
AxD Gallery
265 S. 10th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday Noon to 6:00pm
Telephone: (215) 627-6250
Saturday 17 May 2008
Chuck van Zyl will perform a solo set of electronic music at First Night Out presented by The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia on Saturday 17 May 2008. This concert will incorporate projections of van Zyl's recent series of infrared photographs.
The Gatherings Concert Series presents
First Night Out (CIMA of PA Benefit Concert)
Saturday 17 May 2008 at 8:00pm in
The Church Sanctuary of St. Mary's Hamilton Village
3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
March 2008
Memoryspace: Infrared Photography by Chuck van Zyl will be shown for the month of March 2008 at Brenner's Brew in Bridgeton, NJ. Van Zyl transposes his sensibilities for a visual audience using infrared sensitive black & white film. The show includes formal gardens, seashores, cemeteries and various types of seemingly "abandoned" landscapes.
Chuck van Zyl, a native of the Philadelphia area, came to the medium and subject matter of this show intuitively. One need only hear the art for which he is best known to recognize a common sensibility. Chuck has hosted WXPN radio's Star's End show for over a quarter century, coordinates The Gatherings concert series, as well as records and performs of his own electronic music. With a healthy curiosity towards all things otherworldly and timeless, it's no wonder he's attracted to the odd realm of infrared photography. Seeing his photos for the first time one is struck with the synchronicity or parallelism of presence and absence - belief and suspension of belief. Chuck's work isn't scripted. It speaks to a more fundamental sense of emotions - to wonder and an open-ended world of possibilities.
The opening reception for Memoryspace will be on Friday 7 March 2008 from 6 to 8:30 pm. The show continues through the month of March 2008.
Brenner's Brew
21 E. Commerce Street
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30am-3:30pm
Friday, 7:30am-5:30pm
Saturday, 8:00am-4:00pm
Telephone: (856) 451-5885
Read Photographer Focuses on Things Humans Can't Normally See by John Martins in the 1 March 2008 issue of the Press of Atlantic City
Read Philadelphia's Van Zyl displays "Infrared" art by Courtney McCann in the 6 March 2008 issue of the Press of Atlantic City
27 January to 9 March 2008
One of the longest running exhibitions of its kind in Philadelphia, Woodmere Art Museum's Annual Juried Exhibition offers a range of artistic styles and techniques. The 2008 exhibition Guest Juror is Stephen Talasnik.
The photo Sphere by Chuck van Zyl originated on infrared film and printed on silver gelatin resin coated Ilford multi-contrast paper. The print has been signed by the artist, dated, numbered and archivally mounted with acid-free museum board matting. Image size is 15" x 22". Framed, the print is 22"x28".
Sphere will appear in Woodmere Art Museum's 68th Annual Juried Exhibition - 27 January to 9 March 2008 (Opening Reception: 26 January, 5-7pm)
Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Sunday, 1-5 pm
Closed Mondays and Major Holidays
Telephone: (215) 247-0476
Previous Exhibition:
Among Cenotaphs and Angels A-x-D Gallery, Philadelphia Winter 2007
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