FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER PRESENTS:

Surround Sound Performance Series

psi: "The \_\_\_ who had begun his career as a useful \_\_\_ of the
\_\_\_ court later became the \_\_\_ of \_\_\_ and the \_\_\_ of \_\_\_."

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st at 7pm
596 Broadway, Suite 602, NY, NY 10012/corner of Broadway & Houston
subway: Broadway/Lafayette (F/V), Bleecker (6), Prince St. (N/R)
212-431-1130 (p), 212-431-7693(f)
www.harvestworks.org / contact Carol Parkinson: 212-431-1130

The summer series is free and open to the public. It is generously funded by NYSCA and the newly-formed mediaThe Foundation Inc.

Harvestworks is pleased to announce our Surround Sound Series, a continuation of our "Listen In" Series for Summer 2003. This performance and installation series invites artists to explore the possibilities of a surround sound system in their work. The system is the emerging standard for multi-channel music and installation pieces in museums and galleries. In this series, artists expand boundaries of sound and explore ways to humanize digital technology through interactivity and mixing hi- and lo-tech music production.

"(psi) retains an overall warmth that separates them from the
experimental pack." BUFFALO (NY) ARTVOICE, April 2003

"psi makes landscapes of creepy music." WASHINGTON DC CITYPAPER

psi is a Brooklyn, NY based electro-acoustic trio featuring Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar), and Fritz Welch (drums & amplified percussion). The diverse artistic backgrounds of the members of the group (in sound-installation, music for dance, free improvisation, etc.) have contributed to a unique ensemble sound focusing on dispersal of time, magnified textures, and an ambiguity of originating sound sources as compositional elements. Spontaneity serves as a crucial catalyst for the sounds created collectively, and the time-based arrangement and co-existence of these independent statements creates the dynamic of the music. Freedom of individual expression combined with the subservience to a group identity is the ultimate manifestation of psi. There is no leader.

psi has been performing in New York since spring 2002, and has quickly become a priority project for its members. psi recently completed a Northeast U.S. tour to celebrate the release of "The \_\_\_ who had begun his career as a useful \_\_\_ of the \_\_\_ court later became the \_\_\_ of \_\_\_ and the \_\_\_ of \_\_\_." with performances at Tonic in NYC, Boston, Easthampton MA, Pittsburgh, Buffalo NY, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Baltimore. Upcoming is a fall tour in the US.

Jaime Fennelly is an electronicist, improviser and composer from Brooklyn, NY. Since 2001 Jaime has been collaborating with choreographer/dancer Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. Their projects together have included enter the seen, Sabotage, and most recently I succumb, the culmination of a year's research into the pleasurable delicacy and reckless economy of group improvisation. I succumb will be premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC this May and presented at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia in July. From 2000-2002, Jaime played double bass & electronics with saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo and released their duo record Terpsichorea #2/Duets on Falcata-Galia Recordings. Some of his other previous, current and future collaborators include Amy Denio, Antony, Nicolas Field, Hilmar Jensson, Skuli Sverrisson, Alex Waterman and transatlantic postal collaborations with Richy Midnight. Recent work also includes the performance of composer Chris Peck's graphic scores for John Jasperse Company and David Dorfman Dance. In January of this year, Jaime was the recipient of a 2002 Artist Exploration Fund from Arts International, which was used in conjunction with a three-week residency at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam.

Chris Forsyth (b. 1973) is a Brooklyn, NY based electric guitarist engaged in exploring the possibilities of improvisation in music. He has been working in New York City and performing in the U.S, Germany, Holland, Poland, Switzerland, and Belgium since 1996. Festival performances include the 2001 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the 2003 San Francisco Alternative Music Festival (SFALT), two appearances each at the Big Sur (CA) Experimental Music Festival (1999 & 2001), and Improvised & Otherwise Festival (2002 & 2003). His ongoing projects include a duo collaboration with pianist/acoustic guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante, and the groups All Time Present, W.O.O. Revelator, and psi. He has released more than ten CD projects, often on the Pax Recordings and Evolving Ear labels. Past collaborators include Jeff Arnal, Alessandro Bosetti, Daniel Carter, Dan Dechellis, Wolfgang Fuchs, Chris Heenan, Bonnie Kane, Greg Kelley, Annette Krebs, Bhob Rainey, Assif Tsahar, and Jack Wright. He was the curator of the Bunker Annex Series of improvised and experimental music at the Knitting Factory in New York City, and is a co-organizer of the Improvised & Otherwise Festival of Sound and Form, an annual four-day music, dance, and video event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Drummer/percussionist and visual artist Fritz Welch lives and sustains his practice in Brooklyn, NY. Musically he employs a wide range of traditional drumming devices while also developing a vocabulary derived from homemade and "junk" instruments. He has created site specific installations with sonic components at exhibition spaces in NYC, New Orleans LA, Chicago IL, Vienna AU, Glasgow and Belfast UK, and Prague and Tabor CZ. He is or has been a member of Wi77!n6, Reel-Speed-Artist, Bushwick Trio, Irritating HorseEye, Poppycorn and Dioclese, and the live video group Naval Cassidy and the Hands of Orlak. He has played in improvised music contexts with Jesse Dulman, John Seden, Chris Peck, George Cremacshi, Daniel Carter, Eric Boros, Josh Stevenson, Amy Denio, and Alex Waterman, among others. He organizes concerts and festivals including humansacrifice presents @ Momenta Arts 2000 and 2002 Brooklyn Free Music Festival.

Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Harvestworks' new 5.1 surround sound presentation laboratory is funded by the Booth Ferris Foundation