Peace Noise (2007) dir. Joe Grimm Ben Russell
After touring extensively through Europe with PEACE NOISE and appearing at festivals in Bordeaux and Madrid in their newest incarnation, lightnoise duo MAZES come to the MCA for their first Chicago performance. Positioned behind a fistful of audio circuits and a pair of 16 mm film projectors, media artist Ben Russell sprays white light in pulsating patterns onto your optic nerves, shaping sound and eyebeam with fingers, hands that intercede between lens and screen. A photons throw away, sound artist Joe Grimm weaves a tangle of handbuilt electronics into a skin of noise, a further manifestation of light pattern and intensity as real time audio. Light is sound is light, cause and effect and chaos and hypnosis, again and again and again.
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