6th Annual Transmodern Festival - Live.Art.Action

Ami Dang is a South-Asian American musician and multimedia artist born and raised in Glen Arm, Maryland. Her work shifts between electronic and acoustic music, installation, movement, video, and various intermedia forms.  Currently, she is focused on solo performance that combines experimental music notions with North Indian classical sentiments to create a unique one-woman show. Having studied North Indian classical vocals and sitar for over ten years in the United States and Delhi, India, she conjures a 21st century spell of sounds further influenced by ambient, noise, and minimal musics.  In 2005, she became a disciple (for sitar) of Dr. Anupam Mahajan of the Senia Ghurana.  A year later she graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree in technology in music and related arts.

In 2005 and 2006, she completed two multimedia performance productions.  She directed, composed, and choreographed Unee Sau Churaasee, a one-act performance for video installation, music, and six dancers about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots of Delhi, India. She also created a performance about consumption in contemporary society entitled Reception, a show for viewer-interactive installation using MIDI sensors and five music video shorts.  Last year, shereleased a tour-only EP Because You Rained On Me, and she is currently working on a full-length album.

Ami is often thinking about Sikh spirituality and performance, how children become adults, the sounds of the body, hair, perceptions of the self and the other, translation of information, the public vs. the private, brown identities, beauty, otherness, and good beats.

Ball Movement 09, Baltimore Cup
A life size Foosball game 

created by:
Michael Benevento, and Andrew Liang

Project team:
Eamon Espey, Lisa Krause, John Bohl, Joana Kopczyk, Michael Carpenter, Krysten Watson, Miranda Pfeiffer, Matt Lohry, Jeff McGrath, Jeff Timlin, Emmanuel Nicolaidis, Stev Santillan, Adam Montegut, Erin Gleeson, and Madeline Poole, and Monique Crabb

Harnesses created by:
Risa Ono, Melanie Lester

Performers:
Harness Assistants:  Emmanuel Nicolaidis, Jeff Timlin, Krysten Watson, Risa Ono, Melanie Lester, Michael Carpenter, Miranda Pfeiffer, Joana Kopczyk

Ball Boys:  Matt Lohry, Mitchell Goodrich, John Bohl, Adam Montegut

MC: Jeff Mcgrath

Sound Effect/ DJ:  Stev Santillan, Martin Kasey.

Videographer/Photographer: Andy Shenker and Monique Crabb

David Moré currently works in Chicago, Illinois. His work is often a result of experiments with ordinary objects to produce sound. The end result of these experiments, ideally, exposes the listener to subtle sonic events occuring all around them.

Gary Kachadourian works for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, sometimes curates exhibitions and is a working artist.

Gary Kachadourian will be selling a life-sized poster of a cinder block wall from a card table. This poster was created to enable the purchaser to alter his or her living space so that it may feel like a basement, institutional stairwell, laundromat, prison cell, back of shopping center, or other cinder block related space. The poster is a Xerox reproduction of a lovingly hand drawn rendition of a 4 x 5 foot section of wall.