The Glass Bees

Performance: March 10, 2012 at The Old Stone House, with Ranjit Bhatnagar, Andrea Williams, and Dan Joseph

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:28:50 PST

We’ll be performing on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8:00pm, at The Old Stone House in Park Slope Brooklyn, alongside Ranjit Bhatnagar, Andrea Williams, and Dan Joseph.

Admission is $5-10 sliding scale. BYOB.

“The artists will perform in various combinations and pairings.”

The Old Stone House is in the middle of J.J. Byrne Park, between Third and Fourth Streets and Fourth and Fifth Avenues. The official adress is 336 Third Street

Performance: The Privatization of Desire. Live at 19ths Loft, on May 12, 2011

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:36:29 PDT

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Nord Lead II, bass guitar, Sonic Wire, excerpts of Rebecca Solnit and Peter Coyote in conversation, field recordings, Bloom, pre-recorded piano, delay, etc.

Other performers (all recommended) that night were Hey Exit, Hora Flora, and sometime Glass Bee Andrea Williams.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

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Eagle Rock

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:40:48 PDT

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field recordings, bass guitar, Nord Lead II, Bloom, delay, etc.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

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Because Tomorrow Disaster May Come

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:31:40 PDT

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field recordings, Nord Lead II, SunVox, delay, etc.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

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Spinning

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:49:30 PST

guitar, cello, Lake Piano, field recorders, WMD Geiger Counter, delay, amplifiers, etc.

Soundtrack performed live to prepared video at One Thousand Pulses, September 25, 2010

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

Performance: September 25, at One Thousand Pulses in Woodcliff Lake, NJ

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:09:47 PDT

Earlier this year, we discovered a special venue hiding out amidst the suburban dreamland of Bergen County, NJ. Curated by Darren Bergstein, formerly the editor of e/i Magazine, One Thousand Pulses is a home concert series featuring artists operating throughout the spectrum of electronic and experimental music.

The Glass Bees are excited to have been selected to perform in this intimate venue alongside Color Is Luxury, a Philadelphia-based duo of Charles Cohen (on Buchla synthesizer!) and hair_loss (circuit bending, etc.). We’ll be presenting a live improvisation using field recordings, cello, guitar, iPhone, and other electronics, and have been preparing some video to set the mood. Here are the details:

Saturday, September 25
Doors at 7:30, Sounds start at 8:00
at One Thousand Pulses
9 Edward Place
Woodcliff Lake, NJ [map]

Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. (We realize it’s a bit steep, but will do our best to make it worth your support, and anything we take home will go straight back into the Bees.) Advance tickets and additional information are available by visiting the One Thousand Pulses website. If you’re thinking of coming, you might want to consider ordering in advance because this is a very small space with limited capacity.

Performance: “Reading Governors Island,” June 12-13, 2010

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:09:44 PST

On June 12th and 13th, 2010, the Glass Bees presented an interactive, site-specific performance on Governor’s Island, a former military facility just off the southern tip of Manhattan, as part of the FIGMENT festival. “Reading Governors Island” combined sound, images, and audience-contributed spoken word in to explore the island’s history within the context of an interactive multimedia performance.

“Reading Governors Island” Day Two

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:24:44 PDT

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field recordings, voices, etc.

Recorded live on Governor’s Island as part of the FIGMENT festival.

Photo by Anthony Zic.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

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“Reading Governors Island” Day One

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:24:03 PDT

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field recordings, voices, etc.

Recorded live on Governor’s Island as part of the FIGMENT festival.

Photo by Greg Harrison, who also contributed to this performance.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Greg Harrison, Jason Das

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Finders Keepers

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:04:09 PDT

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field recordings, synthesizers, carpet, harmonica, delay, amplifiers, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das

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Every Time I Wake Up

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:45:24 PDT

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voices, field recordings, WMD Geiger Counter, Loud Objects Noise Toys, delay, amplifiers, etc.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das

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Performance: ScrapCycle Opening, May 7, 2010

glassbees@glassbees.com (The Glass Bees) — Sat, 01 May 2010 10:15:09 PDT

We’ll be performing with Ranjit Bhatnagar on his handmade instruments along with other instruments (mostly made in factories in China or Japan) at the opening of the ScrapCycle show at Devotion Gallery In Williamsburg.

This performance will be more open-ended and expansive than our March performance which was dedicated to demonstrating some of these instruments.

Bora Yoon and Tom Vanderwall will also be performing.

The opening opens at 7:00 p.m. on May 7th at Devotion Gallery, located at 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206. The price of admission is a used water bottle, which they may be using for some project or perhaps to serve you the complementary refreshments.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).