Interactive Sound Performance with David Horvitz and Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu

Titled ‘I’, lighthouse waiting for storms. (from a poem by Etel Adnan), David Horvitz and Jamie Stewart from the band Xiu Xiu present their fourth collaboration this year. Using modular synthesizers, ice cream bells, chimes, coconuts, and glass bottles, they create a participatory sound installation emulating the sound of a violent storm arriving from the sea and smashing into the shore. Viewers are encouraged to play the instruments or to just listen.

About Jamie Stewart

Jamie Stewart was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and is a musician and naturalist.
He is best known for his work in the band Xiu Xiu. He has released over 50 recorded works, scored films for John Cameron Mitchell, Dennis Cooper and Susanne Sachsse and collaborated with artists Danh Vo, Phil Collins and David Horvitz.
Xiu Xiu has, for the past 15 years, toured the world and played concerts on every continent with the exception of Antarctica.
In his spare time Stewart writes and publishes highly regarded volumes of haiku, makes colored pencil drawings of fruit and vegetables with eyes and a mouth and holds a PhD in ornithology from Cornell.

About David Horovitz

David Horvitz is an American artist whose work seamlessly shift across a range of media. He is known for performance pieces that span weather, gastronomy, travel, measurement, pickpockets, and public space. He deliberately counters patterns derived from professionalization and efficiency.