Pasáž is a new site-specific multimedia work, created for the street Pasáž on 94 Alenbi St. in Tel Aviv, as part of Sound-Art- Pasáž series. The piece is 30 minutes long and will be performed in a loop between 21:00 to 23:00 on June 15 2015.
Maze is an installation-performance by choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, designer Ron Arad and artist Guy Bar-Amotz. I composed the multi -channel sound-score. Commissioned by Turner Contemporary Gallery, it will be presented in Margate Winter Gardens, 11-15 April 2015.
Foot & Mouth (Assaf Gavron, Ram Orion & Ohad Fishof), who release an album every six years since 89′ and hardly ever play live, will be playing a one-off gig in the Berlin in April 13, as part of a literature symposium titled “We don’t forget, we go dancing”.
A sound seminar with guest artist and writer Brandon LaBelle will take place at The Hansen Compound in Jerusalem on March 26 2015, 14:30-17:00. I will be talking about sound in my work, and show the video Nothing. The other speakers are Yoni Niv, Eran Zachcs, Ilan Green & Dani Meir.
AN OLD WOMAN PICKING UP A STONE FROM THE GROUND AND CARRYING IT BACK TO HER HOUSE
A dance piece
Created in collaboration with Noa Zuk; Commissioned and performed by Frontier Danceland, Singapore
AN OLD WOMAN PICKING UP A STONE FROM THE GROUND AND CARRYING IT BACK TO HER HOUSE is a new dance piece commissioned by Singapore’s Frontier Danceland and created in collaboration with Noa Zuk over a 5 weeks residency with the company. It will be premiered in Sota Theater in Singapore at the beginning of November.
Ohad Fishof and Ishai Adar met at The Jerusalem High School for the Arts in the mid-eighties. In 1986, at the age of 17, with Fishof as a vocalist and both him and Adar on synthesizers, they founded the groundbreaking Nosei Hamigbaat, with drummer Alon Cohen and Guitarist Tamir Albert. An unlikely post-punk experimental combo in a musical landscape rooted mostly in MOR rock, they played a major role in the emergence of a local musical counter-culture. Nosei Hamigbaat released two acclaimed albums during the five years of their existence. Since their demise in 1992, their long lasting influence on Israeli culture inspired documentaries, tribute events, academic papers and a novel.
After the break-up of the band, Fishof and Adar turned their separate ways: Fishof as a musician, dancer, performer and visual artist, working and living in London during the Nineties; Adar as a musician and film composer.
Over the years the two kept working together, creating sound installations and collaborating on various dance, performance and video projects. But it was only with the initiation of Bney Hama in 2007, that they rejoined for a second round of song writing and performing.
Formulated as a noisier, slightly eccentric take on the synth-pop duo, Bney Hama’s music is a sharp, highly orchestrated blend of art-pop and electronic minimalism, topped with the spirit and energy of post-punk.
In September 2008 they performed a series of live shows in a ran-down building in central Tel Aviv, as part of the performance and installation art project Memo, created by Fishof for Art TLV, the city’s Biennale. Later that year, Bney Hama self-titled track was released on the CD compilation Studio 01, published as part of a special issue of Studio Art Magazine, with Fishof as guest editor.
Bney Hama’s self-titled debut album was released on Anova Music in December 2011.
An audio-visual song cycle for a solo performer and a screen
HD is a solo performance piece of live sound and video. Echoing in form a corporate slide show presentation, it speaks a poetic, disparate theatrical language of projected infographics and charts, decontexualised mess media templates and basic animation, underscored with unusual song structure, multiple vocal characters, SF folk and noise.
“HD is made of fragments of rare languages and wildlife images, media signs and computer world and finance visual lingo, all alienated in such a way, so that the mind of the spectator can not associate them fully to the known and the familiar. As a result, the spectator is left in an un-historical now, a hazy, defamiliarised data jungle with the key to its original inner logic somehow gone and where new configurations of meaning roam freely. past, present and future are compressed into one dark yet vibrant dimension, inviting and available”. Lion Zalmanson, curator, Print Screen Festival 2014
HD was commissioned by and premiered as part of Print Screen New Media Festival in Holon, Israel. It can be presented on as a standalone, or as one half of a double bill, along the pieceA Lecture on Architecture, a similar-in-format audio-visual lo-tech spectacle.
The full evening performance double bill of HD & A Lecture on Architecture will be presented again in early November as part of Batsheva Dance Company Hosting program. More Details to follow.
In October, Utah’s Repertory Dance Company will premier By The Snake, a new piece by Noa Zuk in collaboration with OF. The piece was created during a month residency with the company in July. The premier will take place at the company’s home theatre, The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, in Salt Lake City.
