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Zaimph is the solo project of Marcia Bassett, a New York City artist and musician. In Flaubert's novel Salammbô, the Zaimph is a holy magical veil that guards the statue of the moon goddess Tanit. Bassett appropriated the name in 2003, releasing a handful of CD-Rs on Heavy Blossom. Later CD and LP releases have appeared on numerous independent labels such as Hospital Productions, W.M.O.R, Utech Records, Gypsy Sphinx, and Volcanic Tongue.
Under the Zaimph veil, Bassett predominately uses guitar and vocals to create sounds that shimmer in a dark metallic buzz of sonic noise and drone, before a swift shift into blissed out ragas or crippling, brutal, white-hot noise. The organic improvised elements of Bassett's work leave traces of eerie ghost voices and deep-space echoes that recall the electrified ritual of nomadic Japanese avant-gardists Taj Mahal Travellers -- but more immediately sound like a magnification of her contributions to Double Leopards and Hototogisu, generating towers of electricity that move from malevolent arcs of anti-gravity and spumes of throttled single notes into deep wormholes that do violence to feeble notions of time and space.
Jenny Graf Sheppard is a musician, improviser, filmmaker and sound artist who draws from her diverse areas of interest in the production of work. Using radically different approaches to the use of sound in each project, Graf has made films and music/sound pieces, which directly addresses things such as social spaces, cognition, age and gender. With M.V. Carbon and since several years Jenny Graf is a member of the experimental Duo Metalux.
From 2002 – 2003 Graf designed The Guitars Project in which she engaged a group of women with Alzheimer’s with experimentation on the electric guitar. With several grants from the Chicago City Arts Council, she produced a body of work that explored the outcomes of this project-the social significance for the group- using photography, video and an LP Picturedisc titled "Iconic Distortions", on BoxMedia.
In 2008 Graf and collaborator Chiara Giovando produced an experimental western film Proud Flesh. The 40-minute short includes four lines of dialogue, features a 70-year-old female gunslinger, and includes an original sound score. Proud Flesh will premiere on Sunday - March 22 at GdK/Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 98 (Bus M29/M48/M85 Potsdamer Brücke), 7 pm. Thanks to Klaus W. Eisenlohr (Richfilm/Directorslounge).
artists links:
Interview w/Heatsick
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Performance:
Samstag, 21. März / Zaimph - Jenny Graf - Heatsick
@ Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Alte Brauerei Friedrichshöhe, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin.
Haus mitte links/1. Stock. Beginn: 21 Uhr / 6 öre.
METRO TRAM: M6 & M10.
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Film Screening:
Sonntag, 22. März / Proud Flesh
@ GdK Galerie der Künste, Potsdamer Strasse 98, 19 Uhr.
METRO BUS: M29/M48/M85 bis Potsdamer Brücke.
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