EVENTS

TUESDAY - Opening Night Preview & New Museum Benefit, December 2, 2008

8–10pm:
Special Performance by
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (CFTPA)
with set by DJ N-RON
NADA Stage

Ongoing:
Jan Mioduszewski, Blowin’ in the Wind
lokal_30 (Booth G2)

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (CFTPA) is the beats-and-keys solo project of singer, song-writer and Chicago resident, Owen Ashworth. Drawing heavy influence from traditional Americana as well as 80’s synth pop and com-mercial hip hop, the music of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is a curious mix of austere character studies and playful electronic programming.

Ashworth’s most recent album, Etiquette, changed the focus from a decidedly utilitarian aesthetic to a broader production spectrum that finally gave his affecting song writing the space it deserves. In collaboration with producers and musicians like Jherek Biscoff (of The Dead Science and Degenerate Art Ensemble) and Jason Quever (The Papercuts and Pan American Recording Studio), the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth’s signature elec--tronics and drum machines. Live, Owen Ashworth recreates his recordings using a makeshift dub soundsystem. Glitchy drum machine rhythms, battery-operated synths, melodic loops, and hand-triggered samples are routed through various echo boxes and filters to accompany his slow, deliberate vocal style.

Daniel Perlin, aka DJ N-RON, is an artist and sound designer based in Brooklyn, New York. DJ N-RON has performed and recorded with dj/rupture, Vito Acconci, Damo Suziki (CAN), M.Sayyid, and is currently completing his second album The Pure Capital mixtape to be released on Giant Corporate records in January, 2009.

Jan Mioduszewski is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, installation and performance. Born in 1974, he lives and works in Poland. Mioduszewski has conceived of a particular notion of “still performance” during which his costume works as a mirror image and extension of a painting hung on the wall. He is also works under the moniker of “Furniture Factory”, an imaginary artistic enterprise.