Samara Lubelski & Katherine Liberovskaya
Saturday, September 10 @ 7 PM at LPV
Join us at Le Petit Versailles community garden for performance of live music and video projections from Samara Lubelski and Katherine Liberovskaya.
Samara Lubelski is a musician and occasional sound engineer. Her work is comprised of experimental and moody improvisations with electric violin and guitar. She has played on over 100 releases (LP, CD, single, cassette and digital) and toured both solo and in various projects throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Australia, Central and South America, Finland, E. Europe and Turkey.
Katherine Liberovskaya will screen her 2019 piece titled 3 Island Wind Songs, an audio-video installation that includes elements of the wind and sun of Syros Island, Greece (created during Syros Sound Meetings' Sounding Paths Residency in July 2018).
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Samara Lubelski was born in NYC in 1967, where she was raised, and currently resides. She was classically trained on the violin from childhood, played electric bass and tuba in the school bands at IS70 and studied violin at the High School of Music and Art (Laguardia High School), as well as performing and studying with the World Youth Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary, the New York Youth Symphony, and the All City High School Orchestra, with the New York City Philharmonic.
She formed her first band, Of A Mesh, at the age of 17. From 1984 - 1988 Of A Mesh went on to play numerous gigs at CBGB’S, Danceteria, Irving Plaza, The World etc... Of A Mesh self-released two EPs recorded at Martin Bisi’s studio in downtown Brooklyn. In addition to the violin, Samara Lubelski records and performs on the guitar, bass and vocals. She has released 10 solo records, 7 duo records, with Bill Nace and Marcia Bassett, recorded with Thurston Moore, Beck, Tara Jane O’Neil and Matt Valentine, and played in numerous bands.
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Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian intermedia artist based in New York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80's, she has produced numerous single-channel video art pieces, video installations and video performances, as well as works in other media, that have been shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of moving image with sound/music in various both ephemeral and fixed forms (projections, installations, performances), notably through collaborations with many composers and sound artists in improvised live video+sound concert situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory "music" for the eyes. Frequent collaborators include: Phill Niblock, Dafna Naphtali, Keiko Uenishi, Shelley Hirsch, Barbara Held, Mia Zabelka, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), David Watson, among many others. In addition to her art work she curates events in experimental video/film, sound/music and A/V performance, notably the Screen Compositions evenings at Experimental Intermedia NYC since 2005 and, since 2006 the OptoSonic Tea salons (co-curated with Ursula Scherrer) in NYC and various nomadic locations in North America and Europe as well as on-line during the Covid pandemic. In 2014 she completed a PhD in art practice entitled "Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument" at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).