Outpost Artists Resources is a non-profit arts organization located in Ridgewood, Queens. We have been serving the arts community since 1990 providing access to video, sound services and new media assistance at well below market rates. In 2003, we began the Cuts and Burns Residency Program, which provides artists with free access to our facility including personal assistance by our staff of video editors, audio engineers, and computer programmers
Outpost Artists Resources supports new creative work through its residencies, and events – its mission is to serve artists in need of technical assistance with video, audio, and physical computing based art projects and to foster a dialogue between visual art and experimental music. Outpost hosts gallery exhibitions, artists talks, screenings and events that pair visual art, video, experimental music, and performance in an effort to bring adventurous audiences challenging interdisciplinary projects.
Fire Over Heaven welcomes light and color improviser Lindsay Packer in collaboration with audio/visual synthesists Fan Letters, and Californian harmonic long tone ensemble, Ecstatic Music Band. Lindsay Packer’s collaboration with Fan Letters, born out of her 2019 residency at Issue Project Room, fuses her real-time interrogations of the possibilities of light, color and projection/perception with Alex Nathanson and musician Dylan Neely’s homemade and hacked re-imaginings of the languages of noise music and expanded cinema…Following in the footsteps of Theater of Eternal Music, Tony Conrad, etc., Californian drone band Ecstatic Music Band, create microtonal, high volume, durational experiences of harmonic space…Please join us!
C.C. organizer, Fire Over Heaven series
7:30pm doors 8:00pm LINDSAY PACKER with FAN LETTERS 9:00pm ECSTATIC MUSIC BAND
Lindsay Packer collaborates with Alex Nathanson and Dylan Neely of Fan Letters in a nonlinear feedback loop of analog/digital chain reactions. Humans and machines interpret, amplify, and reposition one another’s moves. Photovoltaic electromechanical audio synthesis builds the soundtrack for parallel play that resists technological ease and foregrounds the impractical, anti-intuitive nature of creative process. Packer and Fan Letters sculpt sound with light and shape light with sound, creating space for absurdity, rogue behavior, surprises, and moments of reassuring knowns.
Lindsay Packer: Light and color improviser Lindsay Packer crosses sound, light and circumstance in performance, installations, film and video, and photography. A 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, she was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to India in Installation Art and was a two-time Artist-in-Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Packer’s short film Motion at a Distance (sound by Andrew Lee) was supported by a 2019 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) Grant from NYSCA in partnership with Wave Farm and is an official selection of the 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recent solo exhibitions include Phase Space (James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA), Parallel Universe (Chashama One Brooklyn Bridge Park) and Day for Night (Transmitter, Brooklyn). She was a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn) where she collaborated with Fan Letters in Call and Response: Echolocation, her third commissioned work as an ISSUE AIR. Packer received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Fan Letters: Fan Letters is a multimedia collaboration between artist Alex Nathanson and musician Dylan Neely. Their work often combines sound, video, and handmade electromechanical objects into playful and thought-provoking interactive performances. Shows oscillate between noise and chamber music, from experimental cinema to Saturday morning cartoons, and political negotiations to schoolyard games. Fan Letters work has been performed throughout North America and Europe and has been awarded multiple residencies at The Watermill Center. Notable performances of their work have occurred at the Museum of the Moving Image, Film Society of Lincoln Center, La MaMa, and Flux Factory. Their work has been presented by MATA Interval, Queens New Music Festival, and supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Past collaborators include steel pan player Kendall Williams, turntablist Maria Chavez, and The Median Movement.
Ecstatic Music Band: Ecstatic Music Band hails from the eternal sunshine state/s of California. Comprised of a rotating collective of 10+ members, the group performs on both amplified-acoustic and electric stringed instruments using tuning systems derived directly from the overtone series, producing dense and dynamic fields of harmonic interference and reinforcement while searching for a deep consonance amid the flux of microtonal variations, beating tones, difference tones, and psychoacoustic phenomena. They have produced two albums – “Approaching the Infinite” (Fabrica) and “Transmissions of the Sacred and Profane” (Beacon Sound), and will embark on their first tour of Europe, in June ’20.
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