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Shapeshifters Cinema presents Thad Povey and Mark Taylor with Henry PlotnickPost an Event »
Temescal Art Center
September 11 - September 11, 2016Info
511 48th Street Oakland, CA 94609 Google Map »
The Octoplayer by Thad Povey and Mark Taylor
The Octoplayer is a sound and performance sculpture that plays eight vinyl records at once. The machine simultaneously (and independently) came in dreams to artist-tinkerers Thad Povey and Mark Taylor in late 2010. After comparing their separate visions and sketches, the two decided to collaborate on the design and fabrication of the shared hallucination. This program, titled Chronicle of a Dream Device, features a selection of recent videos by Povey and Taylor, some newly imagined with live Octoplayer accompaniment. The evening includes a special guest appearance by improvisational keyboard wunderkind, Henry Plotnick.