June 9, 2011
9:00 pm	to	11:59 pm

FORWARD MOTION THEATER presents
EyeWash *Digital Hearts*

Live Bands and Visual Artists!
Thursday, June 9th, 9:00pm – midnight
$5 at the door
R BAR ~ 218 Bowery St (Between Prince and Spring), NYC

tonight’s audio and visual artists:
THE MYSTIC UNDERGROUND
MONSTAH BLACK
MIKHAIL TORICH
WETCIRCUIT

The Mystic Underground Life…set to a dance beat. The soundtrack of your trials and tribulations. Injecting a generous dollop of drama along with extra helpings of synths and sass into an otherwise dreary and desolate musical landscape is what The Mystic Underground are here to offer. A collision of sounds. A thoughtful and whimsical blend of man versus machine. The Mystic Underground are made up of instrumentalist Benedetto Socci and singer/songwriter Vladimir Valette. Coming together in the name of pop music, this New York duo invites you to enter their world of kitchen-sink drama and lovelorn tales.

themysticunderground.tumblr.com/

The Sonic Leroy is smothered in punk/funk and glistening with electro pop and soul rooted in afro-inspired rhythms.” With MONSTAH BLACK on lead vocals, MAJOR SCURLOCK on keys/laptop, EDDIE ALSINA on lead guitar and as always special surprise guests bringing an extra boost of slippery mayhem dripping with funk. The Sonic Leroy combines a dance party with visuals inspired by 70’s Sci-Fi, Funk, Punk Rock, Disco, Post Modern Funk Choreography and physical theater. They tip their hats to underground club culture and fashion while bringing focus to current social political issues disguised with humor, sensuality and cross dressing sexual ambiguity.

monstahblack.com/

Wetcircuit is Holly Daggers, artist/producer and live-mix VJ. Her interactive installations have been presented at the MoMA and Chelsea Art Museum. She has performed concert visuals with Hillary Duff, Moby, Bustah Rhymes, and Kayvon Zand. As the onstage VJ for Microsoft’s XBOX KINECT launch in Times Square, her game-inspired visuals were featured on 7 jumbo screens while 600+ dancers performed syncopated game-moves in a flash mob concert.

wetcircuit.com/

Mikhail Torich, MFA in Media-Design, is an international music video director, photographer and visual artist. His over 10 year artistic work spans across Russia and Germany and into the United States. He played live video art sets for major international DJ’s, including European top-hitmaker “DADA” (UK), Swedish trance celebrity Soul Surfer, English artist “the Drill” and many more. He created live visuals on contemporary dance and jam events and shows including EyeWash and Re:Vision, produced by Forward Motion Theatre in NYC, “Share” audiovisual jams in Russia, Germany and USA and mainstream large-stage concerts featuring Vincent Vega (Germany) and many more. His interactive audiovisual show opened the First International Music Video Contest dedicated to Michel Gondry in 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Live video mixes by Mikhail Torich include personal international documentary footage counterpointed by contemporary designs, live video strams and animation that focus on the edgy and scandalous socio-political themes. His main intention is to connect the essence that hides within and allow it to live forever on the video screen.

torich.net/

EyeWash is an event where VJs and Video artists perform live-mix video, present audio visual performances, and workshop video and interactive technology.

This program is supported, in part by New York State Council on the Arts celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.

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