Visionary composer and producer, Karsh Kale energizes the Winter Garden with his hybrid sound that brings classical Indian music into the mainstream rock and electronic vernacular. GamelaTron, a robotic gamelan “orchestra” opens the evening with visuals by Forward Motion Theater.

See the River to River Festival website or the Winter Garden website for more details.

Tuesday, July 14th FMT will be live-mixing the work of video artist Janet Biggs, with French electronic musician Anthony Gonzalez (of M83) at the Winter Garden atrium of the World Financial Center. Gonzalez’s dramatic space-rock evokes awe and wonder while Biggs’s athletic visuals of horses galloping on treadmills and synchronized swimmers performing upside-down are iconic and disturbing….

It’s all part of the River to River Festival in downtown Manhattan. °FREE° 9pm.

www.rivertorivernyc.com…

The 2007 River to River Festival kicked off with the Animal Collective show at South Street Seaport. I was on hand to provide the visual feast to accompany their set. The overall look of the show had a certain je-ne-sais-pas-Hall-and-Oats-Trance thing working. Which gave way to some nice op-art moments.

view a clip of the Animal Collective show

On official count we had 10,000 people there, and thanks to River to River’s sponsors the show was free! A special thanks to Tal at Eyemag Media, Stephen Dima, and a very big up to Ilan Katin and Modul8 for helping to make this show happen!