Landscape Verses: Marielle Jakobsons / Tooth at The Lab

Saturday, January 31, 2015 The Lab presents an evening of live music and film projection performances featuring Bay Area artists Beige (Vanessa O’Neill and Kent Long), Marielle Jakobsons, Tooth, John Davis and Paul Clipson. This program presents unique and intense collisions of sound and image in three performances, that chart the dynamic trajectories of “visual music“in its many transcendental forms. Sound artist and violinist Marielle V. Jakobsons creates compositions of evocative, pulsing drones. Her installations and instruments expand this practice with heightened visceral experience of natural phenomena. She has published recordings on Thrill Jockey, Important Records, Digitalis, Mexican Summer, Root Strata, among others, and has toured across the Americas & Europe. A classically-trained musician turned sound designer and educator by trade, she creates and collaborates extensively in the experimental arts. She has received grants and distinctions such as the Dresher Ense