Radio Mountains - Theremin Performance by Rafael Carrasquillo
电音山谷 - 拉斐尔·卡拉斯基洛特雷门琴演出
Poster design: Jing Lin 林璟
Time | 时间: 2019.7.20（周六） 3-5 pm
Location | 地点: Fou Gallery, 410 Jefferson Avenue, #1, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11221
Ticket | 票价：$10
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NEW YORK – This Saturday (Jul 20th), Fou Gallery is delighted to invite you to join a unique Theremin Performance by Rafael Carrasquillo. This event accompanies the current dual exhibition Jisook Kim & Hilda Shen: Orogenies, in which the two artists narrate the stories about the formation of mountains in their own visual languages, while in the theremin performance by Rafael Carrasquillo, you are invited to be immersed in the radio mountains generated by the Theremin.
Since invented by Soviet physicist Léon Termen in 1919, Theremin has always been the only electronic instrument in the world that controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). The instrument’s controlling section usually consists of two LC oscillators which can sense the relative position of the performer’s hands and the instrument.
Currently in Fou Gallery is showing an exhibition Orogenies, in which conceptual mountains are built physically and visually, and for next Saturday, you are invited to wander in the radio mountains built by the Theremin.
Theremin inventor Léon Termen playing the instrument, the 1920s
纽约- 否画廊诚挚邀请您参与我们将于2019年7月20日（周六）举办的特雷门琴音乐演出“电音山谷”，届时伴随否画廊在展的双人展“金智淑与沈禾美：造山”，音乐艺术家拉斐尔·卡拉斯基洛将为您带来独特的特雷门琴表演。展览“造山”中，艺术家金智淑与沈禾美利用各自独特的视觉语言叙述着山的形成，与之相呼应，音乐家拉斐尔·卡拉斯基洛将带领观众将潜入听觉的特雷门琴电音山谷。
1919年，前苏联物理学家利夫·特尔门发明了特雷门琴，利用两个感应人体和大地的分布电容的LC振荡器工作单元分别产生震荡而工作。演奏者不需要接触乐器即可弹奏，仅在设备上方舞动双手，创造出高低起伏的乐声。因其异乎寻常的音域，五六十年代，特雷门琴被广泛用于科幻电影配乐，至今仍然是世界上唯一不需要身体接触的电子乐器。
在否画廊目前在展展览“造山”中，山峦从空出或地面凸起，山的纹路在墙面蔓延。在7月20日（周六）的“电音山谷”活动中，除了物理与视觉上的山之外，特雷门琴的乐符旋绕成山脉与峡谷将向你张开，欢迎你来探索。
MUSICIAN: Rafael Carrasquillo (b. 1966, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Portrait of Rafael Carrasquillo. © Rafael Carrasquillo, courtesy Fou Gallery
Rafael Carrasquillo is an eclectic artist that reaches out for as many musical endeavors and possibilities as possible. A native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Rafael started playing the piano by ear at the age of four. After a brief tenure at Puerto Rico’s Conservatory of Music, Rafael graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a B.A. in Music Performance and Production. During this period he toured the Caribbean, the U.S., and Europe with a number of groups and singers. After attending the Recording Workshop School in Ohio, earning a degree in music recording and production in the late 1980s, he returns to the Island, where he proceeded to establish a career as a performing, recording and producing artist. Currently, Rafael runs his piano tuning and repair company Tuning Fork NYC as well as directing the Theremin trio The Thereminoes. Rafael is also preparing for his Puerto Rico Piano & Drums Summer Tour as well as with the pop-rock band Radio Pirata, which during the 1990s had several hits on the local radio and enjoyed considerable popularity among the U.S. and Latin America.
演奏音乐家：拉斐尔·卡拉斯基洛 (b. 1966，波多黎各圣胡安市)
拉斐尔·卡拉斯基洛是一个永远在尝试各种音乐形式与可能的不拘一格的艺术家。出生于波多黎各的瓜伊纳波，拉斐尔从四岁起便开始弹奏钢琴。在波多黎各音乐学院短暂任职后，拉斐尔毕业于波多黎各大学，获得了音乐表演和制作的学士学位。在此期间，他与许多团体和歌手一起巡演了加勒比海、美国和欧洲。上世纪80年代末，他在俄亥俄州的录音工作室学校获得了音乐录音和制作学位，回到了出生的岛上，在岛上他开始了表演、录音和制作艺术家的职业生涯。目前，拉斐尔经营着他的钢琴调音和修理公司“音叉纽约”，以及导演Theremin三重奏Thereminoes。拉斐尔还准备参加波多黎各的钢琴鼓夏季巡演，以及流行摇滚乐队 Pirata Radio，该电台在20世纪90年代曾多次在当地电台播出，并在美国和拉丁美洲享有相当的知名度。
