The snow has melted, the city is blooming….
Mark your calendars for next Thursday, May 2nd!
I have asked some of the most soulful and talented visual performers and musicians of New York City to come out and present their newest live work. These performances by Paul Amitai, VisualHornHonkinG, The Driver, Nimbostratus, Firefly Moon and yours truly Lady Firefly.
It’s going to be amazing.
Please come out and support this amazing series of Audio+Visual performances at the beloved Big Snow Buffalo Lodge in Brooklyn. Doors at 8, $7.

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VJ Lady Firefly
The Lady Firefly is a force to reckon with. She creates extended visions in the space where dreams and waking life collide. Her video works unearth the groovy, sexy, and cosmic. For this show, she coaxes the ethereal from the sky into a post hibernating Brooklyn. Don’t miss it!
http://www.fireflylab.com

Paul Amitai
New York-based media artist and musician who has exhibited and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, and shared the stage with legends such as Run-DMC and The Specials.
http://paul-amitai.com

VisualHornHonkinG
Brooklyn’s bright and tricky mind stands behind multiple cultural activities worldwide. One of the pioneer users of LividInstruments video software and co-founder of MadFlat collective, Sima performs at Sullivan Room, Downtime, Pascha, Exit, Winter Music Conference,Joyce Soho, American Museum of Natural History, vBrooklyn Video Festival etc….Co-curator of the RedEye VJ/DJ series, VisualHornHonkinG is an unstoppable force. From nightclubs to museums to warehouses to galleries, studios & the streets of New York, his visuals capture minds and souls.
http://vimeo.com/visualhh

The Driver
Spinning vinyl since 97, some trax since 03′, live experimentations since 07′.
Onex co-conspirator. Played mostly vinyl at many events in several states and countries.
Rare live appearances. Lover of dance but influenced by much including noise.
www.soundcloud.com/driver235

Nimbostratus
Featuring VJ Fuzzy Bastard on visuals, Amorphos on clarinet & percussion, Habitrail on electronics, and Beat Read on machine.
http://www.vjfuzzybastard.com/

Firefly Moon
Weaving bittersweet lyrics, simple grooves, and compelling visuals, Zarah debuts her first original music project on vocals. With Matt Werden on bass and Paul Amitai on drum machine.

All of these folks, friends, and the sexiest of beers can be found here:
BIG SNOW
http://bigsnowbk.tumblr.com/

Hi everyone!
This is the full A/V set, complete with visuals feed, of our performance. It was a beautiful night with great music, a room full of awesome people and a cavernous space full of magic that lets the imagination roam free.
Please sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

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Blake and I first played together at the Our Silent Canvas show in St. Peter’s Church. It was completely improvised and rocked the house. We had been trying to play shows together since then and so…..
I am excited to say that moment has finally come!
Please join us at the Kingston NY spot BSP Lounge.

Blake Fleming with VJ Lady Firefly
Featuring Rhys Chatam’s “Guitar Trio” and Parakeet
We open the show at 9pm

Please play as large and as loud as you can.

Our friends at Outback Nexus Collective invited us to come up to Lisbon, NY to take part in the North Country Swamp Jam 3-day Festival.  We set up our own tent, crammed with amazing DJs and people coming in and out every night all night long.

The visuals and music you see and listen to here are specially selected sections from 12 hours of DJs and live video mixing projected onto the tent walls, 6 hours of which were recorded.  This was also the last gig of my laptop, which had water seeping into the screen as I played, with the leaky roof dripping onto my keyboard!  The perfect way to go.

Jeanne Angel and Zarah Cabañas were invited to sit in as two of Benton’s subjects for his wonderful VHS Portrait project. These are some of the resulting stills from those wonderfully captured 5 minutes. Just for the record, we danced to Deee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart,” an all-time favorite!

VJ Lady Firefly joins long-time collaborator Paul Amitai for a night of music and visuals Brooklyn’s Cameo.  Along with Daniel Perlin + sees and dani nagy. Photos by Matt Werden.

Paul Amitai + VJ Lady Firefly – Full A/V Set from Zarah Cabanas on Vimeo.

Cameo Gallery
93 N. 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY, 11211

http://www.cameony.com

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Paul Amitai is a New York-based media artist and musician who has exhibited and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, and shared the stage with legends such as Run-DMC and The Specials.

Zarah Cabañas, aka VJ Lady Firefly, creates original video content and VJs with her unique electrorganic style of vibrant, energetic, and beautiful visuals. She mixes visuals wherever there is a good mood, good people, and a power outlet.

Daniel Perlin is an artist and media designer based in New York City. He works across media creating sound, video, objects, installations and performances. His work has been shown at P.S.1, The New Museum, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Perlin will perform, re:destruction, a beat-driven sound piece that is constructed live from one audio sample.

sees and danil nagy – Internationally acclaimed EGOT power duo. Combined they are 12′3″ tall. They will babysit your children for a modest fee.

VJ Lady Firefly is happy to be a part of the 5th Annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival in Brooklyn NY. For 2 days, Mean Red put on a multi venue multi artist celebration which included the visual artistry of numerous VJs and video artists as curated by Paul Amitai. Props to the visual artists who participated:

Nuit Blanche New York – Music Hall
CHiKA – Music Hall
Fever Creative – Music Hall
Volvox – Public Assembly, outside N. 6th and Kent Street locations
LoVid – Brooklyn Bowl / Cameo
Jakob Dwight – Brooklyn Bowl / Cameo
Angie Eng – Brooklyn Bowl / Cameo
Nils – collaboration with Nuit Blanche at Music Hall
Nick Fox-Gieg – Pubic Assembly
VJ Lady Firefly – Public Assembly / Brooklyn Bowl

NUIT BLANCHE
Nuit Blanche New York will create an immersive multi-screen video and lighting installation at Music Hall of Williamsburg featuring live VJ sets and sound-reactive visuals.

CHiKA
CHiKA is an internationally known VJ and interactive visual artist, whose work has been shown at the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Art Institute, and The Museum of Modern Art. She will perform live visuals that combine minimalist geometric patterns with bold color and graphic design.

FEVER CREATIVE
Fever Creative is a New York-based agency with a skill for building amazing party experiences. For BEMF, they will present Fever Karaoke, a zany party game that combines madlibs with video karaoke.

JAKOB DWIGHT
Jakob Dwight is a visual artist working in video and painting, who will present a series of hypnotic and beautiful glitch videos that blend organic elements with heavy visual effects processing.

ANGIE ENG
Angie Eng is a Paris-based media artist who works in video, installation, and performance. She will present a selection of richly multi-layered video mixes culled from her live VJ performances.

LoVid
LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus who work in live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. They will present a video selection of their glitched-out experiments with broken or hacked computers.
VOLVOXLABS
VolvoxLabs is a VFX and projection design studio based in Brooklyn, dedicated to liberating pixels out of the main frame into festivals, events, and streets. Volvox will create a series of outdoor installations and live visuals at the venues.

NILS
Nils is an engineer and artist from Dortmund, Germany. He performs live visuals employing custom software to create immersive experiences usually stripping visual elements down to their bare minimum. His work has been shown at the Tate Modern London, KL Auschwitz, and recently at the Tribeca 92Y.

NICK FOX-GIEG
Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator based in Toronto and New York. His film “The Orange” won the jury prize for Best Animated Short at SXSW 2010; his films have also screened at the Ottawa, Rotterdam, and Tribeca film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on CBC TV. Nick will mix painterly live visuals at Public Assembly.

VJ LADY FIREFLY
VJ Lady Firefly creates original video content and VJs with her unique electrorganic style of vibrant, energetic, and beautiful visuals. Her experimental visual piece, Glowing Tree, will be projected during the Festival at Public Assembly and Brooklyn Bowl.

With 2012 well under way, Firefly Lab has been involved in an assortment of great projects this year.  Zarah is currently in Las Vegas loading in the new Blue Man Group show at the Monte Carlo.  Opening day is in November.  It has been a very busy year working with the Blue Man team to create some new pieces that will delight audiences.  She has also just finished working as Video Designer at America’s Got Talent Season Finale, where the Blue Man crew premiered a beautiful Finale piece that combined an elegant dancing neuron with a psychedelic videoscape.

Favorite family gigs also include the creation of a music video with Brooklyn-based band Karikatura (check out the video in the gigs and galleries section!) and an amazing experience VJaying for the Bronx Science High School Prom with Harborside Productions.
VJ VisualHornHonkinG has been killing it with the mad visuals at Sullivan Room in Greenwich Village.
The 2012 Time Capsules to Space Festival was a beautiful gathering of folks who came out to perform and enjoy the outdoors at the End of the World Summer Camp in upstate New York.
We are looking forward to a gorgeous winter. Thanks for checking out the website.

June 16, 2012

VJ Lady Firefly joins Harborside Productions in a night to remember:  Prom Night with the Bronx High School of Science at the elegant Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Those kids sure knew how to have a good time while stayin’ pretty.

Karikatura, a Brooklyn based band fusing various sounds of Eastern European, Jamaican, and Latin, collaborates with Zarah to create this beautiful and dreamy music video.  The group travels to the shores of Brooklyn to capture an essence of times forgotten.

Director / Editor : Zarah Cabañas
Producer: Doug Baldinger
Makeup / Wardrobe: Dahlia Ramsay
Boy: Josh Kay

Band in Video:
Vocals: Ryan Acquaotta
Guitar: Dima Kay
Bass: Eric Legaspi
Drums: Morgan Greenstreet
Saxophone: Joe Wilson
Trombone: T.J. Robinson

September 30 – October 2
2nd annual North Country Swamp Jam Festival features 3-day festival of music and arts.
A fantastic lineup from New York City this year. NYC’s Outback Nexus Collective will travel 8 hours up to Lisbon NY to unleash a sonic and visual explosion.  Visuals by VJ Lady Firefly.
http://northcountryswampjam.org/

This performance was an impromptu performance with solo drummer Blake Fleming. It took place at the beautiful St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea, NYC. This was a part of the Our Silent Canvas Collective’s series of live performances.

VJ Lady Firefly had the pleasure of working with Chris Bono and the Our Silent Canvas Collective in 2012.  A group of composers, visual artists, and musicians all came together to create a series of shows over the course of a year.  Below are some of the videos from those performances.  The visuals you see are mixed live by the Firefly.

Time Capsules to Space – 7PM SHARP

Firefly Lab in conjunction with Here Arts Center is happy to present Time Capsules to Space.

TIME CAPSULES TO SPACE
One of the first-ever Space-Art broadcasts, Time Capsules to Space is a unique series of exciting sonic, visual, and kinetic performances/exhibitions that will be broadcast into outer space.

MORE INFO:
On April 15, 16, and 17, a series of sonic, visual, and kinetic performances will be created into audiovisual time capsules for broadcast to outer space. Designed to be received by extraterrestrial life, Time Capsules to Space is an artistic and sociological collection of human interpretations regarding life on Earth. What would people “send off” to space given the opportunity?

Transmission #1 takes place at Here Arts Center in New York City. Each night calls for a select group of artists, aka Astronauts, to celebrate a different time of earth through their performances. The 1st night celebrates the Past, the 2nd night the Present, the 3rd night the Future. From audiovisual jams, to stick fighting demonstrations, to dance performances, each artist is asked to create a specific piece for the specific purposes of the broadcast. Audiences have the opportunity to participate by leaving written messages through the website as well as leaving video messages immediately after the show.

A small team is currently working on the Time Capsule Antenna to broadcast the performances to outer space live or at a later date very soon after the evening events. The TCTS team is also looking to collaborate with any institutions interested in providing support with the transmission of these Capsules. Inspired by the launch of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977, Time Capsules to Space hopes to transmit interplanetary/interdimensional understanding and to inspire a deeper human appreciation of Earth’s relationship to the greater cosmic landscape.

Website
http://timecapsulestospace.net

Saturday, FEBRUARY 19

VJ Lady Firefly works in collaboration with composer Christopher Bono on his new musical composition “Fish, Father, Phoenix.”

A collaborative project/show by Our Silent Canvas multimedia collective.

A private holiday party hanging with the kids at The Blue School!
With Holidelic and live visuals by VisualHornHonkinG and VJ Lady Firefly!
This is going to be a blast.

A wonderful time spent at Alien Acres Summer Camp with over 180 creative minds collaborating and having fun together in Upstate New York. Many people putting creative energy and love into making this happen. At the dome site, Sima and I installed and projected on our Umbrella Box and Alien Cube sculptures, and creating visuals on Amoeba Technology’s Dome (Dok Gregory, Peter Principle, Zemi17). Projections in campout D also by SeeJ, Jeanne, Sam, Lukas. Documentation/time lapse of event below by SeeJ, and photos by Enki.

The MEADOW VALLEY
In the meadow valley, grooves, beats, and songs from every time and place weave amongst the tall grasses. Live acts mix and match traditional instruments with laptops and sound boxes. Lazy, whimsical afternoons in the meadow bloom with sideshows, cabaret acts, open mics. Nearby, revelers gather at the kommunity kook shack, sharing bounties gathered everywhere from the garden to the bodega. If you have an idea for the meadow and/or meadow stage, let us know!

Performers:
Not Waving But Drowning, Shanimal, Thomas Francis Takes His Chances, Curious Buddies, Argotec, Cody, Heavy w8 Bit Championchip, Greenways8, !banginclude, Tom Phonic, Shakey, Barney Iller, Peter Munch, Vic Thrill, Greything, Miss Elixir, Jason Blackkat, Sugabeet, Ancient Tongue, Making The Noise, Jane LeCroy, Logan Grendel

The KNOLL
High on the hill, in the upper atmosphere, unearthly sounds waft down, generated through a collection of software, hardware, traditional instruments, vinyl, analog sounds, and circuit bent instruments…all under a geodesic dome and landscape of light and projections. From ambient to noise with stops at all points in between, alien soundtracks, techno, and spacehaus to broken beat, drum and bass, dub and experimental eclectica. Collaborative and solo sets, movements of sound and light from many of NYC’s best artists, musicians and DJs (+ special guests from abroad) evolve endlessly in the freeDome. Music for Semi Spheres: Transportitive Wave Ideas with Temporal Dome Radio … WTDR Music for Semi Spheres will broadcast live on WTDR 88.5 fm(within a point or two). Bring a radio so you can listen anywhere you care around the acres!

Performers:
( ) – live laptop, prepared guitar.
dj Cheeba – Dub/Dubstep. (Renegade Virus/Killahertz)
El Gallo aka Nobody – dj Mashup Mayhem, live circuit-bent noise. (Los Piratas Mechanicos)
David Linton – bicameral research sound & projection system – live A/V.
D.Kidd – processed bass, laptop.
Dok Gregory – live electronics. (Amoeba Technology/ZGT)
dj God Question – eclectic audio reckonings.
Hextor & Djinn – live laptops.
dj Howie Wreckhords – fuzzpop purism. (Konundrum Recods)
LinearElectricDisturbance aka DJ MASA – live electronics. (Amoeba Technology)
dj Lost Time – soundtrack for a spacey afternoon. (Tuxedomoon, ZGT)
Madame C.H.U.D. – live electronics. CHUDism
dj Spinoza – deep mental dance music. (Bunker/Beyyond)
Sundog – processed flute.
WvS – dense abstract sound attacks/noise-oriented organic textures/glissando driven soundscapes
Zemi17 – SpaceHaus on SpaceStation Earth.
Zero Gravity Thinkers – (Dok Gregory/Peter Principle/Zemi17) live electronics.

Chris Jordan – light installation. (seej.net)
Eyescratch – live cinema.(SHARE)
VisualHornHonkinG – live funked up visuals.
VJ Lady Firefly – live visual vibrations from the sultry depths.
VJ 11 – live visuals

+ more TBA

The OUTBACK
The Outback is where you go as far as you normally go, then venture a few steps further. These borderlands will feature the bandwidth of the rugged edge of rolling and broken beats. Outback audio frontier crews from the New York outerground will bring loads of vinyl, analog and digital hardware, Serato and laptops. Friday night will be heavy on the breaks side: jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, electro, breakcore, broken beat and in between styles. Saturday will lean toward the rolling beats techno, acid, freetek, and rolling livesets, featuring friends from far off lands. Expect eclectic and open afternoons, and an open hardware vs laptop jam (bring cables and MIDI connect).

Performers:

Garlik, Darxyde, Cryptic303, Fury8, Submerger, Insect Deli, Automaton, Driver, Foodstampz, Jinn, DarkArtBar, Nevermind, Nobody, Thunderkunt, Merk, Big Ears, 9mm, Bitmode, Madaro, Digital Gypsy, Decibel Flekx, Jeanne Angel, diss0nance, Banditos, Visitor139, Kasdal

Plus camps by:

The Temple of Truth by Jennifer Upchurch, Chris Niederer, and Douglas Hart Designed in the shape of a three-dimensional wooden eye facing the sky, the open-air Temple of Truth is intended as a place of exploration, contemplation, mourning, and personal expression.

The Teapot Dome Scandal by W and B is a 14 seat tea lounge cleverly disguised as an unassuming box truck.

Fairy Campfeaturing The Theater of the Magical Real, Fairytale Experiment, and La Mer Musique, coming in one magical bus named Lunette.

The Share audiovisual jam continued in upstate New York with many Share musicians and VJs colaborating together for a long weekend.  Many thanks to Keiko and Stephanie for organizing and of course to Jill and Hoke who hosted us.  VisualHornHonkinG and I premiered our Umbrella Box– a 9 foot rear and front projected sculpture inspired by parasols.

Here are some more photos of Share Camp!

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::::::::::Sunday, June 13th::::::::::

BLUE: DINNER THEATRE

Blue, as it relates to the skies and the seas, represents clarity, optimism and crisp cool atmosphere. Enjoy a one night performance and three course meal from NEW HUE, the people who brought you RED for Valentine’s day. This time we will evoke the energy of the wind and waves to bring you six continuous performances in our 360 degree stage and seemingly endless ceiling. Be treated like royalty, feast on the bounties of the ocean, served by giants and mused by sirens. This is a night of immersive experience, arousing your senses to swim through the skies and fly through the sea with us.

$50 ticket includes gourmet cuisine, music, video art, dancers, stilters, acrobatics, ice sculpture, fire and fantasy. Share with us a one night experience like no other. Formal attire is requested, the color blue is suggested.

$50 ticket includes:
- 3 Course meal by sushi chef Greg Larrenaga
- 2 Complimentary drinks
- Live performances from members of
- Lady Circus
- De La Guarda
- East Coast Tribal
- Solstice Ensemble
Live surround video art by:
- VisualHornHonkinG
- Lady FireFly
Live music by:
- Subatomic Sound System, Rhiannon (UnderandAbove), DJ Emch
- Marcie Grambeau (violin)
- Matt Dallow (accordion)

Come early or stay late (6:30-11) for:
- Photo booth
- Beer and wine bar
- Hookah lounge

Seating is ****very*** limited!
PRESALE ONLY here!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111979

7pm-11pm

The Luke And Zarah Show -Episode Two features soulful explorations into surreal moments of time and mind.  More details to come.  This episode guest features the creative work of Sergey Emelianov, Gina Abatemarco, Maik Reif, and Mr. Slava.  The show is conceived by Luke Schantz and Zarah C.

Lovesphere 15
Monday – March 22, 2010
8 pm to After Midnight
Theater for the New City

On March 22, Lovesphere 15 presents multimedia variety show, including music, dance & spoken word designed with ChromaDepth 3D Technology to heighten your depth perception experience. This years performers include:  Judy Sky, Meg Montgomery, Emmallyea Swon Young, Lin Rivers, Grand Pepper of Reality, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, Dawoud Kringle, Dan Gaydos, Fist of Kindness, Alessandro, Orin Buck, Firefly Lab, Terri Ferrari & Vlad T.


For more information or to view live in ChromaDepth 3D on the Web: http://metal-tiger.com/lovesphere15/

Lovesphere, a 67-year event, has taken place every Vernal Equinox since 1995, broadcast on Mezamishi (Alarm Clock) in Japan & the pioneer in video streaming Metal-Tiger.com, venues including ABC No Rio, Resistance Theater, CBGB’s, Theater for the New City, Medicine Show Theater, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the Zipper and Pianos.  It began in 1995 with a performance of the Mammals of Zod and the Gametones at Exit Art in Soho on the Vernal Equinox, and has since spiraled completely out of control.  The plan is to present a Lovesphere event every Equinox until 2061.

A fun time celebrating with the Sullivan Room family!  Thank you for the many good times!