The eclectic music and performance arts series, L@TE: Friday Nights, is a Berkeley Art Museum afterhours arts party known for its unexpected pairings. The program returns on August 5, 2011 with Brooklyn artists C. Spencer Yeh and David Horvitz.
Yeh, a Taiwanese-American, is an artist and musician whose past art, video, and sound projects have been exhibited internationally. He’s known for his skill in improvising with conventional tools such as electronics, violin, and voice in not so conventional methods. By manipulating these instruments, he creates rhythmic and slightly hypnotic noise.
Yeh’s 2009 cassette release, Always Been A Storm / Memories of Murder, featuring the track “Chinese Water Torture 2,” is an excellent example. Using voice, water, and a cheap aluminum watering can, he creates Atari-like blips amongst a background of rushing breath.
Yeh’s past work, which includes collaborations with Thurston Moore and Prurient, can be heard and downloaded on UbuWeb.