Times Square Arts and Clocktower Announce Free Live Music and Video Art Projection Show INTERFERENCE AV

Times Square Arts and Clocktower Productions present Interference AV, a free, three-night festival of video art with UNDERVOLT & CO. and live music that will take place at the AMC Empire 25 on February 19-21 from 8:00 - 10:00pm, with doors opening at 7:00pm.

Experimental video collective UNDERVOLT & CO. will VJ live projections on an epic scale for Interference AV, a free, three-night festival takeover of America's top-grossing multiplex, the AMC Empire 25. The festival is Times Square Arts and Clocktower's second event in the AMC Empire 25, following the one-night-only concert and zine fair Primal Screams from March 2016. Interference AV's movie-theater-turned-concert-stage will feature a different headliner each night and dynamic live projections by UNDERVOLT & CO. artists Peter Burr and Sabrina Ratté, including their original work and live remixing of video art by other collective members including Andrew Benson, Jacob Ciocci, Birch Cooper, Brenna Murphy, Yoshi Sodeoka, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Ryoya Usuha, and more. In the lobby, Clocktower will curate DJs and a zine fair.

Headliner schedule:

Feb 19: Jlin

Feb 20: Lightning Bolt

Feb 21: The Sun Ra Arkestra

Opening musical acts for each night will be announced at a later date.

Attendees can RSVP for free for each evening at https://withfriends.co/clocktower. RSVPs are essential but will not guarantee entrance. Admission will be first come, first served at the door. No seats will be held.

Lani Combier-Kapel, Curator & Event Manager for Clocktower, said, "Times Square is a felt experience. An area of New York that overloads the senses with buildings, billboards, and lights, leaving travelers to make sense of differing signals. Interference AV brings these facets to a three-day spectacle, with leading forces in fringe art, music, and video collaborating at a historic movie theater right in the middle of "the crossroads of the world". Believing this crossroads to be the impetus of art, we have devised a place where people will want to stay: an experimental coven and artistic sanctuary. Be prepared to take it all in, popcorn and earplugs in hand."

Sabrina Ratté, artist, said, "In this live setting context, our approach will leave a lot of space for improvisation and live effects, while integrating some more complex imageries created prior to the event. Live video synthesizers and video feedbacks will be triggered by the music at times, when at other times they will morph into 3D environments, in an interplay between the illusion of depth and flatness, mat and shiny surfaces, raw electricity and slick digital aesthetic."

Debra Simon, Times Square Arts Director, said, "After the success of Primal Screams, which featured the talents of Screaming Females, Guardian Alien, and Priests, we're thrilled to return to the AMC Empire for Interference AV, taking some of the essential elements of Times Square - the lights, the screens, the live performances, the energy - and distilling them into a layered, dynamic experience."

Image courtesy of Sabrina Ratté