MARTHA COLBURN

Born in Pennsylvania (1971), Martha Colburn is an artist filmmaker based in New York. She travels extensively exhibiting and lecturing on her work. She has a B.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and MA equivalent from Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst (Royal Academy of Art) in Holland. A self-taught filmmaker, she began in 1994 with found footage and Super 8 cameras and has since completed over 40 films. She also selects elements from her films and using slide projections and murals to create installations. Ms. Colburn has taught workshops on her animation technique in China, Europe, Canada, and all parts of America. She has made music videos/ music-art films for bands such as Deerhoof, Serj Tankian, Felix Kubin and the documentary 'The Devil and Daniel Johnson'. Martha had her own band 'The Dramatics in the 90's and they released 6 records for which she made 7,000 hand made record covers.

*During her performance, she will combine hand made filters, excerpts from her animations and found footage, to create a screening that incorporates colonial history, natural disaster films and her own animations into a light/ picture show.

IAN CLARK

Ian Clark has been producing music and audio in Detroit for well over a decade. His first official releases appeared through Detroit's influential Ersatz Audio label. He has performed across Europe and North America both as a member of Le Car and with his current project, Perspects. Highlights include appearances at the SONAR festival in Barcelona, SonicActs in Amsterdam, and Transmediale in Berlin. He has created works for short films, multimedia installations, and performance pieces, and has worked with such artists as The Hacker, John Foxx and Dennis Cooper.

*He will be performing a live soundtrack to the projections of Martha Colburn utilizing found sounds, deconstructed songs and digital manipulations.

T3

Rising from the rugged streets and rich musical tapestry of Detroit, Slum Village is poised to carry on the old-school, funk, and soul-filled hip-hop torch of genre pioneers A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and the Pharcyde. Growing up in the Conant Garden neighborhood of Detroit and forming during high-school days at Detroit's Pershing High School, MCs Baatin, Jay Dee, and T3 quickly garnered praise and recognition in the local underground scene.
In 1998, Slum Village gained recognition as an opening act for A Tribe Called Quest's farewell tour. Two years later, the group released Fantastic, Vol. 2; an album featuring appearances from D'Angelo, Q-Tip and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Later that year, Slum Village released Dirty District, a compilation of Detroit MCs produced by T3 and compatriot RJ Rice. By the time recording began for their fourth proper album, T3 and Elzhi invited high-profile guests including Dirt McGirt and Kanye West, and Capitol released the results, Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit), in June 2004.

THE GO

Part of the emerging Detroit garage rock scene of the late '90s along with their more famous brethren, the White Stripes, the Go formed in 1998. Vocalist Bobby Harlow, guitarist John Krautner, and drummer Mark Fellis grew up together as kids -- the addition of guitarist Steve Nawara and bassist Dave Buick made the band complete and they began playing gigs in the Detroit area. An opening slot for The Mysterians helped get them the attention of Sub Pop, which signed the band and issued their debut album, Whatcha Doin', in 1999. A self-titled effort appeared in the fall of 2003 via British imprint Lizard King; the Go followed up in April 2007 with Howl on the Haunted Beat You Ride.

TYVEK

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BAD PARTY

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DARKRED

Darkred was formed in late 2007 by Rob Smith, guitar player of the Sabithian, wall of noise, space rock band, PAIK. The new project has Rob blending ethereal guitar loops over post punk pop fuzz with Chris Turner burnin' the drums up. Definitely a fun psychedelic trip. Darkred will be performing the Billy Idol classic, " Eye's Without a Face" and the memorable jam by Q Lazzuras, "Goodbye Horses".

ESQUIRE

Modestly known as "The Boy Who Invented Rap", esQuire is a recording and performing artist who entertains with his witty rhymes, banging beats and elaborate stages shows, complete with go-go dancers and dj. Hailing from Detroit, esQuire quickly switched on the world to his music, releasing acclaimed recordings in Japan, the UK and the US. His live show, described by some as Beck appearing with Ann-Margaret on a TV special sponsored by Canada Dry, has toured throughout the US, Europe and Latin America. He has recently appeared with Kinky, Los Fancy Free, Joey Heatherton and Stereo Total.

DEASTRO

Randolph Chabot Jr. started to make electronic music when he was 13 at his home in Sterling Heights, MI. He finished his first album that year despite the ecstatic, aural trauma it caused his mother. He studied youth development in college with the intent of becoming a social worker, dropping out to pursue music full time. He formed an electro band called Veleciraptor, which inspired the ideas for his current synthesized projects: Our Brother the Megazord and Deastro, which try to blur the lines between electronic and acoustic music. All the music is made in Randolph's basement with the help of alot of sampled children's toys and synthesizers. Deastro's "the Young Planets" and Our Brother the Megazord's "Time the Teenage Twister" are set to be released as a 34 song double disc in July of 2007. He is currently working on songs for his acoustic project Jr. Jr. and the new Deastro album entitled "Dark Diamond."

THE SISTERS LUCAS

The Sisters Lucas is lead by Loretta Lucas on vocals, Autoharp and guitar, and twin sister Julie on vocals, keyboards, and xylophone. The two are joined by Jamie Dado on bass, Cheryl Larson on bass clarinet, and Brett Lee Pickens on drums. The tunes are catchy and feminine, but definitely push the envelope regarding sometimes-dark subject matter and structure. Self-described as being progressive pop, The Sisters Lucas have been gently nursing their obsessive addiction to David Bowie, The Beatles and Billy Holiday, as well as the Tropicalia movement of Brazil circa the 1960's.

THE SILENT YEARS

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