News, news, news ...

Apart from working on the editing of the "Presence" video (in collaboration with Japanese poet / photographer Tomonori Saito, and Norwegian artist Lill - Torill Andersen, with the collaboration of singer / actor Kenyon Phillips from NY band Unisex Salon), I'm in the process of waiting for to know if I'll be DJing for the third time at this year edition of Skin Two Magazine's Rubber Ball weekend at London SeOne Club.

The pre production of the sequel of 'Photosonic' (temporarily named "Limen") is at the music stage production right now; I'm planning to release the video / audio material related to the making of "Limen" as podcast on iTunes, and release the self titled book "Limen" on the Amazon online store during early September.

Still in beta version is my new website (you can preview it at Web.Mac.com/GD78music ), as soon as it will be finished it will be directly linked to my MySpace page .

More to come ...

New Video for "The Sumerians" ... and "Presence"

Hi all, I had recently finished to direct the video 'Romantic Exile' for the band "The Sumerians"; I had shoot the footage for the short video based on Tomonori Saito's work "Presence", featuring stills from Norwegian artist Lill - Torill Andersen. "Presence" will feature singer / actor Kenyon Philips from funk / new wave act Unisex Salon.


















On the set, directing the Werewolf!


















"The Sumerians" live at the Underscore, NY (from left: Michael Maccini, Tom Curiano, Julyo)

"The Masque" by Mike Liu

The short animation movie 'The Masque' by Mike Liu has been scored by Julyo, with the help of Brooklyn based musician Luke Kozikowski.

"The Masque" is gonna be screened at the 19th Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards


17th Annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards
New York City, New York USA

Friday 8th May, 7:00pm
The Visual Arts Theatre 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

The 17th annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards showcases over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts. The program includes three days of screenings of short films, videos and animations; a screenwriters night, where professional actors read excerpts of screenplays by graduating seniors; and an awards ceremony and gala reception with notable presenters from the film industry.

Previous award presenters have included Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Richard Price, Wes Craven, Bill Plympton and Ellen Burstyn.

Contact Information:

School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
USA

Phone: 212.592.1010
Fax: 212.592.2012
Email: proffice@sva.edu
Web Address: http://www.sva.edu

Photosonic screening in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Galerie Petronas












April 9th @ 7:30pm
Lot 341 - 343
Level 3, Suria KLCC
Kuala Lumpur City Center
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

curated by Rahel Joseph

http://www.galeripetronas.com.my/

KINo at Piano's

Some pictures from the Piano's gig of past thursday, some of the pictures are by Jessica G.; in the pictures you can see Jonny, Mike, Gary, Kino and Kenyon from Unisex Salon.

Live with The Radiant

Thursday 27 _ 7:00 P

Arlene's Grocery - 95 Stanton St. btw. Ludlow St. and Orchard St.
www.ArlenesGrocery.net

www.JamWave.com/TheRadiant

Check out this video: The Radiant

Live with KINO - [March | April] Calendar

Live ( Julyo, Gary, Kino, Mike, Luke (and Jonny on drums)

MARCH

Thursday 6 _ 10:00 P
Zebulon - 258 Wythe Ave, btw N3 St. & Metropolitan, Brooklyn (www.ZebulonCafeConcert.com)

Sunday 9 _ 12:00 P
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5th & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Thursday 13_11.00 P
Pianos - 158 Ludlow St. btw Stanton and Rivington, Lower East Side, Manhattan (www.pianosnyc.com)

Sunday 16 _ 12:00 P
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5th & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Thursday 20 _ 10:00 P
Monkey Town - 58N on 3rd St. btw Wythe Ave and Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (www.monkeytownhq.com)

Sunday 23 _ 8:00 P
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5th & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Sunday 30 _ 8:00 P
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5th & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)


APRIL

April 3 _ 10:00 P
Galapagos - 70 North 6th St btw. Kent and Wythe Ave., Brooklyn (www.galapagosartspace.com/)

April 9 _ 10:00 P
Zebulon - 258 Wythe Ave, btw N3 St. & Metropolitan, Brooklyn (www.ZebulonCafeConcert.com)

Fetish America @ Massive Music Festival 2008 (Miami)

MASSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL
25 - 30 March

A r e a 57 S t u d i o s
5701 NE 2nd Ave
Miami

ph. 305-300-8523

Ticket price is $20 (free for WMC badge holders)

FETISH AMERICA by historical digital media artist Laurence Gartel with music by Julyo will be screened at the MASSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL at Area 57 Studios in Miami.

Julyo's PHOTOSONIC @ New Life Shop (Berlin)

Some of the artwork related to PHOTOSONIC will be featured in New Life Shop project by Wooloo Productions, starting from Monday the 11th of February 2008. The first exhibition run will be of minimum 3 weeks and the show will then be repeated throughout 2008 between other gallery exhibitions.

The address of the gallery is:
New Life Shop
Choriner Strasse 85
10119 Berlin - Mitte
Germany

Life Exchange on NRK Television (Norway)

Broadcasted on NRK, Sweden inside the "Safari" cultural show.
Journalist : Hanne Skrikerud

JULYO plays live with KINo

Poet of sound and image Kino has completed the album 'Map of the Universe'. Kino is a true creator. He wrote, performed, arranged, engineered and even co-produced the record.

Drawing from a vast array of influences; psychedelic rock to punk, electronic to classical music, Kino's unique signature sound bears the best elements of 20th century music combined to make the new 21st century music.

New and yet familiar his music possesses a timeless quality, redolent with emotional depth.

UPCOMING SHOW DATEs:

FEBRUARY

Sunday 3 _ 12:00 A
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5yh & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Tuesday 5 _ 10:00 P
Zeblon - 258 Wythe Ave, btw N3 St. & Metropolitan, Brooklyn (www.ZebulonCafeConcert.com)

Sunday 10 _ 12:00 A
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5yh & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Sunday 17 _ 12:00 A
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5yh & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

Sunday 24 _ 12:00 A
Nublu - 62 Ave C. btw 5yh & 6th St., New York (www.Nublu.net)

more Photosonic ...

Life Exchange on Norway's NRK TV program Safari, I was interviewed by Hanne Skrikerud while asking myself "this is the quest: how can I cook pasta without pans?" (quiet existentialist hum?); you can see the video at NRK Safari's website, I'll also post just the excerpt on YouTube (and here) when I'll got the DVD of the program.


PHOTOSONIC LIVE ! ! !

Massive Music festival 2008

Saturday 22 March @ Area 57 Studios in Miami
(while the WCM is gonna take place)
DJ Set + Live VJ performance

Curated by Laurence Gartel for

I'm also in the middle of the recording of the music for Lars Gerhard documentary on historical New York photographer Erika Stone, plus finishing the last mixing details of my new release 'Bagel Vampire' (my love for funk), and I'll be starting soon to record new material for my second funk record, that will feature special guests along with the use of a wide range of percussions.

Also I'm getting closer to finish the shooting of two videos for rapper MCEC, they'll be posted here and on YouTube sometime during early february, meanwhile here's a shot of me with VJ Eric Dunlap as 'Photosonic' while working on the set of MCEC's 'Call up some friends' video.

Life Exchange - NY Post article

News + Life Exchange

While Laurence Gartel's video 'fetish America' (which features a music piece I composed and performed for Laurence) is screened at Art Basel in Miami, I am finishing the scoring for the upcoming documentary by Lars Gerhard about NY legendary photographer Erika Stone.

Also next 13th december two never-seen-before drawings from the making of PHOTOSONIC will be exhibit at the Artists Space for the 'Night of the 1,000 drawings' collective exhibition.

Tomorrow I'll be interview by the New York Post magazine with Ektoras Binikos about the Life Exchange experience (below you can see one of Ektoras drawings and my 'Two Heads - Onservation vs. Analysis' diagram created after the Life Exchange experience).


























"whoami?" by Ektoras Binikos


















'observation vs analysis' by Julyo

Julyo + Gartel = FETISH AMERICA!

I had just finished to record the music piece for the new video of historical video artist and pioneer of digital art Laurence Gartel . The video is called 'fetish America' and will be screened at Art Basel the first week of december.

Here are the dates and links:

• "GARTEL: Exotic/Erotic/Electronic" will be presented at the World Erotic

Art Museum 1205 Washington Avenue, South Beach.

Opening December 3rd. The show runs from December 3, 2007 - January 31, 2008

• GARTEL Art Basel at the Bank

GARTEL will have an entire penthouse apartment in the new Arts District.
Located at 8101 Biscayne Blvd. Join Gartel for a showcase of important
works some never open to the public before. Significant Polaroid Murals
from the early to mid 80s along with current large scale pieces and early
beginning works from the 70s. -Something significant at every level of
purchase. Show runs the entire week of Art Basel December 6-9.

Rooftop Party takes place on December 8th. Hours: 7 to 10PM.

• GARTEL MANSION AFTER PARTY

After Party literally 10 steps up the street at Mansion 1235 Washington Avenue. Showcasing multimedia projections including the brand new DVD: FETISH AMERICA. - Events take place on December 3rd, 2007. Hours: 11PM-5AM.

from PHOTOSONIC @ Micro Museum

Some still pictures from the live video remix of Photosonic at Brooklyn's MiCRO Museum the past month (art by William Laziza and Julyo).

PHOTOSONIC on rent!

PHOTOSONIC is now available for rent trough ReelTime Inc., the Internet - based Video On Demand (VOD) provider located in Seattle that provides a number of major movies and international TV shows in its catalogue.

Photosonic

An award winning video, Photosonic, deals with themes of human evolution and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for provocatively ambiguous imagery and its pioneering in the use of the 'photosonic guitar'.

AVAILABLE AT REELTIME.COM

ReelTime.com contains a collection of feature-length films, shorts, television episodes, and film trailers from genres including Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Children and Family, Silent Films, Westerns, Foreign Language, Mystery, Romance, Horror, Action/Adventure, Documentary, Educational videos and Comedies.

Julyo @ vBrooklyn film festival

vBrooklyn

A video festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an artform

November 30 to December 2, 2007
Polytechnic Hall of Fame
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn

5 Metrotech Ctr
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 237-9054

in cooperation with the Integrated Digital Media Institute
















The vBrooklyn video-festival documents Brooklyn, NY's, evolving cityscape, culture and people with contemporary video-art. The festival presents innovative and entertaining video-artists through live video-performances, screenings and installations.

Brooklyn's urban development and population influx has hit critical-mass — vBrooklyn is asking video-artists to tape the borough before it permanently transforms, building a dynamic historic record through personal interpretation and literal documentation.

to check the artists schedule :

http://vbrooklyn.hellbender.org/artists.aspx


This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

NYC life

I was walking down Allen st. in Lower East Side while (oh my God!) I had noticed Minino Garay crossing the street! I had meet Minino during 2005 while I was living in Tokyo, he's now in tour with singer Dee Dee Bridgewater.



















Past saturday I had got a chance to have a short talk with NY legend Ron English, while I was at the Popaganda event at Lincoln Center film society center.



















The week of the 8th of november I'm gonna meet historical digital art pioneer Laurence Gartel, we may have something to work on together during the following months ...

PHOTOSONIC @ MOMA Shanghai!

MOMA Shanghai

Artour-o International Artfair 2007

22 September 2007
19:00 (Shanghai Time area)












press office:

Press Office: Olivia Spatola
Web: www.artour-o.com
E-mail: olivia.spatola@tin.it
E-mail: info@artour-o.com

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(added after the event)

PHOTOSONIC @ Eyewash - Monkey Town

Friday, September 21st

at Monkeytown 58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Seatings at 7:30pm and 10pm. $5
Space is limited, reservations recommended.
Call 718.384.1369
or email monkeytownhq@aol.com for reservations.

An event by Forward Motion Theater

featured video artists include:

JULYO (Photosonic)

VJ Exeris

rise set twilight

…and more!

Directions from the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd.
MonkeyTown is halfway down the block on the left.

MICRO Museum pictures (by Lars Gerhard)

JULYO's NEW MUSIC out NOW on iTunes

Cover art by Diana Lupin
Written and performed by Julyo
Recorded at ExP Studio (Genova, Italy) during summer 2006

Contains the radio hit singles 'The Lovers' and 'Just Friends'

















Cover art by Lars Gerhard
Written by Julyo
Performed by Julyo (Voice, electric mandolin, bass and acoustic guitar), Luca Falomi (Classical guitar) and Olmo Sanchez (Percussions)
Recorded at Orange Studios (Genova, Italy) during 2004

and ...

PHOTOSONIC (Adult Phase) is now avaible on streaming for JAMAN video - on - demand subscribers!

PHOTOSONIC at MiCRO Museum and LIVE @ SeOne Club UK

6 T H O c t o b e r 2 0 0 7


PHOTOSONIC @ SeOne Club
[MAIN ROOM]
London Bridge, UK


LINK - Photosonic @ Rubber Ball weekend





















Date: Saturday 6th October 2007
Time: 10pm - 6am


Venue: SeOne Weston Street London SE1 3QX


Dress Code: STRICT & ENFORCED FETISH DRESS CODE: Rubber, Leather, Kinky Drag, PVC, Uniforms.


Nearest Tube: London Bridge

Parking: NCP car park in Kipling St, SE1 3RU.

This is open 24 hours (250 spaces) and there is some single yellow line parking in the area.


Tickets: £32 in advance + £1 booking + postage. £38 on the door.

Tickets now on sale!







8 T H S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 7

PHOTOSONIC [Live Performance] @ MiCRO MUSEUM
Brooklyn, New York


PICTURES COMING SOON!!!

http://www.micromuseum.com/

Directions: F/G Trains to Bergen Street, B65/B75 to Dean/Smith Streets BQE to Atlantic Ave. or drive over Brooklyn Bridge on Adams to Dean Street, Meter parking on Smith St. or Municipal parking at Court St./Atlantic Ave.

INDIGO COLOR PARTY

SEPTEMBER 8 from 6pm - 10pm ($10 p/p)
Live Performances at 8 pm; William Laziza with Fredrix on the Guitar (video & music)
The Lumiano will be played at 7:30 and 8:30 pm
Visual Artists:
Julyo
Murray Hidary
Cheryl Safren
Nina Ozbey
Caitlin Edgar
Marlene Struss
Jene Youtt

Julyo on Italian National newspaper 'La Repubblica' + NEWZ

A special thanks to Cosimo DeMercurio and Lucia Marchiò for the article on Italian national newspaper LA REPUBBLICA.

I had also had the pleasure to perform with Armando Corsi and Michael Maccini at the Sori Jazz festival and with Napo Quintet in Portofino (see pictures below); a press conference covering the promotion and production of Armando Corsi's work 'Double Life' and the video 'Anima Latina', has happened at the Visa Vis Hotel in Sestri Levante, for the night in memory of the genius Bruno Lauzi.

Once upon the time ... in Tokyo

These pictures from my friend Matt (Mystical fullmoon band) truly portrayed one of the most intense and beautiful times in my life, the summer of 2005, when I was living in Tokyo, playing at clubs like the Headpower and Mosaic in Shimokitazawa ... in the pictures you can see Vlad, John (on drums!), Matt and some random people. Mata ne!

PHOTOSONIC on TV ... and in Japan!

Hi everybody,

this has been a very intense day for me, I had worked as director of photography for a music video (surprise! you'll see it soon online and on this blog), plus meeting Ms. Nana Chilton from the Maharishi University in New York, working on the new tracks of the following of 'The Mistrel & The Princess' EP ('TM&TP' record will be soon released by Elec Trip Records featuring the amazing cover by Dianna Lupin) and working to the new tracks of an amazing rock project I'd been working on during the last month (more coming soon!).

Thanks to the MiCRO Museum in Brooklyn, an excerpt of 'Photosonic' will be featured nationally on TV and one of my performances will take place at the museum the 8th of September.

'Photosonic' (Child and Adult phases) will be also released during the summer on major music and video online stores (including iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.), for a unique experience on your iPod and portable video devices.

In addition to my participation at the 2007 exhibition of the Artist Colllective in Tokyo during August, the 8th of October I will perform for the second time at SeOne Club in London, for the 2007 edition of the Rubber Ball weekend (please visit the Skin Two Magazine website for more details). Hope to see you there kinkier than ever!


PHOTOSONIC on 'Spontaneous Combustion'

21th July - 2:30 pM (East Coast Time)

Brooklyn Community Access TV
(Time Warner or Cablevision)

A special thanks to the MiCRO Museum Brooklyn and Kathleen Laziza.


AC TOKYO - 2007 EXHIBITION

featuring 'Photosonic' by Julyo with artists Tomonori Saito and Sheila Cliffe; click on the flyer for directions and art samples of the works.
A special thanks to Tomonori Saito for the organization and PR work.





RBR GALLERY

ADDRESS 3-1-23
MOTOAZABU, MINATOKU, TOKYO.
PHONE 03-5770-7401
EXHIBITION PERIOD AUGUST 7th TO 31st, 2007
(CLOSED ON MONDAY AND SUNDAY)
GALLERY HOURS 9:00 TO 18:00

(Gallery hours is different in each day due to RBR schedule. Please contact RBR for exhibition hou