Elizabeth Telsa, Wayne Frost BiosWayne Frost (composer/sound designer and digital filmmaker) His use of both traditional and untraditional instruments such as guitars, saxophones, tape machines, and household objects gave him rise in the downtown music world of New York in the early 90’s. His collaboration with various NYC contemporary guitar quartets/sextets (Rhys Chatam, John Meyers…) opened the door to experimental theatre and film and he soon became an accomplished sound designer for award winning on and off Broadway plays and short films. Credits include “Gross Indecency” (voted best play of the year by Time magazine) and "The Blue Man Group". In the mid 90’s his involvement with experimental acoustic/electronic groups such as Slash Orchestra and Blastula peaked his interest in computer-generated music. In 1997 his electronic music project “Medium” was contracted by Sony Records. In 1998 his encounter with visual artist Elizabeth Tesla sparked his interest in digital film and real-time video manipulation conjugated with live electronic music. Thus, the audio-visual collaboration; Cartesian Lover was born. Shortly thereafter he moved to Paris to live and work. Since 2000 he has been producing experimental digital films, video installations and sound scores with Cartesian Lover and other artists as well as performing live all over Europe, Canada and the USA. Since 2002 he has also collaborated with artists such as singer Dierdre Dubois (ex-singer of the acclaimed world music group, Ekova), and video artists IAT (Denis Conolly and Anne Cleary) as a composer, music producer, sound designer and musician. Of particular interest is his collaboration in 2004 with composer Martin Wheeler on a live audio-video re-mix project of the film “Adieu” (financed by Arte) directed by Arnaud Despallières. Live performances include: Centre Pompidou, Festival NEMO (Forum des Images), Festival Temps d’Images (la Ferme du Buisson), Festival du Film de Vendome… He has worked on numerous remix projects for various international artists as well as a solo electronic album “Wayne Frost” (Trenton Records). He is from Toronto and lives in Normandy, France. Elizabeth Tesla (video artist/graphic artist/video jockey) A visual artist with a background in sculpture, video installation, graphic arts and extensive research on her thesis subject; Networks in Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Tesla participated in and curated various group art shows in Europe and the USA from 1990 to 1998. While an artist in residence at Art Awareness in 1998 (Center for Contemporary Art) she met composer/sound designer Wayne Frost and her passion for the moving image and sound gave way to experimenting with real-time digital video manipulation and vocal experimentation.Over the last 10 years she has worked as a graphic designer, a video jockey for various musicians and digital film-maker/live performer with Cartesian Lover. Elizabeth Tesla has a degree in the visual arts from Carnegie Mellon and a Masters in Art theory from Paris 8 University. She was born in New York to a Croatian father and a Bolivian mother and lives in Normandy, France.
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