At the White Box - presented by Electronic Music Foundation - The Extended Piano Festival presents a series of concerts and installations highlighting the unique and rarely composed-for Disklavier. A robotic, MIDI controlled, grand piano, the Disklavier allows composers to create works with techniques and dynamics beyond human capabilities and to be presented without a performer. Tonight April 2nd (8 p.m) at White Box, Steve Horowitz celebrates the release of Stations of the Breath: Music for Disklavier (2010) - a disc highlighting the composer's activities on the Yamaha Disklavier, both in solo performance/composition and in duet settings. Live performers include Dave Eggar on cello, Elliott Sharp on guitar/bass clarinet, and Michael Evans on percussion. During the day Sat/Sun, Sharp and Horowitz have curated installed works for the Disklavier. Opening April 6 at the gallery is the first comprehensive US survey of Braco Dimitrijevic credited as the first Eastern European conceptual artist to gain international recognition.

Two Gates of Sleep (Video interview with HERE) has opened at ReRun Gastropub Theater (the 60 seater that opened last summer) and is curated by the critic and independent film distributor Aaron Hillis of Greencine website fame.

And you'd have to be pretty 'high-minded' not to enjoy Rubber (Cinema Village). Dispensing with the oft-troublesome lead actor, writer/director/editor/camera Quentin Dupieux casts a tyre with a mind if not a heart in the lead without ever resorting to a whiff of melting product placement. If your date for the night is severely challenged in conversational prowess, then not even the most macho quarterback, ney Rosie the Riveter, would leave you standing on the street-corner after this. A Freudian tyre movie - there is hope for the world after all;)

Katy Grannan's new photos and video are at Salon 94 in the Bowery

Speaking of dates, I was naughty enough once (with someone who I suspected of being 'dopey' - and I'm talkin' Disney character not drugs) to send someone in my second date place who looked sort of like me (but only if you'd stood on your head having downed several margaritas and had your eye-balls hanging out). Alas, the sod couldn't even tell the difference. Under table texting for once became a blessing.

So if you're lucky enough to nab a human who's even half-way observant (Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte filmed in Calabria (southern Italy) will see if your companion is watching the screen or their, umm, whatever. There's no dialogue in this film and nothing happens except the world turns and we see everything happen in this rural daily round. Its elemental nature reminded me of that Turkish film at the Tribeca Fest some years back Times and Winds only different.
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