Dialed In VJ vs.drummer.
A live audiovisual performance by drummer/composer Bobby Previte and VJ Benton-C Bainbridge. Previte triggers every sound live- no loops, no laptops, no overdubbing. Benton-C paints with light, spilling off the screen and onto the performers. Each using obsolete and forgotten technology scavenged from the tech dump, Benton-C conjures lush and startling imagery while Previte whips sonic fragments into powerful songs.

Bobby Previte has been a force for many years among creative and improvising musicians, with a discography as long as your leg. He has performed and recorded with some of today's leading lights in music, and his work has been discussed in books, magazines, on TV, radio, and in most of the major newspapers around the world. He continues to lead many wildly different bands on tours anywhere and everywhere.

Benton C-Bainbridge is one of the world’s best known VJ's, an early innovator of the live and immersive visuals movement. He brings a painterly approach to pop concerts and raw kineticism to operas. Benton-C has performed, screened, streamed, and installed video all over the world. He is currently designing video for the surfaces of the future with Glowing Pictures.
Bronx, NY, USA +1 (646) 338-9172 • benton-c{AT}benton-c.com
Sample Movies

selected screenings
  1. Millennium Film Workshop
  2. Dallas Video Festival
  3. New Genre Festival
  4. Experimental Intermedia
  5. "Screen Compositions" at Neutral Ground, Regina, SK, Canada
  6. Visual Music Marathon/Boston Cyberarts Festival
  7. “Reconsidering Iraq”

selected performances
  1. "Birmingham Jazz" at Supersonic, UK
  2. "SCANNERS New York Video Festival" at Lincoln Center
  3. "Custom Control" at EMPAC
  4. Eyebeam
  5. LMCC Swing Space
  6. "Points in a Circle" at Issue Project Room
  7. Harvestworks at Galapagos

selected reviews
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"Previte's records often sound like soundtracks to an imaginary movie, with a multiplicity of characters, an enigmatic story line, and no particular axe to grind." — The Penguin Guide
"Fantastic video images by Benton-C Bainbridge depicted suspended human figures, floating abstract patterns, looming godlike figures and flickering city buildings." — NY Times