Noveller
is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker
Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar
Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble.
In March 2008, Lipstate joined Brooklyn art-rock outfit Parts
& Labor as their guitarist. She contributed to the band's
critically-acclaimed release Receivers and completed
several U.S. and European tours before leaving the band in
July 2009. Noveller has toured supporting Xiu Xiu, The Jesus
Lizard, and Emeralds. Lipstate is currently working with Carla
Bozulich (Evangelista) on an improvised duo release for No
Fun Productions.
In 2008, Lipstate
performed as part of the Underground at the Abrons performance
series at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan. That December, she played at the Un Son Par Là,
Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. She recently
performed in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage's
"Drastic-Classicism" as part of the Think Punk!
program at The Kitchen in NYC. Following that performance,
she joined Rhys Chatham and his cast of guitar-allstars at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a performance of his minimalist
punk classic "Guitar Trio". Along with 199 other
guitar players, Lipstate performed in Chatham's "A Crimson
Grail" for 200 guitars which debuted at Lincoln Center's
Damrosch Park in August 2009. In October, the Manhattan New
Music Project and the X Initiative co-presented a performance
on the rooftop of the X Initiative where Lipstate debuted
a new hand-painted 16mm film loop during a live set. In November,
Lipstate performed with musician/choreographer Nancy Garcia
in the premiere of Garcia's program "Be The Climb"
at The Kitchen, and opened several dates for The Jesus Lizard
on their European and U.S. reunion tour. Lipstate debuted
her improvised guitar duo with Carla Bozulich at NYC's The
Stone in February of this year. In March, Noveller toured
the U.S. supporting Xiu Xiu (Kill Rock Stars).
In April, No
Fun Productions released her debut LP Paint on the
Shadows. Following the release, Lipstate performed at
No Fun Fest at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
In September, the label released her full-length CD follow-up
titled Red Rainbows and Lipstate performed at No
Fun Fest Sweden in Stockholm. Her latest release is a split
LP with Aidan Baker (of Nadja) out now on Divorce Records.
Her short films
screened at the SXSW
film festival in both 2006 and 2007, and earned Lipstate the
"Diamond in the Rough Cut" award for exceptional emerging
filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. Her short, Memory Scars,
screened at the Reel Venus Film Festival at Anthology Film
Archives in NYC in October 2008. She debuted a new short film,
Interior Variations, at the New Museum in NYC as
part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May.The
film also screened at the 12th Kyoto International Student
Film & Video Festival in Japan in November. Lipstate's
short film works were showcased in the Women of NY Cinema
screening as part of the 2009 NY Eye + Ear Festival at the
92Y Tribeca. Interior Variations will be presented
as part of ‘The New York Avant Cinema Series’
at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival in Singapore
on April 18th 2010.
She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts
& Labor, One Umbrella and Sands.
Lipstate received
a BS in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at
Austin in December 2006, and currently resides in the Bushwick
neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
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