Nick Fortunato's "video rodeo" brings Evel Knievel, pole sitters, monster trucks, Harry Houdini and bull riders right into the ring. Using a layered mix of live cameras, pure geometric forms and prerecorded images like old newsreel footage or cloud formations, Mr. Fortunato, a video, installation and performance artist, evokes the spirit of action heroes past and present.

The projections sometimes function as moving scenery, as when drifting clouds give the swan-diving dancers an expansive sense of flight. The images are sometimes referential, as in "Squirm," a Houdini tribute, which features a clip of the escape artist wriggling out of a straitjacket. "All the while I am controlling his movements live, in time and to the music," Mr. Fortunato says. "The result is something like Houdini break-dancing."

Beyond evoking various environments, Nick Fortunato's video segments provide glimpses of Houdini and other vintage daredevils--though the small and remote screen makes it easy to overlook his cleverness.

The improvisation took an organic shape, beginning with a sparse musical texture whose droplets and rumbles behaved as a counterpoint to Nick Fortunato's processed video images of clouds. Both Mr. Bahn and Mr. Trueman made use of extended techniques, often drawing unusual natural sounds from their instruments.

The texture thickened as extended, active sections of the piece used the electronics to accentuate the wild exertions of the performers, juxtaposed with ominous, processed video imagery. Ultimately, the pent-up energy generated by the instrumentalists' sonic expressionism dissipated to a passage of consonance and harmonicity.