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596 Broadway, Suite 602, NY, NY 10012 (btw. Prince & Houston) Phone 212-431-1130 www.harvestworks.org The New York Electronic Arts Festival 2009
Performance Events: Improvisation and New Media October 16 to October 26, 2009 Roulette – 20 Greene Street (between Canal & Grand) NYU's Frederick Loewe Theater — 35 W. 4th Street Price: Roulette, $15/$20; NYU, Free "...Experimental music is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times Announcing the 2009 New York Electronic Arts Festival (NYEAF), a month-long series of concerts, panels, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. The NYEAF Performance Events: Improvisation and New Media present a wide range of works that expand conventional notions of music. Exploring interactive strategies and experimental instruments , these performers participate and collaborate with technology in a meaningful way Performances: Friday October 16, 8:30pm – at Roulette Shadow Puppies (Nick Didkovsky, Hans Tammen, Kurt Ralske) / Nick vs. Nic A split program featuring the audio-visual trio Shadow Puppies comprised of Hans Tamman (guitar & electronics), Nick Didkovsky (guitar & electronics) and Kurt Ralske (video and live processing); and Nick vs. Nic, a duo performance by American composer, author and media artist Nic Collins and British computer music specialist Nick Collins employing live coding and live circuit building. $15/night Saturday October 17, 6pm – 11pm – at Roulette Ikue Mori & LEMUR / Miya Masaoka / Peter Blasser / David Galbraith / Laetitia Sonami A quintuple bill with New York-based sound artist Ikue Mori in collaboration with an electronic music robot ensemble provided by LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots); composer and media artist Miya Masaoka will present her LED Kimono Project which features a kimono fabricated from nearly 900 LEDs that interacts with the properties of sound, motion and physical conditions; Baltimore-based sound artist Peter Blasser will perform with his self-invented electronic instrument the din datin dudero; New York-based composer and media artist David Galbraith will present works based on his custom software “lgOpre” that links vintage grid pattern algorithms with vinyl record lock-groove samples; and Laetitia Sonami will perform a new work with her signature instrument, the Lady’s Glove. $20/night
Sunday October 18, 6pm – 11pm – at Roulette Lucky Dragons / Joker Nies / Triple Point / Andrew Deutsch and Peer Bode / Moritz Wettstein A second quintuple bill with the Los Angeles-based duo Lucky Dragons in a performance combining music, video projection and sound created in collaboration with the audience; German musician Joker Nies will give a solo performance on Omnichord and other bizarre circuit-bent instruments; the improvising trio Triple Point featuring Pauline Oliveros (digital accordion) Jonas Braasch (soprano saxophone) and Doug Van Nort (electronics) will perform music guided by an attentiveness to Deep Listening; Andrew Deutsch and Peer Bode will premiere a live image and sound performance titled Uber Organ / body of life celebrating what would have been the 100th year of electronic pioneer Harald Bode; and Swiss sound artist Moritz Wettstein will perform Answering Maching, a sound performance with a modified analog telephone. $20/night Monday October 26, 8pm – at NYU Frederick Loewe Theater Adam Parkinson & Atau Tanaka / George Lewis & Marina Rosenfeld Hosted by the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, this split program will feature two exceptional duos. In the duo Adam & Atau, Atau performs on a system that captures physiological neuron impulses resulting from muscle tension while Adam runs Pure Data on two iPhones, mixing and mangling their output. Lewis and Rosenfeld will perform Sour Mash, from their forthcoming Tellus/Innova recording, featuring the composers with turntablists DJ Olive and Raz Mesinai.. This event is supported by EMF. Free About the Artists: Baltimore based sound artist Peter Blasser makes electronic sound instruments based on androgynous nodes. He has explored the notion of "inner surface" in electronic sound production resulting in the creation of several large-scale electronic instruments that can produce sound on an exposed interior surface. One of his last instruments, 52 modules integrated into a large canvas roll, is a complex system of patches equipped with connectors that make it possible to produce sounds by directly touching the surface.
Peer Bode is a second-generation American electronic video artist. He is associated with the New York, Oswego and Alfred schools of new media making. Peer is represented in ”Surveying the First Decade, Video Art and Alternate Media in the United States.” Peer’s work presents spaces, times and transitions that are giddy, excessive, autonomous and poetic specifically through the synthesis of audio and video signals. Jonas Braasch is an acoustician, musicologist, and sound artist who teaches courses in Acoustics, Music, and the Doctoral Seminar at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a soprano saxophonist and sound artist, he has on-going collaborations with Curtis Bahn, Chris Chafe, Michael Century, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, Doug van Nort, and Sarah Weaver - among others. He is also a Board Member of the Deep Listening Institute (Kingston, NY) and holds a courtesy Adjunct Professor Appointment with the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Nic Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. He is currently Chair of the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Routledge published his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, in 2006. Nick Collins is a composer, a performer, and a researcher in the field of computer music. He lectures at the University of Sussex, running the music informatics degree programmes and research group. He builds autonomous musical systems, explores generative music, and occasionally live codes as the Swedish avant-gardist Click Nilson. As well as helping to edit the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (CUP, 2007) and The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, forthcoming), he is also the author of the soon to be released Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley). Andrew Deutsch is a composer, video artist and print design artist who refers to his work as “Electrodynamic Drawing & Electroacoustic Collage.” Since 1998 his, “Magic If”, record label has released over 20 CDR limited editions, which showcase his experimental music and cover art. In 1998 Deutsch formed Carrier Band with Peer Bode and Pauline Oliveros, producing the CDs “Carrier” and “Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody.” Andrew's video work screens nationally and internationally, most recently at MOMA, NYC and at BS1, Beijing.
With a musical career spanning 25 years, Doctor Nerve founder and leader Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and music software programmer. In 1997 he developed the music programming language JMSL, which he continues to develop and use for his own work today. He has composed new music for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, New Century Players, Ethel, ARTE Quartett, and others. His compositions and guitar work appear on over 50 records. He is director of bioinformatics for the Gensat Project at The Rockefeller University. David Galbraith is a composer, performer and media artist who explores the couplings between art, music, technology and the body through his sound installations, sound performances, video works, self-developed software and custom analog electronics. His work has been presented internationally at P.S.1/MoMA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin), among others. Lucky Dragons, an experimental music/art group based in Los Angeles, is the moniker given to “any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and any sometimes collaborator.” Blending an organic approach to electronic music with a background in the arts, everything Lucky Dragons produces is released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, allowing others to share what they have made as well as rework it (much of their music is available for free download on their website. George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971. Lewis graduated from Yale University with a degree in philosophy and has served as a professor at Columbia University in New York City since 2004, having previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. In 2002 Lewis received a MacArthur Fellowship and In 2008, published a book-length history of the AACM titled A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press). Miya Masaoka resides in New York City and is a classically trained musician, composer and instrument developer. She has created works for solo koto, interactive plant and brain feedback, laser interfaces, explosive powders, insect movement over her body, LED objects, sculpture installations and she has notated scores for ensembles, chamber orchestra and mixed choirs, including Bang On A Can, Rova, Volti, Kathleen Supove, and most recently for So Percussion. Ikue Mori is a composer, improviser, and performer who began as a drummer in the No Wave band DNA before moving on to work with drum machines and laptops. She has collaborated with artists like Fred Frith, Ensemble Modern, and John Zorn, and has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions for her cutting edge work. Joker Nies lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He is a musician, sound-designer, sound-engineer, photographer and technical editor for the German Sound&Recording and Keyboards “Harvestworks brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts and makes them available to artists, curators, and collectors.” ABOUT NYEAF: The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, panels, workshops, and exhibitions of the highest quality across the arts and technology spectrum. Attendees will get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice. This year’s festival will be a showcase of exciting interdisciplinary work and serve as a catalyst for discussions and collaborations between artists, technology, and the public.
The NYEAF will plug into a national and international network of electronic art festivals, bringing significant contemporary art and music to the city. NYEAF is produced by Harvestworks, an international digital media arts center with 30 years of experience helping artists to get ”inside the electronics” and to develop a hands-on, experimental and explorative approach to making art with technology. Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center, Roulette and New York University with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the Québec Government Office in New York, Electronic Music Foundation, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Funds and the Institute for Electronic Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Tekserve: the Apple Specialists, Newmark Knight Frank, Original Sin and Cycling74.
ABOUT HARVESTWORKS: Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies. Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public's agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media. ABOUT ROULETTE: Roulette Intermedium is an Experimental and New Music presenting organization dedicated to the development of emerging and established artists. Since 1978, our ongoing purpose has been to provide opportunities for innovative composers, musicians, sound artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to present their work in accessible, appropriate and professional productions. Roulette hosts over 100 New Music concerts each season, with our annual spring Mixology Festival focusing on new and unusual uses of technology in music. Please visit roulette.org for more info or to stream recordings from our free online archive as well as learn more about your favorite artists through interviews, sound clips, and videos now available on our new Blog.
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