Beth Bradfish

Untied / United is a multi-speaker installation that evokes the unconscious quality of everyday life and memories. Elastic threads strung across the space will trigger sound when touched by visitors.The sounds will transform into a mix that is abstract yet at once familiar. Both fragile and tenacious, the visual elements in the room work in unison with the sound-scape to evoke qualities encountered in both casual and intimate relationships.

Beth Bradfish is a composer and sound artist whose goal is to bring her audience as close to sound as possible – like a musician holding a cello to his or her heart. The permeability and physical intimacy of sound is the foundation of experiences she creates and invites her audiences to participate in. She composes for chamber ensembles, orchestras as well as installations and sound objects she designs.

Mark Cetilia

Laws of Reflection is an active listening experience that explores new technology for the spatialization of sound by pairing pan / tilt controls with a small ensemble of hyperdirectional speakers, which create tightly-focused beams of sound. The resulting sound projection system will allow sound to reflect off of objects within a given architectural space and illuminate different portions of the surrounding environment.

Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past two decades, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image.

Lauren McCarthy

LAUREN is an interactive performance in which McCarthy becomes a human Amazon Alexa, remotely watching over the occupants of a home 24/7 and controlling all aspects of their home. In the face of increasing replacement of humans by automated systems and artificial intelligence, McCarthy attempts to reclaim the position as omniscient watcher and controller of the home. The performance will be experienced by the participants in their own homes, as well as by an audience in a control center. Documentation and artifacts from the performance will be exhibited to a wider public afterward.

Lauren McCarthy is an artist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn whose work explores social and technological systems for being a person and interacting with other people. She makes software, performances, videos, and other things on the internet.

Amanda Gutiérrez

Gutiérrez will translate her film essay Walking on Lightness into a virtual reality environment. The audio-visual documentation of the essay is the result of the sensorial exploration of soundwalks recorded in Sunset Park in Summer 2017. The virtual journey will challenge the familiarity and cultural accessibility that is experienced in Gutiérrez’s own embodiment and historical-cultural fears while walking through public spaces in certain time and location within the urban space.

Amanda Gutiérrez explores the experience of home, belonging, and cultural identity by bringing into focus details of everyday practices whose ordinary status makes it particularly hard for us to notice their key role in defining who we are. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as sound art and performance art to investigate how these conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities.

Morehshin Allahyari and Prince Harvey

Morehshin Allahyari, in collaboration with Prince Harvey, will develop a new body of work on immigration, memory, grand-narrative, and other-future building using what they call “micro-Afrofuturism” and “micro-Gulf-futurism” as the main methods of investigation and imagination. By using their personal and collective stories and experiences, they will devise a series of mythic and fictional narratives in the form of virtual time mapping/data visualization, experimental short film, and alternative hip-hop music.

Morehshin Allahyari was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century.

Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist/musician most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. Harvey spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of 8, influenced by late 90s rappers. At 14, his family moved to New York and since then he has been composing and producing alternative hip-hop music, praised by both mainstream and underground audiences.

Harvey’s music has been featured in The New York Times, Noisey, Billboard, VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Fader, and Afropunk among others. Upon, release of his first album, PHATASS, he’s been mentioned by major music and news publications, as well as celebrities like Lil Wayne, Russell Simmons and Talib Kweli.

In 2017, he created STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, where he released a song a day for 100 days as a protest against Trump.

Andrew Neumann

Watching:Camera:Moves is an immersive, multi-channel video/audio installation that explores, analyzes, and reconstructs camera movement through cinematic/video/sonic space. Essentially a large wall installation, it employs tracking LCD screens and projectors that move around on the wall to predetermined positions. By taking license from traditional narrative cinema, and emulating the way the camera moves in and through space, this installation becomes a deconstruction of cinematic/sonic space and breaks apart the idea of the frame.

Andrew Neumann is an artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, video, sculpture, installation, and electronic/interactive music. His original artistic output consisted of single channel videos and films. He then moved on to integrate a variety of electronic and digital technologies into his sculptural work. In addition, he has been building electronic musical interfaces, and is active in electro-acoustic improvisation. He has studios in Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA.

Jon-Carlos Evans

Dreampop/Dysphoria is an Audiovisual Album and coinciding immersive video performance that narrates the downfall and awakening of a 21st century A.I. manifested Pop Star known as “dVA.” The goal of the piece is to present an innocuous form of anti-propaganda for those still trapped in the material world. Dreampop/Dysphoria combines multiple art forms to hopefully dissolve barriers between the avant-garde and populist crowds of not only music and cinema, but also digital art and performance.

ReVerse Bullets is an audiovisual collective conceived by Klaas von Karlos in Brooklyn in 2009. Klaas von Karlos is the musical alter ego of Berlin-based filmmaker, audiovisual artist and writer Jon-Carlos Evans. A native of Saint Louis, USA, he holds a BA in Film Production from Webster University-Saint Louis and an MFA in Media Arts Production from CUNY-City College of New York. Under the alias Klaas von Karlos, he is also a live member of the band BIINDS. His most recent projects include the 2016 album “The Mansa Musa Affair, the Naked Sweatshop EP with vocalist Kyoka Jinjabrew, and the film, “All Tomorrow’s Children.”

Efrain Rozas

Myth and Prosthesis is a series of performances in which a drumming robot improvises in real time generating polyrhythmic patterns with accuracy and no latency. The robot will interact with site specific events that have an interesting rhythmic or cyclical quality, such as a flag moving in the wind or microbial activity, using camera tracking systems. Some of the events will occur during the performance and some will be prerecorded and projected.

Efraín Rozas (PhD) is a Peruvian musician/researcher, specialized in software design, robotics and artificial intelligence focusing in polyrhythm and the cultural dimensions of technology. He holds a PhD in composition and ethnomusicology at New York University, funded by the McCracken fellowship, advised by Jaime Oliver and Nicolas Collins. He currently works as a professor at the New York University music department.

Julia Sinelnikova

Persons of Interest is an interactive video installation which explores otherness in the context of the American sociopolitical landscape. The installation builds on past works using MAX which interpret local surveillance feeds of unknowing citizens alongside webcam feeds of the audience, with results projected on translucent installations. Video portraits of citizens affected by immigration bans, surveillance feeds, and an ambient audio work will comprise the projection-mapped environment.

Julia Sinelnikova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Heavily inspired by electronic music, Sinelnikova has designed sculptural sets for performers including Lee Burridge, Machinedrum, The GZA (Wu Tang Clan), and Aurora Halal. Selected profiles of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE, Artnet, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, PAPER Mag, and The New Criterion.

Jakob Steensen

During his residency, Jakob Kudsk Steensen will be working on Re-animated Archives (working title), a project about virtual natural history collections of recently extinct species, exploring how archives and imaginations of past natures impact how we imagine future ecological circumstances. At Harvest works, he will develop a workflow for spatial audio for VR, utilizing new developments in ray-traced audio, where it becomes possible to have audio bounce, occlude and respond in real-time to virtual landscapes and their digital materials. The project remixes audio recordings of recently extinct species, interviews with people who have had “last encounters” with them, and 3D scans of preserved specimens of the species. The final work will manifest itself as a VR, video and audio installation, where a vast virtual eco-system comes to life

Jakob Steensen is a Danish artist and art director based in New York. He has masters of Art and New Media from Central St. Martins and Copenhagen University, and has most recently exhibited at Time Square for the Midnight Moment, at Carnegie Museum of Art, The Moving Image Fair, NYC, MAXXI, Museum of Modern Art, WIRED annual conference, FRIEZE in London, Podium in Oslo, Ok Corral in Copenhagen, 86 Project Space, Brooklyn, Sleep Center, China Town and at London Science Museum.

Amy Youngs

Becoming Biodiversity is an augmented reality artwork that will encourage participants to explore and experience local, ecological, and indigenous networks present in an urban park site. Cell phones and headphones are used to view the artwork, which includes mixed-reality animations and storytelling as an overlay to the actual park. The experience will be an embodied one, designed to connect humans empathetically with the biodiversity, symbioses, and unseen histories in public park spaces.

Amy Youngs creates biological art, interactive sculptures and digital media works that explore interdependencies between technology, plants and animals. Her practice-based research involves entanglements with the non-human, constructing ecosystems, and seeing through the eyes of machines. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the Ohio State University.

Eva von Schweinitz

The Space between the Letters

The Space between the Letters is a new multi-disciplinary, research-based performance project that investigates adult literacy, the experience of learning, and the socio-political fabric of education in the United States. Integrating recorded interviews, interactive video, sound design, live-drawing, and choreography,

The Space between the Letters explores the perspective of those who struggle with reading and writing and considers the ways in which adult education can provide tools to become empowered as a citizen.

Eva von Schweinitz is a German-American interdisciplinary artist who lives in Brooklyn and creates original, research-based work in collaborative settings. The Space between the Letters is a collaboration between eight core artists, each occupying one or more roles including director, producer, choreographer, dramaturg, performer, to video and sound designer.

John Kelly

a multi-media dance theatre work based on the life and work of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a brilliant closeted queer scholar who left academia to create his own survival strategies, reasonably flourishing as a tattoo artist, diarist, novelist, and writer of erotic fiction. The live performance will include multi-channel video projections, including animation renderings of tattoo designs, and various modes of rendering written texts.

John Kelly is a performance and visual artist. His character-driven dance theatre works focus on the threats of survival resulting from the personal and public struggles encountered by artists and social outsiders, and the nature of creative genius. Kelly’s visual artwork frequently involves self-portraiture, including drawing and painting, photography and video; 2 of his films ‘The Dagmar Onassis Story’ and ‘The Mona Lisa’ were recently acquired for the permanent collection of MOMA. His solo exhibition ‘Sideways Into The Shadows’ includes 52 hand drawn memorial portraits of friends and lovers lost to the AIDS epidemic, and dated journal transcriptions rendered on paper, was recently exhibited at Howl! Arts.

Kyle de Camp

will produce a multimedia installation/performance that explores the movement of light, bodies and images through the lens of architecture, providing a subjective experience of space. The project was sparked by recent demolition of the massive public health complex Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island (1939-2015), the first major design by Russian Jewish immigrant, Harvard educated architect/ designer of hospitals Isadore Rosenfield (1896-1980) who is also coincidentally her grandfather.

Kyle deCamp is an interdisciplinary artist. She writes, designs, directs and performs at intersections of media, architecture, theater, performance and choreography drawing on multiple perspectives, exploring interactions of art, history, technology and individual lives. Her multi-focused projects combine varied perspectives to create hybrid experiences of space in live performance. Rome Prize Fellow in Design, American Academy in Rome 2017.

Qubit

is a collective of composers and sound artists who curate and produce events that feature innovative applications of technology in music. At Harvestworks, their residency projects will use the audio recording studio and our public presentation programs. David Bird is composing a music theater work for the TAK ensemble with playwright Kelsey Torstveit. His work explores the themes of domestic loneliness and will record sounds of buzzing refrigerators, creaking floorboards, leaky windows, as primary musical materials which will become orchestrated out onto the ensemble. Alec Hall is composing a long-form experimental music theatre work for the TAK ensemble in collaboration with director Katherine Brook and writer Dan O’Neill. He will use the recording studio to record acoustic instrument samples from the TAK ensemble and combine them with various electronic sounds from the Harvestworks analog studio as well as digital methods. Bryan Jacobs will present Subwhistlea sound installation that uses low frequency sound to play slide whistles. The air forced out of each of four subwoofers is directed into the mouthpiece of a slide whistle, causing the whistles to sound. The subwoofers are fed oscillating sine waves between 10 and 30 hertz- mostly below the threshold of human hearing. This piece uses one audio signal to physically create another. Subwhistlewas presented on Governors Island as part of the Artworks and Experience exhibition produced by Harvestworks.

Danny Bracken

A Stillness in the Dark

A Stillness in the Dark is a subtly interactive installation. Using multi-channel sound and electroluminescent wire the work will explore the use of space, movement, and interactivity. Built with Max/MSP interfacing with a microcontroller, the installation will play a musical sequence that is synchronized to sections of wire, illuminating as sound plays. As people enter the space, a camera will detect their movement and pause the work, and turning on when there is stillness.

Danny Bracken’s creative practice explores technological change and its impact on our perceptions and experiences of the people and places that surround us. Employing contemporary and historic references, the work examines the role of the physical in our progressively intangible existence.

Stephanie Gray

Stephanie Gray’s film-video, “Do You Know What A Magician Is?” explores the process of communication and hearing, as one with a hearing loss. With a mix of found and original video/film footage and sonic experimentation, this work will immerse viewers in the world of those with “less” hearing and dissect the ways in which we may make assumptions about those with such hearing. The title is named after a line in a condescending 1950s film about children with hearing loss.

Xiameng (Summer) Lin

Inspired by the Italian Pavilion at Caramoor (Katonah, NY), Lin will create an interactive installation, which is also a multichannel composition. The Italian Pavilion magically “freezes” sounds made strictly within the boundaries. These sounds keep building up to a point where they sound like a landscape composition and a sonic texture. This acoustic feature often inspires passengers to make interesting sounds or sing. Using microphones and sound processing, Lin will reproduce this experience.

Daniel Neumann

Neumann’s new continual composition piece CHANNELS.applied was initiated in the form of a sound installation at Fridman Gallery in January 2018. The sonic “raw” material of CHANNELS, as well as recordings, will be applied to various architectural spaces and systems in form of future performances and installations. The intital patch used in a performance in 2017 will be expanded into a more versatile and flexible architecture to be used for Neumann’s new piece.

Daniel Neumann is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, organizer and professional audio engineer, originally from Germany. He holds a master’s degree in media art from the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig and also studied electronic music composition under Emanuele Casale in Catania, Italy. A main focus of Neumann, throughout all three of his different occupations, is how sound interacts with space and how spaces can be shaped by sound.

Simona Prives in collaboration Ross Williams

We Said We Didn’t See It Coming is an immersive interactive installation that represents an examination of our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made and offers a multi-sensorial construction of reality. The work is a dynamic choreography between the audience, musical compositions and video animations, presented in multiple life-sized projections, that plays with the viewer’s perception of time and place. The experience will offer dreamscapes that ignite a fragmented memory.

Simona Prives creates physical and digital collages, both still and moving, that focus on the process of decomposition and reconstruction. Simona uses multiple forms of printmaking and drawings in fragments, as well as video and found materials to assemble her intricate animations.

Laura Splan

Material Expressions is a new series of kinetic sculptures whose movement is triggered by biosensors. Motorized components of the sculptures will be actuated by a live performer’s movement through electromyography (EMG) electrodes. Changing levels of electricity in muscles will control motorized movement of sculptural apparatus. The sculptures will incorporate found materials, handcrafted elements and 3D-printed forms. The project explores the potential for objects to embody corporeal experience and to materialize the unseen machinations of the human body.

Laura Splan’s work explores intersections of art, science, technology and craft. Her conceptually based projects examine the material manifestations of our mutable relationship with the human body. She reconsiders perceptions and representations of the corporeal with a range of traditional and new media techniques. She often combines the quotidian with the unfamiliar to interrogate culturally constructed notions of order and disorder, function and dysfunction. Her frequent combinations of textiles with technology challenge values of “the hand” in creative production and question notions of agency and chance in aesthetics. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Andrea DeFelice

Andrea DeFelice has been working with an engineer to design & complete an initial piece of a series. The series entails three mechanized light paintings where words are hidden & revealed by two types of light: ultraviolet and daylight. Each individual piece is a wood and steel box frame, built with a linear motion mechanism, light fixture, UV & daylight tubes, UV pigment, Arduino, and custom components.

Andrea DeFelice works in a range of media including video art, drawing, algorithmic art, and mechanical hacks. With a background in new media, engineering, and sculpture, her work references different concepts behind technology and human behavior as responses to how we receive and understand information; particularly amidst the tech-evolution and the environments created from it.

Tali Hinkis

Fremd Comfort Zone is a new wearable and spatial technology environment for immersive audiovisual performances. Combining original textile designs, biosensors, and embedded spatial sensors, the suits and space will be used to establish deeper connections between performers, instruments, and audience. This new work is a continuation of LoVid’s ongoing practice combining handmade audio/video instruments, wearable and mobile technology, and visceral video performances and installations.

Brian McCorkle

11 Attempted Decompositions

An act of composition in reverse, an antidote to composer-as-landowner, a Decomposition is defined as a series of musical decisions rather than a predetermined melody or harmony. Each Decomposition is based around a different focal point: light, timbre, loudness, note, meaning, contact, conversation, periodicity, presence, and absence. Over the course of 2018 individual recording sessions will be held with over 50 artists, engaging with a focus of their choice, designed with them in mind. The recordings will be assembled into an album, culminating in a record release show and exhibition of selected compositional systems for the public to engage with. brianmccorkle.work

Brian McCorkle is a composer, performer, and digital artist. In addition to his solo work and with the composer’s collective Varispeed, he is the Co-Director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) with Esther Neff. brianmccorkle.work

Catherine McCurry

That Time When is a mixed reality narrative – a VR experience mapped to a physical installation that unfolds as viewers move through it. The project combines neuroscience, physicality, sound, and comedy, presenting itself as an amusement park-style exhibit in which participants walk through the memories of an unnamed research subject. She is the first person to have her brain scanned with micron-level precision, then meticulously mapped over the course of many decades.

Catherine McCurry is an artist, musician and creative technologist based in Brooklyn New York. Through her work, she explores scientific concepts and uses technology to create new paradigms for interactive and participatory storytelling. Her work spans multiple media including performance, film, sound, software, and installation.

Ed Bear

Ed Bear is an American performing artist and engineer working with robotics, sound, video, transmission and collective improvisation. Committed to an open source world, he researches material reuse as a civil responsibility and is currently working with littleBits, Inc. to revolutionize modular electronics. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as a performer and teacher, working with organizations such as The Mattress Factory, The Montreal Pop Festival, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

RadioOrgan, began in 2016 when Edward Bear developed a wireless, modular, multichannel synthesis system out of recycled electronics. Currently only two prototypes exist, each prototype only has eight stereo audio channels. The goal is to create a version of radioOrgan that has a 64 stereo channel system, along with developing examples and tools which interface the system to common A/V hardware and software, and to present public workshops which inspires artist and teachers alike to replicate the system.

Carla Cisno

Carla Cisno is an Italian sound and live media artist, working at the intersections of art, music, design, and technology. Ranging from electroacoustic and mixed-media projects to live performance, photography, sound and drawing installations, she develops open, permeable, animate environmental forms that explore perception as a multi-sensorial, fictional and cultural construction of reality.

YOU AND YOUR LANDSCAPE

You and Your Landscape, is an adaptive environmental installation and noise-masking system for public spaces. The project explores sound and it’s audible reception in the form of air pressure. The installation consists of an interactive device as well as a terrarium that contains the remains of a fallen tree.

Katherine Liberovskaya

Katherine Liberovskaya is an inter-media artist based in New York City and Montreal, Canada. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video and music performances which have been presented at a wide variety of events and venues around the world.

Espringale, is continuing a body of work incorporating physical objects or materials as basis of self-generating sound and image closed-circuit environments. It is based on long metallic extension springs that become source of the sound via their automated movement by Arduino controlled solenoids, and its amplification, and source of the image through real-time surveillance and projection equipment.

Cecelia Lopez

Cecelia Lopez received her Masters in Music Composition from Wesleyan University and her Masters of Fine Arts in Music and Sound from Bard College. Cecelia has been apart of various international programs and residencies in countries such as, Lithuania, Italy, and the Czech Republic.

Red (in it’s different iterations) is an investigation about the interaction with unstable acoustic feedback systems. The piece consists in building an acoustic feedback environment, setting up several wire nets and placing them in relation to the architectural features of the space. These speaker-wire nets are built using both speakers and piezoelectric microphones in order to produce acoustic feedback.

Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas creates works about blurring the boundary between the body and technology, further complicated by issues of gender and the ties it has to the global economy. Kristen often investigates the uncanny and liminal spaces of our everyday interaction with technology in imaginative, circuitous works that lie somewhere between reality and “reality”.

Dance with flARmingos: Multispecies Dance, is a piece that is a mixed reality experience for Hololens that features a multispecies dance between Humans and Flamingos. The inspirations stems from Kristen Lucas’ adopted Flamingos, and the effect of human activity on wetlands and Flamingo populations.

Amelia Marzec

Amelia Marzec is an American artist focused on rebuilding local communications infrastructure to prepare for an uncertain future. Her work has been exhibited at ISEA, SIGGRAPH, MIT, the ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial in Madrid, and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She has been a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the A.I.R. Gallery Emma Bee Bernstein Fellow, a Fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art.

Future Satellite, is a personal radio system created out of salvaged materials and dated technology. It consists of a satellite dish, a model of a satellite, and series of transmitters and receivers. This allows it to transmit underground and experimental music, in addition to news alerts in the event of a catastrophe.

Kristin Norderval

Kristin Norderval is a performer, composer and improviser whose career has been two-fold; combining both vocal performance and composition. She received her undergraduate training in composition from the University of Washington, and completed a DMA in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Her credits as a soprano soloist include performances with the Oslo Sinfonietta, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Netherlands Dance Theater, and the San Francisco Symphony.

Mothertongue, is a piece for choir and multi-channel electronic playback on networked tablets, as well as portable speakers. The project entails the development and creation of a custom built interface for networked triggering and audio processing of the electronic portions of Mothertongue.

Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is an American Jazz musician, and one of the three Jazz artists that has received a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Chicago in 1944, he started playing percussion, then switched to the clarinet to then switch to the saxophone. In spring 2016, Henry Threadgill joined Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis as Pulitzer laureates, when he was honored for In For A Penny, In For A Pound, the latest album by Zooid, his unconventional sextet (reeds, acoustic guitar, cello, tuba, bassguitar, drums).

Tightrope, is composition piece for live performance in an immersive surround sound environment with video projection capabilities.

Stephan Moore

Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, solo and group improvisations, sound installation works, scores for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past 15 years. He is the president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and is a member of The Nerve Tank, a canary torsi, Composers Inside Electronics, and the Wingspace Theatrical Collective. He toured for several years as a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has worked with artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective. He is a lecturer in Sound Art and Sound Design in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University.

Fromtroy, is a concert/installation work for a 3D Sound Object. The passing of Moores’ mentor, collaborator and friend Pauline Oliveros ,whom often encouraged musicians to sound out the spaces they occupied, moved him to utilize the Geluso 3D Sound Object for this project. The Geluso activates the room’s acoustics and producing spatial effects. FROMTROY hopes to pay homage to Pauline’s memory and considerable legacy.

Judy Dunaway

For over twenty years Judy Dunaway has primarily been known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including free improvisations, electronic and multi-media works, sound installations, and compositions. She has presented these works throughout North America and Europe at many important venues, festivals, museums and galleries including the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany), Alternative Museum (NYC), Audio Art Festival 2016 (Krakow), Cafe Oto (London), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Diapason (NYC), Everson Art Museum (Syracuse), Frau Musica Nova (Germany), Galerie Rachel Haferkamp (Cologne), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Ohrenhoch sound gallery (Berlin), Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), the Roy and Edna Disney Center (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Austria), STEIM (Netherlands) and ZKM (Germany). Her discography includes CDs on the Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and Innova labels, among others.

Chamber Ensemble, is an interacting installation piece in which the visitors have an immersive experience that is primarily visual, aural, and tactile. The piece utilizes four large balloons, two of which are solid the other two translucent, as a projection surface for 3D animations created in real time. When visitors interact with the balloons, the sound data controls and influences the animations. However wen no visitors are inside and intreating with the installation area the animations entice them to enter.

Claudia Hart

Claudia Hart has been active as an artist, curator and critic since 1988. She works with digital trompe l’oeil as a medium, directing theater and making media objects of all kinds. These include multi-channel 3D animation installations, sculptures using industrial production techniques such as Rapid Prototyping, CNC routing, and virtual and mixed reality environments, and augmented-reality custom apps.

The Flower Matrix is a hybrid environment, using a custom augmented-reality application made for a physical installation in the real world. This real-world environment will be a viewing lounge for a virtual-reality, software world created on both the HTC Vive and Samsung Gear platforms.The Flower Matrix uses Hart’s custom Looking Glass augmented-reality application for smartphone and tablet. It is used both for installation and as the set for experimental performance: Alice Unchained.

Chika

Working as a graphic designer in the commercial industry and the underground experimental audiovisual scene for a decade in New York City has strongly influenced Chika’s artistic practice, shifting it from a one-way communication to the audience into a fully interactive experience that uses technology to establish a moment of co-creation with the public.Her work creates what she describes as the symphony of light: creating minimalist geometric shapes and visuals that explore dark space while inviting people to reinvent themselves through the relationship between objects and images. Light and sound are the main elements she uses in her installations, which are ultimately a visual performance that experiments with improvisational communication and immediate interaction with the audience in real time.

EN is a unique symphony of light installation that happens only during a collaboration between the artist and the audience through light and sound, allowing the users the amazing opportunity to co-create. Using the latest technology as a bridge between the LED light sculpture and the public, the audience will create unexpected sound and light patterns in the darkness.

Stephan Moore

Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, solo and group improvisations, sound installation works, scores for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past 15 years. He is the president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and is a member of The Nerve Tank, a canary torsi, Composers Inside Electronics, and the Wingspace Theatrical Collective. He toured for several years as a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has worked with artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective. He is a lecturer in Sound Art and Sound Design in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University.

Fromtroy, is a concert/installation work for a 3D Sound Object. The passing of Moores’ mentor, collaborator and friend Pauline Oliveros ,whom often encouraged musicians to sound out the spaces they occupied, moved him to utilize the Geluso 3D Sound Object for this project. The Geluso activates the room’s acoustics and producing spatial effects. FROMTROY hopes to pay homage to Pauline’s memory and considerable legacy.

Sara Rothberg/ Yotam Mann

Sarah Rothberg is a multimedia artist working in a variety of formats: installations, virtual worlds, websites, writing. Her work conveys relationships between complex systems (the internet, global economics, human memory) and personal life, with a sense of humor and vulnerability. As of late, she has found herself swimming the depths in the current wave of Virtual Reality, as Direct of Experience at VRB (Samsung Accelerator), professor of “DIY VR” and “Directing Virtual Reality” at Tisch, NYU, and through her own virtual reality creations, which have been shown at venues such as Bitforms, Illinois State University Gallery, MUTEK festival, and most recently LACMA (with the Hereafter Institute).

Yotam Mann is a composer and programmer who creates interactive music in the form of apps, websites, and installations. He is driven by the idea that interactivity allows for new and exciting ways of engaging with music, transcending the composer/consumer relationship. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Emerging Fields category, an inaugural member of the New Museum Incubator and an adjunct professor at ITP, NYU Tisch, where he teaches Tone.js, a widely used javascript library he developed for creating interactive music in the browser.

Yotam and Sarah are longtime collaborators. Their work together is playful, reflective, and innovative, bringing together Sarah’s colorful visual style and concept-driven interaction design and Yotam’s talent for complex but accessible musical compositions and technical expertise.

Blobchat, is a musical virtual reality chat platform where users are blobs. It exists in the blob universe, parallel to our own, where misunderstanding is type of understanding. In Blobchat, you are a blob. When you talk, blob sounds blurp out. You hear the babbling of other blobs nearby. You can putter around and glom together and have intimate blabber about secrets, identity, whatever you want. Blobchat is an optimistic antidote to the ugly side of social media such as fake news and echo chambers.

Artist Scholarships were awarded to Seth Cluett, Merche Blasco, William Hooker, Monika Weiss and Ryan Soper.

New Music USA Impact Residency was awarded to thingNY. In celebration of thingNY’s 10th anniversary, the theatrically-charged new music collective presents a multi-channel sound and visual installation on the theme thingNY: 10 years in the (music) making, an immersive, interactive environment of sensory under- and overload. Using thingNY’s decade of archival recordings as source material, the installation simulates our activity-saturated daily life, with a deliberate range of audio quality as exists in the physical world.

The AIR-EARS Program is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Jerome Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and Friends of Harvesestworks. The New Music USA Impact Fund Residency is supported through New Music USA’s NYC New Music Impact Fund made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosen Fund.

Daniel Fishkin

Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder Daniel Fishkin has studied with renowned artists and performed as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra. Daniel received his MA at Wesleyan College and currently teaches an analog synthesis course at Bard College.

I hear ringing in my ears as a result of exposure to loud noises. Hearing damage is a birthright for experimental musicians, but most artists just try to ignore it. I let my tinnitus inspire me, and compose as a direct response to my condition. To accompany my tinnitus, I invented a system of tensioned twenty-foot long piano wires activated by mixer feedback—lady’s harp—which, when installed onto walls, turns a room into a mechanical model of the inner-ear.

Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, surround sound pieces, installations and collaborations have been produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries and on radio, film and television on five continents. She has received awards. fellowships, grants and residencies from Creative Capital, NYFA, NYSCA, Mary Flagler Carey Trust, NEA and AIRS from the DAAD, Yaddo, Montalvo Arts Center and many more.

BookBarkSkinLine is an electro acoustic 5.1 surround sound work for 5 singers and two musicians exploring the words sonically, etymologically, associatively I will also write live on stage and these words will be projected real time and be part of a cuing system. It will be a real mixture of composed and improvised elements.

Faith Holland

Faith Holland is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose practice focuses on gender and sexuality’s relationship to the Internet. She received her BA in Media Studies at Vassar College and her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally as well as featured in The Sunday Times UK, Artforum, and other well known publications. Faith was a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art. She also had her first solo show at Transfer Gallery in 2015.

Speculative Fetish consists of multimedia works that consider the bodily ways that we use everyday technological devices and the libidinal implications of caressing screens all day. The works will include modified devices, embedded videos, and works that are physically and visually interactive. The works will emphasize the touch and tactility of phones, tablets, laptops and other personal devices.

G.H. Hovagimyan/Rhys Chatham/Raphaele Shirley

G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. His work ranges from new media and hypertext works to digital performance art, video art, photography and interactive installations. His work has been showcased and a part of collections in many museums and festivals, including The Whitney Museum, MOMA, The New Museum and more.

Rhys Chatham is a composer/performer from NY currently living in Paris. Having played in the groups of Tony Conrad and La Monte Young during the early seventies, his current projects include his orchestras of 100-200 electric guitars as well as his smaller Guitar Trio configuration.

Raphaele Shirley is a french/american multi-media visual artist working in NYC and having shown her work nationally and internationally in Museums, galleries and public spaces.. Employing diverse mediums such as neon, LED,laser, water, mist, sound, traditional materials and occasional pyrotechnics in her sculptural works, she creates site specific perceptual spaces where interactivity is key.

3by3by3: 2016

The work is an interactive immersive performance. Rhys Chatham plays solo or with a combo in his signature minimalist style. Rapahele Shirley creates site specific light sculptures and G.H. Hovagimyan controls the lights via a custom interface using gestural recognition. G.H. responds to Rhys’s music via his gestures which control Shirley’s lights. The audience is all around or views the work from a platform above the players.

Richard Jochum

Richard Jochum is a post-conceptual sculptor and media artist whose art work is based in a variety of media, including video, photography and installation, and has been exhibited domestically and internationally in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna (Austria) and an MFA in Sculpture and Media Art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria). His most recent solo exhibition is currently on display in Traismauer/Austria (Fine Art Galerie) with upcoming solo exhibitions at Peekskill (WCC Digital Media Arts Center) and at the Gallery Bundo (South-Korea) in Spring 2017.

Interactive Crossword Project 2016

The Crossword Project was developed as a video animation built in Cinema 4D and shown at the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt in Spring 2015 and as a wall painting at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York in Summer 2015. The work comes out of my fascination with the ubiquity and relevance of crossword puzzles for popular culture and most importantly the type of questions they address, which are answerable by providing short clues. The knowledge generated through crossword puzzles tends to be prepackaged and memorable. The Crossword Project goes beyond that. The outcome is an array of questions, unanswerable at large, absurdist or rhetorical at times, often exploratory, almost always soliciting responses that won’t fit into a rubric or short word. I will spend my time as a creative resident at Harvestworks T.E.A.M. lab to develop an interactive version of the project. The goal is to make the piece become a site-specific public art project that can be altered, expanded, and accessed by large audiences.

Okkyung Lee

Okkyung Lee, a New York-based artist and South Korea native, has created a body of work blurring genre boundaries through collaborations and compositions while pushing the limitation of contemporary cello performance techniques. Her music draws from noise and extended techniques, jazz, Western classical, and Korean traditional and popular music. She has released more than 20 albums including the latest solo record Ghil produced by Lasse Marhaug on Editions Mego/Ideologic Organ.

My dream is to develop a full evening length of solo performance incorporating cello, lighting design while really utilizing the spatial relationships between the sound sources and the space and the audience. (Eventually I’ll be adding videos but that will have to developed after this stage).

Thessia Machado

Thessia Machado is a visual/sound artist and instrument builder. Her work investigates the physicality of sound and its effect on our perception of space.

As an extension of this practice, and under the moniker link, she performs electronic and electro-acoustic experimental music with hand-made and modified instruments.

Thessia’s installations and video pieces have been exhibited in New York, London, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin and Athens, She has participated in several residencies worldwide and is a recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin (upcoming), the New York Foundation for the Arts, Experimental Television Center and The Bronx Museum. She recently participated in the exhibition Curious Sound Objects at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery.

Measures: 2016

Measures (working title) is: A song object, an immersive installation, a playable sculptural instrument.

From found materials and an assortment of components – DC motors, a servo motor, cell phone vibration motors, Measures buzzes and taps and excites a bass string, while a built-in analog synth with an octave divider provides oscillators interacting in sonic bliss.

Measures is site-adaptable, expandable and programmable. Once developed it can be made available to other composers and as its own self-contained mini orchestra for jamming with other musicians.

Zibuokle Martinaityte

“Vanishing Lands” (M-Islands)

Recently named by WQXR a “textural magician”, Lithuanian-born composer Žibuokle Martinaityte has a growing reputation for her innovative chamber and orchestral music. She studied composition at the Lithuanian Music Academy and had commissions with MATA festival, Barlow Endowment and won the “Look&Listen” Composers Competition Prize (NYC). Her music has been performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Canada), the Smith Quartet (UK), ERGO Ensemble (Canada), The Orchestra of Mons Royal Conservatoire (Belgium), the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and others.

“Vanishing Lands” (M-Islands)

Zibuokle Martinaityte will create a music score for pre-recorded instruments and True Rosaschi will work with the electronic music component of this project. Both will be equally involved in designing the shape of the audio installation, researching and acquiring video footage of the Marshall Islands, executing 3D mapping projections and making other visual decisions.

Alfredo Salazar-Caro

Alfredo Salazar-Caro’s work exist at the intersection of Portraiture/Self-Portraiture, installation, Virtual Reality, Video and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited in cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Caracas(Venezuela), Shiraz (Iran) and Mexico City among others and has been featured in publications such as Leonardo, Anti-Utopias, Art F City and The Creators Project. He Lives and works between Mexico City, New York, Chicago and the Internet.

DiMoDa Part 2: 2016

The Digital Museum of Digital Art (DiMoDA) is a VR platform for the Display, Distribution and Preservation of Contemporary Digital Art Works. For Harvestworks, I’d like to develop the second exhibition of DiMoDA which will open in summer 2016.

Christina Wheeler

Vocalist, multi-instrumental, electronic musician and composer Christina Wheeler’s musical explorations have included forays in techno, house, 2-step, drum and bass, breakbeat, soul, dance hall, dub, world music, ambient, free jazz and improvisational forms. She has worked with many artists including David Byrne, Chris Whitley, and Jamie Lidell and performed at Central Park Summerstage, Bowery Ballroom, The Late Show with David Letterman, and other prestigious venues. A native of Los Angeles, California, Ms. Wheeler is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Manhattan School of Music.

The Magical Garden, a five-part, multimedia performance/generative installation project, uses audio, video, and an LED light installation to present a multi-episodic, fantasy-narrative in an organic setting for audiences of all ages. Within a technological context, a fantastic narrative follows five creatures trapped in a mythic garden searching for freedom. Multimedia creates the garden’s magic with modern technology, in a performance and a generative installation that recombines this material.

Technical Scholarships were awarded to Maria Chavez, Dina Kelberman, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Anna Pasztor and Aaron Sherwood.

PAUL D.MILLER (aka DJ SPOOKY)

is a composer, renowned multimedia artist and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has been traveling around India recently to work on his latest project, “The Heart of a River” which will showcase the new XTH Sense, a unique biocreative instrument. With the collaboration of Heidi Boisvert and Marco Donnarumma, co-founders at XTH, Miller will explore ideas about art and data and bring those ideas to different logical extremes. He is joined by choreographer Jody Sperling, whose body gestures will generate electronic tones and visuals based on muscle sounds and motion data captured by the XTH Sense.

Maxwell Abeles

Maxwell Abeles started the creative company MAKS. As the company has evolved it has now become a form of guerrilla theatre. They put special emphasis on creating multimedia systems which are then used in rituals and performances in public squares across the boroughs of New York. “Theatre is the defining end point,” says Maxwell. His residency with Harvestworks will result in a performance system incorporating animatronic masks, instruments, sensors, voltage controlled canvases, and electronic controllers.

Lea Bertucci in collaboration with MV Carbon and Tommy Martinez

Quadraphonic Cello –

An instrument, multichannel installation and platform for audio-visual composition, the Quadraphonic Cello re-imagines a classical cello as a vehicle for surround sound and video. The strings of the instrument will be removed and replaced with piezo electric wire. When the cellist bows, plucks or taps this wire, four discrete signals are produced and routed to a multichannel array of speakers. With development though Harvestworks, this instrument will become a three dimensional musical apparatus tailored to multi-channel composition and the sculpting of sonorous space.

Lea Bertucci is a sound artist and composer whose work bridges performance, installation and multichannel activations of acoustic space. As an instrumentalist, she focuses on an electro-acoustic preparation of the Bass Clarinet that utilizes speaker feedback as an extension of the instrument. In recent years, her projects have expanded to site-specific improvisation, compositions for electronics and instruments, multichannel sound installations and music concrete collage. M.V. Carbon is a Brooklyn based composer and sound artist who is recognized for her non-traditional approach to music. Thomas Martinez is an artist and engineer at Harvestworks.

Sougwen Chung

Sougwen Chung is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transitional edges. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, still image, drawing, and performance, informing her multi-faceted approach to experiential art. Her installations involve multiple layers of light on intricate structures, taking a variety of media and transforming it into spatial experiences. Melapoeia is an immersive interactive installation which exists in virtual and physical reality. VR headsets are situated in various parts of a vertiginous structure, each offering a different audiovisual experience of the piece. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Recent venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, and 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, New York.

Viv Corringham

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist, sound artist and composer, now living in New York, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. She is interested in exploring people’s special relationship with familiar places and how that links to personal history, memory and association. The experiences and materials gathered on these walks find their way into sound installations, recordings and concert pieces. She aims to experiment new ways of presenting her ongoing, international project “Shadow-walks,” which has so far occurred in 18 places in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe. Using technologies to make the work more immersive and allow the audience more participation in selecting sounds are her concerns during her residency at Harvestworks.

Annie Gosfield

Annie Gosfield is a composer whose work combines notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds. During her New Works Residency she will create a large-scale spatialized work inspired by the processes, perceptions, and sounds of jammed radio signals. Fragments of the original rare recordings will be used, from abstract timbres to text-based transmissions. She will also reference the jamming process by digitally altering the sounds of acoustic instruments, with elements shifting in a sound field where music, noise, and pure signal meld and collide. The end result will be displayed in NYC and Prague. Active as a writer and teacher, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times series “The Score,” and has been the Milhaud Professor of composition at Mills College, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a visiting artist at Cal Arts.

Joseph Morris

Joseph Morris is a media artist known to make emotive machines. His work is occupied with the affectual space of somatic relationships between our bodies and physical space. He is immersed in the creation of machines that resemble the body through the gesture of breathing. His work engages with ephemerality, perception, movement, space, and time to generate subjectivity, and through that action creates a sensorial relationship with gestural presence. His New Works Residency project is a solar wind chime, which is a data sonification system that pulls real time data from the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) satellite. This sonification system will interpret the solar wind data live, and use it to synthesize dimensional sound in an open sound and video installation.

Serena Reed/Krewe Coumbite

Krewe Coumbite is a sonic instrument of study in Black diaspora folk ecology and vernacular rhythms. Reed’s work focuses specifically on vernacular resonance of Black cultural musings expressed in: chants, cultural sayings/proverbs, naming, lullabies, and rituals such as public transit, service work, and neighborhood gathering. Currently in production with turbulence.org to create a remix station & sound map for Krewe, Reed will produce a digital sound sampling library for programming electronic algorithms through their residency with Harvestworks.

http://krewefunk.blogspot.com

Jane Rigler and Elizabeth Hoffman

The Transparence of Lady R is an immersive work for flute, electronics, space, sound and images, based on the “Tales of Genji” in which the spatialized audio is a 3-dimensional sculptural counterpart of the flutist’s sonic and physical gestures. Two live elements – flutist- performer and computer-performer – coordinate closely. In this piece Jane Rigler is the flutist-performer and Elizabeth Hoffman is the computer-performer. Both Rigler and Hoffman will engage in the sound design for this work — a collaboration in which the interaction involves music, physical gestures, electronics and video interacting to form a cohesive mono-drama.

Flutist, composer and educator, Jane Rigler has performed nationally and internationally as and has been granted numerous awards and residencies nation-wide for her compositions that center on community building, stretching the boundaries of musical performance and audience interaction. Rigler’s works range from solo acoustic pieces to multi-disciplinary interactive electronic ensemble works. Composer Elizabeth Hoffman is the recipient of recognition from Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica for her electroacoustic music, and has collaborated on real-time mixed media works with numerous artists including Ivan Goff, Margaret Lancaster, Marianne Gythfeldt, and the Washington Square Contemporary Music players.

Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs

Michael Schumacher is currently music director of the Liz Gerring Dance Company, Vice-president of TonalMotion Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 2003 and a collaborator of the AVM Project. The Audio Visual Matrix (AVM) is an interdisciplinary performance system that enables fast and flexible interconnections of audio and video data streams to modulate content. This work will bind the elements of an immersive, interdisciplinary performance involving musicians and video artists. With this system, elements (instruments, cameras and computers) will “modulate” each others content, creating a web of resonances and associations that will engage listeners in a unique and powerful way. Nisi Jacobs is a New York-based video artist who has had work exhibited in film/video festivals in Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, UK, San Francisco, New York, and Tribeca Film Festival (2003).

Jill Taffet

Jill Taffet is a moving image artist who creates media installations, video projection and public art projects. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. During her residency at Harvestworks she will create a site-specific immersive multi-channel video projection that uses camera and eye tracking to trigger the movement of animation elements and sounds. Biosensors will collect biometric data from the spectator and individualize the experience with generative art elements based on blood pressure and pulse rate.

Michael Theodore and David Shively

Ring is an evening length hybrid work that is equal parts performance and kinetic sound art installation. The work features a unique blend of live electronics with acoustic objects as feedback-driven “speakers” (skins, metals, and woods), and large arrays of motors controlled in realtime, with armatures that sweep across various sculptural sonic objects. Michael Theodore is a composer, improviser, and practicing visual artist, who studied at the Yale School of Music and UCSD. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Director of the ATLAS Center for Media, Arts and Performance. Theodore’s technology–informed work with sound, visual media or both has been presented across the nation and the world. David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from Hungarian cimbalom to percussion to analog electronics and feedback systems.

Bohyun Yoon

Bohyun Yoon is from Korea and currently living in Richmond Virginia. He is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. His residency project involves art making with glass and digital audio systems. Inspired by the idea of sound from clear glass, he will create avenues for this glass to become a sonic instrument. He plans to use different materials like multi channel audio system, contact microphone and amplifiers as his projects Glass Helmet (2004), Glass Tube (2012), and Glassorganism (2013). The sound of glass caused through physical alterations or vibrations has always fascinated him, and this led him to experiment with making glass more visible through sound.

Andrew Demirjian

Andrew Demirjian is an artist who uses databases, computer programming and audiovisual production to create experimental portraits and landscapes. At Harvestworks he creates Music For Subtitles, a database artwork that uses a large collection of still images from subtitled movies as its source material to create a new digital poem that is a video with multi-channel sound. In the work, static images are isolated from their original context and woven into a new narrative whole.

Art Jones

Art Jones works with photography, the moving image, audio, and hybrid media. He will create Hypercartogram, a sound installation with projected video. It is a multichannel, interactive audio map of several cities, punctuated by live action and animated video projected onto a sculptural collage of urban spaces.

Ed Osborn

Ed Osborn works with many forms of electronic media including installation, video, sound, and performance. At Harvestworks he will create Palm House Transect, a large-scale, site-specific sound installation developed for the greenhouse at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York. Built in 1881, it is one of the earliest iron-frame greenhouses in North America and, at 376 feet long, one of the largest of its time. The piece consists of a generative sound composition played through a set of three-dozen loudspeakers spread irregularly throughout the greenhouse structure.

Christina Campanella, Latitude 14

Composer and performer Christina Campanella works with music and sound across artistic disciplines. At Harvestworks, she will collaborate with writer Stephanie Fleischmann to co-create I Went To The Lighthouse (and It Wasn’t There), a performance installation that places both the audience and the work’s composer at the center of a multi-speaker sonic environment designed to evoke the visceral sense of an imagined world—the dimensionality of a place that has been erased by the tumult of rising seas. Using sound spatialization as a compositional tool, the work evokes unique associations in the listener conjured by the physical distribution of ambient and repurposed sound.

Timothy Fodness

Tim Fodness is a sound designer, sound artist, and producer who studied audio engineering at the New School University. At Harvestworks he will create essentially a 5.1 surround sound album. It will consist of sonic landscapes inspired and guided by his own writing process. This process involves the interpretation and re-interpretation of dreams, journaling, storytelling, and stream of consciousness methods. It will be composed, arranged, and mixed in a 5.1 surround sound environment. Sound creation will include field recording, sampling, live instrumentation, Foley art, and analog modular synthesis.

Takashi Horisaki + Nina Horisaki-Christens

Takashi Horisaki and Nina Horisaki-Christens are New York-based sculptors whose work has been exhibited internationally. At Harvestworks they will create Metabolic Morpho-Historia, an interactive performance to be presented at a Soho art space. The project is based on the architectural history of Soho, and will integrate architectural casts made of colored latex, stretched over plastic and wire structures that incorporate sensors, to create modular components that, when rearranged over the course of the performance, trigger sound and/or video refragmented remix mimicking processes of urban development.

Steven Litt

Steven Litt is a designer, programmer, and self-taught musician currently living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. At Harvestworks he will design an easy to use, self-amplified, externally controllable robotic percussion instrument, and elaborately document and open-source every aspect of it (software, hardware, fabrication, and use) so it can be used by other artists, as well as duplicated, potentially improved, and expanded. The device is called SuperDrum. He will use his time at Harvestworks to build the first batch, create audio and video to promote the project, and prepare his first performance with us.

Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins is a composer, sound artist and electroacoustic performer who engages with interactive electronic activities. At Harvestworks she creates Three Rooms In The Memory Palace, a 3-part electroacoustic work reflecting her ongoing exploration of poetic interrelationships between physical/acoustical spaces, objects, and human gesture. The work will be presented at a location divisible into 3 separate acoustical spaces (“Rooms”) with 2 locations designated for multi -channel/multi-diffusion installations, and a third for presentation of a live 20-minute electroacoustic piece, scored for a small ensemble with quad-spatialized electronics.

Dana Karwas & Gabriel Winer

Dana Karwas is a designer and educator working in interactive media including installation, architecture, video, web, art, and user centered design. At Harvestworks she and artist Gabriel Winer will create Eyes In The Sky, an unprecedented portrait of the changing face of our planet. Beyond scientific, educational, or informational models, it is a personal and psychological experience of Earth.

Dan Joseph & Andrea Williams

Brooklyn-based composer Dan Joseph and Oakland-based sound artist Andrea Williams create collaborative electroacoustic soundscapes with hammer dulcimer, field recordings, soundmakers and electronics. At Harvestworks the duo proposed to create a fully produced studio recording suitable for publication on CD or vinyl and a multi-channel mix for installation purposes.

John Driscoll

John Driscoll is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics and has collaborated on and managed the Rainforest IV project since its inception in 1973. At Harvestworks he will create Virtual Sound Objects, a new performance work that will immerse the audience in a number of highly focused moving sound fields creating a unique sound experience. This will involve a minimum of three small robotic ultrasonic speakers and one larger ultrasonic speaker mounted on a larger dual axis motor drive unit. These ultrasonic sound fields will be combined with an array of small speakers with highly articulated sound patterns.

Weiwei Jin & Margaret Schedel

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. Originally from China, Weiwei Jin is a Sweden/UK based composer, sound/multimedia artist, producer and pianist, whom works in both electronic and acoustic music. At Harvestworks they will create The Self, a multimedia installation opera that takes the psychoactive drug Ayahuasca as a thread to reach into its three main characters: a retired US forest servicer, his wife and a Shaman. Based on a fragmented non-linear storytelling drama, created from elements of its situations and characters, and generated by the data of psychoactive drug modified neuronal activities, The Self has neither singers nor accompanying ensemble. It travels the space between an opera and an installation.

Amber Hawk Swanson

Amber Hawk Swanson will work on video edits for her current project, Five Dolls. She will commission five more Amber Dolls in her current likeness and place them in five geographic locations based on the analytics from the last eight years of making her live-performance Doll work.

Suzanne Thorpe

will be composing Phloq, an immersive and sensorial multi-channel work that explores field recordings and pattern data generated by the sound array created by a flock of birds taking off for flight. Through working with Pauline Oliveros and practicing the philosophy of Deep Listening, Suzanne has been inspired to add this environmental element to her work. Suzanne is a musician and composer who extends her practice with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and digital software components. She has worked with many other artists as an improviser, and has performed at various venues throughout the US and Canada.

Lori Napoleon,

under the guise Meridian7, will create a multi-channel sound composition to bring original telephone equipment back to a life of patching signals, by transforming her found objects into modular synthesizers and analog sequencers. Lori is inspired by the sound, culture, and history of early telephony and takes specific interest in the work generated by a subculture of audio explorers called phone phreaks. The project will be featured in a film called “I Dream of Wires: The Modular Synthesizer Documentary”, which is being directed by Robert Fantinatto. Lori describes herself as an artist who integrates science and technology into her work. Since graduating from NYU’s ITP Master’s program in 2009, she has shown her work at various experimental music festivals and presented her works to science students.

Jakob Dwight

will be developing a gaming experience/performance called N’Chi: Visions of a New World, which will allow users to act as new nations on an imaginary planet where they will compose and participate in an on-going sci-fi narrative, both online and in the real world. It will be part online gaming experience, and part performance with an art-making component. In addition to the project’s game-play aspect, N’Chi will develop an online e-journal, radio station, and a lecture series. After completing several years of college in Florida, Jakob came to New York in 2005 to study with the Art Students League. He has had residencies in the US and Germany, and has shown his work in NY, Los Angeles, GA, Austria, and Germany.

Adam Kendall

will be working on Toys’ Opera, a small, universe of serially-controlled HO trains, models, and cameras that are visually and sonically integrated with live and pre-recorded multi-channel audio and video. He will compose a new visual and audio operetta for singer, speaker, and cellist. Adam is a videographer and musician based in Brooklyn. He has also been an instructor and event organizer for various groups including Harvestworks, the vBrooklyn video festival, and the Video Composition Workshop.

Abigail Child

will create a 16mm feature length experimental film and digital installation. Acknowledged as a pioneer in montage, she will continue to address the interplay between sound and image in her project/first part of a trilogy A SHAPE OF ERROR: Part 1. of Heroines. The project will construct imaginary home movies that retell the lives of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife Mary Wollstonecraft. The work will play with the borders between digital technology and film and different points of view in order to disarm narrative and discover a dialogic visual conversation. Child’s film will feature music by the acclaimed composer Zeena Parkins. It has previewed at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, in the Netherlands. Abigail has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations and written 6 books.

Daniel Temkin

inspired by the Robot Psychics of India, Temkin plans to build retro-style robot sculptures specially designed to interact with public spaces in New York City. What could a psychic robot offer to New York City? His interactive sculptures will deliver perplexing advice and advertise venues that don’t exist. They will blend street performance with sculpture as they interact with people in the confusion of a Midtown crowd. Daniel Temkin has a MFA in Advanced Photographic Studes; International Center of Photography / Bard College.

For information on the Robot Psychics of India: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/03/here-listen-to-my-underpants-the-robot-psychics-of-india/

Juraj Kojs

will create A-touch De-touch, an experimental interdisciplinary work that develops the metaphor of prosthesis as a vehicle for expressing our attachment to and detachment from the world. Eight performers (4 Spider and 4 Ant characters) will build an ecosystem that engages audience members in tactile interactions through analog and digital body extensions such as kitchen utensils, tennis rackets, violin bows, wireless cameras, Wii game controllers, iPads and iPhones. The project will be premiered in a black box theater in Miami in the spring 2012. Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist, producer, researcher and educator living in the US. He is the director of Foundation for Music Technologies (FETA) in Miami, FL.

Lauren Petty

will create a piece that is part video installation and part live performance. Her work will explore the malleable conception of the self in an era of cyber communication. Keep Your Electric Eye Onfinds an isolated woman dwelling in an otherworldly landscape. She is revealed to be a spectral guide: somewhere between mythological figure, cosmic explorer and messianic rock star: able to navigate both time and space. Throughout the work, the performer will modify herself, both live and on video, by embodying a variety of personas, moods, physical attributes, and movement styles. The work will engage notions of loneliness, paranoia, hysteria, and the desire for the unattainable. Upon its completion, “Keep Your Electric Eye On Me” will have a full-scale theatrical showing at the HERE Arts Center (most likely in 2014). Lauren Petty and collaborator Shaun Irons are Brooklyn-based media artists who make multiple-screen installations, single-channel works, documentaries and video scores for live performance.

Morton Subotnick

will create a new composition for the Buchla 200e called Song and Dance where he speaks and sings into his Buchla 200e synthesizer and the amplitude shape of his voice becomes a control voltage that activates the Buchla ‘patch’ as well as transforming his voice. The premiere performance was presented with visuals by Sue.C at the Schimmel Theater in partnership with River to River Festival.

Rachel Mason

‘s new body of work presents a nonlinear play based on several fictional characters she is developing in tandem with a new body of sculpture. The project will take a variety of forms- a series of videos, live performance and public interventions exploring human psychosis through rock songs. Mason most recently completed a musical feature film, “The Lives of Hamilton Fish” and she is a resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Mason has written three operas, recorded ten full length albums of songs, and has toured, screened films, exhibited sculpture, video and performance at galleries and museums internationally. She often collaborates with other musicians, dancers, actors, and other artists to realize large scale multi-media experimental works. She has exhibited and performed at the Queens Museum, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Henry Gallery in Seattle, James Gallery at CUNY, University Art Museum in Buffalo, Sculpture Center, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard and Occidental College, Kunsthalle Zurich, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The New Museum, Park Avenue Armory, Art in General, La Mama, Galapagos, Dixon Place, and Empac Center for Performance in Troy among other venues. www.rachelannmason.com

Angie Eng

New York/Paris based multi-media artist Angie Eng will develop her live experimental video project, Chymikal which incorporates a Max-based video controller, the VideoBass, invented by artist/engineer, Michael Egger. She will customize the VideoBass to control multiple video inputs mapped onto different surfaces. Angie Eng has performed nationally and internationally and has receive awards from mediaThefoundation inc, the New York State Council on the Arts and has presented her work at the Anthology Film Archives, Eyebeam, the Conflux Festival, and the NY Video Festival.

Crystal Campbell

Crystal Z Campbell will research and develop Separate, But Equal: Algorithms for Empathy, a new body of work that includes audio works, new media projects, short experimental films and interactive installations that create a rupture in the historical archive of Black History through technological filters. Crystal Z Campbell explores the politics of witnessing with sound, film, sculpture, photography & installation based artworks. A former social worker, Campbell has exhibited at Project Row Houses, Exit Art, The New Children’s Museum of San Diego, Fotofest Biennial, MoCADA and Lui Velasquez in Tijuana among others. In 2003, Campbell completed the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California-San Diego in 2010. Campbell was a 2010-2011 Van Lier Studio Art Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program.

Haeyoung Kim

Haeyoung Kim will develop Moori, an interactive audience participatory audio-visual performance. Researching new ways of collaboration and communication between performer and audience, the artist will incorporate multiple modes of messaging on a mobile phone where users tell their stories to guided questions by the performer. User data is collected and processed to generate algorithmic audio and visuals while creating a larger narrative. This collaboration creates dialog and suggests new possibilities that can exist through the combination of algorithmic animation, audio and language. With a background in classical piano, Haeyoung Kim explores the texture of sounds in electronic music. Currently, under the name bubblyfish, she creates 8-bit and experimental sound works.

David Wightman

David Wightman will create a project for Extreme Animals a collaboration with visual artist Jacob Ciocci. The new large-scale set of music and video will introduces a virtual third member and vocalist who will be visually represented through found footage from youtube and VHS tapes as well as original animation. Over the past nine years this prolific duo has released countless CD-Rs, tapes and videos and gone on self-booked DIY tours at least once a year, influencing a wide array of younger musicians, artists and video-makers with their unique combination of noise, dance music, and performance art.

Phillip White

Phillip White will compose a new work for the Dither electric guitar quartet that will feature custom built electronics based on a small arduino and a set of four relays that is programmed to overlay a rhythmic structure and a brutish spatialization of sound. The score will be a graphic work instructing the quartet in the manipulation of assigned parameters over time. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission. In 2008, Philip received his MFA in Electronic and Recorded Media from Mills College where he worked with Chris Brown, Hilda Parades, Helmut Lachenmann, Roscoe Mitchell and James Fei. Currently Philip is the Technical Director at ISSUE Project Room.

Rachael Morrison

Rachael Morrison will create The Sound of Smell, a music project based on the results of an experiment conducted by smell scientist Avery Gilbert. The piece will feature twenty short musical compositions, each describing a specific odor from the original experiment. The artist is researching synesthesia and classification, as well as non-visual forms of communication. Rachael lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and received her B.A. from Bard College. Selected Exhibitions include Mobile Projections, Esopus Space, NY, NY, and The Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair at MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, NY.

Elizabeth Axtman

Elizabeth Axtman will create the pilot for The Love Renagade #308: I love you Keith Bardwell, a short film that creates a dialog between Keith Bardwell, who made headline news a few years back for his refusal to marry an interracial couple in Louisiana and married interracial couples addressing the question of “When did you first know you were in love?”. Elizabeth Axtman is a performance artist. She received her BA from San Francisco State University in 2004 and completed her MFA in photography, film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.

Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura will create Eigenspace a composition for Augmented Violin (IRCAM) and multi-channel diffusion. Taken from eigenvalue, a mathematical function used in analyzing the bowing movement, in Eigenspace Kimura’s musical expression is extracted by the bowing motion sensor technology, interacting with image and sounds in real-time. Hailed by The New York Times as a virtuoso playing at the edge, violinist/composer Mari Kimura is widely admired for her revolutionary extended technique and her works for interactive computer music. Her awards and honors include Guggenheim Fellowship and Composer in Residence at IRCAM. http://www.marikimura.com/

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra will create Hidden Truths: Prayer for a Forgotten World, a one hour electro-acoustic song cycle for a live performance with surround sound installation. The composition will combine electronic and acoustic Philippine Kulintang gongs, electronics, percussion, and field recorded Filipino Indigenous vocalists and string & percussion instrumentalists. Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra resides in New York and is known for her innovative style and cross-cultural dialogue. She is a Yamaha, Vic Firth and Paiste Artist and has recorded over 40 records as a leader and co-leader.

Jimmy Joe Roche

Jimmy Joe Roche will complete an expansion of his wearable performance instrument called the Noise Harness. We will expand the auditory capacity of the instrument through physical additions such as knobs, buttons and pressure sensitive strips to control audio. Roche’s videos have screened internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts Festival in the Netherlands, Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil, and Baltimore Museum of Art. Roche works as the Video Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center andd a visiting lecturer in the JHU film and Media Department.

Rebecca Warner and Laura Vitale

Rebecca Warner and Laura Vitale will create a new surround sound performance and recorded work with We Are Your Friends, a collaborative, community-based choral project founded by novelist and singer/songwriter Rick Moody, sound artist Laura Vitale, members of the Brooklyn based experimental theater group, Piehole and choreographer Rebecca Warner. The work will be performed at Issue Project Room in 2011. We Are Your Friends specializes in untrained voices and extended vocal technique, electronica and space-themed music in live an unaccompanied settings.

Heather Hart

Andrea DeFelice

David Antonio Cruz

Jacolby Satterwhite

New York City-based multi-media artist Jacolby Satterwhite has constructed a collaboration of at least 400 drawings for a complex virtual world. This world is used to critique the body and transform themes in heroism, science fiction, family, disco culture, and queer theory. His work was performed at the Robert Melee’s Talent Show and the Movement Research Festival of 2010. In addition to a Skowhegan Residency he has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of the Arts, an MFA from U of Penn and has performed at Weerrq! PS 1 MoMa in 2010.

Satoshi Takeishi

New York- based composer and improvisor, Satoshi Takeishi, will create a multichannel audio performance piece inspired by Australian Aborigine’s paintings and David Tudor’s Rainforest IV. This project “Whirlpools” will create a sound space where the visible world and the invisible world co-exist in the same sphere. His performance will be taken place at the Roulette. Takeishi is a native of Mito, Japan and has studied music at Berklee College of music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Woody Sullender

New York- based composer and multi-media artist Woody Sullender will develop his new solo music work for a laptop-enhanced banjo to be performed on a multi-channel audio system. The music work itself will explore the timbral possibilities as well as the historical associations of the banjo. With the combination of processed and synthesized sounds, Sullender, will tentatively perform this piece at the Issue Project Room. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College, and has won a STIEM project residency award of Amsterdam in March 2010.

Tristan Perich

New York City- based performer, composer, and visual artist Tristan Perich will explore a series of compositions for the Transit ensemble: clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano. The newe work, From One explores new ways that the physical and the electronic can interact, for example, as an electronic accompaniment, as a video installation, as dance, and as visual art . On October 14, 2010 at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY Perich will be performing From One. He has studied art, music and electronics at Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has been recognized by WIRE Magazine and was the artist in Residence of the Philip Academy in Andover, MA.

Bora Yoon

New York-based multi-media artist Bora Yoon will be developing a wireless controller created by a constellation of sensors placed on the body, processed by custom software that creates a true hybrid synthesis of movement, music, and visual art. The intent of this performance will be to build an organic bridge between the mechanical and the human. The Body Electric will be performed in Germany and Thailand in the near future. Yoon has performed for many at the Lincoln Center and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Also, Yoon has been a part of the UNSOUND festival and the MMIX Festival of Interactive Technology.

Lisa Kirk

New York-based exhibition artist Lisa Kirk will create a new work called “backyard adversaries” a four- channel large- scale projection with intricate sound engineering. With its disorienting imagery, complex soundscape, and hyper- real aesthetic, the work serves as a critique of recent political events, the media coverage surrounding them, and the subliminal impact of these images and events on youths. This exhibit will be displayed at Invisible- Exports. Kirk has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California and was born in Newport, RI.

Jonathan Ehrenberg

New York City-based videographer Jonathan Ehrenberg, is producing a new video project inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashmon. With the help of actors, sets, and costumes Ehrenberg will portray a basic story that will unfold three times with the subjective point of view from one of the characters. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art, and is an instructor at Pace University for Digital Imaging and Digital Design.

Louisa Armbrust

Lousia Armburst is born in Ottawa, Canada. A visual artist who attended MA visual arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. A few of the exhibitions she has done are Free Range Hocky, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Grand Rapids, MI, FIGMENT NYC, art festival, Governor’s Island, New York, NY, and 2005 Biennial Blow Out, junior: Kenny Schachter.

New Instruments For Improvisation And Experimental Approaches

Symposium at HERE Art Center, June 28, 2010

Dafna Naphtali

New York City – based composer Dafna Naphtali created “Mahashefa,” a work for live audio processing and voice. She uses her laptop- based noise/audio processing “instrument” to alter the sound of her multi-octave singing, vocalisms, personalized recordings, and at times a curious accompaniment to her voice. She has earned a degree in Music Technology at NYU and is currently a Max teacher and programmer at Harvestworks since 1995.

Matthew Ostrowski

New York City- based multi- media artist Matthew Ostrowski has created a system for a glove- controlled live electronics work called “Congeries 2.” This new piece of work uses physics- based algorithmic response systems, driven by improvisational decisions. He has recieved award for the Media Alliance and a NYFA Fellowship for Computer Arts in 2001.

Laetitia Sonami

California- based composer, performer, and sound installation artist Laetita Sonami combines text, music, and found sounds from the worlds in compositions which have been described as “performance novels.” She recorded a surround version of “A Historical Moment on a line between A and B” and performed the work at the HERE arts center for New Instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches. She was born in France and has received the Alpert Award in the Arts in 2002.

Phillip Stearns

Phillip Stearns is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He has performed, lectured, exhibited and led workshops at various festivals, conferences, museums and institutions around the world including FILE (2009), NIME (2009), Bent Festival NYC (2009), FONLAD(2009), and Transitio (2009). With the help of the Van Lier Fellowship, Mr. Stearns explores the possibilities of neural networks as the basis for his upcoming installation, Entity I. The residency also includes a series of electronic art workshops held by Mr. Stearns and structured around the concepts behind his work with neural networks.

Shana Moulton

Shana Moulton creates oblique and evocative narratives in her video and performance works. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at Art in General, New York; Migros Museum, Zurich; and Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris. Moulton’s performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen, New York and PERFORMA 09, New York. The Van Lier Residency supported Ms. Moulton’s evening-length music theater piece, entitled Whispering Pines 10. The work involves the use of interactive controllers, electroacoustic instrumentation, and multi-channel projection.

Natasha Diggs

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Lesley Flanigan

Andrew Demirjian

Sean Meehan

Brendan Fernandes

Based in Toronto and New York City, video artist Brendan Fernandes will create a new video work that will explore how cultural objects lose their specification through their dissemination as capital. Focusing specifically on how African masks sold on Canal Street and outside museums in the city function outside their place of origin, the artist will investigate his subject through video documentation of his interactions with the African immigrants who sell these masks. The finished work will be presented as a multi-channel video and sculptural installation at Harvestworks. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2007 and is represented by Diaz Contemporary (Toronto).

Luke Fischbeck

Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Luke Fischbeck will complete a surround-sound audio mix to serve both as an element in the collaborative multimedia performance (with director Peter Flaherty), entitled Soul Leaves Her Body, and to be presented as a standalone surround-sound audio piece. Described as an integrated-media performance synthesizing theater, dance, live video and music, the completed work will be presented during the 2009-2010 season of the HERE Arts Center in New York City. Luke Fischbeck is primarily know as a member of the performance group Lucky Dragons which has appeared internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), and others.

David Galbraith

New York-based multimedia artist David Galbraith will create a new video work with surround-sound entitled Double Square. Using his self-developed software for sound and image called lgOpre (pronounced luh GOP ruh), Double Square will feature microsonic, multichannel audio coupled with and driven by grid-based video animation. Galbraith’s work has been presented internationally at P.S.1/MoMA (New York), The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin), Tonic, The Stone, Art in General and others.

David Hindman

New York-based interactive artist and designer David Hindman will develop a interactive musical performance piece using custom designed hardware and software. Described as The Public Instrument-Controlled Video Game Competition, the work will incorporate new music, software, and musical gaming interfaces that will result in performances in New York City. David Hindman is a regular contributor to the New Instruments for Musical Expression Conference (NIME) and recently appears as a guest speaker at the 2007 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. He is a graduate of NYU’s ITP program.

Briggan Krauss

New York City-based saxophonist, composer and sound artist, Briggan Krauss will create a 5.1 surround sound composition entitled Tesseract. Inspired by the geometrical shape, the tesseract, the intent of this work is to create music based on the experience of perceiving individual auditory events as shapes that interact and evolve in a kind of kinetic, mutable work of sculpture. The completed work will be performed and exhibited in New York City and will be reproduced for distribution as a DVD. Briggan Krauss is well known in the NY Creative Music community where he has worked with Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Anthony Coleman, Steven Bernstein’s Sex Mob and others.

Miya Masaoka

New York-based composer and multi-media artist Miya Masaoka will develop The LED Kimono Project, an installation-based media and performance piece featuring a kimono fabricated from over a thousand LEDs that will have the capacity to respond to musical, visual and physical conditions throughout the course of a performance, or as an installation in a gallery setting. The work will be presented in performance in September 2009 at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and at the Japan Society of San Diego. Miya Masaoka has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. Herwork has been presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe and she has toured to India six times.

Megan Michalak and Stephanie Rothenberg

Based in Buffalo and New York City, artists Megan Michalak and Stephanie Rothenberg will complete their current project KINOMIC Redistribution System, which has also received funding from a 2008 NYSCA grant. Described as an educational, interactive game that parodies the role of dominant institutions such as the World Bank and WTO in regulating economic relations between developing and developed countries, the work will be presented as an installation in August 2009 at Galary Titanik in Turku, Finland. Michalak’s work has been presented at Smack Mellon Gallery (NYC), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artists Space, Art Interactive (Boston), the SF Cinemateque, and Fonds Regional D’Art Contemporain Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, in Montpelier, France among others. Rothenberg is a 2009 Creative Capital recipient. Presentations of her work include Sundance Film Festival, Dumbo Arts Festival, Interaccess in Toronto and Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.

Joseph Reinsel

Joseph Reinsel will create a DVD that will contain a new multi-movement video and surround-sound work entitled Liminal Presence to be shown in galleries and film festivals. An audio-visual investigation of Baltimore, Maryland where the artist currently resides, each movement will exist as a visual poem on its own, but will also be connected to the other works in the sequence by common themes in the visuals and sound. With his background in music composition, Reinsel creates aural and visual art using digital and analog tools and instruments. He is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts at College of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore.

David Watson

New York City-based composer and sound artist David Watson will develop a cross-platform live sound and video performance exploring sound and social context. Using as it’s starting point a traditional New York street parade, as well as his practice as a performer of the Highland Bagpipe, this new work will contrast conventional and experimental musical approaches. The finished work will be performed and released on CD. Originally from New Zealand, David Watson has lived and worked in New York City since 1987. He has performed with John Zorn, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay and many others. His recent double CD Fingering and Idea was released to critical acclaim in 2008 on the XI label.

Saya Woolfalk

New York City-based visual artist Saya Woolfalk will digitize and animate a series of her drawings and produce a sound component to create a ten-minute animation called The Land of the Pleasure Machines. Described as a fictional future constructed for the investigation of human possibilities and impossibilities, this new animation will be presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem in November 2009. Saya Woolfalk is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Moti Hasson Gallery (NYC), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and others.

Alternates

The following artists were chosen as alternates: Jeremiah Cymerman, Alex Chechile, Lesley Flanigan and Andrew Demirjian.

Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome is an interdisciplinary artist working with videos, performances, sculptures and photographs that interrogate notions of cultural/social signifiers as well as how they are formed. He was born in New Orleans and lives and works in New York City. Newsome will use his fellowship to create the next version of his latest work Shade Compositions, a multi-sensory live performance consisting of a varying number of black females performing a choreographed action piece for presentations at The Kitchen, New York in 2009.

Tali Hinkis

Tali Hinkis is a multi-media artist based in New York City. For the past several years she has collaborated with artist Kyle Lapidus as the interdisciplinary duo LoVid who work in the context of media art, encompassing sound, video, performance, installation, media objects, and net-art. LoVid were Artists In Residence at Harvestworks in 2005. During her Van Lier residency she will, in collaboration with Lapidus, produce a digitally activated moving projection unit called RedGreenBlue Shift that will include a surround-sound installation with video and kinetic projections.

Shauna Moulton

Shauna Moulton’s work examines bodily and spiritual anxieties and their relationship to popular culture, self-help goods and functionless cosnumer objects. Using feedback and interactive video to double the protagonists presence, she will add an improvisational quality and confuse the relationship between live object and mediated object. The piece will be shown at PDX film festival in Oregon.

Derek Frantz

Derek Frantz’s residency will see an evolution of his experiments with human conductivity. He works with an interactive console at which the user wears conductive gloves or slippers to interact with light circuits which are routed to a webcam. A vast amount of pixels are processed by his special geometry localization programs, which then translate into visual brightness chains and musical sample sequences. Derek graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz.

Christine Sugrue –

Using mirrors of various size and orientation, Christine Sugrue’s installation passes and fragments a digital projection through a space. Algorhitmically generated forms will be able to move through space in two and three dimensions as the projection area is fragmented through the space, splitting into smaller unique moments. Spatialized sound will also amplify the experience. Christine was an artist in residence at Hangar, Barcelona, Eyebeam, NYC, and ars electronica, Linz.

Laure Drogul –

A knitting needle working symphony. Approxomately forty knitter-performers knit in unison creating a singular knit object-environment. The knitters needles will be equipped with mini pick-up microphones, and the knitters will be networked to send in these sounds via internet. The sound is then recorded, played and mixed in a live installation: a virtual knitting circle-score as immersive audio-video environment. Laure recently received the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize.

Sawako Kato

A 5.1 surrond sound journey through two megalopolises, NYC and Tokyo. Field recordings and recordings representing the artist’s personal memories are amplified, mixed, layered, processed and mutated with digital signal techniques. “A journey resonating between tiny breaths and large cities.” Sawako’s works appeared on over 30 CDs, and has recently received a commission from the Jerome Foundation.

Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch will complete “Kaddish for Him and Her”, a 5.1 surround sound choral piece in memory of the artist’s late parents. The listener is immersed in a field of moving voices: a Greek chorus of the artist’s parents and sisters, family voices from prerecorded interviews, and the voices of Hirsch, spoken and sung. These are multitracked, spatialized and processed to create an experience of place. The piece will be presented at various places in the US and Europe. Shelley recently received the Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize in Music.

Jane Rigler

A new composition for two flutes and electronics that deals with the dreams, tendencies and cycles of the human physical and spiritual existence. She is researching Butoh techniques and considering how the slower, sharper, precise gestures of this form may inform and inspire flutists who interact simultaneously with electronics. She received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and was a resident at Art Omi and Create@iEar.

Bill Hsu

Using timbral characteristics such as brightness, pitch/noise, roughness, and inharmonicity, Bill Hsu is able to track contours of timbral variation over a musical gesture, and use these contours to synthesize responses. In collaboration with saxophonist John Butcher, they will develop new pieces that leverage the functionality of this system. Bill is currently Associate professor at San Francisco State University.

William Cusick

William Cusick will create a surround sound score to a psychological horror story of an American business man whose life inexplicably begins to mirror a series of Japanese ghost stories. The piece, tentatively titled “Americana Kamikaze”, will develop first as a video installation during the residency and the story will be told in English with sequences in Japanese.

Jessica Ann Peavy

The Fatback Series explores spaces and contexts of food in the African American tradition and the effects of food on the African American female psychology and physiology. Using multiple synchronized soundtracks the simulation of conversations among characters in each channel, Jessica will develop an interactive new media work about food in the viewers community. She recently received a Smack Mellon Artist In Residency, and a grant from the Franklin Furnace Foundation.

Joseph Delappe

Delappe combines video imagery of minituare dioramas depicting the aftermath of Iraq roadside bombings with images streamed from American traffic surveillance cams. He will use the residency to further expand his explorations on kinetic sculptural installation, computer control, interactivity and live content on the internet. Working with electronic and New Media since 1983, his works have been showed in the U.S. and abroad.

Eunjung Hwang –

“Future Creatures” is a series of experimental animations, which explore the architectural complexity of cryptic images from the world of dreams and the subconscious, in an extensive scale. The final project will be presented with single or multiple video projections with surround sound.

Alternates

The following artists were chosen as alternates: Maya Suess, Joe Diebes, and Brian Block.

2008 Van Lier Residency Recipients

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center has selected Jeff Thompson and Laura Vitale to receive the Van Lier studio residencies for digital art in 2008. The one-year fellowship is funded through a special grant from the New York Community Trust. The Van Lier grants target young, New York-based artists with financial need and from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the electronic arts. The residencies help advance Van Lier fellows’ professional, post-college development and promote diversity, equity and access in the arts.

Laura Vitale

Laura Vitale is a sound artist working in the tradition of radio drama, inspired by fiction, poetry, electronic music and field recording. Vitale will use her fellowship to realize dramatic radio adaptations. Recording a number of actors and singers and musicians, Vitale will experiment with transforming written voice into an audible voice, creating a new sound sculpture. Vitale is living and working in New York and has performed her radio work in collaboration with Thalia Field and Rick Moody, premiering at the Poetry Project in 2007.

Jeff Thompson

Jeff Thompson is a multimedia artist including sculpture, video, music and performance. He is living and working in New York. Thompson will use his fellowship to realize a series of systematically evolving sculptural and sound pieces using Max/MSP and Jitter. Utilizing natural sounds derived from the growth of plants, the position of butterflies in an aviary and chirping crickets, he will digitally process the sound into data and re-feed the sound back into the space creating and ever evolving loop. Thompson has received his MFA at Rutgers University and has completed the Harvestworks Max/MSP Certification Program. He has collections in US and Ireland and has lectured in Dallas. His work has received a VanDerlip Travel award and has received several artist-in-residencies. He has performed and exhibited his work in Italy, US, Argentina, Poland and Palestine.

The one-year Van Lier fellowships cover travel and living expenses and include access to training, studio space and production facilities at Harvestworks. Van Lier fellows can take advantage of Harvestworks’ broad-based education program to acquire new skills and work with our staff of engineers, artists and multimedia designers in creating new compositions. Once completed, the compositions will be performed as part of Harvestworks’ Listen In concert series and included in our on-line catalogue. Fellows also receive important career development support through our mentoring and peer-contact programs.

Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using digital technologies. While originally focused on electronic music and audio production, Harvestworks now offers video and multimedia studios and technical assistance, providing an on-site environment where artists learn new technologies, create art and exhibit new works in an integrated way.

Funding for Harvestworks is provided by The New York State Council on the Arts (a public agency), The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The New York Arts Recovery Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer, The Aaron Copland Fund, The Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The JP Morgan Chase Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and the Greenwall Foundation.

Christopher Bailey

Composer and sound artist Christopher Bailey plans to create an open-source freeware software application and companion database that allows composers to request a series of found sounds by their tonal or auditory properties (attack, duration, agitation, decay) and be presented with a random selection of matches which can then be altered and composed with as desired. To demonstrate the power of this system once it is finished, a ten to fifteen minute composition will be produced using the software.

Nurit Bar-Shai’s

Nurit Bar-Shai’s project “Nonetheless I’m Still Here” is an online performance in which participants telematically control a simple scene of a curtain flowing in space. Mechanical motions change the overall scene only slightly, but over time they combine to move the curtain in a way that conveys the natural sway of fabric in the wind. The work examines how real-time, telematic performance, in which objects are controlled collaboratively, can be used to explore tensions between the organic and the inorganic, human intervention and natural spontaneity and the poetics of the mundane and the fleeting in life.

John Brattin

Director John Brattin will produce A Half-Forgotten One, a 30-minute experimental film shot in Super 8 and told from the perspective of a small child, exploring themes of intolerance and fear of the unknown. Brattin has worked in film for more than 15 years, exhibiting across the US as well as in the Netherlands.

Monique Buzzarté

Monique Buzzarté will create an eight-channel surround sound composition scored for twelve pre-recorded parts, of which only eight (nine, if live performance is added) will play during each performance. Each part is made up of dozens of smaller sound files, the order and duration of each being controlled via Max/MSP. The resulting work will have nearly infinite variation, sounding completely different each time it is heard.

Rebecca Cherry

Violinist Rebecca Cherry will create a sound installation using a selection of popular music processed with Max/MSP. Using triggers caused by certain chords, notes, and key structures, she hopes to mix the works with newly-sampled music, creating an altered soundscape “descended from” the original music. Cherry has performed in the Baltimore, Annapolis and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, the London and Bergen Philharmonic, and with pop music performers including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, and more.

Melanie Crean

Melanie Crean proposes will create Phrenology, a series of 360 degree photographic panorama housed in a modified game engine, that interconnect with one another through writing worked into the landscapes. The text will be derived from a writing workshop for incarcerated women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where women will write about their relationship to space and where they would ideally like to be. The piece will include an abstract 5.1 sound score, also based on the women’s writings. Crean is a media artist from Brooklyn who has received commissions from Art in General and Creative Time. She is Director of Production Emeritus at Eyebeam and currently teaches at Parsons and Pratt.

Ximena Diaz

Ximena Diaz’’s Differentiation uses multiple video clips of an identical sidewalk scene, with each clip set to correspond to a specific subjective category—white, black hair, unemployed, short, etc. Within each clip, all people not conforming to the clip’s set category are digitally removed, suggesting the futility of such categorization. Diaz has exhibited and taught extensively in her native Bogotá, Columbia.

Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer will create Menagerie, a multi-channel audio installation where musical “agents” move through the sonic space, generating musical streams based on the physiological processes (breathing rate, heart rate) of various animals, in essence creating a garden of invisible musical life forms. Iyer’s award-winning work as a composer and performer spans ten albums and dozens of projects around the world.

Mari Kimura

Composer and performer Mari Kimura will produce Vitessimo, a collaborative music project utilizing Augmented Violin technology. The Augmented Violin system allows for realtime bow-tracking and analysis using sensors and Max/MSP; Vitessimo, from the French “Vitesse” (speed), aims to explore the possibilities of this exciting new interface between performer and computer. A winner of the 2006 Artist Fellowship for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Kimura has performed around the world in more than twenty countries and has received numerous accolades for her work in investigating computer-extended violin technique.

David Stout’s

Video artist and new media researcher David Stout’s proposed Archipelago utilizes interactive 3D animation to simulate a series of virtual ecosystems, each inhabited by an evolving population of artificial intelligences. The work will be exhibited in multiple locations around the world, with each site possessing a unique aesthetic and diverging population of organisms. A hybrid cinema experience, the work is part video art installation and part interactive game, placing viewer-participants in an expansive ecology in which they are equal, rather than dominant, to the evolving artificial organisms. Stout has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, and has received the Sun Microsystems Award for Academic Excellence and a Harvestworks Interactive Technology residency.

Mem1

Mem1, comprised of cellist Laura Thomas-Merino and M. Cera, will explore the sonic possibilities of her instrument using electronics, extending her performance beyond the cello itself. Using an array of internal and external microphones projected into 5.1 surround, her recording will provide a “visceral sonic tour” of the cello’s body, immersing the listener in the richness of its sounds. Supplementing this work, Thomas-Merino will also utilize a bow equipped with accelerometers for gestural control, as well as video tracking software in order to sonically embody the physical space around the performer. Laura has performed with numerous orchestras on the West Coast, and has exhibited her work throughout the Los Angeles area.

Tres Warren

Tres Warren plans to produce a surround sound installation centered on a short recurring loop set against a background of changing sonic textures, eventually evolving into a semi-programmed composition. The result will be “chaotic and meditative” and serves as an investigation of the theme of urban disorientation. Warren’s previous works have been shown throughout New York City.

Anne Wellmer

Anne Wellmer will create an audio-visual performance environment, using old fashioned technology: by putting audio on the video input of a variety of TVs and video monitors she controls black and white noise patterns. The multi channel audio consists of field recordings which are manipulated on the spot, and live generated sounds from an analog synthesizer; the audio is processed live and distributed via maxmsp… for the New York Electronic Art Festival performance at 3LD sonic environmentalist Anne Wellmer will collaborate with live video artist Adam Kendall. Supported by the Gaudeamus Foundation.

Christopher McIntyre,

Sasha Welsh,

Karl Mulholland

Sean Hagerty.

2007 Van Lier Scholarship Recipients

Tobaron Waxman

Tobaron Waxman will use the scholarship to create “Block of Ice + 1/60”. The work uses the artist’s own brainwave patterns to control a Max patch, which will dynamically locate Web images pertaining to water in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and affect and project them onscreen using Jitter. Among other awards, Waxman’s work has received three Canada Council for the Arts grants, and his films have been screened in Brazil, Germany, and across the US.

Hisao Ihara’

Video artist Hisao Ihara’s installation will consist of multiple screens and an array of sounds and video altered through realtime processing. Ihara, who has received NYFA and NYSCA fellowships, has exhibited throughout the New York and Seattle area.

Kenseth Armstead

“Spook” is a multimedia installation project based on the true story of the double agent and slave, James Armistead Lafayette, who gave our insurgent forefathers freedom from the tyranny of the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War. The installation will orchestrate the media and Armstead’ research around James’ activities and story. Kenseth attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and in 2003 received the Artist in the Marketplace award from the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Elise Baldwin

Baldwin’s “intermedia” work often pivots around junctions between humankind and the natural world. The live multi-channeled intermedia piece combines the video and audio recordings from the Salton Sea, a saltwater lake formed in a prehistoric basin on the border between Arizona and California, and questions whether original and archival sources reinforces conceptual integrity or collapses/conflates temporal contexts. She has recently performed in the “Edgetone” Music Festival in San Francisco, “Signal Flow” at Mills College, and the CEAIT Festival at CalArts.

Christy Matson

“Digital Synesthesia,” is an interactive installation that employs hand weaving with interactive sound elements to create a new form of media sculpture. Matson’s new series consists of hand-woven cloth and copper wire that conducts electricity. Viewers will be invited to interact with the work by touching the cloth to activate and hear sounds. She currently is instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

“El Espectaculo” is a three-screen projection that explores gestures, postures, and actions removed from their original spatial context and transposed onto a Broadway stage. The original soundtrack is comprised of sampled Broadway musicals and synchronized with the movements of the characters to suggest a choreographed dance. The work demonstrates how recycled images can become vessels by which new narratives can be inferred. The work will be shown at the Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, in Spring 2006.

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni

The “untitled” interactive installation features a non-verbal communicative instrument developed with the people of the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabagh, neighboring Armenia. The works offer the sense of giving something back to forgotten peoples and propose using aural, visual, and tactile modalities to move languages of sensation beyond memory and time. Also known as The Turbo Twins, the Abahuni’s have shown their work at the the Tate Modern and Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Eyebeam Atelier, the Kitchen, and at the DUMBO Arts Under the Bridge Festival.

Robert Madler

“Continuum” utilizes five surround speakers with each speaker bouncing its content between speakers, or all speakers sounding in stereo unison. The result is a push and pull between fragmentation and unity and a flux of consonant and dissonant space and rhythms in which the sound is balanced or intentionally unbalanced regardless of the listener’s position in relation to the speakers. Robert recently received a Masters of Music from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH and is currently living in New York City.

Leopanar Witlarge

“Architecture of Sound Spaces” is an audio surround experience using bell chime sounds as the main sound source. The chimes are electronically processed and positioned in moving and stationary patterns in space. Various sound objects — including glass, wood, and steel — are also processed and added to the mix. The work is an element in a live improvisation performance by the composer on Taiwanese Horn, with projections of architectural drawings and images. Leopanar was born in Guyana and recently performed in the Harvestworks DVDVDVDA Festival of surround sound and visual works.

Douglas Henderson

“The Nature of the 102nd Thing” is a multi-channel work weaving collaged field recordings of rainfall, glass, wood and railway sounds into the textures of computer synthesized sound. Abstract visual images are sculpted in sound, and the nature of the composition develops from the dictates of a kind of sonic holography. The work will be an invisible but palpable piece of kinetic sculpture and will be presented at Diapason Gallery, NYC, and at the Technischen Universitat Berlin Electronic Music Studio.

Miguel Frasconi

The work in “Air” will consist of two layers: a pre-recorded surround sound audio installation and a live site-specific performance event. It will utilize mono and stereo recordings of instrumentalists and vocalists to fill out the textual soundscape and compositional settings. Miguel is an award-winning composer and performer of new and exploratory world music. He currently lives in New York City.

Patrick Clancy

“The Writing Machine” is an interactive website that combines meteorological sensor arrays, an interface incorporating a dynamic set of changing environmental conditions and human interactions with several real-time simulations. It uses meteorological sensors in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and Kansas City to alter and cycle a series of 5 to 20 pages of text that are presented as orthographic projections. Mr. Clancy is a Professor and chair of Photography, New Media and Printmaking Departments at Kansas City Art Institute.

Phoenix Perry

In “Honey” Perry’s immersive sculpture employs interaction between sound and light to explore disturbances in an emergent ecology of hexagonal forms. Honey places the user in a situation where they can see the impact they have on the growth of an emergent ecology. It also questions the way that nature uses ideal forms to generate a wide variety of possible shape variations in any single system, based on different disturbances to that particular system. Phoenix Perry lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her works have been screened at Lincoln Center, NYC, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Robert B. Lisek

FLOAT is an on-line community channel providing a flexible textstream editing solution in real time that is connected with sound and speech tools based on FLEXTEXT software. Tools will be available for users to access, edit, annotate, share, communicate and perform textstreams for worldwide transmission. Robert is an artist, mathematician and a founder of Fundamental Research Lab.

Marc Lafia

“Permutations of a Thousand and One Nights” is a three channel video installation with surround sound. The piece explores computation as both a metaphor and an engine that produces change, differentiation and autopoiesis. Marc has shown his work at the Whitney Museum, Exit Art, Thomas Erben Gallery and in Germany and Japan.

Jillian McDonald

“Snow Stories” is an interactive website and story remixer driven by data provided by the user. Story elements – film, sound, animation and text clips – will be organized into database categories which can be shaken up to create new scenarios. Jillian has created work for Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org, Videographe’s ANCHORAGE/ANCRAGE and the Montreal Biennale.

Terry Nauheim

Terry’s piece will use surround sound video installation built from recorded and processed sound fragments of hand-cast record negatives and corresponding drawings. Terry recently exhibited her work at Sculpture Center in NYC and will collaborate with the Library for American Broadcasting, Univeristy of Maryland on the new work.

Rashaad Newsome

“The Conductor” is a series of single channel video projections with surround sound. Rashaad juxtaposes imagery associated with popular Black youth culture and audio rooted in eurocentrism.

Henry Threadgill

A score for the film “The Hubcaphone” mixes two of his compositional styles together which utilize live and processed instrumental parts. Henry is one of America’s most creative saxophonists who, over a career more than 35 years long, became both a leader in jazz, and a composer who equals anyone working in any form of music today.

LoVid

Their work centers on raw electrical signals, processed and composed through both homemade and commercial instruments. The results are synesthetic compositions in which image and sound are created as one entity, where image is audible and sound is visible. The new work will investigate engulfment, inspired by circuits, weather patterns and oceans. LoVid has performed in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Rhode Island, Tokyo, London and Belgium.

Olen Hsu

MAX/MSP is used to translate the numerical codes of digitized embroidery patterns into the twelve tones of the Western musical scale. Olen also uses a process to select and extract pitches relating to Claude Debussy’s harmonic modes to create a score for a string quartet. The work will be presented at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in Fall 2005.

Kyle deCamp / Zeena Parkins

“Urban Renewal, or Planned Abandonment” is a 30-minute soundstory based on the turmoil of urban renewal in Chicago in the ‘60’s and 70’s. Parkins’ score and deCamp’s text will mix live and processed techniques for the performance environment. Zeena Parkins is a multi-instrumentalist well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp which she describes as a “sound machine of limitless capacity.” Kyle deCamp is a creator of original cross-genre performance works and has toured North America and Europe.

Jin-Yo Mok / Ahmi Wolf

“Light Bead Curtain” is the third object in a series called the MusicBox project. MusicBox is a sound instrument that integrates an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle by replacing the pins with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors for user interaction. Ahmi Wolf has worked at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam as lead developer. Jin-Yo Mok has shown her work in Chicago and New York, and at the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea.

Benjamin Aranda

“Off the Grid” consists of video footage gathered using custom-built cameras attached to four pigeons, which is presented on a 2×2 matrix with simultaneous surround-sound that establishes the work’s spatial context. Aranda established Terraswarm Inc. as a design research studio conducting experiments on urban and media phenomena, and has completed installations for Creative Time at the Brooklyn Anchorage, Storefront for Art and Architecture, as well as the MoMA. Off the Grid is planned for ISEA2004 International Symposium on Electronic Arts.

David Behrman

Behrman’s surround-sound mix of thick, harmonic, drifting sounds will blend acoustic elements and include radical transformations of spoken text. Behrman — with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma — established the Sonic Arts Union in 1966, toured with the Cunningham Dance Company in the 70’s, co-directed the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, and is currently among the MFA faculty at Bard College.

Olivia Block

Block’s project is a Sound Cube installation consisting of cello passages and textural sounds that come in and out of focus in different parts of the space. Block is a Chicago-based electroacoustic composer who has done live composition in numerous international festivals, including the Sonic Light Festival in Amsterdam, the Angelica in Italy, and Outer Ear in Chicago. She also worked with Pauline Oliveros for the “Women: Mixing in Sound” compilation. This installation will appear at the Kitchen in Spring 2004.

Jeff Carey

Jeff’s surround sound piece is composed of field recordings of urban and rural Singapore and Malaysia, which are transformed using techniques ranging from soundscape, musique concrete, and G.M. Koenig’s concept of “Field Composition,” to spatialization routines written with Supercollider. Carey is the owner and developer of radiantslab.com, an online platform for artists, record labels, and online sound art projects, and currently has a residency at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in the Netherlands.

Abigail Child

Abagail Child will set her hour-length film (with score by John Zorn) in the legacy of home-movies and with a special focus on the lenses of history, gender, and religion. Child is an award-winning film and video maker whose work has appeared at the Whitney Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival & Video Side Bar, and is part of the permanent collection of MoMA and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The single-channel version of her film “Cake and Steak” will exhibit in March 2004 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, CA.

Angela Eng/ Dafna Naftali

“Memobile” explores the similarities between nomads of primitive societies and digital culture by using sounds created with MAX/Jitter to trigger and manipulate video, which is then projected onto a tent structure that houses the performers. Eng has performed live video and sound at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Roulette Intermedium and the Whitney Museum. Naftali specializes in vocal performance using MAX/MSP and teaches at NYU and Harvestworks. They will be performing Memobile at Experimental Intermedia in March.

E-TEAM – Franziska Lamprecht

1.1 Acre Flat Screen is a documentary of the improvement on a lot in the desert of Utah, which was purchased on eBay. The video was started during the E-Team’s residency at Eyebeam’s moving image department. It is scheduled for screening at Lothringer 13 in Munich.

Leroy Jenkins/Mary Griffin

“Coincidents,” a documentary about the artists’ African American and Welsh heritages and the effect of migration on identity, uses Jitter to allow Jenkins’ violin to trigger the video. Jenkins is an internationally renowned composer/violinist who is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement for the Creative Musicians. Griffin is a writer and video maker, who has received awards from the New York foundation for the Arts and The Rockefeller Foundation, and residency grants at Harvestworks, The Atlantic Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Mari Kimura

Kimura will produce an interactive piece between human and machine that uses MAX/MSP to pitch-track the violin and generate figures and motives for the Guitarbot. As a Japanese violinist/composer, Kimura is known in over 18 countries for her extended technique (including the creation of the bowing “subharmonics”), her use of interactive computer systems, and performance of specially composed pieces by Toshi Ichiyanaga and Jean-Claude Risset.

Diane Ludin

Memoryflesh is an exploration of the human genome and DNA as a rising world power, and uses touch sensors interfacing with MAX to record a fake suturing process that drives the mix of media montages. Ludin is a Brooklyn based artist whose work has appeared worldwide, including the Ars Electronica, Online traveling exhibition. This project will be launched at Turbulence.org in March 2004.

Jane Rigler

Rigler will create an interactive improvisation-based performance system using the flute, voice and movement to trigger extended sonic responses using MAX/MSP in conjunction with hidden sensors to give the appearance of an entirely acoustic performance. Rigler is an active performer in improvisation and experimental music festivals throughout the US and Europe.

Keiko Uenishi

Uenishi’s piece centers on a MAX/MSP patch that allows composition of movement and location of sound mapping, along with an additional hand made midi-controlling device. Also known as o-blatt, Uenishi has performed all over the world both solo and with musicians such as Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins.

Mary Flanagan

Mary Flanagan (Web) for the development of [familiar relativity], a web project concerned with environments, surveillance and natural / physical bodies that involves technology as a way to view or control the organic in real time. A feminist who utilizes both creative practice and criticism to explore the intersection of gender and technology, Mary is occupied with the social implications of ubiquitous computing and computer culture as it relates to the personal. She presently lives and works in Oregon.

Chris Mann

Chris Mann (Music) for the development of audio recordings that capture the results of a process that uses Max/MSP to parse phonemes in realtime speech and then spatialize the results. During the residency Chris will record three pieces for solo voice using a 5.1 Surround Sound microphone array as well as a Neumann Kunstkopf dummyhead for a stereo mix. He was an Artist in Residence at Harvestworks and at the Rennselear iEAR studios in 1999, and more recently at Engine 27.

Torsten Zenas Burns

Torsten Zenas Burns (Film/Video) for the development of Residency, an experimental videotape that involves the creation of an alternative fictional space agency. The tape will investigate various themes including space sexuality, space medicine/disease/neurosis and space-art/curation/slapstick. The work will be shown in California at the Pacific Film Archive and in New York at Electronic Arts Intermix.

Carly Ptak

Carly Ptak (Music) for developing material that is entirely based on voice input that is modified and filtered using a number of instruments, sensors and processors, possibly even sensors that respond to mouth movements. In addition to releasing an LP or CD of the work, public performances are planned for Free 103.9 in Brooklyn and the Red Room in Baltimore, MD. Carly is based in Baltimore and has toured the US and Europe with several electronic music festivals, artists and groups.

Alison Crocetta

Alison Crocetta (Installation/Performance) for the production of three short Super 8 films. These will focus on the human head and its relationship to an environment constructed of fabric. Holes in the environment will accommodate head and hands as they engage in actions that investigate the transformation of matter and its impact on the built environment. Alison is a Brooklyn-based artist who regards her art practice as a vehicle to make inquiries into the intangible aspects of human experience. The new work will be exhibited at the Bronx Museum in 2003.

Qasim Ali Naqvi

Qasim Ali Naqvi (Music) for work on Furial, a performance-based project centered on the relationship between classical South Asian percussion and dance forms and interactive sensor-based sampling and sequencing environments. Furial will be featured as part of a residency at the Kitchen’s New Dance Research series in the spring. In the fall, New York-based Qasim will continue work on the project as Composer in Residence at the Northwestern University Performance/New Media Studies Program.

Kira Lynn Harris

Kira Lynn Harris (Film/Video) for producing a video which will show the play of sunlight on various buildings in New York and a companion sound piece to be recorded in an overpass in Queens where sounds reflect off surfaces in strange and particular patterns. Kira has been an artist in residence at numerous venues including The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Views residency at the World Trade Center.

Matthew Ostrowski

Matthew Ostrowski (Web) for development of a new data transformation program for the internet. Matthew, who lives and works in New York City, observes that, as the World Wide Web has expanded, the vast amount of information has essentially become just another source of noise. In this project he simplifies the incredible complexity of this overwhelming tsunami of information by turning a data stream from a web-crawler into actual audio noise. The work will eventually appear on the web and possibly as an audio/visual gallery installation.

Shelly Hirsch

Shelly Hirsch (Engine 27) for multi-channel installation of Wandering Jews, a historical multimedia collage and a confrontation with popular notions of Jewishness. As a sound installation at Engine 27, the piece will use original music, sound recordings and interviews to follow the paths of two very different people from the artist’s life. The recipient of many awards, grants, fellowships and residencies, Shelly has presented her own work throughout the US and Europe, and lives and works in New York City.

Jerome Annum

Jerome Annum (Music) for the creation of a 5.1 Surround Sound video DVD with sounds and video footage collected through digital field recordings of New York City. The materials will all be processed and manipulated in order to alternatively clash, work in concert or just peacefully co-exist with each other, much like the various communities of the city itself. Jerome plans to produce a CD of the work and possibly broadcast it from a vehicle moving through the city streets.

Miya Masaoka

Miya Masaoka (Engine 27 Collaboration) for a new site-responsive work for multi-channel speakers using acoustic and processed sounds of the Japanese koto. Masaoka will use koto techniques and gestures — including plucking, bowing, scraping, harmonics, string bending and pulling — and the digital processing of samples to create a score that transforms the space of Engine 27 into an enormous koto. Miya is a musician, composer and sound artist who has been commissioned by the Zellerback Family fund, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Myra Melford

Myra Melford (Music) for the development of the live interactive music performance system to use with My Face of Us All, a full length multi-media work with choreographer Dawn Saito and architect Michael Haberz. This work was first workshopped in Graz, Austria in the fall of 2000 as part of the Sytrian Autumn Arts Festival. Myra is a composer currently living in Brooklyn, NY.

Ursel Schlicht

Ursel Schlicht (Music) will record a soundtrack for the 1926 silent film Faust by Murnau. Ursel is a pianist-composer-improviser who has created music for other classic silent film such as Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The work will be performed at the Kulturhaus Dock 4 in Kassel, Germany in the fall of 2003 and simultaneously broadcast on Freies Radio Kassel and Hessischer Rundfunk.

Wago Kreider

Wago Kreider (Film/Video) for post-production support for Menagerie of the City which examines the animal’s life of New York City’s parks, lakes, refuges, gardens and coastal areas in relation to the urban environment. This imagery and sounds will be juxtaposed with human activity as it is shared by the urban community. The video will premiere at the Langston Hughes Cultural Center in May 2003. Wago has shown his work at Hallwalls, Visual Studies Workshop, Squeeky Wheel, the Pleasuredome, Remote Lounge and the Kitchen.

Ana Busto

Ana Busto (Installation) for the completion of Boxing in Cuba, which features images and sound from some of the best boxers in Cuba. Because of the lack of freedom in Cuba, this is a remarkable collection of personal material and will be shown be shown at the Walker Art Center in July 2003, as well as in Brazil and in Havana, Cuba. Ana’s previous work, Night Flights, was shown in New York and Europe.

Haeyoung Kim

A sound designer, composer, and audio engineer, Haeyoung Kim explores the territory of sounds and their cultural representation. Before working with various audio technology for Bong+Dern, with MTV and Scholastic, she was a member of the electronic pop-band, Zia and performed with custom made midi triggers. Currently, under the name bubblyfish, she has been creating “lo-fi”, 8-bit sound works and minimal electronic compositions. Kim’s work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, the Eyebeam Moving Image Symposium, the New Museum and also heard on “Spinning On Air”, WNYC Radio, Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam as well as Spongefork Radio on the web.

Michelle Nagai

Michelle Nagai is an electroacoustic composer and improviser whose interdisciplinary approach utilizes a myriad of physical and aural elements in the creation of site-specific performances, radio broadcasts, and installations. She engages the viewer into the listening process itself and with the immediacy of the sound environment. In addition to recent electronic music compositions for CD and radio, Nagai’s catalog of works includes numerous compositions that feature live acoustic performance, natural environments, costume objects, found objects, dance, theater, sculpture, and video. Her work and collaborations have been shown at P.S.122, CBGB Gallery, Access Theater, and various venues in NY, MA, VT, and Canada.

Marina Rosenfeld

Marina Rosenfeld (Music) for completion of delusional situation, a sound installation inspired by the Paul Celan poem “You–all, all real. I–all delusion.” By creating a surround sound mix with a variety of different sounds, the listener will be able to have a temporary sense of experience outside the confinements of the room and thrust into a vast landscape of endless sounds. The delusional situation is scheduled to be exhibited in March 2002 at the Whitney Museum. Marina is an audio artist who has performed live and has exhibited her work on both the East and West coasts.

Latasha Diggs

Latasha Diggs (Music) for work on Imperfecciones: La Magic de la Television, an audio project using the spoken word and sound motifs exploring the use of television amongst working poor African American women and how this particular medium is commonly used as a means of escape and therapy not only to African American women but also to the masses. Latasha will record, mix and master a CD using various vocal loops, bits from various television shows and a one on one interview with mom combined with different instruments. This project is scheduled to perform at various venues through out Manhattan and broadcast on WBAI’s Liquid Sound Lounge in Fall/Winter 2002.

Monique Buzzarté

Monique Buzzarté (Music) for the development of a live interactive music performance system. Monique is a Trombonist/composer who has been a featured artist at festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Kristin Norderval (Music) for creating a portable interactive music system, and to master recordings of on-site improvisations. Kristin is a classically trained singer from Norway who has performed in New York, Europe, and Cuba.

Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins (Music) for using Max/MSP to develop a sonic system based on speech, drawings, and graphs. Andrea is a musician whose works have appeared at the Whitney Museum, the Knitting Factory, PS1, and has toured in the United States and Europe.

Joseph Reinsel

Joseph Reinsel (Music) for working on From the Center Out, a four part multimedia composition. Joseph is a composer with an interest on the visualization of sound, and has performed throughout the United States. He currently works and studies at Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Douglas Henderson

Douglas Henderson (Installation) for completing an interactive sound/sculpture installation piece titled Petals on a Wet, Black Bough. Consisting of thirty voices, each individual element of the piece reflects a part of humanity. All autonomous to each other yet connected by the aggregate sound woven into part of a larger composition or rather a social fabric. Henderson is a composer and performer who recently won a Bessie award for Kriyas, a collaboration with Guy Yarden and Mia Lawrence. (Radio) for preparing Aural Safari for radio broadcast. Aural Safari is based on a “sound hunting” expedition Christopher recently made in New York.

Danny Hobart

Danny Hobart (Film/Video) for audio editing his recently completed video Debut and Soon. Danny is a New York-based video artist whose works have been shown at Postmasters Gallery, The Standard Hotel, and Sothebys. And will be premiering at the Gorney-Bravin-Lee Gallery in New York.

Christopher DeLaurenti

Christopher DeLaurenti (Radio) for preparing Aural Safari for radio broadcast. Aural Safari is based on a “sound hunting” expedition Christopher recently made in New York.

Jody Zellen

Jody Zellen (Web) for creating a Web site for Disembodied Voices, a piece about solitary communication. Jody is a Santa Monica based Web artist who has had shows at Deep River, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, and Montgomery Gallery.

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (Art Performance) for producing a public display/ performance piece using a media art cart resembling a food vending cart. This piece will explore the dynamics of the late capitalism within a tiny sector of the world. Documenting a group of Brooklyn-based food vendors, this piece will examine the cultural and economic issues immigrants experience each and every day. Raised in both Nicaragua and San Francisco, Ricardo focuses his performance and multimedia art pieces on immigration, miscegenation, and love.

Onome Ekeh

Onome Ekeh (Digital Media) for working on <<Lovemad>>, a love story told on CD ROM. Onome is a Nigerian born, New York-based writer and film maker who has produced work In Europe and the United States.

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Andy Graydon

Andy Graydon (Sound Installation) for completing Rupt, two CDs of experimental audio work that function as a portable sound installation kit. Andy is a film maker and sound artist who has produced works in Seattle, Chicago, and New York.

Patrick Meagher

Patrick Meagher (Sound Installation) for working on three pieces related to landscape architecture and urbanism. Patrick is an audiovisual artist who works both in Germany and New York.

Istvan Szilasi

Istvan Szilasi (Film/Video) for post-production work on Cold-ezee, a stop action video. Istvan is a Hungarian film maker who has shown work in Hungary, Germany, and the United States.

Tiffany Ludwig

Tiffany Ludwig (Digital Media) along with collaborator Renee Piechocki, for creating a piece that contemplates dichotomies of work and art, feminism and patriarchy, and activism and citizenship. Their group, Two Girls Working, will have their first video project, Trappings, exhibited at the Bronx Council on the Arts in January 2002.

Ina Archer

Ina Archer (Installation) for work on an installation that explores issues surrounding labor and ownership in the film industry, the interactions between racial/ethnic representations and transitional technological movements in media. Ina is an installation and video artist whose works include: Bert Wheeler(ing): Just keep On Doin’ What You’re Doin’ and A Minstrel Show, exhibited in Whitney Independent Study Open Studios Show.

Guillermo Brown

Guillermo Brown (Music) for development of a live solo and ensemble performance piece for CD, mp3 and vinyl focusing on the absorption of perfected jazz techniques into contemporary musical expression. Guillermo is a musican/perfromer and member of the David S. Ware Quartet.

Josely Caravalho

Josely Caravalho (Installation) for the completion of a real-time video installation #0300: Black Bird: Demolition of Palladium, documenting the demolition of the Paladium as a metaphor for our basic necessity of being sheltered at a historical moment when the sense of home has been shifted by ethnic wars, increased migration, the global economy and new virtual addresses. Josely is a multimedia artist and poet. She recently received a grant from Creative Capital.

Justine Cooper

Justine Cooper (Installation) for work on Excitation, an installation focusing on the mediation of spacial experience by information, medical and telecommunications technology. Justine is a multimedia artist whoese work has been exhibited and screened throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Jay Critchley

Jay Critchley (Film/Video) for the creation of a “documentary” entitled Theater in the Ground@Septic Space – The Dirt. Jay Crichley is a multimedia artist and the founder of Septic Space, a subterranean septic tank turned gallery/performance space in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Alexandra Gardner

Alexandra Gardner (Music) for completion of the electronic portion of Spotted Jasper, a composition for bass clarinet, marimba and electronics. Alexandra is a composer and performer whose work has been performed throughout the United States and Europe.

Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek (Web) for the development of the sonic component of World of Awe, in collaboration with composer, Yoav Gal, World of Awe is an ongoing multi-media project based on an orginal narrative where determination to find a lost treasure meets nostolgia for speculated technology. Yael has been creating work for the web since 1995.

Kathy Rose

Kathy Rose (Performance) for work on a live performance integrating projected video, veils, and life-sized video puppets inspired by Japanese Noh theater. Kathy is a choreographer/performer and filmmaker whose other works inclued KLEOPAT’RA which is currently in repertory in the United States and Europe.

Laetitia Sonami

Laetitia Sonami (Interactive Music) for creation of a CD-ROM that combines her performance and installation Conversation With a Light Bulb and Conversation With a Light Bulb no.5 “transposing beautifully simple iconographic objects into a musical environment.” Laetitia’s work has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.

David Watson

David Watson (Music) for completion of a music CD extrapalating the sounds/naunces of the bagpipe into an abstract studio composition. David is a musician/performer who has worked with John Zorn, Shelley Hirsh, Elliot Sharp and the trio Glacial with Lee Ranaldo.

Pamela Z

Pamela Z (Interactive Music) for the completion of an audio version of Gaijin, an interdisciplinary performance work exploring the concept of “Foreignness.” Pamela is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist and a member of the electroacoustic ensemble sensorChip and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Qube Chix.

Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Z

Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Z (Installation) for work on A Small World, a video installation using Super 8 found family footage as a nostolgic snapshot protraying cultural and class syncretism. Sanford has been exhibiting his work since 1996. Jennifer is currently participation in the AIM Program at The Bronx Museum.

David Grubbs

David Grubbs (Music) for production of an audio work combining live audio performance and electronic music. David is a composer, recording artist and founder of the Blue Chopsticks label.

Stephen Vitello

Stephen Vitello (Performance) for exploration of the use of binaural filters for multi-channel music and sound presentations. Stephen is a musician and multimedia artist whose work was recently included in The Greater New York Show at PS1.

Mary Jane Dean

Mary Jane Dean (Film/Video) for work on IN-CAMERA, IN-FLIGHT, a cinematic and photgraphic inquiry of perception observed through the subject of flight. Mary Jane is currently an artist-in-residence at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Rhode Island.

Zoe Beloff

Zoe Beloff (Film/Video) for the completion of the soundtrack for her stereoscopic 16mm b&w film entitled Shadow Land From the Other Side. The film’s title is taken from the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d’Esperance, a materializing medium who could produce full body apparitions. Zoe is a Digital Media Artist and FIlmmaker who has completed two CDRom’s; WHERE WHERE THERE THERE WHERE and BEYOND as well as many films since 1987.

Lawrence Brose

Lawrence Brose (Film/Video) for the completion of his film Crossing, which focuses on the use of rare 8mm footage. Lawrence continues his Structural/Materialist film practices and his committment to Queer avant-garde cinema with this new work. Lawrence has been showing his films since 1983 and is the Executive Director of CEPA Gallery in Buffalo.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens

Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Interdisciplinary) for the completion of a digital work which combines sounds, still images, video clips and animations which will be projected outdoors and put on the internet. The work deals with concepts of time, memory and space. Nayda is based in Puerto Rico and has been creating mixed-media works since 1990.

Maureen Connor

Maureen Connor (Installation) for the completion of her project for her solo exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art in 2000. The work will include video/animation and will be connected to the panorama at The Queens Museum which was originally created for the museum in 1965. Maureen has been showing her sculptural and installation works since 1981.

Bruce Gremo

Bruce Gremo (Web) for the completion of a text based musical/visual/theatrical performance piece for the web entitled Talkative Gods. Bruce will be collaborating with the actor Joel De La Fuente and computer artist/website designer Aureia Harvey. Bruce is a feelance composer based in NYC.

Tana Hargest

Tana Hargest (Web/Installation) for the completion of her project Bitter Nigger, Inc. which uses the language of corporate America to address issues of race and culture and will be video and web-based. The project is focused on “discovering, developing and bringing to market innovative cultural interventions to save, protect, and enhance lives.” Tana is in the process of completing the AIM program at The Bronx Museum.

Holland Hopson

Holland Hopson (Installation) for the completion of his project called With Hidden Noise which is a recreation of a piece that Duchamp created in 1916. Holland’s version will include sencors and electronic sound. Holland is a performer/multimedia installation artist and is the Director of Engine 27 in NYC.

Drew Krause

Drew Krause (Installation) for the completion of the primary sound material for an installation which will include grammatical transformation, lexical splicing and rhythmic/contour mapping of selected texts from self-help and motivational literature. Drew is a composer and has been creating performed works since 1987.

John Pilson

John Pilson (Installation) for the completion of a video entitled Interregna which will be a part of a larger multimedia installation. The project is concerned with lapses in continuity or control within the structured environment of the modern coporate workplace. John has been showing his work since 1990 and was included in the Visionaries show at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA.

Nadine Robinson

Nadine Robinson (Installation) for the completion of the audio portion of an audio/painting installation project entitled Tower Hollers. The audio will be a chorus of voices of protest and labor to represent the blue collar and service employees of the World Trade Center. Nadine has been showing her work since 1996 at many spaces on the East Coast.

Maritess Zurbano

Maritess Zurbano (Art Performance) for the completion of a performance which includes a film projected onto a flat rotating screen. The work intends to “suspend the belief systems of the audience, as they simultaniously reconsider the relationship between reality, art and magic.” Maritess is an artist and professional magician based in California.

Karen Yasinsky

Karen Yasinsky (Film/Video) for the completion of a work which uses stop motion animation to explore emotional/sexual complexities and will be completing a 10 min. work with a special focus on the sound design. Karen has shown her paintings and video since 1990, most recently at Casey Kaplan Gallery in SoHo.

Sasha Sumner

Sasha Sumner (Film/Video) for the completion of a video which is a drama from the underworld called None but the Brave. All of the actors were selected from Project Renewal which is a live-in detox rehabilitation facility for the homeless. Sasha has been working in video since 1987.

Ricardo Arias

Ricardo Arias for the development and recording of Interactive Mapaphone(s), a self-contained instrument for use in interactive compositions. The piece(s) will utilize mapaphones (hand-held magnetic playback heads) reading prerecorded audio from strips of magnetic tape in conjunction with a variety of sensors feeding into Opcode’s Max software and an I-Cube system. The sensors will control processing of the audio material through aspects of the instrument’ s movements. The resulting compositions are planned for broadcast on WFMU and performance at the Downtown Music Gallery in New York City

Gene Carl

Gene Carl for a new work, Patching Kathleen, with pianist Kathleen Supove. Music performed by Supove on a MIDI keyboard will also control sound parameters through Max patches, with the option of triggering “robot” accompaniment. Each movement will focus on the manipulation of one particular sound parameter. Performances are planned internationally and at The Kitchen in New York City.

Peter D’Agostino

Peter D’Agostino for the completion of Year ZERO ZERO, a video and multimedia installation that takes a personal look at representations of the new millennium in art, religion and technology. The installation will be a synthesis of experimental and documentary forms utilizing the image, sound and text capabilities of interactive CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. Installations are proposed for presentation at The Kitchen, as well as in Brasilia and Rome (the three cities featured in the work).

Kit Fitzgerald

Kit Fitzgerald for the creation of Love Unbound; an interactive work for CD-ROM which juxtaposes concepts of “hot” and “cool” in computer technology. Love Unbound is a exploratory painting which unfolds in many dimensions over time. Fitzgerald is a video and multimedia artist and her videotapes, digital media works and live video performances have been produced and broadcast worldwide. The CD-ROM will be distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.

Amy Jenkins

Amy Jenkins for the completion of a two-channel video installation entitled Worried House, a piece that will evoke the precarious feelings of transition. Her earlier video installations include Almost Home, Pitch and Roll and Trapped Wasp. Her completed installation will be exhibited at the Anna Kustera Gallery in New York City in 1999.

Leroy Jenkins & Mary Griffin

Leroy Jenkins & Mary Griffin for the development and editing of ap Jenkins, a semi-autobiographical multimedia oratorio about family and art. A series of songs will link 10 dramatic episodes, incorporating 3 channels of video, an instrumental ensemble, singers, written text, as well as live and recorded sound and speech. A workshop performance is scheduled for The Painted Bride in Philadelphia in early 2000. The work is planned for both live staged performance and recorded medium.

Chris Mann

Chris Mann for the creation of a CD combining recorded music and Mann reading his text “En route to Cornell…”. Mann’s compositions center around the technology and philosophy of speech. The resulting recording is intended for release on Tzadik or Split Records, as well as for broadcast on BBC, ABC and NPR.

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy for the completion of an experimental internet site about the subjective experiences of fictional characters living in AIRWORLD. They are interested in creating works in which artists and the public can interact to form a common creative expression that is separate from commercial goals. They have completed many interactive projects including a web site on thing.net called Maintenance/Web and a CD ROM called small appliances.

Prema Murthy

Prema Murthy for the completion of Flicker, a video installation and performance. Her work examines the shifting boundaries of a gendered/socially constructed body by remapping its surface through various forms of new technologies. Flicker, inspired by a 1998 news story of seizures caused by TV strobe effects, utilizes monitored brainwaves as MIDI controllers. The resulting patterns control sounds in such a way as to physically affect the audience. She is a core member of Fakeshop in Brooklyn where the piece will be exhibited in the spring or fall of 1999.

Andrea Polli

Andrea Polli for the completion of a performance entitled Gape which includes developing a simple spoken language system which is controlled by an eye tracking device. This piece is scheduled to be presented at the Artemisia and Oskar Friedl Galleries. She is a digital media installation and performance artist that has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally.

Dean Roberts

Dean Roberts for the development and realization of an audio work intended for radio broadcast, sound installation and CD release. The work has been commissioned for collaboration with WKCR and 5 Beekman Gallery in New York, and Selektion Foundation and Mille Plateaux Recordings in Frankfort. The completed 45-60 minute piece will air simultaneously in New York and Frankfurt, be presented as a month-long gallery installation, and finally released on CD.

Jonathon Rosen

Jonathon Rosen for the completion of a three-part animated variety show on video. He plans on pushing the boundaries of digital animation while including early forms of technology such as analog synthesization and Super-8. His intentions are to create works which are “thoroughly demented and spiritual-minded.”

Alternates

The following artists were chosen as alternates: Bun-Ching Lam, Morgan O’Hara, Shelly Silver and Stephen Vitiello.

Ellen Christi

Ellen Christi for her work “Simultaneous Imagery,” exploring the combination of electronic and acoustic sounds. The work is scored for electric guitar, bass, cello, drums and voice, processed through a series of overdubbings and manipulations and combined with pre-recorded samples. “Simultaneous Imagery” will be performed at the Cooler in New York in December 1998 and aired on National Public Radio in New York and Chicago.

Jem Cohen

Jem Cohen for the soundtrack of his in-depth film/video portrait of Pisa, Italy. The film looks at the nature of the urban experience and global change as it applies to daily existence of residents who are overshadowed by tourism. The music will be constructed from on-location recordings, samples of modern and ancient Pisan music and various experimental composers.

Beth Coleman

Beth Coleman for an audio works of bass frequency modulations fusing urban sound sources and sine wave manipulations. “Jeep”, a sonic architecture piece for performance in Spring 1998, will focus on phase cancellation and augmentation shifting as the frequencies move to different audio spaces in the city. The piece will be a part (along with text, image, and additional sound) of her multimedia story “Betty Mann Takes a Stand”, which will be performed at SoundLab in Manhattan and published as a comic book with accompanying CD.

Mark Coniglio

Mark Coniglio for the development of video imagery and interactive triggering controls for the dance piece “Boxes”. “Boxes” addersses the vibrant energy and frantic routines of people on the New York City streets. The piece is scheduled for performance by his Troika Ranch dance theater group at Context Studios in Manhattan on June 4, 5 & 6 1998.

Dawn DeDeaux

Dawn DeDeaux for the multimedia installation “The Last Hunt” to be premiered at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston in April 1999. This work, which utilizes the character of Ernest Hemingway to explore the “Hemingway myth” and contemporary masculine codes and rites of passage, will be realized as a 360-degree in-the-round film-projection installation with a quadraphonic surround soundtrack.

Jin Hi Kim

Jin Hi Kim for “Touching the Moons”, an interactive, multimedia, live performance exploring feminine cosmic energy and the relationship of traditional Asian cultures within the context of the 20th Century. The piece will consist of an interactive set design in which the movement of dancers controls images of outer space and sound samples, and Kim will perform on electric kumango and electric changgo drum while also controlling MIDI devices. “Touching the Moons” is planned for performance in multiple location throughout the U.S. as part of the Korea Society’s Performing Art Series.

Michelle Kinney

Michelle Kinney for her piece for Cyrus Kambatta’s Phffft! Dance Company, examining the way people value and balance personal resources and energy. Multiple sound samples, cello, and live sound effects and triggers will be utilized to create various different textures and rhythms in accompaniment to the dance/theater performance. The work is scheduled for performance at festivals internationally.

Roger Kleier

Roger Kleier for “Cortina”, a 40-minute multi-movement work for electric guitar, sampler and percussion, inspired by the exploits of the 19th-century Tejano guerrilla leader Juan Cortina. “Cortina” will explore the manipulation and combination of recorded instrumental materials, including “prepared” guitar and found sounds, and is planned for international radio broadcast.

Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins for a sound score to Cornelia Blatter’s project “cloth-change” for multi-channel video and slide installation. The audio piece is scored for digitally processed piano, sampler, and accordion and will be presented with the visual work in gallery and performance spaces, as well as as a single-channel video recording.

Laura Parnes

Rea Tajeri

Rea Tajeri for the creation of an audio track for the 26-minute video work “The Family Body”. “The Family Body” will be a dark, surreal comedy about the complex relationships in a contemporary Asian-American family, presented as a fractured narrative in three vignettes. The first vignette is being shot this December in Los Angeles and will be presented at the San Francisco Asian American Film/Video Festival.

Matt Rogalsky

Matt Rogalsky for the recording, editing and production of four new live solo sound works incorporating self-created software and controllers, as well as live digital processing and external sound sources. “RESONATE (noise/tones)” is an extended textural work for live improvisation; the first part exploring noise timbres, and the second, pitched sounds. “Transform: XXXX” is a performance work which processes AM radio station signals to create a range of sounds from resonating streams of harmonics to soft percussion. For each performance, the “XXXX” in the title is replaced with the call letters of the station utilized. Rogalsky will also work on two as yet untitled pieces working with SuperCollider live digital processing and various MIDI controllers.

Judy Dunaway

Judy Dunaway for compositions that will complete a body of work to be released on a CD from Composers Recordings, Inc. The compositions incorporate a 16″ round latex balloon along with other (more or less) conventional instruments. The new pieces will include a duet with the renowned Yasunao Tone along with improvisational work. Dunaway’s balloons exhibit a surprising range and a variety of pitches which are controlled by the amount of pressure the artist exerts with her hands.

Tirtza Even

Tirtza Even for “Color Blind,” the third installment of an interactive multimedia series which explores the visual representation of the tension between public and private space. Even’s goal in this work is to “capture the constant infiltration of public into private, the rare moments during which an individual carves a personal space within a public arena.” “Color Blind” will be shown in 1997 at the Postmasters Gallery in New York.

Jose Halac

Jose Halac for a new suite of compositions for his ensemble, Scream. Halac seeks to enhance the expressive possibilities of his performances by exploring MAX, a computer-based language using MIDI and featuring endless combinations and algorithms serving virtually any style of composition. Scream has 1997 concert dates in Argentina, Spain, and in New York at Roulette.

Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs for development of his “Nervous System” CD-ROM. Initially, Jacobs will work on “From Muybridge to Brooklyn Bridge,” a series of diverse short pieces utilizing early photo and film materials. The collection reflects Jacobs’ ideas regarding cinema’s reshaping of the human mind during this last century. “What was still now moves, and what moved now takes on 3-D volume,” notes the artist. “I look forward to inviting others to actively particpate in this rich cinema offshoot with, hopefully, unlimited results and applications.”

Jeanne Liotta

Jeanne Liotta for the interactive multimedia project “Optical Promises,” a playful look at the relationships between light, desire, and the technological fetishes derived from the making of images. Set in a bordello at the turn-of-the-century, “Optical Promises” will evoke both the era of early cinema and the transgressive power of secret pleasures. In this work, Liotta promises, “one will be able to experience the metaphysical thrill of optical phenomenon through the use of the modern medium.”

Cynthia Lovett

Cynthia Lovett for visual and audio work on an installation which explores the relationship between the “found” object and the “created” object. Lovett hopes to generate “a sense of dissonance between images and/or sounds that are widely available and those that are deeply specific.” Attracted to technology because of its dual nature (art tool and communicator), Lovett will explore the possibility of developing a corresponding CD-ROM. An initial exhibition is planned at Downtown Community TV Center.

Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas for sound design of an interactive audio/video performace which Lucas will initially stage at an outdoor drive-in theatre during the VideoTensions Video Festival in Tuscon, Arizona. “Through the course of the performance,” Lucas comments, “I will contextualize the complexity of my position as a woman toward the progress of automated society. I’ll render a new landscape for women which advocates technological intervention as an alternative to the familiar role of laborer to machine.” The performance in Tuscon will be recorded and aired at a later date on cable access television. Several other live performances are scheduled.

Thomas Poole

Thomas Poole for post-production video and audio work for a dcomentary entitled “Not Channel Zero’s Grassroots Video Cookbook” which examines the influences and effects of media on people of color in America. Poole writes, “The program will focus the vital need for people of color to train our communities in the life-skill of deciphering the frequently racist, sexist and homophobic messages being propagated within today’s market-driven media.” Poole hopes to air the “Cookbook” on cable access stations and other free speech television in the fall.

James Pugliese

James Pugliese for the continuing development of his original composition techniques using piezo-type pickups placed on found metal and percussion instruments. Using small guitar effects and volume pedals, Pugliese processes and blends these effects into unique combinations which, ultimately, he plans to upload on his webpages for public listening. Other public performances of Pugliese’s work include a fall concert at Queen’s College and a broadcast on the independent East Orange radio station WFMU.

Dave Soldier

Dave Soldier for his compositions for the opera “Naked Revolution,” which will premiere June 12-14 at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and run for three weeks in October at New York’s Kitchen. Scored for a ten piece orchestra, Soldier’s work will be performed by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and includes Russian Orthodox religious music, American hymns of William Billings and the shape note singers, Russian army choral music and African-American work songs. “Naked Revolution” is based on the historical significance of falling statues. “Above all,” writes Soldier, “the opera is the portrait of a moment when everything changes. Revolutionaries may consider themselves conservative or doctrinaire, but when the statues start falling, nothing is the same.”

Ken Montgomery

Ken Montgomery for the creation of a new sound work for CD which will air on WKCR with Tony Coulter and WFMU with Fabio Roberti. Since 1992, Montgomery has been recording sounds from his immediate environment: moths, termites, frogs, cars, trains, refrigerators, toasters, coffee machines, drain pipes, etc. His new work will incorporate (and enhance and manipulate) this collection. “I’m interested in exploring my tendency to reject technology by finding more primitive and acoustic sources for my compositions, while simultaneously relying on technology for recording, manipulation, editing and distribution.”

Christopher Kondek

Christopher Kondek for post-production audio and video work on his 20 minute video, “The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve of Gistel,” a dramatization of a true story: In the 11th century, Godelieve was strangled by her husband Bertulf’s s henchmen at his orders after a period of abuse at the hands of Bertulf’s mother. The henchmen later confessed, Bertulf guiltily donated his lands to the church, and Godelieve is now the patron saint of sore throats. Kondek will use retouched video, superimposition, blue screen techniques, 3D modeling software and animation to realize his project. He hopes to show his finished piece in the fall at Electronic Arts Intermix.

Caterina Borelli and Sandra Seymour

Caterina Borelli and Sandra Seymour for the soundtrack on “Metrics,” the second in a series of three video tapes that investigate the similarities and differences between literary work and works that employ moving images. The music will be composed with found/recorded sound of industrial machinery. The first of the series, “Prologue” was shown at the third Mostra Video Independent, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain. It will also be screened in June 1996 at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh.

Lawrence Brose

Lawrence Brose for a soundtrack for the film “De Profundis.” The soundtrack, much like the film itself, will be a multi-layered composition of spoken texts and other altered audio samples to create a multiphonic wall of sounds. The lyrics are excerpted passages from Oscar Wilde’s letter from prison “De Profundis” as well as his other writings. Wilde’s passages will be combined with a sound environment of colliding voices from several prerecorded sources that question the framing of a singular voice in the 90’s gay movement and thereby shattering an ideological framework of normalization. “De Profundis” is expected to be shown at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Munich Museum of Film and other international venues. The film will also be distributed by Frameline Distribution, Canyon Cinema, London Filmmakers Co-Op, Light Cone Distribution in France, and the NY Filmmakers Co-Op.Zoe Beloff for “Beyond”, an interactive multimedia project. The piece is a philosophical inquiry exploring the paradoxes of technology and imagination posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the voice from the body, photography capturing the soul and cinema resurrecting the dead. Beloff’s piece will be available on CD-ROM and also on the Web.

Tom Cora

Tom Cora for the creation of a sound track to Dziga Vertov’s, “The Man with the Movie Camera.” In this particular piece, Cora plays the cello using a STEIM-built controller, while his feet are engaged in live editing and reconstruction of the material. Samples of the created sounds are sped up, slowed down, frozen in “stills,” collaged in various modulations, recalled for flashbacks, reversed and re-edited on the run to create this unique composition. The audio CD is expected to be released by Tellus in 1997.

Nick Didkovsky

Nick Didkovsky for a suite of compositions and improvisations that incorporate solo, duo, and multitracked electric guitar. This project will complete a body of work that will be released on CD.

Linda Dusman

Linda Dusman for “The Voice in Rama,” a visual and sonic gallery installation which investigates the impact of human beings on the natural world — specifically the songbird population. The title of the piece, the “Voice in Rama,” makes an analogy between the plight of the songbird population and the Biblical slaughter of the innocents. The installation will be exhibited at the Clark University Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, in February 1996 and also at the International Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong in August 1996.

Annie Gosfield

Annie Gosfield for a new composition entitled, “Burnt Wires and Loose Ivory,” a large-scale work for altered piano. The piece will explore combinations of traditional and non-traditional piano techniques. For example, Gosfield will contrast detuned or microtonally tuned piano samples with equal-tempered instruments and combine a notated score with improvisational techniques in order to break the barriers of traditional piano composition. The piece will be broadcast by KPFA, Berkeley; KCBC, Santa Barbara; and KOTR, Saint Luis Obispo.

Masahiko Kono

Masahiko Kono for a new music composition that incorporates trombone, space, electronics, and computer. The CD will be aired by KPFA-FM in Berkeley California and FM MINI in Tokyo, Japan.

Lou Mallozzi

Lou Mallozzi for sound work on the radio show “Drift.” In this piece, Mallozi will investigate language’s dual nature as bodily utterance and conveyor of meaning by using a combination of studio recordings, location recordings, and electronics to explore texts and narrative structures that drift, slip, or decompose in meaning, utterance, intent, and materiality. The radio show will be aired by: WHPK-FM, Chicago; CJSR-FM, Edmonton; WZRD-FM, Chicago; WLUW, Chicago; KNUM-FM, Albuquerque; and CKDU-FM, Halifax.

Myra Melford

Myra Melford for the sound track for “My House Was Collapsing Toward One Side.” This dance/music/theater piece uses the details of everyday life on earth to evoke a sense of mortality and fleetingness. The piece will explore the lives of three Japanese women from different times: the 10th Century, Hiroshima in 1945 and contemporary New York. Melford’s piece will be shown at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC during March and April 1996.

Neta Pulvermacher

Neta Pulvermacher for sound tracks for “Long Story Short,” “To Bite an Orange with its Peel,” and “Matza Matzot.” All three are dance/theater projects. “Long Story Short” is a site piece created for the Danspace Project. It draws from the common human experiences of desire, loneliness and alienation. Musically it is a collage of various John Zorn pieces with recorded and live texts and whistling. “To Bite an Orange with its Peel” investigates the interplay of rhythmic patterns in music and movement. Driven by the passion of Schumann’s Lieder, this suite of ten dances evokes images of nature while exploring the human stages of love and infatuation. “Matza Matzot’ is a solo for Pulvermacher with a bunch of Matzas. “Long Story Short” and “To Bite an Orange with its Peel” will be presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in February 1996. “Matza Matzot” will be presented at the Knitting Factory in April 1996.

Frank Ortega

Frank Ortega for the recording of the radio show, “Toward Akaba.” This audio journal will track a personal journey through the Middle East during the “Gulf Crisis,” starting in Istanbul on the back of a Bedford truck and ending in Cairo on a “flying coffin.” “The soldier watches the border, that absurd cyclone fence representing a new line on the map, a change of stationary.” The show will be offered to Pacifica Program Service, NPR, and American Public Radio as well as individual radio stations.

Nelson Smith

Nelson Smith for sound work on “Human Radiation,” a performance piece that occurs within a self-contained installation. The work explores the idea of human mental energy. Objects which include small appliances and house objects are used as mediums for communication or generating energy. In performance, the performer interacts with the objects and speaks/intones texts that are integrated with an electronic sound/music score as well as with audio samples that emerge from the environment itself. The installation/performance piece will be shown at The Theater at Marygrove College, Detroit, and at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor in fall 1996.

Helen Thorington

Helen Thorington for “North Country” an interactive multimedia project inspired by an article in a local newspaper that reported the discovery of an unidentified skeleton in the vicinity of North Elbe, NY. “North Country” focuses on the theme of disappearance, using short blocks or fragments of texts to shape its particular web of related ideas. Snow, water, things remembered and forgotten, the skeleton of a tamarack tree, a dead woman, and other elements intertwine in a narrative that is the plurality of its connections. Thorington’s piece will be available on CD-ROM and also on New Radio and Performing Arts’ Web site (http://www.somewhere.org).

Catherine Weis

Catherine Weis for sound work on the video/performance piece “FRACTURED, Just the fracts, ma’am.” In this piece Weis poses the question, “When technology and the human body become partners, who leads?” Video imagery, sound elements and live performers move separately throughout the piece, coming together at odd moments to ignite in flamboyant vignettes. The incredible downtown cast of six unacceptable yet inspired divas include: Scott Heron, Anne Iobst, Ishmael Houston Jones, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Munson and Cathy Weis herself. The piece will be performed at the Dance Theater Workshop, NYC in March 1996.

Lisa Karrer

Fred Lonberg-Holm

Leopanar Witlarge.

Jo Andres

Jo Andres for sounddesign of the experimental film, World Citizen, based on the 1992 journals of visual artist Izeta Gradevic in her hometown of Sarajevo.

Tony Allard/Kristine Diekman

Tony Allard/Kristine Diekman for an audio track for Corpse and Mirror, a videotape based on a monologue written by Allard that moves non-sequentially through seven childhood memories of his experiences with language and his father’s mental illness.

Barbara Nimri Aziz

Barbara Nimri Aziz for a radio project that will explore new and creative cultural bridges between the Arab and Western worlds. Components include standard Quranic prayers, spoken voices of children and adults telling folktales at festivals and in normal conversation, and Islamic-inspired as well as innovative arabic musics.

Jennie M. Bourne

Jennie M. Bourne for a radio project about an African-American musician drafted in 1941 into a then-segregated Army and assigned to the Army band. Production elements will include oral histories of members of the band; martial band, Big Band Swing, and Be Bop music; and an allegorical narration of the story.

Blondell Cummings

Blondell Cummings for a score for “Women in the Dunes,” a dance project which explores and compares differences and similarities between an African-American woman and a Japanese woman. Explorations will include cultural identities, traditional and contemporary values, customs and rituals, and family ties and personal histories.

Dandara

Dandara for a soundtrack of “Urban Forestry Carnival-a Samba Synthesis” an art performance that will combine solo performances of a Samba singer and dancer, as an example of the relationship between Samba and the Urban Forestry environment of Rio.

Michael Dwass

Michael Dwass for sound design of an experimental film, Bway, which explores the urban environment/landscape through a highly personal stylistic walk down the length of Broadway in New York City.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverria

Patricia Villalobos Echeverria for a radio project Grietas (Fissures), an art piece utilizing Spanish and English as elements of a densely layered sound environment. The project will consist of an oscillation between Echeverria’s Spanglish poetry and sounds of public spaces where cultures collide.

Joan Giroux

Joan Giroux for “A Giant Misstep: In Search of Possessions,” an installation about exploration and occupying territories. The installation will be a network of colorful cubes connected by tubing using a variety of sound material to address the issue of fate and determinism in a metaphorical fashion.

Daniel Goode/Larry Polansky

Daniel Goode/Larry Polansky for “Clarinet/Geese” a collaborative project of two pieces. “Clarinet/Geese” will be a piece for tape and ensemble in which sounds of a flock of geese are used.

Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch for the stage performance of “Jerry.” Using sampled materials from interviews, period music, and vocals, this narrative tells of a male romanticism gone haywire. Set in the ethnic East New York neighborhood circa the late 50s-early 60s, the story thematically explores evolving cultural differences. An audio version of the performance will be distributed by radio broadcast and Tellus Compact Disc. New Works Residencies

Paul Kaiser

Paul Kaiser for a CD-ROM on the theater of Robert Wilson. The piece is built on the autobiographical lecture and slide-show that Wilson has been delivering for many years. Kaiser will rescue recordings of the two young men who inspired Wilson’s first plays: Raymond Andrews, who was deaf, and Christopher Knowles, who was autistic.

Sarah Montague

Sarah Montague for “Three Sisters Sisters.” Using as its matrix Chekhov’s play Three Sisters — the theme of which is the struggle between freedom and stasis — the work will explore the role and symbolism of other trios of women: the Three Graces, the Three Witches, the Brontes, Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, and Robert Altman’s Three Women.

Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins for a music piece based on the “other Jews,” the Jewish gangsters living in the 20s through the 40s. Interwoven with portraits of the gangsters’ lives will be the exploration of RotWelsch — the Jewish thieves’ language from the 14th Century. The piece will use the Kabala, a model hierarchy for organization, as a structural template.

David Simons

David Simons for “Kebyar Leyak” a music epic utilizing digital samples and spoken text of UFO abductions. The piece is composed for acoustic instruments and digital gamelan in a Balinese sci-fi style.

Yosunao Tone

Yosunao Tone for “Musica Iconologos II ” an experimental CD-ROM project that will utilize a sound file generating program, Projector, that produces sound information based upon combinations of X-Y data.

Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello for “Fantastic Prayers” a performance of music and sound, with Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler. Fragmenting Shelly’s figure of Dr. Frankenstein, the project fingers a host of agents capable of reconstructing ordinary experience and the body. The project will be performed, narrowcasted through a WWW site and released as a CD-ROM.

Nancy Meli Walker

Nancy Meli Walker for a sound track for an installation using 3D videotapes. Exploring the beauty of nature and the importance of the preservation of its existence, the sound track will draw sounds from nature.

Jane Ira Bloom

“Pilobolus Score” will incorporate samples of the “sonic output” from the spontaneous interaction between improvising musicians and dancers for the premiere dance company, Pilobolus.

Yau Ching

“Building A New Stove” is a personal documentary/exploration of the forthcoming takeover of Hong Kong by mainland China utilizing interviews and sound scapes to create a production for radio broadcast.

Gideon D’Arcangelo

“Mosaic of the Air” is a “hit parade of the streets” for radio airplay and will be gathered by tapping into the Walkmen of public citizens chosen at random and interviewing them about music in general.

Rev. Dwight Frizell

“The Phenomenological Telephone” is a fast-paced humorous radio drama that examines the complex, ever-sprawling network of person-to-person telecommunications with special emphasis on social impact and the unwriting of history. Included in to this piece will be archival recordings of telephone songs as well as original music and commentary.

John Hollenbeck

“Bell Tree Pulse” is a musical composition for percussion and sampled voices written for the Harlem School of the Arts Dance Company.

Rod Lindauer

“Mechanics of Our Malaise,” is an nteractive performance of controlled video and audio accompanied by the artist’s life signs via biofeedback devices – newly developed rituals for evolved technologies.

Ikue Mori

The celebrated and seminal downtown post-minimalist No-Waver will create a new work for sample-driven drum machine.

Brian Patton

“State O’Static” is a film-music project which reveals the complicity of the average workday and narrative structure with post-structuralist strategies, sample-driven music and dry wit.

Michael Smith

“Rear Window 1994” is a sound and light show to be staged against the real wall of a non-descript apartment building to produce elaborate shadow play performed by actors seen through the windows of individual apartments with a soundtrack of ingoing and outgoing messages from amplified phone machines in the building.

Reynold Weidnaar

“Magic Music from the Telharmonium” is a documentary video about the first synthesizer (circa 1900) that utilized power dynamos as oscillators and was transmitted by cable/phone lines.

Reginald Woolery

“Sojourn” is a multilayered video and audio installation that centers on the journey of an African-American, Jamaican-Canadian and First Nation individual who set out to reclaim culturally significant objects purchased in the fallout of the African Diaspora.

Otomo Yoshihide

“Solo” consists of recordings for compact disc by the turntable/found-sound and noise-guitar wizard.

Sui Kang Zhao

“Alternative Polyphonic Realities” is a multimedia installation containing visualizations and verbalizations of selected religious texts.

Eleanor Hovda, Leroy Jenkins, Deirdre Murray

Wolfgang Von Stuermer

Charlie Ahearn

“Kiki Smith: Signs and Wonders” is a soundtrack for a film documentary of contemporary visual artist Kiki Smith, whose imagery primarily concerns the human body. The result will be a multi-layered free-flowing assemblage of sound and image.

Amy Chen

“Memoirs of Women Ghosts” is an audio installation and work for radio that examines the issue of violence against women in China by juxtaposing personal essays, fiction, poetry, advertisements, radio and movie soundtracks. Installations are planned at Art in General, Artists Space, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.) and Artspace (S.F.). It will be broadcast on National Public Radio and Pacifica Network.

Garland Farwell

“Pipe” is an art performance incorporating puppets, performers and interactive video. Garland means to examine the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case and the appointment of Judge Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Performances are scheduled for Rhode Island School of Design, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts.

Coco Gordon

“Dreaming Borders Dreaming: Life of a Hops Yard, Gteiermart & Slovenia” is an audio art installation which may be appreciated by visitors to the hops yard (on the border of Austria and Slovenia), as well as people driving through. The project will integrate collected audio from local people invited to dream and relate their dreams into an audio installation on site at the hops vineyard in September and October 1993.

Kato Hideki

“Utility” involves tracking, mixing, sequencing and musicians in collaboration in both Tokyo and New York. The music combines digital sequencing and live performance. Album to follow.

Victor Wong Huey

“Rocking the Great Wall” is a video documentary on Chinese popular musicians. Over three years, Victor traveled to China to interview, live with and record performances of Chinese musicians, chronicling the difficulties in working in a popular medium not always in government favor. Premiere at Downtown Community Television, May 1993.

Brenda Hutchinson

“Violet Flame” is an experimental audio documentary on the Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare Prophet). Sound is uniquely favored in this Montana-based cult whose members chant, sing and use sound and music to heal and alter physical and spiritual imbalance. Gathering material by living with the group for three months, Ms. Hutchinson will explore the religious and political philosophy through interviews, recordings of chanting, services, and excerpts from Church literature and teachings. Plans for broadcast include New American Radio and National Public Radio.

Dan Jaffee

“Disposable Homeplace” is an experimental documentary exploring the interstate solid and hazardous waste trade in the U.S., which targets poorer rural communities and those of color. The program will focus on a Native American community in Oklahoma, a Latino farmworker town in California, a group of Appalachian citizens in Kentucky, and a predominately African-American community in Georgia and will be narrated by and written in collaboration with citizen leaders who are successfully resisting “toxic racism and classism.” The program will be broadcast on “Earth on the Air,” a weekly environmental issues program.

Kumiko Kimoto

“Hands On” is sound design for a collaborative/improvisational dance piece to be formed at the Center for New Dance Development, Arnheim, the Netherlands. Kumiko’s ‘choreography’ is a horizontal/non-hegemonic attempt to elicit content through mutual collaboration. Performances are scheduled throughout Europe and the US in 1993.

Frank Ortega

“Endangered Writers” is a series of PSA’s designed to increase public awareness of the plight of writers around the world who are imprisoned for having expressed their ideas. Broadcast plans for Pacifica Radio, National Public Radio and radio in England and New Zealand.

Dan Reeves

“Obsessive Becoming” is a video autobiography concerned with childhood and adult rituals and the longing for meaning and connection. The work is less about personality or personal history, but offers rather a vehicle for looking deeply into the roots of dysfunction, suffering and abuse. Working a rich vein of personal narrative (and copious archives) it uncovers the insight and wisdom that can be the fruit of hardship and passage through difficult times.

Laetitia Sonami

“Music for the Deaf / X. Panels” is a solo music performance utilizing a MIDI-controlling “evening glove.” The glove will control sequences, samples, and effects as well as text by writer Melody Sumner. Performance at the Kitchen, March 1993; broadcast on WNYC; recording to follow.

Ayalet Sela

“Singing Wood” is a multiple module radio series on tuned keyboard percussion (i.e. marimba) around the globe. Tuned keyboard percussion is a family of instruments that range from arc marimbas of Nicaragua to the Gamelon orchestras of Bali. Research and interviews were conducted over the past three years with the most historically notable musicians alive today and contemporary innovators in the field. NPR broadcasts begin fall 1993.

Mary Anne Toman

“The Female Offender” is a black and white film that takes a subjective look at the cultural mythology surrounding female criminals. The starting point is the 19th century criminology textbook “The Female Offender” by Cesare Lombroso which was an attempt to link physiognomy with criminal predisposition. The film explores provocative ideas related to women’s social conditioning and the difficulty of those who reject it in favor of a life of crime.

Donald Chamberlain

Jin Hi Kim

Oliver

Martha Mooke

Betsy Schramm

Alina Avila

“Flotando,” a bilingual play for radio based on the conflicts between relatives of and economically polarized Cuban family, using tools such as music, found sound, and historical sound. To be aired September 1992 on WBAI.

Lawrence Chua

“Behind the Mask,” an installation consisting of readings and in alternative art spaces across the country that focuses on the Asian Pacific Islander experience in America. To be shown at such locations as Art in General and the Chinatown History Project, and aired on National Public Radio and the Pacifica Network.

Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe

“La Blanchisseuse,” an electronic, time-based video homage to paintings of laundresses by nineteenth century French painters, with music composed by Tony Moore. The piece will tour festivals and museums, and will be aired on “Alive from Off-Center,” “Independent Focus,” and “New Television.”

Catherine Jauniaux

“Vibroslab Even,” a music piece utilizing live sound-processing of the artist/composer’s voice, and recordings of performances with cellist Tom Cora. To be released on Cuniform Records and performed at Roulette in March 1992 and throughout Europe in the Spring.

Gregory Kajfez

“Caribou,” music composition using contrasting instrumentation and found sounds. Macintosh hard disc digital editing and sampling will extend the material into layered compositions.

Ben Neill

“Downwind,” an audio piece combining ensemble music with pre-recorded texts, including the autobiography of Baroque trumpet virtuoso Gottfried Reiche, and interviews with female residents of and environmentally abused midwestern town. To be premiered at the Frankfurt Opera in September 1992, followed by a Europe and U.S. tour. Also to be included on the next Ear-Rational Records release.

D.Roberts

“Of Angels and Demons,” a docu-play for radio that examines the complexities of domestic violence and the cycles of abuse in romantic relationships through monologues, dialogues, interviews, and music. To be broadcast on either National Public Radio or American Public Radio.

Hahn Rowe

“Constanza,” a dance/music performance in collaboration with choreographer Margarita Guergue that mixes live and pre-recorded music. To be performed at the Jacob’s Pillow Festival and the Sevilla Festival in Spain.

Ellen Zweig

“The Dinner,” a video installation that imagines a conversation between the likes of Einstein, Fermi, and Oppenheimer taking place around a dinner table. To be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe in October 1993.Panelists for this year’s selections were Kristine Diekman, video artist; Jason Hwang, composer; Ginger Miles, radio producer; Brian Karl and Diana Meckley, Harvestworks staff.

Shi-Zheng Chen

Mary Ellen Childs

Gabriel Cohen

David First

Linda Fisher

E.J. Rodriguez

Alice Shields

Bill and Mary Buchen

“Sound Engine,” an audio installation work which includes music, speech and sounds from Japan, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Guatemala, and Mexico. The installation is touring with the Parabola Arts Foundation traveling exhibition through 1992.

Shu Lea Cheang

“Those Fluttering Objects of Desire,” a multi-media installation with one channel video, 12 televisions and 12 audio channels transmitted through phone sets. Collaborators include Laurie Carlos, Lawrence Chua, Jessica Hagedorn, and Rene Tajimi. Exhibited at Exit Art in NYC in the fall of 1991.

RIP Hayman

“On the Way,” an installation work recreating his near death “tunnel of light” experience with multiple speakers, a projection screen and a viewing waterbed. Shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC and in Japan. Scheduled to be included on a Tellus Audio Compilation, 1993.

J. Randolph Hostetler

“Squeak and Creak Piece,” a studio piece from a variety of recorded squeaks and creaks which have been collected over the past year. Broadcast on KPFA, in San Francisco.

Ken Montgomery

“Icebreaker,” a new work based on impressions of sound and noise as the source of conceived space. Performed at Generator, NYC and exhibited at Art In General and the New Museum, New York City. Broadcast on WKCR and WFMU spring, 1992. An excerpt appears on the ND audio art compilation compact disc.

Joshua Pearson

“EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) Gulf War Dance Remix.” This videotape was used in the artist’s live performances and installations and was broadcast from the mobile, Multiple-Monitor Audio/Video Broadcast . The MMABS was deployed in NYC summer of 1991; followed by an interior presentation at he Kitchen in Fall of 1992.

Sapphire

“Cruisin’ America,” an art performance which seeks to integrate the current chilling events of urban culture and Old European nursery rhymes. Performances of this material include the Crossroads Theater, NJ, the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Apple and Snake Community Center in London (Summer 1992); at Lakeland College in Wisconsin, (February, 1992) as part of Black History Presentations; at the Public Theater (December, 1992); and broadcast on WBAI, NYC radio.

Anne LeBaron

“Blue Harp,” an exploration of the possibilities of electronically sampled and processed acoustic instruments. The sound experimentation will be done in the beginning stages of this work, and will help to determine the types of processing that will be most useful for the work. Recorded performances from this residency have appeared at Art In General gallery and Roulette in NYC, the Visual Studies Workshop Sound Room in Rochester NY and appear on issue # 26 of Tellus, the audio art compact disc.

Richard Lerman

The exploration of the use of MIDI control in a new sound/video installation work incorporating laser light to generate video feedback.

Michele Navazio

The composer who created audio for “Questa,” a radioplay written by Stephanie Fleischman. Appeared as part of L.A. Theaterworks broadcasts on KCRW in Los Angeles, August 1991 and performed live at Charas Cultural Community Center, New York City, June 1991.

PANELISTS

Karen Michel McPherson, radio producer; Bill Seery, audio engineer; Indu Krishnan, video artist; Joseph Jarman, composer; Jim Staley, composer; Brian Karl and Carol Parkinson, Harvestworks staff.

Yuval Gabay

Anne Lebaron

Richard Lerman

Bunita Marcus

Miki Navazio

Lois Vierk

Aviva Rahmani

Audio work for “REQUIEM,” a multi-media installation. Premiered at Hyde Gallery, San Diego, CA. Also presented as part of the Spontaneous Combustion Series, Brooklyn, NY.

Terese Svoboda/ Anne Lebaron

Audio work for “ORPHANS,” a 28-minute experimental narrative video. Recipient of a 1990 NYSCA Composer’s Commissions grant (sponsored by Harvestworks) for further audio work on the piece.

Terrance Grace

Audio work for “THE MADNESS OF THE DAY,” a super16 film adaptation of a story by Maurice Blanchot.

Stewart Wallace/ Michael Korie

For work on a vocal segment of their opera “KABBALAH,” which premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, Nov. 16-26, as part of the New Music America Festival.

Shu Lea Cheang

Audio mix for a 5-channel audio/video installation, “MAKING NEWS/MAKING HISTORY-LIVE FROM TIANNAMEN SQUARE.” Commissioned by the 1989 AFI Video Festival, this work will also be presented at the International Center of Photography Midtown.

The Latin American Workshop

Soundtrack for “LOUISAIDA: CONTINENT OF SEVEN COLORS,” to compliment a mural at the 2nd Ave. F train Subway stop, funded in part by the MTA’s Arts for Transit Creative Stations Program.

Joseph Hannon

Audio score for choreographer Carol Clements work “A TIMELY EXISTENCE,” which premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC in February, 1990.

Morgan O’Hara

Audio work for a performance piece presented at Experimental Intermedia, NYC.

Joseph Jarman

John King

Myra Melford

Scott Alburger

“Whistling and Working”

An interdisciplinary project for video, music and 9 performers, which examines the cultural assumptions about the difference between business and pleasure. Scheduled performances include the International House and the Community Education Center in Philadelphia and the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Alexander Hahn

“Dirt Site”

An abstract/poetic video work that explores dreams, present-day mythology and metaphysics. Partial funding for this project has been received from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Christopher Hart

“Ange Passe”

A collaboration with Steve Factor (text) and the David Dorfman Dance Company. Loosely based on a hypothetical mixture of James Agee’s novel “A Death in the Family” and the history of Lizzie Borden. The work will premier at the Dance Theater Workshop in NYC.

Su-Chen Hung

“On the Way Home”

An installation for multiple-screen video, sound, slides and reflective pool. Based on a train trip in Taiwan, the work incorporates an audio loop of sounds recorded at each station. This work will be included in the Film Arts Festival sponsored by the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation.

Kevin Jones

“Imaginary Portrait #1

A work for radio based on recordings of vocalist Jill Burton. Sounds from the smallest vocal utterance to full-voiced multi-tracked singing will be combined with various spatial settings to create an imaginary vocal portrait. To be broadcast on WNYC in the fall of 1989.

Bun-Chin Lam

“EO-9066”, a score for Bay area choreographer June Watanabe. The score, for vocalists and tape, will be a collage of various vocal behaviors such as whispering, talking, yelling, and singing. Performances are scheduled for the Theater Artaud in San Francisco and the Japan Society in NYC.

Christian Marclay

“A Radio Play”

A surreal narrative structure of LPs of opera, pop, spoken words, and poetry. Commissioned by the New American Radio Series for broadcast in 1990.

Anna Rubin

“Father/Daughter”

A semi-autobiographical work that focuses on purely abstract and figurative (textural/communicative) sound. Performances of this work are scheduled at the Alternative Museum (NYC) and in Germany, Holland, and Belgium.

Arleen Schloss

“Eat Your Words (Letter by Letter)”

A video study of language, semantics and the absurdity of communication with words. The soundtrack will use live sound, music, sound effects and narration. It will be presented at the Kitchen (NYC).

Richard Teitelbaum

“Golem Songs”

A new work for acoustic instruments and interactive electronics. The piece will premier at the Jewish Museum in March 1989.

Robert Ziebell

Score for “This State I’m IN”

An experimental narrative film, in which three composers will write a musical structure, inspired by sound effects and samples taken from the Texas coast, for each of the three narrators involved in telling the story of a young girl in search of her identity.

Programming Residencies Nancy Laird Chance Film score composer and recent composer/fellow at the Sundance Institute, Chance seeks to acquire a knowledge of computer music systems and the techniques required to produce these sounds and sync them to film or video. David Clary An audio work for a multi-channel site piece designed for pedestrians. The artist will also work on developing a flexible software program for exterior soundscapes. Michael Gordon The application of MIDI technology to live orchestral work. Myra Melford Pianist and composer Melford, will explore computer MIDI systems and samplers with a view towards incorporating these techniques into her solo ensemble work. Bill Obrecht The use of sound sample programs on computer for use in real-time performance. Matthew Schlanger Schlanger’s video work to date has been produced using a hybrid of analog and digital processing. Using analog synthesis as a model, video segments are real-time structures where sound and image tracks are produced simultaneously. He will be exploring the possibilities of assimilating MIDI techniques into his work. David Simons Instrument maker, collector, and adapter, Simon will create samples of many of these sounds for flexibility of use in live performance. PANELISTS: Regina Beyer, radio producer; Brenda Hutchinson, audio-engineer; Carol Ann Klonairdes, video artist; A. Leroy, composer; Harvestworks staff: Carol Parkinson, Diana Meckley.

Nancy Laird Chance

Film score composer and recent composer/fellow at the Sundance Institute, Chance seeks to acquire a knowledge of computer music systems and the techniques required to produce these sounds and sync them to film or video.

David Clary

An audio work for a multi-channel site piece designed for pedestrians. The artist will also work on developing a flexible software program for exterior soundscapes.

Michael Gordon

The application of MIDI technology to live orchestral work.

Myra Melford

Pianist and composer Melford, will explore computer MIDI systems and samplers with a view towards incorporating these techniques into her solo ensemble work.

Bill Obrecht

The use of sound sample programs on computer for use in real-time performance.

Matthew Schlanger

Schlanger’s video work to date has been produced using a hybrid of analog and digital processing. Using analog synthesis as a model, video segments are real-time structures where sound and image tracks are produced simultaneously. He will be exploring the possibilities of assimilating MIDI techniques into his work.

David Simons

Instrument maker, collector, and adapter, Simon will create samples of many of these sounds for flexibility of use in live performance.

PANELISTS: Regina Beyer, radio producer; Brenda Hutchinson, audio-engineer; Carol Ann Klonairdes, video artist; A. Leroy, composer; Harvestworks staff: Carol Parkinson, Diana Meckley.

PANELISTS

Regina Beyer, radio producer; Brenda Hutchinson, audio-engineer; Carol Ann Klonairdes, video artist; A. Leroy, composer; Harvestworks staff: Carol Parkinson, Diana Meckley.

Peter D’Agostino

“In The Beginning There Was The”

Focuses on the ideas and images of the seminal figures of the electronic age. The work was produced on Compact Video Disc.

Sussan Deihim

A solo vocal piece where sampled vocal parts were recorded on 8 track backwards and forward to create an audio collage. Performed at Town Hall and New Music America at BAM in New York City.

Dan Froot

“The Jazz Section”

A musical composition for sax ensemble, electronically processed voice and various digital samples which depicts the struggle of the Prague Musicians Union with the Czechoslovakian government. Performed at P.S. 122 in NYC.

Jin Hi Kim

A piece which explores the possibilities of MIDI manipulation of sounds produced by the komungo, a Korean 6-string board zither.

David Linton

A performance piece in collaboration with Charles Atlas, involving the application of MIDI technology to a live performance for solo drums and electronics. Performed at the Kitchen.

Annea Lockwood

The construction of a performance system, utilizing a variety of transducers, for double bass player Joelle Leandre. The piece in which this system is employed is a dialogue between the player and her instrument.

Virginia Quesada

A soundtrack to accompany the video “Flying Horses”, an art documentary concerning historical wooden carousels.

Demetria Royals

“Inventing Herself”

A multi-media performance piece which explores the experience and reality of being Black and female in America.

Susan Stenger

“Godzilla Meets the Girl From Ipanema”

A composition for treated flute.

Kirsten Vogelsang

“Palette”

In collaboration with art director and choreographer Keith Young, the manner in which colors co-exist and are worlds unto themselves is illustrated through music, movement and light. Performed at the Joyce Theater in NYC.

Richard Zvonar/Robert Black

An electronic duo creating a new piece for double bass, electronics and tape. Performed at Experimental Intermedia in NYC.

PANELISTS

Linda Fisher, composer; Phil Edelstein, audio installation artist; Helen Thorington, radio producer; Shalom Gorowitz, video artist; Harvestworks staff: Carol Parkinson, Connie Kieltyka, audio engineer.

Jerri Allyn

“American Dining: Labor in the “80s”

An installation of new audio works in diners across America. The audio works will be substituted for popular records in the diner booth jukeboxes. Live performances by Jerry Allyn will accompany the audio installations. The New York City performance will be at the New Museum in October.

David Blair

Soundtrack for the image-processed, experimental narrative video “WAX” produced by David Blair. The projected release date is January 1988.

Peter Cusak

“Phat Tahi”

A four channel performance backing tape incorporating environmental sounds from Thailand. Performance at Experimental Intermedia NYC.

Victor Masayesva

“Ritual Clowns”

The Native American clown is the subject of this ten minute video which entertains a complex mix of clowns’ role in contemporary North America.

Ann McMillan

“Animal Sounds Variations”

Tape structures of animal and other sounds for Joan LaBarbara’s solo repertoire and a piece for wind quintet and animal sound tape structures for the Quintet of the Americas to perform in concert.

Edward Montgomery

“My Father and the Wars”

A radio drama written by Robbie McCauley about being Black in America, images of manhood, and the contradictions of freedom and survival. For broadcast: Summer ’87, in “Readings from the NY Poetry Scene” on NPR.

Robert Poss

“The Elements of Style, I and II”

A piece for guitars and electronic processing that concerns the interpolation between “popular” and experimental approaches to guitar music. Performance at The Clocktower, 1987.

Lenga Tooks

“E-Man”, the play.

Adapted from the medieval morality play “Everyman”, the composer has maintained the moral theme of the original play and infused it with contemporary musical styles. Performance at Henry Street Settlement.

David Van Tiegham

“Beat the Clock (Information Please)”

Thirty minutes of analog and digital synthesizer sounds for use as a backing tape for a new live music-theater-dance performance in the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October ’87.

Alida Walsh

“Black Light”

Audio for a video which exploits the unusual qualities of ultraviolet light on videotape to create a kinetic sculpture using light. Distribution will include video art festivals nationwide and exhibitions throughout New York.

Peter Zummo/Stephanie Skura

“Mound”

A sound work, created by Peter Zummo, in collaboration with choreographer Stephanie Skura. Instrumentation will include trombones with mutes, euphonium, voice and synthesizers. Performances are scheduled at P.S. 122; Bates College, Maine and Intermedia Art Center, Huntington N.Y.

Ellen Zweig

“Impressions of Africa: Variations for Raymond Rousell (The Play)”

A radio play about five characters who have been shipwrecked on an imaginary African coast. Broadcast at ABC Sydney; KPFT, Houston and KPFA, San Francisco.

Christina Baczewska

“A Flashlight, an Orange, and a Tennis Ball”

A 20-minute multi-track audio work accompanying a live performance of solo vocals for New Music America, April 1986.

Karen Campell

“Mimic”

Production of a tape as part of a musical composition for small ensemble composed of “basic cell structures” of mockingbird melodies arranged in four parts.

R.I.P. Hayman

“Dreamsound”

An “event for a sleeping audience” based on the artist’s research in sound recognition in dream sleep. The premiere performance is at New Music America, April 1986.

Pat Irwin

“6th Heaven”

A piece for dance/music with choreographer Steve Petrinio.

Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer

“Jupiter”

An animated film project that seeks to “blend music, image and text” using film, original sounds, and a 180 text.

Karen McPherson

“Survival”

A radio piece in seven 30-minute parts. Residency will record and manipulate voices, wolf calls, and other sounds focusing on survival — Darwinian and otherwise — for New American Radio Series.

Ben Neill

“Two Dances” and “Mainspring”

To realize tape portions of two new musical works for electronics and ‘mutantrumpet’, an invention of the composer.

Pat Oleszko

“Bluebeard’s Hassle, or, Hello, I Must Be Going”

A sound collage for multi-media performance work described by the artist as “the interpolation of the Bluebeard soiree/opera (Bartok inspired) into a contemporary rendering as a tragic-comedy”.

Vernon Reid

“Afrerica”

A performance work in three parts exploring the similarities between the English spoken by Black Americans in the past and present to traditional African languages.

Ulrich Seusse

“Avidavid”

Residency will explore the timbral and tuning possibilities of advanced analog and digital systems in preparation of a new musical work.

Patricia Stotter

“The Beat”

A theater/music work exploring the lives and works of poets in the fifties and sixties, commissioned and produced by The Writers Theater.

Reynold Weidenaar

“The Thundering Scream of the Seraphim’s Delight”

Residency will process time-coded stereo-location sync recordings of the double bass for a music/video work for bass, processed video, and electronic sounds.

Erica Beckman

“Cinderella”

Sound/effects portion of a 15-minute film updating the classic fairy tale.

Jon Catler

“Planet Slicer”

A 3-part suite for acoustic and electronic instruments in a 31-tone scale. Residency will explore the possibilities of creating a score in this unusual tuning system.

Peter D’Agostino

“Double You (and X, Y, Z)”

A four-part video piece for both linear and interactive video disk. The four part structure parallels four stages of early language development.

Charles Dennis

“People in High Places”

A multi-media dance/performance work in collaboration with composers Bruce Tovsky and Bob Telson.

Peter Griggs

“Magnetic Fields”

Residency will explore and produce electronically and digitally altered acoustic sounds for a new musical work.

Shelly Hirsch

“Untitled”

Residency will produce a tape to accompany performances using vocal sounds as the sole sound source for tours in U.S. and Europe.

Hugh Levick

“Kick Copy”

A spoken opera in 12 sequences combining video, slides and live performers.

Ginger Miles

“Tex-Syns”

A one-hour radio work using both environmental and synthesized sounds for the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986.

Rita Myers

“The Center of the Eye has Nine Vessels”

The third in a series of video/sound works designed as “meditations on the poetic universe described by myth and magic”.

Pauline Oliveros

“Radio Piece”

A combination of text, sounds, and instruments in a 20-minute work for national radio distribution.

Ann Palevsky

“All Hotels are Transient”

A large-scale performance event in conjunction with the “Homeless at Home” exhibition sponsored by Storefront for Art & Architecture.

Anna Rubin

“Taming the Beast: A Masked Music”

Tape portions of a music/theatrical work for tape, percussion and masks.

Yura Adams

“Blondline”

A multimedia performance piece incorporating music, dance, costumes, props, and visual/mechanical devices.

Terry Adkins

“Enanga Age”

An installation work at the Studio Museum of Harlem comprised of three long cassette loops playing various aspects of music of the Buganda peoples of Southern Uganda.

Bill & Mary Buchen

“M-M-M-Manhattan”

Production of a 4-minute song using environmental sounds such as fire engines, the Brooklyn Bridge, Mayor Ed Koch, and much more.

Michael Cannick

“Julius Caesar”

Incidental music/sounds for a production of Shakespeare’s play at the Riverside Shakespeare Festival, NY.

Linda Fisher

“Film/Dance Project”

Production of a sound score for dancer Monica Levy as part of an NEA Dance Fellowship. The final 20-minute work will include film.

Ellen Fullman

“WRKSNG #2” and “Untitled”

To complete two new musical/sound works for performance at New Music America, June 1984.

David Garland

“Untitled Opera”

Exploring the Fairlight CMI as both the source of all taped sounds, and as live performance instrument in an opera of 2 or more singers.

Barrett Golding

“Cat Tales”

Residency produced sounds, music and voice-overs for a futuristic and humorous 13-part radio serial to be uplicked to 75 targeted radio stations across the U.S

Shalom Gorewitz

“Dias”

A ‘personal video work’ using materials gathered in Morocco and the Sahara. Residency will incorporate advanced digital audio techniques to create the sound portion of the piece.

Ron Kuivila

“It Intends…”

A musical/theatrical work for six performers and an “intensive array of media resources”. Residency will produce an audio tape to accompany the performances.

Dary John Mizelle

“Untitled Music/Performance Work”

The composer will create the musical and sound materials for a dramatic work of three characters.

Tim Miller

“Democracy in America”

Multi-track tape of performance work combining movement, music décor, text and projections for a major U.S. tour.

Ann Sargent-Wooster

“Ricochet Romance”

A four-channel audio work of 15-20 minutes to accompany a new video.

Doris Hayes

“The Needy Sound”

A 30-minute audio work for radio and to accompany a new film on autistic children. The film was funded, in part, by NEA.

David van Tieghem

“Relics and Nomads”

Audio source material for a music-theater performance work with film for U.S. tour.

Julia Lebrntritt

“New York City Lullabies”

Final editing and mix-down of field recordings of lullabies from various ethnic groups New York. This version of the piece is distributed by New Wilderness Foundation on their Audiographics cassette series.

Stuart Sherman

“Three Sound Pieces”

To realize, from scores, three sound pieces to be used in conjunction with his solo theatrical works.

Celia Shapiro and Benny Powell

“Agent XYZ”

An 8-channel multi-lingual piece about the realities of the nuclear age using electronically reshaped speech, music and silence.

Jon Gibson

“The Voyage of the Beagle”

Production of music/sounds for an opera with librettist Joanne Akalaitis, focusing on three aspects of Darwin’s historical voyage.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

“15 Tracks for 15 Trucks”

Two sound works for her massive exhibition titled “Touch Sanitation Show”, enlightening the public to the role of the garbage man in society.

Richard Kostelanitz

“Epiphanies”

Post-production work on a radio piece entailing several hundred single sentence stories in different acoustical settings.