New Music: The Evening Series and Electronic Art

June 2 – June 25, 2023

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces June Events for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. Opening on June 2^nd with Oroboros a sound installation by Bob Bellerue (@halfnormal) followed by three weekends of new music performances in the evening and an electronic art exhibition. This exciting new series of eclectic performances will engage with the evening environment on Governors Island and, continuing the practice of Harvestworks artists, the exhibition will feature cutting edge sound and visual artworks. All events are free.

Scheduled Events

Jun 2 – Jun 4

Oroboros by Bob Bellerue is an ever-changing sequence of vocal recordings that are spatialized through the 3D speaker array, with additional sound objects made out speaker drivers and resonant metal.

Jun 9 – Jun 18

The Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Electronic Arts exhibition showcases a host of immersive and interactive audio-visual installations, multichannel music compositions, and performances featuring live coding, and a special live event featuring Pauline Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS).

Jun 9 7:00 pm

Eternities – a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter (Utah) and sound artist Bob Bellerue (NYC). Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy.

Jun 10 7:00 pm

SAWT OUT -Experimental Improvised Music from Berlin – their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Burkhard Beins, Mazen Kerbage and Michael Vorfeld.

Jun 17 7:00 pm

Anaïs Maviel, Rashaan Carter and Mimi A. Join us for a work-in-progress immersive sound bath and binaural beats bouquet at sunset. Electric & acoustic bass, modular synthesizers, harmonium, percussion, singing bowls and voice.

Jun 23 7:00 pm

Christina Wheeler – Prismatic Xtychs: Meditations on Chance, Choice, and Action is the second in a series of structured improvisation performance works meditating on chance and choice through gestural and sonic action.

Jun 24 7:30 pm

C. Lavender – Sunset Meditative Performance will provide listeners with a moment of tranquility during sunset. An electro-acoustic performance that will feature brainwave modulating digital audio, presented in surround sound, with live gong playing.

Jun 24 – Jun 25

Reflexion – In Sync/out of Sync by Claudia Robles is an interactive installation where two visitors are invited to sit in front of each other surrounded by a light structure made of EL wires. This light structure is steered by their heartbeats measured with finger pulse sensors.

Bob Bellerue

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 30+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – noise, sound art, experimental music, junk metal percussion, Balinese gamelan, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations.

SAWT OUT

Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US.

Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work transforms spiritual concepts into immersive sensory experience, treating perception itself as a medium. A composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, she works across traditional and experimental practices to explore the power of sound to shape reality and highlight the stakes of cultural multiplicity.

Rashaan Carter

Rashaan Carter worked and gained experience in the local scene in Washington D.C. and after high school, moved to New York City to attend the New School University. Rashaan regularly performs with a myriad of artists in and outside of New York and can be found on various recordings as well.

Mimi A.

Mimi is a sound artist whose practice lies at the intersection of experimental/improvised music and audio art. Interested in deconstructing and remodeling sonic material, she assembles mixed sources [synthesis, voice, field recording] into new immersive weavings. Her creative process involves chance/random layering as well as methodical/algorithmic processes, aiming to promote the interplay between logic and ambiguity.

Christina Wheeler

Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumental electronic musician, and multimedia artist Christina Wheeler’s sonic explorations include forays in a myriad of styles and forms. She blends an amalgam of improvised electronic music from an array of sources: processed vocals, vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler, theremin, QChord, autoharp, and electric mbira.

C. Lavender Suarez

C. Lavender is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner and educator whose work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She seeks to create an immersive aural landscape for the listener, an experience which is intensely physical, emotional and ultimately cathartic.

Claudia Robles-Angel

Claudia Robles-Angel was born in Bogotá (Colombia), living in Cologne (Germany). Composer, sound and new media artist, her work covers different aspects of visual and sound art, extending from acoustic and audio-visual compositions to interactive performances/installations using biomedical signals and Artificial Intelligence.