Video: Husbands & Extreme Animals

In a concert in january 2013, Jimmy Joe Roche and Tom Borax (aka HUSBANDS) performed a live video and audio set. David Wightman and Jacob Ciocci (aka EXTREME ANIMALS) were using Youtube clips of amateur drummers to create a virtual “drummer”. Here are excerpts from this concert. Continue reading

[Jan 20] Making Max Make Music with Markov Chains

Make Max make music for you! Make Max make music like you! Make Max make music without you! Do the beginnings of your performances always start with you predictably building layers? Get the party kicking *immediately* with Markov chains! Are you sick of making music with static loops that never ever ever ever ever change? Not with Markov chains. Max/MSP is the perfect place to go for composing algorithmic music. This class will get students knee deep in this subject by using a simple patch that will act as the core for every program in the course. Continue reading

[Jan 12/13] Digital Synesthesia – ONLINE Class

ONLINE CLASS: Let’s turn photographs in music, bring our favorite songs into Photoshop and mess with them, and turn Call Me Maybe into a moving three-dimensional landscape. This class is all about Digital Synesthesia: the experience of mixing up your senses so that you hear what your eyes see, and see what your ears are listening to. In collaboration with Tenlegs, a network for artists to connect, collaborate, earn and learn, Harvestworks offers this class as part of it’s new online TEAMLab class program. Continue reading

Video: Susie Ibarra / Roberto Rodriguez / Makato Fujimura: Hidden Truths

Hidden Truths: Prayer for a Forgotten World, is a surround sound performance piece composed by Susie Ibarra for Electric Kulintang featuring Roberto Rodriguez on electronics, percussion and drums and Ibarra on electronic and acoustic kulintang (gongs) and percussion with visual art by Makoto Fujimura. 2013. [ggisinlinepost id=”538″ topseparator=”1″ showcontent=”1″] Continue reading

[Jan 5] Gocha Tsinadze – Droneclone: Tundra Forrest

Gocha Tsinadze aka Droneclone is a composer, sound and performance/installation based artist. He Works and Lives in NYC and hails from the Republic of Georgia. For this next performance at Harvestworks titled “Tundra Forrest ” Tsinadze incorporates found sound, sampled instruments and computer generated sound to weave a dense collage of moving textures and soundscapes. Deeply indebted to drone and ambient sensibilities as well as dub and minimal electronic music, Gocha Tsinadze aka Droneclone sculpts a three dimensional soundscape using 5.1 channel surround sound. Continue reading

2013 Sponsored Projects

Commissioned Works/Special Projects is our program offering financial and administrative assistance to individual artists. We act as a fiscal agent for those artists applying for grants from federal and state programs and private foundations. Through this program we help develop collaborative projects between artists and assist with the presentation of their work. Continue reading

[Dec 16] Composition, notations and score for live audiovisual performance

With Benton-C Bainbridge, Adam Kendall, Katherine Liberovskaya and Andrea Parkins, moderated by Ana Carvalho. A series of four presentations around composition within live audiovisual performance as documentation of the process of development. The event will develop from the presentations towards the discussion of purposes in structuring and organizing the elements (sound and image) and the dialogues between performers, and to describe tension and dynamics. Continue reading