An experimental performance film, a collaboration between more than 30 artists from New York’s downtown dance, music and film scene directed by MiShinnah Production’s Artistic Director, Elise Kermani, POE […and the museum of lost arts] is part fiction, part historical, and part documentary. A fictional, time-traveling Charles Baudelaire recites Edgar… Continue reading
Technology is neutral in itself, but can be utilized to realize a certain type of aesthetic presentation that develops a message, while at the same time critiquing technology’s role in the communication of cultural messages to an audience. Using his own work as an example, Chin Chih Yang will show… Continue reading
Max 4 Live allows you to access the power of Max’s graphical programming language inside the popular digital audio workstation and live performance tool, Ableton Live. This class introduces the enormous possibilities this partnership opens up, including: creating radical realtime audio processing effects, using Max to control the Live environment… Continue reading
“Snuff” is a workshop to create a device that amplifies wireless internet traffic, bluetooth data transfer, mobile phones, microwaves and other devices with electromagnetic activity in the 2.4 GHz range. Students will construct and experiment with a portable device able to amplify and de-modulate frequency ranges between 0.1 to 2.4… Continue reading
Comfortable with basic processing programming? Ready to take it the next level. In this class we’ll be doing an introduction to object oriented programming and teaching you how to understand and build your own classes (as well as feel more comfortable backwards engineering other people’s code). An Intro to Classes… Continue reading
The trio Swim This (Nick Didkovsky, Gerry Hemingway, Michael Lytle) present, with guitar, percussion, clarinets and electronics, a spontaneously generated world of intensely focused and evocative improvised music. The group creates a visceral and deep listening experience where no moment is lost, and each sound is projected with maximum momentum… Continue reading
“Les petits riens – mécaniques du quotidien” ; made of sounds from everyday life, the piece by Chantal Dumas operates between the narrative and the musical; les petits riens are the subtle sounds that are too quiet to attract any attention or so usual that we don’t perceive them anymore;… Continue reading
Allyson Ross and Zeljka Blaksic’s installation focuses on the tale of Annie Taylor, the first woman to plummet down Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901. Her quest to conquer the Falls was prompted by a desire for fortune, a concept that is present when viewing the modern day spectacle… Continue reading
Composer Marko Ciciliani will present several examples from his own works with the combination of sound and lighting. Since light is a medium characterized by pureness, it does not seem fit to express analogies to noise or dirtiness which often play an important role in music. “Dirty light” describes an… Continue reading
“Lucid Possession”, created by interactive media artist Toni Dove, is a live cinema performance mixed and animated in real-time. Using cutting-edge motion sensing technogies to perform complex layers of media, the work seeks to extend the language of theatrical performance. Alongside the real-time manipulations of Dove, onstage musicians control robotic… Continue reading
