Author: Hans Tammen

Curated by John Bock, this event focuses on fixed media electroacoustic compositions by composers born around 1980. The works are specifically composed to be presented through loudspeakers, without a performer, at Harvestworks these works will be presented in a darkened room, allowing for better experiencing the sonic subtleties. Works are by composers Claude Chantal Hess, Lefteris Papadimitriou, Joo Won Park, Saman Samadi, Petru Teodorescu, Chris Mercer and John Bock. Continue reading

Musical drones have been used as a device in indigenous cultures to induce hypnogogic trances for centuries. More recently, pulses, or beating tones, created through closely tuned drones have been proven through scientific testing to entrain brainwaves into desirable meditative states. Composer David First and Kate Henderson, licensed acupuncturist and drummer, have successfully combined these therapies to facilitate a healing ‘window’. Continue reading

Telephone Rewired is an audiovisual installation that probes and modulates human consciousness by rhythmically entraining neuronal oscillations in the brain to impact cognition. The installation stimulates the viewer’s endogenous brain waveforms into beta (focused attention), theta (deep relaxation), and alpha (calm awareness). After viewers don an electroencephalography (EEG) monitor, their brain rhythms synchronize into a neurofeedback loop and they enter the era of augmented cognition. Continue reading

New screen-based sign systems and electric surfaces are re-shaping urban environments and becoming the devices through which we frame our experiences. ELECTRIC SIGNS (2013) directed by Alice Arnold explores this new screen culture as it unfolds in the global city. The conversation with the director following the screening will address the notion of spectacle and perspectives on future critical engagement with urban screens. Part of the project Urban Media Aesthetics curated by Tanya Toft. Continue reading

Vox Novus and Harvestworks are inviting composers and sound artists to submit recorded works as 5.1 audio 60 seconds or less in length to be included in a special 60×60 project collaboration in New York City. Continue reading

Rachel Mason and Michael Durek aka The Use present a special 5.1 surround sound arrangement of their work together. Amar Chaudhary’s piece is an exploration of sound, space and identity. It is held together by the abstract electronic sounds of an analog modular synthesizer, with various percussion and Asian folk instruments coming in and out. Continue reading