AUDIO CHANDELIER: POLYÉLAIOS, a multi-channel interactive sound installation by Dafna Naphtali, featuring a kinetic audio speaker sculpture created in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali. Individual “grains” of nearly static sound are dispersed via the speaker sculpture in an immersive sonic experience, as undulating audio “pixels” illuminate and refract moments in… Continue reading
Harvestworks congrats George Lewis on his New York Times Article, “Lifting the Cone of Silence from Black Composer.” July 3, 2020. Some quotes from the article: “A cone of silence hangs over the work of Black composers from Africa and its diaspora. It is not that Black men and women… Continue reading
Harvestworks congratulates Anthony Davis whose opera The Central Park Five, with a libretto by Richard Wesley, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 1989, Harvestworks sponsored Anthony Davis’ music composition Songs for Dora Orenstein (1989), a part of a full-length program entitled “Soprano Bar & Grill” in which Ms.… Continue reading
Date: June 9, 2020. Time: 5 pm Join a live presentation performance by Women’s Labor at Twitch.TV/harvestworks Note: to chat with Women’s Labor, you need to have a twitch account. Women’s Labor is a feminist project that repurposes domestic tools to become musical instruments. Using embedded technologies, these domestic-tool-turned instruments… Continue reading
In 2004, during the Republic National Convention in New York City protest activity included a broad range of marches, rallies, performance, demonstrations, exhibits and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. This piece by… Continue reading
Congrats to composer Ellen Fullman on her New York Times article and on the Guggenheim Award that she received this year (2020). Check out an early recording of Longitudinal Vibration, a musical instrument composed of 50 foot wires coupled to a plywood box resonator. Played by the composer and David Weinstein. Recorded on June 17,… Continue reading
A live improvisation integrating contrabass, field recordings, and synthesis. Mike is a resident at Harvestworks this year designing and building a Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system that will be portable and flexible. Join us at: Twitch.TV/harvestworks Note: to chat with Mike, you need to have a twitch account. Tuesday, May… Continue reading
Auroboros is an interactive sound installation and performance system. Vocal recordings can be made by performers and audience members, and the playback can be manual or automated via a Supercollider patch. The sound is diffused through traditional speakers and homemade speaker objects made out of resonant materials/instruments with drivers and… Continue reading
Harvestworks is pleased to offer our first Technology Immersion Program for artists who have a passion for learning the tools of digital media but do not have the research, training and equipment necessary to produce artworks in this medium. We received an outstanding number of applications and hope to offer the… Continue reading
An installation of one family’s accumulation of plastic and a virtual reality experience reflecting the impact of our throw away culture on the ocean. Opening Reception: Friday, February 28 2020, 6-9 pm Saturday, February 29 2020, by appointment Sunday, March 1 2020, 1-5 pm March 8th 2020, 2 – 5… Continue reading
