[May 13 – 15] Calls to Action

Calls to Action is a presentation of recent work by Andrew McWilliams. The show features the new installation Emergency Room, exploring connections between bodily health and global climate change. The presentation of this work coincides with a planned global wave of civil disobedience actions targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, known… Continue reading

[May 8] Kinefy Workshop: movement interaction with Max and Processing

Harvestworks Presents Kinefy Workshop: movement interaction with Max and Processing by Federico Visi and Andrew Telichan Phillips  Kinefy is a software framework designed for enhancing conventional musical instruments through the body movements and gestures of the performer. It provides tools for using widely available wearable sensors to extend the expressive possibilities of existing… Continue reading

[May 7] Song by Morton Subotnick

Harvestworks in Association with Knockdown Center presents an evening with Morton Subotnick Saturday May 7, 2016 8pm-9pm   Morton Subotnick will present Song, an evening-length, site-specific composition for the Knockdown Center, an architecturally and acoustically superior space located in Maspeth, New York. The work features live electronics by the composer diffused… Continue reading

[May 7] Cyclone by Joan La Barbara

Harvestworks in Association with Knockdown Center Presents CYCLONE (1977) by Joan LaBarbara CYCLONE is a quadraphonic sound performance/installation of the newly restored multichannel work by Joan La Barbara scored for multiple voices, percussion and Arp 2600 synthesizer sounds, for “semi-live” performance on multiple speakers with the original light panning device custom… Continue reading

[May 5] Martha Mooke

Martha Mooke’s Dreaming in Sound: An Experiential Performance Dreaming in Sound is an immersive large scale work for electric viola and electronic processing with interactive video (created by pioneering software artist Scott Draves).  Dreaming in Sound is inspired by the sleep stage REM and the concept of lucid dreaming which… Continue reading

[Apr 29-May 8] Creative Tech Week

From the Creative Tech Week website (http://creativetechweek.nyc/) Creative Tech Week is the premier nexus for creativity and engineering worldwide, in New York City where it belongs. Creative Technology is culture, passion, design, and art with a software-based, electronic and/or data-driven engine. Our mission is to highlight New York City as the top destination… Continue reading