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
Harvestworks will host an evening of solo electronic music performances with three multidisciplinary artists. Piss Kills Mold AKA Jimmy Joe Roche plays modular synthesizer, contact microphones and voice. Heejin Jang plays MaxMSP instruments and manipulated samples. Will Schorre will perform homemade electronics intermingled with puredata. Monday May 9, 2016 7 pm… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
Harvestworks Presents Prerogatives of Power: The Good, The Bad, and The Perturbed This multi-screen installation is an homage to Antonio Muntadas’ 1987 installation The Board Room. Digital videos of political leaders from around the (Obama, Trump, Putin, Cameron, Xi Jinping, Assad, Merkel, Hassan Rouhani, Hollande, Kim Jung Un etc.) are displayed on multiple… Continue reading
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
Harvestworks in Association with Creative Tech Week and Abrons Art Center presents Why Why Always Why Why Always is a new multidisciplinary project by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty that will take place in the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center, April 29th and 30th. The project embraces a potent… Continue reading
Algorithmic Soundscapes at Harvestworks is a generative sound piece for 8 speakers and a sub. It is comprised of a growing collection of sound objects which are, in the context of this piece, algorithmic abstractions. They contain the information and behavioral patterns required to produce and diffuse a sound in… Continue reading
