Jimmy Joe Roche and Layne Garrett perform improvised noise. Layne will be playing found objects, augmented guitars, and self-built instruments. Roche will be playing modular synthesizer and voice. Venue: The Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Other performances by Pamela Z, Long Distance Poisen and Ed Bear Performances –… Continue reading
CTW 2017 Creative Tech Week is back and better than ever for year two! The festival this year runs May 12-21. We have incredible programming & events lined up for this year, and hope you’ll make it out, learn and see inspiring and new things, get hands-on experience with the… Continue reading
A solo performance by composer/performer Pamela Z, who is internationally renowned as a pioneer in live electronics, looping and layered extended voice, and gesture-controlled sound. Ms. Z will be joined by dancer Christine Bonansea who will make a guest appearance in a duo for voice, electronics and movement. Friday, May 12… Continue reading
The workshop will cover the basics of running a low-power radio station for art and fun, from the circuitry to the legal limits. At the conclusion of this two hour workshop every participant will have one hacked iTrip transmitter which is secretly a synthesizer!!! This workshop requires no previous experience… Continue reading
Ed Bear performs Scrying, the premiere of a new 64 voice composition realized on the radioOrgan, a hand-crafted modular FM transmission system built from obsolete electronics. Friday May 12, 2017 Doors open @ 7 pm Tickets $15 advance, $20 at the door / $25 two-night tickets available Venue: The Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing… Continue reading
háček presents a physical installation, VR experience, and printed data maps. It employs data to inform an immersive installation while positioning it’s larger impact towards metaphors of networked landscape, security and wayfinding. The data used is taken from real network traffic logs, tracking hackers in real time as they race… 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
Hyphen Hub presents The Future Body in partnership with Harvestworks and Creative Tech Week. (2016) Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky has been traveling around India recently to work on his latest project, “Heart of a River.” Starting May 2nd he will be in residence at Harvestworks working on the tech… Continue reading
