This new work by artist Joseph Morris is a sonified data abstraction that turns inverted wine glasses into bells and sonic resonators through the use of computer-controlled electromagnets. The piece uses custom muon particle detectors that are typically used in particle accelerators and to detect the presence of cosmic rays… Continue reading
AUDIO CHANDELIER: POLYÉLAIOS, is a new multi-channel interactive sound installation by Dafna Naphtali, featuring a kinetic audio speaker sculpture created in collaboration with her sister, metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali. Individual “grains” of sound are dispersed via the speaker sculpture in an immersive sonic experience– undulating audio “pixels” illuminate and refract moments in… Continue reading
The Flower Matrix is an imaginary “Alice in Wonderland” world of inversion where the rational order of reason and technology turns in on itself. This magical liminal landscape pushes into the real world as augmented-reality decorative wallpaper. May 26 – July 23 2017 Fri. Sat. Sun and Holiday… Continue reading
Western Electric is a generative composition for fifteen modified and computer-controlled rotary telephones. The speed and position of the clappers are voltage-controlled, making possible a wide range of rhythms and tones. This expanded sound palette is used as the material for a structure based on the swarm behaviors of relatively simple… Continue reading
oyster is an encompassing audiovisual installation by Joe Diebes that unravels a peculiar moment in the history of music and computers. In the 1960’s, renowned American folklorist Alan Lomax developed a wildly ambitious system called cantometrics for coding and analyzing folk songs from every corner of the world. Working with the BOTCH vocal ensemble,… 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
Knotted Gate Chant Cycle is a generative sound, light and sculpture installation by MSHR. Incandescent light bulbs, lasers and CMOS based synthesizers are ceremonially arranged into a feedback system spatialized through a quadrophonic speaker array. These elements form a macro-scale sculptural circuit that acts as both score and environment. The… Continue reading
Media artist Benton C Bainbridge shares a week of Lisa Joy at Harvestworks, featuring an exhibition of his video synthesizer, a live AV performance with the synth and an exhibition of media art extracted from the live feed. Lisa Joy is a celebration of drones and the Lissajous figures which… Continue reading
The inaugural NoiseGate festival is a five-day festival produced in collaboration and partnership with NYU Steinardt (http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/technology/iaps), United Nations Global Arts Initiative, Citygram (citygram.smusic.nyu.edu), Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, Monthly Music Hackathon, Music of Reality, Kadenze, ThinkCoffee, University of Redlands, and generous grants from the NYU Global Research Initiatives, Office… Continue reading
Since its import into China, the evolution of and the practice of Sound Art, like the art of New Media, has been completely re-shaped by the political system, social structure, and market economy of contemporary China. Sound Art in China – as it’s been greatly affected by the local culture – has very little in common with its original reference in Western art history. Most Chinese practitioners in this field usually avoid classifying their creations as “Sound Art”, as it’s difficult to summarize the complexity of the media evolution in China with such a simple word. Curated by Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, Harvestworks presents artists who are among the most representative figures in the experimental music (i.e., Sound Art) field in contemporary China. Continue reading
