oyster is both an opera and a surround sound and image installation by Joe Diebes that traces a surprising musical history of our algorithmically regulated society. 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… Continue reading
What: BIRD SONG MIMIC – An Art/Science Collaboration Bi-coastal bird/human communication event When: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 @ 6-10 pm in NYC Where: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway #602 New York & Del Rey Lagoon, Los Angeles (4 pm, PST) Who: Artists Victoria Vesna and Max Kazemzadeh in NYC communicating with Charles… Continue reading
Mari Kimura presented two world premieres at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, as a part of the New York Philharmonic CONTACT! New Music Series. The program consists of Kimura’s audio/visual chamber ensemble entitled Tying the Wind, and a work by composer Michael Harrison entitled Harmonic Constellations. In addition, this concert would… Continue reading
Commissioned Works/Special Projects is our program offering financial and administrative assistance to individual artists. We act as a fiscal agent for those artists applying for grants from federal and state programs and private foundations. Through this program we help develop collaborative projects between artists and assist with the presentation of… Continue reading
With EVIDENCE; the baldwin suite, William Hooker pays homage to the multifaceted James Baldwin during his year. Conceived by drummer William Hooker, Evidence is a stirring multimedia tribute to the ferociously daring novelist and social critic, James Baldwin. Featuring the talents of Mr. Hooker and his quintet of world-class improvisors… Continue reading
From June 14 through 23, 2014, Hans Tammen’s DARK CIRCUITS FESTIVAL features performers who work in contemporary electronic music practices such as circuit bending, no-input mixers, laptops, turntablism, analogue circuitry, network sniffers, live coding and soldering, plus other instruments we may have never heard of yet. Continue reading
Commissioned Works/Special Projects is our program offering financial and administrative assistance to individual artists. We act as a fiscal agent for those artists applying for grants from federal and state programs and private foundations. Through this program we help develop collaborative projects between artists and assist with the presentation of their work. In 2014, we have sponsored the following projects. Continue reading
On Governors Island visitors with their smart phone, iPad and Android tablets take a self guided augmented reality tour of scenes of the War of 1812. Flaneurs will discover the USRC cutter ACTIVE chase down the smuggler FAIR AMERICAN on the Hudson River, highly inflated bank notes floating over the parade ground, and an American sailor, a tar, shouldering his duffle bag at the ferry landing. Continue reading
The PRISM Quartet, composer/guitarist Nick Didkovsky, and sonic alchemist Thomas Dimuzio perform Ice Cream Time, an evening-length work by Harvestworks Sponsored Artist Didkovsky that uses electric guitar, an onslaught of saxophones, and real-time computer processing to explore the boundaries between human- and software-generated music. Didkovsky is best known for his work with Doctor Nerve, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, and Bang On A Can, and for developing the computer music language JMSL. Continue reading
Harvestworks Sponsored Project “Augmented Reality War of 1812” presents a free pilot event that explores a dramatic incident of smuggling in the War of 1812. Meet at the doors of Castle Clinton on the Battery. Bring your smart phone or iPhone/iPad and on your device you will see a US Revenue Cutter chase a ship smuggling British subjects and goods out of the harbor. Continue reading
