Harvestworks is pleased to partner with NowNet Arts Virtual Venue Performance Series.
Audience can view the performances online in the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue or attend in-person at Harvestworks for a WATCH PARTY on December 3, 2023 at 2 pm EST. For the December 10th performance, video artist Beth Warshafsky will be in-person at Harvestworks with the rest of the ensemble online. All performances will be followed by a post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue) or at Harvestworks.
December 3, 2023 2:00pmEST
LIVE WATCH PARTY with the Sarah Weaver Ensemble: Solos and Chamber Works
Post-Performance Discussion 3 pm EST (Link in Venue)
December 10, 2023 12:00 pm EST
NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble: Performance Demonstrations
LIVE performance with Beth Warshafsky
LOCATION: HARVESTWORKS Studio 596 Broadway Suite 602 @ Houston Street Manhattan.
Also available to view online: nownetarts.org/venue
Post-performance discussion in Zoom (link in venue) and at Harvestworks
December 3, 2023 – WATCH PARTY Program
”In the Beginning: Dimension 1”
Composers: Gerry Hemingway, Sarah Weaver
Performer/Improviser: Gerry Hemingway (percussion) (Switzerland)
”Crystallizations 1”
Composer: Sarah Weaver
Performers/Improvisers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice) (New York), Robert Dick (flutes) (New York), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone) (New York), Ursel Schlicht (piano) (Germany), Gerry Hemingway (percussion) (Switzerland)
”Here Mirror”
Composer: Sarah Weaver
Performer/Improviser: David Taylor (bass trombone) (New York)
The pieces will be performed as a virtual ensemble utilizing network arts technology including JackTrip audio, VDO.Ninja, and PGJTT audio/video mixers. Mike O’Connor, network arts technology.
DECEMBER 10, 2023: LIVE performance with Beth Warshafsky at Harvestworks
Post-Performance Discussion 3pmEST (Link in Venue)
12:00 pm EST
NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble: Performance Demonstrations
Program:
”In 3”
Composer: Sarah Weaver
Performers/Improvisers: Viv Corringham (voice, electronics) (New York), Ximena Alarcon (voice, electronics) (United Kingdom), Cassia Carrascoza Bonfim (flute) (Brazil), Anne Sophie Andersen (violin) (Denmark), Chris Chafe (celleto) (California), Biggi Vinkeloe (alto sax) (Sweden), Lynn Baker (tenor sax) (Oregon), Colin James Gibson (guitar) (Toronto), James Ilgenfritz (bass) (New York), Diane Roblin (piano, electric keyboards) (Toronto), Mike O’Connor (osmose keyboard) (Wisconsin), Gloria Damijan (toys, objects, percussion) (Austria), Jane Wang (multi-instrumentalist) (Boston), Rebekkah Palov (electronics) (New York), Beth Warshafsky (live video) (New York), Sarah Weaver (conductor) (New York)
Additional sets led by Lab members will be announced.
The pieces will be performed as a virtual ensemble utilizing network arts technology including JackTrip audio, VDO.Ninja, and PGJTT audio/video mixers. Mike O’Connor, network arts technology.
Bios
Sarah Weaver Ensemble features contemporary pioneering musicians and media artists in New York and internationally performing together since 2007 in solo, chamber, large ensemble, and network arts works. Recent works include sets of pieces in Synchrony Series (2011-2019), Synthesis Series (2020-2022), and new pieces for Transmission Series (2023-). The ensemble has performed at contemporary venues throughout New York including Austrian Cultural Forum of New York, Experimental Intermedia, Harvestworks, Iridium Jazz Club, Roulette, The Stone, Symphony Space, United Nations Headquarters in New York, and Washington Square Park, internationally at a wide spectrum of sites, and online in the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue.
NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble is an international virtual contemporary audiovisual performance research group for network arts. The Lab works on developments for performance-quality network arts technology including JackTrip audio, VDO.Ninja, and PGJTT audio/video mixers, together with artistic strategies for the medium. The Lab gives performance demonstrations, participates in research projects, and serves as a platform for artists/technologists to develop their own network arts projects. NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble was first formed in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as an open call to expand network arts access, to advance developments of network arts for public internet, and to provide a forum for the community. The Lab has included participants from 18 countries connecting virtually from individual locations. Drawing from 17 years of NowNet Arts experience in network performance together with artists and technologists in the field, The Lab continues to innovate and evolve contemporary network arts.
Sarah Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in large ensemble and network arts. Her work innovates contemplative concepts on network, synchrony, synthesis, and interconnection for artistic and social purpose. Weaver has composed solo, chamber, and large ensemble works for groundbreaking musicians for twenty-five years, integrating influences of classical, jazz, world, contemplative, electronic music, and individual music languages of performers. She is an innovator in network arts advancing live performance via the internet by musicians and artists in different geographic locations. Weaver is Director of Sarah Weaver Ensemble, Director of NowNet Arts, Editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA), Director of JackTrip Foundation, and Faculty of The New School College of Performing Arts.