4 Performances
in March
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March 8, 8pm
Paula Matthusen
Filling Vessels
with Tom O'Doherty (visuals), Argeo Ascani (saxophone), Eric km Clark (violin), Aaron Meicht (trumpet), James Moore (guitar).
Filling Vessels is a multi-channel sound and light installation/performance inspired by Alvin Lucier's Empty Vessels. The installation is dependent on interaction with feedback generated within the installation space. It functions as an audience-navigable space in which people can explore the effects they have on the sonic and visual events that take place within it. It is also a performance environment within which musicians use their instruments to interact with and influence the resultant combinations of sound and light.
circadia
circadia is a multi-channel installation that explores how synchronization may emerge amidst various independent bodies. Glass jars with embedded speakers are distributed throughout the room and are treated as separate bodies. The sounds they produce are generated via quiet feedback produced by each vessel. In this way, the space, and the subtle acoustical effects the audience has on that space, create shifting, delicate balances between sustained sounds and small discrete pulses.
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March 15, 8pm
Ken Jacobs
The Nervous Magic Lantern
Michael J.Schumacher, Room Pieces Improv
performing:
A Breather from Scamland
$7 suggested donation
notes:
The Nervous Magic
Lantern
Ken Jacobs toys with
his home-made assemblage of wood, second-hand theater lamp, and simple
optics to project imaginary 3-D aerial-scapes of huge dimension, moving
and evolving in impossible ways; an alternate Nature. Colors appear and
gravity pulls from unexpected directions. No special spectacles are needed
and in fact depth opens even to the single-eyed. Illusions of another
kind than the ones we live with every day, there is a steady flicker that
-WARNING- must be avoided by persons afflicted with epilepsy or other
unusual brain conditions.
Room Pieces
...a multi-channel extended duration sound installation that uses a modular
compositional approach characterized by a wide variety of sonic material.
The context of presentation is crucial: each manifestation of ROOM PIECES
takes on a unique identity based on the nature of the space in which it
is installed.
...defines points in space and coordinates these points by the juxtaposition
of related sounds, weaving a spatial geometry, a continuously shifting
grid of multi-point relations with the listener as axis. Rather than "virtual
space", an imitation of a world outside this one, ROOM PIECES intersects
the real world, sectionalizing space according to acoustic phenomena.
...works with memory to create grids of time as complements to the geometry
of space. Autonomous sound elements combine to form clusters of disparate
structures, shifting contexts and remembered places and moments. Personal
memories clash with collective; cultural influences beyond any individual
vision inform the reception of compositional decisions. Every element
remains highly independent, articulating its unique path into the future,
but tied at every moment to coincidental, unpredictable simultaneities.
ROOM PIECES is a counterpoint of fully-formed voices, separated, juxtaposed,
in space and time.
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March 22, 8pm
Analogos 10
"vintage" analog synthesizers and electronics
featuring Kabir Carter, James Fei, David Galbraith, Kato Hideki, Michael
J. Schumacher, Sergei Tcherepnin, Stefan Tcherepnin, Ed Tomney
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March 29, 8pm
Alessandro Bosetti and Christian Kesten
performance
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