Thursday, September 30, 2010

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Robert Henke (Ableton / Monolake): Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers | 10/06+07 | FREE

 


TALKS, PERFORMANCE
Robert Henke (Ableton / Monolake): Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers
Wednesday, October 6, 4 and 7 PM (talks)
Thursday, October 7, 8 PM (performance)
Studio 1 - Goodman
FREE

Berlin based composer and sound artist Robert Henke (Ableton / Monolake) will provide insight into his artistic approach, present new works, and perform a multichannel audiovisual concert together with visual artist Tarik Barri.

As a child of Berlin's vivid club culture in the 1990s and a frequent guest at the legendary electronic studio of the Technical University, Robert Henke started composing music influenced both by academic computer music and electronic dance music. His more rhythmical works are released and performed under the alias Monolake. He has performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in squatted houses in Berlin. His music has been licensed for several dance performances and TV series. He is also one of the principal authors of Ableton Live software. 

Henke studied sound engineering for film and computer science. He teaches sound design at the Berlin University of Arts, as well as creates and performs music, runs his own record label, does sound installations, and writes about computer-generated sound. He lives and works in Berlin.


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Wednesday, October 6 at 4 PM: Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers talk

How can we convincingly perform computer based auditive or audiovisual art in today's world? The possibilities for sound generation and manipulation are almost limitless; however, the interfaces, as well as  our experience and practice with them, are not nearly as advanced. Robert Henke discusses theoretical ideas of performing live and contrasts them with a critical review of his own concerts. 

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Wednesday, October 6 at 7 PM: Live. Max. Max For Live. What is it Good for? talk

In 2001, the revolutionary Ableton Live software gave birth to a new way of creating and performing electronic music. Ableton Live's production of endless repetitions of hypnotic beats became a huge success, especially among dance music producers. However, the academic music world has remained highly skeptical, as Abelton Live is not believed to be ideal for a seated audience listening to carefully crafted details. The modular and infinitely personal structure of a framework like Max/MSP has been a long-term standard tool in academic computer music, but Live and Max seem to cater to a very different audience. What happens when those two worlds become more integrated? 

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Thursday, October 7 at 8 PM: Monolake Live Surround with Tarik Barri performacne

With walls of pulsating sound made danceable by heavy percussion and massive bass pulses, Monolake Live Surround explores the possibilities of spatial sound design in a club environment by using minimal, dub-influenced techno music. This concert experience reflects Robert Henke's ongoing research project expands the usual club soundscape by using four or more discrete audio channels. The listener/dancer will be placed in a field of sound beyond any physical space defined by speakers and walls, providing an immersive experience that goes beyond the usual club environment. 

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

[HvEXAS] FREE Wilderness dress rehearsals at EMPAC tonight + tomorrow!

 

Hello Tiena + HVEXAS - there are two free dress rehearsals for a canary torsi | Yanira Castro dance performance / installation Wilderness (in the EMPAC lobby) ahead of Filament, and we would like an audience there to get the full-on experience. If you can make it (particularly that one during the work day), please let me know as soon as possible (emailing me at murphj8@rpi.edu), and I will make sure the seats are reserved (there are 40 per show). The piece is 75 minutes and you will be seated for 30 minutes of it - you will also potentially be included EMPAC / the company's photo + video documentation.

All the information is below - I hope you can attend this free sneak peek of one of the Filament performances / installations.

Jason Steven

P.S. Feel free to send this around to any + all.

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a canary torsi | Yanira Castro: Wilderness
Wednesday, September 29 @ 7 PM - Evening Dress Rehearsal
Thursday, September 30 @ 1 PM - Afternoon Dress Rehearsal
EMPAC Lobby

Wilderness unfolds on a dark field in the entrance lobby of EMPAC, and all who inhabit the space — dancers, crew, musicians, and audience — share the same ecosystem. In this site-adaptive work, choreographer Yanira Castro contemplates wilderness as a minimalist environment — a barren desert or the smooth surface of a lake — where action is brought into high relief. The performance begins with a stark, emotional solo by an older man, followed by a quartet of dancers that perform a virtuosic dance, transforming the terrain. Viewers become a part of the performance system, as their behavior influences the sound and movement. No two performances are the same.

Curator: Hélène Lesterlin

Check out a rehearsal clip here: http://www.vimeo.com/13733584

"Forget the safety of distance; this is the palpable sensation of art — up-close and personal." — Debra Griboff, Encore Magazine

"Yanira Castro's intimate dance performance recaptures life's most private stolen moments…Castro here challenges all your assumptions about performance, and forces you to wake up. Gamble on it." — Elizabeth Zimmer, Metro

"Castro's work is intellectual. Her movement is quirky; remarkably polished performances propel her unexpected stutters and awkward positions... Castro's smart, kooky shenanigans captivate..." — Chris Dohse, The Village Voice

Puerto Rican born and Brooklyn-based director/choreographer Yanira Castro collaborates with a core group of performers and designers. She creates hybrid performance works that integrate movement, installation, music, text, and visual elements such as film and video. She is the director/instigator of a canary torsi, an organism engaged in the creation of multi-disciplinary art collaborations. Castro has earned a reputation for creatively rethinking audiences' perceptual and sensorial experiences of a performance, and her work has been presented throughout the US and in Europe. She received her B.A. in Theater & Dance and Literature from Amherst College.

a canary torsi creates site-adaptable dance projects within visual and audio environments. Established in 2009 by New York director/choreographer Yanira Castro, a canary torsi invites audiences to engage in scenarios that are anchored around live performance and extend into other media and online platforms. These multidisciplinary arts collaborations incorporate unconventional sites and transform traditional venues. Ranging from formalist movement and immersive audio installations to fictional Twitter feeds and photographic narratives, Castro's collaborations plunder behavior, gesture, text, and sound from a multitude of sources — fiction, film, photographs, ballads, historical artifacts — to engage participants in an immediate, personal encounter with the work. http://acanarytorsi.org/

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[HvEXAS] Lounge @ Daisy's Oct. 2nd (The Funky Rad Edition) This Saturday

 

On October 2nd Select Rhythms brings the good feelings back to Daisy Baker's in Troy. Lazer & Blazer are curating the night for a party filled to the ceiling (which is really, really high) with house, French house, Balearic house, haus, nu disco, 80s madness, and all kinds of what else.

To help them make it all happen, Lazer and Blazer are bringing in the 80s loving radness of Dave Washburn, and the all out funky loving boomity of Jay Travis.

Wear your most bouncingest dancing shoes and bust out your funky raddest moves!!!


DJs:
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LAZER & BLAZER
GEORGE WASHBURN
JAY TRAVIS


DRINK SPECIALS:
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tba...


DAISY BAKER'S (Bacchus)
33 2nd Street, Troy, NY (near the corner of 2nd & State streets)

18+ gets in / 21+ drinks
$5 Cover (free before 10pm)

Daisy's bar opens early
Great outdoor seating
Plenty dance floor
Great drinks
Great food (Bacchus downstairs serves til midnight)

http://www.selectrhythms.com/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=103459786383462&ref=ts


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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Filament | October 1-3

 

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EMPAC
National Theater of the United States of America: The Golden Veil: A Cautionary Entertainment
(image courtesy of the artists)
FESTIVAL
Filament
October 1-3, 2010
Individual ticketed events = $15/10 | Festival pass = $35
Many events FREE!

Friday, October 1, starting at 1 PM: put on your work pants and come help the MTAA barn raising on the VCC North Lawn; the ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 5:30 PM and is free + open to the public.

Friday, October 1 at 6 PM: Festival opening reception in Evelyn's Café - FREE

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media.

With over 15 premieres spanning theater, 24-channel sound, contemporary dance, video, and a barn raising; exchanges with artists, curators, and creative engineers; and a dynamic archive of the artistic process, this three day festival highlights EMPAC's focus on creation via commissions and residencies.

Festival passes and tickets are on sale now!

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SOON

TALKS, PERFORMANCE
Robert Henke (Ableton / Monolake): Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers
Studio 1 - Goodman
FREE

Berlin based composer and sound artist Robert Henke (Ableton / Monolake) will provide insight into his artistic approach, present new works, and perform a multichannel audiovisual concert together with visual artist Tarik Barri.

Wed. October 6 at 4 PM: Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers talk
Wed. October 6 at 7 PM: Live. Max. Max For Live. What is it Good for? talk
Thurs. October 7 at 8 PM: Monolake Live Surround performance with Tarik Barri

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PERFORMANCE
Laurie Anderson: Delusion
Friday + Saturday, October 15 + 16, 8 PM
Theater
$15/10/5

A meditation on life and language through music, video, and storytelling, Delusion weaves a complex story about longing, memory, and identity.

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NEWS

The Epicurean at EMPAC: Evelyn's Café will be open during Filament! Stop by for a selection from their imaginative French-inspired menu of fresh salads, gourmet sandwiches, baked goods, and more. And be sure to plan your next trip to EMPAC accordingly - be it a meal before an event, a drink after to decompress, or a snack while you are checking out one of our ongoing exhibitions or the building itself.


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EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

EMPAC Box Office:
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Our mailing address is:
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Friday, September 24, 2010

[HvEXAS] TNO Afterparty! | Tonight, September 24th | 9pm-2am | Daisy Baker's | FREE!

 

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The TNO Afterparty :: Indian Summer Edition
Friday, September 24th, 2010
9pm-2am

FREE!  |  18 to get in, 21 to drink (ID required)
Daisy Bakers | 33 2nd Street | Troy, NY | 518-266-9200
This month's music:  Ryan Kick, Luke Jonathan, Properly Chilled

With all the awesomeness going on for this first TNO of the fall season, we put together a full night of dancedancedance for y'all. Of course, when you get here, you won't be able to leave until Ryan Kick releases you from his spells, so be sure to check out the "Wired Kingdom" show at the Arts Center, the "Parade of Demons" exhibit at 182 River Street (next to Beirut), "Chestnut's" blow-out art sale at The Broken Mold, and BEWARE! The Other Head of Science at Ground Zero!

9pm-11pm: Properly Chilled
11pm-12:30am: Luke Jonathan
12:30am-2am: Ryan Kick

The last friday of every month, come for Troy Night Out and stay out late with us! Daisy Baker's, 9pm-2am, FREE, dance till you can't.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | pandas, barns, and three story pendulums | Filament passes available now!

 

Filament
OCTOBER 1-3, 2010
 
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Get your festival pass now for Filament, EMPAC's biennial festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media.

With over 15 premieres spanning theater, 24-channel sound, contemporary dance, video, and a barn raising; exchanges with artists, curators, and creative engineers; and a dynamic archive of the artistic process, this three day festival highlights EMPAC's focus on creation via its commissioning and residency programs.

Performances, installations, and screenings including:

Balletlab: Miracle
Balletlab: Miracle
Image: courtesy the artist
Early Morning Opera: ABACUS
Early Morning Opera: ABACUS
Image: Lars Jan
MTAA: All Raise This Barn
MTAA: All Raise This Barn
Image: courtesy the artist
Multi-channel Double Feature
Volkmar Klein + Hans Tutschku
Image: EMPAC
Dr. Hieronyous Yang
Dr. Hieronymous Yang / ABACUS 
Image: Lars Jan
Yanira Castro: Wilderness
Yanira Castro: Wilderness
Image: courtesy the artist

Filament also unveils Live Shorts: three programs of performances from across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts, commissioned specifically for this festival. Working within the same constraints, artists will present varied and vigorous short works.

Live Shorts artists include: Paul Abacus • Wally Cardona • SUE-C + Laetitia Sonami • Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford + Geoff Sobelle • Jen DeNike • MTAA • Miro Dance Theatre • National Theater of the United States of America • Trouble

On Sunday, join us in a dedication and performance of the late composer Maryanne Amacher's unfinished final work developed in residence, The Star Room.

Over the three days, the building will be busy with conversation and free events: talks with artists, curators, and staff, receptions in Evelyn's Café, a Saturday night party featuring Joro Boro (NYC) + Properly Chilled (Albany), and more.

Schedule, ticketing, and more info: http://filament.empac.rpi.edu/.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

[HvEXAS] Sunset to Sunrise Party "The Good Life"

 

and another party!!

The Summer closing party!!

44 south pearl on the roof this Friday night
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=147246421982617&ref=mf

We will be rockin out from sunset to sunrise!! we will also have a second room ! DnB, Dub Step, House and whatever else you like to hear will be played on this night!

Jen Haley
Milkdud
The Saboteurs (Jay Balance & Big White)
The Dark Flow
scooby carolan
lazer and blazer
just the sauce
brother suarez
Nicky Bruise
J.Logik
Joey Costa
Eric G
Kip Dj-Prophet Chapman
ksea
Dj Salt
middle skool mark
Eric Egnor


This event is 18+
5$ for 21+ / 10$ for 18+

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