Hudson Valley Events Vlog: [HvEXAS] EMPAC | Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark

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a still from Russian Ark (2002) - courtesy of Seville Pictures

SCREENING
Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:30 PM
Theater
$5

A single camera drifts through the 33 rooms of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, tracing Russia's history from the 18th century to the present day. Filmed in one 90-minute continuous shot, Russian Ark subtly interweaves dance, opera, theater, and music in this poetic meditation on the flow of history.

Check out a trailer for the film here.

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TALK
Music – Language – Sound and Nature
Mark Changizi, Johannes Goebel, and David Rothenberg
Observer Effects Series
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 7 PM
Studio 2
Free

An evening of thoughtful exchange on how music, speech, language, birds, and whale songs interrelate, including three short lectures followed by a lively dialogue between participating speakers and audience. This discussion brings together the diverse fields of music, acoustics, evolutionary neurobiology, and naturalist philosophy.

Starting at 6 PM before the talk, David Rothenberg will perform in Evelyn's Café.

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SOON

PERFORMANCE
Latitude 14: Red Fly/Blue Bottle
Friday + Saturday, November 5 + 6, 2010, 8 PM
Theater
$15/10/5

A performance that bridges concert, cabinet of curiosities, and video installation, Red Fly/Blue Bottle explores the mediating effects of memory and how we use imagination to surmount that which we have lost.

Check out a clip from the performance here.

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PERFORMANCE
Georg Friedrich Haas: In Vain
Argento Chamber Ensemble (Michel Galante, conductor)
Friday, November 12, 2010, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

A striking spectral composition for chamber orchestra that contrasts light and dark as well as harmony and dissonance, performed in and between complete darkness.

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NEWS

It's the last week to catch some of the Filament installations and exhibitions! Stop by to check out Volkmar Klien's video pendulum Relative Realities and the Process Boxes exhibition in EMPAC, as well as MTAA's All Raise This Barn (East) on the VCC North Lawn. Michael J. Schumacher's building wide sound installation Room Pieces Troy 2010 will also be explorable - and will continue after this weekend.

CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

TALK
Brigette Shim / Shim-Sutcliffe Architects: Testing Ideas
Wed. 10/27, 6 PM
FREE
Presented by Architecture Rensselaer Part of the Professor Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Series

SCREENING
Paradox Rules: Videos by Joshua Thorson
Wed. 10/27, 8 PM
FREE
Presented by the Rensselaer Arts Department

CONCERT with FILM
Albany Pro Musica: Voices of Light & The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sat. 11/06, 7:30 PM
Concert Hall
$30 (Premium seating)/$25
Presented by Albany Pro Musica

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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.