Wednesday, May 11, 2011

[HvEXAS] Celeste Boursier-Mougenot exhibition | May 12 – September 1

 

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Installation view from Céleste Boursier-Mougenotʼs index, virus, solidvideo, detail
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (3/19 – 4/25/09) 
EXHIBITION
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (Series #3) + index (v.4)
May 12 – September 1
Monday – Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE

Two sound installations untitled (Series #3) and index (v.4) by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot create a special sonic atmosphere in EMPAC's lobby spaces. The first involves floating bowls and glasses in several pools of moving water. As these objects touch, the space is filled with their fleeting, floating music.

The other sounds moving through the lobby come from two computer-played pianos. The music is an articulation of EMPAC staff's typing activity. Software written by the artist maps linguistic properties to musical properties, translating letters, phrases, and punctuation into aspects of musical language like pitch, dynamics, repetitions, and chords.

You can read more about the exhibition in this month's Chronogram.





NEWS

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International arts magazine Digitalarti recently put their focus on EMPAC article online, which includes an interview with curator Kathleen Forde. Give it a read - the rest of the site + the print magazine are definitely worth a gander as well.





SUMMER WORKSHOPS

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Composer Hans Tutschku in residence at EMPAC - photo by Natt Phenjati



There's still time to sign up for EMPAC's unique one-week workshops this summer in music and audio: Composing for Large Scale Multi-Channel Loudspeaker Environments, taught by Hans Tutschku (Harvard) June 5 – 10, and Physical Modeling for Digital Audio Workstation Plug-ins taught by David Amels (New York) July 18 – 23. Apply today!
 
CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

PERFORMANCE
xxxy: The Ascent
Thurs. 05/12, 10 AM - 5 PM
FREE


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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.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

[HvEXAS] Daisy's feat. Munga & Jay Travis this Friday night!

 

For this very very special Daisy's we have two amazing guests. One of which is Jay Travis a friend of all of ours who will be returning from an extended stay and the second being Munga fresh up after his Coachella gig. Come join us for one of our largest Daisy's yet!

In the mean time you can get down to Munga's music here:
http://soundcloud.com/discomunga

You can share with your friends here!!
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189579957749618
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This Friday May 13th,
Music starts at 9pm
There is a $5 dollar cover
Ages 18+

This night will be packed so come early in ensure a quick entry.

-B

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Thursday, May 05, 2011

[HvEXAS] Tonight's Euphorie performance canceled

 

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Euphorie performance canceled

Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight's performance of Euphorie has been canceled. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We are working to reschedule this performance for the fall.



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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

[HvEXAS] This week: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone + Euphorie

 

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TALK + DINNER: OBSERVER EFFECTS
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Movement and Mirror Neurons: A Challenging and Choice Conversation
Wednesday, May 4, 6 PM
FREE

Dancer, choreographer, and philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone will give a talk over dinner on the primacy of movement in perception and our fundamental understanding of aliveness. A topic rarely acknowledged in the history of western philosophy and science, Sheets-Johnstone will examine how our understanding of space and time is fundamentally conditioned by our experience of movement.

"What moves straightaway captures our attention; it is consistently at the focal point over what is not moving. This focal tethering to movement is no less first-nature to other creatures than it is to ourselves. We are all attuned to the animate over the inanimate; we are alive to movement from the start. Indeed, animation is at the core of every creature's engagement with the world because it is in and through movement that the life of every creature—to borrow Husserl's phrase from the first epigraph—'acquires reality.'" — Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Primacy of Movement

A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service.





PERFORMANCE
Euphorie
Thursday, May 5, 8 PM
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The project Euphorie was born from the desire to develop a project based on interactions between video, sound, movement, and accidents of life as a 40-minute theatrical performance driven by low-tech tools.

1024 architecture is a company created by Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel, both co-founders of the EXYZT collective. 1024 architecture focuses on the interaction between body, space, sound, visual, low-tech and hi-tech, art, and architecture.

EUPHORIE / MiaouMiaou / 02.10
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SOON

EXHIBITION
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (Series #3) + index (v.4)
May 11 – September 1
Monday – Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE

Glasses and bowls touch as they float through pools of water. The fragile sounds of this chance music combined with music created from the building's network activity that plays on two computer-controlled pianos in EMPAC's lobby.



SUMMER WORKSHOPS

EMPAC is offering two unique one-week workshops this summer in music and audio, each suited for advanced undergrads, graduate students, and professionals: Composing for Large Scale Multi-Channel Loudspeaker Environments, taught by Hans Tutschku (Harvard) June 5 – 10, and Physical Modeling for Digital Audio Workstation Plug-ins taught by David Amels (New York) July 18 – 23.
 
CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

PERFORMANCE
Evacuate the Dance Floor
Sat. 05/07, 2 PM
$3


Connect with us: FACEBOOK + TWITTER!
 

 


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:
518.276.3921

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110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

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