Friday, June 10, 2011

[HvEXAS] REMINDER: Work in progress performance + multi-channel workshop concert | FREE | Tonight at 7 + 8:30 PM | EMPAC

Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, USA

One evening that opens up the process of creation and collaboration; two performances that share the culmination of a residency and workshop. Join us for one – or see both!

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/summer/cardona/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219607408057252
WORK IN PROGRESS PERFORMANCE
Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lacey: TOOL IS LOOT
Friday, June 10, 7 PM
FREE


TOOL IS LOOT is a duet made via a curious process of disorientation. For one year, choreographers/dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey worked apart, in the US and France, respectively. Each solicited weeklong encounters with non-dance experts, allowing the opinions and desires of an "outsider" to shift what they knew about creating short solos. These experts included an astrophysicist, a sommelier, an architect, a film editor, a medical supply salesman, a kinetic sculptor, a baroque opera singer, an art critic, an acoustician, and a social activist.

Now in residence at EMPAC, Cardona and Lacey come together in the duet, TOOL IS LOOT, with their identities simultaneously undone and strengthened. They ask the question: What comes after you don't know anymore?

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http://empac.rpi.edu/workshops/2011/multichannel/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108858642536771
WORKSHOP CONCERT
Compositions for a Sound Dome
Friday, June 10, 8:30 PM
FREE



With 24 loudspeakers suspended in the air as a sound dome, eight composers who participated in the workshop Composing for Large Scale Multi-Channel Loudspeaker Environments present their explorations of sound, music, and space. Led by Hans Tutschku (Harvard University), the 6-day workshop immersed artists in the study and composition of pieces to be performed with many loudspeakers, going far beyond what we know as "surround sound". The unique opportunities at EMPAC allowed participants to work in three spaces with a large number of loudspeakers to develop their ideas. The concert will include a broad range of approaches to this singular sonic challenge.

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Evelyn's Café will open at 6 PM with light fare, and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition will be open for viewing – make a night of it!

Both events are free + open to the public. Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue. 

For more information, please visit the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu or call the Box Office: 518.276.3921.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

[HvEXAS] upcoming sitar concert at RPI

 

Looks like a good time...


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Saturday, June 11 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Biotech Auditorium
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

Pallavi of the Capital Region Proudly presents…
Rising young star Shakir Khan & veteran tabla player Ashis Sengupta In concert, at the Biotech Auditorium, RPI Sat 6/11/2011 6-9 PM

Admission: General 15/-; Sponsor 50/-; Students 10yrs and older: 10/-

Please make checks payable to Pallavi of the capital region and mail to Nalini Madiwale 2002 Philomena Dr Schenectady NY 12303
The Biotech auditorium is in the new brick bldg near the junction of 15th and College St, in Troy. Parking can be accessed from College St.

Artist Bio: Shakir Khan is an 8th generation artist, son and disciple of the phenomenal Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, a rising young star in his 20s

Ashis Sengupta is a dynamic versatile percussionist we have heard with vocal music before. It will be a special treat to hear him with instrumental music.
There is ample information on both of them on line.

For more information contact:
Shekhar Garde: shekhar.garde@gmail.com
Lakshmi Ravichandran: lakshmiravi68@gmail.com
Nalini Madiwale: nalinim01@yahoo.com
Priyamvada Mishra: priyamvada72@gmail.com

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Monday, June 06, 2011

[HvEXAS] Work in progress performance + multi-channel workshop concert | Fri. June 10

 

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EMPAC
Tool is Loot
Artwork by Adam Schecter

One evening that opens up the process of creation and collaboration; two performances that share the culmination of a residency and workshop. Join us for one – or see both!

WORK IN PROGRESS PERFORMANCE
Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lacey: TOOL IS LOOT
7 PM
FREE

TOOL IS LOOT is a duet made via a curious process of disorientation. For one year, choreographers/dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey worked apart, in the US and France, respectively. Each solicited weeklong encounters with non-dance experts, allowing the opinions and desires of an "outsider" to shift what they knew about creating short solos. These experts included an astrophysicist, a sommelier, an architect, a film editor, a medical supply salesman, a kinetic sculptor, a baroque opera singer, an art critic, an acoustician, and a social activist.

Now in residence at EMPAC, Cardona and Lacey come together in the duet, TOOL IS LOOT, with their identities simultaneously undone and strengthened. They ask the question: What comes after you don't know anymore?


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



WORKSHOP CONCERT
Compositions for a Sound Dome
8:30 PM
FREE

With 24 loudspeakers suspended in the air as a sound dome, eight composers who participated in the workshop Composing for Large Scale Multi-Channel Loudspeaker Environments present their explorations of sound, music, and space. Led by Hans Tutschku (Harvard University), the 6-day workshop immersed artists in the study and composition of pieces to be performed with many loudspeakers, going far beyond what we know as "surround sound". The unique opportunities at EMPAC allowed participants to work in three spaces with a large number of loudspeakers to develop their ideas. The concert will include a broad range of approaches to this singular sonic challenge.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6 PM with light fare, and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition will be open for viewing – make a night of it!


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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