Friday, February 25, 2011

[HvEXAS] Tonight! TNO Afterparty | February 25th | Daisy Baker's | 9:30pm-2am | McGillicuddy + We are Architects + DJ WashClothes | FREE!

 

Hey all!  We're still on for tonight, but it is messy out there.  I suggest sledding over with your dancing shoes in tow, or better yet, have a less aware friend pull you (and a date of course) in one of those santa-looking sleighs.  And watch out for snowballs.  I hear McGillicuddy is a dead shot...

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The Troy Night Out Afterparty Birthdayparty – February 2011
9:30pm-2am
18 to get in, 21 to drink (ID required)
FREE!

They say it's your birthday, TNO, so let's pretend that makes it TNO
Afterparty's birthday, as well. BOOM.

That's right, it's party time up in this piece. We'll bring the
party hats and you bring the dancing shoes 'cause we're gonna have
three freaktastic DJ's this month. McGillicuddy will take it back, We
Are Architects will spin it out and Surprise Guest DJ WashClothes will raise the
roof. And if you're not into dancing just get silly by the punch
bowl.


9:30pm-11:00ish: McGillicuddy
11:00ish-12:30am: DJ WashClothes
12:30am - 2am: We Are Architects

And don't forget to blow out the candles and eat free cake in Monument
Square at 6pm!

Check out the facebook event here:  

http://www.daisybakers.com/
http://www.troynightout.org/ 
http://www.properlychilled.com/

And hey! You! Send us a message or comment on the main page with some new ideas for the new year. New DJ's? Bands? Cocktails?

Thanks!

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[HvEXAS] EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012: open call for proposals

 

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Mucca Pazza featured in Marching Banned (DMC 2010-2011)- image courtesy Mark Messing
EMPAC DANCE MOViES COMMISSION 2011-2012: OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Submission deadline: April 18, 2011
http://empac.rpi.edu/commissions/DMC/

EMPAC is now accepting proposals for the next round of its successful DANCE MOViES Commission program. Selected artists receive awards ranging up to $40,000, and can also apply to create their works in conjunction with the Artist-in-Residence program at EMPAC. Works commissioned may take advantage of EMPAC's infrastructure and technology, such as computer-controlled rigging, flexible black-box studios, and post-production engineering for audio and video.

Online registration opens on March 15, 2011, with a final submission deadline of April 18, 2011.

As the first major US-based commissioning program available to dance-film artists in the North and South America, the DANCE MOViES Commission represents an important opportunity for those working at the intersection of the moving body and the moving image. The commission has funded seventeen projects in the last five years, with four of them also receiving residencies at EMPAC.

Previously commissioned works range from a punk marching band creating mayhem in the streets of Chicago to a poetic film based on the autobiographical account of a US-based African choreographer returning to dance in Zimbabwe; a piece in which a contemporary Russian dancer is viewed in the aesthetic context of post-Soviet surveillance to a film were three street kids in the streets of Rio seem to juggle air; and an installation created through 3D laser scanning to another installation where multiple video screens installed side by side layer film samples and a dancer's gestures to create counterpoints of movement and image.

For more information on EMPAC and the DANCE MOViES Commission, or to download the guidelines and application, please visit the EMPAC website. Guidelines and information also available in Spanish.

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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:
518.276.3921

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Our mailing address is:
EMPAC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Gerard Grisey: Le Noir de l’Etoile | Sat. 02/26, 8 PM

 

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Image courtesy of Andrew Rarig
TALK
Jean-Pierre Luminet: The Harmony of the Spheres, from Antiquity to Contemporary Music
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 6:30 PM
Theater
FREE

An evening under the stars: the renowned French astrophysicist — a specialist in black holes and cosmology and co-author of Le Noir de l'Étoile — will speak about the link between music and the celestial bodies beyond our horizon.



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PERFORMANCE
Gérard Grisey: Le Noir de l'Étoile
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

Radio signals emitted by two pulsars become part of a work played on six percussion stations that surround the audience. This piece was commissioned from Gérard Grisey by the French ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg, which will perform at EMPAC. In this piece, the evolution of timbres played by instruments, and of sound colors as they expand, explore the great complexities of what our ears can hear. Not only is the space "out there" brought into the Concert Hall, the hall itself is made part of the experience by placing the performers, instruments, and loudspeakers around the audience.



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SOON


TALK + DINNER
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Observer Effects: Conversations in Art & Science

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6 PM
Studio 1 – Goodman
FREE

Jean-Pierre Luminet, an expert on black holes, cosmology, and cosmic topology, will discuss the relationship between principles of aesthetics and the study of the cosmos through the work of artists, philosophers, and scientists. He also will discuss his role in Gérard Grisey's Le Noir de l'Étoile.

For all Observer Effects talks, dinner will be for sale at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the event. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our cafe service.



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Image courtesy of the artists



Artist-in-Residence Showing: Down The Rabbit-Hole
Monday, March 7, 2011, 7 PM
Studio 2
FREE

Down The Rabbit-Hole is a performance for toy piano, music boxes, live electronics, live and edited video, and amplified objects, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice stories.



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ON VIEW


EMPAC
Image courtesy of the artists


EXHIBITION
Christian Graupner: MindBox
Thursday, March 3 – Saturday, April 2, 2011
Video Gallery

Using a modified one-armed bandit slot machine, the viewer plays this dance video sculpture like an instrument, controlling and remixing the grooves of its beatboxing man.

On Thursday, March 3 from 5-6 PM, Christian Graupner will be on-site and available to answers questions and chat with visitors. All are welcome!



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INSTALLATION
Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010

A building-wide sound installation utilizing the immense size, acoustics, and 100-plus speaker public address system to create a rich sonic environment for anyone passing through the building. A widely varied sound palette creates an ever-changing soundscape that is both pleasurable and unpredictable.



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Both are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM.
NEWS

PERFORMANCE
Americana Pops Concert
03/05, 2 PM
Concert Hall
FREE
Presented by Rensselaer Music Association and the Rensselaer Union Classical Concert Series

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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:
518.276.3921

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Our mailing address is:
EMPAC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

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[HvEXAS] Lounge at Daisy Baker's w/Matt Brownell & Daniel Gutiérrez March 19th

 


This Daisy's we're bringing up Brooklyn native's Matt Brownell & Daniel Gutiérrez.

 
Blurbs about our guests will be up soon at our event page. You can stay up to date here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186840238022311

In the mean time you can catch them at www.newtownradio.com February 24 and March 10 from 9 to 11pm

Or for your instant aural pleasure you can listen to Matt at:
http://soundcloud.com/djdj-matt-brownell/matt-brownell-sunday-gravy-guest-mix

Joining them will be your residents for the night Lazer & Blazer;

Lazer and Blazer are a team forged in the bowels of good music. They (Adam Littleboy & George Washburn respectively) have been friends for almost 15 years but only began djing together as Lazer and Blazer about three years ago. Separately they had been djing bedrooms and clubs for a few years prior. They quickly found that they made a good team, and the sound that they sought to bring to the area was a unique one. Locally, it seemed as though people started to agree and they began to get booked at various communions and bar mitzvahs.

This ended up being such a good time that in 2009 they decided it was time to start throwing regular events in the Capital District. That's when they teamed up with Properly Chilled and together, began putting on nights as a DJ collective called Select Rhythms, keeping rugs cut ever since at places like Quintessence and Daisy Baker's. Their sound can simply be described as eclectic, and depending on the mood of the crowd it will vary, but always be prepared for lots of the boogie. In December 2010 Properly Chilled rode off on a unicorn to be seen from and heard from again, and now Lazer and Blazer are free to begin their lifelong dream of starting a freestyle polka company.



Saturday March 19th
There is a $5 dollar cover after 10pm, free before.
Ages 18+

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

[HvEXAS] TNO Afterparty | February 25th | Daisy Baker's | 9:30pm-2am | McGillicuddy + We are Architects + DJ WashClothes | FREE!

 

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The Troy Night Out Afterparty Birthdayparty – February 2011
9:30pm-2am
18 to get in, 21 to drink (ID required)
FREE!

They say it's your birthday, TNO, so let's pretend that makes it TNO
Afterparty's birthday, as well. BOOM.

That's right, it's party time up in this piece. We'll bring the
party hats and you bring the dancing shoes 'cause we're gonna have
three freaktastic DJ's this month. McGillicuddy will take it back, We
Are Architects will spin it out and Surprise Guest DJ WashClothes will raise the
roof. And if you're not into dancing just get silly by the punch
bowl.


9:30pm-11:00ish: McGillicuddy
11:00ish-12:30am: DJ WashClothes
12:30am - 2am: We Are Architects

And don't forget to blow out the candles and eat free cake in Monument
Square at 6pm!

Check out the facebook event here:  

http://www.daisybakers.com/
http://www.troynightout.org/ 
http://www.properlychilled.com/

And hey! You! Send us a message or comment on the main page with some new ideas for the new year. New DJ's? Bands? Cocktails?

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing | 02/17+18

 

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Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
image courtesy of the artists
PERFORMANCE
Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Thursday + Friday, February 17+18, 2011, 8 PM
Studio 1 – Goodman
$15/10/5

A delicate, room-sized machine of intricate kinetic sculptures is assembled from flotsam, bicycle wheels, and old glass objects held in tiny robot arms. Actors who double as instrumentalists set in motion a chain reaction of dreamlike shifts between macro and micro perspectives. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing crosses between concert, sculptural installation, and performance. In a landscape under constant transformation, light, shadow, sound, puppetry, and object theater merge to form a mesmerizing constellation of associations. Bringing artists of different backgrounds together, the work shows Verdensteatret's fascination with all kinds of animation—the strange and miraculous activity of breathing life into dead objects, stiff figures, and frozen images.



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SOON

EMPAC
Image courtesy of Andrew Rarig



PERFORMANCE
Gérard Grisey: Le Noir de l'Étoile
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

An evening length percussion piece by French composer Gérard Grisey, using a feed of distant pulsars, is performed around the audience with more than 100 instruments by the six musicians of the world-renowned ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg.

Preceded at 6:30 PM by The Harmony of the Spheres, from Antiquity to Contemporary Music, a free talk in the Theater by Jean-Pierre Luminet, the renowned French astrophysicist — a specialist in black holes and cosmology as well as the co-author of Le Noir de l'Étoile — who will speak about the link between music and the celestial bodies beyond our horizon.



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TALK + DINNER
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Observer Effects: Conversations in Art & Science

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6 PM
Studio 1 – Goodman
FREE

Jean-Pierre Luminet, an expert on black holes, cosmology, and cosmic topology, will discuss the relationship between principles of aesthetics and the study of the cosmos through the work of artists, philosophers, and scientists. He also will discuss his role in Gérard Grisey's Le Noir de l'Étoile.



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ON VIEW

INSTALLATION
Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010

A building-wide sound installation utilizing the immense size, acoustics, and 100-plus speaker public address system to create a rich sonic environment for anyone passing through the building. A widely varied sound palette creates an ever-changing soundscape that is both pleasurable and unpredictable.

Free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM.



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NEWS

SCREENING, TALK
Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge
02/14-02/16, 6 PM
Concert Hall
FREE - Registration required
Presented by Rensselaer

TALK
Vito Acconci: From Words Through Action To Architecture
Wed. 02/16, 6 PM
Theater
FREE
Presented by Architecture Rensselaer

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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:
518.276.3921

Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide.

Our mailing address is:
EMPAC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

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Copyright © 2011 EMPAC
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