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Harvestworks Presents: WaveLengths New Music Concerts (excerpts) &
WaveForms Sound Art
New York Electronic Arts Festival 2013
Composer: Mari Kimura & Tomoyuki Kato
Mari Kimura's & Tomoyuki Kato's ONE was an interactive audio/graphic multi-lingual opera, with the theme of "love, humanity, faith and global solidarity". Hailed as a "revolutionary" (The New York Times), violinist/composer Mari Kimura, teamed up with an award-Japanese movie director Tomoyuki Kato, to create a large-scale composition for an ensemble and herself on stage. Kimura will use a state-of-the-art motion sensor technology called "Augmented Violin" developed at IRCAM in Paris. The musicians' sounds and the "Augmented Violin" system interact in real time with the sophisticated real-time computer graphics created by Kato on stage.
Composer: Marco Donnarumma
Ominous is a sculpture of incarnated sound. The piece embodies before the audience the metaphor of an invisible and unknown object enclosed in the composer's hands. This is made of malleable sonic matter. Similarly to a mime, the composer models the object in the empty space by means of whole-body gestures. The bioacoustic sound produced by the contractions of his muscle tissues is amplified, digitally processed, and played back through loudspeakers. The natural sound of his flesh tissues and its virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object.
Composer: Suzanne Thorpe & Paul Geluso
Phloq is a multichannel work composed to evoke the sensorial experience of a flock of birds taking off. Via its physical diffusion, Phloq creates a provocative space that allows the listener to suspend their ties to previously known aural reference points, releasing them to a new sensorial interaction. Phloq's content addresses issues of communication and interference, referencing the swirling mass of information we encounter on a daily basis.
About NYEAF
Harvestworks' New York Electronic Art Festival presents innovative work made with the most advanced technology that is rapidly altering the conditions of our lives. The festival will focus on the way that technology can alter, expand and exhilarate our perceptions through the creative energies of the artist. We spotlight new artworks from the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art and Music) lab and new works created in our local, national and international community.
The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, workshops, and exhibitions of the highest quality across the arts and technology spectrum. Attendees get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice.
The NYEAF will plug into a national and international network of electronic art festivals, bringing significant contemporary art and music to the city. NYEAF is produced by Harvestworks, an international digital media arts center with over 30 years of experience helping artists to get inside the electronics and to develop a hands-on, experimental and explorative approach to making art with technology.
Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with River to River Festival, Trinity Wall Street, The Lower East Side Girls Club, The New York Hall of Science, Electronic Music Foundation, The Hells Kitchen Cultural Center, and other partners with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, New Music USA's Commissioning Music USA and MetLife Creative Connections Programs.
Harvestworks Presents: WaveLengths New Music Concerts (excerpts) &
WaveForms Sound Art
New York Electronic Arts Festival 2013
Composer: Mari Kimura & Tomoyuki Kato
Mari Kimura's & Tomoyuki Kato's ONE was an interactive audio/graphic multi-lingual opera, with the theme of "love, humanity, faith and global solidarity". Hailed as a "revolutionary" (The New York Times), violinist/composer Mari Kimura, teamed up with an award-Japanese movie director Tomoyuki Kato, to create a large-scale composition for an ensemble and herself on stage. Kimura will use a state-of-the-art motion sensor technology called "Augmented Violin" developed at IRCAM in Paris. The musicians' sounds and the "Augmented Violin" system interact in real time with the sophisticated real-time computer graphics created by Kato on stage.
Composer: Marco Donnarumma
Ominous is a sculpture of incarnated sound. The piece embodies before the audience the metaphor of an invisible and unknown object enclosed in the composer's hands. This is made of malleable sonic matter. Similarly to a mime, the composer models the object in the empty space by means of whole-body gestures. The bioacoustic sound produced by the contractions of his muscle tissues is amplified, digitally processed, and played back through loudspeakers. The natural sound of his flesh tissues and its virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object.
Composer: Suzanne Thorpe & Paul Geluso
Phloq is a multichannel work composed to evoke the sensorial experience of a flock of birds taking off. Via its physical diffusion, Phloq creates a provocative space that allows the listener to suspend their ties to previously known aural reference points, releasing them to a new sensorial interaction. Phloq's content addresses issues of communication and interference, referencing the swirling mass of information we encounter on a daily basis.
About NYEAF
Harvestworks' New York Electronic Art Festival presents innovative work made with the most advanced technology that is rapidly altering the conditions of our lives. The festival will focus on the way that technology can alter, expand and exhilarate our perceptions through the creative energies of the artist. We spotlight new artworks from the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art and Music) lab and new works created in our local, national and international community.
The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, workshops, and exhibitions of the highest quality across the arts and technology spectrum. Attendees get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice.
The NYEAF will plug into a national and international network of electronic art festivals, bringing significant contemporary art and music to the city. NYEAF is produced by Harvestworks, an international digital media arts center with over 30 years of experience helping artists to get inside the electronics and to develop a hands-on, experimental and explorative approach to making art with technology.
Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with River to River Festival, Trinity Wall Street, The Lower East Side Girls Club, The New York Hall of Science, Electronic Music Foundation, The Hells Kitchen Cultural Center, and other partners with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, New Music USA's Commissioning Music USA and MetLife Creative Connections Programs.
