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Harvestworks Presents: WaveLengths New Music Concerts (excerpts)
New York Electronic Arts Festival 2013

Composer: Phillip Stearns
Imminent Shift was a performance exploring the physiological dimensions of electronic media reduced to their elementary components: light and sound. An instrument fashioned from analog mixing boards and custom hybrid digital electronics will activate the performance space both sonically and visually. Electronic signals originating from the interaction between fixed oscillations and dynamic feedback loops will form the basis all for sonic and visual material as control signals for speakers and fluorescent lights.

Composer: Lori Napoleon
Meridian7 aka Lori Napoleon performed Intercept Tone/Vacant Level, an analog audio excursion that brings obsolete telephone equipment back to a life of patching signals by transforming vintage switchboards into modular synthesizers and sequencers. The piece is inspired by the cryptic sounds of archival DIY field recordings of analog switching systems captured by a subculture of audio explorers with reel-to-reels called phone phreaks. This piece explores sonic textures using comb filtering, a technique that creates evolving timbres through a process of time-delayed feedback that forms "notches" of positive and negative interference, and other endless modifications of the signal path.

Composer: Peter Edwards
Edwards uses sound and the light to reveal different layers of complex electrical systems which are then manipulated by hand to create audio visual patterns. The patterns align at times and not at others, but are generated by a shared electronic core so their connection is implicit. The outcome is a sort of evolved synesthesia where sight and sound are always linked but not always in sync.

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.