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PAST INTRODUCTIONSIntroductions: Meet-the-Artist is a weekly program of the Project Room where artists meet with students and museum visitors in informal discussions, demonstrations and workshops. Sponsored by Electronic Music Foundation with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Roland Corporation, and Symbolic Sound Corporation. 2005Saturday June 4 Talk by journalist Douglas Dechert, and Damon Johnson January 15 Reflex Ensemble - open rehearsal January 8 Marty St. James and Lev Manovich 2004November 20 Ken Feinstein discusses his work "LET A THOUSAND VIDEOS BLOOM" and meets museum visitors. October 16 As part of Fall For Chelsea, A day of family workshops, curator and artist talks and music programs, 2 Programs:2pm — Richard Nunn (New Zealand) performs on traditional Maori Instruments of New Zealand with accompanying electronics and discusses his concepts of combining traditional instruments with new technologies. 4pm — Timucin Sahin (Turkey) uses interactive electronics and fretless electric guitars, incorporating different influences from contemporary music, jazz, and non-western music improvisation techniques. June 5 James Tunick presents a discussion by artists and engineers from Studio IMC, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and Yale University, participating in the exhibition, "Convergence: The Collision Of Physical & Virtual Space In Digital Art" May 22 Uri Dotan, artist participant in 'Surface Tension' exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum, discusses connections between painting, sound, and animation May 15 Martin Baumgartner and Monya Pletsch take laptop performance to new heights, and are joined by composer, Mori Ikue. May 8 In 1969, Lejaren Hiller and John Cage composed HPSCHD, possibly the biggest and wildest musical and multimedia composition there ever was. Joel Chadabe, who has directed several productions of HPSCHD, will show a DVD documentary of a production in Amsterdam in 1994 and describe his concepts of the evening's performance May 1 League of Electronic Urban Robots, Eric Singer and Jeff Feddersen demonstrate and explain the electronics, mechanics and controls that make their robots work. April 24 Jin Meyerson, artist participant in 'Surface Tension,' exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum, discusses the computer as a tool in contemporary painting. April 17 Elliott Sharp, composer, performer, improviser, and Janene Higgins, video artist, discuss their 2-channel video installation with sound presented in the Project Room April 15 and on view through May 8. Sharp lives in New York and performs worldwide."... Sharp not only devises his own instruments and processing, but he's achieved a distinctive vocabulary and compositional logic ... tightly wound ... with pent-up energy." -- Down Beat. Sharp and Higgins work is an exciting example of the future of cinema — cinema without walls, that's living and performable. April 10 Morton Subotnick, composer, electronic music pioneer, lives in New York and California, teaches at NYU and Cal Arts. "In the early '60s, Morton Subotnick began to experiment with an infant art form. Now he's 70, and he and electronic music are being recognized for their maturity." -- Los Angeles Times. He also demonstrates his educational software for children. Mar 27 Joan La Barbara, vocalist, composer, lives in New York and performs worldwide. "... such vocal presence that she made several avant-gardists blush guiltily afterward for having succumbed to that much sheer beauty." -- Los Angeles Times Mar 20 Stephen Vitiello, sound artist, improvisor, and Monika Weiss, visual artist, discuss the relationships between drawing, sculpture, and sound, and their past collaboration. The Weiss/Vitiello performance of "Limen/Meadow" follows the Introductions program. Weiss's Vessels exhibition, including installation, sculpture and drawings is on view in the Project Room March 20-April 17. Stephen Vitiello, lives near New York and performs and presents his work worldwide. "... his electro-acoustic sound collage occupies an otherwise empty room like a little slice of heaven." -- The New Yorker. Mar 13 Patti Monson, flutist, lives in New York, performs widely, and directs the Tactus Ensemble at the Manhattan School of Music. "... pushing the edges of contemporary technique ... the most compelling aspect of her performance was the degree to which she let musicality take over. " -- The New York Times March 1 Brian Parker, music educator and composer, give a hands-on demonstration of making music with computers and synthesizers. Feb 28 Bernhard Loibner, composer of digital music and media artist, lives in Vienna, Austria, and travels worldwide. He performs with a laptop. Feb 21 Benjamin Chadabe, an improvising musician and media artist, is also working closely with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris to promote GRM Tools as software that empowers individual creativity with music. GRM Tools has been used prominently to create the sound for films such as The Matrix: Revolutions, Swordfish, and many others, and it is widely used by leading musicians. Feb 14 Pamela Z, composer, vocalist, performance artist, performs with her body synth. She lives in San Francisco and travels worldwide. "Pamela Z is, as the saying goes, an intriguing bunch of people, a vocalist who mixes street instincts with vestiges of operatic singing ... a gifted improviser ... manipulator of delay loops to build up layers of sound." -- Los Angeles Times Feb 7 Laetitia Sonami, composer, performer, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, travels worldwide, and teaches at Cal Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. Performs with her body synth, Lady's Glove. "Sultry and magical ... a striking talent." -- Village Voice January 31 Mari Kimura, composer, improviser, performer acoustic and electronic violins, lives in New York, teaches at NYU and Juilliard, and tours worldwide. "Chilling... gripping... charming... Ms. Kimura is a virtuoso playing at the edge." -- The New York Times January 24 Introduction to Interactivity in Music presented by Joel Chadabe, composer and author of Electric Sound , teaches at NYU, Manhattan School of Music, and Bennington College. "It would be hard to imagine a more incisive, insightful, or purely readable history of electrical music-making ... Plug into Electric Sound." -- Keyboard Magazine January 17 Introduction to Making Music in the Electronic Age An overview for ages 6 to adult demonstrating how to make music with computers, software, acoustic instruments, voice, and interactive technology. Composer/teachers are Brian Parker, Greg Rippen, Lang Crawford. 2003December 13 ANNA FRANTS, VIDEO ARTIST OF ST. PETERSBURG: Curator, Natalia Kolodzei presents an overview of new media art in St. Petersburg and Frants’ video works on view during St. Petersburg celebration. November 22 "DESKTOP METAPHOR" AN AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION BY MATEO ZLATAR (CHILE) November 8 LEAGUE OF ELECTRONIC MUSICAL URBAN ROBOTS (US) Interactive sound installations accompanied by a special exhibition of kinetic art by Pol Bury from the permanent collection of Chelsea Art Museum. lemurbots.org |
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