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August - November 2005
St. Anastasia island and Sofia
The project aims to reveal how two small-scale organizations, commissioning new media art, meet the radical changes in their art scenes and whether the art based on new technologies and distributed through the new media is out of the context of the real life. This is especially interesting to be explored having in mind that Harvestworks is with almost 25-year history and is one of the pioneers in the use of information technologies in art, and InterSpace was created after the boom of internet appearance, when the new media became a synonym of the new in general.
The very idea of the project, where its title comes from, is to encourage the production and popularization of sound art projects in Bulgaria, which is still not very well known artistic discipline in the country. In this relation InterSpace as a host of the project feels out the context much more “virtually” because sound art production is a new priority of the Center. Harvestworks is well experienced in this field and their approach to the context in Bulgaria is simply geographical – kind of challenge for outcomers to make sound art activities in an unknown environment.
The project Out of Context is supported by CEC Artslink, New York and the Embassy of the USA in Bulgaria.
The Out of Context program of events:
Presentation & workshop MAX/MSP/JITTER
16 August 2005, 11-12 am, St. Anastasia island
Hans Tammen will present Max/MSP/Jitter technology for sound composing and performance. After all, this is a programming language and the options artistically and technically are endless.
Workshop "Third Eye Laptop Orchestra"
16 August 2005, 1-6 pm, St. Anastasia island
As Harvestworks perceives the laptop as a musical instrument among other instruments, they will make a workshop in preparation for a performance of a laptop orchestra for up to 12 people. This orchestra can include any style of laptop performer. The concept is based on Hans Tammen's THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA concept, in which Tammen as a conductor is inspired by Miles Davis' subtle style of conducting. The afternoon workshop will explain the signs and graphic notations the conductor might use, and discuss roles the performers might play in specific musical situations. This will most likely result in modifications or enhancements of the performer's computer setup.
Experimental sound performances "Third Eye Laptop Orchestra"
16 August, 9-11 pm, St. Anastasia island
22 August, 9-11 pm, Club SPS (ex-Maimunarnika), Borisova garden in Sofia
The evening performance will see the conductor as a musician, using the orchestra as an instrument, while each laptop performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance.
Seminar “Out Of Context”
17 August 2005, 5-7 pm, St. Anastasia island
In the seminar Harvestworks and InterSpace will present and discuss their models of working. Carol Parkinson will present Harvestworks and its position in the arts community for over 25 years, and show/discuss some works of their artists. Petko Dourmana will present the history of InterSpace and some of the major projects of the center. After the presentations by the two centers there will be open discussion with the audience.
Installation “Surround Sound Works”
22-30 November 2005, Tuesday-Saturday, 3 - 7pm
Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, 15 Lyuben Karavelov Street, Sofia
Interactive sound and video installation, which presents new works by 15 US artists who explore the potential of digital video and 5.1 surround sound.
Curated by Hans Tammen, Havestworks
Surround Sound Audio Works
Marina Rosenfeld - “Cephissus Landscape”: commissioned by Creative Time.
A reference to the acoustical properties of the glass-and-marble architecture
of the Winter Garden atrium.
Shelley Hirsch - “Stop Scratchin’ That Gash”: a sound installation of collective reminiscenses so visceral they seem almost visual.
Chris Mann - “The Plato Songs”: early models of conversation theory, the cybernetics of The Dialogues.
Stephen Vitiello - “In the High and Highest Places”: a mix of field recordings from the Brazilian Amazon & New York.
Dafna Naphtali - “Weezer”: a live performance “playing” 16 speakers w/ a keyboard interface.
Matthew Ostrowski - "Insomnia", after a text by Jorge Luis Borges
"if only I could forget, I would certainly be able to sleep".
Hans Tammen and the LEMUR GuitarBot - “Balance of Power”: a multi-channel
composition for the LEMUR GuitarBot using feedback loops and digital processing.
David Behrman - “Useful Information”: a new work built around a transcription of a radio broadcast from WBAI during the week of the RNC convention in New York in the summer of 2004.
Michelle Nagai - Excerpt from “MOVING OFF CENTER”: a sound collage of Skidmore
College from an elevator and around campus.
Surround Sound Video Works
Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons - “Stop Motion”: combines Hamlet’s first monologue
w/ footage of N.J.’s Garden State Parkway.
Josely Carvalho - “Book of Roofs”: interactive virtual perspectives on “shelter”.
Abigail Child - “Blonde Fur”: a film conceived for single-screen, loop & multiple projections.
Wago Kreider - “Marvelous Creatures”: photographic shocks flashing images of the fixed-explosive.
Melanie Patiram & Phoenecia - "Cyclic Redundancy": Without the use of edits, presets, or pre-conceived notions, Jitter/Max is used to provide framework that allows the music to spontaneously synchronize itself with it's visual counterpart.
Ursula Scherrer and Michael Schumacher - “London Heathrow”: an abstract portrait
of Heathrow Airport.
Thanks to Don Bassey at NHT Pro Audio for equipment support. NHT, Inc. 6400 Goodyear Road Benicia, CA 94510 1-800-648-9993.
About Harvestworks
Harvestworks (http://www.harvestworks.org) is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, mediaThe foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and the Rodney White Foundation.
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