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IRCAM-NYU Forum

Peter Traver, Kamari Carter, Hanae Azuma, Trevor Van de Velde

Harvestworks participates in the 2022  IRCAM -NYU ForumThe Fall 2022 IRCAM Forum will be held at New York University (NYU) and hosted by the NYU Music Technology and Music Theory & Composition programs from September 30 to October 3, 2022.

At Harvestworks, Peter Traver, Kamari CarterHanae Azuma and Trevor Van de Velde will receive Workspace Residencies and show their work during the Forum.

The IRCAM-NYU artist residency program at Harvestworks is a one month opportunity during which, up to four artists, will finish their proposed work in September 2022. The artworks fall within the scope of “interaction and sound design” focusing on one or more of the following topics: composer/performer/computer interaction, improvisation, and collaboration; sonification and generative sound exploration; soundscape [re]sonification, interaction, sensing and sensor networks; and educational tools in interaction and sound design. Artists are given a workspace residency table at Harvestworks for the one-month duration of the residency.

PRESENTATIONS

Saturday October 1st at 3:30 pm will feature a performance by Workspace Resident Hanae Azuma. A new electro-acostic music composition for Taiko (Japanese drum) computer and multichannel speakers. OUTDOORS

Sunday October 2nd at 1 pm. Fellow resident Kamari Carter will perform Echolocation, an immersive city soundscape. OUTDOORS

FREE and open to the public. 
LOCATION: The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors island.

[Oct 2] Echolocation I – by Kamari Carter

This new composition/performance by Kamari Carter is an immersive city soundscape mixing real-time live Police and EMS audio with that of The Conet Project, a collection of over 130 Shortwave Number Station Recordings curated into a comprehensive five disk compilation by British record label Iridal-Discs.

Peter Traver

Peter Traver is a Master’s student at NYU in Music Technology. He strives to create pieces in various media that will help people move forward from anything that is getting them stuck in the world. His music involves heavy synthesis and interactivity, which he finds extremely important as we collectively emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic and begin to interact with each other again. Peter graduated from Brown University with degrees in Applied Mathematics and Music. After briefly pursuing a career as an opera singer, he began to work with video to create multimedia projects. Prior to moving to New York he was working at Harvard University as a multimedia specialist, as well as serving as the Artistic and Executive director of zFestival.

Kamari Carter

Kamari Carter (b. 1992) is a sound designer, and installation artist
primarily working with sound and found objects. Carter’s practice circumvents
materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification
techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression,
control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the
concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand to narrative
structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues
as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mama Contemporary, RISD Museum, Microscope Gallery, Lenfest
Center for the Arts, WaveHill and has been featured in a range of major publications
including ArtNet, Precog Magazine, LevelGround and WhiteWall. Carter holds a BFA in
Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from
Columbia University.

Hanae Azuma

Hanae Azuma (Hana) is a composer, sound artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hanae completed both her BM and MM at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment. During her studies in Japan, she mainly concentrated on the relationship between music and other visual/performing arts such as dance and films and has been collaborating with contemporary dancers on various projects as a composer. She studied not only classical and contemporary music composition but also learned Japanese traditional instrument Koto, traditional performance Kyogen, jazz theory etc. at Tokyo University of the arts to expand the capability of her creativity. She also completed her MM of music technology at New York University in 2014.

Trevor Van de Velde

Trevor Van de Velde (he/him) is an experimental composer, sound artist,
instrument builder, and creative programmer based in Brooklyn. His practice is
oriented toward exploring the relationship between technology, play, and hybridity
through electroacoustic composition, custom-built electronics, and mixed-media. He
is the recipient of the 2018 Nicola De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, 2020
Eisner Prize for the Creative Arts, 2021 Guarini Alumni Award, and Hopkins Center
for the Arts Art+Technology grant. He presented work at festivals such as New Music
On the Point (2021), The Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance (2021), Labo
Montreal (2021), Yarn/Wire Institute (2022) and Ensemble Evolution (2022) and has
worked with a variety ensembles such as JACK Quartet, The Living Earth Show, and
Chromic Duo. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Music
Composition from UC Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Digital Music from Dartmouth
College. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Music Composition at NYU GSAS.