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Oroboros

Bob Bellerue

Featuring Katie Porter, Burkhard Beins, Mazen Kerbage, Michael Vorfeld, Anaïs Maviel, Rashaan Carter, Mimi A., Christina Wheeler, C. Lavender, Claudia Robles

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces June Events for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island.  Opening on June 2nd with Oroboros a sound installation by Bob Bellerue (@halfnormal) followed by three weekends of new music performances in the evening and an electronic art exhibition.  This exciting new series of eclectic performances will engage with the evening environment on Governors Island and, continuing the practice of Harvestworks artists,  the exhibition will feature cutting edge sound and visual artworks. All events are free.

Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island 

MUSIC – all performances at 7 pm except June 24th (8 pm)

June 9: Eternities – a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter (Utah) and sound artist Bob Bellerue (NYC). Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. bit.ly/43m2cpJ

June 10: SAWT OUT -Experimental Improvised Music from Berlin – their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Burkhard Beins, Mazen Kerbage and Michael Vorfeld.

June 17: Anaïs Maviel, Rashaan Carter and Mimi A. Join us for a work-in-progress immersive sound bath and binaural beats bouquet at sunset. Electric & acoustic bass, modular synthesizers, harmonium, percussion, singing bowls and voice.

June 23: Christina Wheeler Prismatic Xtychs: Meditations on Chance, Choice, and Actionis the second in a series of structured improvisation performance works meditating on chance and choice through gestural and sonic action. 

June 24: C. LavenderSunset Meditative Performance will provide listeners with a moment of tranquility during sunset. An electro-acoustic performance that will feature brainwave modulating digital audio, presented in surround sound, with live gong playing.

EXHIBITION: open to the public Fri, Sat and Sun from 11 am – 5 pm

June 2 – 4 – Oroboros by Bob Bellerue is an ever-changing sequence of vocal recordings that are spatialized through the 3D speaker array, with additional sound objects made out speaker drivers and resonant metal.

June 9 – 18 – The Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Electronic Arts exhibition showcases a host of immersive and interactive audio-visual installations, multichannel music compositions, and performances featuring live coding, and a special live event featuring Pauline Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS).

June 24 – 25 – Reflexion – In Sync/out of Sync by Claudia Robles is an interactive installation where two visitors are invited to sit in front of each other surrounded by a light structure made of EL wires. This light structure is steered by their heartbeats measured with finger pulse sensors. 

Bios of the artists

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 30+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – noise, sound art, experimental music, junk metal percussion, Balinese gamelan, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. 

Katie Porter is a clarinetist and curator specializing in experimental music. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music. 

SAWT OUT – The Ensemble is Bogart Bines (D) – Percussion, Marcel Fouet (LB) – Trumpet, Mike Prefield (D) – Percussion.  Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. 

Anaïs Maviel as a vocalist and composer, Anaïs uses sound to explore relations, intimacy and subconsciousness. Focusing on the cosmologies of sound and therapeutic approaches.

New York based Rashaan Carter regularly performs with a myriad of artists in and outside of New York and can be found on various recordings as well. Montreal-based Mimi A. has been composing and showcasing her sound design talents in the context of movie soundtracks and artistic installations. She seeks to further her knowledge on audio synthesis, programming, and 3D audio spatialization.

Christina WheelerComposer, vocalist, multi-instrumental electronic musician, and multimedia artist Christina’s  sonic explorations include forays in a myriad of styles and forms. She blends improvised electronic music with processed vocals, vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler, theremin, Q-chord, autoharp, electric mbira, and glass armonica.

C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator. Her work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. www.clavender.net

The Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Electronic Arts exhibition – Featured artists include Jude Abu Zaineh, Matthew Goodheart, Rob Hamilton, Kathy High, Stephanie Loveless, Lisa Schonberg, Ricardo Tovar Mateus, and Silvia Ruzanka, with performances by Michael Century, Leo Chang, Kosmas Giannoutakis and Aaron Juarez, and Bibiana Med.

Claudia Robles-Angel was born in Bogotá (Colombia), living in Cologne (Germany). Composer, sound and new media artist, her work covers different aspects of visual and sound art, extending from acoustic and audio-visual compositions to interactive performances/installations using biomedical signals and Artificial Intelligence.

The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program is funded in part by New Music USA, the New York City Dept of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, mediaThe foundation inc and Friends of Harvestworks.

ABOUT HARVESTWORKS:  Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies.  Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public’s agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media.

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Program subject to change.  Check the website for the latest information.

Katie Porter

Katie Porter is a clarinetist and curator specializing in experimental music. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music.

SAWT OUT

Since its foundation in 2015, the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. After focusing entirely on their unusual acoustic instrumentation over the course of six years, consisting of trumpet and two sets of percussion, they invented an electro-acoustic version of the group as their second musical leg. Whether acoustic or electronic, these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction.

Sawt Out is:
Burkhard Beins (percussion)
Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet)
Michael Vorfeld (percussion)

Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel’s work as a vocalist, percussionist, composer and
community facilitator focuses on the function of music as essential to settling
common grounds, addressing Relation, and creating utopian future. Involved at the
crossroads of mediums, Anaïs has been an in-demand creative force for artists such
as William Parker, Daria Faïn, Shelley Hirsh, César Alvarez, Steffani Jemison – to
give a sense of an eclectic company. Anaïs is dedicated to substantial creations
from solo to large ensembles, music direction of cross-disciplinary works, and to
expanding the power of music as a healing & transformative act. Anaïs performs and
teaches extensively in New York, throughout the Americas and Europe. Both solo
albums hOULe & in the garden, out on Gold Bolus Recordings, received international
acclaim. Lastly, Anaïs Maviel is developing her composition language, especially
thanks to the support of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum
Create commission with The Rhythm Method String Quartet and 2021-2022 Jerome Hill
Artist Fellowship.

Rashaan Carter

Rashaan Carter worked and gained experience in the local scene in Washington D.C. and after high school, moved to New York City to attend the New School University. Rashaan studied with Buster Williams and Reggie Workman. Since moving to New York Rashaan has become entrenched in the jazz scene and has worked with Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller and Louis Hayes, Wallace Roney, Marc Cary, Cindy Blackman, Doug and Jean Carn, Antoine Roney, Sonny Simmons, and many more. He’s also studied with one of his prime influences, Ron Carter. Rashaan regularly performs with a myriad of artists in and outside of New York and can be found on various recordings as well.

Mimi Allard

Montreal-based artist Mimi Allard has been composing and showcasing her sound design talents in the context of movie soundtracks and artistic installations. She seeks to further her knowledge on audio synthesis, programming, and 3D audio spatialization.

C. Lavender

C. Lavender is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, sound healing
practitioner and educator whose work spans through live performance, recording,
installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She seeks to create an immersive
aural landscape for the listener, an experience which is intensely physical,
emotional, and ultimately cathartic. C. Lavender has performed, lectured and hosted
workshops at MoMA, The Whitney, and The Guggenheim, among other venues. C. Lavender
has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace!, and
RVNG Intl. C. Lavender published her debut book “Transcendent Waves: How Listening
Shapes Our Creative Lives,” with Anthology Editions in 2020.

Bob Bellerue

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video
curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood, NY. Over the last 30+ years he
has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities –
experimental music, sound art, noise, junk metal percussion ensembles, soundtracks
for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. Bob’s
electronic sound work is focused on resonant feedback systems, using amplified
instruments, objects, recordings, and spaces, in combination with electronics and
software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language.

Christina Wheeler

Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumental electronic musician, and
multimedia artist Christina Wheeler’s sonic explorations include forays in a myriad
of styles and forms. She blends an amalgam of improvised electronic music from an
array of sources: processed vocals, vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler, theremin,
Q-chord, autoharp, electric mbira, and glass armonica. Previous band projects
include Wiremouth, Floating People, and BlowOut, and current and past projects span
solo song-cycle series, solo instrumental improvisational compositions, immersive
solo and ensemble-based multimedia performance and generative installation projects,
and collaborations with Nicole Mitchell, Laraaji, Vernon Reid, Hprizm/Priest, Roscoe
Mitchell, and The Bakol, with Greg Tate and Satch Hoyt. A Los Angeles native,
Wheeler is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Manhattan School of
Music.  Wheeler continues to develop and present new, immersive, multimedia
works, and to write for her latest instrument, the glass armonica.

Claudia Robles-Angel

Claudia Robles-Angel is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá-Colombia, currently living in Cologne-Germany and active worldwide. Her work and research cover different aspects of visual and sound art, which extend from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to performances and installations interacting with bio-data via the usage of interfaces such as, for example, the EEG (electroencephalogram, measuring brain waves activity). Her work is constantly featured in not only media and sound-based festivals/conferences but also in group and solo exhibitions around the globe, for example, the ZKM Center in Karlsruhe; KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor, Bauhaus Museum für Gestaltung Berlin, the International Computer Music Conferences ICMC in Copenhagen, Montréal and Utrecht (2007/2009/2016); Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manizales (2009/2010/2013), ESPACIO Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires (2010), DRHA2010 Festival of Sensual Technologies in London (2010), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival NYCEMF (2010/2013-2016); the SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama (2009); the Re-New Festival in Copenhagen (2011); the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference NIME in Oslo (2011); ISEA 2011 Istanbul, at CAMP Festival – 55th Venice Biennale Prohelvetia – Salon Suisse (2013), Audio Art Festival Cracow (2013), CMMR Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research in Plymouth and Marseille (2013/2015), at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center New York City (2014), at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá (2008/2015), at MADATAC 07 Madrid (2016), Sound/Image colloquium in London (2016), IK Stichting Vlissingen (2016), Digitale Duesseldorf (2016) and more recently at Sonic Visions Reutlingen.