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Max/MSP/Jitter fair

Lisa Karrer, David Simons

Gary Lee Nelson
February 20
Nelson will present new media works including interactive pieces using MAX/MSP/JITTER and a screening of several short films made in collaboration with painter/filmmaker Christine Gorbach. Nelson teaches at Oberlin College and has performed more than 250 concerts in the US and abroad since 1987. Funded in part by Meet The Composer.

Brenda Hutchinson
April 28
A performance with the Long Tube and interactive interface that she has designed for MAX/MSP. In addition to live sampling and playback during performance, the interface triggers samples and changes in virtual acoustic space. Brenda was recently awarded an individual artist fellowship in Media from the California Arts Council and has also received comissions from the American Composers’ Forum, NEA and Meet The Composer/Reader’s Digest. Brenda is currently on the faculty of Bard College.

Jody Zellen & Tomie Arai
February 24
Jody Zellen, an LA-based artist, will present “Disembodied Voices”, a web project illustrating the collision of personal/private and public space. Using cell phone sounds and images of the urban environment, this project looks at how private conversations have become public spectacles. Harvestworks Certificate Student Tomie Arai is an installation artist who recently designed her first webproject, “Triple Happiness,” a document of the experiences of Asians of mixed heritage.

Bill Fontana
February 28
Bill Fontana is an American artist internationally known for his experimental work in sound. Fontana regards the physical environment as a living source of musical information, with aesthetic and evocative qualities that can conjure up visual imagery. The artist will talk about past and future works including “Falling Echos”, his recent commission by Creative Time for the exhibition “Consuming Places”.

Max/MSP/Jitter fair
March 10
In this day-long fair Harvestworks Residents Andrea Parkins, Douglas Henderson and Joseph Reinsel will perform a wide range of artworks created with Max/MSP/Jitter. The artists and Harvestworks’ engineers will be available to answer questions.

Experience Surround Sound
March 10
Chief Engineer Paul Geluso will demonstrate a variety of 5.1 Surround Sound works. This new standard for audio recording adds space as an exciting dimension to sound recordings and installations. New markets open up for artists as DVD and surround sound becomes popular in the home and for art exhibits.

David First
March 24
“Music of the Sphere” Operation:Kracpot is a concept band formed to explore, exploit and emulate the frequencies emitted by the human brain and the Earth’s magnetic field. Performers include David First – guitars/synthesizer/Max/MSP programming, Lisa Karrer – voice, Dafna Naphtali – synthesizer/Max/MSP programming, Jim Pugliese – percussion and David Simons – percussion, sampler.

Holland Hopson
March 31
A 4-channel audio installation using Marcel Duchamp’s “With Hidden Noise” sculpture as a controller. The replica of the sculpture will control the sounds of machines (coffee grinders, railroads, pulleys, spinning disks, etc) intended to conjure aural images relating to Duchamp’s work. Holland is a composer currently living in Texas.

Zack Settel
April 7
Zack Settel will perform “Punjar,” a work for solo soprano saxophone and interactive electronic improvisation which marries hi-tech with lo-tech, as electrified skateboards and kitchen utensils are combined with saxophone and guitar and subjected to real-time Digital Signal Processing. Settel composes music full-time and teaches composition at the University of Montreal.

Studio Fair
April 12
Held from 12:00-5:00pm the Harvestworks Studio Fair will introduce vistors to our studios and engineers.

Kurt Ralske and the 242.pilots
April 14
The 242.pilots (HC Gilje / Lukasz Lysakowski / Kurt Ralske) will present their real-time video performance system accompanied with a discussion of their strategies for improvising with images (and simultaneously with sound). Their DVD ” Live in Bruxelles” is nominated for an Image Award at Transmediale.03 Festival in Berlin.

Chico Macmurtrie
April 21
A 3-machine performance with the YoYo Pay drums. The YoYo Pay drums are part of the community of 60 interactive, computer-controlled robotic sculptures that perform in creative, technological concert with one another. Chico MacMurtrie is the artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works. “ARW” is an award-winning collaboration of artists, technicians and programmers that make sculptural anthropomorphic robots and robotic performance environments.

Joshua Fried and the Lemur Orchestra
May 12
Joshua will perform a work in progress for computer and odd objects. Downtown experimenter Joshua Fried has played at Lincoln Center, Bang On a Can and the HERE Art Center, plus LA, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Prague. His recording “Jimmy Because” was released by Atlantic Records.

Birth of George CD Release Party
May 15
Tellus release party for Lisa Karrer and David Simons’s new Birth of George CD.

*Listen, Send, Tell*
June 13
Creative Time and Harvestworks are co-hosting the New York site of *Listen, Send, Tell* : a live online collaborative intervention of word/image surges triggered by sound, by Isabelle Jenniches (in New York) and Michelle Teran (in Rotterdam), with Radiotopia (in Graz).

Surround Sound Series, a continuation of our “Listen In” Series for Summer 2003. 

Jerri Allyn
July 10
Allyn will present an audio tour of her recent installation, “A Chair is a Throne is A Freedom Fighter’s Camp Stool,” produced in collaboration with award-winning radio producer Helene Rosenbluth. “A Chair is a Throne is a Freedom Fighter’s Camp Stool” consists of 21 life size chairs with CD players in the design of every seat for the public to listen to audio stories and soundscapes that act as portraits of people who are resolving conflicts creatively or have rendered thought-provoking alternatives to punishment. The chairs are set in a continuously changing formation, inviting audience members to experience how seating arrangements affect communication.

Bruce Gremo & Hans Tammen

July 17
“Risk Management” determines itself by strategies through which the two players force themselves constantly into unfamiliar terrain. The musical tension resides in the response to this unknown, and both are experts in navigating between the common and the obscure. Computers allow them to travel with multiple identities through a complex landscape. This time the topography is defined by Harvestworks’ state-of-the-art 5.1 Surround Sound system, encircling the audience as it will join the artists on their adventurous journey.

Latasha Diggs

July 24
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs’ audio project “Television” explores a myriad of spoken word, sound bits and electronic vocal manipulationdives to examine how television is used as escape and therapy to not only working poor African American women but also to the masses. Diggs will perform excerpts from her residency that feature vocal loops and soundscapes created with the Line 6 delay modeler and Kaoss Effects pads.

Experience Surround Sound II
August 7
Harvestworks’ chief engineer Paul Geluso will demonstrate and discuss works by artists who have utilized 5.1 Surround Sound technology. This new standard for audio recording adds space as an exciting dimension to sound recordings and installations, opening up new markets for artists as DVD technology and surround sound become more popular in the home and gallery.

Kenta Nagai: Microphone Amplification
August 14
Kenta Nagai’s “shimmering#4” is one in a series of aural contemplations on risk, tension and human nature. Nagai begins by producing feedback with tiny condenser microphones whose initial output is controlled with extremely subtle hand gestures. Using an assortment of foot pedals and digital controls, Nagai harmonizes and orchestrates layers of sound. Sampled feedback and continuously self-generating new tones are used together in creating the composition.

PSI
August 21
“psi” is a Brooklyn, NY based electro-acoustic trio featuring Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar), and Fritz Welch (drums & amplified percussion).

VIDEO SCREENING 002
September 8
Works by Harvestworks’ artist/engineers and artist/educators including Carlton Bright, Iki Nakagawa, LIsa Oppenheim, Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand, Jojo Whilden, Shaun Irons & Lauren Pett, and Terry Nauheim.

Mark Eisenstein & Yasuaki Nakajima
September 22
Harvestworks presents Studio Project Films: Mark Eisenstein’s “God Is On Their Side” followed by Yasuaki Nakajima’s “After the Apocalypse”.

Bruce Wands
September 29
Wands presents “Variations 703,” an interactive music installation recently exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego, CA.

Yael Acher
October 6
As a flutist and composer in multiple genres, Yael Acher’s Solo Flute & electronics performance gives expression to her free improvisation and eclecticism. Acher uses polyrhythm, polytonality and atonality with the deep, burning, cool pulse of jazz and a variety of ritualistic elements inspired by nomadic cultures. In this performance, Acher´s flute is connected via Max/MSP to the electronic audio system to create real time soundscapes in a structured but freeform style.

Iki Nakagawa & Torsten Burns
October 20
Iki Nakagawa presents “On The Table”, an installation commissioned by Harvestworks wih NYSCA funds. Torsten Burns (AIR 2003) presents “Extending trainer: Pressure Suits & Broom Crafts”, an experimental video.

Ana Busto & Jerome Annum
October 27
Ana Busto (AIR 2003) presents “Cuban Boxing”, a new video work and other pieces. Jerome Annum, (AIR 2003) presents new video work.

Wago Kreider & Alison Crocetta
November 10
Wago Kreider (AIR 2003) will present “Menagerie of the City”, a new video work, Alison Crocetta (AIR 2003) presents “Reveal/Clear/Fill”, super-8 films.

Video Screening 2003
November 14
Harvestworks presents a video screening curated by Sara Reisman, independent curator and 2002-03 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Ariel Bustamante & Matt Ostrowski
November 24
International MAX/MSP Certificate Artist Ariel Bustamante will present new work. Matthew Ostrowski (AIR 2003) will present his “Telemusic”, a new Internet-based audio work.

Stuart Argabright
December 1
Stuart will present music from the “NowThenAfter” Collection of electronic music he has produced for Harvestworks, as well as a selection from “The Bi Conicals Of The Rammellzee” Album, remixed and rendered in 5.1 by Paul Geluso. A producer and director who has worked in music and multimedia in NYC since 1978, Stuart has created The Futants, Ike Yard, Dominatrix, DCC aka Death Comet Crew, The Voodooists, black rain and Dystopians.

Gary Lee Nelson

Nelson will present new media works including interactive pieces using MAX/MSP/JITTER and a screening of several short films made in collaboration with painter/filmmaker Christine Gorbach. Nelson teaches at Oberlin College and has performed more than 250 concerts in the US and abroad since 1987. Funded in part by Meet The Composer.

Jody Zellen & Tomie Arai

Jody Zellen, an LA-based artist, will present “Disembodied Voices”, a web project illustrating the collision of personal/private and public space. Using cell phone sounds and images of the urban environment, this project looks at how private conversations have become public spectacles. Harvestworks Certificate Student Tomie Arai is an installation artist who recently designed her first web project, “Triple Happiness,” a document of the experiences of Asians of mixed heritage.

Bill Fontana

Bill Fontana (b. 1947, United States) is an American composer and media
artist who has developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments
in sound. Since the early 70s, Fontana has used sound as a sculptural medium to
interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. He
has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast
organizations around the world. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of
American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
the Post Museum in Frankfurt; the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna;
the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; the 48th Venice Biennale; the National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; MAXXI,
Rome; and MAAT, Lisbon. He has done major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the
European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public
Radio, West German Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the Austrian State
Radio. He is currently working on new commissions for the Kunsthaus Graz, the
International Renewable Energy Agency, and the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

“I began my career as a composer. What really began to interest me was not so much
the music that I could write but the states of mind I would experience when I felt
musical enough to compose. In those moments, when I became musical, all the sounds
around me also became musical. I have worked for the past 50 years creating
installations that use sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform
our perceptions of visual and architectural settings. These have been installed in
public spaces and museums around the world including San Francisco, New York, Rome,
Paris, London, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin, Venice, Sydney, Tokyo, Barcelona, Linz,
Manchester, Istanbul and Abu Dhabi. My sound sculptures use the human and/or natural
environment as a living source of musical information. I am assuming that at any
given moment there will be something meaningful to hear and that music, in the sense
of coherent sound patterns, is a process that is going on constantly. My methodology
has been to create networks of simultaneous listening points that relay real time
acoustic data to a common listening zone (sculpture site). Since 1976 I have called
these works sound sculptures. I have produced a large number of works that explore
the idea of creating live listening networks. These all use a hybrid mix of
transmission technologies that connect multiple sound retrieval points to a central
reception point. What is significant in this process are the conceptual links
determining the relationships between the selected listening points and the
site-specific qualities of the reception point (sculpture site). Some conceptual
strategies have been acoustic memory, the total transformation of the visible
(retinal) by the invisible (sound), hearing as far as one can see, the relationship
of the speed of sound to the speed of light, and the deconstruction of our
perception of time. From the late nineties until the present my projects have
explored hybrid listening technologies of acoustic microphones, underwater sensors
(hydrophones) and structural/material sensors (accelerometers). Some of my most
recent works I call Acoustical Visions and are explorations of the image that a
sound makes and the sound that an image makes.”

Douglas Henderson

Douglas Henderson (Installation) for completing an interactive
sound/sculpture installation piece titled Petals on a Wet, Black Bough. Consisting
of thirty voices, each individual element of the piece reflects a part of humanity.
All autonomous to each other yet connected by the aggregate sound woven into part of
a larger composition or rather a social fabric. Henderson is a composer and
performer who recently won a Bessie award for Kriyas, a collaboration with Guy
Yarden and Mia Lawrence. (Radio) for preparing Aural Safari for radio broadcast.
Aural Safari is based on a “sound hunting” expedition Christopher recently made in
New York.

Joseph Reinsel

Joseph Reinsel will create a DVD that will contain a new multi-movement
video and surround-sound work entitled Liminal Presence to be shown in galleries and
film festivals. An audio-visual investigation of Baltimore, Maryland where the
artist currently resides, each movement will exist as a visual poem on its own, but
will also be connected to the other works in the sequence by common themes in the
visuals and sound. With his background in music composition, Reinsel creates aural
and visual art using digital and analog tools and instruments. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts at College of Notre Dame of Maryland in
Baltimore.

Holland Hopson

A 4-channel audio installation using Marcel Duchamp’s “With Hidden
Noise” sculpture as a controller. The replica of the sculpture will control the
sounds of machines (coffee grinders, railroads, pulleys, spinning disks, etc)
intended to conjure aural images relating to Duchamp’s work. Holland is a composer
currently living in Texas.

Zack Settel

Zack Settel will perform “Punjar,” a work for solo soprano saxophone and interactive electronic improvisation which marries hi-tech with lo-tech, as electrified skateboards and kitchen utensils are combined with saxophone and guitar and subjected to real-time Digital Signal Processing. Settel composes music full-time and teaches composition at the University of Montreal.

Kurt Ralske and the 242.pilots

The 242.pilots (HC Gilje / Lukasz Lysakowski / Kurt Ralske) will present their real-time video performance system accompanied with a discussion of their strategies for improvising with images (and simultaneously with sound). Their DVD ” Live in Bruxelles” is nominated for an Image Award at Transmediale.03 Festival in Berlin.

Chico Macmurtrie

A 3-machine performance with the YoYo Pay drums. The YoYo Pay drums are part of the community of 60 interactive, computer-controlled robotic sculptures that perform in creative, technological concert with one another. Chico MacMurtrie is the artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works. “ARW” is an award-winning collaboration of artists, technicians and programmers that make sculptural anthropomorphic robots and robotic performance environments.

Joshua Fried and the Lemur Orchestra

Joshua will perform a work in progress for computer and odd objects. Downtown experimenter Joshua Fried has played at Lincoln Center, Bang On a Can and the HERE Art Center, plus LA, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Prague. His recording “Jimmy Because” was released by Atlantic Records.

Jerri Allyn

Allyn will present an audio tour of her recent installation, “A Chair
is a Throne is A Freedom Fighter’s Camp Stool,” produced in collaboration with
award-winning radio producer Helene Rosenbluth. “A Chair is a Throne is a Freedom
Fighter’s Camp Stool” consists of 21 life size chairs with CD players in the design
of every seat for the public to listen to audio stories and soundscapes that act as
portraits of people who are resolving conflicts creatively or have rendered
thought-provoking alternatives to punishment. The chairs are set in a continuously
changing formation, inviting audience members to experience how seating arrangements
affect communication.

Bruce Gremo & Hans Tammen

“Risk Management” determines itself by strategies through which the two players force themselves constantly into unfamiliar terrain. The musical tension resides in the response to this unknown, and both are experts in navigating between the common and the obscure. Computers allow them to travel with multiple identities through a complex landscape. This time the topography is defined by Harvestworks’ state-of-the-art 5.1 Surround Sound system, encircling the audience as it will join the artists on their adventurous journey.

Latasha Diggs

Latasha Diggs (Music) for work on Imperfecciones: La Magic de la
Television, an audio project using the spoken word and sound motifs exploring the
use of television amongst working poor African American women and how this
particular medium is commonly used as a means of escape and therapy not only to
African American women but also to the masses. Latasha will record, mix and master a
CD using various vocal loops, bits from various television shows and a one on one
interview with mom combined with different instruments. This project is scheduled to
perform at various venues through out Manhattan and broadcast on WBAI’s Liquid Sound
Lounge in Fall/Winter 2002.

PSI

“psi” is a Brooklyn, NY based electro-acoustic trio featuring Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar), and Fritz Welch (drums & amplified percussion).

Mark Eisenstein & Yasuaki Nakajima

Harvestworks presents Studio Project Films: Mark Eisenstein’s “God Is On Their Side” followed by Yasuaki Nakajima’s “After the Apocalypse”.

Bruce Wands

Wands presents “Variations 703,” an interactive music installation recently exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego, CA.

Yael Acher

As a flutist and composer in multiple genres, Yael Acher’s Solo Flute & electronics performance gives expression to her free improvisation and eclecticism. Acher uses polyrhythm, polytonality and atonality with the deep, burning, cool pulse of jazz and a variety of ritualistic elements inspired by nomadic cultures. In this performance, Acher´s flute is connected via Max/MSP to the electronic audio system to create real time soundscapes in a structured but freeform style.

Iki Nakagawa & Torsten Burns

Iki Nakagawa presents “On The Table”, an installation commissioned by Harvestworks with NYSCA funds. Torsten Burns (AIR 2003) presents “Extending trainer: Pressure Suits & Broom Crafts”, an experimental video.

Ana Busto & Jerome Annum

Ana Busto (AIR 2003) presents “Cuban Boxing”, a new video work and other pieces. Jerome Annum, (AIR 2003) presents new video work.

Wago Kreider & Alison Crocetta

Wago Kreider (AIR 2003) will present “Menagerie of the City”, a new video work, Alison Crocetta (AIR 2003) presents “Reveal/Clear/Fill”, super-8 films.

Ariel Bustamante & Matt Ostrowski

International MAX/MSP Certificate Artist Ariel Bustamante will present new work. Matthew Ostrowski (AIR 2003) will present his “Telemusic”, a new Internet-based audio work.

Stuart Argabright

Stuart will present music from the “NowThenAfter” Collection of electronic music he has produced for Harvestworks, as well as a selection from “The Bi Conicals Of The Rammellzee” Album, remixed and rendered in 5.1 by Paul Geluso. A producer and director who has worked in music and multimedia in NYC since 1978, Stuart has created The Futants, Ike Yard, Dominatrix, DCC aka Death Comet Crew, The Voodooists, black rain and Dystopians.