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MERAKI

Daniel Belquer, Aria Pretzel, Fito Segrera, Frances Wang, Kevin Ramsay, Marc Wilhite, Nicole Messier, Patricia Harris, Yana Bÿrikova

MERAKI is a responsive environment with live performance. Interactive wires are attached to 4 spatialized speakers and human body capacitance is therefore used to trigger alterations on sound and image. Live guitar, melodica, voice and midi controllers are used to create a sonic atmosphere that floods the space with a large range of sonic impulses.

[Oct 20 2013] Harvestworks International Art Collective: MERAKI

Daniel Belquer, Aria Pretzel, Fito Segrera, Frances Wang, Kevin Ramsay, Marc Wilhite, Nicole Messier, Patricia Harris, Yana Bÿrikova
October 20th 2013 6.30 to 9pm
Admission: FREE

Location: Harvestworks
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker

Meraki is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe when you really put yourself into what you’re doing, whatever it may be. We embraced this concept because that’s what Harvestworks International Art Collective is all about. Boundaries are driven from each members own passions and desires rather than by excluding processes.

We are touching the issues of presence, virtuality, human interaction in various forms. The audience is engaged in a conversation with the space and an exploration where presence creates a connection between the physical and the digital.

The relations between each person and the space is constantly being altered not only by the audience’s relation to the actual installation, but also because of all the sonic stymulus coming from the players in the opposite side of the room.

Representatives from 4 continents, 6 different countries have been gathered together and kept working moved by mutual admiration and passion for art, overcoming personal, cultural and background differences to accomplish this interdisciplinary project.

Harvestworks International Art Collective is:

Daniel Belquer (Brazil) – project coordination
Aria Pretzel (USA)
Fito Segrera (Colombia)
Frances Wang (China)
Kevin Ramsay (USA)
Marc Wilhite (USA)
Nicole Messier (USA)
Patricia Harris (Liberia)
Yana Bÿrikova (Russia)

Photos

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Past performance

Oct 20 · 6:30pm · 9:00pm

Harvestworks Studio

596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012

Aria Pretzel

NONE

Fito Segrera

NONE

Frances Wang

Creative Direction, Interactive/Visual Programming, Sound Design

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Kevin Ramsay

Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound
engineer, and musician on several critically acclaimed international albums.
Brooklyn born and based, Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical
aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and
electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and
process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems. In addition to
serving as the Lead Sound Engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to
collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as
their main creative medium. Kevin has worked with notable artists such as Michael
Byron, Henry Threadgil, Art Jones, Joan Jonas, Pauline Kim- Harris and Conrad Harris
(String Noise), Anne Tardos, Danilio Correale, Maria Grand, Prince Harvey, Emilio
Vavarella, Malik Ameer Crumpler, Daniel Belquer, Jon-Carlos Evans and many others.

Marc Wilhite

NONE

Nicole Messier

NONE

Patricia Harris

NONE

Yana Bÿrikova

NONE