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Third Eye Make Music NY Circuit Bending Orchestra & Workshop

Hans Tammen, Phillip Stearns

Third Eye Make Music NY Circuit Bending Orchestra & Workshop w/ Hans Tammen & Phillip Stearns

Program Jun 21 2012: Exploring the space at Dumbo Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Make Music NY Orchestra uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, performed by a Circuit Benders ensemble.

How to join the Amplifier Building Workshop Jun 20 at Harvestworks: We strongly encourage those who enroll in the Circuit Bending Mass Appeal to take the workshop, if they don’t have some way of amplifying their instruments. The workshop will take place June 20 at 6pm at Harvestworks, and will have a duration of 4 hours. All people above 16 are welcome, children age range 12-15 should be accompanied by an adult. Contact Phil Stearn for more details about the workshop and to register (we need to know how many people will show up!): phil@phillipstearns.com

The amplifier building workshop enrollment is limited to participants in the Third Eye MakeMusic NY Orchestra.  If you're enrolled in the Orchestra, you'll need battery powered amplification.  If you don't have amplification, you're strongly encouraged to enroll in the workshop.

http://makemusicny.org/schedule/#!/feature/mass-appeal

Dumbo Archway Location:
Water Street between Adams and Anchorage Place. The Archway is a 7,000 SF space under the Manhattan Bridge, paved with historic Belgian block and boasting a 45′ height. The Archway was closed for 17 years and used as a New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) facility for storing scrap metal. After years of our advocacy, DOT returned The Archway to the public.

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

Hans Tammen

​​Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world
of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He
produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating noises,
with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also
quiet pulses and barely audible sounds. Signal To Noise called his guitar works “…a
killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended
him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the
1990s.” He currently plays an analog modular synthesizer built around chaotic
behaviors, where small changes in the settings may yield widely diverging sonic and
rhythmic changes, forcing the player to constantly rethink and rearrange music. Hans
Tammen’s numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative
efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium
projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the
New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in
2009 for the ”Endangered Guitar” – a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to
control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form
compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing, or laptop/electronic
ensembles, are inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, and based on numerous
scored “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed. His works
have been presented on festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia, India, South
Africa and all over Europe. He recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK,
Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid. Hans
Tammen received grants and composer commissions from MAPFund, Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation, American Music Center, Chamber Music America, New York State Council On
The Arts (NYSCA), New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA), American Composers Forum
w/ Jerome Foundation, New York State Music Fund, Goethe Institute w/ Foreign Affairs
Office, among others.

Phillip Stearns

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Phillip Stearns is the creator of the Year of
the Glitch, a yearlong glitch-a-day project, and Glitch Textiles, a project
exploring the intersection of digital art and textile design. He received his MFA in
music composition and integrated media from the California Institute of Arts in 2007
and his BS in music technology from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2005.
His work has been exhibited internationally at electronics arts festivals, museums,
and galleries including: Turku Biennial 2013, WRO Biennale 2013, Transmediale 2013,
Denver Art Museum (2013), The Photographer’s Gallery London (2012), The Camera Club
of New York (2012), Eyebeam (2012, 2007), Harvestworks (2010, 2012); Gli.tc/H 2112;
Festival De Arte Digital 2010; FILE 2009; NIME 2009; Filmer La Musique 2009; FONLAD
2009; Torrance Art Museum (2008, 2007); Optica Film Festival & (2011 2008). He has
participated in residencies at the Making Lab of the 4th APAP ( Korea 2013),
Textielmuseum in Tilburg, NL (2013), Institute for Electronic Arts (2012, 2013),
Museums Quartier (Vienna 2010), STEIM (Amsterdam 2007, 2013), Experimental
Television Center (2009), Harvestworks (NY 2010), Free103Point9 (2012). He has
presented and led workshops at several international institutions including the
Universidad De Chile (Santiago 2013), Santiago Maker Space (2013), Pomona College
(2013), Recyclism Hacklab (Dublin 2013), and the Science Gallery (Dublin 2013).