Cultural Conversations

March 2010 at Diapason Gallery : Theo Burt and Roc Jiminez de CisneroCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

image from theoburt.com, Colour Projections 2009

Diapason presents:

Theo Burt's Colour Projections
Colour Projections is a computer-based audio and video work creating precise relationships between sound and geometry.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’s Hands in the air, reach for the laser
Curated by Allon Kaye
Computer-generated piece for 12-channel diffusion system

March 6, 13, 20 and 27

2-8pm
free


Diapason
882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

This Week at Diapason Gallery : Two Extended PerformancesCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

 Diapason Gallery

TWO EXTENDED PERFORMANCES

Samuel Sfirri, Taylan Susam and Jason Brogan
Tuesday, February 9
8pm
$7 suggested
"Over the course of the night that separates the 9th from the 10th of February, composer-musicians Jason Brogan, Sam Sfirri and Taylan Susam of Wandelweiser will take vigil in the relaxed, sympathetic setting of Diapason Gallery and incant the daybreak."

rise set twilight
Thursday, February 11
8pm
$7 suggested
rise set twilight is the multimedia project of Linda Aubry Bullock and Michael T. Bullock.  Layering analog and digital feedback, phonography, and projections, rise set twilight creates immersive performance installations.  In 2009, rise set twilight performed at CABLE# Festival in Nantes, France; EMPAC in Troy, NY; and free103point9's Radio Festival NYC. 

For this performance, rise set twilight will create a live piece using field recordings; fuzzy drones of AM radio noise bands and forgotten cassettes; and video projections of rooms both real and fictional.

http://www.FineNoiseandLight.net/

882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

http://www.diapasongallery.org

The Chicago Underground Duo at Ballroom MarfaCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

Please join Ballroom Marfa tonight for an intimate concert with: 

The Chicago Underground Duo
 
Tuesday, February 9th
at the Masonic Lodge (124 N. Highland)
Doors at 8, Concert at 8:30
Free show - all are invited!

  Press Image : The Chicago Underground Duo Read more about them by clicking here

Liz Gerring Dance Company presents Lichtung/ ClearingCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

This Saturday Jan 9th at 2:30 pm there will be special preview of a new work Lichtung/ Clearing by the Liz Gerring Dance Company.  The full work will debut from March 11 to 14th at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

About Lichtung / Clearing:

In this new work for 6 dancers Liz Gerring continues her longtime collaboration with artists Scherrer and Schumacher, layering her choreography with light and sound. The audience is seated within a multi-channel sound and multiple projection area where space is both marked and defined through the movement and relationship between all three mediums.

Liz Gerring: "We're attempting to create an environment in which meaning is derived from the image not the story. Non-narrative movement is deepened by the other media, each following a parallel trajectory or tangent, allowing 'story' to exist independently for each member of the audience."

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Fourth Floor
(btw 9th and 10th) NYC
Howard Gilman Performance Space

Click here for more info: http://www.lizgerringdance.org/Upcoming.html

The Biomuse Trio at Diapason Gallery Sat. Jan 9thCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

The Biomuse Trio

Ben Knapp, Eric Lyon and Gascia Ouzounian

  using the human body as an "instrument" : The Biomuse Trio

The Biomuse Trio was founded in 2008 to perform computer chamber music integrating traditional classical performance, laptop processing of sound, and the transduction of bio-signals for the control of musical gesture. The work of the ensemble encompasses hardware design, audio signal processing, bio-signal processing, composition, improvisation, and gesture choreography. The Biomuse Trio consists of Gascia Ouzounian, violin, Ben Knapp, biomuse, and Eric Lyon, computer.

Saturday January 9 at 8:00pm
$7 suggested

Diapason Gallery
882 Third Avenue (@ 33rd Street), Brooklyn, 10th floor
Subways: D, N, R to 36th Street
Phone 718.499.5070 | Email info@diapasongallery.org

Analogos 14: A Night of Vintage Analog SynthesisCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

Analogos 14

a night of "vintage" analog synthesis

Performances and informal discussions, with KABIR CARTER, DAVID GALBRAITH, KATO HIDEKI, MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER, SERGEI TCHEREPNIN AND ED TOMNEY

Saturday December 19 at 8:00pm
$7 suggested

882 Third Avenue (@ 33rd Street), Brooklyn, 10th floor
Subways: D, N, R to 36th Street
Phone 718.499.5070 | Email info@diapasongallery.org

Kabir Carter: MoogerFooger and Moog pedals and synthesizers
David Galbraith: self-built electronics
Kato Hideki: Octave "Cat" synthesizer, bass
Michael J Schumacher: Steiner-Parker Synthacon synthesizer
Sergei Tcherepnin: Serge modular synthesizer
Ed Tomney: EMS VCS 3 "Putney" synthesizer, various

Analogos is a consortium of musicians creating new music using the unique characteristics and sonic capabilities of analog instruments, new, vintage and self-built. Saturday's concert will present a number of small groups playing both composed pieces and improvisations, utilizing Diapason's 4 channel PA system.
http://www.diapasongallery.org

November at Diapason Gallery: Nicolas Collins, Archival Jukebox, Kamran SadeghiCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

  Mr. Collins and his trombone-propelled electronics in action, Europe, late-1980s

Nicolas Collins: Tall Poppies
A sound and video installation

Saturdays in November: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 - 2-8PM
Reception Saturday November 7th, 6- 8PM  Free

Diapason Gallery is pleased to present Tall Poppies (2009), a new multi- channel sound and video installation by artist Nicolas Collins.

According to the artist, "In Tall Poppies, contact mikes on the stems of sparklers pick up the whoosh of the burning magnesium and the subsequent ping and pop of the wire cores as they cool.  Video projectors beam synchronized recordings of individual sparklers onto the walls of the gallery, each image accompanied by its own sound channel.  The vagaries in burn-time and cool-down produce an odd polyphony."Playing on a 2- minute loop, the videography for Tall Poppies is by Tommy Heffron. 

New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world.  He has studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University and worked with David Tudor for many years.  He lived and traveled in Europe for most of the 1990s, where he acted as Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and completed a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin.  Since 1997, he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999, has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  The second edition of his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, was published by Routledge in 2009.  Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGBs and the Concertgebouw. 
www.nicolascollins.com

Diapason Gallery
882 Third Avenue (@ 33rd Street) 10th floor
Brooklyn, NY
Subways: D, N, R to 36th Street
Phone 718.499.5070 | Email info@diapasongallery.org

"Iannis Xenakis : Composer, Architect, Visionary" Events begin this Week; Victoria Meyers lectures in Jan. 2010Cultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

  Philips Pavilion at the Brussells 1958 World's Fair, designed by Iannis Xenakis for Le Corbusier

Victoria Meyers will lecture as part of the comprehensive exhibition and event series centered around the "Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary" exhibition at the Drawing Center.  The exhibition will run from January 15 – April 8, 2010, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, January 14, 6-8 pm.  Click here to read the press release.

Kicking it off this week are two events:

Iannis Xenakis Panel Discussion and Concert by International Contemporary Ensemble

Friday, October 16 & Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Friday, October 16, 7:00pm
In conjunction with Miller Theatre's "Composer Portrait" of Iannis Xenakis on October 17, a consortium of artists and experts join together for a panel discussion focusing on the interdisciplinary connections between Xenakis's music and related work as a mathematician, architect, physicist, and political activist. Panelists include composer David Lang; musicologist and Xenakis specialist Sharon Kanach; Mark Wigley, Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Steven Schick, percussionist and conductor. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Lara Pellegrinelli.

Concert by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Saturday, October 17, 8:00pm
International Contemporary Ensemble will present a "Composer Portrait" of Xenakis featuring 19 performers with percussion superstar Steven Schick, who will play and conduct O-Mega, Xenakis's final composition, together with other musical selections by Xenakis. Tickets: $7 - $25

Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The Grand Marnier Foundation and other generous supporters.

Events are Free and Open to the Public : Click here for complete details

Victoria Meyers will speak at a three day Forum coinciding with the exhibition to be held at NYU Polytechnic Brooklyn Campus on January 29, 30, 31, 2010.  The forum is arranged by Carl Skelton and Sharon Kanach.  More details to come.

Perspectives on Microsound at Diapason GalleryCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

Kim Cascone (above) will perform as part of 10ms : Perspectives on Micrcound at Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn

10ms
Perspectives on Microsound

Diapason Gallery presents current perspectives on the idea of "microsound"- a technical term and also a musical genre - in honor of the 10th anniversary of the .microsound.org mailing list (founded by Kim Cascone). 10ms features multi-channel installations, sound objects, performances, lectures, texts, and other media.

Microsound is a term that encompasses explorations of sound on a time scale "shorter than musical notes." It includes and overlaps genres such as glitch music, granular synthesis, lowercase sound, etc.
 
Participating artists: Brett Ian Balogh, Riccardo Benassi, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, Rob Curgenven, Taylor Deupree, Ian Epps, Patrick Franke, Heribert Friedl, Richard Garet, Sarah Karp, Kenneth Kirschner, Thomas Köner, Tomas Korber, Damian Marhulets, Mamoru Okuno, Kamran Sadeghi, Erik Schoster, Phillip Schulze, Bernd Schurer, Keiko Uenishi and Tamara Yadao.
Curated by Daniel Neumann
 
Join us for a special celebratory dance party with djs showcasing microhouse through the past decade and live acts playing contemporary microsounds for the dancefloor.

The gallery at Diapason will be open Saturdays from 2-8. For a full schedule of events CLICK HERE to visit www.diapasongallery.org.

New Multi-Media works by Jung Hee Choi at MELA Foundation Dream HouseCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

Jung Hee Choi performing The Third Mind Live at the Guggenheim Museum

Jung Hee Choi
Thursday - Saturday, September 17, 18, 19, 2009, 6 pm to Midnight
MELA Foundation Dream House 
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013
Between Franklin  White Streets in Tribeca
212-925-8270; 212-219-3019

MELA Foundation's Studio View presentation of Jung Hee Choi’s recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest

Unmanifest II, has been extended for one additional week.  The exhibition will be open Thursday through Saturday, September 17 – 19, 2009, from 6 pm to midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York.  Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II features three multimedia installations, a series of drawings, videos and a sound environment including her new installation work Composition 2009 #1 created with needlepoint drawings on black wrap with video. Viewers experience the drawings as indiscernibly moving light from video projection glowing through the pinholes creating abstract and analogous representation of Manifest Unmanifest.

Please visit  http://melafoundation.org, call 212-925-8270 or email mail@melafoundation.org for more information.