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February 18, 2006

Sonogrammar.2

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Moments of Correspondence Determined by Chance

Sonogrammar.2--Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 8pm, The Tank, 279 Church Street, NYC (Between Franklin and White).

Sonogrammar began as an organizing concept, a way of gathering certain artists working with media and performance in what we came to think of as a compositional mode. With this series we are interested in exploring the common languages of abstraction, expression, modulation, and control that are shared by many contemporary electronic and electro-acoustic composers, sound artists, film and video performers and installation artists.

Program: Shimpei Takeda, video: Particle and Andy Graydon, sound: Focal Plane; Richard Garet, video: IP - Iota Expansion and Bruce Tovsky, sound: Induction; Adam Kendall, video: Ultradian and Brendan Murray, sound: Ocean Of Dirt, Mountain Of Steam.

Tonight's focus is more intimate, as we invite composers in sound to present new original works alongside new work by image composers. Pairings were made based on perceived affinities in approach, or for potential interesting aesthetic contrast. Although the works are presented as duos, each sound work and video composition could be thought of as whole and distinct; in some cases the interplay between elements is intentional and intricate, in other cases the works are essentially performed in parallel, with moments of correspondence determined largely by chance.

The first edition of Sonogrammar, performed at 2005's Bushwick Art Projects Festival, focused directly on scored compositions for mixed media ensembles. These included live video scored compositions, audio scores guiding the work of image performers, as well as rules-based and text-centered compositions for both sound and image performers.

Posted by jo at February 18, 2006 09:34 AM

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