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2016 Fall Brochure PERFORMANCES FILM / VIDEO MUSIC / SOUND TALKS the curtis r. priem experimental media empac.rpi.edu and performing arts center 518.276.3921 Please note: the calendar is current as of printing; our website is CALENDAR / FALL 2016 continually updated throughout the season: empac.rpi.edu. ON VIEW / AUG 22–SEP 02 THU / SEP 01, 7:00 PM FRI / SEP 02, 7:30 PM WED / SEP 07, 7:30 PM TUE / SEP 13, 7:30 PM THU / SEP 22, 7:30 PM AUGUST SEPTEMBER STUDENT UNION MUSIC / SOUND MUSIC / SOUND, INSTALLATION FILM / VIDEO, TALK MUSIC / SOUND, PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE, DANCE UNION SPEAKERS FORUM 108 Troubles Patricia L Boyd and Anne Boyer 108 Troubles Three Cases of Amnesia Trois Hommages by Georg Friedrich Haas Rob Hamilton Rob Hamilton Jonah Bokaer Matt Roloff Mabel Kwan THU / SEP 29, 7:00 PM THU / OCT 06, 8:00 PM THU / OCT 13, 7:00 PM FRI / OCT 14, 9:00–10:30 AM MON / OCT 17, 7:00 PM THU / OCT 27, 7:00 PM SAT / OCT 29, 8:00 PM OCTOBER PERFORMANCE, FILM / VIDEO One can make out the surface only FILM / VIDEO / SERIES, TALK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING TALK, WORKSHOP FILM / VIDEO, SERIES, TALK by placing any dark-colored object Return of the Electric Love (Take II) Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: Hypercube on the ground MUSIC / SOUND MUSIC / SOUND Ephraim Asili National Manufacturing Day on Kinesthetic Politics Charles Atlas Hannah Rickards Lapalux Naomi Bragin Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn FRI / NOV 04, 9:00 PM THU / NOV 10, 7:00 PM SAT / NOV 19 THU / DEC 01, 7:00 PM FRI / DEC 09, 8:00 PM THU / DEC 18 NOVEMBER DECEMBER SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES RENSSELAER FILM / VIDEO, SERIES, TALK ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES TALK, FILM / VIDEO MUSIC / SOUND HOLIDAY CONCERT The Unreliable Narrator Ipsa Dixit MUSIC / SOUND Magic Electronics Martine Syms Jlin + Qrion Fall Concert Laure Prouvost Kate Soper Winter Concert KRISTINE HARUNA LEE PERFORMS IN EARLY SUMMER DEVELOPMENT OF CELLIST MARIEL ROBERTS WORKS IN THE CONCERT HALL DURING A DANCER AND FILM ARTIST CAROLINE GARCIA PRODUCES FLYGIRL DANCER AND SCHOLAR NAOMI BRAGIN WILL PRESENT THE INTERACTIVE MEDIA ARTIST ANDREW SCHNEIDER’S UNIFIED FIELD THEORY. SUMMER RECORDING RESIDENCY. A RESIDENCY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR WORKSHOP BLACK POWER OF HIPHOP DANCE: ON KINESTHETIC POLITICS THE ARTS. ON OCT. 17. FILM SERIES ON VIEW / MON–FRI 9–5, SAT 10–4 AUG 22–SEP 02 / FREE Watering the Flowers The SubBassProtoTon Ephraim Asili, Charles Atlas, and Martine Syms Johannes Goebel FILM / VIDEO INSTALLATION First invented in 1986 and recently reconstructed on the EMPAC mezzanine, the SubBassProtoTon is a walk-in cubical organ pipe that allows visitors to physically experience frequencies that are too low for audible perception and to interactively explore sound when it reaches the range of hearing. The exhibit is free and open to the public during normal daytime hours (9-5 Mon-Fri; 10-4 Sat). PHOTO BY E. BAUMGARTNER The SubBassProtoTon (literally, “below-low-first-tone”) was first constructed by EMPAC’s Director Johannes Goebel for a large outdoor art event in Germany, and then traveled Europe as part 108 Troubles of a sound exhibition for children and students. Rob Hamilton MUSIC / SOUND, INSTALLATION The instrument consists of a wooden box large enough to com- fortably accommodate two to three people. When inside, partici- pants can manipulate a sliding wooden wedge that opens and This two-week installation is presented in advance of a closes a window at the front of the box. Air is generated by a performance on September 2 at 7:30 PM motorized organ blower outside the box and is channeled towards the wedge where different sounds are created depending on how In Spring 2016, EMPAC completed construction on a 496- L’ARROSEUR ARROSÉ (1895), LOUIS LUMIÈRE. PUBLICUTY IMAGE far the wedge is opened or closed. This oscillating air pressure channel wave-field audio system, one of the most extensive in results in a sonic frequency that moves from the audible human the world. Consisting of very small speaker heads oriented very THU / OCT 13 / 7 PM Watering the Flowers is a new year-long The title has also been referred to in distinct range to below what can be heard, yet can be physically felt. close together, the system produces a 3D audio environment by Return of the Electric Love (Take II) screening program. Each evening focuses on ways: The Waterer Watered or The Sprinkler localizing the source of individual sounds with an extreme level Ephraim Asili a recent film or video by an EMPAC- Sprinkled or The Tables Turned on the Gardener. The instrument allows visitors to explore some fundamental of precision. As of yet unexplored, this array will give electronic affiliated artist, and will be succeeded by a This act of differing translation points to principles of sound while actually being immersed in the box composers access to a new dimension of space and immersion in THU / OCT 27 / 7 PM program of other shorts or features that were the subjective relationship each of us has itself. Anyone who interacts with the ProtoTon, regardless of their work. Hypercube influential in the making of their work, to language, either textual, visual, or sonic. age and musical or scientific aptitude, can come to understand Charles Atlas whether fiction or documentary, experi- All artists are inspired by and learn from the basic dynamic of sound behind instruments as diverse as the For the wave field array’s inaugural performance, Rensselaer mental or commercial. others, and this program seeks to “water organ, flute, or ocarina, and enjoy the gentle massage that comes Professor Rob Hamilton will create a running installation August THU / NOV 10 / 7 PM the flowers,” so to speak, opening a space from standing inside these instruments’ vibrations. 22–September 2, and performance on September 2, to explore The Unreliable Narrator Watering the Flowers, or L’Arroseur, is the for collective watching through the artist’s and demonstrate advanced concepts of spatialized sound. Using Martine Syms title of a lost film from 1896 by cinema eyes. At a time when so many of our mov- a Disklavier piano, Hamilton will transform digitally recorded notes pioneer Georges Méliès, based on Louis ing images are viewed from a computer or and distribute them across each of the independently controlled Lumière’s film L’Arroseur Arrosé, which handheld device, and our selections are speakers in the system. Audiences are encouraged to physically CURATOR: VICTORIA BROOKS was released the previous year. L’Arroseur channeled algorithmically according to our explore the resulting environment much like a giant sonic hologram. Arrosé is often credited as the first fiction narrow interests, this program provides film, and its 45 seconds comprise a single the opportunity to see films that are Dr. Rob Hamilton, a composer, performer, researcher and soft- gag played on a gardener watering his “lost.” Not films lost in the sense of ware designer, explores the cognitive implications of the spaces plants. Highly influential to the develop- Méliès’ work, but films that are potentially between interactive game environments, network topographies, ment of both narrative cinema and on- masked by the flood of daily data. Watering and procedurally-generated sound and music. Dr. Hamilton joined screen comedy, it was endlessly copied, the Flowers pursues inspiration through the Department of Arts at Rensselaer as an assistant professor of parodied, duplicated, and is appropriated the juxtaposition of the unusual, the Music and Media in 2015. even to this day. Its promotional poster banned, the overlooked, the old, the new, was also a first: an audience watching the the personal, the counter-historical, the CURATOR: ARGEO ASCANI PHOTO BY E. BAUMGARTNER film—an image of cinema itself. experimental, and the popular. THU / SEP 01, 7:00 PM / $6 WED / SEP 07, 7:30 PM / $18, $13, RPI STUDENTS $6 THU / SEP 22, 7:30 PM / $18, $13, RPI STUDENTS $6 Patricia L Boyd and Anne Boyer Three Cases of Amnesia Mabel Kwan FILM / VIDEO Jonah Bokaer Trois Hommages by Georg Friedrich Haas DANCE, PERFORMANCE MUSIC / SOUND “Sensation is the enemy of quantification. There is no machine, yet, to which a ner- Performing on two pianos simultaneously, Mabel Kwan takes on vous system can submit to transform into Trois Hommages, the virtuosic opus of contemporary composer a sufficiently descriptive measurement.” Georg Friedrich Haas. Haas dedicated the work to three of the — anne boyer 20th century’s most influential composers—György Ligeti, Josef “Data’s Work is Never Done,” Matthias Hauer, and Steve Reich—and each of the piece’s three Guernica (March 13, 2015) movements are played in their respective homage. While one of the pianos is tuned in a conventional manner, the second is detuned San Francisco-based artist Patricia L Boyd by a quarter-tone, creating 176 different pitches for the per- presents a new video work, commissioned former. Unfolding over an hour, this rarely performed composition by EMPAC. The project is grounded in requires incredible mental focus and physical stamina on the Boyd’s research into what she calls “the PHOTO BY ERIC BOUDET part of the player. This performance is part of a residence in protocol of production-as-exhaustion,” which Kwan will record Trois Hommages for future release. which acknowledges the debt (of time, Dancer, choreographer, and media artist Jonah Bokaer will vitality, and labor) that must be paid to combine three of his iconic solos—False Start, Charade, and Chicago-based pianist Mabel Kwan has been praised by the Chicago capitalism by every living body, as well as Nudedescendance—in a 60-minute performance titled Three Cases Classical Review for “stunning virtuosity, musicality and resource- the internal economics of self-preservation for Amnesia.
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